FACE POimrfE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Thursday, August 20, 1959

Thursday, August 20, 1959Which Way Does It Blow Today?

Civil Defense Value Already Seen

Broken

On a number of occasions in recent years Civil Defense organizations around the nation have been the subject of severe criticism from two distinct sources.

In some instances the criticism has come from people who view present Civil Defense organizations as far below that which will be reqquired to deal with an emergency such as a surprise nuclear attack. These critics urge greater emphasis on CD; better training of personnel, greater cooperation from the public, more realistic approaches to the problems which may Jie-Ahead,

Other critics of Civil Defense hoot at the whole idea of preparing for an emergency which may never exist. They decry the waste" of money, time and effort which go into the Civil Defense program. They see little to be gained in playing at war, getting the civilian population disturbed about such matters.

Both these groups of critics fail to recognize the importance of Civil Defense in coping with disasters short of total nuclear war.

In recent years there have been many occasions in various parts of the nation in which CD personnel have been called into action and their efforts saved countless lives and prevented untold suffering on the part of literally thousands of people. Coastal North Carolina and the costal areas of other states are well

aware of the important role played by Civil Defense when hurricanes and other natural disasters strike. Other areas which have experienced serious floods are aware of the vital part an adequate Civil Defense organization may play in the life of a community.

/ Areas which bore the brunt of the earthquakes that ravaged parts of Montana and Wyoming this week probably have come to know in the past few days the value of a good Civil Defense organization.

The point is that Civil Defense plays an importan! role in any community where a natural or man-made disaster strikes. The organizations stand ready to cope with auch omergencios,"and the fact that they are ready enables the affected arealarge or small to better cope with the emergency.

Special Session Pressure Grows

By LYNN NI8BET

SPECIAL SESSION The same folks who six months ago scoffed the idea of a special session of the General Assembly to handle constitutional revision are now putting tremendous pressure on the Governor and Council of State to call an extra session for that purpose. The pressure is coming chiefly from staunch* advocates of the Bell Committee court reform program These are the same people who most vigorously opposed the idea when it was first proposed in this column on March 12, as committee consideration of the constitutional changes began. Two days later the Young Democratic Clubs adopted a resolution calling for that procedure, and a number of newspapers gave it editorial support.

Perhaps no Issue before any General Assembly ever got more thorough analsdical consideration by the appropriate committees than did court reform in 1959. Trouble was, as was pointed out at the time,* less than one-third of the legislators w'ere on the committees which heard the discussion. Even among the

committee members there was wide divergence of opinion, and numerous compromises were

agreed upon.

In a special message delivered to a joint session of the General Assembly, Governor Hodges

abandoned the proposals of the Constitutional Commission which he had appointed and supported in the main recommendations of the Bell Committee, which had been named by the N.C. Bar Association.

When the matter came on to the floor for full debate and determinate vote as to whether the constitutional revisions should be submitted to vote of the people, there developed one of the bitterest legislative fights in modem times.

DEBACLE It was chiefly a fight between those who wanted overall revision of the constitution and those who paramounted court reform above everything else. The scrap found staunch administration supporters on both sides, with some evidence of political opportunists apparently thinking more about their own fate than total good lor the State.

The fight resulted in a debacle. On the day before tie General Assembly adjourned leaders of both sides, with full concurrence of Governor Hodges, agreed to throw the whole business of constitutional revision into the trash can lor the session. Although the legislative journals will show unanimity on this point, there was and still isunder surface 1-feeling. Those who paramounted court reform above everything else, blame those who advocated general revision of the Constitution for killing Improvement in judicial process. Those who contended for a modernized Constitution blame failure on

the stubbornness of the court reformers.

ASME FOLKS If a special session should be called it would have substantially the same membership as the regular session, very probably with the same sentiments and the same attitude of stubbornness on both sides. Advocates of the extra session believe that if the constitutional questions can be considered in an atmosphere cleared of other problems they can be discussed wiiout rancor. That was sound argument before the debacle. Many Impartial observers doubt that the atmosphere can be cleared of the overhanging smog resulting from the previous bitter debatein which the same people participated under the same election to their offices. Some observers fear that repetitionor continuanceof the June fight might actually delay constitutional reform, rather than accelerate it.

SMOG There Is widespread opinion among citizens, other than the stubborn core of champions for this or that provision. that the hangover smog from last June might be intensified by the upcoming campaign for Governor and a newly elected Legislature.

Most frequently mentioned date for a special session, if held, is mid-February. By that time it Is expected that all candidates for Governor, and most of those for legislative seats, will have announced. Consideration of constitutional revision inevitably would be colored by that fact.

The calmly deliberate discussion of issues that could have been possible in a special session this fall, without the regular session debacle, will be impossible in the heat of a political campaign next spring.

Purtliermore, it will be extremely difficult to get binding commitments from legislators that they will consider nothing but constitutional revision at a special session, when opportunities are so readily at hand to make capital for their own re-election or in favor of their choice for Governor. Governor Ehrlnghaus had no difficulty in petting such commitments for the session in 1936, which set up the Employment Security Commission, Governor Hoey had no difficulty in the 1938 special session, which authorized bonds to match Federal money for construction, Governor Hodges found it easy to get promises that nothing but the public issue would be considerable in the 1956 special session.

The situation is different now, and it must be remembered that the General Assembly is Its own boss and that no special session is limited to the main purpose set out in the call. For these reasons preponderant majority of the people whom you reporter has interviewed think there will be no special session of the 1959 General Assembly.

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Certainly the overall Civil Defense operation as now constituted has its shortcomings. Nevertheless, it has proved its worth many times over in recent years in dealing with natural disasters. If CD never is needed to cope with the ravages of a nuclear attack and we pray it isntit is worth every cent of money, every

minute of time and every degree of effort which goes into it simply to have the organization ready to function instantly in case of natural disasters.

Beautifying The City Business Sections

In an effort to boost business, many cities and towns across the nation are taking a careful second look at their downtown business section.

Most of the communities W'hich are taking this look are also finding that many draw-backs to the business sections are seen every day, sort of taken for granted, and therefore do not receive the corrective attention they need from the business interest of the community as a whole.

Communities which have not taken a careful, objective look at their business sections lately might well profit by doing so.

In some cases cities are experimenting with the , idea of malls in the place of streets in the heart of their btisiness district. Elaborate suburban shopping centers have used the idea successfully to drain business from the heart of town in some cases. Toledo has decided to see just what a business difference a mall will make dowmtowm and has converted a two block area in the center of its business district into a temporary mall. After a limited trial period, businessmen and city officials will decide whether to make the change permanent.

It is doubtful that many cities and tow^ns in Eastern North Carolina, because of their size, are finding that downtown retail sales are suffering because of competition from suburban shopping centers. It is highly probable, however, that every city and town could attract more customers into its principal business area if sufficient attention were devoted to making the area more attractive and more convenient for shoppers.

We wouldnt have to go to the trouble of grass-covered, tree and shrub-studded malls in place of main street as some larger cities are doing. Nevertheless, theres probably not a business district in this section of the state which couldnt profit from a face-lifting, a thorough fall cleaning and a little more attention to the convenience of potential shoppers.

In this section of the state business activity is moving into its peak period of the year. From now until Christmas stores will be busy, shoppers wilj be more numerous and sales will be higher. Froni^^w until Christmas also, other larger cities awa^-^om this immediate section will drain off hundreds of thousands of dollars which should be sppnt in Eastern Carolina simply because shoppers sometimes like to go to more attractive, more convenient shopping surroundings.

Even though we are entering the busy season, what better time could there be to give some attention to sprucing up the business district? Some attention and work now could pay big dividends in the remaining months of this year as well as in the months after that.

Story

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)Wifely remarks that husbands get tired of hearingand overhearing:

Joe, I gave you the best years of my life, and I ask you what did it get me?

Your pay envelope was 40 cents short. Are you keeping another woman?

When I think of all the men I could have married.

If you expect me to go on spoiling you like your mother did, youve got another think coming.

Yes, my lord and master, what is It you want now?

I dont care if she is your bosss wife. I dont have to bow and scrape before anybody.

"Why is it we practically never go out any more? Are you ashamed of meor what?

It wont take me a minute. Im all ready except for putting on a dab of lipstick.

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Well, if Joes going to have one for the road, you might as well pour me too, oneI mean, one, too.

Oh, dont tell that old joke, dear. Ive heard it a thousand times.

Joe, you never heard a word I say.

By ALVIN TAYLOB

Old OccuDational Hazarc.

If there is such a thing as another life. Im going to come back a man. Men think theyre the kings of the earth.

Dr. Joseph G. Molner, medical columnist, with the Chicago Sun-Tlmes Syndicate, wrote an article in this months edition of Editor and Publisher, the newspaper trade magazine.

It was entitled, as you might guess. How to Be a Healthy Newsman: Follow Doctors Prescription,

putting It first, not because it necessarily does the most damage, but because it is an insidious habit that creeps up gradually, and when (or if) it begins to do some misbhief you start looking for some other cause.

something that every newsman sees plenty of.

This, of course, is a subject dear to the hearts of anyone who has stumbled into this ulcer producing, nerve wracking, deadline-happy profession and naturally your nerve wracked columnist read on.

The cigarette smoking didn't interest us because we dont smoke but, boy, did that coffee drinking catch our eye!

Stress, so much talked-about and so little understood, is a curious thing, he says. Stress Isn't necessarily bad. Without stress you might turn into a w-onderful oyster or turnip, but not much of a man.

Joe used to go fishing with his pals, but now I go with him. I always say, a family that plays together stays together.

It isnt that I really mind your playing poker, but dont you ever win

Well, if you want my advice.

Dr. Molner, a well-known columnist who receives upwards of 60,000 letters a month, set up 10 rules for health.

Your columnist Is a chain drinker as are most folks around the news room. Dr. Molner says a cup of coffee is a reasonable stimulant and a good antidote for a long pull when you have to stay awake.

Call it stress, or emergency, or deadline,* or whatever. he continued. We all know that when we have to, we can do more than we can do without that pressure.

As we read through the ten rules, all of which because of space, we cant discuss here, we found ourselves nodding our aching head and muttering so true on numerous occasions.

But excess caffeine can cause jitters and irritability, elevate the blood pressure, cause, an abnormally fast heart beat.

First, Dr. Molner mention^ the C. and C. habit. Thats short for coffee-and-cigarette habit, and Dr. Molner said he was

My point is that too much is too muchand a cigaret and black coffee for breakfast or lunch has O calories, O vitamins and O nutrition.

Stress isnt bad. It is good. Ive seen city hall reporters seem to doze through a city council meetingbut suddenly come instantly awake when something newsworthy came up. That sort of alternate relaxing and steel-sprig alertness is fine. That kind of stress isnt what causes ulcers.

You cant mean thats the one you were crazy about in college, Joe. She looks like the mothers had been at her.

Joe, are you listening to me You can play Boy Scout in the backyard if you want to, but the rest of us are going to eat in the house like civilized people. Every husband in the neighborhood carries more life insurance than you. Some men care about their familys welfare. Sure I used to be jealous over Joewhen he had hair. Joe. we used to have so much to say to each other. Why is it we never talk anymore.

Another point made by Dr. Molner which caught my eye were his comments on stress

Stress with a purpose is good for us. Stress without a purposejitters, worry, anxiety, or fretting about things you cant helpth^it, I think, is the kind

Strength For Today

Other 'Editors Saying Want A $20.000 Job?

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le Candidate

"snt Ready Yet

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) This is the timea few months before the 1960 election year when would-be presidents try to make running look like just walking fast.

So it is no wonder New Yorks Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller didnt actually say he needed more leg room when he climbed out of a political box this week.

On Aug. 3 the governor, a Johnny-come-lately to politics, reportedly told friends that by Nov. 1 he would make up his mind about trylny for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960 on the basis of what public opinion polls were saying then.

Vice President Richard M. Nixon, a political pro who has been wanning up much longer than Rockefeller for the dash across the White House lawn, would never have let himself get into a box like that for a couple of reasons:

1. Time and events change public opinion. What the polls show Nov. 1 may be the opposite of the pollsters findings six months lateri ^

2. Polls may be wrong, as President Truman demonstrated in 1948 when the polls showed New York's Gov. Thomas E. Dewey a shoo-in but the disbelieving Trumao ruined Deweys presidential ambitions forever.

Even if the polls showed newcomer Rockefeller more popular. Nixon, the old pro, could still hope his deep and wide connections with Republican party politicians might get him the nomination anyway.

So it was no wonder, either, that on Aug. 14 he said polls wouldnt influence his decision about seeking the nomination. He said: In one respect Im like Harry Truman. I believe the only poll that counts Is on election day. %

Then, also, Rockefeller last week had dinner with Dewey,

twice a presidential bridesmaid but never a bride, who was one of the prime forces in helping President Eisenhower get the Republican nomination in 1952.

No one ever accused Dewey of being a dumb political bunny although the way he campaigned against Truman wasnt very bright. He acted then like a man who didnt think he had to try because the polls said he was away out in front anyway.

Whether or not Dewey told Rockefeller about the political birds and bees and how they may nest on poles but not on pollsthe New Yprk governor climbed out of the box those Aug. 3 reports put him in.

On Aug. 17 he told reporters In Albany he had never set a Nov. i deadline for deciding on running: and besides, public opinion polls would not be a controlling factor in his decision on running.

He put it this way: My own decisions are going to be made on a positive basis in terms of the opportunity of service which I feel I might be able to render.

A pro reading that statement might translate it this way: Im not sticking my neck out by saying I will or I wont; Ill just wait to see how my chances look.

And Tuesday Rockefeller, for a man who hasnt yet said yes or no, showed considerable interest in the 1960 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, which gives an Indication of what Republican voters think of candidates.

He discussed it with Sen. Styles Bridges (R-NH), a Nixon supporter.

It was in the same states primary In 1952 that Dwight Eisenhower, a newcomer to poUlics. drubbed Robert A. Taft, the veteran Ohio^^enator who, like Nixon, was a political pro and had been exercising his leg muscles for the White House sprint a long time.

(The Tulsa Tribune)

We have literally dozens of vacancies paying 120,000 a year and up hi our active list that we are unable to fill, reports a personnel agency in the current issue of Think magazine. Where? In the ranks of big business management.

Every qualified man who wants to make a transfer can have his pick among several jobs. And the outlook is for the unbalance of demand and supply to get worse. They make it sound so Inviting that its a wonder their doors havent been beaten down by hordes of eager young men who would give Uielr eye teeth for $20,000 a year. Yet weU wager the agencys doors are still intact. And thats an interesting reflection on our bold spirit.

The reason there is a shortage of top flight managers is that it is difficult these days to find folks who are eager and able to take responsibility. There are lots of young go-getters who would like $20,000 a year, but not many who are willing to should-'er the big decisions which are commonplace in big business. This is a comfortable age, for all

its hectic pace. It is an age of security; an age in which the height of ambition for most is the job with no risk, the five-day week, the certain paycheck and the retirement benefits at the end of the road.

It is a complex age. In todays big business, a single decision may involve hundreds or thousands of dollars; a single mistake may cost more than many a years salary. The war and the bureaucracy taught us the ungentlemanly art of passing the buck, and we are now busy perfecting it in all walks of life. We make decisions by committee, and we build complex organizations so that there will always be someone to backstop our judgments and share our burden of responsibility.

Is it any wonder that folks are reluctant to stick their necks out with the sort of bold, imaginative, wholehearted effort that merits $20,000 a year? Ours is a comfortable society in which the nine-to-fivers live more for their leisure hours and less for their Jobs. This may be Utopia, but it takes its toll of Initiative and energy and drive and imagination.

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of false stress that contributes to ulcers, bad hearts, bad nerves, bad everything.

Dont stew about things, but dont worry about the stress that has a purpose.

The good doctors advice was directed to newsmen, but, you know, we think most anyone could profit by it.

The picture accompanying this column isnt of your columnist, by the way. It was published with Dr. Molners article.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS A CONTINUING FACTOR

The family appears to be a constant factor throughout the universe. That is, of course, the universe as we know it. We do not know much about the other planets, but we do know that heaven as set forth In the Bible is a great family which God has gathered about Him.

Family life exists here on earth. Family life exists in heaven. If the planets are populated, we can be pretty safe in assuming that family life exists there also. And in all probability such family life is not much different from the family life we have here on earth. The family as a pattern and a unit appears to be a constant. factor with which the whole life of the universe has to deal.

And can we think of anything better the Lord could have done for us than to have gathered us Into His family? To be sure we are part of a great kingdom the kingdom of God. But the unit within this kingdom is the family. Here on earth there is a father and there are children and, of course, a mother. The highest form of family life is held together by the love of God. It is warmed and made vital by the love which the members have for each. It is Illuminated by love and supported by love and pervaded through and through by love.

Membership In a family gives us all a sense of confident security. We belong.

Business Spreading Democracy

By ELMER ROESSNER

Business is showing a willingness to take over more of the task of spreading the idea of democracy abroad.

A McGraw-Hill survey shows that American manufacturers are increasing their spending for overseas plants and equipment this year. The $2 billion-plus total is 5 per cent higher than last year. This, of course, consists almost entirely of profit-anticipating ventures. If there Is any do-goodlsm In it, it is angled toward American investors.

On the other hand, there are some projects Intended to benefit foreign friends more than American promoters. Here are three new developments:

1. William Brennan, a management development expert, has drawn plans for an International Institute on ElUs Island, in New York harbor, where American businessmen going abroad would be trained as ambassadors of good will. The nonprofit organization would under

take the training, financed by private industry and government.

BEATIFYING AMERICANS

2. A parallel program has been announced by American University in Washington. Beginning September 14, a course will be launched to train American businessmen to deal with business already has the co-operation of executives overseas to eliminate the ugly American. This already has the co-operation of the Departments of State and Commerce, of the United States Information Agency., Texaco, Republic Steel, RCA, Pan American and many other industrial giants.

3. An organization has been projected to encourage American businesses to foster small. Independent businesses in undeveloped nations as a good-will project, without hope of profit.

This is the most interesting of the three Ideas.

STARTED IN SHARED CAB

The idea was bom in a taxi ride when Peter Volid. president

of King Korn Stamp Co., and Clarence Randall, former Inland Steel board chairman, shared a cab at an airport.

Both men thought it would be a great Idea if American businesses would foster independent businesses abroad, as an extension of the governments Point Four program.

Mr. VoUd thereupon made a 30-day tour of Europe and the Near East and found both foreign governments and American consular officers receptive. Under the plan, a successful small businessman would adopt a small business in another country. Then by applying the Ingenuity he developed on the way up, his technical know-how in the field, the American businessman would provide advice, know-how and encouragement on a continuing basis to his overseas business brother.

Care would be taken to avoid trying to make foreign businesses replicas of American enterprises. Local conditions and cus-tam wouM tm takea lata luii

consideration. American business men would be encouraged to visit their adopted enterprises and to learn the language of the country.

WHISTLE BLOWS FOR PRESS AGENTS* BANDWAGON

If you are planning Mint Julep Week In 1960, the man to tell about it is William D. Chase, of Apple Tree Press. 2322 MaUery Street, Flint 4. Mich.

Years ago. Commerce Department used to publish an annual book on special events but, because of budget shortages and the suspicion that Uncle Sam was playing the patsy for some shrewd press agents, the project was dropped. It was picked up by U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Last year the publication was acquired by Chase, who had previously published a Calendar of Annual Events.

A 1960 edition is now in progress. There is no charge for listings, which will probably run from Apple Mary Sunday (January 3) to Zulu Zipper Week Demmlm II lllk

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