PACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N, C

Thursdar September 10. 1959

Tbursday, September 10, 1959Prepared To Weigh Hi Welcome

Our Inland Waterways Forgotten

One of the purposes of the forthcoming industrial safari to Europe by Gov. Hodges and other leaders in North Carolina is to promote more overseas business for the states deep water ports at Morehead City and Wilmington.

Certainly that is a worthy gol for the trip. The traffic through these two ports would ^ helped greatly if more European industrialists and^ shipping firms can bei^persuaded to use North Carolinas ports. We find no fault with this effort to bring more business to our deep water ports.

At the same time, it is our feeling that North Carolina is missing a good bet for developing more business for its two major ports by not promoting greater use of inland river ports within the borders of our own state.

In North Carolina we have a vast network of inland vraterways, a great deal of which already is used for transporting vast qantities of material. To a great extent, however, our waterways are used only as passages for the transportation of items from locations north of us to destinations south of us and vice versa. Most of the traffic is along the coastal waterway north and south rather than moving inland in North Carolinas remarkable network of rivers.

If the state, in cooperation with individual cities and counties, would develop a network of inland river

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By LYNN NISBET

HUMAN INTEREST Dr. J(^ Tyl^ Caldwell, new chancellor at State College, made hla first public appearance in North Carolina at a meeting of the Wake County alumni last week. Most of the news stories about the event emphasized Dr. Caldwells comments on the vital importance of higher education and the obligations of alumni to their alma mater and to all phases of community development.

What reaJUbr "sold him to his audience, however, was his hcnney story about his trip from Little Rock to Raleigh. He came in a station wagon loaded with miscellaneous small household articles, three children from nine down, one Siamese cat with three kittens, and one female cocker spaniel. They traveled 1100 miles, spent three nights in different motels and arrived in Raleigh "without an accident of any kind. And, his explanation without apologyfor the absence of Mrs. Caldwell from the alumni dinner. She had driven another car with youngest child and arrived a day after her husband Just 48 hours before the dinner. She had v"y good motherly and womanly reasons for inability to attend the dinner. The motherly reason was four small children to get accustomed to a new home, and it was deemed unfair and unkind to turn trilffl over to a strange baby sitter In sfrange surroundings. The womanly reason was that she had not had time to unpack and rearrange fumltcre, did not have a dress suitable to wear out of the packing cases, and had not been able to get her hair fixed.

These little side stories afforded as much insight into the character and attitude of the new chancellor and his family as did his learned dissertation on the role of alumni and higher edueatioa in the scheme of things.

BIRTHDAY PARTY Somewhat similar appraisal can be made of the birthday party staged by employees of Sellers Bdanufacbiring Company at Saxapahaw for their big boss. Everett Jordan. Newspaper headlines proclaimed that Jordan used me occasion to "launch his campaigu" for re-electioa to the United States Senate; and that Governor Hodges had endorsed his candidacy and had no regrets for appointing Jordan to the Senate last year. Facts are that Jordan announced his purpose to seek rs-election the day he was appointed, ami there has never been any evidence that Hodges would not support him all the way. ^

Duties in Congress prevented Sen. Sam Ervin and Rep. Carl Durham from coming to the birthday party. When John Larkins, an avowed candidate for Governor, expressed desire to attend on account of personal

friendship for Everett Jordan, it was suggested that his presence might give rise to unwarranted political speculation. Certainly Larkins had some strong supporters among the people present. So did Terry Sanford, Addison Hewlett, Arthur Klrkman and perhaps other potential candidates.

Butfor on-the-record political news the occasion was about as unproductive as a mid-week Methodist prayer meeting. It was primarily a family affair, ^started by employees of the manufacturing plant which Everett Jordan has headed for more than % years, and spreading out to embrace neighbors all over Alamance county.

The human interest personal tribute so completely dominated the occasion that the political writers who had converged on the scene were forced to rehash old stuff about Jordans candidacy and Hodges support get an "angle that would justify a headline of a lead paragraph for a poliUcal story.

SHORT NAMES An old time newspaperman and printer was talking the other day about past and future Presidents of the United States. He suggested that one basic qualification should be a short nameand he didnt care much about party affUia-Uon, or political philosophy.

Taft was his favorite President, because he said "even the headline writers couldnt mess up his name. He didnt object strenuously to *TR for the first Roosevelt, but resented "Teddy. He accepted with fair degree of equanimity "FDR for the second Roosevelt. He thinks "Ike is almost insulting to the office, although admitting it has worldwide acceptance.

He is really worried about next time. He thinks if the next President is a Republican it will be either Richard Nixon or Nel-s(m Rockefeller. He shudders at' the thought of his President being called "Nix, or "Nicky or "Dicky; or "Nelly or "Rocky. Democratic choice he thinks will be Adlai Stevenson. John Kennedy, Stuart Symington or Lyndon Johnson. He contemplates with h(Mrror such appellations as "Addle or "Steve; "Jack, or "Stu or "LJ. He is inclined to back Governor Brown of California. Thats a good solid American name, he says, and he dares a headline writer to mess it up without using more letters.

The old fellow admits that the spelling of a name or the number of letters in it is a mighty sorry criterion for choosing a President of the United States. In cases where other qualifications re approximately equal, he will give preference to a four or five letter name over the nine to twelve letter candidates. If he could find a two or three letter man he would campaign as hard for him as he did for Bryan in 1896.

ports that could handle quantities of cargo, there can be no doubt that greater quantities of business would be developed for the states two deep water ports. At the same time new transportation arteries would be opened into the inland areas of North Carolina and the state as a whole could profit.

Such an undertaking could not be accomplished overnight, but over a period of years North Carolina could build up an effective and important system of inland ports along its waterways.

It is well enough for state leaders to seek to improve the business of deep water ports by visiting industrialists and shippers abroad; but we should not overlook the possibilities within our own borders for increasing the business of our two major ports.

No Quick Action On A New County Home

On the surface, at least, it would appear Pitt Commissioners intend to remain in the county home business.

The Board this week inspected the facilities which were roundly condemned by the latest Grand Jury report, and found a clean-up program under way. More than that, though, the commissioners have let V it be known theyre going to consider Constructing a new county home.

Contemplating such a step, and then taking it, are two different pieces of cake.

Lenoir County has been working on a planned new county home, and their troubles really didnt erupt until after they were deep into the problem.

As we understand it, a $200,000 bond issue for the project was voted following an architects estimate that sum would suffice for a 63-bed facility. When the bids were opened, it was learned that estimate was lew by $136,000 . . , and the bidding didmot include necessary equipment. As of now, the Lenoir Board is facing a dilemma as to building a smallr facility or somehow shaving construction costs to fit the available funds.

So its pretty obvious that undertaking a new county home calls for a high degree of preparatory study and consideration. Its a long ways from being an overnight decision.

G entlemen....You Had

Best Forget The Idea

The Senators, who (according to the Associated Press) are giving "enthusiastic consideration to a free trip to Hawaii for the whole Senate, should put a damper on their enthusiasm.

its just possible such a trip might be the last many of them would make at public expense.

According to the originator of the resolution, it would require an outlay of $200,000 to cover members expenses. Such a free ride at the taxpayers expense figures to surpass all past junkets ... a word becoming more and more galling to taxpayers.

If there were good reason to send a handful of lawmakers anywhere to conduct some part of the nations business, no one would complairj. But to take part in our newest states thaiiksgivihg celebration hardly comes under the heading of business; rather, the operation comes closer to looting the public treasury.

And dont think the folks back home wouldnt look at it that way.

But before our own blood pressure gets out of hand, perhaps we should remember ihe_resolution was drafted by Senate Republican Leader Everette M. Dirksen; a spokesman for the political party which has been inveighing against extravagent spend-ing.

And another point; when the strains of trying to wind up Congressional business become difficult, a whimsical bit of nonsense is apt to erupt in the most unlikely places and from the most unlikely sources.

But just in case members of that august body are taking the junket half-seriously, wed suggest right now they forget all about it. They can get the voters upset mighty easily with tha| kind of talk.

No Civil Rights Action Siahtec.

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By HENRY HOWARD

ong Services Honorec.

Its definitely a rare experience to eye-witness the presentation of an honorary award to a veteran of over 30 years of community service.

Such an occasion presented Itself last Monday night when the Town of Farmville named its new fire station for its beloved fire chief since 1926.

About 8 oclock that night, a small group of regular firemen, a six-year-old honorary fireman, the towns major, a few members of the family, and the chief himself gathered on the front porch of Haywood Smiths home around on W. Church St.

The ceremony was brief and simple.

There was the reading of a proclamation naming last Mon

day "Haywood Smith Day and the presenting of a bronze plaque to the 78-year-old chief. The plaque read In tall letters, "Haywood Smith Fire Station. It will be affixed to the waU of the fire house in honor of the veteran chief.

In barely audible words and with tears in his eyes, the old gentleman said, "You just dont know how much I appreciate this.

Taking these words literally, its likely that they do know how much the gesture was appreciated theres always the biggest difference in the world between insincere and really genuine appreciation.

Everybody present knew how very earnest the man behind the

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Major civil rights legislation this year is as unlikely as the Idea that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev will ask for political asylum when he lands here next week.

Congress, rushing to get away before Khrushchev arrives, may renew the life of the Presidents six-man Civil Rights Commission which otherwise dies Nov. 9. Thats the most in view.

Civil rights advocates might like to think that if not this year then next year Congress will ram through a strong civil rights blU. Dont bet on it, even though 1960 could be noisy.

Next year is the big election yearfor the presidency and Congresstmd Southern Democrats, no matter what the year, can be relief on to fight any civU rights blU with real teeth in It/

Such a fight, if It got nasty enoughi could split the Democratic party wide open at a time when U wanted unit at the polls.

The Democratic leaders in CongressSen. Lyndon Johnson aivd Speaker Sam Rayburn, both of Texas^are compromisers who dont like splits. Johnson himself is a possible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Tuesday the Civil Rights Commission, although without much real power of its own, threw another log on the fire with a report making some proposals in the civil rights field.

Southern Democrats hopped on them angrily and at once, even though they are still only In the talking stage. Nevertheless, the commissions suggestions are bound to be one

more point of argument next year.

But Judging from past performancethe manuvering and compromising in Congressplus the fact that I960 Is election time, it seems safe to say any civil rights legislation passed next year will be fairly mild.

This seemed the year for any effort at a strong civil rights billsince Southerners would have had another year to cool offbut neither Johnson nor Rayburn sought to make civil rights a major issue this year.

Varying civil rights proposals were put forth by Johnson, by Premdent Eisenhower, and by Sen. Paul Douglas (D111), who was joined by 14 other Democratic and Republican senators.

All of the proposals landed in an icebox because of Southern Democrats tactics in locking them up in committee and thus keeping them from getting out on the floor of the House or Senate for a vote.

The committees which did the locking up are headed by South: erners.

Earlier this year the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights made up of 53 organizations threw its weight behind the bill sponsored by Douglas and the other 14 senators. A companion bill was offered in the House by Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-NY), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored people and chairmanof the conference, called the Douglas measure "certainly the No. 1 civil rights bill.

From the start, this looked like the one with the least chance.

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(Henderson Dispatch)

From many quarters has come criticism of the South for its attitude about integration, especially in the public schools. Often the claim has been made that segregation is hurting this country Abroad in its relations with other people. Foreigners, it is asserted, do not understand this attitude. But the arguments are fallacious, even to the point that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Which applies also to the holier-than-thou East and other sections in the United States.

On last Sunday the New York Times published a story which said that many Negro families in the metropolitan area are sending their children into the South so that they could attend segregated schools in preference to the mixed schools of their own city. It was estimated that 2,000 or more children had been sent to this section for this purpose.

Reasons give were overcrowded conditions in New York City schools, and that actual discrimination against Negroes there is worse than segregation in this section.

Dr. Carroll, State superintendent of public instruction, said not long ago that northern States are "raiding graduates of North Carolina Negro teacher training colleges on the theory that they are better qualified than graduates of integrated schools elsewhere.

Why then the attempt of theorists in the Federal government to

integrate schools of the South, by force, and military force at that? White people do not want integration, and we are convinced that neither do most of the Negroes. Stimulus for the trend comes from leaders who simply want to mix and from others who dislike the South in the first place and are willing to go to whatever lengths necessary to irritate the people of this part of the country.

Even the Negroes of the metropolitan or t are now joining in the claim it segregation is best and indicdiiuj that they prefer it. The whole integration idea springs from politicians looking for minority votes and from church and educational theorists who have some sort of an axe to grind.

Racial relations in the South certainly were improving rapidly before a socialist-minded Supreme Court stepped into the picture and a misguided national administration resorted to military force to uphold the court edict. We would have gone farther and more quickly as it was before.

Other parts of the nation are rapidly coming around to the Souths viewpoint. But there Is no indication of a relaxation of the idea of force on the part of the Federal government. The theorists prefer to have their way even in the face of the practical application of a system which has worked well until now.

Meantime, our Yankee brethren should clean up ihelr own back yard before trying to apply force In the South.

tear-stained face was in his words. Sincerity hung heavy it was in the air.

A faraway look came into the old chiefs eyes. No doubt he was swiftly winging on a mental tour of what had gone before. Members of the small group would have w'elcomed the opportunity to accompany him, had it been possible.

Needless to say, this would be one of the crowning memories "Uncle Haywood could store in his mental treasury. ^

A quick look around discerned smiling faces of fellow firemen, eager to devise all possible methods of showing their appreciation to the man who'd been the fire chief for as long as they could remember.

Standing beside them was a wife whose expression showed unlimited pride and admiration for a husband. A daughter also stood by. Her gaze fell lovingly on her father, seated and holding the bronze plaque.

For long moments the old chief sat quietly and examined the plaque which bore his name and the name of the new fire station. Then, almost as abruptly as it had begun, the ceremony ended and the small group quietly drove away into the night. . . .

Whats so rare about such an experience? You might ask that. You might say, "Why he was only a fire chief in a small town . . .if hed been a governor, or a senator, or. . .or even some sort of state official, then such a thing would be impressive.

The point is that this man was not "JUST another fire chief. Uncle. Haywood has captured the heart of FarmviUe people. If you dont believe it just ask them.

Theyll tell you his untiring efforts to make theirs a better community have traveled yond the wildest of expectations. Theyll tell you his whole life has been to them a long story of "above and beyond the call of duty.

What could be a more impressive or rare experience than to watch such a presentation to a man like that?

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"Gune are not supposed to be playthings. If they are kept in the home, they should be at least be kept away from children. Pulling the trigger on a real gun to a child Is sometimes no more than pulling the trigger on a cap pistol.Wilmington Morning Star.

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By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)-How do you go about getting President Elsenhower to declare your home a disaster area?

There is no point in our appealing to the Red C^ross in this emergency. Too big a job. This Is a federal case.

Our apartment looks as if it had been devasted by Hurricane Hortense. Actually, its worse. Were having the place redone.

Well, heres the situation to date:

We called the Salvation Army to take away our old furniture, and they refused on two grounds: It either wasnt worth carting away, or if it was. it belonged in the Smithsonian institution.

So we called a rubbish disposal man. He took one look at the debris and asked, "What are you storing here surplus government wheat?

* Then he left town on a long vacation.

Repainting a New York apart-ment is as ritualized as a Hopi rain dance ceremonial.

The painters refuse to enter until you first pile everything in a big heap in the center of the room. This Is to save arguments. The painters then are entitled to any paint that falls on the floor and you get to keep any paint that falls on your stacked up furniture.

My wife, Frances, Is usually pretty good at dealing with workmen. This time she met her match.

"That painter wont listen to a thing I 'say, she complained.

"He says hes 65 years old, and ready to quit anyway.

After he doused his brushes and left, Frances wasnt sure she liked her new color scheme. The bedroom of our 6-year-old daugher, Tracy, is pink, but Its a kind of throw-up pink. The bathrooms were supposed to be Mediterranean blue. They turned out poison bottle blue.

Worst of all is one living room wall intended to be solid gold. The gold looks counterfeit. Soon as I got all my books back on the shelves, the paint inspector arrived and said our solid gold wall would have to be done over. Down came the books.

"I have to get rid of the old furniture before the new furniture comes, said Frances, who is alternately hysterical and trancelike with despair. "I dont know which way to turn.

My wife Isv brooding about turning the key in the lock forever, buying a house in the suburbsand starting life all over as a pioneer mother out where everyones peach and the subways dont reach.

If this isnt a federal disaster case, I never saw one.

Help, Eisenhower, help And dont forget to send a plumber.

One of our faucets just sprung a leak.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS HAVE COURAGE TO ASK

There is a story in the 12th chapter of Actsalmost an amusing storyof how when Peter was in prison the disciples had a prayer meeting and prayed earnestly that he would be delivered. Vhien he was delivered by the miraculous hand of God, and a little maid named Rhoda went to the door in re- . sponse to Peters knocking and ^ returned hurriedly to say that Peter was standing without, the

Here they were, praying carn-response of those who were praying was, "Thou art mad.

Here they were, praying earnestly that something be granted them, and when it was granted they refused to believe that their prayers had been answered.

This is typical of what happens in the lives of everyone of us. When God actually answers our prayers we are usually so overcome with astonishment that we forgetfor some time at leastto thank Him, It Just can't be that God has actually granted us what we asked for. Yet why pray for it if we believed we can never get it?

Our trouble is that we find It hard to believe that God actually wants to give us the desires of our hearts. We are afraid we are asking too much. The truth generally is that we are asking too little. God always wantt to give us more than we have the courage to ask for.

3ig Waste In Bottom Drawers

By ELMER ROESSNER A simple calculation with a slide rule, an electronic computer and a broken ball-point pen shows that bottom drawers of filing cabinets are costing American business 1200,967,000 a year.

Dont you love those ringing statements that may be truer than anybody knows.

Nobody knows exactly how much bottom drawers cost business. File cabinets are expensive. A firm must pay for the cabinets, then pay rent for ftoor space for them. And the bottom drawer is as expensive as the other three.

COSTLY STORAGE In one company, the average initial cost per drawer was $24; amortized over 20 years this meant $1.40 a year. Pour drawers plus aisle and working space take up six square feet. With rent at $3.50 a square foot a year, this made rental space for four drawers $21 a year, or $5.20 a drawer. Thus each draw-ness can do about it. It can

buy sets of three instead of four drawers and mount them on costs $6.60 a year.

Know what this company found in moirt bottom drawers?

Galoshes I

Most file clerks hate bottom drawers.* They have to bend far downand only another girl knowf which seams pop and what atays attck.

Girls get dizzy. They feel exposed. Their spread embarrasi^ es them.

So file clerka and other putter-awayers use bottom file drawers for galthee. And rubbers, umbrellas. paperbacks, lunches they forgot because of last minute invitations, spare nylons, bottles of dipiliatories and old photos taken at company picnics. THE GREATER LOSS

There are millions of bottom file drawers over America; most of them are costing employers something around $6.60 a year to maintain. The cost could be as low as $1 a year for second-hand drawers, up to $20 ai'eas.

In some of the tougher companies. no galosh nonsense is allowed. But in these, the ten-dency is for file clerks to use the lowest drawer for dead, or almost-dead. storage. C^orres-pondence that should be referred to may be burled in bottom drawers.

Worse, file clerks may deliberately avoid bottom drawers. The top drawer may be for -A to C, the second lor D to 0, the third from H to J, and the bottom one from Ka to Kb. with Kc starting at the top of the next vertical row.

Or if a letter from the Moonshine Corp. is to be filed and M is In a bottom drawer, a clerk may simply stick it under a for "Guess Where? AU of this confusion can, of course, cost far more than the mUlions wasted on extra drawers and rented space.

There are several things busl-supports 20 Inches off the Ooor. It can mount drawers on jaclui er. Including the bottom one, 6 then MA be elevated U> work-

ing levels. It can buUd step-down runways so the bottom drawers can be easily reached.

Best of all, it can start throwing out tons of correspondence, notes and reports that never should have been filed In the first place.

DEPARTMENT STORE SALES HOLD-UP DESPITE STRIKE

The steel strike has not hurt department store sales nattonaUy, although there have been eome dips close to steel miUi.

Total department store sales In the first three weeks of August were plus 9, plus 6 and minus 1 per cent compared with a year ago, and that third week was mighty hot and humid in most parts of the country. In the Cleveland Federal Reserve District, which takes In Cleveland, Youngstown. Pittsburgh and other steel towns, the figure* were plus 10, plus 4 and minus 2 per cent. In the Duluth-Superior metropolitan district, sales were up 12 per cent, even and up 5 per cent.

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