PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Wednesday, September 23, 1959

,Wtdnesday, September 23, 1959

Always Willing To Discuss Differences

Setback Lins Again To The Fore

The matter of setback lines along streets in and near the business district is a problem Greenville and many other cities have pondered for a good many

years. /

In the case of Greenville, the matter was last considered seriously several years ago by the city government and after much discussion and a good many complications, it was dropped.

Now Mayor West has again called attention to the problem of narrow streets by asking the citys Planning and Zoning Commission 1o study the possibility of setback lines as they pertain to specific streets.

Greenville, like many other cities and towns, has seen automobile traffic in and near its business dis-

^ 4.^ ,..1. loirl rkff

trict outgrow the narrow streets whicjb^were laid off

'"raffle and parking

in the horse-and-buggy days. Traff .

problems have become increasingly complicated with the constantly increasing number of vehicles. And there appears no end to the growth of automobile traffic if the community continues to grow and prosper.

Unless some workable, long-range method can be devised to cope with the situation, traffic in the present business district and the adjacent areas into which the business district expands will become more con-

Seasonal - Boom

?or Recreation

By LYNN NISBET

PARKS Attendance records at State and National Parks and recreation in North Carolina for the first five months of this year ran substantially ahead of the comparable period for 1958. When the first eight months were tabulated, the record was considerably below last year, Tom Morse, superintendent of State parks, has a ready explanation-rainy weekends. If it didnt rain at the park, it rained at the homes of prospective weekend visitors. Good weekends through October will help to reduce the shortage, but Morse doubts the parks will be able to equal 1958 attendance this year.

However, he is not so much concerned as the visitation figures might seem to justify. It is not so much the number o{ people who pass In and out through park entrances, he said, as the use they make of facilities while they are there. On that score the State parks are doing very well. More people have used camping and picnic facilities this year than ever before- More groups have spent time studying the geologic formations and plant life.

The same series of rainy weekends is offered in explanation of the fact that beach and coastal resorts have suffered more than mountain areas. An operator who is Interested in both beach and mountain places says the percentage drop is much heavier at the beaches. He cites another reason for the different. While there are many modern motels along the coast, the total development of such accommodations is newer in the mountains. Further, the total lack of adequate convention sites in the east has caused some associations to move their meetings to Blowing Rock and Asheville where convention hotels afford facilities.

POTPOURRI Kemp Dough-ton, former Speaker and present member of the House of Representatives. has enjoyed the Khrushchev tour of United State more than mjst people. Asked what he thought about it. he said: I havent read about it.. . .Governor Ernest P. HoU-Ings of South Carolina showed up at the NCUClemson game at Chapel Hill a few minutes late. He had flown on a private plane from Texas, and took off right after the Kenan Stadium affair to attend the DukeSCU game at Columbia that might. The North Carolina teams lost both games. Some quipped that there Is similarity between the visits of Khrushchev and Governor HoUings. They are both guests, and we ought to be nice to them, but theres no point in overdoing it. . .

Most times William B. Aycock, fhannellor of the University at Chapel Hill, is a very dignified and scholarly college executive. Those who were near him at Saturdays game saw a sort of Jekyll - Hyde transformation. Long about the middle of the third quarter he quit being a

gested as the years pa9s.

Unfortunately, the problem cannot be solved simply by a community deciding that it needs wider streets in areas already developed. If that were the case, certainly there would be few if any communities with narrow streets and congested traffic. The real problem lies in finding a workable, practical and satisfactory method of establishing setb,ack lines that will enable the city eventually to have room to widen its streets.

It w'lll take considerable time and effort on the part of the Planning and Zoning Commission to study the problem and submit recommendations for consideration of the City Council. If a workable solution can be found, however, it wilh^e worth many times more than the time and leffort which goes into it.

A long range solution to the problem of narrow streets and congested traffic is one which should receive high priority in the overall long range planning for orderly development of Greenville. Without a sound program to follow, the citys traffic situation can only worsen in future years.

It is in the interest of the city, we believe, that the local government undertake another careful study of the possibility of setback lines in and near the business district with the view to eventually providing wider streets in the congested area of the city.

yo AkRe READy TO AONUT you y AREVNROHG! /

Regional Effort Still Can Prove Of Value

college president and assumed the role of a rabid football fan and grandstand coach. He must have exercised some powers of mental telepathy, btxause a number of times when he said in a low voice that this ought to be a long pass, or a short run, or a line plungethe Tar Heels out on the field did just what he suggested. If Bill had started coaching sooner, Carolina might have made those badly needed extra three points. . .

J. Y. Joraan, Buncombe legislator, was in Raleigh the other oay on legal businessbut took him out to discuss mountain politics with some news reporters. Gist of his observation was that because he is better known. John Larkins has more present strength in Buncombe than any other candidate for Governor. And, if Buncombe can get together on a candidate, the county can recapture the 12th district seat in Congress. If the local factions cant get together, the small counties will again name the congressman.

CALIFORNIA BOUND By way of the Rockingham Post-Dispatch which despite changing ownership is still operated as the personal journal of Ike London, it is learned that Bryant Thompson of Hamlet plans to go to California next year in a horse-drawn covered wagon.

Bryant operates a blacksmith and wood-working shop in Hamlet, and has resisted encroachment of new fangled modern concepts in his trade about as successfully as Ike has resisted them in newspaper make-up.

He is building a wagon in his Hamlet shop which he is sure will hold up for the 6,000 mile trip to California and back. Also he is looking around for four horses to pull the wagon on its Transconttaev.tal journey. In many respects the 1960 wagon w'Ul duplicate features of its 1849 predecessors. It wiU carry a supply of 384 horse shoes, 3.072 horse shoe nails; some band iron to replace tires, and such gadgets as forges and wood-working tools to make repairs enroute. So far as the vehicle is concerned it will be much like those of a century ago.

The statement that the covered wagon will have all modern conveniences and be a sort of place on wheels indicates that bottled gas, electric storage batteries and refrigerating equipment may Include necessity for the travelers to shoot game for their food, build campfires to cook it, and probably go thirsty between streams

The main difference between the proposed covered-wagon and a cross-country trip in a modern automobile is time. Thomspon is allowing two years instead of two weeks for the venture. Chances are he will see more and enjoy the trip better, because as Ike London quips from his vantage point of three score years and ten and fivewhat are two years in a lifes span especially when the wife doesnt object. __

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Gov. Hodges call for a greater regional effort on the part of the South to develope its economic potential offers a challenge to leaders of the Southern state? that should not be ignored.

Regionally, the South until recent years, has played second fiddle economically to other geographic areas of the nation. In the past few decades, it has begun to change. Though its per capita income remains low compared to other areas of the nation and its productive wealth in terms of m inufactured goods does not match up, it has made great strides toward narrowing the gap.

Several of its larger cities are becoming financial and industrial centers to rival those of other sections of the nation. Scattered through the states of the region are new industrial plants, large and small, that are adding literally millions of dollars annually to individual incomes in terms of wages and salaries. They are adding to the productive wealth of the region, the financial standing of state and local governments through the taxes they pay.

Even with this progress, however, the South is just beginning to scratch the .surface in developing its productive potential. It has natural resources and manpower to become one of the most productive areas of the nation in terms of both agricuitural and manufactured products.

Most of the promotion done by the South to bring about this progress has been done on a community or a state basis. By and large this progress has been done on a community or a state basis. By and large it mu.st continue to be done that way. At the same time a regional effort, carefully planned and designed to present the region as a whole in a corrective prospective to the rest of the nation could provide an important supplement to the development efforts already being made.

Secre

Of Anv

Oietina

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)Can you lose up to 40 pounda in 90 days without using drugs?

Can you do it without feeling Aiaj*ved, without losing your strength or sense of humor, without feeling sorry for yourself?

You can Indeed, Youre listening to an ex-fatty who just did it.

All you need is the right incentive. A fat man with the right incentive can do anything. I had a real good incentive.

The truth was I weighed a record 217 pounds.

One of my bosses remarked scornfully:

Fat men have no will power. Fifty bucks says you cant take off 30 pounds in 90 days.

That did it! I had my incentive. an incentive greater than personal vanity.

Youve got a bet, I told the boss.

There is no secret about losing weight. I went to a good old-fashioned doctor.

By HENRY HOWARD

Handing me a standard diet, he said: Follow this. Exercise sensibly. Take a couple of vitamin pills a day. Cut your liquor Intake to two highballs a day. but dont take any medicines. You dont need them."

^i^uckus Every Afternoon

WeU. Doc." I said, two drinks a day is taking medicine for it sure aint drinking,

Out our way theres a sort of battle ground on a steep hill side where the sun casts a deep shadow long before dusk every afternoon.

On this particular acre (on half-acre) takes place fierce battle at least once a day. What all the fuss is about is certainly hard to figure out. but sometimes it's really a ruckus.

Generally, there are only a limited number of participants. Whether thats because the battle Is so fierce or simply that personnel is limited is hard to say.

Apparently, the objective of

the whole miniature war Is the disputed ownership of some little something-or-other about one foot square. What this object is cant readily be determined since its been the object of so many battles. Its practically in tatters.

Occasionally. these battles are very interesting to watch from the front porch of a nearby house.

Yesterday afternoon, there was a real good one. It involved five different warriors who chased up and down the steeply-sloping battle field for nearly an hour.

Valiently, the fighters subdued

Other Editors Saying... Ahead Of Politicians

(Hertford County Herald)

'Difficult Role

Of Playing Hos

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP Nikita Khrushchevs expedition around the United States is almost a study in organized chaos on both sides.

The Soviet Premier has admitted he is thin-skfnned: I can never stand it when somebody steps on my pet corn without giving a worthy reply.. Yet, by bragging and boasting, he stuck out his neck, or rather his foot with the corn.

He apparently even came over here expecting to be heckled.

At the Economic Club dinner in New York he said: Naturally, when a live Communist appears in such distinguished company. there is a great interest in him: to look at him; to hear him; and, if he has a tail, to pull at his tail.

But, when he got his tail pulled. he hollered ouch. Although it was clear from what he said in New York that he expected just that. This foreknowledge of what to expect makes his temper-tantrums harder to understand.

The State Departments enormous plans lor him were long on police protection against an assassins bullet bui woetuUy short on saving him from embarrassing jibes and needling.

But even in this problem of arrangements Khrushchev, and to a greater extent the Soviet Embassy here, must take some of the re.spopsibility for the unpleasantness which occurred since they agree to the plans.

For example: Khrushchev

agreed to meet with Walter Reu-ther and olher American labor leaders. From the very inception of this idea the meeting was going to be a bull-baiting tournament. Anyone could have predicted It.

But when it turned out that way. Khriushchev got sore- He certainly didbt think he was going to play spin-the-bottle with Reulher and Iils friends.

They wanted to show him how anti-Communist American workers were. They probably did nothing of *he kird, A Communist like Khru.-hchev probably makes a sharp CLstinction between labor leaders and the masses of workers.

Reuther .said Khrushchev called him a capitalistic stooge Why the surprise at that? Khrushchev and hi.-i friciuls no doubt consider all union leader.s to be .secret managrinrnt men wbor.c job lr to keep down worker.^ wage.v.

Khru.hchrv him.self .started the general irritation a moment

after he landed here with his boasting and bragging, a line he has pursued throughout his trip.

With President Eisenhower standing beside him and the whole world aware that only two days before the U.S.S.R. had hit the moon Khrushchev read a prepared statement at the airport boasting about the moon-shot.

This hit a sour note from the start. You might call it poor taste. But it certainly was a clumsy entrancq.

Then at one gathering after another here, in New York, in California Khrushchev bragged of Soviet progress, of the moonshot. the new Soviet atomic icebreaker. He predicted repeatedly the U.S.S.R. would surpass the United States.

When a man keeps hitting his hosts over the head with this kind of crowing even though he is a guest he can expect some sharp reactions. Theres a hmii to it, and Khrushchev overdid it.

.At the same time he is a guest. Some of *he questions flung at him at Washingtons National Press club and elsewhere and particularly the curt and needling treatment he got from Mayor Norris Poulson of Los Angeles seemed rude, unnecessary and. as Khrushchev said, using one of his favorite words, provocative.

Tlie State Departmentinstead of meticulous efforts with state and city officials to handle him carefully and avoid heckling and snide digs seemed to concentrate on police protection.

At the same time Khrushchev sounded phony when he complained publicly about the extent of his police protection, particularly when he whimpered about not getting to Disneyland.

His own security officers had a hand in the police arrangements. And he knew that it wasnt safe for him, in a country with many violent anti-Communists, to walk the streets unguarded.

The search for what a good teacher is that will be undertaken by North Carolina colleges under the prodding of the State Board of Higher Education will pay off in better education for all Tar Heels, teachers and pupils alike.

The idea is to find out if Tar Heel teachers dont need to juice up their intellectual resources by taking more hours of basic subjects in college and perhaps leaving off some of the how to teach courses.

What is significant, too. about this study, is that it will be undertaken by the teachers themselves. We have heard from politicians lately that the school-teaching profession, both on college and public education levels, is hidebound and that teachers dont deserve any more money until they take a good hard look at themselves and improve themselves.

We do not think this has been av alid criticism. As a matter of fact, the school people have been ahead of the politicians in this regard. Most people connected with a schoolparents, teachers and studentscan teU you these days that there is ferment of change and a positive wildness for improvement.

Colleges and public education have shown a frenzy for self-evaluation and self-improvement. It might be argued that this has come about because of the pressures of the modern era-Perhaps. But it is also true that much modernity came agout be these very institutions broke from earlier molds many years ago and positively led us into new age to the tune of new

directions and constantly-changing methods.

Thus we think that the North Carolina politician who makes this excuse because he didnt vote more money for teachers Is really doing nothing more than clouding the issue (which, God bless em. Is a favorite and very effective weapon of the politician.

As long as the teaching profession, from top to bottom, continues to display ids present-day initiative and willingness to change, it need not believe that it will actually bring down the criticism which politicians are always warning is in the minds of the people. It just isnt there.

The search for a better collegiate curriculum for teachers which is being undertaken by colleges now, even before the problem is recognized by few people other than educators and politicians (who can always see the crack in the armor before it even appears), is another example of that constant seeking for the best,

(Would that some politicians would sit down and carry out the program of self-analysLs which they are always urging on other institutional people. We have seen, in recent years, a constant stream of study commissionsmostly composed of politicianswhich have studied almost every facet of Tar Heel life. But the politicians have yet to turn that inward light onto their own actions. There is as much room for improvement in their own directions and methods as there is any of the other fields. And such a change would have implications in nearly every other field.)

one another time after time only to see each one who went down rise again much more. strongly.

Actually, yesterdays battle is very likely to be the last in this series. Its almost a shame to see S cn a clas.'ic era come to a close, but there will be no incentive or prize for fne victor.

You see, in yesterdays fierce battle, the little one foot square object vas torn completely asunder aiiG only fragments of it remained.

What actually happened was that all five battlers had extra energy and vigor from the cool afternoon aii. All five viciously grapped the object, which Is really quite delicate to begin with) and began to pull violently. The result was to be expected.

Some of the boys were wondering last night what could take the place of the daily battles out there on the hill for afternoon entertainment.

The whole bunch had grown very fond of each and every one of the little warriors and had really enjoyed watching the daily afternoon antics.

WhatU we do now, one of the boys said, We wont have any more fights to watch.

Everj'body was deploring the situation. How could we persuade the neighborhood dogs to wrangel over a square piece of burlap bag every afternoon on the hill side.

Finally it became apparent that we did have brilliant war strategist in our midst. He said, Lets get em another bag.

So I went on tht wagon altogether, and within three days was enjoying the taste of water-straight.

The diet was simplicity itself. I cut out all sweet desserts.

I all but cut out butter, corn, beansexcept string beansand had potatoes just once a week. I limited myself to a piece of ry or whole W'heat bread a day. If I ate a sandwich for lunch, the next day I did without bread.

I cut my usual portions in half, and concentrated on lean meat, eggs, cottage cheese and filled up on plenty ol raw and cooked green and yellow vegetables.

Mild exercise Is the best way to cure your restlessness when youre on a dietor any other time. I bowled and swam some, but walking is the ideal exercise in the city.

The first week I walked a mil a day, then gradually stepped it up. On weekends I got up to seven or eight miles. Solitary walking can be a great joy. You learn the trees, the store window sights and the people in your town as you can in no other way. One tip: In the city bo sure to wear rubber-heeled shoes.

Strangely, I felt exhilarated" rather than depressed most of the time. Only once did I break my diet to eat a chocolate sundae. I felt as guilty as if Id robbed the church poor box, and never was tempted again.

The pound* came off In fit Con inued On Pag A

Strength For Today

TH.AT AVERAGE LAYMAN

Did you ever hear of a Biblical character named Gaius? Even devout Bible readers have some difficulty in recalling him. He does not appear to have held a place of outstanding importance in the early Christian church, yet we have a very vivid profile of him.

Gaius was an average Christian layman. The apostle John addresses his third epistle to this Gaius. He speaks of him as being sound in the faith, of being sincere and putting into practice the faith he professes. He was hospitable. Christian believers found it necessary in those days to open their homes to any Christians who might be passing through their town or city because the public inns were

place* of Immorality and riotous behavior, Gaius wa particularly cordial in his welcome to itinerant believers.

There cannot be much doubt a to why the revelation of thi mans character Is *et forth In the New Testament. Gaius was the common, garden variety of man upon whose consecrated efforts the church had to rely in getting started. And that consecrated layman Is still the very body and soul oi th modem Christian church. He is usually not an intellectual. Nor is he a person of high station in life. He is neither rich nor poor. But h knows what he believes, h practices what he professes, h treats his fellow men with an abundant kindness.

Gaius, the average layman 2000 year* ago and now.

Great White Father Tells You

By ELMER ROESSXER

Quote...

It is considered square today to speak proper English. Writing it is almo.st a lo.st art. The Ni hools still teach English, crr-tninlv. but h mu.st be so unap-prtizn.G, .so far down on the H t of appealing .subjei t.s, that no one really carrs about it," Orlando Bcntinei.

Give a man a horse he can ride and he goes galloping off in all directions. Give him a government job and he promptly imagine.s him.self to be the Great White Father.

I know; I had a government job once. It required all the strength I posses.sed to shave every day. I wanted to grow Uncle Sam-type chin whiskers.

We have a new example today. Congress created the Small Business Administration to finance and oifer certain kinds of advice to small businesses.

We have a new' example today. Congress created the Small Busi-nesss Administration to finance and offer certain kinds of advice to small businesses.

And the SBA, succumbing to the natural impulse to become Daddy-0 in the Sky, is now telling ow ners of small business how to behave. It has published a management aid instructing them on the attitudes to avoid.

HOW TO BE PUT WLSE

This L:nt .something I dreamed up. It.s fantastic. I know. But If you doubt me, writ 1 Ui

SBA, Washington 25. D C. and ask for a free copy of Management Aid No. 103 and see for yourself. As a taxpayer, you are entitled to a copy. You paid for it.

An owner-manager, it says, may become, and I quote:

The Detail Hugger; Hardly a day pa.sses wdthout hi.s presence distracting the mail-rooin clerk (Have we got enough stamps?), the secretaries (How do you put a new ribbon on that new machine'?), the cafeteria food supervisor (How long doe.s it take to fix cole .slaw?). He is also terribly interested in the amount of string used for packages, and the amount of gas used by. the company truck.

this slobbering from the government of the United States!

You might expect it In some bu.sines5 magazines. You might even expect it in this column. I have offered some silly sug-ge.'^tioius here, although I have never made fun of owners who worried about the wa.ste of .string and gas. But I was speaking a.s a citizen; I did not put on a striped hat with a star

red band and pretend I was George M. Cohans uncle.

MORE SAMPLES But this, pals, is your government talking to you: talking

about keeping your nose out of the typewriters and the cole slaw.

Some other characterizations of sniall-busine.ss managers:

The Kibitzer: Killing his day is no problem. He jiust doe.s it by looking over everybodys .j^houlder, and dropping in on departments Just to see how things re going. (Theyre going fine when hes not around.)

The Open Door Man; My door (This executive announces proudly Is open to everybody at all times. The idea is fine, but the result is disastrous: His employees take up most of his day with trivial questions that they could figure out for themselves if the bir-y; hadnt given them a green light to kill his day.

The Conference Caller: This type wont let anyone order a dozen paper cups without the Mappin.i^s of a time-killing executive .summit meeting. He likr.s to hear his own voice, even if no one l-r doe.s.

The announcement of ttii tax-

paid hanky-panky conclude with these words: Wendell B. Barnes. Administrator of the Small Business Administration, said: In view of the keen competition experienced in the business world today, efficient management of small firms is a necessity. I believe small biLsiness owners will find this Aid a helpful guide when doing some honest management soul-searching.

It would seem that Mr. Barnes likes to read the words of his ow'n statements, even if no one else does.

SMALL BUSINESS OFFERS MULTIPLE SERVICES

A new kind of business has made its appearance in New York. Two women have formed Unique Services. It offers almost every kind of personal service to busy executives. It will arrange parties, special events. Christmas shopping, social secretary a.ssistance, secretarial service, billing services for doctors and dentists, and service probably not yet dreamed up, (But keep your mvses out of the typewriter* and the cola slaw, girlI)