FACE FOURfHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE. N. C.

Tuesday, July 14, 1959

Tuesday, July 14, 1959

Now It Is Peipings Turn To Move

Where Does The Money Come From?

Dark clouds again are forming over the strategic and sensitive Frmoa straits that suggest Bed China may be planning new moves tc^remind the United States and the free world she is a major power which cannot be ignored in world affairs.

During the past several years Communist leaders in Moscow and Peiping have alternated occupying the center stage in trouble spots of the globe.

There was the Middle East crisis in which the Kremlin played a center role. Later the emphasis shifted to the Far East with intensified heavy shelling of the Nationalist held island off the China mainland. Tension mounted in the Far East and then tapered off as Communist emphasis shifted to West Berlin,with an indication of the crisis that was in the making. Red China made its big push in Tibet to shift the worlds eyes back to the East for a brief time, then the current crisis over West Berlin became full-blown to capture complete attention.

Now it. apparently is Peipings turn again at mounting a crisis in the East, perhaps in an effort to lessen the emphasis on Berlin as negotiator^ possible move toward a solution.

Though this new threat by Red China is still in the early stages, it could mount into another major crisis in the Far East. It could move the world again to the now-familiar brink of war and then become secondary to a Communist move in another part of the globe.

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This series of events points up the Communist pattern of alternating* its crisis provoking efforts between the Soviet Union and Red China. There is also some significance in the fact that alternating rather than simultaneous efforts by these Red powers has been the trend in the past few years. It may well be part of the Communist probing effbrt to find a weakness in the Free World defenses without risking major catastrophe in two different areas of the globe at the same time. It suggests that the Reds still are primarily interested in gaining what they can by bluff rather than risking actual armed conflict to achieve their goals. *

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Reports again are circulating that Red China is preparing to invade the off-shore island and perhaps even Formosa; that the Reds have missiles poised behind their coastline for use against Nationalist terri-tqry and presumably the U. S. Seventh Fleet which paols the Formosa Straits.

All signs point to Red China being on the move again, and the development of a new crisis in the Far East.

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By LYNN NISBET

BIG-LITTLE - A very significant item was buried in the middle of the commerce and industry division report to the C&D board at its summer meeting in Morehead Qty. The report listed new and expanded industrial plants in North Carolina during the past fiscal year in multi-million dollar figures. The report showed an increase for the 193S-19W Tear over the 1957-58 period of 80 per cent In payroll money and 56 per cent in number of employees. Capital investment in new plants and expansions of existog plants during the year was given at $247.371,000. with additional payrolls aggregating 198,341,000 for 28,512 employees.

The big-little buried item noted that of the new plants established January 1 59 were lo-caUjr organized and locally financed, representing capital in-vestoent of nearly five million dollars and new jobs for 5,664 persons. Sure, that is a relatively small part of the total development. The important fact is that we did it ourselves.

North Carolina wants and needs big plants established by DuPont, General Electric, Pittsburg Glass, Gerber Foods and all the rest of the big fellows. We want and must have expanding growth of our native big textile and furniture industries. There is obligation upon the state at large and each of the communities to provide a favorable climate for this kind of big business.

At the same time, the staunchest advocates of big enterprise concede that the only premise upon whtoh a sound liufusUial economy can be developed is the backbone of a lot of little independent locally financed and operated enterprises.

PARTNERS Another fact emphasized by the commerce and Industry division report is the partnership existing between capital and labor in the field of Industrial development. Take the figures on total investment during 1C past year of $247 million dollars providing jobs for 28.512 people. That means a little more than $8,000 investment of $4,708,000 and affording jobs for 5,664 people works out to approximately the same ratio.

Stated another way. that means every employee of an industrial plant in NorUi Carolina would have to work for nothing for about two years to balance the capital investment which provided his job. The ratio of eight to ten thousand dollars investment per man power job is fairly uniform. It applies even on the farm. The Investment ratio Is increasing with advent of automation and mechanization. In some of the modem power plants, for instance, the capital invest

ment per man job runs to $100.000 or more.

Almost unanimous testimony of plant managers of big establishments in North Carolina is that recognition of this partnership participation on part of native workers is one of the chief attractions of this state for industry. The average native Tarheel worker not only is willing to give an honest days work for an honest dollar wage, but there is appreciation of the right of invested capital to its honest wages. There are exceptions, but for most part native North Carolina workers want no more than a fair split of the joint product of dollars invested and labor exerted to produce the manufactured goods.

GOOD LIVING - Other reports to the C&D board indicated that North Carolina is also a good place to visit on short trips and a fine place to live. Figures for the first five months of this year (to June 1) showed more than two million people had visited the three major facilities operated in North Carolina by the National Park Service Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Cape Hatteras National Seashore area. And for all these points the heavy travel season is ahead July through October. Revenue department figures show that State sales taxes on lodging and transient meals paid by visitors from in and out of the state amounted to nearly two and a quarter million dollars for the five montti period, up about ten per cent from last year.

Attendance at State parks was also up about ten per cent for the first five months of this year as compared with 1958. The recorded count was 363,353 from January to May 31. with the heavy traffic season still ahead. It is assumed that nearly all the State Park visitors were North Carolinians, while a large part of the National Park attendance came from beyond state borders. Whether resident or non-resident they all enjoyed the outings and all of them paid gasoline and other taxes on the trips.

Another significant item burled in the body of the advertising division report showed that of inquiries processed by the division more than half a million almost 100 times as many as for the first six months of last year dealt with advantages and facilities for persons who had retired from active work and were looking for pleasant living conditions. The idea once held that retired people are dead-wood has been completely destroyed by the record of service rendered this State by still active men and women who chose to live here.

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Slow, Steady Growth For Greenville Area

Permits for more than two and one-half million

dollars worth of new construction issued.by Greenvilles building inspector during the first six months of 1959 point to continued growth of the city both from the standpoint of housing and from the standpoint of business.

While the value of permits issued since January are about on a par with those for the corresponding period of 1958, they show clearly a continuing healthy growth for Greenville.

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By ALVIN TAYLOR

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Unlike some other communities of comparable size in North Carolina, Greenville has experienced no real boom at any one particular period in the past decade. Even so, it has maintained from year to year a steady and substantial growth in terms of new dwellings and new business buildings. The record of building permits by Greenville over a period of years compared favorably with those of other cities of this area which, because of their size, might be expected to expand much more in terms of dollars and cents invested in new construction.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Do tht kids of today have more fun than those of yesteryear

At the risk of giving indignant cramps to a lot of nostalgic old gramps, we vote, "Yes! Modern children, when it comes to enjoying life, get more kicks out of living for a very simple reason. They have mbre things to enjoy.

Your average grandpa say a fellow crowding 65 likes to brag about how much tougher life was when he was a boy. To hear him tell it, he got up at 4 a.m. every morning and milked a dozen cows before breakfast.

He had to walk five miles to school except in winter. In winter he crawled the five miles through waist-high snowdrifts, carrying his lunch basket in his chattering teeth.

He did endless chores around the house. He helped'chum the butter. He started the furnace before dawn and banked it at night. He carried out the ashes. He chopped and brought in firewood for the kitchen stove. He cleaned the stable. He worked from morning until long after dusk.

But If you suggest that he didnt have much fun as a kid, his eyes bug out in quick anger.

"What do you mean I didnt have any fun he asks. "Why, we had twice as much fun' as these -sissy youngsters theyre spawning nowadays.

But grandpas list of homemade joys, when he enumerates them, sounds a little dated now.

Going barefoot, riding the mare bareback in from the fields, collecting toads, making kitchen judge, dunking himself in the old swimming hole, which contained more mud than water.

Does lightning go from the ground up as well as coming from the clouds to earth

Something happened in front of Utilities Superintendent Leonard Bloxams home Thursday morning which indicated to him that it does.

was standing at the front window watching the rainfall, a common sight these days. At 5:50 there was a sudden blinding flash of lightning and accompanying thunder which virtually shook the foundations of houses on North Elm St.

"It was sort of a Ripley Believe It or Not, Bloxam said in teUing of the incident.

Seems the superintendent had arisen shortly after 5:30 a.m. He

Bloxam found his water pressure gone and therein lies the unusual part of the event.

He went out to investigate and found the lightning had struck

The fact that ne-w construction in Greenville continues at a substantial and yet relatively stable rate over a period of years indicates a solid, steady growth rather than sharp building spurts followed by periods of slight activity indicated in new construction records of some cities. It also indicates the city is growing on a sound basis, constantly attracting newcomers, and absorbing them in the community without the boom-and-bust fluctuations that some cities of comparable size have experienced.

Other Editors Saying...

Rights Sc Judicial Wrongs

(Washington Daily News)

The human element in everyday life makes it relatively easy for mankind to hide a multitude of sins under the blanket of gen-erallsms.

Growth is important to every community the size of Greenville because it is a sure barometer of progress that is being made. The healthy growth of Greenville reflected by its new construction record of the first half of 1959 and previous years are good signs that the growth will continue in the future.

Butler And His Double-Think

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) Paul Butler. Democratic national chairman, has had a severe case of double-think. Five years ago, he says, be did not consider segregation a poltica^ issue. Now, he i says, he does.

This may seem incredible to those Democrats in Congress already mad at him for criticizing them. The question of civil rights, which includes segregation, has been a political issue many years.

It gives them a chance to ask: "Mr. Butler, youve been in politics 32 years but where have you been?

Life has not been exactly jolly for the peppery, 54-year-old Indian lawyer since he became his partys chief of staff In 1954. He has pot^hotted at the RepubUeans ever since. Last week he fired on his own troops.

He said the Democrats in Congress are not doing enough and are playing too much ball with President Elsenhower. They responded in various ways, including the suggestion he shut up or get out.

Over the weekend he cut loose with more of the same criticism of Democrats and also accused Eisenhower of saying too little on segregation.

Eisenhower has never said whether he thinks the Supreme Courts 1954 ban on public school segregation is good or bad. Last week he said he thinks segregation Is immoral when it interferes with a citizens poUUcal or economic opportunity.

This 4s another way of saying when it interferes with a Negros right to vote or earn a Uving. But Eisenhower still left unsaid whether he thinks the-.principle of segregation itself is immoral.

At a news conference Butler said Eisenhower didnt go far enough. He said: "Segregation is Immoral period.

He was then asked about a m Constltation," '

which reported that Georgias Democratic chairman, Jon Sam- . mons Bell, has a pledge from Butler, written on the back of an envelope, thmt he would not try to make segregation a national issue.

Butler tried to brush aside the story as "old political business.

He said he signed the paper In 1954 when he was elected Democratic chairman; that segregation then was a legal matter "and I did not see any reason to make it a political issue.

He said that was the way he felt about the Supreme Courts ban on public school segregation of May 1954. He was named chairman in December 1954. But he added: Through the "force of circumstances integration has become a major social Interest.

"Any problem that affects any segment of the population must become the concern of a political .party, be said.

This is where Democrats angry at Butler could point out that by his reasoning since the Negro segment of the population has been affected by the segregation problem for generations it has been a political problem a long time.

They could point out just taking the past 10 years that it has actually been a very real and explosive polical problem particularly in the Democratic party, although Butler didnt seem to think so until recently.

For example:

The Southern Democrats* filibusters against civil rights legislation, Their opposition to President Trumans civil rights program which asked a ban on racial discrimination in voting and employment, the two fields In which Elsenhower says segregation is immoral.

The split in the Democratic party In 1948 when Southerners walked out of Uie convention because of the partys platform plank on civil rights which proclaimed the right of racial and religious minorities to lie, work, vote and get full protection of the laws.

. Butler could also be reminded of 1952 when he was an original supporter of Adlal Stevenson for president and how the jMirtys

contained a civil rights plank.

By the time the 1956 presidential year came around Butler was condemning the Eisenhower administration for not doing enough on civil rights and promising the civil rights plank in the 1956 Democratic platform would be stronger than in 1952.

It seems to be an American trait, particularly in high places, to hide behind some high sounding cover once an act, decision, or course of action is taken which might undermine the best interests of many people.

It is easy for the average person to say "that is politics, or it is easy for the Supreme Court of these United States to make a decision and say it represents "civil rights.

An organization in America which calls itself "Citizens against communisnf has recently sent out to newspapers a cartoon which tells a dramatic story. We realize that certain elements in this so-called "story are stretched, but it does show how a segment of the population is thinking.

The cartoon depicts a cage with a group of rats inside. The justices of the Supreme court are pictured pulling a rope which is letting the rats escape. The cage is labelled "pro-communist decisions. As the rats run free, the justices im chorus are saying. "well call it civ rights.

A congressman stands in the background and asks "whos running this show anyhow

The Supreme court is charged with the duty of rendering decisions which protect Americans against any violations of their rights. But when convicted communists are turned loose by the high court, then over America there sweeps a wave of indigria-tlon. And when the Supreme court, if it does, labels its actions in cases involving alleged communists or communist sympathizers as civil rights actions, then there is bound to be a cry of disgust and indignation from true Americans.

Congress can pass laws which

are designed to protect Americans from the communist influence and domination. But if the Supreme court has more power to protect true Americans, then it Is no wonder that real Americans are upset.

Of course, our constitution protects all of us. The implications in this cartoon are that the Supreme Court is protecting the communists through its decisions and then veiling these decisions under the heading of civil rights.

The term "civil rights means many things to many people. To some it means freedom from repressions. To some it means equal opportunities. To some it means the effort to end segregation. It is a general term, and of course it is quite possible that the Supreme court can hide the basic thoughts in its decisions under the heading of "civil rights.

Many Americans in many of the decisions feel honestly that this term "clvU rights is overworked. They see a more appropriate term as being "civil wrongs. When the American system of free democracy is undermined in any court decision, then it cannot be disguised as a civil rights decision. Americans know better. The members of the Supreme court know better. Congress knows better.

Legislation is a matter for congress. But with the Supreme Court engaged in judicial decisions and at least quasi-leglsla-tive actions, then It looks today as if the American Supreme Court is emerging as the strong and mighty arm of American government. It could be overpowering both the legislative and executive branches of government.

The government of checks and balances could be lost in the shuffle. Unless steps are taken soon to curb some of the unusual powers of the Supreme courts, then democracy as we know it and love it could be dependent on judicial suffrance.

the six-inch water main bene^' the street in ft*ont of the house. The lightning had split a section of the pipe for a distance of approximately eight feet.

But the thing which made Bloxam feel that the lightning had come from beneath rather than above is the fact that the pavement over the pipe was bulged up for a distance of about 15 feet.

"This pretty well indicates to me that it started at the ground and went up, he declared.

The situation was so peculiar "because we think of water mains as being good ground, he said.

"I had never heard of it, the superintendent continued. "I havent found anybody who has heard of lightning striking a water main before.

The flash of lightning also burned out a transformer in a radio at the Bloxam home and it burned out the telephone cable.

But it didnt affect the lights. Bloxam said he doesnt even remember them flickering.

After Utilities repairmen had fixed the damaged pipe and turned water back into the system, they reported they saw smoke coming from faucets.

On the Reflectors automatic plate making machine in the press room, theres a water chamber where the plates are cooled before they are taken to the printing press.

The hot printing plates are placed in the chamber, the top closed and a handle pressed to spray them from beneath with water. Of course, if the handle is pressed while the top Is opened water goes all over the place. With that Uttle bit of background information, we give you the following incident.

Pressman Linwood Owens came in the other afternoon. A repairman was standing by the plate making machine. He was all wet. The top was up on the cooling chamber, ^

The repairman wouldnt Owens how he got so wet.

Come, grandpa, you didnt learn to drive an automobile until you were 30. Todays youngster is on wheels with his own jalopy at 17, and his dad doesnt dare object if the boy wants to take a cross-country tour with his pals during summer vacation.

You didnt goose-grease your hair and go out on a date until you were 18. Girls were a complete and awesome mystery to you. But now the lads are giving friendship rings to girls at 10, and dating steady at 13.

You were 25 before you could eat your soup in public without feeling self-conscious. But todays kids are social veterans at 15, and by 20 theyre regular young Lord Chesterfields, at ease in any company.

The only toy you can remember getting as a boy was a sled. Kids today are surrounded with toys from birth, everything from a dime balloon to a $150 chemistry set.

Nobody made a business out of entertaining you. But trying to keep todays kids entertained is now a major industry in America.

What do you mean you had more fun, grandpa Maybe you didnt know it, but fun hadnt even been invented w'hen you were a lad. It came along later.

Opinions In Brief

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A retired friend says that time seems so much more precious when it all belongs to you instead of the company, Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union.

Seems that, when It comes to crime, a lot depends upon wher it happened and the viewpoint.

The Tallahassee Democrat complained the other day of treatment given the rape case there by the northern press, particularly by the Ntw York Journal-American. The latter ^carried an eight-column streamer, Terror in Tallahassee. A day later an Inter-raclal rape case that happened in New York drew a two-column headline on the third page of the New York Mirror.

Could It be that crime is so rampant in New York, Chicago and some other northern cities that It isnt news any more? Ft. Pierce (Fla.) News-Trl-bune.

The right-to-know bill the watered-down versionw o u 1 d establish as law the political philosophy that government is the servant of the people and not their master.Keene (N. H.) Evening Sentinel.

"To the rank* of such great liberals as Oov. Williams of Michigan comes Samuel H. Beer, 47-year-old Harvard professor who has just been named national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action. Soapy, meet Sudsy. Charleston News and Courier.

lations To Foul Up A Deal?

By 'ELMER ROESSNER .

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Nineteen-sixty is to be .S.A, Year.

For years, Americans have been pouring dollars into foreign

the campaign.

As Frederick T. McGuire, president of the American Automobile Association, protested to the Department of Commerce, the State Department requires every

courtries for vacaUons. Next year, prospecUve visitor to fUl out a

under a campaign sponsored by the Department of Commerce and the travel industry, foreigners are to be urged to^visit us.

Not only may we get some of our dollars back but, by luring foreigners over here, we may convince them that few Americans wear horns and practically none have tails.

On the latter point, the cam-

most searching form before getting a visa.

While President Eisenhower Is all het up about racial discrimination in certain civic areas, his own State Department, headed by Christian A. Herter, asks prospective visitors to the U.S.: "Race? "Ethnic classification?

Theres no indication the State

the State Departnfient, In.stead of spending money for books, magazines and other forms of propaganda, it might induce foreigners to learn about us at- their own expense.

WHATS FATHERS RACE?

But State Department regulations seem certain to ifoul up

cause he is of the Negro or Semitic races, or of the Aryan. Magyar, Slav or Teutonic ethnic group.

Why, then, ask?

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN?

Even tougher for most prospective visitors is the require-, ment that they list all tb

ces by street address, city, province and country at which they have lived since they were 14 years old.

Another question: "List the names of all parties, organizations, associations, societies, fraternal or political, of which you are or have been a member, or which you have been affiliated with, including dates thereof and any position held in connection therewith. (If none, you must so state.)

That would include the Boy Scouts, the Moose, sokols, Greek letter societies and the Holy Name Society, as weE as tM'* Mafia tftr Commanis-Party.

Other questions demand data 'on income, bank deposits and other assets: the applicant's

wifes maiden name; details of membership in the Communist Party, if any; ihe applicants name a.s it appears on his birth certifcate, and the race and mai

den name of his mother.

Another question: "Have you or any member of your family included In this application ever been: arrested; convicted: In prison; In an almshouse; treated in an institution, hospital or other place for Insanity or other mental diseases? The beneficiary of a pardon or amnesty

Obviously, only a few foreigners could answer all those questions accurately. If you see any foreigners here next year, watcli out for them. They may be tricky.

Your reporter has visiteda dozen foreign countries. Never' nrnif bett mixQ about-lits race or his political party. Typical was a visit to Mexico.

A guard stopped him at the border,

"Have you any money to spend, Senor he asked.

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"Come ini he replied with a salute. .

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