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Tuesday, August 18, 1959

1300 Dead On Highways In 1959?

Predictions by the Carolina Motor Club of North Carolinas highway toil for 1959 should be enough to make Tar Heel drivers sit up and take more precautions on the highways.

According to this organization which keeps a close watch on the states highway accident record, 1959 may produce more than 1,300 highway^ deaths in North Carolina. Such a staggering tollan average of 13*plus for each of the 100 counties^would be a new record for the state.

Certainly such a highway death toll in North Carolina for any one year would be inexcusable. Our roads are in fairly good condition, the state has continued to place emphasis on its highway safety^ campaign, and the courts have givn no indication that they take .lightly convictions in connection with high-way regulation violations.

We must assume, therefore, that for some reason Tar Heel motorists are failing to exercise the necessary precautions on the highways. They are not responding sufficiently to efforts to make the states highways safer, and apparently not a sufficient number of motorists are placing sufficient emphasis on their own role in better highway safety for North Carolina.

To be sure there are more motor vehicles on the roads of the state than ever before in history. In addition these vehicles are traveling more miles than ever before. It is only natural therefore that in spite of improvement in the physical condition of highways, the average motorist faces greater hazards ^than ever before each time he gets behind the wheel of his automobile.

Highway safety is not a problem for law enforcement officers or those who seek to educate the public to observe better safety rules. Highway safety is very realistically the business of every citizen of North

Carolina. In a very real sense, it is the responsibility of every citizen of the state.

If North Carolinas highway record for 1959 turns out to be as horrible as is now predicted, well have no one to blame except ourselves. There remain more than four months in the current year, the safety record of Tar Heel motorists in those four months can appreciably alter the year's overall safety record. If drivers exercise extreme caution during the remainder of the year, the 1959 death toll on our highways may be considerably below the total now predicted. If, on the other hand, carelessness rather than caution continues to hold the upper hand, the 1959 highway death toll in North Carolina may be even more horrible than what is now predicted. '

It is a life and death challenge which must be accepted by every motorist in the state.

As Hodges Said, Court Reform Is Not Dead

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By LYNN NISBET

JTACLLA On the western slopes of the Balsam Mountain range above the Tuckaseigee River in Jackson county is a huge boulder of indeterminate texture, but similar to soapstone, known as JutacuUa Rock, The face of the rock is covered with fanciful lines cut Into the surface, picture writing of some kind. Whether they are heirogly-phics in the true sense of conveying messages, or plctograph symbols representing ancient events; or how or when they got there Is not known.

There are various legends about them. One is that the symbols were carved by Spanish soldiers who came with Desoto to that area in the middle 16th century. Another is that in the dim historic past a great Indian Chief named Jutaculla fell from the mountain top and hit so hard that his wide-spread hand made the markings. Or maybe ancient Indian hunters used the rock for doodling as modern business men use scratch pads.

In any event. Jutaculla Rock has held for many years attraction for mystery lovers. In fact, so many of them came and walked over itand chipped off souvenirs their depredations plus natural erosion has year by year made the markings less .distinct.

Now, by way of a John Parris story, it is learned the commissioners of Jackson county are negotiating for purchase of the rock and establishment of a little park around it. The tentative plan calls for protective fences and covering in effect to preserve what is left of the un-cipherable pictographs. This in line with the trend all over the country to preserve and to restore. where possible, some of the ancient historic and legendary sites.

PARADOX The paradoxical situation in the public school system in North Carolina was apparent at the superintendents conference at Mars Hill last week. Prior to 1933 responsibility for administering the schools was primarily vested in the counties. Most of the money came from locally levied property taxes, and while there was substantial State supervision actual control was In the courthouse. Then came the period when the State took over virtually complete financial support and almost fuD control. Came the integration issue and considerable control was returned to local units. Meantime, the several communities had voted special

taxes to supplement State funds. These taxes arc levied by the county commissioners who insist upon some voice in how the money they have levied shall be spent.

Result is a sort of three-way division of responsibilityState board of education, county board of education and county commissioners. Several times In the discussions at Mars Hill there was implication, if not specific illustration, of controversy ,, among these facets of controlparticularly as between county commissioners and local school *authori-ties. It was equally apparent that despite publicized return of responsibility to local units, the State still puts up most of the money and retains major control over operations.

School superintendents are listed in the category of county officials, but they are selected by boards of education appointed by the General Assembly, and their salaries are largely paid from State funds. So what happens when a school superintendent and a county accountant have different opinions about the allocation of public school money? More often than not the school officers contention prevailthat is if he has support of his board.

BUSINESS It was quite apparent also from discussions at Mars Hill that the office of superintendent of school administrative unit, county or city, is essentially a business office. Custom has long been to promote classroom teachers to principals, principals to superintendents. The practice is Justified on the grounds that the superintendent has had experience and is therefore familiar with the problems throughout the operation. No one is willing to switch emphasis anywhere along the line from teaching to business management. But a few hours in a superintendents conference shows very clearly that a man might not be an efficient superintendent just because he was a superb educational instructor.

One superintendent who came ,up through the classroom route expressed the idea in few words when he said: I have to watch nickels and dimes now, rather than commas and semi-colons.

I have to think of the little dot as a decimal point, not a period He added that he did not find the job any more pleuant. As a teacher his dealings with adults was in their capacity as parents: when he became superintendent he had to deal with same folks as taxpayers It makes, a difference.

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Gov. Hodges expressed the feeling of a good many North Carolinians last week with his assertion that the court reform issue rejected by the 195^9 General Assembly is far more a dead issue.

In spite of the maneuvering in the legislature which brought about the death of the court reform proposals, most North Carolinians recognize the need for far-reaching reforms in the lower court system of the state. Indeed, most of the members of the legislature apparently favored some reforms although they could not agree on the best course to follow to bring about these reforms.

There were, unfortunately, severe conflicts between the Bell Committee which devoted several years to the study of the court system, and the committee on constitutional revisions which included the courts in its study of proposed constitutional changes.

These conflicts were of sufficient import to kill off the'^entire court reform measure, and indeed the entire

constitutional revision proposals. p T\/r A PTU A T'CPr'Tr'

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bringing about reforms does not l ecessarily mean that i lie: progress in the right direction has not been made. The people of the state are much more conscious today in a matter of a few weeks, of the need for reforms in the system of lower courts college will start again. It will than they were a year ago of even six months ago. ^ experience for the Even since adjournment of the legislature there has been increasing concern about the lack of needed reforms.

Unless some action is taken during a special ses-

SoDhomore SlumD

freshmen. The sophomores will enter the inevitable, phenomenal period known as the sophomore Slump.

It is difficult to pin point

Sion of the legislatur^which appears remote at the

momentthe issue of needed court reforms probably and academicaliy pretty weU

will be very much alive again when the 1961 session describe the subject.

of the General Assembly convenes. Certainly by that Enthusiasm for good grades

4. 4.1. ' ' .L seems to wane during the second

time some workable solution to the problem, accepta- year of college. The pressure of

ble to the legislators, should be ready for their con- knowing that your high school

sideration.

gets your grades during the first year makes some students grade-conscious. Others are pushed by parents whose friends relentlessly ask how Johnny adjusted to college life. Whatever the push, it is felt strongly by the frosh.

The prospective sororiety girls and fraternity men strive to make the required average to complete their membership. There are those who see a Phi Beta Kappa key in their future.

Perhaps the sophomore slump for some of the students

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Other Editors Saying An Interesting Point

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower, watching the Soviet rush to come abreast of the United States, feels this country needs some driving urge to think less of leisure and money and more of work and achievement. ^

So, before setting out for Moscow later this year to return Premier Nikita Khrushchevs mid-September visit here, Elsenhowers thinking is being influenced by the Soviets efforts.

He is very conscious of those efforts. This may be why earlier this year, in his State of the Union message, he proposed creating a committee to suggest goals for America.

The President is now readyalthough he hasnt said so publiclyto name this committee as soon as he can get private organizations to pay for its work. He doesnt want the government to foot the bill.

Elsenhower is known to think that national goals might give us an incentive toward which to work, Just as the Soviet Union has had its five and seven-year plans.

He looks upon those Soviet plans, which keep the people hard at work, as the moral equivalent of war.

He thinks we need something in this country as an Incentive to get our minds on accomplishment and not on a shorter work week and more leisure.

We must attach more importance, he thinks,' to good, hard work and less to progress by demagoguery or trying to make a million.

On the short work week, he recalls wartime talks with a French professor who said the cause of Prances defeat in 1940 came from trying to match a French four-day week against Hitlers seven-day week.

The President, remembering Edward Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, thinks that is what Is happening to us now, that we are too interested in leisure and pleasure.

Thats a gloomy view for a president. It seems to be overlooking one thing: that Gibbon's criterion for Judging civilization and progress was the measure in which mens happiness is secured, and of that happiness he considered political freedom an essential condition.

So, while the Soviet have made material strides, their lack of freedom is the opposite of Gib-bcR'a 'conofptian of tutpptaefii. while to Gibbon the freedom enjoyed by Americans would be a mark of progress, civilization, and happiness.

But Eisenhower has had varying views on the Soviet Union at various times.

While at one time he considers the seven year plan as the moral equivalent of war and Is Impressed by the work It gets done.

at another time he notes that to increase production, the Communists must offer incentives, like extra pay.

There is, of course, an essential difference between Khrushchevs seven-year plan and any American goals thought up by a study committee.

One is mandatory in a so>^ where the state has absolute control over the people and the means of production; the other would have to be voluntary in a free enterprise system.

Khrushchev, for instance, can order Soviet steel production capacity doubled and at the same time not only can find a ready market for every ounce of steel produced but decide where and for what it shall be used.

No matter what goals a presidents committee proposes, the steel industry is free to increase its capacity only as there is a free and competitive market for its product.

Eisenhower never precisely explained in his State of the Union message just what goals he had in mind. Presumably, he would let his committee figure this out.

He said the committee would be concerned with living standards, health, education, greater assurance of life, liberty and opportunities. and methods to meet such goals, and what state, federal and local governments should be concerned.

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(Washington Daily News)

Lynn Nisbet, who writes for the afternoon newspapers in North Carolina and whose column, Around Capitol Square, appears regularly in the Daily News, has made quite an interesting point recently.

Mr. Nisbet talks about redis-trictlng in North Carolina with special reference to congressional lines. He takes It almost for granted that North Carolina will lose a congressman after the 1960 census.

Mr. Nisbet points out that if North Carolina does lose a congressman after the 1960 census and if the North Carolina General assembly fails to redistrict the state before the 1962 election, then all our congressmen elected that year will be at-large candidates. That is to say. if there is no redistrictlng by 1962 elections, we will have no district congressmen but rather all of them will be voted upon on a statewide basis.

Thus, if that should happen, then voters in the Pamlico area will be voting for congressmen from Asheville, Lincolnton, and everywhere in the state with the

10 highest men being elected. That takes Into account of course that by 1962 North Carolina will have 11 congressmen instead of the present 12.

If the entire state should elect

11 congressmen-at-large in 1962, it would be a sure way to eliminate Congressman Charles R. Jonas, our only Republican member of congress from North Carolina.

But North Carolina does not want to stack its politics this way. The people prefer congress

ional districts, and they want to have their own congressman from their own district. They want to know their congressman well, and they want to feel that he is a man of the people, a man to whom they can turn when they want certain actions or certain congressional favors.

In short, the law as it is written and explained means that North Carolina General Assembly will redistrict congressional districts should we lose a seat. That course is inevitable.

Mr. Nisbet made another observation which deserves careful scrutiny. What he didnt say is as important as what he did say. In his column of last Friday, Mr. Nisbet said and while at it, the Legislature might just as well go on and revamp State Senatorial and So-licitorlal districts.

Mr. Nisbet did not mention re-vampiny representation in the lower house of the General assembly as required by law. We agree whole heartedly that we ought to revamp our Senatorial and Solicitorial districts. We look at the idea of the Eastern North Carolina counties losing representation In the lower house of the legislature and the Piedmont area gaining represntation should the legislature comply with the law in regard to legislative reapportionment. We believe in complying with the law, but if the law is wrong, we believe more strongly in changing it. We cannot feel that population should be the sole factor in lethslatlve reapportionment. Geography and economy should also be major factors In any reapportionment effort.

stems from a loss in social status. This particularly applies to girls. The phone continues to ring for the sophomore girls, but the question has changed over the summer. The boys have suddenly become buddy buddy and want you to fix them up with that cute little frosh that lives in your dorm.

Socially, the boys take a slight rise during their sophomore year. In some schoolst hey are now eligible to have a car at school and for those who want it, are eligible either pledged or become a member of a fraternity. The car and fraternity pin open the way for these boys to dazzle the incoming freshmen girls.

Those freshmen girls seem to be a contributing factor in the slump. When the new crop of freshmen girls appear on the scene, the sophomores fade out. They lose the incentive for study without Saturday night inspiration.

A limited poll of rising sophomores brought these answers: From a Carolina student, You feel like you are piled up with workwith no end to it. . ieel discouraged.

Another student from East Carolina College says that the Sophomore slump doesnt exist at EC" . . . though she has heard of it.

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) The Venus de Milo was a fat pig, said Henry Plehn, a man with all the figures on womens figures.

When I_went to the Louvre, I found she really had only a moderate-sized bust. But she was far, far too full-waisted.

She may be the Greek classic ideal of feminine beauty. But she doesnt by any means have what the present day would call a perfect figure. ^

Plehn is a kingpin in the nations 750-million-dollar foundation garment industry, which expects to hit the biUion-doUar mark in another few years.

There is more to the brassier field than meets the eye. Foam rubber, for example.

Last year the industry used 10,200,000 pounds of foam rubber said Plehn.

About 65 per cent of American women now wear falsies, or contour cupsas we prefer to call them.

The desire for a larger bustline Is by no means strictly a U.S. phenomenon. It has become a worldwide obsession, according to Plehn, who distributes his products in 44 countries from Finland to South Africa,

Some psychologists see the fuller bosom only as a sex symbol. But there is much more to it than that. A large bosom always has been a symbol of security, and that*s why I feel it is more popular now. We have never lived in a more insecure world.

A tall, handsome man with graying hair and bright blue eyes, Plehn has a toured the globe, presumably with tape measure, to make a first-hand poll of the shape women are In.

Here are a few of his conclusions :

The average U.S. woman has the best figure in the world when shes dressedbecause she spends more money on It and spends more time making it better. She buys seven brassiers a year.

Actually, she has only about a 33-inch bust. She says publicly shed like to have a 34-24-34 figure, but in her boudoir thoughts she yearns for at least a 36-inch bust.

In Sweden, Germany and Italy the girls do have 36-lnch busts, but they tend to look heavy-waisted because,too few of them wear girdles.

French women have the smallest busts in Europeabout 32^4 Id say. The Oriental women wear the smallest brassier size of all-30.

Plehn has learned so much about women he is a bit disillusioned.

Theyre phonies, he said, cheerfully. They all say they dress to win the approval of other women, not men.

That may be true of their outerwear. But when it comes to underwear, they dress to make themselves more attractive to men.

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By EARL L, DOUGLASS PROFIT AND LOSS .

A few evenings, ago I talked with a scientist who assured me that the modern world has not yet begun its course of scientific achievements. He declared that one hundred years from now we would look back on the greatest inventions of this age and regard them as no more scientifically wonderful than we the windshield wiper.

But this scientist then went on to say that what worries him is the quite perceptible moral decline which is manifest in the modem world. There is no getting away from the fact that we are in such a period of decline right now. Every year the number of divorces is one-fourth-the number of our marriages. Crime of all sorts grows faster than the population.

What good wlU It do us if we attain undreamed heights of

scientific achievement and yet as a race fail morally and spiritually What shall It profit a man said a great Teacher on one occasion, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul And the world of that day was certainly not worth gaining compared with the world in which you and I live. What will It profit us if we gain this world, if we scale Its heights, if we achieve unprecedented triumphsand then lose thase moral values which really count, the faith by which we can be sustained.

What doth it profit. . .if we gain. . .if we lose

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The new definition of a gentleman is one who holds the door open while his wife carries in the groceries." Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette.

The School of Business Administration at the University of Richmond is offering a course in how to spend money. Charlotte youngsters learn that before they get to college." Charlotte News,

Graoevine

The average steelworker earns iS.lO an hour or $124 a week. If the current strike lasts eight weeksand there is nothing now to suggest It wontthat steelworker will lose $992 in wages. Should the union, after an tight-week walkout, win the maximum increase it Is seeking, 15 cents an hour, how long will It take the rank and file worker tc recover his strike-caused loss?

^The answer Is tluree years, nine weeks, and one and a half days.Wall Street Journal.

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By ELMER ROESSNER We gotta communicate! board chalrpien scream at executive vice presidents. Nobody in this whole spread knows what we are trying to do. Nobody realizes we are trying to make the best one-way baby-bottle nipples for the lowest price hi the world (or the finest after-dinner spot remo ven In the entire blasted organization. Nobody understands weve bought out all the competition. Nobody knows we are imprinting electronic tape in our advertisement in Indoors Magazine "

Sure they know.

They get the word from the grapevine.

A writer of outdoor tips says that, in an emergency, a becr-can opener can be made into a fish spear. In another emergency, too. a fish spear can be

you get the word first?

The largest group, 38 per cent, said. The grapevine The next largest group, 27 per cent, said they learned from their supervisor, and the next group, 17 per cent, said from official memo. The rest said from station newspaper, station directive system, bulletin boards and ether sources.

Incidentally, newest employees placed less faith in the grapevine, Reliance increased with seniority up to five to seven years, then leveled off and dropped sharply again with employees with twelve or more years service.

One reason for reliance oq

tops In speed, the study showed that it is not tops in reliability and completeness. On this point, workers relied on station (plant) newspapers, station directives. bulletin boards, meetings, the employee-management council and off-statloo newspapers, in that order.

In studying answers, Mr, Walton came to an Important conclusion; It is essential to make sure that every employee gets the station newspaper. An employee cant be Informed unless he gets it and is sure be Is getting every issue.

Another test showed the reliability of the media, whether It i.s the grapevine or the plant

White Collar workers relief more on official directives than bulletin board announcements. Blue Collar workers had a reverse reliance. However, this may have been due to the fact that office workers get most directive information from the directives themselves, while schedules and orders for production workers are usually posted on bulletin boards.

Mr. Walton concluded that channels should be used to reach all employees; that information should be official, and that It come down through the chain of command.

GARBAGE DISPOSER RENTAL PLAN SUSPECT

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Asheville Citizen.

Surely there Is not a Senator surely there 4s not a citizen who has studied and who knows the history ol our relationship with th,. Soviet Union since 1933, who believes Russian diplomacy ran be trusted.Sen. Homer Capehart (Ind.)I

keep employees Informed. Eu gene Walton, of the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test StaUou, China Lake, Calif., writes In the new Issue of Personnel, published by American Management Association,

GRAPEVINE LEADS

The station made a employees. It asked,

survey of "How do

rapidly. It takes only a slip of the Up to get it rolling, Mr. Walton wrote.

The supervisor, although In direct touch with his men, has organizational restraints*; in short, he has to clear his announcements with higher authorities.

RELIABILITY A FACTOR

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te Ewtwu potted wftM may be

paralleled the classic experiment in which two groups were reading the same article. One group was told It was from The New York Times, the other, from the Dally Worker. The flrst group' rated the item fair and objective, the second as "unfair and one-sided.

The China Lake tests . tijrned up another interesting '^facL

another nationwide racket: Some firms are advertising garbage disposers at $l a month rental. Since It Is almost Impossible to make money at that price, and since the firms Install rental units of If it l(wks as If the customer, may buy it later, the proposltldn looks like a gimmick to pressure home-owners into

buying.

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