PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Monday, October 19, 1959

Monday, October 19, 1959

Great In War, But Heroic In Peace

The ranks of Americas World War II military The world can do with more such military men; leadership were again thinned with the death of Gen- the kind that are strong in war and heroic in peace, oral George C. Marshall. Not a great many of the Old Guard are left.

You Boys About Ready To Come Up?

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Fame and honors w ere won by most of our wartime heroes in actual combat, but this was not the fate of General Marshall. His role was that of build-

ing the fighting machine that had to win, and help KPClCStllH plan the grand strategy for victory in the greatest * ^ struggle mankind had yet known.

His role was not spectacular, but Marshall earned the profound respect of Americans and "Americas allies. Three Presidents who knew him. saw in the man an element of greatness that overshadowed many who might likewise be called great.

The military figure of recent history does not fit the traditional picture of a man whose whole being is wrapped up in the fighting and winning of wars. Rather. the men who have had to send pther men into battle, to suffer and die, are today among the forefront of those who stri\ e for peace. General Marshall was one of these, and at a critical time in world history conceived a great plan toward insuring free world stability and i)olster the cause of peacei'

In war and in peace the General won admiration and affection. l)ut it was in his laboivs for peace that he will be bo.<t remembered.

Surely the God of our Fathers has a very special place for the man who gave so much of himself to build a better world.

Also Sees Big Air Power Losses

Disclosure that the U. S. Air Force has lost 3,471 pilots and 7,062 planes in accidents since 1950 is a sobering reminder of air powers cost.

.\dd to those the losses suffered by the Navy, Marine, and Army air arms, and you have a replacement bill that runs into the billions of dollars.

There are factors other than accidents which necessitate a continuous fhnv of aircraft from the manuiacluring plants. Obsolescence and everyday wear and tear, are two such causes.

industry Hun One Year Later

The Air Force deputy inspector general for safety, Maj. Gen J. I). Caldara, who gave the accident-losSi figure the other day in Chicago, says the accident rate is declining. In fact, it has been reduced from 44 ma-jor^^ai:iiiiients per 110,000 hours of flying time in 1947 to 9.3 in/?1959.

GuPSt writer today. Wade Luca.*;. C & D Public Relations.

LOCAL EFFORTDepartment of Conservation and Development industry developers are citing what they call The Rockingham area a little more than i year ago following the closing there of the big Safie textile plant. Some 1.100 workers were left jobless. A sui'vcy made later by the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina showed there were about 4,000 unemployed in the immediate vicinity of Rockingham.

Leaders in the community literally rolled up their sleeves and began to do something about their area's piight.

They sought the help of Governor Hodges and the Department of Conservation and Development's Divusion of Commerce and Industry in their efforts to create more jobs in Rockingham. AH possible as.cistancc was given at the State level as the Rockingham people began to show by deeds as well as words that they were cleterniined to help themselves.

They realized that industries are not to he had just for the a.sking. They also realized that, a.s Governor Hodges has so re-jieatedly said, at least 90 percent of the efforLs made to secure an Industry must be made at the local le\el. They knew that the C^D Division of Commerce and Industry is a service organization whose personnel endeavor to help all North Carolina instead of what might be termed selected ares.

What, then, has happened in the Rockingham area in a little more than a year as a result of the coordinated efforts to do something to bolster the economy of Richmond county in particular and that of the State as well?

James Billings, executive secretary of the Rockingham Chamber of Commerce, sheds light on what has happened there .''iiice July. 19.58, by reporting that in the past 15 month.s there have been eight new indu.*'trial developments 111 the Rockingham area.

Significant, too. Is the fact that from July, lt.58. to July. 1959. the annual industrial payroll in Rockingham increased from $7.8.52.040 to $9.498,497.

Of perhaps even greater significance Ls the fact that the Rockingham people realize their area need.s more indu.'<trial payrolls and they are exerting every effort to bring them to their section.

A good example was brought Into sharp focius a few dav.s ago whpn It became known that a new industry indicated a dc.*^ire to locate in Rockingham and that $2.5.000 had to be raised among the people to supplrnient a loan from the Small Businr.'^.s Administration to provide for the new plants needs in the old Safie Mill.

App;-oximately ino pei.^ons

subscribed not only the $2.5,000 needfi;^'. but $.500 additional in a campaign lasting only eight days. Only six of the subscriptions were for more than $2.50.

EXAMPLEGovernor Hodge.s the Department of Conservation and Development, and other State agencies, which continue to give wholehearted cooperation in promoting further industrial development of North Carolina, have stressedthat communities must really work hard if they want indiustries. Efforts being made to provide more jobs in industry and thus provide a better balance between agriculture and industry.

Last year capital investments in new and expanded manufacturing plants totaled $253.074.000 an all-time high.

It is no accident that North Carolina leads the entire South in the number of workers employed by industry. Its 480.000 workersTexas had 473,000last year produced a wide variety of proQUCts having a value of $7,-40ti,0(K).000.

Many of the Stales communities have able and alert industrial development associations and others arc planning to organize. There are eight area industrial deiclopment groups at work. They embrace 66 of the States 100 counties. Chambers of Commerce, utilities, banks, and other agencies are assisting in carrying on the industrial development campaign which is a major part of Governor Hodges program.

They work closely with the Department of Conservation and Development and other State agencies in idustrial development nromotion. Some of these a.*;so-ciations have gone into other statc.s in quest of new industries and to tell of the over-all advantages their areas and their State have to offer.

There are growing indication.s that the.se industrial development groups are better prepared now tlian ever before to tell inquiring or listening indu.;trialists what they have to offer industry. More and more towns and cities are keeping up-to-date and attractive brochures handy to give to site-seekers and to those they think might be interested in locating plants in North Carolina.

The Rockingham Story is quite indicative of what is being done at the local level. It .shows what can be done if people of a community really want to help t hem.se I ve.s.

nie State, through it.s Department of Conservation and Development. Employment Security Commission, Department of Labor. Department of Agriculture, and other agencies, will contunie to provide e\ery service possible to assist the.se communities in their industry-seeking efforts.

That the.se efforts are paying offand will continue to pay off a.s time goes on are shown by some of the figures In this article.

Such rf.sults are eneoura^nni^, but there is also the I cmindeiVttrat9America has an impressive task in replacing its u^d-up aircraft and the skilled men who have lost their lives in keeping our defense on the alert.

Laudable Police Work In Solving A Robbery

Those who followed the trial of Emory Joseph Roux in Pitt Superior Gourt last week could hardhv help but he impressed by the thorough job of inve.sti gating and compiling evidence which was done by the (jireenville Iolice l.)epartment with the aid of State Bureau of Investigation and Federal Bureau of Investigation officials.

By HAL BOYLE

' Oddities

.round In Mai.

Starting with a matchhook cover found at the scene of the $28,000 jewelry store robbery in Green-

NEW YORK (AP--Things a columnist might never know unless he read his mail:

A report put to the U.S. Senate says that as a people we are growing older faster than we are

ville, local police did an outstanding job of building a only probably true nationally, but solid ( ase against the man whom the P"BI has termed it substantiates regional doubts one of the most expert safe crackers in the country. our own neighborhood and lo

It took many weeks of intensive work by law enforce- figures say only 3

ment officers to track down and catalog the evidence preseiited in court last week which brought the conviction of Roux.

The thin thread of evidence with which local law enfortement officers had to work after the robbery was discovered might have run out entirely had it not been for the perseverence of the investigative team and the thoroughne.'^s they exhibited in piecing to-^gethcr the fragments of information and clues available. Had it not been for their attention to minute details and endless hours of effort, the case might well have gone into the records of one of the major unsolved crimes.

Police Chief S. G. Gibbs and tlie members of the Greenville Police Department are to be commended for their work in connection with the case.

million Americans w'ere over 65 in 1900; by 1970 it will be 20 million.

The fellow we gave our opinions to yesterday today shows the usual old age signs of nongratitude.

The mattress has no known father in history. The Romans enjoyed it 300 years before they traded republicanism for dicta

torship. At different times mattresses have been stuffed with reeds, hay, wool, feathers, and uneasiness.

Do you have trouble in readings a menu? Singer Polly Bergen is said to own more than six dozen pairs of eyeglasses but rarely uses them. Have you ever met anyone with weak eyes who had 73 excuses for not saying hello?

Our quotable notables: As I grow older, said Andrew Carnegie. the steel master, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The responsibility of fathering one child at a time grays many a man with duty. Here are the odds of multiple daddyhood; quintuplets, 90 million to 1;

Other Editors Saying ... Would Honor

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Higher larins : Not An Answei

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By RALPH ROBEY

Mo.st frequently mentioned .solution to increasing foreign competition is an upward revision of our tariffs. That could be of help to some industries, but it Is not the correct over-all answer. There are various reasons for taking this position.

First, except in the case of individual commodities, the problem does not arise primarily from too many imports. Granted the number of these competing commodities is growing and will continue to grow the answer, nevertheless, must be found in more, not less, imports. In .<;omc instances it may be proper, perhaps necessary, to make an upward revision of the tariff, but that argument must be left to the individual industries im-mediatelv concerned.

Foreign Trade Benefits

Second, the greater the volume of foreign trade, the better it Is for both the United States and the world as a whole. Raising tariffs reduces the volume of foreign trade, and places other nations at an increasing disadvantage

Fhnaliy, as the leading creditor nation of the world, it ls not proper lor u.s to be a high tariff country. We mn.st be able to niT'et our international balance of payments deficit in some other manner.

How can we enlarge our volume of exports? That will require a lowering of our prices, and that means we must reduce the co.st of production. Two step.s are e.-sential lo reduce the cost of production.

Fir.-it. we must give every possible incentive to American firms to modernize their plants and in-.tall the most efficient machinery.

Second, we must bring to an end the habit of raising waee.s

every year. It is not necessary, and certainly it is neither economically possible or desirable, to reduce wages. But if we start to hold wages steady, and eliminate feather-bedding, there will be a margin by which many prices may be reduced. This will not be true in every commodity, but it can occur in enough instances to strengthen our position in international trade, and confer great benefits upon the American public.

This is not merely a matter of holding wage increases to the growth in output per manhour. When wages are raised by that amount there Is no leeway for management to reduce prices. And since lower prices are essential if exports are to be enlarged appreciably, we must follow a policy which makes pos-.*;ible and encourages the lowering of prices.

Will Increase Purchasing Power

Such a program on wages will be opposed by labor leaders. This will be a serious mistake on their part. Holding wages steady does not mean that labor will not continue to improve its po.*;!-tion. Quite the contrary. With the same dollar wage and lower prices, there will be an increase in the real purchasing power of the wage.s -not just more dollars which buy less and le.ss.

Simultaneously, of course, our government must continue working with other nations to get them tu eliminate, or at least reduce. the tariffs, quotas, and other hindrances to the importation of American goods. There is much room for helpful accom-plLshment in this field.

This covers only the trade part of our international problem. Equally important is the financial a.specl. That will be covered next week.

(Henderson Dispatch)

What Governor Hodges' future political plans and ambitioas are we do not know. He has been rather tight lipped about ir, and naturally so. Its perhaps the better part of wisdom at this stage of the developing campaign.

But there is not the least doubt in our mind that if he were on the national Democratic ticket for vice-president he would honor the parly and would be a wiser and more capable candidate than some who have been in that position in recent years, in either party.

Few men could be found who would be more energetic in pushing the party program. That has been abundantly demonstrated in his manifold and tireless activities as chief executive of North Carolina the past five years.

We have not always agreed with all his policies. We wouldnt agree with everything any official in his position would do. Most likely there are few who would. But he has conducted his office in a manner that cannot but ccnvince analytical minds that in most instance.s he knows where he is going and is on his way.

Hodges as a vice-presidential candidate need not be a worry for the party. What is of greater (oncern is tlie possibility of put-ting a man at the head of the ticket who would be a wild-eyed leftwinger; and chances at present are that one of that calibre may f.cht his way to the top in th*- Democratic convention next summer.

North Carolina has achieved a status in the Union that merits

recognition on the pan of Democratic leaders. Reasons for this though could be enumerated, but are quite well known wdth-nut it. Nor ran it be denied that Governor Hodge.s has made powerful contribution to that achievement since he became governor.

Governor Collins of Florida may have been speaking from the standpoint of courtesy out of coiLsideration for the host to the Southern Governors Conference in Asheville this week. But there was probably more to his remarks than that. It is not far fetched to as.sunie that he was sincere in saying he was for Hodges for vice-president on the Democratic ticket next year. He could have been speaking more wlely than he realized. He has had ample opportunity to assess the quality of the Hodges leadership since both have been in their present positions. He was at least justified in his stand.

The Governor impresses us as being a middle of the road public official. One farther to the right would suit us better, but Hodges is not by any mean.s a violent leftwinger. Perhaps he could be regarded as a progressive with the brake.s on a popular expression of some years ago.

Without the least Idea as to who may be the vice-presidential nominee., as good a guess as any could be that he won't be more fitting for the spot than North Carolina'.s chief executive. And this is said with the reiteration that we still do not agree with everything he has .sai(l or done in that office.

quadruplets 900,000 to 1: triplets 9,000 to 1, and twdns 90 to 1.

Women call for room service more often than men, according to a survey by the Hotel Edison here.

It now costs $47.000 to train a general practitioner in medicine-far less than it does to locate one by phone.

St. Davids Episcopal Church at Cheraw, S.C., has been used as a a hospital in two warsthe American Revolution and the Civil Warand has the veterans of eight wars buried in its graveyard.

Some doctors predict that if the normal life expectancy reaches 100 years, women will outnumber men five to two.

That would be too many too late. One can only hope that a male of that vintage will reward them with a bright remembrance and a deaf ear.

It Is said that;cience has perfected a new atomic clock that w'ill either gain nor lose a second in 1,000 years. The fellow who built it aw'aits his criticis.

Papal point: Pope John XX-III, a hontiful man, told a friend, In the days of Pius X the , people said of him. H e may be a pope, but he Is a fine figure of a man. Of me, on the other hand, they say, A fine figure of a man he is not. but he has an honest face.

The Schick electric razor people say that U.S. men remove .500,000 miles of whiskers daily. Whir-r-r today, where tomorrow? Urgent geographical bulletin: Word has just reached me there Is positive proof that the western tip of Virginia is farther west than Detroit. See you local map.

Memorable signs of modern times; This one over a store selling frozen foods said, Best food you ever thaw'.

It was Thomas Wolfe w'ho observed: There Is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

Opinions !n Brief

The peace and pleasant living of North Carolina is threatened by the influx of outside industry. So said two speakers at an A.sheville convention. We know what they mean, for a few harsh samples already have come our way. But of deterioration sets In, we believe it will be due to failure of Industry to learn its lesson. The State magazine.

jurope

3uilds.

3oom.

By ROGER BABSON

STOCKHOLM, Sw'edenLast night I sat in the lounge of the Grand Hotel with represetatlves of prominent American corporations who were here in the beautiful city of Stockholm to spend the week end. Their chief subject of discussion was what will happen to U. S. labor as a result of increasing imports from Europe.

European Industry Booming Every one of these men Is leaving tremendous orders for machine parts which wiU be sent to the U. S. and assembled into consumer products now being manufactured in the United States. They classify all the way from bicycles to motorboats, with automobiles, of course, leading the way. Surely new autos made in the U. S. will not stop the flow of new cars coming from Europe. Today I saw a new Dau-phine car selling in Paris for $835 (with U. S. models priced from about $950$1100). (These xre Renault built).

Not only are the European Common Market and Outer Seven countries competing with the United States, but they are competing with each other to give our U. S. manufacturers both higher quality and lower prices. These European manufacturers pay eighty cents to one dollar per hour for skilled male employees, who apparently can do the work just as well. Executives who would secure annual salaries of $25,000 per year in the U. S. receive only about $5,000 here in Europe. They, moreover, are very able men.

More Modern Machinery Being Used In Europe It is not only a difference of w'ages, but also of spirit and ambition of the workers and of the models of the machinery used. Recently. I had dinner in Halm-stad. Sweden at the lovely home of the Swedish manufacturer of razor blades for the Schick -Eversharp Injector razor, which I personally use. He is making and wrapping these blades on new high-speed machines not yet introduced in the U. S. Incident-holm, the newest passenger ship now sailing the Atlantic Ocean, was constructed in Italy, furnished in France, all with money raised in Sw'eden.

Many in the U. S. think that Europe has no labor union.s. This is not tiue. All the countries have labor unions and, I am told, this even applies to Russia. The fact al.so is that the labor leaders who operate these unions are intelligent and reasonable. They ^are sometimes government appointed. These union.s are subject to the same laws and taxes to which the management associations are subject.

The main differentie between the European unions and those in the U. S. is that labor leaders and union members in the U. S. appear to have very little interest in either their employers or the consumers who are to use their products. In Europe these labor leaders and member* are anxious for their employers to make fair profits and for the consumers to enjoy their products. ThLs difference is the main reason why U. S. manufacturers are buying so many parts in Europe to put into products tc sell m the U. S., and are even making the entire producs to sell in Europe to put into products to sell in the U. S., and are even making the entire products to sell m Europe and various countries abroad.

All these . S. manufacturer.s who are visiting Europe at least Wiose whom I meet are griping against our State Department in Washington. They claim that our State Department is even rude to them, telling them that if they cannot compel# with Euiope in manufacturing costs they had better sell out** and retire from business.* Of course, what our manufacturers want is higher tariffs. Our Stalo Department tells our U S manufacturers that such higher tariffs would eventually result in World War III.

Large merchandiser* such a* Sears, Roebuck & Co. are making big profits importing finished household product* from all European countries and ako from Japan. They want tariff* kept low. They praise our State Department for their present stand. Therefore, my conclusion is that present tariff relations will continue and will result in much more unemployment in the U S. This, however, should teach us all a good lessonboth wageworkers and employers; It may be a blessing In disguise.*

Greater Impact By Tight Money

By ELMER ROESSNER

Housing starus and plant and equipment expenditures will be cut back much further than pre-vioiLs appraisals indicated.

The reason: the tightness of money.

The U.S. Treasury found it necessary to offer 5 per cent to raise $2 billion. True, it could liave raised $11 billion; it received tenders of that amount. True, much of purchase.s were only a .switch from le.ss attractive Federal securities. True- and thus is very importantthere are no more governmefit bonds floating around at that interest rate.

Nevei thelesa. if bonds guaranteed by the full power of the United States uill pay 5 per cent, why. should an investor lend his money for 6 per cent on a mortgage guaranteed by nothing more than a hou.se and a lot and Joe Doakes ability to earn the payment.s'.>

And why should an in.sitution lead money at 6. 7 ur U ptu' cvui

that intere.st?

WII.L SLOW DOWN THE BOOM

Tho.se. of course, are rhetorical questions. The grim facts are that lenders will insist on much higher rates. And rather than pay them, prospective homeowners and expansion-minded corporations will be cautious, and purchases will be postponed.

Thks.'many experts will say, will actually lengthen the pre.senl boom. So it will. But it will immediately cut back the kind of expansion that has to be financed with borrowt^d money.

Here are more look-aheads in business, based on smiilar analy-.es:

Little change in commodity pnct's. Several factors are at work holding prices at pre.;ciil levek. The steel strike, no le.s.s than the high cast of borrowed expan.sion There are few .4hur-money, is limiting binne.s.s expan.sion. There are few shoj-ta;'e\. some .snip lu.se.*. Dnr-inv the .sleel .strike, purcha*ei'.s kive btta able lo lia# uy good

tions.

reduced demands for consumer goods slightly, dampening prices of things that go into them. Little change can be expected before late winter or early sprin.K.

i.ABORS BACK IS UP

Tougher labor negotiations. Management's firmness against lavish pay rises and continuation of featherbedding practices is having a countervailing action on the part of labor.

In the many contract negotiations running from now until midsummer, labor leaders will take iuni stands not so much in favor of featherbeddingwhich p. an unienable position - but in Job protection, which amounts to (lie same thing. The argument will be that automation must not u.sed to make workers idle, their families hungrv.

OIJ PROMOTER OFFERS .MANY INVENTION IDEAS

The Glcl Promoter made a per.'onal call today, bubbling ever with ideas lor new lavelF

What this country needs mo.st of all, he said, is an attachment that automatically pla.vs background music when you answer the telephone. If youre selling something, aweet and restful music should play. If you ar complaining about merchandise. there ought to be martial music to stir fear in the person called. Or there could be a clatter of typewriters a* background for a business call, or waltz music if youre calling a girl What else?

"This country need* a lawn-mower that Is powered by combustion of the gra.ss it cuts. And a lipstick that applies Scotch plaid colors. And a standard typewriter with an automatic ribbon changer: all you have to do,la to drop a ribbon in a chamber and pre.ss a button.

Now if you have *omt idle capital lying around

It was at that point, I guess, that hl> voice became faint. 1 ,*;wfar I didn't hear another word, fuiLU'e buy*. The sUike* bavi

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