FACE FOURrHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N.

Friday, July 31, 1989

Friday, July 31, 1959

That Steel Strike Affects Us All

Object Of His Affection?

Day by day the nation's steel strike cuts deeper Into the economy, forcing more people out of work, slowing the wheels of progress in many communities and cutting the earnings and productive power of countless men and machines.

For the moment at least there appears little prospect for an early settlement of the strike which already has shut down 90 per cent of the basic steel production in the United States. In addition to the half million steelworkers w^ho have been away from their jobs for 17 days now, an estimated 85,000 other workers have seen their jobs dry up temporarily while the strike continues. As the strike drags on and stockpiles of steel are depleted, this figure will climb daily.

And while many people feel that they are far removed from the huge industrial centers where steel mills are located, the strike is having a direct bearing on the economic status of every person in the nation. The steel industry is a basic part of the American economy. When it ceases to produce, secondary effects are felt throughout the entire economy. The longer the strike continues, the more far-reaching its repercussions.

It appears now that the strike may be the longest in the steel industry since World War II. President Eisenhower appears determined to avoid federal intervention in the strike except by ctfering mediation services. The industry has given no indication of altering its position that any wage increased will be inflationary . and cannot be allowed. The Steelworkers Union', by extending its contracts with aluminum companies for 30 days beyond the date of settlement with

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"n N.C. Travels

By LYNN NISBET

POTPOURRI Two boat loads of newspaper folks, Including several junior members, visited Cape Lookout lighthouse and Coast Guard station during the recent NCPA convention at Morehead City. They were told that this is the oldest lighthouse on the eastern coast of the United States and the only one that can be approached only by air or water. There is no land based road to it. . -

Col. John Homewood, head of the Keep North Carolina Beautiful committee, points out two places where law and State practice tend to defeat the aim of clean highways. One shortcoming is that many of the roadside table sites (this does not apply to the parks where facilities are provided) have no provision for the comfort of picnickers except a rough table and perhaps a garbage can. He thinks it might be a good idea to move the tables and offer nothing unless toilet facilities can be provided also. . .

He also thinks that, human nature being what it is and the certainty that folks riding in automobiles are going to drink beerand sometimes stronger beveragewhether or not the driver of the car indulges, the law ought to be changed to make the condition of the driver only, rather than presence of empty bottles or cans in the car, evidence of intoxicated drivers- As presently written the law encourages passengers to throw out empties on the highway. thus litter-bugging the landscape. When they are encouraged to Uirow out bottles and beer cans, they are more apt to throw out other trash, he says- . -

It is becoming increasingly difficult to find hotel accommodations in North Carolina for conventionseven small groups of two or three hundred- The reason is very simple. Convention folks have come to expect special concessions in hotel room rates. Yet the conventions require a lot of space for dinners and business meetings which the associations are reluctant to pay extra for. In order to meet competition of motels, which often offer better roomsbut nothing else, the hotels have cut down on lobby space and assembly rooms to the point where convention meeting places are hard to find. The anomaly or paradox in that situation is that North Carolinians are just about the most convention-minded people in the whole country. . .

Another problem for the hotel

and motel folks is that guests now expect a swimming pool wUh thermostat controlled water temperature without extra charge. Hundreds of thousand of dollars have been spent within the past three or four years building swimming pools at beach resortsless than a hundred yards from the ocean surf. These facilities are free to guests, who raise cain because the room rates have been upped maybe a dollar a day above the previous year. Butyou cant hold a convention meeting or stage a banquet in a swimming pool. The need remains for a convention hotel on a North Carolina beach that will accommodate a membership of more than a hundred which with families and auxiliary hangers-on means attendance of two to five hundred persons. Because there is no such place in North Carolina now many of the North Carolina groups are going to South Carolina and Virginia beach resorts- . . .

Time was. and not so long ago, when North Carolina, did not want anybody to come here from other states unless they were prepared and willing to w'ork. Now major effort is being exerted by the State government, supplemented by cooperative activity of the North Carolina Realtors Association . to attract retired people to come here to live. Year before last State advertising for retirement residence elicited a little more than 500 inquiries. Last year the inquiries ran to more than five thousand. Statistics are not available showing the contribution these retired newcomers have made to North Carolinas progress. Rosters of statewide and local development personnel will prove that many of them had retired in name only, and were contributing tremendously to the development of their adopted communitiesfrom state level down to local chambers of commerce and PTA activities. . .

The importance of trees to the future economy of the state was illustrated by the unanimous approval of the N C. Press Association of a suggestion by E.B. Jeffress, president of the Greensboro News company, that the newspaper group gii^ serious thought to establishing scholarships in forestry. Jeffresss primary concern, of course, was an adequate permanent supply of newsprint, but his suggestion was not limited to that phase. Any total forestry program cannot fail to take account of the need for newsprint paper as a major item.

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the steel producers or until November indicates the Union is also prepared for a strike of several months if necessary.

The public, which always is the man in the middle in such a situation, can do little but sit back and watch while the giants of industry and organized labor seek to iron out their differences. And the longer the public has to sit and wait, the more drastic the strikes impact will be to the public interest.

As Ship Collisions Go, A Reminder

National attention which focused on airline travel with several mid-air collisions several years ago appears to be shifting to the sealanes following the collision between the Queen Elizabeth and a freighter in New York harbor.

Word of the collision, which was minor, brought back vivid memories of the collision in 1956 between the Stockholm and the Andrea Doria which sent the luxurious Italian liner to the bottom off Nantucket Island with a loss of 50 lives.

Collision between the largest passenger ship afloat and the freighter in New York harbor seems almost as impossible as the collision between the Stockholm and the Doria. Yet it happened. It happened to a ship which we assume has the most modern radar and other safety equipment available. It happened with licensed harbor pilots on the bridge of each ship.

And it happened not at night, but during daylight hours even though hazy conditions and fog patches were in the area.

This colli.sion between the Queen Elizabeth and the freighter of the United States Line should prompt By MARTHA PIERCE federal officials to begin an intensive study of conditions which exist in the busy seaport harbors of this country and m the adjacent waters. Are sufficient safety precautions being taken? Are the ships properly equipped to prevent such accidents which could quickly turn into disasters? Are existing regulations sufficient to cope with current conditions, and are those regulations being followed properly?

Hurriedly Going Nowhere

Where are we going?

As ship collisions go, the brush between the Elizabeth and the freighter was minor. But it could have resulted in another Doria-Stockholm or Titanic disaster,

Close-Up Look Changes Views

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-A look-see is a good eye-opener.

The exchange visits of Americans and Sovietsparticularly officialsmay have no immediate, visible results. Long range, the thinking of both governments should be clarified and affected.

The Soviet Unions two deputy premiers, Frol R. Kozlov and Anastas I. Mikoyan, came this year to the United States where there is no broad discontent except perhaps on the racial issue. They looked around, and found a degree of prosperity the Soviets can only dream of.

Vice President Richard M. Nixon has visited the U.S.S.R. andso far as American news reports from there indicate-found hordes of cheerful, hardworking Soviet citizens who showed no broad discontent with their government or their way of life.

Most Soviet citizens now alive never knew any other government or way of life, and life is getting better for them in material things.

In both cases what the officials saw should affect the thinking of their governments, particularly wishful thinking. And what the officials found can be multiplied many times by what the ponofficial visitors see in both countries.

The late Secretary of State John Poster Dulles, who shaped American foreign policy, seemed taken with the idea a number of times that if this country could Keep up its containment policy long enough the Soviet edifice might topple.

He even went so far one time as to tell a congressional committee the Soviet system was on the point of collapsing. President Elsenhowers press secretary James C, Hagerty later had to explain Dulles didnt really mean collapsing.

Yet this attitude of Dulles, who never got a look around the Soviet Union, raises a queation: What would his thinking, and perhaps even some aspects of hU foreign policy, have been if he had gotten an inside look?

Dulles, like Soviet leaders who are convinced capitalistic societies will eventually collapse, was a victim of his own wishful thinking, he and they wanted

to believe that they were seeing what they wanted to see.

President Elsenhower is known to feel there are considerable pressures within the Soviet Union which might persuade the Kremlin to accept a tension easing agreement. ,

That makes sense and is a long way from envisioning a Societ collapse.

It is reasonable to believe that the more the Soviets learn about the material advantages of the people in the non-Communist countries, the more they will want the same, and the more the pressure on their masters to meet their desires.

Its also reasonable to believe that as more Soviet citizens are educated they will feel an Increased right to assert themselves in the conduct of a government which affects them. Travel Is a part of their education.

The exchange visits which bring more and more Soviet citizens to this country wmere they get a close-up view of what personal freedom meansshould be a force shaping attitudes when they return home.

But again it would be wishful thinking to believe that Soviet citizens would want or would accept everything they see in American life.

For instance, they might feel repelled by a system which, unlike theirs, does not provide security from the cradle to the grave.

In short, there may be some things, but not all, which visiting Soviets might consider an improvement on their own system. By the same token, Americans visiting the U.S.S.R. may feel the same about what they see there.

In a long history of men. minds and governments there is a steady evolution, even though it may look painfully slow. No people or government can escape it.

So while this country may feel that letting Soviet citizens come here may be an effective way of bringing about changes In the Soviet Union, American visits to the U.S.S.R. may affect American thinking, too.

To think otherwise would be to assume there is nothing good in the Soviet Union and that everything is perfect here.

A similar question was asked by the writer of a Readers Digest article a short time ago. The headlines of the story read: Where Are You Going? Nowhere. What Arc You Doing? Nothing.

Maze-like traffic circles, clo-verleafs and by-passes are all part of the scheme that keep Americana on the go. Roads make every place you never thought of going readily accessible, and the Intricate one-way crosses, no access highways, and compound intersections put spice into this game of gol go! go!

People who have never visited more than a few of their surrounding states, go to Europe and marvel at the snow-capped mountains that art not so different from those of our own

far west. They jump at a chance to view old Grecian and Roman ruins without ever peeking at Williamsburg.

Those who dream of a quiet cottage set off from worldly travel almost inevitably ask the whereabouts of the nearest towns so that they may have some place to go when they get bored with simple things.

The latest kick in traveling seems to be a trip to Russia. Travel agents report amazing growth in the number of people who want to travel in Russia. Even the governors have gone in for this latest traveling trend.

You hardly ever see anyone walking along with a slow, leisurely pace. When they walk, they bend from the waist as if balancing against a strong gale.

Other Editors Saying... Sor Governors Attention

(Greensboro Daily News)

While Governor Hodges will no more than touch down at Raleigh Friday before taking off again for the National Governors Conference at San Juan. Puerto Rico, there are at least two pending, matters which the chief executive should tackle as soon as his schedule will permit.

The first of these has to do with retention of the National Guard at Henderson, The time has comein fact may be past duefor reassessment of the situation there. The Harriet-Henderson mills, according to all reports, are running on normal schedule with a full complement of workers. And the strike, to all practical purposes, no longer exists.

There has been no violence for weeks. And during the interval eight defendants, union officials and members, have been convicted on dynamite conspiracy charges and meted stiff prison sentences. This development is bound to have had considerable effect upon anyone else who might have been contemplating violence. The 8BI Is presumably still keeping a watchful eye on the Henderson community, and that in itself should serve as a deterrent.

Still another development is the National Labor Relations

the Textile Union Workers of Boards dismissal of unfair labor practice charges filed by the Textile Union Workers of America against mill management. All these factors should alter the picture and cause the Governor to give serious considerations to getting troops away from Henderson and back tot heir home communities, families and Jobs.

The second decision facing the Governor has to do with the date upon which the people of North Carolina will vote upon bond Issues passed along to them, for rejection or approval, by the lately adjourned General Assembly. Responsibility for designation of the date and proclamation of the special election was left to the Governor. Assuming that the vote may come some time this Fall, not many weeks are left for Issuing the formal call, setting up the election machinery and having the causes for which bonds would be voted presented directly to the people.

The Governors aides must have kept in close touch with and given thought to both these matters. It could be that they are ready to make some definite recommendation for the Council of State meeting at which His Excellency will preside during hli Raleigh stopover tomorrow.

Maybe there Is some advantage in having your head reach your destination first.

The phrase strolling along has about become obsolete. There may still be a chance the revive the phrase as a description on a mother pushing a baby stroller.

If this eagerness for travel stemmed from an eager interest in other people and what they were doing, it would be justified. Most of the go ills results from discontent and boredom with local surrounding. Where fifty years ago the discontent caused people to change their surroundings, the same discontent starts them moving on today.

The effects of our going noplace in a hurry can already be seen. People rush everywhere they go. They want to hurry up and wait. Teenagers and parents are on the go but their direction is headed away from each other and away from the home. The heavy toll of traffic deaths might be another effect.

In a sample interview we asked a man turning left at the corner of Cotanche and Fourth, Where are you going?

Me? Hey, I dont know, man. But I cant sit here talking all day. I got to get moving on.

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By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) Whab-ever happened to the old-fashioned grandfather?

As a child I felt vaguely cheated by life because I had never known a grandpa.

One of my grandfathers was dead. The other dwelt all alone in faraway Ireland. Once he sent a photo of himself. It showed a misty-faced white-whiskered old man smoking a pipe as he sat on the doorstep of his small farm home.

Ever since then I have thought of him as Father Time. As a small boy, after being punished.

I used tor lie awake for hours at night wishing he were near so I could tell him my troubles.

In my minds eye hewas like the grandfather pictured sometimes on the cheap colored calendars the neighborhood grocer gave away free in good years.

Grandpa was quite a sentimental figure on those calendars, and I suppose there were still millions like him in real life.

It was Grandpa who stood as a kindly shield between a little boy and the rest of the adult world. It was Grandpa who took the boy fishing or gave him his first real knife.

Best of all. Grandpa never seemed so eternally busy with his own problems. That made him different from all other grownups. He always had time to pause to listen to a small boys woes and answer his wondering questions, and tell strange and fascinating tales of how the world had been when he had been a small boy, too, ages and ages ago.

Whatever happened to that old-fashioned grandpa? If he stiU survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure dont see him very often In the big city.

The big-city grandpa has gone big time.

Grandpa wears a sport shirt instead of a cane. You dont find him hanging around a park playing checkers with old cronies. His game is gin rummy.

Grandpa cares more for an afternoon nip than an afternoon nap. He is less interested In a tip on how to cure rheumatism than he Is in a tip on the stock market or what horse looks good in the third race at Jamaica.

Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctors or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.

Who keeps the night clubs going? Its foxy old Grandpa- Look at the dance floor of any good night club. For every teen-ace lad youll see five sprightly grandpas.

I used to envy the kids who had an old-fashioned grandpa. Not any more. Ive got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modem-type grandpa myself and really start living.

Opinions In Brief

News that a New York company is planning a tobaccoless cigarette has created no thunderstorms or tornadoes among tobacco growers, warehousemen or processors. The tobacco people feel, rightly, no doubt, that the new product will have little effect on their market. Most smokers want that tobacco flavor and aroma. Wlnaton-Salem Journal.

publican and Democratic parties are two of this countrys most vital civic organizations, If they have not always been everything we expect of them, perhaps a large part of the blame rests with ourselves. The AMA News.

Economists who clamor for Government guidance are echoing Lord Keynea* misplaced faith in officialdom; they naively assume that bureaucrats, once an economy is delivered into their hands, immediately become saints and repositories of total Wisdom.Wall Street Journal.

As a matter of fact, the Re-

Since Harry Truman left office there has been very little open agitation for soclaliaed medicine. Private health insurance plans have swept the country to ease the economic burden of illness while avoiding the red tape, mediocre service and regimentation typical of the British socialized medical plan, which costa manv biUlona in taxes annually while denying Individuals even the choice of their own doctor. Chattanooga News-Free Press.

Bond Market Question Anolyzec.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WE JUSTIFIED?

We often hear it said that we are due for a great religious revival. Billy Graham and his wonderful achievements here and in other countries are cited as evidence of this coming revival.

Let every right-minded person applaud, support, and pray for the success of such religious revivals When carried on by men of Billy Grahams good sense, moral stature, sincerity, and evangelical zeal, movements of this sort are bound to succeed and to bless whole nations.

But may we not also expect the cominiz of a new revelation? There was a great revelation 4(K)0 years ago when God spoke tiuougU Abraham. There was

another when God spoke through Mosea. The greatest revelation humanity has ever known was. of course, the revelation which came through Jesus and the continued shedding of Gods light into men's souls through saints, apostles, and a Church filled with His spirit.

But today we are standing at one of the great junctures of world history, when the affairs of this world are not only startling in their significance, but when the whole human race is looking skyward and thinking in terms of space exploration.

What is up there? May not something come down again in the form of a great revelation to bless humanity and guide us thi'ough the coming centuries?

By ELMER ROESSNER

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has Issued perhaps the clearest, nontechnical explanation of the current government bond situation In its publication, Business Review.

The government bond market puzzles many, including some experts. For a decade, ending in 1951, returns on government bonds were unchanging. Since then, returns have fluctuated. Returns on one series of securities In May. 1957, were 34 per cent; in June, 1958, IV4 per cent, and in May, 1959, 4.05 per cent.

The PhUly Fed answers a series of questions to clear up the matter, the heart of its explana* ion giving the reply to: Why doesnt the Open Market Committee (set up to stabilize the bond market) support the government bond market?

The answer:

Deairable as a healthy Government securities market may be, we all would lose much more than we might gain by having a pegged market. Many things about monetary policy are uncertain, but this isnt. We know with certainty what would happen because we have had specific

experience that tells us. It may be helpful to review our experience in maintaining fixed prices and yields of Government securities.

During World War II, as part of the program of facilitating war financing, the Fed had an announced policy of keeping rates on Governments from rising above certain levels and prices from falling below certain levels. This policy was continued until 1951 when the Federal Reserve and the Treasury reached an accord which restored flexible interest rates.

The consequences of that policy were, In one way, the same consequences that flow from a policy of pegging the price of. say. wheat. Just as the Government has ended up holding ill the wheat no one else wants at the fixed price, the Fed ended up with the Government aecurltles no one else wanted at the support price.

The tremendous volume of Governments which financial institutions bought to help finance World War II looked too big to them when other opportunities opened up after the war. So lenders began to make mortgage, consumer and business loans and

to buy corporate and municipal securities. To get the funds, they sold Governments. To keep these sRies from depi easing the prices of Governments, the Federal Reserve bought the securities.

But this support policy had much greater repercussions, for when the Federal Reserve buys securities it pays for them with newly created money. Every time the Fed bought Governments to keep their price from falling, it 'injected new reserves Into the banking system, permitting banks to expand credit and the money supply by several times the amount of new reserves. All this at a time when the supply of goods was still limited. As the Chairman of the Board of Governors put it, the Federal Reserve bad become an engine of Inflation.

Moral: we cannot peg prices and yields of Government securities and at the same time combat inflation.

With this fact staring us in the face, we as citizens are forced to make choices:

1. Peg Government security prices and let prices of goods and services rise, or 2. Peg Government security plaices and hold down nrlnu ot

goods and services by direct controls, or

3. Let interest rates move freely and use monetary policy to combat inflation.

W in the Federal Reserve could not choose alternative number (1) because we believe the evils of inflation are much greater than any inconveniences of higher interest rates.

We would not favor alternative number (2) in peacetime because direct controls are so contrary to the freedom we all like to exercise in our economic and political pursuits.

In our view, the thii'd choice Is the only acceptable one. It is more important to have stable prices of goods and services than stable Interest rates. U.S. TO CONTINUE GRADING OF LAMB

Predicted protests against the Department of Agriculture plan to drop grading of lamb wont be necessary. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson has announced that lamb grading will continue. Meanwhile, the department will study proposals to revise standards for lamb and mutton, possibly to reduce the present premium on ovcrfat