PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C

Saturday, October 24, 1959

Saturday, October 24, 1959

Even Communism Has Two Sides

A First-Class Citizen Is Leaving

So what can one say when a man like John D. Messick decides to leave town?

In,essence, thats part of the scheme of things involved \vhen he announced his resignation at East Carolina College. Hes bound to be taking up residence elsewhere; and hell be missed on many local fronts. True, the college president is widely known at home and across considerable mileage North, East, South and West as an educator; but we at home know him to be a first-class Pitt County citizen. Active and prominent in any number of roles outside his chosen sphere.

Inevitably, for many years to come, the Messick name will be linked to the period of greatest growth for East Carolina College. Part of this was due to the tremendous wave of desire for higher education that swept America in the years following World War II. In Iat(r years we knew our college was fortunate beyond measure that a leadership was found to help a small teachers college ride the crest of that wave.

The Messick efforts to cope with needs of higher education demands in the eastern counties of North Carolina began almost with his installation as college president. In the months and years that followed there was a notable air of continuous building on the campus. An expanding not only of the physical plant, but A building of a staff and faculty that might serve, and serre well, the needs of a growing student body.

In his statement of re.signation to the Board of Trustees yesterday. Dr. Messick noted that difficulties in obtaining needed appropriations posed one of the frustrations encountered during the past 12 years. That we can understand.

At the same time, however, a-look at the record should prove ECCs record in dealing with the Legislature has been marked by the same sure touch of success as in any other field. The annual operating budget has increased from $1,028,960 to $11,666,850. And should next weeks bond issue be approved, the college will have spent or had approved something

Special Session

Chances Fadina

By LYNN NISBET

NO SPECIAL If there had been any remaining faint hope that an extra session of the 1959 General Assembly might be called, for any purpase, it was dissipated by an observation of Rep. Thomas Turner of Guilford the other day.

Soon after his return from the trip with eight other Governors through the Soviet Union, Governor Hodges indicat-ed considerable Interest in a special session to re-consider constitutional revision and court freorm. The Idea failed to get support of most of the legislative leaders, who felt that a special session to rehash regular session debates would accomplish nothing.

(Many legLslators have confessed that the idea first suggested in this column that the whole constution-court reform issue should have been left to a special session, was sound. They concede now that the issue should have been separated from involvement in taxation matters and other issues confronting the regular session. Agreement could have been had then to limit special session busme.ss to the constitutional changes.)

Governor Hodges and other advocates of court reform could not muster enough support to justify serious consideration of an extra Legislature. Then, w'hen the welfare payments to aged and disabled had to be reduced, some of the legislators who had vigorously opposed a special session for constitutional matters, began clamoring for a session to increase allocations to the welfare department. Advocates of an extra session for the purpose suggested a gentlemans agreement to limit consideration to that issue might be obtained.

WIDE OPEN That any special session, if called, will have a wide open agenda was indicated by Rep. Turner. He was quoted as saying he thought it would be a fine thing to rectify the welfare mistake at a special session and while the legislators w'ere at it, they would rectify some other mistakes, including the withholding plan and the mall raise for teacher pay.

REPEATERS Another reason why sentiment is not sti-ong for a special session is the prospect that an unusually large number of legislators will be coming back for the next regular session. It may well be that when full impact of 1959 legislation hits after January 1such things as

income tax withholding, point system for auto drivers, etc., vigorous opposition may develop to incumbent legislators. As of now, however, there Ls less indication of turnover than usual at this stage. This appraisal is supported by testimony of the candidates for Speaker who are trying to contact aU present members for support in case you come back. It also is bonie out by reports of other scouts who are checking on prospects for new mqnbers who might be, or not be. in sympathy with particular programs.

Furthermore, and despite the fact that Rep. Clifton Blue of Moore, chairman of the finance committee and one of Addison Hewletts staunchest supporters for Governor, has advocated an extra session, majority of the Hewlett folks fear that such an event could not help their man and might prove a serious handicap in his race.

BOND ELECTION Governor Hodges is shooting for 400,-(KX) to 500,000 votes in the bond election next Tuesday. He admitted to newsmen that he would be very happy if that many people turn out. However, he has no fear about the net result of the ballotinghe feeLs sure all nine bond proposals will be approved by substantial majorities.

The Governor voiced appreciation, in the same of the State, for the fine job newspapers, radio and television media have done in publicizing the need for the bonds. He was slightly concerned about use of one word and asked the newmen^to emphasize its real meaning. He said a man up west the other day protested that so much money was being spent for improvement of the capitol. That was because in every instance the bond ballot read for or against Capital improvement bonds at colleges, hospitals, and other institutions. Of course, that has nothing to do with the State capitol buildings and facilities which constitute the investment of capital (money) at the institutions.

The Governor stressed, too, that the bonds if issued will not call for any additional taxes, ad-valorcm or indirect. Money to pay interest and retire the bonds as they come due has been included in budgftiwhich is balanced. That of course doesnt mean the people will get the facilities for nothing. It just means bond retirement has been provided within the regular budget.

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close to $12 millions for capital improvements during the past twelve years.

Aside from a continuing role in area, state and national education activities, the good man has found time to serve a wide field of more local services; as

A bank director, as a Boy Scout official, as a Red Cro.ss official, as United Fund chairman, as a member of the board of stewards of his church . . . and when the community turned to him for help, Dr. Messick did what he could.

The Daily Reflector (and in this we believe we echo sentiments of many people) deeply regrets the loss our community and surrounding area faces in the resignation of ECCs president.

At the .same time, knowing full well what he ha.s given of him.elf to Ea.stern Carolina, we are deeply conscious that his dep'arture must be met with as good a face as we are able to muster. The new field of work he has awaiting him is something he wants to do . . . what he calls a new challenge with a new emphasis.

The right man for the right job here at East Carolina College will, we know, find equal success in his work of the future.

Something Terribly Wrong In The System

Theres something terribly wrong with our system of justice when a man is kept on death row for 11 year.sand seven time.s in that period told his day of execution was set, then to he suddenly told another reprieve was at hand.

The cause of justice is certainly not lieing served hy the pattern of events dogging the trial of Caryl Chessman since his conviction on counts of kidnapping, robbery and rape.

His case has been up for a small multitude of hearings anti appeals (granted on one pretext or another) which inevitably failed to convince his listeners that Chessman deserved anytliing but the maximum punishment the law allowed.

Last week another of those futile hearings was granted by Governor F]dmiind G. Brown of California. Technicalities aside, the Governor concluded as others had done before him, evidence of his guilt is overwhelming.

So again the prisoner was told he had to die. and Friday was set for his execution. Once more Chessman made his final arrangements . . . asking his ashes be scattered to the four winds and giving his attorneys rights to dispose of his life story for whatever it might bring.

Meanwhile, lawyers a.'ikod Justice Douglas to grant a stay of execution. Douglas turned it over to the Supreme Court, and the retjue.'^t for a stay was granted. Chessman is to file a new appeal by November 3.

The why of it we do not understand.

We grant there can he no casual approach to the awesome power of our laws to demand a criminals life as the price for a great crime. But the discernment of error in judicial proceedings should not justly require eleven years, ten years or even five years on death rdw.

A multitude of men have died within months after conviction of lesser crimes.

'(ennan Droanec.

Bv HENRY HOWARD

Odd Tastes For A Dog

His Olc.

WASHINGTON (AP) George F. Kennan would be just another ex-diplomat, lost in reverie, except that more than anyone he symbolizes in an ironic and dra-and is calling for fresh thinking, in dealing with the Soviet Union.

Twelve years ago he fathered an idea which has been American policy ever since: Prevent Soviet expansion by ringing her with military bases and alliances. This was the so-called containment policy.

It was followed rigidly by both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, , without basic change. And now this rigidity irks Kennan who seems to be shying away from his brainchild and is calling for fresh thingking.

Where once Kennan was for stiff-arming the Soviets absolutely. now he is for making concessions to them in order to get concessions. The American dilemma simply comes down to this: Is this the time for a change

The world was different when Kennan had his idea in 1947. or. rather, the relative pasitions of the Unit^ed States and the Soviet Union were different.

Then the United States had a monopoly on the atom bomb and wa.s soon to have the hydrogen bomb. The Soviet Union had neither. The Soviet then wore even said at the time that the Soviet Union, in relation to the West, was weak.

The story is far different now. The Soviets have both the atomic and hydrogen bombs. It may be ahead of this country in missiles to deliver them. It Ls de-fiiiilcly years ahead of the United States in space development.

It has made astonishing progress in science, education, industry. It can no longer be considered weak. W'hat did Kennan hope to accomplish with his plan?

By holding the Soviets tight, he thought, weaknesses might show up internally or changes for the better might occur. In one sense, changes for tlie better have occiuTfd.

Stalin died within tho.se 12 years. His successor. Premier Nikita Khrushchev, has relaxed controls a bit in the Soviet Union, has called for peaceful co-exis-t-ence. but at the same time made it plain the Soviet Union u. conscious of its power

Sowhile the United States 12 years ago was able to put pressure on the Soviet Union with, impunity and without fear of disaster, this Is no longer true. Mo.scow now has the power to apply pres.sure and make ihc Allies back up. a.s it showed by deliberately creating the Berlin crisis.

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As he watched the changes occur. Kennan began to talk in a new way: of making a deal with the Kremlin so both sides could pull back their troops in Europe; of neutralizing Germany; of abolishing all nuclear weapon.^.

In short, he says, we are no longer strong enough to gel our way without compromising with the Soviet Union.

He accuses the Eisenhower administration, wliich has acted as stiffly toward the Soviets as the Truman administration, of being stilted, cramped, and inflexible in its thinking.

He was a prophet once. Is he .till one? To follow hi.s thinking now would require changes in American policy as profound as those set in motion to carry out his containment idea.

For example: Putting the containment policy into operation the military bases and alliances nieant thus country broke with iLs past, ended its Isolation, and got up to its neck in the affaiis of the rest of the world.

The country as a wliole Is forever uneasy about relations with the Soviets, wants some solutions. but us wary and hesitant about cliange.

Ju.st because it Is, the Soviets under Khrushchev have been able to take the initiative not only in dealing with the United States but in Communist relations with the rest of the world.

Kennans old boss, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. was and is for the status quo. as was his successor, the late Secvetary of State John Foster Dulles.

Any move toward dropping Kennans old ideas for his new ones will not be made quickly* or easily.

This puls Kennan in th^ lonely position of looking like a prophet who changed his religion.

In our neighborhood lives a little creature with the most energy (whether nervous energy or not one couldnt say), the most curiosity, and the darned best eyesight ever.

Her name is Scotty and shes a dainty, little terrier. It seems like they call her a wire-hair or maybe its fox terrier. Anyway, shes a cute little booger and almost bursting with, what is apparently, the boundless life of youth.

Shes an excellent mouthpiece to have around the house, since her extraordinary alertness can. and does, detect the slightest of movements within the radius of something like a mile or so. Shes an excellent watchdog.

Her personality is astounding. Also, some of her physical attributes amaze ob'^ervers. Occasionally, she has the general appearance of a regular caine in fact, when shes in the yard, she even digs holes in the lawn. Then, again, shell take to the air as surefootedly as a moun

tain goat.

She climbs furniture as nimbly as any mountain creature ever created or born. She prances easily and light-footedly upon the smallest or highest piece of her interior environment.

In her climbs, Scotty usually is in quest of some small object shes spotted from the carpet. Most generally, the object is a paper napkin or some other piece of scrap paper (boy, how she loves to EAT ptiper).

Thats right, she eats paper by the ream. It seems to be nutritious, too, since Scotty is never di'oopy. Paper must really pack the energy.

Yes sil-, Scotty Ls quite a dog. Maybe she could be called unorthodox as canines go. Its a point of wonderment how in the world a dog can progress in Scottys manner. Most canines turn out to be doggy, this little ball of energy often seems nearly human.

Last night,* we were sitting

Other Editors Saying Who Pays For TV?

around watching TV, and it suddenly struck me why little Scotty can spot a fly on the screen door across the street.

Perfectly aware that the little terrier had an appetite for paper, cabbage, watermelon, black pepper, feathers, peanuts, tinfoil, and even dog food (from the can she suddenly came tripping in from the kitchen, hoWing her midnight snack daintily in her teeth.

I later learned this was a daily regularity with Scotty. For her eyesight, the dog eats raw carrots!

Opinions In Brief

Parents pay for every day their child spends :n .^chool. and if not parents, then other adults. Is it honest to iiide the.se facts? Is it good for children? If their world should collapse, they would be forced to begin all over again, earning for themselves the privileges we now -SO glibly describe as rights and the job would be slow and tough.Tulsa Tribune.

(Henderson (Ky.)

Gleaner and Journal)

i'ooling with rigged television quiz shows Is a fraudulent and deceptive practice but not an illegal one, according to John C. Doerfer, Federal Communications chairman. Well go along that far with Doerfer and the P^CC. It would be difficult to pass laws governing the content of tv programs without endangering our right to freedom of speech.

We do. however, take exception to his statement that the homeowner does not pay hLs way into a tv show. (To follow this line of thinking, has he therefore no right to expect the show to be honest?)

There are ways that the home owner does pay his way into a tv show. He pays from $100 to $400 for his set, and he pays upkeep on it. including the costs of electricity to run it. If he has a set worth $150, he pays nearly .50 cents a day for a year to amortiz.e his investment. If his set Is worth $300, he pays that amount for two year.s. He also contributes to the cast of producing a tv show when he buys the advertised product, for the advertiser pays for the time the .show is on the air in proportion to the number of viewers the

show has.

Compare this to the cost of a newspaper. The so-called homeowner pays less than Jive cents a day for his newspaper, yet he feels that his five cents entitles him to deal with the newspaper as a public service cr public utility. If five cents buys you a new.^paper office, then fifty cents Should buy you some protedion against fraud on a television'pi-gram.

We dont know where we should search to find out the cause for the shameful practices of the tv show producers and the tv contestants in the manner of hoodwinking the public and the advertisers, but we do know that something should and shall be done to eliminate this type of thing from the air waves. Crookedness in a few programs has cast doubt upon all programs of the type.

Barnum said there's a fool born every minute and the side shows of the circus prospered.

We do not believe, however, that the advertisers are fools enough to go for any more rigged programs. Maybe the public would still buy thembut surely the advertisers who foot the tv bill directly wont tread the same path twice.

The Lord certainly must love people. In spite of ail the reck-les.s driver.s, the population con-tinup.s to increase.Pike County (Ga.) Journal.

Government is like cars or housesnobody would be .satisfied with the kind they could afford.Columbia (S.C.) Stale.

3ig Air

Supply

System

By SHELBY SCATES

OKLAHOMA CITY, (AP)-For want of a nail the battle was lost, cracked an 18th Century logician who knew his business.

Two centuries later, Ben Franklins hardy maxim remains sound.

During 15 years of Cold War the Strategic Air Command has pushed toward the ultimate in a worldwide supply system.

Before the Cold War nuts, bolts, nails and ammunition could be stashed in a warehouse and dismissed until the outbreak of hostilities.

Changed Nowaday!

But nowadays, as far as the SAC supply situation is concerned, we might as well be at war, explains a ranking SAC officer,

SAC bombers are constantly on training and alert flights. Aii-craft parts must be replaced, planes modified, changes made. It calls for a centralized, flexible system of supply,

The SAC keeps most of its supplies at nearby Tinker Air Force base. The task of buying and Issuing those supplies 1s carried out by the Oklahoma City Air Material Area (OCAMA).

Sixteen per cent of the total United States defense budget Ls disbursed through OCAMA most of it on SAC supplies.

The organization charged with procuring and dispensing these items is based on mechanical and human brains and air transportation.

Stored at Tinker are 400,000 different items needed by SAC B-52S, B-47S and KC135 jet tankers, ranging from 15 cent bolts to hundred thousand dollar jet engines.

Thousands of orders pour in by radio teletype each day, some from the other side of the world, some from just across the Tinker runways at the SAC modification center.

If the part is needed to keep a SAC plane operational, it Is located, packaged and sent on its way within 36 hours.

Data processing machine.? working four times as fast as human brains define the location of the item in an OCAMA warehouse. Human hands and conveyor belts do the rest.

If the priority item is to be shipped outside the country, the Logair division takes over.

The goods are conveyed onto cargo planes and sent winging toward their destination, Logair hauls nine million pounds of supplies from here each month.

To keep Air Force records in order, each of these supply transactions and inventory change.? must be recorded.

For this task OCAMA has a mechanical memory.

Banks of electronic data recorders are housed inside a square brick building, air conditioned and lint free.

In a matter of minut^ these machines can furnish specific information on supply transactions. In addition, they can reveal evey detail concerning the Air Forces 6'2 billion-dollar engine inventory.

Andy Bloom, a civilian, heads the data recording section. He sums up the radical change in thL? modern supply system:

Ten years ago the Air Force was lo.st trying to keep up with these inventories. Now, with the electronic machines and organization were ready for anything.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

DREADFUL OBLIVION

An innocent man was released from prison recently. He had served six months of a long sentence for manslaughter when someone eLse confes.sed to the crime of which he had been convicted.

Wiiy was he imprisoned for a crime he did not commit Accused by the police of strangling a woman, he had offered no de-fer.se, stating that oa the night of her death he had been too drunk to remember anything and that, for all he knew, he might have killed her.

It is a fine thing that justice had at least been done to this man. But what a frightful demonstration of the destructive power

of drink! The killing of another person is about the worst crime we know. It Is almost incredible to think that anyone could allow himself to be so oblivious to his own actions that he would not know whether or not he had killed someone.

Different people have different ideas about why they are in the world and what the purpose of their lives should be. But no intelligent person, whatever his religiou.s faith, believes that he should drug himself into a state of unconscious irre.sponslbility where he may injure or destroy his fellow men without knowing it.

Even the lowest estimate of human dignity makes up responsible for knowing what wt are doing.

Ho New Yule Sales Peak Siahtec,

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THE UNITED WAY

By ELMER ROES.SNER

Sorry I

There will be no new spectacular high mark in Christmas sales this year. The total may come close to the record last year, when December retail sales totaled $21.1 billion. It might even inch a bit higher. But the chances are the aggregate will be .somewhat lower.

Thi, prediction is made in the face of the fact that Christ mas totals have regularly set new highs as long as this column ha.s been written, and de.spile the fact that the total of retail sale.s for the fii'st eight montlis of the yearJiave been running 6 piM' cent above corresponding months of 1958,

It 1.S also made in face of tlie fact that longshoremen are back at work and that there is an interlude in the .steel strike. RKA.SONS FOR NO-GAIN FORE-CA.ST

The basis for this foreca.st i-s that total income has been falling for the last two months albeit sliglilly-and that the spend

ing public is a bit uneasy.

This uneasijies.s Ls caused by the labor situation. The 80-day freez-e.s on the steel and longshore strikes simply raise the specter of renewed unemployment ju.st around tlie Christmas season. Would yon contract to pay fur a new car for your family or buy new scooters for kids if you expected to be hack on the picket hues in January

Or It you are in an upper bracket and SURE you are! would you be buying Trinidad or Palm Springs as a gift for your guT friend Not with today's ugly strike situation transferred to January

With longshoremen, .steelworkers. auto workers and other's back at work for the next two inontlis. total personal income, should rise, and industrial wages are certain to be fat. But \vth tlic passibility of troubles ahead, optional purchases will be deferred. as the profe.s.sor.s say. .4nd optional purcha.'^es lake in a lot of Christmas spending.

Sorry, but Ive said it. Some

thing may happen in the next 61 days- But unless its trend-reversing. look for a December sales total of about $20 billion. Thats better than 1957, under 1958,

OTHER L00K-A1IE.\DS

Here are more reasoned forecasts;

Mail-order crackdown, Fereral agents are working on some cur-ioiLs mail promotions, and a swirl of indictments may cbme soon

Orion carpeting push. Nylon has been making slow headway ill rugs and carpels, now du Pont Is expected to get behind a heavy push for Orion,

Broiler trouble. Low prices for broiler.s ls spreading financial troubles in the chicken-growing areas. Expect; a rash of bank-ruptcie.s; rising demands for Federal aid; a bigger promotional push behind chickens.

Castlicr copper. Prices have started i:p in foreign markets; that alwa.vs meaas a firming of piice.s in the U. S. A,

More gold. lu color, that li.

Use of gold color anodyzed to aluminum might, at first glance, seem garish. But somehow, American housewives seem to like the idea, and there will be a rash of housewares with the yellow glitter.

OLD PROMOTER PLANS A REACTIVE SCALE

Theres no psychology to the family bathroom scale, the Old Promoter remarked when he dropped in for his weekly rat-killing visit today. You get on and youre up or down, as the pounds may be.

Im working on the psychological responsive scale. It records your last weight and. when you step on again. It shows the poundages in glowing pink figures, if they are less. If more, the figures are in a somber blue. But if the weigher shows a real drop, an arm reaches out and gives an approving pat on the sfatlng apparatus.

Sounds Interesting. Hope the old fellow finds somebody else to finance his product.