IAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Tuesday, September 1, 1959

Tuesday, September 1, 1959

Someone G>uld Get Hurt

Largely Up To Pupils And Parents

How much Pitt youngsters will get from the new term of school which began yesterday will depend not only upon the schools and the faculties, but upon the youngsters and their parents as well.

We are confident the schools and their teachers will do their teaching jobs in a commendable way as they have done for years in this and other communities. The opportunity for furthering education will be available to every student enrolled in the public schools of this county. How well the student applies himself in taking advantage of the opportunity of another year of schooling will depend largely on the attitude of the student and his parents.

Faculties of our public schools must deal with large numbers of students in each class. The individual attention which can be given each student is therefore limited during the course of a school year. The responsibility of teaching the children rests with our public school faculties; but the responsibility to learn from the material being taught in the classroom rests with the individual student.

In order for the new school year to be of the greatest possible advantage to the students, there must be full cooperation between students, parents and teachers in seeing that the youngsters profit from the educational opportunities the next nine months offer.

In Greenville's city schools this year some 5,100 youngsters are expected to be enrolled. In other schools of the county the enrollment is expected to reach 12,00 making,a total of some 17,000 youngsters attending classes in schools throughout Pitt.

For the education of these youngsters during the next nine months, taxpayers of Pitt County and North

Germans View Of N. C. Story

By LYNN NISBET

GERMAN VIEW Back in the early- aummer Dr. Erich Benhelm, representative o f business interests in Germany and correspondent for leading German newspapers, visited North Carolina. He wrote an account of his visit for his papers, which was translated for the C&D department by Dr. Hans Q. Heymann of Lenoir Rhyne College faculty.

Dr. Benheira gives perhaps undue credit to German influence in the development of North Carolina. That is to be expected under the circumstances. His visits Included New Bern, Salisbury, Hickory and Lenoir where such influence is marked. He points out several opportunities for German capital here. Including a German factory for furniture fittings.

There were complimentary references to the availability of business financing. The wide and open spaces of the state, he writes, an excellent road system and lines of communication, and an extensive power and water supply are strong incentive for the* establishment of new industries. One of the most Important factors, however, is that the foreigner who wishes to settle bona fide in North Carolina need not fear any dis-crimlnatton whatsoever. On the contrary, everything is done that he may feel at home as an American among Americans in his new environment, be it in bis business or private life.

Establishment of the Research Triangle and its cooperation with research laboratory and and library facilities at the three big universities, is a major attraction, he says. He tells his German readers that their Investment capital as well as money spent for purchase of consumer goods will be welcomed in North Carolina, and mentions that Governor Hodges expects to lead a group on a visit to the Federal Republic of Germany this fall.

EAGER-BEAVER At least some folks in the C&D department would like to have a resolution deleted from the minutes of the July meeting. Apparently action-of the board in adopting a strong resolution protesting the dumping of atomic waste in the Atlantic Ocean was too hasty. Commercial fishermen and other coastal residents feared that the waste would pollute the waters, destroy the fishing Industry, and maybe even poison the people. They urged and obtained immediate protest.

Subsequently It developed that to prohibit such dumping might handicap the state in getting new

industries which used nuclear materials. Thorough' studies by scientists have convinced everybody that there is no danger in the type of materials to be dumped. Removal of the proposed dumping ground from 30 miles off Beaufort to 80 miles off Nags Head further relieved anxiety.

Proponents of the resolution contend that it accomplished its purpose in delaying the project until after complete investigation. At least some of the C&D folks say they wish they had been less emphatic, and that hereafter they will insist on more authoritative data before resoluting.

PRESS GALLERY The public, as well as newspeople who cover the State captol and the General Assembly, got some laughs out of the controversy over the Buffalo Nose. first instance In history of effort by the powers that be to accord the newsmen decent accommodations at the captol. James J. Butler, writing for Editor & Publisher, gives some interesting history on the Senate press gallery at Washington:

When Capitol newsmen asked the Senate to set up a congressional press gallery, 120 years ago, the petition was rejected. It was taken up again two years later and th^< request was granted but for many years the gallery was little used, poorly furnished, and unstaffed. The advent of the typewriting machine caused more Interest but it was not until World War 2 days that the need for special correspondence from Washington Impressed itself' upon publishers.

The past 25 years witnessed a notable switch; correspondents of the earlier day were political writers, almost exclusively; as federal agencies took over more and more of the functions of states and federal budgets and taxes zoomed, economic writers were sent to the Capital in large number. MUitary and science experts came with increased develop- ments in those areas, but the most recent growth was found in the business and trade paper fields. Until a few years ago correspondents of the latter type were members of the daily press gallery. Now they have their separate gallery with facilities and government-paid staff. (In two years the 120th anniversary of the daily gallery opening will be observed, reviving the old argument about who was the first Washington bureau head. Some say it was EUah Kingman. In 1822; others maintain James Gordon Bennett was the original, In 1827.

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Carolina will plank down literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. The students themselves will spend some six or more hours each day in classrooms pursuing their studies. But that in itself will not be enough. They must also spnd a considerable amount of time outside the classrooms on their books if they are to cret what they should from the new school term.

Although the youngsters who returned to public schools throughout the county yesterday probably do not realize it, they are enjoying educational opportunities which few children in the world have. It is our hope that youngsters and adults alike throughout Pitt County will take a greater interest in the public school program this year in order to make it as profitable as possible for the students individually and the county as a whole.

A Greater Reflection On New Yorks Adults

Gang warfare is nothing new to large metropolitan centers of the country which witnessed criminals and racketeers competing for un ierworld control during the roaring '20s.

Gang warfare in its new form in New York between gangs of teenagers who roam the streets must be difficult even Jor this tough, tremendous city to stomach.

Two teenagers stabbed to death in New York last weekend brought to four the number of youngsters killed in gang warfare in the past eight days. It brought to eight the number of deaths reported so far this year in activities of the young street gangs.

Police obviously are having difficulty in coping with the activities of these younv' hoodlums. Some have been arrested, others sentenced to reform schools or prisons, but an increasing number of misguided youngsters seem to come forward to take the places of those who are removed from society.

, It is a job for the police, to be sure, but more than that, the situation which exists in some areas of the largest city in the world presents a problem to the community as a whole . . . not just the law enforcement agencies.

Those who participate in these gang activities, fights and murders represent only ,s minute per cent-age of the teenagers of New York. Yet, because of their violent acts, they are giving a black eye to the vast majority of law abiding youngsters in New York in the minds of some people.

In a very real sense, however, these violent acts by youngsters are a greater reflection on the adults of New York rather than on the youngsters of that city. Adults, after all, set the pattern for society. They are responsible for the guidance and training of youngsters, and they are responsible for providing a wholesome atmosphere in which the youngsters can grow and develop. ,

Perhaps more' than any other one factor, environment has provided a suitabLi breeding ground for the gang warfare and violence among the New York teenagers. The city as a wholenot just the policemust turn its attention to this problem if it is to be eradicated.

McXaught S^ndicate, In*

By DON SCHLIENZ

Quick Return To Normai

Rvery So Often A Red Reminder

It was one of those afternoons when the perennial wolf-at-the-door was taking a rare coffee-break, there were no chor^ crying for immediate attention, and it would have seemed downright callous to ignore the canning project my Missus had under way.

Faced by such a combination of circumstances, our canned peaches and preserves today hold a measure of personal interest to me.

Washing the first half dozen or so of peaches was as nothing; but rubbing that wet fuzz somehow began to assume a sort of sensory chill just short of scraping a fingernail on a blackboard.

Oh I lasted it out, but the old cheery spirit of cooperation was strained.

Then followed a stint of peeling.

Nothing to that, of course, except that years of liking, that peach-flavored, peach-colored and peach-staining fruit began to look like the folly of all times. With peaches I was sated to the gills.

It was only a large bushel of the fruit, and you'd be guessing wrong if you guessed the writer handled as much as a quarter of the fruit. Even so, the question repeatedly arose as to how it could be that cooks could enjoy their own cooking; whether people who worked in canneries ever ate the foods they processed; whether women who customarily canned great quantities etJood for their households had a hidden hoard of other edibles for themselves.

As for peaches, I could look at them, touch them and peel them only with revulsion hard to hide. Past years of tastebud

Other Eiditors Saying ?aul Butler And The South

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Every once in a while, as if Communists were punching a time clock, this country gets a jolt, a reminder that communism is a revolutionary movement which intends taking over the world.

The United States is getting two jolts now: Communist guerrillas are attacking Uttle, almost defenseless Laos, Red Chinese have shot their way across the Indian frontier after savegly devouring Tibet,

Last year the Red Chinese banged away at Formosa. They had tried to help the North Korean Reds take South Korea. They succeeded in helping the Communists of Indochina take over half that country.

It seems incredible to this writer, judging from the nature of communism and the performance of Red China, that it will ever cease trying to take over every country of Asia, the soft touches first, the bigger ones later.

Red China has moved so far mostly by direct, or Indirect, military aggression. But it doesnt have to shoot its way in every time. It can use infiltration, internal subversion, economic pressure, threats.

The Soviet Union has been more exposed than Red China to Immediate atomic attack if It got too brazen. So it has been less crude, less daring.

After the Soviet Union seized Czechoslovakia in 1948 through internal subversion and frightened the West into forming its North Atlantic Treaty Alliance, it has tried to move by pressure, infiltration, threats and economic penetration.

Because commigilsm up to now has nipped at its neighbors a bite at a time and then sat back, waiting for the noise to dwindle, it is easy for the Western world, so long as it lives on hope, to think things may settle down.

They never Imve and It Is questionable they willfor a long time.

The Western world considered Hitler a windbag when he openly revealed his dreams of conquest. But lessons get forgotten.

The West does not seem unduly excited by Premier Nikita Khucshchevs warning that communism will bury the non

Communist world, even though he suggests the funeral services will be conducted by economics.

Time is the greatest narcotic communism has for trying to stupefy the west into hope and even relaxation. Communism, convinced it will win the world, is willing to take its time at the gambling table. Khrushchev has said so.

The whole western world will hope, but keep its fingers crossed, when President Eisenhower and Khrushchev sit down together In mid-September to talk peace. Maybe they will even reach some peaceful understandings. It is doubtful whatever they achieve will be more than a temporarjr peace.

By the same token, of course, the West with its military alliances and its economic help is doing much, if not its utmost, to keep the rest of the world non-Communist.

Talks with Khrushchev will hardly change that. So the most it seems reasonable to expect is a truce.

Out of all this perhaps the only comfort the West can find is that Khrushchev may be deeply worried about the growing strength and ambitions of his ally. Red China. There was a time, before the communists took over China and showed their own strong will, that the Soviet Union may have hoped to rule the world. Not now. In the end. Red China may become the Soviet Unions greatest enemy.

The world hasnt reached the stage yet where the spirit of communism in any country is greater than the spirit of nationalism. Until it does, there can be no peace even for Communists in a Communist world.

One reminder of the reality of communism of the long struggle ahead came over the weekend from the Senates Foreign R^elations Committee which released a report from one of the private research groups it has hired to study the various a.spects and problems of American ^foreign policy.

This group warned: The

fundamental face which dominates our foreign oolicy problems is the determined, relentless intention of the Soviet Union to control the world. It is important the United States realize this is not an idle threat.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler has a special knack for being able to rile Southern members of the party. A spokesman for Butlers office last Tuesday said th^ Democratic chairman will ask the National Committee to adopt again the rule that state delegations are admitted to the convention with an understanding that their state Democratic organization will support the candidates nominated. Conceivably it could be used to bar delegations not committed to support the ticket.

Irat^ Southern Democratic leaders have condemned this move as a plot to deal with a possible Dixie rev^t at the partys 196M) nationaU Convention. The idea is that if a states Democratic leaders do not approve of the partys nominees they would withhold support in the electoral college and, if no candidate received a majority there, throw the election of the President into the House of Representatives where each state has one votea rare procedure.

Some Southern states have taken steps, by legislation or by action of their state Democratic organizations, to omit the Democratic nominees name from ballots and choose uninstructed electors to cast the states electoral college votes.

Several Southern states have

formed opposition to Butler. His resignation has been demanded: an attempt will be made, no doubt, to force his ouster. There is no love lost between Southern states and the national chairman, He has let it be known that he believes the national party can^cont'iiue to operate quite well without any help from the South.

This attitude of Butlers is a grave mistake. With a presidential election coming up next year, the national chairman should be striving for party unity, rather than adopting an unyielding policp involving section differences. This difficult situation could make it tough for the convention to present an acceptable ticket.

The Republicans have their differences, but nothing of the scope that is seen in the Democrat split. When convention time comes, the biggest problem to be faced by the GOP will be one of a routine nature: choosing a presidential candidate, and that will probably be either Vice President Nixon or New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.

In the meantime, the Democrats had better make plans for unity and conciliation. The party needs a chairman who can keep all factions together and happy. If Paul Butler has no intentions of doing that, then he should step aside for one who will.

treats seemed in retrospect to have been foolish and improbable fantasies.

Get the picture?

I would never again have anything to do with a peach or peaches!

Well, after washing up and taking a quick breath of untainted air out of doors, I was called back to admire some of the finished product.

At another time they might have evoked some sort.of gushing response, but the best I could do was a polite Well done.

Then there was a time for sampling a pint jar. It had to be done without too much outward display of aversion. . .because one just doesnt go around knocking their wifes latest accomplishment in which she is displaying some pride.

But do you know? The sample tasted fine. . .better than fine, it was peachy (with connotations as to both flavor and quality). And on second look, those shining quart and pint jars full of golden fruit suddenly seemed awfully attractive. I was even looking forward to sampling the preserves still bubbling in a kettle on the stove.

Now, a few days later, the peach is again a treat as in days of yore. Looking at our burdened cabinet shelves stirs a feeling of warmth and an anticipatory mouth-watering.

Occasionally the memory of my revulsion to peaches, and attendant aimless wonderings, rise up to haunt the present like old ghosts. But that doesnt worry me; mine eyes are on the Future. Everything is normal again.

Quote...

Its all right to let your mind wander occasionally, provided you dont try to follow it. Andjsrson (S.C.) Independent.

Americans have 56 million autos, 43 million of them fully paid for. And while many of them, as well as other conveniences, were acquired on a deferred payment basis, only 13 cents out of each income dollar taxes goes for Installment bu^ftg. The Shreveport (MiSo.) Journal.

Science has in no way done away with God; it has only broadened the frontiers along which we can see his wonderful works. Wernher Von Braun.

Competition Helps, To A

Opinions In Brief

The question is simply whether a monopolistic, almost all-powcriul rederal body .*;hall decide what shall and shall not be donf in our great river bas

insor whether development and the solving of problem.^ .hall rerrnln In the hands of local government, local taxpaying onterprlsp, local people. Industrial News Review'.

By ELMER R0ES8NER

Yes, sir! said the local booster. I guess weve got the lowest prices in the state.in our town. We have rip-snorting competition heni and t heres nothing like competition to keep prices c^own.

To a point, said the professor.

To a point? demanded the booster. All the way. Look down the street. In three blocks there are four large supermarkets, each with a big, free parking lot. Say. Ill bet people in this little ol town eat better for less than people anywhere else in the state.

Have you compared food prices with those in Pott les ville, where there are only two supers? the professor asked.

Dont have to! said the booster. With four supcr.s competing, they are bound to be cheaper here. '

MORE COMPETITION AROUND

And look dow'n that block! he want on. Of the four corners of First and Main, three have drpartmrnt stores. And In two blocks on Second Street, there

are three variety stores, all competing. There used to be four, but one went broke.

It didnt .price competitively? asked the professor.

I guess not. Oh. it cut prices all right. It used to have special salessoap three cents a bar, candy at 29 cents a pound and stunt stuff like that. I guess it W'as just bad management. And we have four daies serving this town. Pottlesville has only two.

Then milk is cheaper here? No, its just about the same. The dairies compete with service. not price. Why, they say when a van load of funiiture pulls Into town, there will be at lea.st two milk wagons following it to see where somebody new is moving in."

WHO PAYS?,

Competlllon can bring down prices. the professor said, but only to a certain point. Then it tends to Increase them.

Take those four supers. Each pays about $5,000 a month rent. Thats $20.(KI0 a month that must be added to the towns food bill, while only $10,(H)0 is being

added in Pottlesville.

People in this town are paying for four milk trucks to pass their door, instead of two.

Every business has to take In enough to pay all its costs, all its taxes, and then have something left over for profit. Competition can keep a business from loading its profit by excessive prices, because then somebody will undersell it. But it cant reduce its prices below that profit margin or, like that fourth variety store, it will be dead.

Milk sells for 25 cents t quart here. With the extensive delivery system here and the price of raw milk, I happen to know that the average dairy makes about sth of a cent a quart profit. If any cut milk half a cent,, it would be losing money, and if it attracted business from other dairies, it would lose even more. The only way you oan get the price of milk down is by persuading two of the dairies to quit, or merge with the others. That W'ould cut delivery costs in half, reduce overage and save

Wonts

Bit Of

Humor

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)Are you a bit weary of heavy dramas showing the Negro in violent conflict with the white world?

Well, so is Harry Belafonte.

There have been too many lately, he said. Id like to be in a Cary Grant type of picture something light and frothy.

It seems to me audiences would welcome a Negro in an easygoing, delicious, humorous story. Im not talking about the Amos and Andy kind of thing, but something more sophisticated about an average guy with an average job in an average situation, but one filled with humor. ^

Belafonte, who has been acclaimed as one of the greatest Ne- ' gro performers of his generation, made it clear he wasnt forsaking the area of heavy drama altogether. ^

One of his goals is to produce and star in a life of Alexander Pushkin, the father of Russian literature, who was part Negro.

Im luckyI can afford to be selective, said Belafonte, whose gross income is reported to be m the pleasant neighborhood of a million dollars a year.

Im fortunate in that I can make my living in television, concerts and my record albums. This gives me a free hand in picking movie roles.

Unlike some earlier stars of his race, Belafonte hasnt become part of my personal life, but it still of course is a major part of my social life, he said.

I can choose whom I want to meet and be with and Gov. Orval . Faubus of Arkansas isnt one of them.

I am angry about many things but I am bitter at none, because I see progress being made. If it werent for that progress, Id probably be very bitter, too. j

At 32. he says his biggest worry is h^ wont live long enough to do all the things he wants to.

Belafonte would like to be a top dancer, top writer, top painter, top sculptor.

"I feel a tremendous frustration if I do a thing wrong, a U-emendous elation when I do it right.

Belafonte, who has been married twice, has three children.

To me, children are the most important thing in life, he said. There isnt anything in my career. done or undone, that means half as much to me as they do.

Strength

Tor loacv

By EARL L. DOUGLASS SOME ONE OR NO ONE

The great humorist Mark Twain once wrote, We like a man to come right out and say what he thinksif we agree with him.

Perhaps this is an even more timely piece of satire today than it was when Mark Twain wrote it. Today the pressure for conformity to agree with the crowd, to stick to the party line, to be an organization manis greater than it has ever been before. At the moment, our society seems to be one in which the typical, normal man gets along most easily. Employers, for example, are evidently seeking to hire people as much like those they already have as possible.

But history tells us what a foolish goal conformity is. The great names of the past are not those of conformers. but always just the oppositemen and women who have thought and acted in a radically different manner from their contemporaries: Moses, Socrates, Jesus, Paul, Washington, Lincoln, to name a few.

God created us as unique individuals with different individual capacities. The pattern that is best for one person cannot be best for any other, for no two of us are exactly alike. Only through our development as individuals can we fulfill our varying potentialities. Conformity prevents this fulfilment.

To be someone is to be some ONE. To conform is to be no one.

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elsewhere. Thats about the only way the price of mUk could be cut as much as a cent a quart. I dont get it. said the booster. When I went to college the professors taught us that competition brought down Now youre telling me tha(?it keeps them from coming down.

WHEN TAXES CAN MAKE INSURANCE MORE COSTLY Under our mad tax laws, it is cheaper for a person In a high tax bracket not to carry collision insurance.

Suppose a man in a 75 per cent bracket hits a tree and damages to his car cost $250, According to Prentice-Hall figures, he would have a deductible tax loss of $187.50, making the accident cost him a net of $62.50. But $.50-deductible collision insurance would have cost him $137.50. And of the $50 he would have to pay for repaiis, $37.50 would be deductible, adding $12.50 to cost, making his net cost $150. Prentice-Hall reminds that this refers to collision insurance. not liability Insurance, which tvery driver should

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