PACE roimTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE. N. C

Wednesdayt September 16. 1959

Wedn^ay. September 16. 1959

Talk About High Prices

Cant Just Rule Human Emotions

New outcroppings of tension over integrated schools in areas outside the South further suggests that the problem of integration of the races is not one which faces the South alone, but one which must be considered in scope as well as in terms of personal feelings

Picketing and a student boycott marked the integration of five schools in Queens, N. Y. as Negroes and Puerto Ricans from Brooklyn entered the schools. At three of the schools white parents picketed against the integration and more than 900 of the 2,300 white students enrolled stayed away from the schools in two sections of Queens.

It is significant, perhaps, that opponents of the transfer of students into the previously white schools pointed out that they were less concerned about the mixing of the races in the schools than they w^ere about

the slum backgrounds from which the transfer students ne and what influence this would have on

ent social strata in public schools? ^

In view of the situation which now exists in these schools in New York, is it appropriate that the federal government pass some civil rights which will apply not only to races but also to economic groups? If all geographic sections of the nation are to be fed from the same spoon, are kids from the New York slums, regardless of racial origin, to be given ess consideration and protection by Uncle Sam than are Negro children of the South ?

Can legislation by Congress or decrees of the Supreme Court dispell social and economic prejudices among the people of New York any more than they can dispell racial prejudices among the people of the South ?

The point is that human emotionswhether they involve race or economic and social statuscannot be

came and wnat iniiuence inis wouia nave un the children already at the school.

Is the South more to be condemned for opposing integration of the races in schools than New York is for opposing the integration of children from differ-

Gaining A Name For Its Culture

By LYNN NISBET

^ CtJLTDRE North Carolina 1 gaining recognition at home and abroad as a cultural State. The rift among mwnbers of the governing board of the State Museum o Art over selection of a permanent director illustrates the point. It is empha-elaed by denial of all parties that any rift exists, and by the typical North Carolina approach of namiag a eomssittee to handle the situation. A few years ago the director of an art rau-aeum would have been of no concern to high ranking State ofikials, and only to a very small s^ment of the citizen-Ehlp.

There was almost consternation when such rugged sons of the soil as Governors Gregg Cherry and Kerr Scott valiantly championed Ctate app; prif -tions for an art museum. Their faith, and that of men like Robert Lee Humber, has been fully justified by the record. The State Museum cf Art at Raleigh is a multi-million dollar cash asset, and it has become a major tourist-travel attraction, bringing visitors from all over the worldwhose daily spending adds substantially to economic prosperity.

Time was when the average North Carolinian took pride in expressing scorn for culture roughly embraced in the categories of art, literature and music. We boasted of the stc.te8 designation as "a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit, and scoffed at activities in South Carolina and Virginia toward i^-eserving, restoring and publiclidng architectural and historical rarities. The relatively few people who showed interest in art and literature were r^iarded as a bunch of long-haired men and short-haired women, who in some indefinable way were peculiar.

It is different now Art and music, literatiuw and history, have wide appreciation among the common folks,

DEVELOPMENT Concur-Tently with development of the State Art Museum came aroused and enlightened interest in numerous other projects, both public and privately promoted. Heading the list is the rebuilding of Tryon Palace at New Bern to almost exact replica of its 1775 status, when It was recognized as the finest building in colonial America. Restora-ti<m of Old Salem has attracted nationwide acclaim, Biltmore Hou.se at Asheville, one of the great mansions of the world, is being promoted as a show place of architecture and art pieces to far greater degree than ever before. Old batUefields, dilapidated homes of great men, and other historic sites all over the state are being cleaned up, restored and made attractive for visitors.

The Morehead Planetarium at Chapel HiU is one of the half a dozen greatest in the world, the pnly one in the United States owned by and located on the campus of a

^ State imlverslty. The Ackland Art Gallery at Chapel Hill, the rare collections In the libraries at Carolina, Duke and other educational institutions, have contributed to moving North Carolina from a position of humility to a place where statement of fact sounds like braggadocio. (Reference here is only to the artistic and esthetic phases of culture, and does not include the front position of North. ^Carolina in scientific research and economic development.)

The State Museum of Art, Morehead Planetarium, Tryon Palace and Old Salem, relatively new attractions added to Biltmore House and the magnificent scenery along the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Hat-teras Seashore, justify the claim that North Carolina now rises as a mountain between two vales of mediocrity. We were late in recognizing and publicizing these assets, but progress In the past decade has been phenomenal.

LEGISLATORS^ Two replacements have been made in the membership of the 1959 General Assembly since it adjourned on June 20. R. D. McMillan Jr. was commissioned to succeed John B. Regan as a representative from Robeson county, when Regan took the oath as solicitor of the new 9-B district. Henry L. Stevens III was commissioned as senator from Duplin county in the ninth senatorial district When Grtdy Mercer resigned to take hs place on the Industrial Commission.

At least two other legislative vacancies exist by reason of appointments to official positions. When Rep. D. G. Bell of Carteret county took the oath as an appointed member of the CScD board, he automatically vacated his seat In the Legislature. Same thing happened when Serf? Edwin Duncan of Alleghany (29th district) was reappointed to the State Banking Commissiona post from which he resigned to come to the Legislature and which had been held open for him during his service in the General Assembly.

The Bell and Duncan vacancies have not been filled, and probably will not be unless a special session should be called, It is entirely possible that other legislative vacancies exist because of the acceptance by members of local official positions, which have not been reported to the Governor or the Secretary of State, but which vacate seats in the General Assembly under the constitutional ban against dual office holding.

Unless a special session should be held Senator" Stevens of Duplin and Representative McMillan of Robeson ulU find their designations very empty honors. Under rotation agreements Senator Stevens cannot run for election next year. McMillan can run for the House from Robeson and his appointment might give him some advantage In the primary.

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channelled and ordered by legislation or court decree. Perhaps residents of New York who find themselves confronted with this new situation in public schools in the future will be better able to understand and appreciate the dilemma in which the South finds itself in regard to the inte^ation of schcols.

It is not a situation to which a rapid adjustment can be made. It is not a situation in which court decrees eliminate feelings, convictions which have been held for decades or even generations.

How many New Yorkers who protested admission of slum children from their schools once lived in those areas from which now come the kids they would bar from their schools? ,

An Ideal Opportunity To Learn Propaganda

Americans have an ideal opportunity in the next 12 days to learn some of the tactics of Soviet propaganda and observe how accurate a report Russians and others get of what goes on in the v/orld.

Premier Khrushchevs reception in Washington by the thotfsands who lined the streeb* from the airport to Blair House obviously was cool and stiff. For the most part the crowd which got ts first glimpse at the head of the Soviet government watched passively and silently as Khrushchev rode past with President Eisenhower.

How will the Soviet official news agencies described the scene to Russians and other people behind the Iron Curtain and throughout the world? Will their description be accurate? If so, will it be blamed on alleged official hostility in the United States toward Premier Khrushchev and the Soviet government?

The American people, through their free press, will be informed of Khrushchevs tour of the United States, step by .step together with the reaction which the visiting official draws from the places he visits, from the people to whom he speaks. At the same time, through their free press, the American people will be kept informed of the official Soviet news interpretations of what goes on here during Khrushchevs visit.

It should prove both interesting and enlightening to compare the factual reports in the American press with those issued through the Moscow press and broadcasts over Soviet radio stations.

Actor

Has 2

Profiles

McNaugTit Sjmdicate,

By ALVIN TAYLOB

Always A Selling Angle

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Frank Diener, the cotton candy man, always has a gimmick for selling the light fluffy stuff.

While working Romes Rides last week, he called a youngster with a bike over to his booth.

Hey, buddy, do you want this? Frank asked, holding up a serving of cotton candy.

The yoiingsters eyes widened and his face broke into a smile as he said, Yes, sir.

Its yours free if youll ride down to Five Points with it in your hand. Frank said.

The boy considered the deal for a time and then agreed. He disappeared down the street holding the cotton candy high.

I guess folks will know where we are now, Frank chuckled.

Frank is a baker ordinarily, but he maintains his cotton candy equipment as a hobby and puts it to use for such occasions as

Romes Rides.

Things Our Red.

Guest Can Learn Hodges

Folks who keep up with public auctions of automobiles on Court House square usually sneer at the offerings that crop up.

Generally the cars offered for sale are ancient models, with heavy duty springs and perhaps a souped-up motor.

Such cars are confiscated from bootleggers and they purposely drive old cars just in case they are apprehended.

Saturday, however, things were different.

For sitting in front of the Court House that morning was a 1959 Buick with less than 500 miles on the speed-o-meter. A sign advertised that it would be sold at 12 noon.

This car sale was different from most in that the vehicle was

being sold by the trust depart ment of a local bank to settle an estate.

Bystanders said the car had been purchased by its deceased owner one morning and he died that afteihioon.

That was the reason for the low meage.

It was also told, in the considerable crowd that gathered, that the car sold new for slightly over $4,000.

When the bank official finally banged the gavel to end the auction the car had brought a price of $2,830.

Other Editors Saying...

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) That dreamer of Soviet dreams, Premier Nikita Khrushchev, comes whizzing into America at a time when he says fairy tales are becoming a reality for mankind.

He himselfthanks to 20th century magiccomes in a plane as smooth as a flying carpet to a land which, when he looks around, will seem like a fairy tale turned true.

He descends out of the skies into the most prosperous country in the history of man. But it is not a simple land, nor a perfect one. Khrushchev could v.n-derstand that, since the Soviet Union Is a country of contradictions, too.

This is a land which prides Itself on the sloganAll Men Are Created Equalbut which never completely believed or practiced it, and still doesnt. Witness the segregation of Negroes, the prejudice against Jews and Catholics.

Khrushchev could understand that, also. In the U.S.S.R. anti-Semitism has run deep-even deep in blood.

This is a land where men are free to work,, quit or strike but where the overwhelming number. 67 million, prefer to work.

This, too, is the land where personal income this year is running at the rate of 384 billion dollars and individuals pay 38>3 billion in federal income taxes and corporations pay a tax bill of 20/^ billion.

America is a land where the typical family has a one-family home or apartment, quite a con-.trast to the Soviet Union where in the big cities, at least, four or more families may have to

crowd into one apartment, with one bathroom.

In Pittsburgh Khrushchev will see something which may be incomprehensible to him and which he would never permit: a strike Which has shut down 85 per cent of Americas vital steel production and has kept 500,000 men" idle three months today.

There are other things Khrushchev may learn as he bounces around America.

There are 4,600,000 Individual businesses; 814,000 miles of paved highways: 59 million passenger cars and 12 million trucks and buses drinking about 54 billion gallons of gasoline a year, with 114 million cars, trucks and buses expected by 1975. Another little note: 86 per cent of the nations 51 million households have one or more TV sets.

But it is Americas farmland and farm productionparticularly corn, which is close to his heartthat may make Khrushchevs eyes bug most.

In the U.S.S.R. half the 208 million people live on farms. Here only about 20 million peoplearound 11 per cent of the 176,000,000 populationare on farms. American farm output per man has doubled since 1947.

Crops this year are expected to be the second greatest in history 1958 set the recordbut this year corn production will break all records.

American farmland is worth 125 billion; farmers' cash income last year from selling their products was 30 billion.

The livestock, if Khrushchev could see It all, would blind him: 64 million beef cattle. 99 million of all kinds of cattle. If hes interested In chickens, heres an Item: there are 383 million chickens laying 60 billion eggs.

(Henderson Dispatch)

Governor Hodges is not through with politics and public life, despite bis statement to newspaper men at Chapel Hill last v.ceksr.d that he has no plans for such a future. He added that he never had any desire to run for the United States Senate, and that he is not runring for vice-president on the Democratic ticket next year. If the lightning should strike and bit him he would make his decision at that time.

T.he Governor said he would lend his energies toward promoting North Carolinas influence in the party, and that he does not want to see Democrats of this State Join in any third party movement If one should develop.

There is substantial reason to assume that he is on solid ground In both instances. North Carolina today is but little more part and parcel of the Old South, or the Deep South, and its ideologies than it is a segment of the country as a whole. Trends In the state in recent years actually have been in the direction of the latter.

Conservatism has an edge over ultra-liberalism here. But it is not the con.servatism of former times. Public thinking has moved rather rapidly and noticeably toward a middle of the road policy. This has been evident in some recent elections and there is a real possibility

that it may be equally or more so next year.

This of itself is the greatest assurance, such as there may be, that North Carolina will not go over to a third party, should there be one. It didnt in other recent years when it had the chance, and when other Southern States made the leap in protest to policies of the national Democratic party they did not like and which they opposed.

Whatever Governor Hodges future, his service to North Carolina has been and Is of such importance that the State could ill afford to allow him to go into complete retirement as a private citizen. His usefulness has been tremendous and can, and we are persuaded will, continue to be.

The State will long remember and be grateful for his efforts in promoting its industrial expansion. In the year and a half that remains of his tenure as chief executive he will demonstrate in still further degree the value of his efforts in this and other directions. His administration has been outstanding, even when the full record has neither been made nor recorded.

This does not mean, to be sure, that there has been unanimous accord as to his policies. But his ability and capacity for leadership are too great to be withheld when there is so much need for it.

Took a trip to Hobgood Sunday where the Hobgood Methodist Church was holding its annual homecoming,

Hobgood. in case you didnt know, is about seven miles from Scotland Neck in Halifax County.

The little town is the home town of your columnist's mother and we are kin to about half the folks who live there.

It was a railroacling center back in the old days. Atlantic Coast Line freight trains still come through on the run to Norfolk but of the many passenger trains which once stopped there, none are left today.

The good Methodists spread a table fit for a king alongside their bright new brick church and your columnist easily ate enough for two.

We slipped off from the crowd for a time to visit a wooden church that had once stood on the same spot the brick building now occupies.

The old church was moved a couple of blocks away, across a highway and set down alongside a dirt road leading to the town cemetery.

The old building Is used for grading of tobacco now. But we could remember as a child attending Sunday School in that same building on our visits to Hobgood.

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We must admit that sometimes it seems Presidents are picked on spending and taxing capacity. But it sems the kind of presidential candidate that might make a much sounder and greater appeal to the people than Rockefeller or Brown or any other big taxer and big spender, would be a man who had a record and a platform of reducing spending and reducing taxes. Chattanooga News-Press.

By HAL BOYLE

new YORK (AP)Actor Edward Binns has two profiles and cant decide whether this is a curse or a blessing.

It all came about as the result of a nose broken in his youth.

If I turn my lad one way,

I look like an honest cop. he said. If I iurn it the other way I look like a hood.

But Is this good or bad?* be asked.

Its good to the extent that his double profile has helped keep Eddie one of' the busiest actors in the craft. In the last two decades he has appeared in five Broadway plays, 15 movies and some 400 television shows.

Its bad, he feels, in that producers too often cast him in police or hoodlum roles. Gifted with one of the most memorable faces in show business, his problem has been to make his name as well known as his face.

A peaceful man by nature who served as an armament officer in World War U, Eddie is a former instructor at Pennsyl-vanis State University. He is married and has three daughters.

Binns achieved star status this summer playing a detective lieutenant in a new CBS network show.

The program got off to good critical acclaim but has been dropped by the sponsor. Its fate is dependent on whether CBS can find another sponsor and time spot.

They complain about too much violence on television. In the first 22 shows I havent shot one man.

I did punch one fellow in the stomach, and 1 kissed a girl. Is that too much violence?

But still we were dumped, even though we had good ratings. The reason given was that the public doesnt want a show that faces up to life, and shows life as it is. They say the public only wants to escape life.

Binns shook his head thoughtfully.

But do sponsors and the agencies know what the public wants?

Someone once praised one of our shows bying it was like real. Thats the best compliment an actor, writer or producer can get. Television needs more shows that are like real.*

Strength or Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

FACE THE WHOLE TRUTH

How much can people be trusted?

Not much, you may reply. If you dont keep your doors locked your house will probably someday be robbed. You cant lay down a piece of luggage in a big city and turn your face away for a minute without having it stolen. The prisons are full of crooks, but there are more crooks outside prison gates than there are within them. Why I wouldnt trust my best friend with any considerable sum of negotiable securities. I draw up strict legal papers with everybody I deal with. In my book there are few people who when it comes right down to brass tackscan be trusted.

Oh, wait brother, wait! For the sake of all thats high and holy, modify those statements a bit. Now there are some people in the world you trust impUclty, do you not? Your very dear loved ones, for instance? You know that among your fellow townsmen there are many whose word is said to be as good as their bond, and you agree with that judgment. Think back over the years, and if you have been unfortunate enough to have been victimized by one or more persons, think what a small percentage these have been of your entire acquaintanceship. It just isnt true that most of the people you know or have met are crooks or even slightly unreliable.

Most people are worthy of vastly more trust than we accord them. That doesnt mean that we should get soft-headed or sentimental. It just means that we should get realistic.

High Interest Rates Resentec.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Opinions In Brief

Thjt motorist has been taking a pevere beating. Since World War II, there have been 79 in-craaaea in state gas tax rates. During the 10-year period ending in 1968, combined state and federal taxes have Increased six times as 'much as the national average retail price of regular grade gasoline, exclusive of taxes.Industrial News Review.

sary that We learn there limit to w'hat we can expec governments to supply. In our private lives, we cant provide ourselves and our families with everything our hearts desire. All of us do not have the many resource.^ to fill all of our wishes. So it Is with governments; unless taxes are upped, and upped, and upped.Plea-santville (N.J.) Pre.ss,

Apparently many people have the.JdiMN that our governments Federal, state, county and municipalshould give us every service suggested. That would be nice. It would be nice, of course, to havell! the luxuries of life. It is quite iieces-

The people still have to show whether they really consider drunk driving a serious offense.Kansas City Times.

"Complaint is the fir.st sprout from the seed of inadequacy. Matador (Texas) Tribune.

Big resentment against high Interest rates is brewing.

It may foam over into demands for a special session of Congress to do something about it. It may chokeor even reversethe progress against inflation.

Small business wants to borrow money at lower rates. The housing Industry is fearful that higher intarest rates on mortgages will dry up buying. The farm bloc Is aroused because carrying charges on everything from tractors to automated dairies are rising. Exporters are complaining that they are put at a disadvantage. State authorities are complaining that higher Interest rates are boosting costs of schools, roads, etc. Even big business Interests are grumbling that costs of plant expansion are being increased by higher rates. Soon unions will complain that members are being forced to pay higher carrying charges for their autos.

29-YEAR RECORD

Interest rates are higher than

they have been since early 1930. Corporations that used to borrow money for 5 per cent are now paj*-ing 6. Companies that used to pay 6 per cent now must pay 8.

Rates are up because of the law of supply and demand.

More people want to borrow money. They borrow largely because they think they can profit by borrowing. They borrow at 6 per cent because they believe they can put that money to work to earn 7 per cent. Demand is further increased by borrowing for schools, etc. ^

Borrowers are bidding against the available supply. The law of supply and demand Is in effect now. As borrowing demands exceed lending supplies, interest rates go up.

If borrowers back away and borrowed lessor if lenders spent less for goods and put more into savingsthe rates would go down. But borrowers want ever more money to Invest. Lenders find goods or real estate ever more attractive. And as demand grows and supplies diminish* the

interest rate tends to rise. Rates can very well go up further.

CAN ANYTHING BE DONE?

What could Congressmen and other protesters do to change this?

They could enact laws increasing the supply of money. Just printing more money would be dangerous. Thats sudden-death inflation. But it might arrange to incrase the supply in relation to demand by creating more money in other ways, and by forcing the interest rate down by other devices. By agreeing to buy back its own bonds every time the price wavered, the Treasury could force interests rates pretty low.

But all of these actions would, in the end, be inflationary. Savers (say, did you notice how perky your savings account has become lately?), the insured, * pensioners and annuitants would lose. Part of the value of their accumulations would simply be, transferred to borrowers generally: to small businessman, big corporations, speculators, home

buyers, instalment buyers. ^ This may seem like an attractive arrangement to many people. But in the end, the economy on the whole cant get something for nothing,

K SYSTEM REDUCES COST OF GARAGE A parking garage is being built in Manhattan at a construction cbst of less than $1,(X}0 a car, a record In economy. Economy results from the use of the K system, which Involves tho use of girders of reinforced concrete instead of steel. AMAZING-WELL.. INTERES-INGBUSINESS NEWS ITEMS A Texas retailer attracted attention to his ventilating range hoods by attaching one to an old-iashioned, four-hole, wood-burning stove in his showroom . . .If an outside caterer serves, cafeteria meals in Ohio plants are not subjects to the state sales tax, according to a ruling. Thats off-premisea )the caterers) consumption. . .The National Pretzel Bakers Institute e.stl-' mates that pretzel sales thla year will reach $130,000,000.