PACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C,

Thursday, August 27, 1951

Thursday, August 27, 1559

Must Decide Now On County Home

To Head Off Outbreak Of Goodwill-

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Recommendation of Pitt Countys Grand Jury that the County Home either he greatly improved or abandoned entirely is a matter that should receive immediate and serious attention from the countys governing board.

The Grand Jury is to be commended for straightforwardly reporting to the court the conditions it found during its inspection of the County Home. It is to ^ commended for not beating around the bush in setting forth clearly its recommendations.

In part the Grand Jury said in its report:

General living conditionsjpr inmates are deplorable. The County Home in its present condition is a disgrace to Pitt County. . . . Unless present conditions are corrected the Grand Jury recommends that the County Home be condemned and closed. We think our aged and infirmed should be given better treatment than they are now receiving.

The Grand Jury in its report leaves no doubt that the living conditions of the 25 people at the County Home need improving immediately. The matter should not be delayed for a week or a month, but requires immediate attention of the governing board of the

county.

If the county assumes the obligation of operating a county home for aged and infirmed, it likewise assumes the obligation of providing the residents of the County Home decent living conditions. From its report, it is evident that living conditions at the County Home are far from adequate in the opinion of the Grand Jury. ^ ,

!r^olitical Action Will Soon Beain

By LYNN NISBET

ACTION Business is ex* pected to pick up in the political factory immediately after Labor Day. More positive announcements than have yet been made will be forthcoming from several aspirants for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and perhaps for the United States Senate. Would-be congressmen are becoming restless in several districts.

The announcement this week by Robert W. Gregory of Greensboro that he will attempt to unseat Senator Everett Jordan did not stir much dust. His resigna-naion from a good job with Cone Mills after 30 years with the firm indicates sincerity of purpose. The accompanying statement that he would not accept more than one dollar from any one source for campaign money indicates lack of seriousness.

Avowed supporters of the leading candidates for Governor are trying to get real opposition for the Senator. That is ancient and accepted method of campaigning. Give the big man enough trouble in his own yard to keep him busy, so that he will not have time to meddle in the other races.

Considerable prure was brought upon Alton Lennon, representative of the 7tb congressional district, and former U.S. Senator, to get in the race against Jordan. When that failed effort was made to detour Addison Hewlett. Speaker of the House of Representatives, from consideration of the Governors office to the upper branch of the Congress. Hewlett has said he is not interested in the Senate. There are rumors, but with no discoverable basis in fact, that one or more of the men who have been mentioned as congressional candidates may switch to the statewide senatorial goal.

NEW LIFE The lagging campaign for Governor was given new life this week when it became known that Carl Venters, veteran Onslow legislator and runner-up for the speakership this year, is writing his colleagues in behalf of John Larkins. Larkins is a great believer In direct mail, conducting his own polls instead of reljring on those made by newspapers or independent pollsters. (The poor showing made by Larkins in a recent poll of newspaper editors was not surprising. The newspaper folks have not forgotten that John Larkins was chairman of the Senate appropriations committee when the secrecy law was passed in 1953, banning reporters from committee meetings.) The Venters letters are regarded as putting Larkins more officially in the race than he has been.

Terry Sanford, recognized but unannounced candidate for two years, is being urged to make more positive statement of his intentions. Some of his friends are disturbed about persistent rumors that he might even yet switch to the Senate race. That is classed by most observers as wishful thinking. Sanford has too many commitments of support which could not be transferred, even if he desired. His His friends have thought from the time he was elected president of the State YDC ten years ago that he had his eyes on the big chair in the southwest corner of the captol.

The balloon launched for Addison Hewlett by his legislative colleagues in May soared rapidly for awhile, but lately has floated on a level. His statement that he was not interested In the Senate, gave the gubernatorial balloon a temporary boost. It is still not above the clouds. Neither is it on the ground.

NO IMPETUS - Some folks thought the statement by Lieut. Gov. Luther Earnhardt that he was to be counted out of the running would boost the stock of Edwin Gill or Mel Broughton. Apparently it had little effect, except to strengthen belief that the next Governor will come from the eastern half of the state. Despite inherent fallacy it all arguments supporting the rotation theory, a lot of people still believe in it.

Inescapable conclusion, drawn from conversations with a lot of people all over the state, is that there is a great lack of satisfaction with the present list of iH'obable candidates. Sanford and Larkins and Hewlett, GiU and Broughton and Beverly Lake, all have supportand as your reporter appraises it, in about the order listed. But none has enough to Justify a feeling of security, and a lot of the tentative support for any of them could be captured by a hynamic new entrantfor whom there is presently no name?'

TEMPUS FUGIT The time element is important. The criterion set by Jim Farley in 1932 is still regarded a measuring stick. The former Democratic National chairman based patronage on RBCRoosevelt Before Chicago. Band-wagon riders are common, but bandwagon drivers get the plums.

Voters have until next March 18 to decide who they will support, when the books close for filing notice of candidacy. The politically minded want to get on the band-wagon earlier. It is expected that recruiting will speed up right after Labor Day, and that the period between that and Thanksgiving will determine the RBC group.

If the g'overning board of Pitt County feels that it can provide adequate living conditions for its aged and infirmed more redily by supporting them in private boarding homes rather than in a- County Home, it should not hestitate to take the Grand Jury's recommendation and close the County Home.

^9^hatever action is taken by the County Commis-sioji^rs, it should be action which will insure better -Imng conditions for County Home residents on a permanent basis. Little will be gained by doing a hodgepodge job of improving living conditions now only to have them slip back to their present deplorable state with the passage of months. ~ ""

Conditions at the County Home pointjed out by the Grand Jury in its report bear ouc the assertion that the County Home is indeed a disgrace to Pitt County. They are conditions which should not and must not be tolerated by the elected officials who are charged with the responsibility of administering Pitt Countys affairs. Certainly they are conditions which should not have to wait for a routine Grand Jury inspection before they are brought to light and corrected.

May be Bulter Wants

A Walkout In Party

Democratic Chairman Paul Butler again has fanned the cooling coals of party disunity by attempting to resurrect the so-called loyalty pledge that would bind state delegations and perhaps be used as a tool to bar the seating of some delegations to the Democratic National Convention,

Butlers call for the loyalty pledge was made under the guise of assuring greater party unity in the 1960 elections. From a realistic point of view, however, it has created within the party more dissatisfaction; it threatens to Impair party unity, and it opens old wounds that time had for the most part begun to heal.

Several years ago there was a major fight at the Democratic National Convention over the loyalty pledge. Rather than bringing about more unity of action on the part of state delegations in the following election, the fight resulted in bitterness, and disunity which was reflected at the polls. By his actions in recent months. Chairman Butler has been setting the stage for another family squabble within the Democratic Party.

For those who remember ihe situations which developed in the Democratic Party in 1948 and again in 1952, it appears that Chairman Butler may be steering the party into another similar situation before the 1960 convention. Perhaps its goal is provoking a walkout of some state delegations as was attempted by the northern liberal wing of the party in 1952. Failing in that, maybe the goal is to establish machinery whereby specific groups can be read out of the party.

Whatever the method, it appears that the attempt may be to put state delegations in a take-it-or-leave-it position subject to the whims of self-styled party rulers.

However honorable his aims may be to establish party unity, it is our considered opinion that Chairman Butler is accomplishing exactly the opposite by his actions.

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By DON SCHLIENZ

The Chanaes

One Sees

Circumstances make it a rare thing for the writer to venture outside Greenvilles limits: so I sometimes think the element of change in Pitts rural scene is more obvious to me than to many who see the countryside more frequently, or who may live in rural Pitt.

Its sort of like watching a clock: movement of the hands is barely perceptible. Yet, to one whose attention is distracted for a while, on leturning to the clock there is a marked change in position of the hands.

So what Ive seen, is this: Over the past few years a great number of the old unpainted and ramshackle houses have

gone. Some were given new siding, roof and a paint job; others simply disappeared.

Theres a whole new family of small, neat and efficient-looking little farm homes springing up. The day of the rambling, many-roomed farm house seems to have ended.

Not a few of the new rural dwellings have grassy yards instead of the patches of wild grass and loose sand.

Held over from the past is the addiction to flowering plants and green shrubbery that have always marked farm life.

These new dwellings may be of brick, cement block, asbestos shingle or lumber siding; but

they all have in common the quality of making the landscape look increasingly prosperous.

Most of them came into being in the very recent past. They offer convincing evidence that Eastern Carolina is a good place to live.

ourney ina Betrays Strains

Other Editors Saying Takes A Sane View

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) President Eteenhower embarked upon a strange journey, one which should seem unnecessary. He is visiting Europe to reassure American allies he wont be up to any monkey business in dealing with the Soviet Union .

He didnt put It that baldly at his news conference Tuesday. But that is the purpose of his trip. The fact that he feels he has to make it doesnt speak well for the solidarity of the Western alliance.

But Britain, France and West Germany are second-rate powers now. And they know it. And the thought of the Big Two sitting down together Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev jiggles their nerves.

The Associated Press reported this week from London that Britain, France and West Germany want a presidential pledge that the United States will not enter an accommodation with the Soviet Union at the expense of their own national interests.

This kind t suspicion or uncertainty explains why the Soviets will try to drive wedges between the Western powers any ,time they^can.

If its any comfort to the West, Khrushchev may be having similar problems with the Red Chinese and satellite leaders now. The Premier, according to reports from Berlin, may be meeting with them at his Black Sea vacation place.

This was Eisenhowers way of explaining reasons for his trip: To reiterate jointly that regardless of pressure or inducement we shaU never retreat from our ideals or principles or weaken in our resolution to remain secure as we continue the search for peace.

And he added, as another rea

son for going: To discuss with each head of government problems common to that nation and ours.

The Western problems have multiplied since the President and Premier decided to meet. Some of them look like prime donna problems.

It would have saved Eisenhower time and trouble on this trip if he could have met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in one place and at one time, all together, ^

But those three wouldnt get together. Macmillan woludnt go from London to Paris; De Gaulle wouldnt go from Paris to London; and neither seemed anxious to have Adenauer around at the same time as Elsenhower.

Their performance raises a chilly question: If they can get this temperamental at a time when Eisenhower is meeting Khrushchev although he had previously assured them there would be no secret dealswhat would their reaction be If the President and Premier hit upon some solutions which seemed reasonable to them but which the others didnt like?

Eisenhower, anxious from the beginning to raise no false hopes about his conference with Khrushchev, sought at his news conference to reduce the meetings importance to something less than hysterical dimensions.

He gave a couple of reasons for asking Khrushchev here but carefully pitched them in a casual, low key.

He wants to find out first-hand, by sitting down with Khrushchev, whether the Russian really wants some peaceful solutions acceptable to both sides; and he wants Khrushchev to get a look at Americans working and living.

(Kinston Free Press)

The South has had a great many barbs tlirust at it on the race question down through the decades that are past. Especially bitter have been some of these since the United States Supreme Court virtually wrote an amendment to the Constitution of the United States and then interpreted it to mean that the schools of the country should be integrated: that the time honored plan of separate but equal schools was no longer approved.

It is indeed pleasant to find a northern mouthpiece taking a sane, sensible view of the situation which exists in the South as a result of the integration decision. Some of these mouthpieces no doubt have southern born and trained editors and commentators. Certainly they have men or women who have first hand 'information and who know human nature.

The esteemed Wall Street Journal is one such mouthpiece.

In commenting upon the situation at Little Rock this year contrasting it with the bad situation which existed two years ago The Journal makes some very pertinent observations.

In reference to the 1957-58 school year The Journal says in part;

"But the Governor of Arkansas would not leave Little Rock alone, and he put soldiers around to keep the Negroes out. Nor would the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, fanning the flames by saying it would not content itself long with modest

steps. Nor, finally could the Government of the United States leave Little Rock alone. And the price, for a sad year, was no high schools at all for Negro or for white.

The Journal takes the proper view, we believe, when it emphasizes the fact that extremists on either side will not solve the problem. Mob violence in an effort to prevent integration or agitation by the NAACP and other extreme agencies for do it now have no good results. In this connection The Journal says: "Whenever people are disturbed by deep emotions by over what appears insoluble problems. extremists can gather a following And we do not suppose that just because the schools are open in Little Rock there will now be an end to the clamors of the extremists, the one for no change at all and the other for instant and total upheaval.

But there always comes a time in this country when the extremists look around and find themselves followed by a dwindling crowd. The people have left to join the quiet forcewhich here is the thoughtful Negro and the thoughtful white who have been living side by side in the same land for three centuries. These, will not be turned aside from the search for sympathy and understanding.

This analysis by The Wall Street Journal is one that gives food for serious thought by all right thinking people, not only of the South but of every section of the country.

A letter from cx-Reflector staffer Billy Arnold, who w'as coerced into wearing an Army uniform, showed up this week on our bulletin board. Remember him?

For a while he helped fill this space with tales from way Out. Billy assumed the role of a literary poseur of sorts, though it wasnt exactly in keeping with his retiring nature.

Judging from parts of his letter, the Army disagrees with himor he disagrees with the Armyhe isnt really quite clear on that point.

He says, and again this could be more of his outer space humor, that hes working in the Pentagon.

(From basic training to the Pentagon! We knew he had talent. . .but this?)

In his words, I am doing Top Secret work here and although I cant say much about my activities. I can tell you that

I - occasionally, and

without - it is . -

are sometimes-In my

to me, and But that is only while I am engaged in

(Trust the Army to keep its secrets.

Rank means nothing up here, he continues, There is so much of it that everybody has to pull KP and the other happy little chores that are part of the traditional heritage of the Army. They actually have Sp 5s and sergeants on the detail roster. There are so many officers walking around here that the salute Is more or less frowned upon. Too much trouble. You see, if everyone saluted when supposed to. around here, the place would look something like one of those old Charlie Chaplin quickie movies with hundreds of idiots running around making frantic movements. Usually you just either nod at them or gr*n at them and that suffices."

No mention of his rank int he letter, so veaders are left to assume hes Very Private or holds some other exalted position to indulge in such military informalities.

Its nice to know this countrys defenses are in such capable hands.

Golly I Can he keep secrets!

ives Career Of Own

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)Everybody has a desire to know the future, said Sylvia Pine.

Most people read their astrological charts in the morning. I wait and read mine in the eveningto find out what kind of day I had.

Sylvia, wife of Danny Kaye, is a woman of brilliant wit and talent and unconventional ways. She is a gifted composer who has written a hundred songs, and the music for eleven films.

She isnt the kind of artist who finds her inspiration in an atmosphere of moonlight and roses.

I write to order mostly," she said And I can write anywhere, anytime."

Sylvia, daughter of a dentist, and Danny, son of a immigrant tailor, were both born in Brooklyn and grew up there only a few blocks apart. But they never met until 1939. They were married the next year, and climbed the heights of show business together,

A lot of people are under the impression that I handle the business. and do most of Dannys thinking for him. she says.

"Thats not true. He has one of the quickest, brightest, most instinctively intelligent minds Ive ever met,"

I believe in inspiration, of course, she said.^ But inspiration is merely the difference between a creative and a noncre-ative mind.

One thing Sylvia doesnt share with her husbandhis hobby.

"Danny has many doctor friends and on his days off likes to watch them perform operations. she said.

Im interested in medicine there were five doctors in our familybut Im not an opera-tion-watcher.

"It is enormously important to do everything the best you can, she says. "Never consciously to give less than your best In anything. In human relations as well as your work.

"It is important, too, to remember that every day is a new day. and to make the best of it and enjoy it. The happiest people I know do that.

"I cant always do it. I worry too much."

Strength

-01 Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

JUVENILE DELINQUINCY

- What makes a delinquent delinquent?

We may well ask this question in a season when practically every newspaper contains soma account of the further depredations by juvenile delinquents.

Strange as it may seem, the first factor in making a youngste. delinquent is geography. Most juvenile delinquency exists in the crowded portions of big cities. What is there for a child to do on the barren, hard streets of a city? Full of energy, this energy naturally flows into evil channels. If we are going to solve this problem, there will have to be buildings without number built in the crowded sections of large cities buildings into which aimless and idle young people can be invited in order that they may learn the techniques of a wholesome, useful living.

Two other factors appqp in almost every case of juvenile delinquencyliquor and nrokeii homes. Just keep this In mind the next time you read an account of juvenile violence liquor was probably in the picture somewhere. Seldom was it liquor consumed by the youngsters; more often was it liquor which made sodden a father or a mother, or both. And the quarreling, broken home probably does more to drive a child to crime, than anything else in the world.

How pathetically children long for the security of a quiet home and parental love When they do not get it, life becomes hell for them. Thats one reason why they go out and start breaking things up.

'hterest Rates Decide Choice?

Opinions In Brief

"New York police raided a farmers, to small businesses and poker game where ILCX^l cbjps small towms, as well as large were piled high, proving' that plants and great cities and to not all big game hunters go to schools of different types." Africa.Miami Herald. New York Times.

In our free enterprise system one has the chance of going broke or the privilege of paying a big income tax.Haw-klnsvllle (Oa.)* Dispatch and News.

"Show him (Khrushchev) the courtesy the people of the Soviet Union showed to me.Vice Pre.sldent Richard Nixon.

"Now if the airlines can figure out some way a pasenger can ^ retrieve his luggage at the other * end of the line in something less than half to three-quarters of an hour, the convenience and comfort of the air age will be notable enhanced. Tampa (Fla.) Tribune.

We hope tliat the Khrushchev itinerary will Include visits to homes of ordinary workers and

"In order to become perfectly content, it is ncces-sary to have a poor memory and no Imagination, Lockport (N.Y.) Union-Sun and Journal.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Its often considered smart in years before elections to utter such knowing remarks as, "The next President of the United States will be determined by the price of cotton next summer, or The next President of the United States will be decided by the cost of living when housewives go to the polls. Ever a cUche-avoider, it is stated here that, all other things being equal and Vermont going the same as Maine, the choice of the next President may, in a measure, be influenced by prevailing interest rates next year. Or something like that.

This nonextended-neck view of politics arises from a rather curious cohcIiLsion:

Both parties will declare against Inflation, but the party advocating one inflationary force will have a decided advantage. INTEREST RATES AND INFLATION Interest rates affect inflation. There's not space here to list all the reasons why; sufficeth It to note that the Federal Reserve Board, in its battle

against the 1958 surge of inflation, allowed interest rates to rise.

Rising Interest rates did check inflation; artificial lowering of interest rates will increase inflation.

No party now dares to shout, "Hooray for inflation Elect us and we will have more and bountiful Inflation. That would be political suicide. ^

But members of both parties and you can count on this will campaign on declarations for lower interest rates. They will declare that lower rates will make it easier for families to buy homes, for customers to buy on time, and for communities to build schools. They wUl also assert that lower rates will reduce the costs of (parrying the national debt, interest on which now costs billions of dollars a year.

TRUE, BUT

All those benefits are possible. But theres no way of getting something for nothing In economies. The benefits will be paid off by inflation, which will be the same thing as taxing pensioners, annuitants, savers and

those on fixed incomes so that the rest of us can get lower rates on deferred car payments, or on other forms of credit.

Interest rates are, at the moment, regulated by supply and demand. Demand for borrowed money is high, though not as high as it has been in recent weeks. Lenders are able to get substantial rates.

So the person planning to buy a house, an auto, or an appliance finds the interest charge higher. In some cases, he may not find anyone willing to give him a mortgage on the house of his desire or the car he yearns for.

The Wall Street Journal said the other day: If youre planning to borrow money to build a house, buy a car or merely pay an old doctor bill, chances are you will find the loan a little harder to getand in some cases a bit more expensive than you would have two or three months ago. If you wait a few months, loans are likely to be leven less freely available and more costly,"

There's t golden opportunity for politicos. Cant you hear

them shouting. I am against inflation, and to combat inflation we must make more money available at low rates to those victims of inflation, the people who want to buy homes. And: We wlU fight inflation on the beaches, on the landing grountis, in the field, in the streets and in the hills, but at the same time we must make sure that everyone needing a i new car can get it at terms he can afford.

And there is every possibility that the people, bitterly opposing iftflatlon, will vote for the party that must give them the most inflaion to fulfill election promises.

PART OF WHAT'S LEFT MAY BE ALL YOURS Seven states so far this year have added withholding provisions to state Income taxes. Commerce Clearing House computes.

In 19 states, employees must withhold state taxes; lii three they must withhold unemployment insurance taxes; in four they must withhold disability benefits taxes, and in all SO, they inust withhold Federal Income ind Social SecuAU#

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