PACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE. N. C

VYednesday, October 7, 195

[Wednesday, October 7, 1959Opening For A Little Guy

Naivete

A Turning Point In Steel's Future?

As the steel strike continues and new thousands of people in dependent industries are put out of work each week, one is prone to consider whether a nation as diversified and resourceful as the United States will continue indefinitely to rely so heavily upon steel as it does today in economy.

Remember a little more than a decade ago when the wheels of industry of this great nation turned on the energy which was provided from the huge coal fields? And remember the rash cf mining strikes which staggered the economy and left thousands of families shivering in their homes because the flow of coal from the mines to their home furnaces had been cut off?

Perhaps the nation would eventually have changed to sources other than coal for heat and industrial energy under any circumstances, but coal strikes and the decline of coal for industrial and domestic use appeared to come one behind the other.

In the past decade coal has become less and less important to the overall national economy. A strike m the coal fields now does not have nearly the repercussions throughout the nation as was the case a decade or more ago. Most industries manage to keep their operations on an even keel in the face of a coal strike and most of the nations homes and commercial buildings remain warm and comfoitable. The nation turned to other sources of heat and energy that were not as likely to be cut off by bitter disputes between

labor and the companies. ^

With the nation now feeling the pinch of the

pinch of the longest steel strike in historyand remembering other such strikes in recent yearsmay well wish it were not so heavily dependent upon steel to keep its wheels of industry and commerce turning. There are probably many company officials today who are looking for substitutes for the steel they use in their products. It may well be that many have intensified their search for substitutes since the longest steel strike in hi.story began.

In recent years other metals and various forms of plastics have taken the place of steel in many manufactured products. Even under normal circumstances we would expect the trend to continue. Under the abnormal circumstances brought about by the steel strike, it would not be unsound to expect the trend to be accelerated.

is the steel industry in the nation today headed down the same road that the coal industry took a decade or more ago?

If there is a national steel strike two years, five yearV or 10 years from now will manufacturers find themselves in the same position as they do today with their primary source of raw material cut off and their plants shut down because the steel furnaces are cold? Or will they have altered their operations in an effort to prevent being caught in the same situation?

Long Range Traffic

Plain Talk Por

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Planning Gets A Boost

YDC Gathering

By LYNN MSBET

DEMCiCRATS The national Democratic party till owes a balance of S350.000 on a three quarter million dollar debt left over from the 195fi campaign. The Young Democratic Clubs of North Carolina are battling to reduce a debt of Sfi.OhO accumulated through the years. That made it necessary for John D. Larkins Jr., national committeeman, and Art Vann YDC president, to talk plain to the Young Democrats attending the convention at Asheville. Vann was vigorous in criticism of those who seek all the benefits of belonging to YDC without paying for the privilege.

The tact that Bob Davis. 1958 president, speht some $2.200 of his own money to do the job. and Art Vann, retiring president is in the hole some $1,700, was one of the reasons Monroe Redden Jr.. had no opposition for president for 1900. One man who was approached with otters of strong support if he would get in the race against Redden said he could get more honor and more fun for a lot less money. ^ The YDC treasury was not helped by this lack of interest-The plan of basing convention votes on the amount of affiliation fees paid in. led a number of counties to say if there was nothing to vote for there was no reed to affiliate. When hotly contested races are involved candidates sometimes pay the affiliation fee for the countya legalized public auction of voting strength. Mild efforts to change this policy have failed.

The Asheville convention was ft success from standpoint of attendance and entertainment.

It was a flop as a political event of consequence.

LEGISLATORS The legislative breakfast, an annual event for Saturday morning, attracted only two members of Congress Whitener of the 11th district, and Hall of the 12th. There were only six members of the General AssemblySenators Copeland of Hertford and Morgan of Harnett: Representatives Crawford of Buncombe, Yates of Haywood, Black of Cabarru.s and Jackson of Hertford. Thad Eure, secretary of State, in his usual role as master of ceremonies, and Charlie Gold, commissioner of insurance, were the only State officials present.

These occasions in the past havea ttracted 30 or 40 legksla-tors and several State officials, and have produced polifiical news. Whether the small attendance was due entirely to conflicting attractions, or if the big folks just felt it wasnt worth the effort, is not known. Certainly the timing was unfortunate. A dozen or more legislators who were around Friday left before the Saturday breakfast for the

Carolina-State football game, and thiee or four others took off for the mullet festival at Swansboro. Also a number of delegates cut the opening session Friday to stay by TV sets for the world series baseball game.

POLITICS The lack of ft real contest for president focused more attention on the upcoming primary for State officers than on YDC affairs. Little was added to knowledge or basis for speculation as to standing of candidates. Terry Sanfor^ is definitely the favorite of majojjity of the YDS. He didnt show up until around noon Saturday, because of previous conflicting engagements. But he had the field to himself when he was here. The other candidates had already gone to other appointments. John Larkins was much in evidence Thursday evening and Friday morning, leaving immediately after he had made appearance at the opening session, to MC the mullet festival. Addison Hewlett was on hand Friday morning, but left at noon for another appointment down state.

Very few people thought Judge Hubert Olive will be seriously interested in the Governors race, gut there was almost unanimous opinion he would break up a lot of playhouses if he should get in.

jjo. 2 One of the most significant political developments at the convention was the virtual certainty that C.V. Henkel of Iredell will be a candidate for Lieutenant Governor. He was much in evidence and maintained a hospitality room in his hotel suite from Thursday noon until he left for the ball game and mullet festival Saturday morning. He refrained from positive announcement. but left Uttlc doubt of what that announcement wiU

Highway Commis.sion approval of Greenvilles thoroughfare plan along with those of three other cities places Greenville a step closer to a comprehensive, iong range program for coping with its traffic problems.

In the case of Greenville, Raleigh, Canton and Roanoke Rapids whose thoroughfare plans have been approved by the Highway Commission, the plans are merely preliminary programs designed to offer one answer to the increasing traffic problems which each of the cities will face in the years ahead. From time to time the plans will have to be revised and altered to meet changing conditions in each of the cities. Notwithstanding these changes which will have to be made, however, each of the cities now has a definite plan, and each has won approval of its plan by the Highway Commission.

As the long range program is put into effect bit by bit in each of the cities, the municipality and the state will work closely together in seeking to cope with intra-city and inter-city traffic. More and more North Carolina cities may be expected to join in the program of long range traffic and street planning with the State Highway Commission. In view of the fact that Greenville is among the first four cities to enter the program and get its preliminary plan approved, it should follow that it will be one of the first cities to begin carrying out the comprehensive prograrn.

Continued growth will mean that most cities in the state will face increasingly difficult and increasingly expensive traffic and street problems in future years. The fact that they will be able to rely upon the state for various kinds of assistance in formulating and carrying out long range programs to cope with problems will be of tremendous importance to the municipalities.

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By All

By HAL BOYLE

By DON SCHLIENZ

The Fair>Assn Is Safe

fairs

On one day of the tenure I dont recall right now which day, the promoters have announced you could get in for a nickel.

Not just any old nickel will do, of course; but a special one ... of a vintage Illustrating the durability ^nd anniversary of the Pitt County Fair ... is required.

cular announcement was made, and to myself thought on that day the Fair Association is going to take a licking. Theyll have a whole lot of 1934 nickels to count and roll up, and every one of them will represent a financial loss.

other person with weaker vision or less determination that it

was so, might dispute it. The date was badly worn. The first two digits were worn smooth and the remaining two were barely distinguishable.

More to the point: show up with a 1934 nickel and

Kid, youre in!

Nickels like that they dont make any more. They havent madeem for 25 years. Still, youd think that a 1934 nickel would be no great rarity. Surely the tax collectors havent taken them all.

To prove it, I spilled out a few dollars worth of nickels (the kids piggy banks are lighter now') and began pawing through the coins. As nickel collections go, this one was about par. You couldnt find a more average pile cf nickels this side of the U.S. Mint.

The pile of coins included four other nickels of similar design to the 34 model, but their dates were completely worn away. Twenty-five years of service represents a heap of living to a nickel.

And do you know how many 1934-model coins were in the lot?

So unless somebody has been hoarding 1934 nickels in the family vault, and drags them out to confound the Fair people, I ju.st dont see a rush of'five-cent ticket sales this year.

Exactly one.

With my curiosity aroused, I hope they announce how many 1934 nickels appear . . . Just for the record.

SusDicions Over

That was the way I looked at the situation when this parti-

It took some eye-straining to convince me that that coin of the realm bore a 1934 date; an-

?eaceful Views

Other Editors Saying..

Curio.sity scores again: Thursday afternoon is the day you can enter the fairgrounds on one of those rare <1 think) twentieths of a dollar. I had to ask around.

NEW YORK (AP) Sidewalk comments of a pavement Plato; Most people are surest of what they do not know.

For example, many feel that folk more famous than themselves have better solved the puzzlement of living.

Havent you ever envied a celebrity? Havent you ever pondered what he or she had that you dont have?

Well, whether it was the ears-againsUhe world assurance of Clark Gable, the relaxed billowi-ness of Marilyn Monroe, or the stentorian frontier of John Foster Dulles, they all shared one thing with you.

Yes, sir, you have one thing in common with them. All people do. The thing you share is naie-vete.

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has it. the lady next door has it, the man who picks up the garbage has it.

Everybody has an opinion. High or low. They are all sure in their own minds about certain things.

But the human mind is a funny thing. The more it insists on the acceptance of ideas, the more vulnerable it is to ideas which it is unsure of. Naivete creeps in.

It is parUy the old saying come true that a salesman who can sell can be sold.

Behind the wL^est man who ever lived was an eternal naivete, either about himself or others. His confidence cloaked a doubt. When the busy voice was stilled and the tireless limbs rested, doubt came and whispered, What you are so much about, is it so? Is this all?

The question came to Alexander, to Napoleon, to the old lady next door.

To be naive is to be human. To be nonnaive is to be divine.

Naivete is such a hard thing to define in a world of twilight words. Is the woman who stamps out a varant bloom that disturbs the plan of her garden naive? Is the statesman who stamps out an idea that will force him to regroup his thought naive? Is a mother who is sure her favorite son Is marrying himself into a marital hell naive? Is father who envies the same boy going into a marital heaven naive?

Ah, so. as the Japanese say. It is so. The power that is freckles with dandelions the lawn that doesnt wish them, pimples the face that yearns to be flawless, troubles the mind that would be restful, interrupts the peace w'e yearn for but do not have, confuses with fresh views the old vistas we were sure were scenic enough for our time.

Grudgingly we grow. To be naive is to be alive.

be.

Also on hand was David McConnell of Charlotte, considered and almost announced candidate for the No. 2 place on the ticket. He moved around with confident ease and was not at all reluctant to talk about his prospects. Another potential Lieutenant Governor was Sen. Wliam Copeland of Hertford. He wasnt active, but admitted he was thinking

about it,

Joe Hunt of Guilford, one of three avowed candidates for Speaker of the 1961 House of Representatives, divided hLs time between the convention and side trips into nearby counties. He has traveled some 5.000 miles over the state since the Legislature adjourned and is conceded to be far ahead of the other aspirantsClyde Harriss of Rowan and Cloyd Philpott of David-sgn He was more modest, but one of his side-kicks said Hunt already has enough commitments to elect himif aU his friends get through the primary and election next year^^^__

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By WILLIAM L. RYAN

The recent activities of Nikita Khrushchev have been generating some wishful thinking in the West. Yet, upon examination, the Soviet Premiers China trip actually should tend to cast suspicion upon the peaceful sentiments he expressed during his tour of the United States-

In Red China. Khrushchev attended the 10th anniversary celebration of the Communist takeover. What went on appears to have moved some in the West to speak hopefully of a Soviet-Chinese cleavage.

But how much of what it hears about this can the West afford to trust? From outward appearances. there would seem to have been some coolness betw-een the Soviet chief and the Red Chinese leadership. However, assessing this, one finds it difficult to forget that the men now ruling the Communist world spent most of their lives in the school of deviousness and subterfuge.

Possibly there are some points of conflict between Khrushchev and the Red Chinese. Perhaps there are ruffled Chinese feathers. But the evidence indicates a broad area of collaboration in foreign policy between, Mowcow and Peiping.

The Soviet leaders Peiping trip coincided with a meeting of top-ranking Communist leaders and delegations from all corners of the earth. The Peiping celebration, as similar occasions in Moscow have done, provided a convenient excuse for a Communist international session.

It would be naive to believe all that took place in Peiping was broadcast or published, or. Indeed, that anything was made public w'hich was not in the interests bf the Communist lead

ers his view of how his U.S. tour fitted in with Communist World designs.

It might be comforting to think Khrushchevs American visit resulted in aggravations between Moscow and Peiping. A superficial glance at what took place in Peiping might give rise to such a conclusion. But perhaps that is what the Communists want the West to believe-

By. stating it would be un-wkse to test the durability of the capitalist world by force of arms, Khrushchev put himself in the clear. If anything happens now in Asia, is he responsible in any way? Did he not warn against it?

The initiative for creating international crisis still is in the hands of the Communists. They can do so when they wish in Berlin, on the borders of Asia, in the Formosa Strait, in Southeast Asia, on the India frontier, or a number of other places.

The Communists have deliberately provoked crLses in the past. Why? Obviously because they had need for crises at those moments. The need will arise again, sooner or later, and the Communists will pull the rug from under those who have been dreaming of a future free of tension.

When the time comes. Khrushchev can easily tell his own people he tried his best for peace and was thwarted- He can blame the other side.

Evidence of a Soviet-Chinese rift over Khrushchevs American performance is far too flimsy to be relied upon. Until there is incontrovertible proof of it. the West must assume there is close collaboration between the ' two big Communist partners and that they are up to no good.

Our Speetding Visitors Opinions In Brief

(Goldsboro News-Argus)

An item of a few lines in the Selma Johnstonian Sun spotlights a special problem which North Carolina has. It is the problem of the motorist from another state who violates our highway traffic laws.

Eleven defendants were found guilty of speeding in Kenly district Recorders court last week, says the Sun. They were from Canada, and 10 states: North Carolina, Florida, Connecticut, New York, California, New Jersey. Georgia. Rhode Island, Michigan, and Oklahoma.

Kenly, you know, is a Johnston county town through whose limits flows the traffic of U. S. Highway 301, essibly the heaviest traveled' north-south route In the State.

The Kenly Recorders court is set up to bring the services of a court of this rank to that art of the county. So it is not to be confused with the justice cf the peace court.

The defendants haled into court for traffic violatioms in Kenly will, almost without exception. go their ways loudly complaining and berating North Carolina for its action against them. It makes no difference whether the party was guilty or the arrest was for the protection of the driver and the public under the law. All he realizes

is that he has been arrested and convicted. He will spend many following days exclaiming to all who w'lU listen about those North Carolina speed traps.

It makes no difference that the highway was plainly marked as to speed zones and he was guilty. He goes right on giving the Slate the black eye.

What could we* do to help correct this situation?

At one time out - of- state cars as they entered North Carolina got a Welcome pamphlet which gave our speed laws and emphasized they were enforced with electric timing devices, and unmarked patrol cars. We understand such pamphlets are passed out at intervals now but dLstribution to drivers at State lines lasted only a short time. Many wrote to commend this service.

Should this procedure be made a permanent and regular one?

Is the system of marking speed limits according to the condition of the highway, allowing 60-miles - an - hour zones, for instance, a confusing one? Does a speed law which changes every mile or two put too much upon the driver? Would it be better to return to a statewide limit regulated by conditions for safety?

Should a special study commission be set up to seek correct answers to such questions?

Dr. Robert B. Corbett, president of New Mexico State University, .said in a speech recently that a few years ago young men were told not to take engineering because engineers were a dime a dozen. Today, he stated, men trained in engineering are the scarcest and most demanded in our economy. The same situation could conceivably develop in farming. Our population is increasing so rapidly that In 10 years, according to Dr. Corbett, unle.ss the nation is careful, it may wake up and find itself incapable of providing food for that sharply expanding population. Newberry (S.C.) Observer.

a.s hard trying to stay wUhln the Federal income as it did in trying to find new ways to spend money and Increase taxes, It could have made headway in balancing the budget and saving the value of the del lar."Industrial News Review.

An artist confesses he put ten years work into a picture he just sold. Nine of them are said to have been devoted to selling it.Montreal Star.

When the day comes that* the U.S. dollar is a weak currency, and when devaluation and inflation follow one upon another, to a considerable degree, then the strength of the U.S. will be ebbing, and we will have frittered away a sound dollar and much of our power. The wild spenders should keep this in mind in their efforts to arrange for the government to furnish every taxpayer with everything he needs.Bandon (Ore.) World.

If Congress had worked half

THE UNITED WAY

Steel Strike Story Fantastic

By ELMER ROESSNER

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

GODS PRESENTS

A college student who is not very good at spelling recently wTote in an English composition, God Is conspicuous by his presence. But the original statement, though unintentional, is true: God is conspicuous in the world by His presents.

Gods presents are indeed conspicuous in the world. We live .surrounded by them. If we are fortunate enough to live in a place where men have not destroyed the beauties of nature and replaced them with man-made ugliness, we .see God.s presents in our physical surroundings. Majestic mountains, cool and sparkling lakes, fertile greco

fields, rolling forestsall these are Gods gifts. And the lovelier, though smaller, delgihts are his presents toodogwood in bloom, the velvet brilliance of the cardinal, the apple blossoms, the patterns of the frost. These are presents in the truest sense, freely given to us, to be taken and enjoyed.

Even if our home is not in the lovely countryside, however, Gods presents are still conspicuous everywhere. His best gifts, indeed, re not reserved for nature, but are in our fellow human beings. The love of our wives and sw'eethearts-, the loyalty of our friends, the affection of children, the generosity of our parent* -these too are his gifts. Truly. God is conspicuous by His presents.

The effects of the steel strike are fantastic and even incredible.

It may be necessary to rewrite some of the textbooks on economics.

Nationwide steel strikes are supposed to clobber the economy.

Strikers stop drawing wages. Others, such as raihoad workers and auto workers, are thrown out of work. Everybody is supposed to panic a bit and stop buying luxuries. Stores are supposed to shutter, small businessmen are expected to go broke.

But the utterly amazing thing about this steel strike is that retail sales hve shot ahead substantially. Furthermore, merchants arc looking forward *to one of the greatest seasons in hLs-toryif not a new record for October-December sales-

age as 100. On that basis, Industrial production was 155 in June (that Ls, 55 per cent above the average) and 149 In August.

Quite a dip, eh? Yes, but the August, 1958, figurewhen there was no strikewas 136,

We let the steel industry close down, a man cuts off his left foot; the year-to-year index rises. the man runs faster than ever.

Even more curious is the fact that although industrial production dropped from June to August, total retail sales declined very little and remained lor above year-ago rnark.s.

Total retail sales in June were $18.7 billion; in August, $18,1 billion. Back in August, 1958, they were $17.0 billion.

sales were IB per cent higher than in the corresponding, nostrike week in 1958.

In the preceding week, they were 8 per cent under the 1958 figure. That might seem to reflect the strike.

But in the preceding week, the one ended September 5. when the strike was two months old. .-jales were 20 per cent above the preceding year.

Those are mationwide figures; they take in Miami and Pa.sadcna, far from the blasts of the steel nulls.

SPENDING RISES

DEPARTMENT STORE PICTURE

HERE.S THE PICTURE Industrial productiona very important index of prosperity i.s down. The Federal Reserve index considers the 1947-49 aver-

Even harder to believe are the Federal Reserve's depart inent store figures. At hand are the figures for the week ended September ID. la ihol I WMtum W*

' But lets look at the .steel towns.

In the week ended September 19, here are the gains in percentages made in metropolitan areas over a year ago:

Reading, Pa., 4; Scranton, 20; Wilkes-Barre and Hazclton. Pa-, 17; Cleveland. 27: Youngstown. 17: Erie, 26; PltLsburgh. 15; Birmingham. Ala.. 8; Chicago;' 13; Detroit. 31; Buffalo. 17;

and

Va., was minus 1,

There are several explanations as to why, in the mid.st of one of the biggest strikes in history, business has gone ahead so vigorously:

1. There really hasnt been a strike at all.

This can be dismissed as not in accord with the findings of competent observers.

2. Stockpiling in expectation of the strike eliminated layoff.s by steel usrs, such as auto manufacturers.

3. Full employment and overtime to fill stockpiling orders before the strike fattened tlie saving.s of the .striker.s.

4. Strike beneflUs have kept striker.s buying customcr.s.

,5. Unemployment benefKs have helped laid-off workers and, in some states, the strikers themselves.

While those are valid reasous, somehow they do not seem sufficient hy them.'iclvc.'!. Perhaps there is XacUur that