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Tuesday, June 16, 1959THE 1i>AnLT REFLECTOR, OUEENVILLE,

Always Room For One More

Disappointment, But Constructive

Looking back over legislative action during the home during the ame period. They have talked, list-past four month, there probably are few North Caro- ened, studied, been buttonholed by colleague and linians who are entirely pleased with everything which buttonholed others, and generally moved at a much has been done in Raleigh . . . lea.st of all the mem- faster-than-normal pace turning the legislative wheel, bers of the General Assembly. They have sacrificed sleep time and, yes, money by

serving the people of North Carolina a* members of There is probably not a man among the 170 mem- General Assembly,

bers in the House and Senate who has seen everything

final decision made in matters under considerati . jiggppointment at some

But unlike the average voter, the legislatorregard- ,^.,4

less of his position m any mattershares a part of ^ jggg General Assembly.

the re!*ponsibiiity for what was or was not done because he was a member of the body taking the action.

Each of the legislators who has been in Raleigh SllUlUlit PQIIGV

since last February carried with him an individual Ul****** 1. * VA* Y

viewpoint on various matters. Among the member- ^ m f-t If

ship of the General Assembly as a whole there were T-OOKS Jt QLlTtjDlGr ATVQV probably as many difterent viewpoints on any one ^

item up for consideration as there were different view- . ,, , i j

points among the people of North, Carolina. A complete about-face could develop any day

, . , ,.1,4 now in the foreign ministers conference at Geneva,

Yet, when the individual legislators get back to unless something gives from the Soviet side, the

their home districts, they will be praised for some of will soon collapse in faiture.

the stands they took and criticised for others ... . r ^

probably in the same breath. But that shouldnt be sur- For six weeks now the Big Four foreign ministers

prising. It happens every time the legislature meets, have been meeting in Geneva, apparently accompl^h-

and it will continue to happen every two years Suc^ ing little toward settlement of the Berlin question. The

are the ways of democratic government. only suggestions offered by the Soviets consist of the

, , , , . West abandoning Berlin which is of course out of the

As a whole the legislators have workcil hard in Further, the Soviets in effect have renewed

Raleigh . . . probably much harder than they would to turn control of access routes to West Berlin

have worked at their regular jobs or professions back Germans if the Western nations do

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SDeakers Race

By LYNN NISBET SPEAKERSHIP - Drbatcs diirtna tin* pMt werk on the big money bilU have been punctuated with threaU and warning of political reprisal next year. That la the uaual courae of thing and polftically-mlndcd leglalators aeek to capitalize on any development which may seem to be favorable. Many incident have occurred which under aklllful direction can be turned to the advantage or dlaadvant-age of candidate^ for re-election to the General Awembly.

At this time It la bard to ae how any of the three avowed as* plranta for the Houae Speaker-ahip next time can get any advantage over the othera out of the 1959 leglfilatlve record. On nearly every Important matter they have voted together and with the recognized administration group. If the legislation proves to be good they can claim equal credit for passing it. and If it prove to be bad none of them can point to iha othera and ay you done it.

Another InteresUng fact i that none of the three la a lawyer. Clyde Harrias of Rowan 1 In* terealed in many bualne venture. principally automobile financing, Joe Hunt of Guilford 1 an Insurance agency executive. Cloyd Phllpott of Davlrtflon I a furniture manufacturer. There have been only two non-lawyer Speaker in the past 40 year Reg Harrt* of Peron in 193.1 and Kemp Doughlon of Alleghany In 1957. Tom Prarsall of Nash, Speaker In 1947, wa a lawyer although hi interest were more In farming and general bualneu actlvltien. Mol of the Speakers whoee main income wa derived from the practice of law aUo had substantial busineaa connection.

COMMON The three avowed candidates have other things In common bcalde the 1959 legislative voting record and nonlawyer status. They live In adjoining countle In the heart of the Industrial Piedmont and within a few mile of where the >pulatlon center of the tate Is cted to be located after th^^ I960 census, although west of the geographic center. The geographic center la and will remain at the old village of Gulf where the boundary between Lee and Moore counties touches the Chatham county line. The population center changes from year to .vear. Presently it is very close to High Point and the 1900 cen-aus may move U slightly aouth and west.

But. ~ Speakers of the Hotise are not elected by popular vote of all the people but by the 120

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members of the Ho -jse of Representatives, What the present crop of candidates seems not quite to understand is that the 120 men now serving in the House have already elected their Speaker and next time there will be a dlf-lerent set of people doing It. Usually about two-third* of the membership cornes back for another term, but no commitments obtained now can be binding un-tl* after the primary next year and In several Instances not ^ until after the November election. There ts presently no guarantee that incumbents will be in the next Legislature to erve as or vote for a Speaker.

There ts widespread opinion fhat because next year Is the time for electing a Prealdent of the United States, a United States Senator and a Governor in North Carolina, as well as other State officials, llepreftentfttlves in the Congress, and a flock of Judg-e, more than usual turnover may develop in the General Assembly.

OUT FOXED Rep Sidney Britt of Bladen, outstanding dry r anti-liquor man In the 1957 session, confessed that he was outfoxed then and In early days of the current session In attenmts to get a statewide referendum on the question of legal liquor. Rut he turned the tables last week and forced withdrawal of a hill which had been approved by a committee permitting ABC Rtore elections in any town of 2.0(Hi or more people.

Advocates of legal liquor were all pepped up about getting that bill. Introduced by Rep. Frank Snepp of Mecklenburg out of the committee, even with the population quota dotibled from the original l.tKH). Then the easy-tempered farmer-buslness man preaching layman from Bladen let It be known that when the bill came to the floor he would offer a little amendment" tacking on a total statewide referendum provision.

So 11 was that within minutes after the House convened last Friday the sponsors of the small-town ABC vole bill asked that it be re-referred to the committee And It will never get out, Many appraisers of public opinion think that a stntewde vole now might result In approval of legal sale of alcoholic beverages throughout the state, but the ABC adv(cales are not willing to lake a chance.

A veteran IcRt.slalor from an ABC county ruefully roinmenled that Sidney Britt has won an election without even having to go to the voting booilvs.

By ALVIN TAYLOR rn

not accept Soviet terms.

So far there has been no indication that the for-eiKii ministers have developed groundwork which would give any rea.wiable assurance that a sunimit meeting could acconV^ish anything. Yet the Soviets, and to a lesser extent the British, appear determined to bring about a summit meeting.

President F^isenhower has said flatly he will not attend a summit meeting unless the foreign ministers conference produced some reasonable hope of reaching agreement on the Berlin situation. Further, he has asserted the United States will not be intirnidated by Soviet threats that this or that will be done if a summit meeting docs not materalize.

F>om the viewpoint of the linited States at the moment there appears little hope that anything fruit- the stop Ujht headed north on fill will come from the foreign minister. talks. A sum- that inter-

mit meeting seems less assured now than was the case tection. one for through traffic before the (Geneva se.ssions began. and the second for right turns.

During the meeting in Geneva, the West ha.s of- ,ta^dup evm fered a number of concessions, only to l>e rebuifed by }jadnt impossible demands by the Soviet Union. The next .rreen. move now must be up to the Soviets. What they will hind h offer will determine not only the outcome of the Geneva conference, hut al.so whether there is an Flast-West summit conference in the next several months.

The United States must stand firm by its position that it will not abandon We.st Berlin. If it does otherwise, it will lose far more than West Berlin itself.

hey rollow me Leaaer

We never cease to be amazed at how people continually follow the leader.

Your columnist was waiting at

hadnt switched from red to Immediately two cars be-hlm and at least two in the second lane roared off behind the lead car. Luckily none of the tars were Involved In accidents with vehicles moving into Dickinson from other streets.

the local plant, for the convention.

Beddingfield said the little batteries, sold under the Eveready" trade name, are to be placed in the North Carolina booth at the convention.

Delegates from all over the nation will be given the pen light batteries without charge and thus will know Uiey are manufactured m North Carolina and Greenville.

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Jaycee* attending the organizations national convention in Buffalo next week wJlI find 3.000 Items of a product Made in Greenville waiting for them.

Local club pre.sldent Brooks Beddingfield said 3.000 pen light batteries, manufactured by National Carbon, were contributed by Prank PresLssle, manager of

Even the Russians have gotten the hang of the American press release.

Comes an article to the Reflector office from the Press Bureau, Soviet Exhlbion. N.Y. Coliseum."

The arUcle attributed to Ivan Bolshekov, USSR deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, says that the Soviet Exhibition will open In the New York City Coliseum on June 30.

The exhibition will continue for 40 days, according the release and

it will consist of some 10,000 displays, designed to tell Americans about the Soviet Union, the culture progress and alms of its people.

Extensive documentary materials will show how Russia, once an economically and culturally backward dSuntry, has developed after the 1917 Socialist Revolution," the release states.

A similar American Exhibition opens in Sokolniki Park, Moscow shortly after June 30.

Your columnist was under the impression that the Soviets had only recently embraced this peculiarly capitalistic habit if mailing press releases but our news editor says there has been a steady flow of publicity frwn the Russians in this country.

Opinions In Brief

Tuesilay, June 16, 1951

Subway Charms A Boy

By ED CREAGH new YORK <AP) The best way to see New York is with a 7-year-old boy.

He has the bright eyes you once had. You can see the crazy, muddlcd-up, wonderful, savage city as you never saw it before. Maybe you saw u once in all its sadly undisciplined glory. Now you sec it, on your own. as ft madhouse run by the Inmates.

But take your 7-year-old son along and the wonderment, even some o' the delight, comes back.

You take him to the top of the Empire State Building, He looks at all four compass points. He nods, reserving his opinion.

Later he says: Daddy, that was fup - being up in the Umpire State BuUding."

And if this doesn't make you laugh you dont deserve to be a parent.

Some umpire, over 100 stories high.

Then you take the little monster - a term of affection in my family to Chinatown. He likes it. the way he likes almost any place. *

Daddy," he asks, looking back at the Chinese people going about tihrtr business, or otherwise, all around him, whats the difference between these people and us?

And if you could answer that question you should be in th United Nations.

Most of all. though, he loves subways.

This will send a shudder through most' New Yorkers ~ and many an ex-New Yorker, i Subways are an Invention of the devU,overcrowded, noisy, diriy and frequently frightening.

David thinks theyre wonderful.

You take him to see a live television show. He tries to act properly Impressed by all. the cameras, bright lights and hung-up account executives, but you csu see that hes fidgeting. So you leave.

What would you like to do? you start to say.

But before you say it he comes on with; Daddy, couldnt ve go someplace in the subway? So you go down to the inte.s-tines of the city and fight your way into one of those overlighi-ed, overpopulated, mobile slums known as subway cars. He loves it. He stands with a look of almost ecstasy clutching one of those white poles, and is sad when he has to get off.

One night we kept David uo after hia bedtime while we srt in a restaurant discussing the old days with a friend or two.

Just aboutt he time we expecL ed him to fold he came up with: Hey, lets get out of here. I want to see Times Square."

So he was taken there. He looked around at possibly the most flamboyant neon lights on earth. He shrugged.

"Lets find a subway station," he said.

We did.

By JAME.H MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) How floes the government know what Hs talking about when, every month, It issues figures on how many people In the previous month had or didnt have jobs?

Lask week the government announced 66.016.000 people were working In May and that in the same month 3.389.000 were job-Fss, Did it ask questions of those almost 70 million people?

No, it couldnt, possibly. Its figures on total employed and

are cho.sen they include city and farm homes, industrial, commercial and farm areas the government feels It has a pretty accurate picture of the whole country when the amswers to the questions are analyzed.

But the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which works with the Census Bimeau In reaching totals and conclusions on employment, I'.as some other checks to guide it, too,

The BLS has arrangemento with factories around the country

Other Editors Saying Control Must Be Basis

unemployed are estimate, bas- to .send it each month their pajr-ea on samplings, But the govern- roll count meaning how many

menl thlnka they are, nevertheless, amazingly accurate.

This is the main way It gets thn.se figures.

The Census Bureau hires 600 part-time peonle mostly housewives and college students who go to .35.1MKI homes with prepared questions alwut W'ho. among those living in each house, has a Job. lost a Job, or Is looking for work.

That seems like a tiny sam-' nllng to come up with the an-1 nouncement on the total ntimbrr of people working or Jobless in the United State..

Rut the Oiwus Bureau says hecau.se the questions and the location. of the hoiLses are .scientifically worked out that a total estimate of 60.016.ikio people working will not lie wiong by more tiinn lOO.OfHi

Then .35,000 homes vtslted by the 6IM) (hn.shs Bureau workers are spread over 330 sample area. 'n 636 countie.s They are not the s.une every month.

Bee atuse of the way the areas i

people they have on their pay rolls. These include not only production workers but white collar people, salesman and bosos, too.

The BLS gets other Information from the factories. For liustance, the number of hours their employes worked, their hourly and weekly earnings, and the kind of Industry theyre In.

Stin another check ts made through the claims Jobless work-irs around the country put In for unemplo.vnient compensation.

This is not always a precise rundown on the unemployed. Each week many unemployed people, being out of a Job so long they have used up all thetr unemployment touieflUs, dLsap-pear as a statistic from unemployment compensation books.

Before the 1930s there were no luTcl mea.Hurements of the number of toblejvs persons. The present s.vstem of checking got its iitart during the depression when. becau^e of maMS unemploymetU, there were widely conflicting estimates on the total.

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The bin would have given towns of 2.000 or more popula-iion the right to vote on ABC stores has been re-referred to a House Committee. It is to be hoped that the bill will die there.

This bill never auould have been introduced in the first place. But. once tt was introduced. It should have been killed In committee Instead of receiving the favorable report which sent it to the floor of the House. Threats of a real fight over it caused its re-referral to the same committee which just a day earlier had blessed it with a favorable report.

When the ABC ayatem was set up In North Carolina in 1935, the Idea was the control was to be at the baste of all the handling of alcohol. Control was to be the big thing, the central thing, the only reason for the State involving Itself in the alcohol business.

' It Is hard to think that control has been the central theme of some of the legislation pro-VMised during this seaslon. In fact, it L"? itnposslble to think that.

Just how would control figure tn thus idea of letting every little town in the State vote on ABC stores, even though the little town might be located In a county which had voted dry time and time again? The idea Ihcif. Instead of controlling the

sale of alcohol, would be to further the sale of whiskey in an area which had declared that It didnt want whiskey sales.

And, this Legislature has already enacted into law. a measure which cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called something designed to control the sale of whiskey. That Is the law which lifts from the shoulders of beer license holders the duty of seslng to it that people dont drink hard liquor In their beer placMi.

That could .easily mean that any beer place in the State that wants to do so could turn itself into a locker club" and thereby have considerable drinking of whiskey along with the beer drinking. This bill ostensibly was aimed at letUng the country club folks have cocktails in the same room where beer is served. And. If it gives the country club folks that light, it Just as .uiely would give dubious privilege to folks in Just about any beer place.

The sooner North Carolinas legislators remember that control imist be at the basis of all ilquor legislation, the better off theyll be. A great many people, including some personal drys, think that the ABC system is the best way to try to handle liquor.

But, once control was taken out of the picture, the ABC system would lose a lot of friends.

BLUE CHIPS*

AND SMALL INVESTORS

Sylvia Porter, the w'cU-known financial columnist, writes: A read-and-run observer of some of the shennanigahs in Wall Street today easily might get the Impression that the vast majority of little fellows now pouring money into the stock market are going In for wild gambling, are risking the savings of a lifetime in cat and dog stocks, are generally playing the role of utter fools.

It isnt so."

And proof of the fact it isnt so, Miss Porter goes on, is provided by the latest data on MIP the Monthly Investment Plan the New York Stock Exchange started in January, 1954. This plan te primarily geared to the needs of the small investor and. under it. stocks can be purchased out of Income for as little as $40 a quarter. So far some 3 million shares have been bought through MIP, for a total investment of nearly $120 million. And the most popular MIP stocks are strictly of a blue chip characterthat te. the issues of national and international corporations with solid records of success and good management behind them. They arent speculative penny" stocksa large part of them sell In the $40 and $50 a share bracket.

Miss Porter concludes: The basic point Is that the little feliow buying this type of stock In this manner te investing, not gambling, following sound rules, not fads.

And over the years, the odds are hell make out much better than the in-and-out speculator. Hell also sleep better nights." (Industrial News Review)

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.Mark Twain.

Industry tends to settle down in communities which provide good schols, good water and peaceful populations. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.

The more extensive a man s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be hjs power of knowing what to do. Disraeli.

One point should be made in defense of the college students who are crowding into telephone booths. They are all paying their own tuition; only the big ones '' get scholarships." Columbia (S.C.) State.

To err Is human, but when you wear out the eraser before the pencil you are overdoing it. Hartwell (Ga.) Sun.

We know its not the fault of the vending machine people, but we would like to comment th^t this country's economy is indeed in a sorry state when one s penny cant get but three and a half peanuts Charlotte News.

Then there Was the telln-'v elected to Congrcs.s who had to turn it down None of his rel;t-tives wanted' to work in Was -ingtun OreenvUle (S. C Piedmont.

Strength For Today Taxes Brake Economy Growth?

R.v K\KL L. IMH'(iL.\S.S WHEN WE AHK ALONE

In the Book of Daniel wo find thi'.sf words "I was loft alone, and .NHW this groat vision. iDaniel 10 Hi.

If there was ever an age which needed to learn the value of being left alone oncf in a while, it la thla age in which we live. Some people appear positively terrified to be left alone. They must hunt up companions. They must try to arrange a party. If this is j\ot pns.slble, at least they can take up the telephone receiver ami talk to someone or a aertes of Intimate frleiui^ and get and gtve all the news.

Yet. the great riUscoveries In the world have been made bv men who were alone. Wisdom seems to dawn upon us mort

when we are alune*lhan when we are In (he company of others. Thi.s age of ours pastllvely starving for rea.sonable m'llod.s of meditation, self exainlnatlou. and iHmtemplation We are an activist age. We mud la* doing somelhltig or going some vdo ' Our favorite Bible text l.* "He went about dong good We ein-phaslxe the going about.

It Is hard for u.s to realize that some of the wisest men who ever lived gained their wisdom tn solitude Also, in .solitude we often gain our deeiiest peace

It Is a dreadful thing to be lonely. It Is a nioiT awful calamity to our souls to be overburdened with affairs, events, the burden of our selves, and the continual presence of others.

Try bi'ing alone (at a change.

By EI..MHR HOEHSNF.R

With a $77 billion btidget facing the nation, the First National rily Bank of New YoiK has raised the point that taxed needed to meet it are holding back the American economy.

"Many advocates of faster economic growdh Ignore*the drag oL excessive tax ratea on the econ# my. the banks current letter states. 'It ha.s long been recognized that hardly anything sur-ps.%e tax policy in economic, poliUcal and social importance.

"It w not uri>rl.slng that our Ux structure discourages growth The steeply progressive per-.-.onal Income rates w*e now have were put into effect in the I930s vrticn we thought we had all the i>roducUve capacity we needed and the auu was to diacouragt

oversavings.

NOT FOR WORLD OF IfS However appropriate they

might have seemed at the time they have no help to give expanding America of the Space Age. The problem now te not ur-pluses of saviirg and investment but shortages.

The key to economic growth is tmaginatlve enterprise What we need, on on# hand, are real 3>avlngs for Investment and, on the other.! ncentives to pul fund. to work and to attract susbaintd effort from creative individuate The letter quotes s ateiemenl by Arthur Burns, former Chairman of the Presidents Council i.l Economic Advisors: I dont "know a surer way of klUtng off the incentive to invest than by jaipo&uig taxes w hich art regard

ed by people as punitive.

The letter continues: At the same time, excessive tax rates sharply cut the rewards attainable for extra effort by ambitious and Industrious people who are trying to climb the economic ladder . . . The question is whether the rising young executive still has incentive to drive himself toward the rigors of top management positions or whether taxes have shavedt he rewards to the point where a more relaxed life seems preferable . TAXES HIT LITTLE PEOPLE "Although many people think we are soaking the rich, it ,te .^mall business, the proving ground for so many business leader. and the seedbed for industrial giants, which suffers the niOvtt under punitive tax rates. They dry up ih# sourcea of

its mojit crucial need - veno** ^ capital.

"The personal lucom' tax i.; progression .saps the muncorpo. ated small busine.v;nian'.< ablluv to build hts busines.s It ab-o chokes off an tmportani f.ouit of outside funds in years goi.r by: the succe&.Jul individual

who once found pnde and xa .* faction as well as proiit In yi"-ing a financial lift to a buddu enterprise, no longer hss the means to do so

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