rACE POURrUE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE. N. C.

Wediiesday, July IS, 19S9

Wednesday, Ji(ly;I3, 1959

Another Cold War Thaw

Up To Adults To Moke It A Lie

There are few things which make us see red quicker than the Soviet boast that American children of today will during their lifetime live under Communist rule in the United States.

discredit todays adults rather than at members of the next generation in the United States.

This assertion, made some time ago by Soviet Premier Khrushchev, was reiterated during the weekend by Soviet First Deputy Premier Kozlov as he prepared to end his visit in the United States.

Obviously it is part of the old Compiunist tactic of telling a lie as often as possible in the hope that some people sooner or later will accept the lie as truth. It is a part of their propaganda method and their war of nerves against the major obstacle which prevents^ Communism from enslaving the world.

The implications of the statement are that Communism is superior to Democracy, that dictatorship and tyrrany are superior to freedom and liberty . . . and further that todays children in America either will recognize and adopt that philosophy of their own accord, or they will become unwilling subjects of Communism by military conquest.

In spite of the statements cf Khrushchev, echoed by Kozlov, the chances are far better that the children of Soviet Russia today will some day live under a democracy than the chances that American children will live under Communism.

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The statement is more of a slap at the United States of today than at the youngsters who will make up its adult generation of tomorrow. In any case todays adults will be largely responsible for the future of todays children. It is the responsibility of the adults to defend democracy and its freedoms from the forces from without which would destroy theese principles by military conquest. It is also the responsibility of the adults to teach their young the proper appreciation and respect for the democratic principles upon which the natin is built. . *

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Fascinating Mystery

Only if the adult population of the United States today fails in either of these tasks will the next generation of Americans live under Communist rule. The assertion by Soviet leaders, therefore is designed to

Trees Regaining Status In State

By LYNN NISBET TREES North Carolinians have become treeconscious in the paat few years to such degree as to give promise that forest derivatives may again assume almost as prominent place in the total economy as they did generations ago when tar. pitch and turpentine were listed as the principal products ^ of the ctate.

The lumbermen who followed the turpentine distillers raped the forests and virtually destroj ed the fine long leaf pines In the eastern half of the state whch had been memorialized in song and In the official State toast. Similar exploitation of the hardwoods in the west, plus adtent of the chestnut blight, destroyed valuable natural timber resources. Only in recent years has there been any effective steps taken toward conserving trees and replacing those cut out.

Growth of the pulpwood industry for paper making, fabricating building materials and furniture from pressed boards rather than sawed timber, has atlmulated interest in tree farming. People also have realized, albeit belatedly, that it takes years to grow a tree but oaly a few minutes to destroy one by fire or wasteful mutilation.

Big companies are giving more attention every year to reforestation and to protection of standing timber. Government, from Federal down to county level, is spending more public money than ever before in conservation and development forestry programs.

The State of North Carolina is producing and distributing each year some 100 million seedlings for planting acres abandoned from annual crops under, the total agricultural policies. Larger effort is being exerted to conserve trees already grown, especially in the cooperative forest fire prevention program,

COOPERATION Last year S8 of the 100 counties participated in forest fire control as managed by the State. Four others have signified intention to join, or have already signed agreements, for this fiscal year. TTiat leaves, only Currituck, Davie. Forsyth, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Person, Rocingham and Union without organized cooperative facilities for fighting forest fires. Authorities in these counties have felt the tax money available could be better used for other purposes.

The State of North Carolina has compacts or working agreements with neighbor states for exchange of equipment and personnel in event of major forest fires. This past spring, for example, w'hen fires raged over

thousands of acres In Hyde and Tyrrell counties a water-dropping plane was borrowed from Georgia and contributed much to bringing the fire under control. In that fight also there was close cooperation among private business firms owning large timber acre-agre, numerous related agencies of State and county goveraments and the United States military forces.

Further recognition of the importance of conserving forests is illustrated by strengthened laws against careless and intentional acts of persons responsible for starting forest fires.

While fighting forest fires Is the most spectacular phase of the conservation program, it is no more important than the continuing war on disease and insect infestation. or the scientific utilization of waste materials from lumbering and sawmill operations.

All of these facets of the total problem were brought out in the report of Col. Fred Claridge, chief of the forestry division, to the C&D board at its annual meeting this week.

MINERALS The report of Dr. JJL, Stuckey, chief of the division of mineral resources, is another highly interesting document that gets little general publicity in the mass of more live news about the C&D board meeting.

North Carolina has been dubbed the mineral sample box of the nation. There are few base or precious metals known to geologists that are not found in some quantity In this state, and most of the non-metalic minerals are here. Diamonds, emeralds and rubies have been found, along with much larger finds of semi-precious stones. Gold and copper and tin have been mined, but in less quantity than iron and coal.

North Carolina is one of the big mica producing states, and its contribution to ceramicsfrom fine china ware to common brick and tileis recognized throughout the world. Dr. Stuckeys report dealt at some length with revived drilling activities for petroleum in the coastal plains and with new surveys of coal deposits in the Deep River fields.

None of these activities are really new, but they represent persistence of age-long dreams of underground wealth which sometime might be realized. The hope justifies the pursuit, and the State of North Carolina has faith enough in ultimate achievement to spend several thousand dollars a year aiding the pursuit. Also in nearly every sale or lease agreement for State-owned lands there is reservation of title to mineral rights.

One of these daysit may be a few weeks, a few months or even a few decades awaythe flying saucer mystery which has captivated the imagination of many Americans for the past dozen years will be cleared up.

The guessing will be over, the mystery will be solved and the flying saucers will no longer be ari enigma to the average person who reads about them.

Solution to the mysteltywhatever the outcome- will bring surprise, shock, gratification, disappointment and a great many other reactions to individuals.

Well know for sure whether the bright objects darting about the sky are men from Mars, secret weapons of this or another nation, or merely a natural phenomenon.

A few years back flying .saucers were reported with startling frequency. From some remote part of the country there would come a report, and in the days that followed there seemed to be a wave of similar reports from all over the place. The fad would wear off only t be repeated a short time later.

More recently, however, flying saucer reports have become fairly rare. Just a few now and then, and for the most part one report does not seem to touch off a whole series of reports. The lateest such report-came from veteran airline pilots on the Pacific run, several of whom reported strange objects at various locations on the same evening. These reports ruled out the possibility that the objects (or object) sighted were just in one persons imagination. Other than thar, however, these latest reports only contributed to compounding the mystery of the flying saucers.

Men, being the inquisitive creatures that they are, are anxious to know what these flying saucers are, where they come from and what theyre up to. Sooner or later well find the answer and the mj^stery of the flying saucer no longer will be a mystery.

The only hitch is that once we know what they are, we might be confronted with a much more disturbing situation than is the case now while their real identity remains a matter of conjecture.

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By MARTHA PIERCE

d Could HoDDen To You

Lose an address or move and it could happen to you.

Thirty-five years ago. in 1923. Ronnie Gurganus of 116 W. 12th St. said goodbye to his brother Joshua, who was moving to Florida, Both brothers were living in Beaufort County.

Neither of the brothers could have any inkling that this would be their last meeting for the next thirty-five years. The loss of contact between the brothers did not come about because of any foul play or fancy disappearing acts of either Ronnie or Joshua. They simply moved.

lication of the letter, the rela- gone up. lives began corresponding.

A family reunion was held the last of June at Elm Street Park when 150 relatives celebrated the meeting of the brothers. Joshua Gurganus and his family had arrived in Greenville to spend his two-week vacation with his brother.

The news department received a pair of false eyelashes in the mail yesterday, but they didnt match the news editors red hair. Why in the world did they send black?

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Joshua left Florida to take a construction job with the U.S. Government in Puerto Rico. Ronnie left Beaufort County and Joshuas mail began returning to him marked Address unknown.

A local business man was staying New York a few weeks ago when he made the mistake of getting thirsty. He sauntered nonchalantly into the drugstore ad-, joining the hotel in which he was staying and asked for a drink of water. This is the conversation that followed:

Oh, well. Its doubtful if he would have used them anyway.

They were advertised as giving one cool eyes, but were not sure they were talking about temperature. Its possible they could be substituted for sun glasses, if they were long and thick enough.

We dont serve water, was the reply from behind the counter.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Here we go again; same place, people, tone and tune.

The place; Geneva. The people; the Big Four foreign ministers. The tone: not much optimism. The tune: disagreement.

May 8 secretary of State Christian A. Her ter said he wasnt optimistic just before going to Geneva for the May 11 opening of the ministers meeting on Berlin.

After six weeks of getting nowhere in 31 meetings, the ministers agreed to recess and resume July 13.

July last week Herter, just before starting out for the second Geneva go-round, said he wasnt optimistic.

May at the opening of the May 11 session The Associated Press reported: Herter looked tired, the French foreign minister was serious, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was his usual deadpan self. Only the British foreign minister looked cheerful.

July at Mondays start of the second session The Associated Press reported: Herter passed photographers with his head down, the French foreign minister had a thin smile, Gromyko gave two stiff waves, and only the British foreign minister looked cheerful.

May at the start of the first session Gromyko threw the conference off the rails by demanding East Germans be allowed to sit in as a full participant. The West refused.

July at the start of the second session Monday Gromyko threw the conference off the rails by demanding that, if there are secret meetings. Communist East Germany sit in as a participant, The West refused.

Gromyko had a reason for his demands about Communist East Germany last May. Since the Western Big Three regard the East German Communists as Soviet satellites and refuse to re

cognize them as legitimate rulers of East 'Germany, letting them sit in as participants would be a form of recognition.

Although the West refused to go all the way with Gromyko, a compromise was worked out.

The East and West Germans the latter aUied with the West could sit in the conference room as advisers participants in a kind of way, but not full participants.

They could take part in the discussions only if none of the Big Four orjected.

Nevertheless, this was a mild Soviet victory and a mild Western concession since the Big Three from jthe West hadnt wanted to let the East Germans open their mouths at all.

Gromyko also had a reason for his demand Monday that the East Germans participate in secret meetings.

In the first Geneva session, from May 11 until June 20, the foreign ministers held both full meetings and secret meetings. The Germans were allowed to sit in on the full ones but not on the secret ones.

So now, if the West allowed them to be participants in secret meetings, it could be considered a further step toward recognizing the legitimacy of the East German Communist regime.

All this which may seem like looking for a hair on an egg and splitting it obscured something much more important the possibility of some kind of agreement on Berlin.

At the May-June session the West started out with proposals for settling all kinds of German problems, including the Soviet demand that the West get its troops out of Berlin.

At this session the West seems content to seek a much more modest goal. The Western ministers reportedly are only hoping to avoid an immediate showdown on Berlin by getting the Soviets to agree there wont be a showdown for at least 30 months.

Contact between the families was resumed when Joshuas wife wrote the mayor of Washington, N.C., Tom Stewart, and asked for information on Joshuas relatives. The letter was published in the daily newspaper in Washington. Soon after Uie pub-

I want some water anyway, insisted the businessman.

The soda jerk served the water, and when asked the price answered,

Twenty-five cents.

Even the price of water has

Other Editors Saying... Adam Smith Said It

Too many of our high school graduates go on to college with no idea about what they want to make of themselves. Some go because it Is the thing to do; others because they can get a few more years of loafing at the expense of their parents. As a result, many of them come out with a degree that has no meaning, yet they expect It to open the door to a high-salaried job.Italy (Tex.) News-Herald.

(The Daily Oklahoman)

Man by pursuing his own interest. . .frequently promotes that of society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. So wrote the Scotsman Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations back around 1770. No simpler explanation of how all of society benefts under the free enterprise system can be given. Self-interest, a seemingly narrow and selfish characteristic, takes on magic when harnessed to freedom. It has done more in developing the American standard of living than all the government planners, the humanitarian spenders and the union labor leaders put together.

Simple analysis shows why this is so. In a free society the, man who wants to accumulate wealth (which includes most everyone) generally needs something to sell. It may be a commodity or a service. This itself is a public benefit. A factory is started and new jobs created which become continuous sources of wealth for many. Self-interest pays off in profits and the man becomes wealthy. His wealth Is a source for development of more industries producing more products and more jobs and an

ever expanding number of people benefit, Including the government which taxes the profits.

Now exanyne the unself humanitarian. He does not create anything new, but rather gets himself elected to a pasition where he can spend public money. Actually all he is doing is appropriating wealth and thus limiting production so that eventually the whole economy suffers.

The union leader is a free-load-er also in the sense of winning benefits for workers. Union coercion attempts to give the job holder a bigger share of company profits. There have been instances where this has actually industries to close. Union pressures are steadily forcing into existence a rigid economy wherein only big business can survive.

Self-interest is the motivation for the humanitarian and the union leader the same as it Is with the producer of wealth. The vital difference is that one channels bis talents into production and inadvertently promotes the interest of society in the process. The other two crawl on the back of the first, and help themselves and others to the fruits of his labors while roundly abusing him for being so self-centered.

Used to b it was a pitiiul thing, with some connotation of shame and -disgrace, for a person to fall upon such evil days that one sought public aid. But in this day of wholesale government aid. to all classes of persons, there is neither shame nor disgrace. Instead, It is becoming the accepted, if not popular, thing to do.Rich Square (N. C.) Times News.

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)Remarks that doctors get |lred of hearing or overhearing;"

Boy. I wish I was a doctor and could park anywhere I wanted to without getting a ticket.

While youre here, Doc, would you mind looking at our collie? The poor dear has got the sniffles.

.Seen any interesting diseases lately. Doc?

They say hes so rich now he hides his money in the crotches of trees,

In other words. Doc, what you mean'isyoure Just guessing.

Maybe J should have come sooner, but Ive never had much use for doctors.

Where do you get those old magazines in your waiting room from the Salvation Army? No that Im dissatisfied in any way. Doc, but whats the name of the physician you go to when you get sick yourself? My cleaning woman says vinegar and honey are better than , I want some pills just like the ones you gave Mrs. Taylor the ones that look like pumpkin seeds.

AU I asked you is a simple question will it be a boy or girl?

The words going around town, Doc, that you have

been playing poker with the under-

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Thats funny, Doc. The pain went away the minute I stepped into your office.

I know you dont like to taljc shop at a social gathering. Doc, but lately I been seeing spots In -front of my eyes, and I wondered if you

But you smoke like a chimney yourself. Doc.

Is it true that you doctors save the best medicine for yourselves?

My husband says I should always pay you by check.

Never mind the examination. Doc. Jtist shoot me full of penicillin. and Ill be on my merry way.

You mean you want me to take off all my clothes?

I Just want to pay for the operation, Doc. I dont want to buy the hospital a new wing.

How could it be gallstones? Weve never had gallstones in our family.

Gee, Doc, you got cold hands.* Thats funny. I went to Dr. Zilch yesterday, and he said it was something else. Dont you fellows read the same books? They talk a lot about the old family doctor, but the only place you can see one Is in the movies.* The best place to get sick is at the Country Club. You can find more doctors there than you can at Bellevue.

What do you mean, I ought to cut down? I had an uncle who drank a quart of bourbon every day, lived to be 104 and never went to a doctoi- in his life. Wed like to pay you. Doc, but frankly we had to send Roger to this expensive prep school and

They were viruses last year. Doc. What are you guys calling them this year?

Dont you get bored with having people stick out their tongues and saya-a-ah? Why dont you ask them to say Mississippi? '

Im sending this to you on account, Docon account of Its all I got to tend.

Opinions In Brief

Fellows who drive with one hand are usually headed for a church aisle. Some will walk down itothers will be carried. West Branch (Iowa) 'Times.

tee has not only abandoned sportsmanship, but yielded to Communist pressure.Camden (S.C.) Chronicle.

Parting thought: Our national debt may reach the moon before any rocket does.Stratton (Colo.) Press.

Wouldnt it be a great Idea to put the designers of ladies bathing suits In charge of government budgets?' Hailey (Idaho) Times.

Every time an incident such as the plastic bag deaths happen the public becomes a mob raving for legislation to end the killers. It never occurs to us that it couldnt happen if some parent had been on the ball. We cant expect legislation to cover for our Individual neglect. Palatka, (Fla.) Daily News.

In expelling Nationalist China, and ipso facCo, spreading the welcome mate for Red China (which twice walked out of the games because Nationalist China participated), the International Olympics Commit-

One gets the impression that when most congressmen talk about economy in government it is for home coasuraption. Certainly it is not being prac* ticed in Congress own establishment and dooryard.Columbus (Ohio) State Journal.

The Greatest Credit Binae Ever

By ELMER ROESSNER

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS GROWING UP We have had occasion to re-_ mind ourselves a number of times that th word liberty goes back through a number of languages to the basic language Sanskrit and is derived from a Sanskrit word meaning to grow. Liberty Is, above everything else, the opportunity to grow,

"if could be absolutely sure of good thfttorr,oftf foiloir- * 'ing the other, with never a bad apple in the barrel, we could also be assured of efficient government. The casual, easy-going ways of democracy often tlireaten to drive us' to distraction. Yes, despotism wouldif it were honest give lUi filiclent government.

But It would never give us the opportunity to grow. A thousand years from now people living under despotism would still be the stunted, little intellectual and moral midgets they were to begin with. At best they would be like Innocent children following the command of a stern parent.

We make plenty of mistakes with democracy, but In the process we ieam to grow. It is with-* "fxKMling, staggering, * bumping into chairs and falling down that the child learns to walk.

\It is by making many mistakes, picking ourselves up and starting over again that we learn how to conduct povernipenl

Liberty gives us f ' r- . unity to learnto giw.,

America Is on the greatest credit binge in history.

At the end of May, consumers owed almost |46 billion. That is a rise of more than $17 billion In five years. Its a riso of $1.5 billioni n two months.

Government and private economists are considerably alarmed.

Some will aoon be renewing demands for government regulation.

Thats unpopular because both merchants and customers want easy credit. Customers like credit because it seenis easier than cash. Merchants' like it because .t, hdpa- sell gooda. Uik. <

oant pay rlgrht now, tntf 'because the merchants usually make an added profit on Interest charges. TRUE TOTAL MAY BE HIGHER

Figures quoted above come from Federal Reserve statistics. The actual Indebtedness may be much greater than the figures

indicate, because the Federal Reserve cannot possibly tally all the consumer credit. The amounts that customers hang up at corner grociers and meat markets, and sums put on the cuff at neighborhood taverns rarely get Into Federal statistics. Consumer loans among friends and relatives, and some delayed credit card borrowing probably escapes.

On the other hand, some loans listed as consumer borrowings may be small business loans.

There are many reasons for the rise In credit.

One surely must be that the public has great confidence in future prosperity. Only in very afpec^ atcmaeimxxm- -do. loeoplaa fun up credit when they fear they cant pay It off.

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Another may be that people fear Inflation. Inflation benefits debtors as a rule. However, re-lately few people understand this relationship and those who do also <rocognlze the fact that

the interest and other costs of credit usually are too high to make credit purchases a satisfactory hedge.

Another reason is the rise in credit promotions. Merchants, magazines and other vendors constantly assure better credit risks than they can charge freely. Credit approved Is a common legend on magazine subscription offers. I The booming credit-card companies also whoop up credit. They make it easier to charge things and provide more places w here it can be done. Bank credit card plans are doing thle same thing, bringing charge-account sales to cigar stores, habcrdash-

iety stores and thousands of other shops whose ow'ners never dreamed of charge customers three years ago.

COST OF CREDIT The great rise in credit is especially remarkable In view of the fact that costs of credit have been rising rapidly.

Basic interest rates have been going up. The Federal Reserve discount rate (interest) was IVi per cent on January 1. 1950 and is now 3 per cent. Since this

rate exerts a sympathetic influence on all interest rates, it affects the rate on consumer credit.

There Ls no available table showing the average charge for credit. It ranges from 6 to 24 per cent, with a mean probably above 15 per cent. Because of the rise in basic interest rates, the rates on credit may also* be assumed to have doubled since 1950.

Consumers pay these higher rates, either in direct Interest charges, in service charges, in -

prices.

The amazing thing Is that these charges, doubled in a dch cade, have not slowed dowm con-^ sumcr charging; rather, it has risen at a remarkable rate. It is as If a baker sold twice as many loaves at 48 cents as he sold at 24 cents t