fAGE POUHTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE,. N, C

Tuesday, September 8, 195S

Tuesday, September 8, 1959

A Decade Of Economic Growth

Almost a quarter million new jobs for North Caro- .the last 10 years. North Carolina seems only now to lina in a 10-year period represente a terrific impact be hitting its stride in developing its industrial econo-on the economy of this state. It represents millions of my. The state has become aware of what it has to dollars in annual wages and salaries which workers^ offer new industry! and new business, and it is leam-of the state did not have a decade ago and it also ing how to sell thfese assets to prospects. There is every ^ represents millions of dollars in investments by in- reason to believe that the next dec.ide will be one of dustries and business concerns both large and small even greater expansion and progress in North Caro-in the economy of this state. ^ lina so far as industrialization ';nd economic diversifi-

Year-by-year in the past decade the gains in non- cation is concerned, farm employment in North^Carolina may have looked Looking back over the past 10 years the gains ^ small compared with the total number employed in North Carolina as a whole has made is apparent. The the state. A few jobs added at one community during impact these gains have had on the economy of the one year, in another community during another year state cannot be minimized. Yet, we must realize also may have appeared that North Carolina "was slow in that for at least half of the past decade only a rela-getting its industrialization effort off the ground. Col- tively small percentage of the communities of the state lectively over a decade, however, these small year-to- took any active interest in their own industrial develop-year gains have added tremendously to the productive ment. During the decade ahead of us it is reasonable power of the state, to the purchasing power of its citi- to expect that almost all the communities of the state zens and to the total value of products produced in will actively boost their own industrial and economic North Carolina. development as well as that of the state as a whole.

Although North Carolina has made gains in in- The number of new non-farm jobs North Carolina dustrialization and business diversifications in the past has gained in the past 10 years should spur the state decades, the real emphasis of the state's development to greater efforts in its own behalf during the decade program has come in the last few years. During that ahead, period the program has gained momentum appreciably from year to year as more individual communities took greater interest in their own development The number of new plants established in the state tends to increase with each year as does the total investment in new and expanded plants, the number of jobs created by expanding old operations and establishing new firms, and the new payrolls added by these new jobs.

To Msdce It A Happy Labor Day

Personal War Of Senator Wayne Morse

Sen. Wayne Morses one-man battle to keep Con-In spite of the progress that has been made in gress from adjourning before the end of the week, and

thus have it in session when Sovie

Special Session Stock Now

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By LYNN NI8BET

SPECIAL SESSION The **8tock market* quotations on chances for a special session of the General Assembly fluctuate about as much as those on the New York stock board. Right now the stock is low. Three weeks ago it was high. It may ga back up, or it may level off.

The speculators in this mar- ket are about as ill-informed on what really is involved as are the dealers in commercial stocks. Most of the staunch advocates of a special session paramount the two items of constitutional revision and court reform in their talk, wiUi emphasis on the court angle.

Of course, there cant be the kind of reform proposed by Uie Bar Association (Bell) committee without material amendment of th^ constitution. Equally of course,'a lot of the Bell committee recommendations can be effectuated without revising the constitution, but a special session would be of no particular advantage for that approach.

Lately another factor has entered the discussion about a special legislative session. Opinion prevails that it would be harmful, if not disastrous, to the gubernatorial aspirations of Speaker Addiscm Hewlett, and could not possibly help members who aspire to the office of Lieutenant Governorincluding Se-natOTS J.W. Copeland. C.V. Henkel and Robert P. Morgan.

For that reason some supporters of non-legislative candidates for these offices are joining in pressure for a special session There appears wide divergence of opinion among them as to the approrpriate date, if an extra session should be called. Some want it in November, some In Pebniary.

1961 EXTRA There appears now more probability of a special session of the 1961 General Assembly In advance of its fixed regular convening date, than for an extra session of the 1959 body. The reason is the variance in times fixed by the constitution for the LegisUture to convene and for the inauguration of the newly elected Governor and Council of State.

The term of the Governor begins on January 1 next after his election, which will be January 1, 1961. Under present rule the General Assembly will convene on February 7, five weeks after the new admtaistration has authority to take over. Tradional-ly, the Governor and the other State elective officers are inaugurated In presence of a Joint session of the General Assembly, although that is not required. The constitution provides that before entering upon the duties

cf his office the Governor shall, in the presence of the members of both branches of tt^ General Assembly, or before any Justice of the Supreme Court, take an oath or affirmation. Learned lawyers have interpreted that to mean that the Governor-elect could be sworn in any Supreme Court Justice at any time and place after January 1 following the certification of his election. Such private swearing-in would miss the inauguration panoply, dear to the hearts of Governors and all the people.

Therefore, it has been suggested that a special session of the General Assembly be called for early January at which the Speaker of the House and other elective legislative officers would be installed, a joint session held for^ the inauguratioiw and then recess until the constitutional time for the regular session to convene February 7.

PRECEDENTThere is precedent for election of presiding officers at a special session in advance of regular convening date. It was done when Gregg Cherry was elected Speaker of the House and Hall Johnston president protem of the Senate for the 1937 General Assembly at the special session held in December of 1936.

The installation of Governor at a special session would set a new precedent, but one which many students of government think might be good. If the Governor delivered his Inaugural address, which is a sort of charter for his administration, on January 6 giving the legislators a month to digest it before getting down to routine work on February 7, they would be able to save considerable time. Also the election of a Speaker a month in advance would give him time to select committees so he could announce them on the opening day of the regular session, thus eliminating the nooessary lapse before the committees could buckle down to their duties. It might be practicable to name the chairmen of key committees during the special session.

Further argument in favor of an advance special meeting of the Legislature which is coming In. rather than of one on the way out, is that there would be much less likelihood of crackpot or pressure-inspired bills being introduced and passed.

A special session of the 1961 Assembly, or even of the 1959 Legi^ture if held after the November election next year, couU not be of any help to Governor Hodgeswho would have to call H.

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Premier Khrushchev arrives, is a most extraordinary display of minority rather than majority rule at the heart of the democratic government process.

Since last week Sen. Morse has staged one strategic delay after another to prevent Congress from winding up its affairs for adjournment. Sen Morse has described his one-man effort as a parliamentary war against what he terms dictatorial tactics of Democratic Leader Johnson.

It may be that Sen. Morse will win his parliamen- x tary war, but it seems to us that the affairs of the people of the United States which must be handled by Congress is much more important than any per sonal struggle between Sens. Morse and Johnson.

If they have any differences to .^ettle, they should do so on their own time and not at the expense of the American taxpayers. Congress has many matters of importance to the welfare of the nation to settle before it adjourns. It is shameful for Sen. Morse to waste the time of the Senate with his personal attack on the Democratic Leader, out of his desire to hold Congress in session until the Soviet Premier arrives in Washington.

The little game of Sen. Morse has now reached the point for a showdown. The Democratic leadership should see to it that it out maneuvers Sen. Morse in the Darliamentary war in order that Congress can get back to its business.

McN4m^ Syndittte, Im.

By ALVIN TAYLOE

i Imagine-All That Quiet

If you do much attending of

banuets, complete with after dinner speakers, you can fully appreciate Elmer Roessners column of today which appears elsewhere on this page.

Now we realize that after-

dinner speakers are necessary. After all, how could you have a banuet without a speaker?

But lets have a brief respite from everything, including banuet speakers!

Just to make sure that everyone abides by this, we propose that it be declared a nation-wide sort of thing. So we would have everyone in authority, from the president down to the mayors, proclaim a week yet to be chosen as National Hush Your Mouth Week. . .

During this one precious week of the year, banuets, dinners, luncheons and breakfasts would continue to be heldwith one important change. There would be absolutely no talking by anyone.

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Other Editors Saying ets Leave Politics Out

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By CYNTHIA LOWRY

NEW YORK (AP)Two years ago a sculpture of wrought iron and molten glass called Inner Eye won for artist Lynn Chadwick first prize at the famed Venice Biennale. But when the piece was Imported into this country. Customs held that it was not a duty free work of art and therefore was liable to a 20 per cent duty on its value.

Under the Tariff Act of 1930 and in force todaysculpture, to fall within the legal definition of work of art, must oe representational or realistic. Inner Eye obviously is not.

Another artist, Arp, had his tapestries slapped with a duty because they were not made In Frances Gobelin factory. Under our law Gobelins are the only modern tapestries which are art objects.

A realistic collagea paper pasteup)by Pablo Picasso was held to be dutiable by a Customs Court because pap>cr and paste are not, under our tariff law, traditional artists materials.

Today the United States Government is stuck with the art definitions of a Congress in session almost 20 years ago. In the interim, artists have been experimenting with new materials and have become more and more interested in non-reallstic abstractforms.

Results, therefore, are sometimes ridiculous, A few years ago. for Instance, a college on burlap by Alberto BurrI was officially ruled to be a manufacture of vegetable fibers and therefore dutiable although valued at $450.

Under our present Tariff Law, art consists of:

Paintings and drawings in oil, w^ater color, pen-and-ink or some such traditional material;

Sculpture In realistic forms;

Etchings, woodcuts and engravings;

Modern tapestries made at the Gobelin factory.

Thus, the work of an important modern jjalnter, Piet Mondrian, is duty free. He works In geometric lines* and patterns, but he uses the traditional materials of canvas and oil paint. Another artist, Ben Nicholson, uses the same tech

niques and his work looks very much like Mondrians. But Nicholson works by pasting plywood squares on wood to make reliefsand his pieces are dutiable because of his use of non-tradltional material.

The work of a famed English sculptor, Henry Moore, is dutiable because he is an abstract artist who gives non-committal names to his work, like Two Forms. But Arp found that some of his abstract sculptures were dutiable and others dutyfree depending on what he called them. 'Those wdth representational namesFlower were allowed in duty free. Those with a name like Number Three were slapped with an Impost. And the Customs ruled that Boccionis bronze Development of a Bottle in Space, was dutiable on the ground that while it looked like a bottle, a bottle is not a natural object, and therefore outside the work-of-art dtefinltion.

This situation, says Sen. Jacob K. Javlts (R-NY) is one which causes consternation and difficulties to museums, dealers and patrons of the arts, amusement to readers of tabloids, and embarrassments to our national prestige.

Last year Javlts with Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Ill) introduced a bill amending the Tariff Act by liberalizing the definitions. A companion bill was introduced in the House by Rep. Frank Thompson (D-NJ), Neither bill got anywhere, so they have been introduced again this year and now are on the Senate calendar.

Supporting the legislation is a committee which includes heads of the nations top museums and art organizations. Among those represented are the American Federation of Arts; American Assn. of Museums; College Art Assn. of America; American Institute of Architects; top art museums of New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Pittsburgh. Cleveland, Seattle and elsewhere.

An updating of the law would primarily encourage private collectors, and they, as Javlts pointed out, are potential donors to public museums and galleries.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Two unrelated incidents that took place recently illustrates all too clearly the extent to which politics can be injected into a situation. The word i^litics can be used for a multitude of reasons, from making excuses for a given action to tossing baseless charges at an opponent. The vagueness of the word gives it a genuine usefulness to those who have axes to grind.

Lets take the first case. In the much-debated public works bill which President Eisenhower vetoed, the House attempted to override the veto, but fell short by one vote of reaching the two-thirds majority necessary for such action. Now that one vote ordinarily wouldnt draw, much North Carolina spotlight was attention, but in this case the focused upon it because in the bill were included several river and flood control projects for the Tar Heel state.

So, certain folks In North Carolina, including Gov. Hodges, has decided that Rep. Charles Jonas, the only Republican legislator from this state, was responsible for the failure of the House to override the %eto of that public works bill, simply because Republican Rep. Jonas cast his vote in support of Republican President Eisenhowers opposition to the bill.

That is about as ridiculous as

you can get. You can pick any one vote in the House that supported Ikes veto and say: That vote beat us. Republican Rep. Foghorn of Podunk was just as responsible, for critics of Rep. Jonas must remember that Republicans alone didnt defeat the bill. They had to have some Democratic help. Jonas was voting the beliefs of his party, just as any member of Congress does. .

The other case in point is the question cf the three bridges planned for Eastern North Carolina. The Highway Commissions decision to construct three coastal bridges in the eastern part of the state has brought cries of political implications. The fact that we are nearing an election At any other time little would have been said about it, but now that voting time is drawing near, all sorts of devious motives can be read into any decision made by the Highway Commission' or any other state agency. From now on out, state officials and agencies will be fair game for candidates and their supporters.

Without debating the merits of Jonas vote, or the decision to build these bridges we must at least say that their decisions are their right, and of course, are subject to criticisms of anyone which is also the right of those making the criticisms. But the obvious political overtones of these objections are unpalatable.

Of course, the sponsoring organization would have to appoint its biggest and toughest member to enforce this strange rule. And, short, of actual bodily harm, he would have to have a free reign in enforcing the rule.

We can hear (oops). . .see it now.

The fellow who usually gets up to welcome everybody for the nights doings would scrape back his chair and rise to his feet.

Hed clang his water glass a couple of times and begin.

Fellow members of the Ground Hog Lodge NOj,^ 1082, guests and ladies. Its a pleasure to wel. .

Splash! Right in the kisser would go a glass of tomato juice tossed by our conscientious sergeant-at-arms.

Naturally the welcomer, taken completely by surprise would sit down and grope for his napkin.

Automatically the fellow who introduces the man who introduces the speaker would pop to stand this so up he would hop.

Friends we have with us a native son, returned this special evening to . . .yow!

The man who introduces the introducer of the speaker would grab the seat of his pants and race off toward the mens room.

Behind the empty dhair would stand our self-satisfied sergeant-at-arms holding a now empty ice bucket.

A silence, which is the purpose of the whole thing, would fall over the room. The introducer of the speaker wouldnt be able to stand this so uph e would hop.

Friends, he would say, glancing nervously around attempting to spot the sergeant-at-arms. With us tonight is a man who has worked his way up from sweeper in a machine shop to president of a giant corporation. He is a-a-a-a-i-a-g. .

Our sergeant-at-arms is indeed clever. He has sneaked along under the cloth-covered tables and given the introducer a hot foot.

All that is left now is the speaker himself and since no one else dares take the floor he quite naturally does so.

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Human Kind O::

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By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP)Im just window shopping in life, looking for the window I like best, said Mort Sahl.

In 1953 Sahl was a $75-a-week sweater-wearing jester in a San Francisco cellar club.

Today, acclaimed as the thinking mans comedian. hes the top banana in the world of thoughtful laughter. But he remains something of an enigma * both to his critics and his fans, who form a widening cult.

He has been called irreverent - % bitter Will Rogers. a member of the sick school* of comics, a spokesman of the bea! generation, a cynic: sweater in his nightly monologues Mort, who still wears his at the C(H>acabana here,' feels none of these things is true.

Im not very yood at selfappraisal, he said. But all I do is tell people the truthand they laugh.

I deal in satire, a kind of social Xray, as Mark Twain did.

I have to keep reminding people that what I do isnt radicalits traditional.

Sick humor is ntlhuman. Im not that.

My philosophy is simple. I believe the world is worth saving, and I believe in the glory of man.

The people who yell the loudest about God seldom believe in man. His No. 1 product.

Like most humorists, Sahl is probably at heart a bom reformer. He believes with playwright Arthur Miller that everything has a message.

His one message, he said, consists of two cryptic questions: Does anyone care? Is anybody listening?

Insatiably curious, he reads half a dozen newspapers daily, scans 20 magazines a week, innumerable books. This vast reading fare inspires many of his wry quips on life and leadership In the space age.

Some comedians think sex Is funnier than politics, he remarked, but that isnt necessarily true.

What is wrong with the American sense of humor, which many feel today is rather touchy?

The left wing would have you believe its the result of suppression. said Mort. I think myself the bigtrouble is public apathy, an apathy that has come in the wake of the McCarthy era.

But apathy can be even more dangerous than actual suppression.

Nobody takes sides. There are no grand passions on the part of youth. Youth today is a disin-volved groupit Is Involved completely in itself.

This shows in the college hu-more magazines. There Is very little real humor in them. And what there is, is derivative. But Sahl is more inclined to blame .professional comedians than the public for the national humor shortage. He has in mind the comics who deal in such standard material as traffic cop and mother-in-law jokes.

The big mistake they make is in underestimating their audience, he said. They dont credit people with intelligence. But they are out of touch with reality.

They say the public doesn't want anything better. How do they know? They never offered the public anything better. They live in a world circumscribed by broads, clothes, and horses.

They complain of their limited freedom on television, but they arent taking advantage of what freedom there is.

Our greatest strength In America is our freedom to say what we want, to laugh at and criticize ourselves. If we stop that, or think its subversive, then we become like Russia, where they dont have freedom.*

The Typical Business Speech

By ELMER ROESSNER

I have been there.

I have been there a thousand times, eating the half chicken, . green peas and mashed potatoes, listening to the typical luncheon and convention business speaker. So when I read Vivienne Marquiss all-too-accurate parody of the typical business speech in the August Management Review. I begged her permission to reprint. Here it is, and you can thank me I trimmed it a bit:

Opinions In Brief

For international amity, nothing equals the Amcrican-Rus-slan track meet where, according to ita own scoring system, each side wins. Jacksonville (Fla.) Tlmes-Union.

hangs this sign; Support your church. You cant take it with you, but yon can send it on ahead. Carlsbed Current-Argus.

Before you brag about being willing to stand up and be counted, be sure you have something to count.Towns County (Ga.) Herald.

The smaller the calibre of the mind, the greater the bore of a perpetually open mouth. Oliver Wendell Holmes.

"In front of a mldwest church

There is no such thing as a ) ttle regulation where a basic freedom is concerned." Con-ncaut (Pliio) News-Herald.

My subject is Trends. Aspects. and implications of the Challenge Before Us. It reminds me of the farmer whose crops wasnt coming up right, and he was bemoaning that fact when suddenly a young man stepped up and said, Sir, mebee youre worried about your crops, and, sir. Ive got a set of books on (arming that will tell you how to farm better if youll just buy these t^k*. And our man answered. Dont want any books. Im not farmin as well as I know how to now.

Which brings me. ladles and gentlemen, to my subject.

Actually, when genial Bob Smith called me and asked me to talk before you. he said why dont you talk about aspects of a subject you know bestthe challenge before us. Actually, though as I look about this audience I think there isnt one person here who wouldnt be better qualified than I to talk on this subject. 1 think you all know

a lot more about it than I. And so I hope you will bear with me. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

Now Webster says a trend means, and I quote, to have or take a particular direction. In other words: Where do we go from here?

So, I did a little soul-searching. Specifically, I asked myself, What is the challenge before us, granted it has these trends and implications I have been referring to? What, specifically, are the aspects of it?

Now a few words about our company, its history and background. ABC Company started out as a small operation. Everybody knew everybody else and called each other by their first names. There wasnt any need for formality, or for fancy record-keeping, or for a personnel department as we know it today. Everybody knew what was going on. and there were no problems about communication as W'e know them today. GROWTH-AND EXPANSION

Then along came World War II and, like Topay, we jes growed." Now we have six divisions, in addition to Garment Bag, most of them decentralized and all of them reporting. We have ^n internal system checks and balances.

With growth came problems and sometimes, in the early days, I must confess that we were just flying by the seat of

our pants. There was the human factor, about which I will talk a little more laterthe human equation, that Is. And we had to consider the Interests of our other publicsour stockholders, and the customer, who is King. There were budgets and appropriations, and many an agonizing reappralsa 1. Throughout, there was managements right to manage and techniques to be applied. As a matter of fact, yesterday morning when 1 flew out of Davenport to give this speech, we were just finalizing the last details of our new suggestoins system. When we have this installed, we will have every personnel technique.

A TIME FOR DECISION

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OTHER CHALLENGES.

FORE US

Now, a subject this broad has many ramifications, and Im sure I couldnt do justice to it in the brief time that we have here this afternoon, even if I were qualified to do so. Moreover, it would be like carrying coals to Newcastle.

Because It sums the aspects so much better than I can. I would like to read you this statement I have prepared, which I am attempting to have written into the Congressional Record; (Allow forty minutes for statement.)

THE WAY AHEAD

Now I see. gentlemen, that the time is growing short, but I would Just like to throw out a

This brings us to the crux of*- few questions for whatever they the matter; How do you feel may be worth.

about these questions, Mr. Manager? Can we afford to just sit on our hands and let George vdo it? Or are we willing to sland up and be counted?

There are many factors Involved, and*I think we would just be talking to ourselves If we didnt "face up to them. For example, theres the human equation. People resist change. Joe Doakes. wants to be treated as an Individual; he has hobbies and birthdays. And its up to us 0* to find the ong best way. We are only as strong as our weakest link. I think that sums it up in a nutshell for every Individual in this room. It's the whole ball of wax.

The answers. I hasten to add. will be different for each company. For there are no panaceas. The solutions must be tailored to the circumstances.

Survey findings indicate that moVe and more companies are aware of the various factors concerned. They realize that all efforts in this direction must be individualized. They must be evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Can we be satisfied Just to go around putting out fires? Or must we buckle down and get our own houses in order, philosophy-wise and concept-wise?

Are there any questions? Well* then, thank you very much.