FACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Tuesday, October 27, 1959

Tuesday, October 27, 1959

V

Twenty-Six Nations Turned Backs

Keeper Of The Key

In the eyes of twenty-six governments, a resolution urging respect for the fundamental rights of the Tibetan people to determine their own way of life isnt worth voting for or against.

They proved it last week in the United Xations.

Among the twenty-six nations abstaining in the vote were Great Britain, France and Belgium ... oh yes, India abstained too. V

Of course they were sympathetic for the Tibetans plight: but they just couldnt see their way clear to going to the ballot box for them. Something about not having any right to inteifere in the internal affairs of nations, they said.

Apparently map-makers are playing a mighty role in the course of world affairs these day.s; a bigger role tb.an, say. the voice of integrity.

Theyve got some busy map-makers in Peiping Borderlines ha\e been rather broadly extended, covering some pretty good acreage inside of what was considered Incliairt^rritory.

We understand the made-in-Moscow maps still identify Hungary as a sovereign state; Bulgaria, Cze-chosolvakia and Albania, too. But theres not much evidence anyone really takes that kind of blarney seriously.

Communist China treated Tibet as an independent state, until the joke wore thin.

Actually, the resolution up-^for a vote in the United Nations was a watered-down motion that hardly amounted to a slap on the wrist of the Peiping regime. No chastisement. Not even a worked-up case of public indignation against the iron fist which closed on a helpless people.

Demos Happier

Thari The GOP?

By LYN.V NISBET

ROLLMAN Heinz Rollnian. y^ealthy shoe manufacturer of WajTiesville. has tran.sferred bus allegiance from the Democratic party to Republican registration. Information is that the Democrats are happier about the tran.!er than are the Republicaivs. mainly because of the reasons which he gives for the switch. To undor-ftand the situation, a bit of historic background if= important.

RoUman is a member of a prominent German Jewish family, whose holdings were confLscated and members of hLs family executed in the mad Hitler purge of non-Aryians. He was in .America during that purge and e.'^capcd the fate of his kinsmen. He had little money, but he had the genius of hLs family for busine.ss promotion. He settled at Wajmes-ville and pjTamided a small shoe making business into a world-wide operation, plowing back large part of the profits into promotion and profit-sharing with employees.

RoUmans first essay into practical politics came last year when he ran for Congress from the 12th district in the Democratic primary. He polled nearly 19.000 votes in a field of five candidates, but incumbent George Shuford won the nomination with more thaa 26,000 out of the total of 50.262 ballots cast. When Shuford resigned from the ticket because of health, Rollman contended that since 19,(XX) had voted for him he ought to get the nomination at hands of the cninmittee. The committee figured that since a majority of some 21.000 voters had said they didn't want him. a new man should be selected. The nomination and election went to David M. Hall of Jackson county

BY-PASSED Rollman was by-passed twice by Democrats in his ambition to go to Congre.ss. Once in the primary, and once by the district executive committee. Then he says he felt he was by-passed again by the State Democratic admink'^tration when he was not approved as a member of the industry-hunting safai'i into Europe next month.

So he evidently concluded that if the Democrats dont want him on the team he will offer his services and maybe hks bank account to the Republicans. Of course, he will be welcorned into the Republican party, both for his vole and hks checkbook. It ks doubted that the Republicans w ho have fought the battles against against odds through the years, W'ith hopes deferred for political offices, will yield right of way to a new'comer. however substantial hks bank account.

The Rollman incident is of primary concern only to a few western counties. The principle

involved is applicable to the whole .>tate, with respect both to major political parties and to factions within the parties. Transfer of allegiance, converts to new ideas, if you please, are always welcomed. But there is inherent objection to new re-cruit.s moving in to serve on the board of duTCtors or sing in the choLr. And that is true whether the newcomer ks named Heinz Rollman. Wayne Morse or Joe Doakes,

Despite the pessimkstic view shared by some folks that prestige can be bought with dollars, the record of the Democratic and Republican parties is that all affiliates must prove their allegiance to principles before they can be accepted in full fellowship.

PLANNING How far ahead ks it safe to plan highways? How accurate can highway planners be without full knowledge of what real estate development planners have in mind? Or automobile designing engineers? How can State highway engineers do intelligent planning, or even contemporary designing, when Federal agencies change willy-nilly their requirements for participation?

The present highway commission is hipped on the Idea of long range planning. Count traffic, survey ciuTent use and project needs for roads and bridges before spending any money on construction. Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

What the State planners failed to take into full account was that private developers and Federal engineers also were planning and projecting. Whether any of this planning on separate and independent leveks can be called "real planning" ks questionable. Certainly it has resulted in some dead end expensive highways.

Many miles of highway and numerous good bridges are being abandoned, not because they were not properly planned by highway engineers two decades a-io. but because the highway planners failed to consider what the motor vehicle planners were doing. *

Long range planning has great merit. In view of what ks happening now' in highway building, one wonders if Governors Gregg Cherry and Kerr Scott may not have had a good idea. Their philosophy was that people could not ndc on blue printed plans. So they argued with highway folks to ieave the road where it Ls and fix it so folks can travel over it.

Gregg Cherry once said "What if the road Ls laid out on poor engineering design and ks already oh.soleie. Let the folks use it now, while you are planning a good road which also may be ob.-nlete by the' lime it is built,"

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The resolution meant nothfng to Tibet. It h^ld no hint of hope they could get back any of their lost right.s.

And the feeblcne.ss of the vote (45-9) only empha-,iized that Red China is perfectly free to continue any new violation of Tibetan rights in the future.

U reminds one of Hungary.

The people ro.se up, and almost with their bare hands had worn a desperate revolution again.st their puppet government. The Hungarian army largelvt gave the movement its .silent ble.ssing by being so ineffective as to be unbelievable.

Then the Rus.sians stepped in and reclaimed all with a bloody blow.

Wa.s that too an internal affair in the eyes of the world?

For a long time to come, we su.spect there are going to be averted glances at the diplomatic tables when the words Tibet and Hungary are spoken.

Is India next?

Waldrop Fine Choice As Trustees Chairman

Election of J. Herbert Waldrop as chairman of the Board of Tru.stee.s of Ea.st Carolina College was a wi.'^e move on the part of the board responsible for the operation of the college.

With the announcement Friday by Dr. John D. Messick that he will resign as president of the college effective in January, East Carolina will undergo another transition as a new president is named and begins his duties as the chief executive officer of the in.stitution. While it is important that such an institution always have a capable man at the head of its Board of Trustees, it is particularly important during a period of transition. ./

Mr. Waldrop has proved himself unusually cap-alile over the years in business accomplishments and numerous civic responsibilities which have come to rest upon his shoulders. He served as a member of the board of tru.stees of East Carolina College during the period of transition of admini.stration when Dr. Messick was named president of liast Carolina. Having served more recently as vice chairman of the board and a member of its executive committee, he is thoroughly familiar with the college, its needs and its operation.'?. Over a period of years since his graduation from the college he has exhibited in many ways hi.s intense interest in the growth and progre.ss of the institution.

Mr. Waldrop is to be congratulated on his election as chairman of the board of East Carolina College, and the other members of the board of trustees of the institution are to be commended for their sound judgment in electing J. Herbert Waldrop as their chairman.

By ALVIN TAYLOR

The Doubts

isf Grow

Those rigged television quiz siiows have just about destroyed our faith in everything.

To think that those frowns, grimaces, sweat and tears among contestants were somewhat less than the real thing saddens our heart.

We even begin to doubt if some

of our other favorite TV programs are on the up-and-up.

Take this "Millionaire" program. It wouldnt surprise us if that busine.ss of giving away a million dollars every week were not rigged too.

We Just dont believe anybody would give away that much

money.

ABG Of 'mat

Gourt Question

Other Editors Saying .> ;VIessicks Retirement

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) This ks an ABC on the court struggle between the government and the Steelworkers Union over the question of stopping their strike for 80 days.

Although the government in 16 previous cases has been able to stop strikes by using the 1947 Taft-HartJey Act. the right of the government to do so has never gone to the Supreme Court for a test. This one may.

The Taft - Hartley Act says whenever a president things a strike will "imperil national health and safety, he can try to stop or prevent it for' 80 80 days through a federal court injunction.

The present steel strike, which began July 15, directly involves 500,000 steelworkers and mills which turn out 85 per cent of the nations steel.

In time, as steel supplies dwindled, other workers and in- , dustries dependent on steel in one way or another have been affected. Now an additional 280,-000 men are idle. The longer the strike, the worse the effect.

Kaiser Steel Co. cracked the solid front of the 104-day strike Sunday night when it said it would sign a separate agreement with the union. Kaiser, the nations 12th largest producer, employs 10,615 workers and pro-duce.s about 2 per cent of the nation's steel. The other 11 companies that had been represented by an industry negotiating team said their position will not be changed by Kaisers action.

La.';t Monday President EL'^cn-hower said national health and safety were in peril and ordered the Justice Department to .seek a federal court injunction stopping the strike for 80 days. That began the legal fight.

In Pittsburgh a U. S. dkstrict judge, Herbert P. Sorg, wuthout asking questions of the union or the government granted the request for an injunction. The union then took the next step.

It asked the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to throw out the injunction. The three-judge court held up the injunction-leaving the steelworkers .Ntill on strike until it could hear arguments and decide.

It will give its opinion early tlas week. Unless the union and the milks have reached a settlement, the union or the .govera-inenl will appeal to the Supreme

Court, depending on what the appellate court decides.

Arthur J. Goldberg, lawyer for the union, argued against an injunction on two main grounds:

1. This strike ks not, and will not be for a long time, a menace to national safety and health. It is not enough for the President to say it ks. He must show it. In the end it ks up to the court to decide whether or not the strike is really a peril.

He argued it ks not enough to show the strike is causing economic damage to the country-he admits it ks causing some - so long as the national health and safety, as specified in the Taft-Hartley law, are not hurt.

2. Goldberg argued that the section of Taft-Hartley which authorizes the government to seek an injuqction from a federal court is unconstitutional. Why?

Und#r the Constitution, he said in effect, federal judges are supposed to judge the issues in a controversy betvceen tw'o parties, deciding whos right and whos wrong or whether one side or the other has done something illegal.

The union commiUed no wrong in striking he wpnt'on. It has a right to strike. So, to issue an injunction would make a federal court an administrative, instead of a judicial, agent of the government.

Administrative for this reason: an injunction would not be Issued to prevent a wrong or stop a crime but only to give the government time to try to get bi)th sides in the strike to reach a seltlcmrnt.

Goldberg conicnded thi.s is con-trary to the job of federal courts and therefore uncon.stitutional.

The goveinmenl. through George C, Doub. assistant attorney general in charge of the civil division. ba.sicallv answered Goldberg.s two mam arguments this way:

1, The Pre.Mdent surely ks in a po.sition to know what he ks talk-in.g about when he .says the strike ha.s become a peril to national health and safety.

2. Tall-Hartley, in a ca.se like thus, wa.s inKmdcd to protect the nation liom danlage. And surely, he argued, the government has the rudit to enluvt the help of the court in protecting the nation. He denied granting an injunction Would be an adminustra-tuc act.

(Raleigh News & Observer)

The resignation of Dr. John Messick ks a aerioius loss to East Carolina College in particular and Eastern North Carolina in general. The simple fact ks that he has done a great job in building the college and its service to the area in the years he has headed the Greenville institution.

Not all other educators in North Carolina have always approved of Dr. Messick. And there may be defects in the educational philosophy he has pressed. But most opposition to him has been based on the fact that he pushed in every possible direction the growth of East Carolina College. In doing so he stepped competitively on educational toes in other institutions. Outside the Greater University he was a free wheeling builder of a little college into a big one. The important thing about him w'as. however, that he pushedand pushing was exactly what East Carolina College requii'ed to meet the needs of young people around it.

Maybe now at 62 he has a right to be tii-ed of the "frustrating. . . pressures" which have attended his work in seeking the funds he wanted and w hich he believed his college needed. Still the position to which he is going, working in the national education field on special projects with regard to the teaching of the deaf and the blind, seems important but almost pedestrian in comparison with the procession he has headed in E.C.C.s growth. Relaxation in an easier job may turn out to be frustrating, too, to a man whose chief characteristic was drive.

Still the decision is hks. And it is his achievement that he leaves behind a school which has greatly grown in size and service behind hks drive for it. A successor may improve the college. In a real sense Messick built it.

I..s. POLICY LS PUZZLING (Rocky Mount Telegram)

Felix Montalban is probably wondering just what it takes to

gain appreciation from the U.S. government. A Filipino war hero who served with the U.S. Army in World War H and the Korean War, Montalban has been ordered deported from this counti-y. The U.S. Immigration Service has charged him with being in the U.S. illegally.

But heres the kicker; Montalban served with the U.S. Army Transport Service during both recent wars, fought as a guerrilla in, the Philippines and was a steward aboard an American transport when it was bombed and sunk off the Philippines by the Japs in 1942.

Before the sinking the captain entrusted him with $1(K),000 from the ships safe. He finally washed ashore on an Island, turned the money over to American forces, then went into the jungle to fight as a guerrilla.

He was discharged from an Army ship in San Francisco in 1952 under the McCarran-Walter Act forbidding aliens to work on government ships. "I dont understand, Montalban said, "it was the Army Transport Service which brought me to the U.S. and forced me ashore. Now. I am to be deported for illegally entering the country,"

Well, there are plenty of formei GIs who felt all along that the services w'ere pretty well snofued. Montalban is just getting a delayed dose of that. Certainly the governmenkthe White House, if need beshould look into the Case. Montalban apparently served this nation during the w'ars as well as any citizen: certainly he deserves some consideration.

Too, there are other implications besides Montalbans personal problem. What will Asian peoples think of American treatment of aliens if Montalban is wrongly used? They will see little to justify U S. claims of airne.^ to all. It is ironical; there were Nazis and Japs, branded as war criminals, who received little worse treatment than ks being accorded Montalban. Little wonder he should feel confusedand bitter.

Halloween is almost here again. It falls on Saturday to be exact.

Many of the kids who go from door-to-door will be collecting for UNICEF instead of trick or treating.

The money goes for a good cause so be generous if the youngster who comes to your door has a tag and carries a UNICEF carton.

Quote...

"Tass, the Soviet press agency. has announced the appointment of Alexander L. Orlov as deputy foreign minister. Gauged by what Khrushchev told Averell Harriman of the powers and re.sponsibilities of the Soviet foreign minister, himself, Comr rade Orloves duties will con.sist of keeping the Kremlins samovar boiling and its paper clip trays filled." Detriot Free Press.

Couple of coeds were w'aiting to cross the street at Fifth and Cotanche when a car at one of the intersections cut suddenly in front of another.

"Look at that woman pulling in front of that car, said one of the girls.

"Thats why we get such a bad namewomen drivers, that is."

Theres a new thermometer on the Court House lawn. This one marks the progress of the drive to sell $125,000 in stock in Greenville Industries, Inc.

The money is to be used for the purchase of the Haywood Dail farm about a mile north of Greenville.

Seems the greatest problem industry hunters of this community encounter with their industrial prospects is the high price of building sites.

So the plan is tn buy this tract of land and re-sell it to prospects at a reasonable figure.

Right smack in the middle of this drive Is are the Greenville Jaycees who have a $50,000 quota. Club members are calling on practically everybody in tow'n this week, so lend them a sympathetic ear when they come to see you.

Remember this project might mean unprecedented growth for Greenville.

The Jaycee, incidentally show'-ed their faith in the project by voting as a club to purchase foiir shares of Greenville Industries, Inc. stock.

Now the club members are swarming all over Greenville selling shares of stock.

i ips 1 o A Gooc. Eatery .

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP> - Do you know how to tell a good restaurant from a bad one?

Jan Mitchell, who eats in 11 restaurants daily and samples some 60 food items, says its simplfe.

You can tell the quality of any restaurant." he said, by two things: the cleanliness of the rest rooms and the way the public is greetedby whether the greeting is indifferent, overbearing, or friendly and polite.

He said a lifetime in the food field had convince him a restaurant that emphasized cleanliness and friendly service was pretty likely also to have a good menu.

Mitchell is in a position to know. He operates 11 restaurants here which this year wl take in some eleven million dollars.

Bom in Sweden of a prosperous country family, Jan helped work in the fields at the age of 7,

After study in Swiss hostelry schools, Jan worked his way up from cooks helper to captain. In 1940 he came to America and bought with his savings a restaurant in the nations capital.

Moving on .^to Manhattan in 1950, he bought a German restaurant haunted by the ghosts of such celebrated trenchermen of the past as Victor Herbert, Diamond Jim Brady and Enrico Caruso.

Some people expressed fear over what a Swede would do to a traditional German restaurant," Jan recalled, smiling. But my goal has always been to bring back the good things of other days, without disturbing what is good today."

Last June he took over the wallowing chain of 10 French-type restaurants, is trying a build-up job on them. One of his first steps; remove a 15-cent bread-and - butter charge which for years had annoyed many patrons. Each dayhe covers from up

to 10 miles on foot Mitchell walks from restaurant to restaurant, spot checking personal taste from five to six menu items in each kitchen.

He dften works around the

clock. He attends up to 60 theatrical opening nights a season. Hours later, still clad in white tie and tails, he often prowls the produce markets in early morning darkness, looking for top vegetable buys.

A phenomenal success in a business which has one of the highest mortality rates in industry, Jan says these are the qualitiee most essential to the moneymaking restaurateur;

An endless attention to detail in finding and keeping the best, and a personal pleasure in seeing other people happy and enjoying themselves. You must always keep alert for what is wrong. There never should be a sense of complacency when you serve the public that is your biggest danger.

Chefs average about $12,000 a year here. Mitchell pays hks up to $30,000 a year, complain about the constant need of bringing over more from Europe.

"But not many young Americans are willing to work in a 120-degree temperature at any alary," he said.

THE UNITED WAY

'Lxecutives Gan Save On Taxes

By EL.MER ROES.S.NER

If.s still pos."ible for high-bracket cxecutive.s to save on taxc.s and provide for their own retirenient to gentleman farms, the Executives Tax Report say.s.

For many year.s. the Internal Revenue Service ha.s been tightening up on gentleman farmers. The rules have frequently been rewritten, and borderline ca.ses Inve.stigated.

Only a few years ago many corporation executives were buying country estate.s and calling them farming enterprises. Receipts for puny crop.s wer'e balanced against total operating expenses, including car-operating co.sts. chauffeurs salaries and alcoholic suppliesuseful if the pg got colic. The deficit was called a loss and deducted from other income, which made the operation of the e.state relatively inexpeiv^ive.

The IRS checked into the.se ca-sc.. and tightened regulations, and .some exccutivc.s were re-quu-cd to recalculate their taxes

on the base that a country estate was a country e.state and not an imprudent busine.ss inve.st-incnt.

.SINCERE VENTURES STILL WORK

Huwever, a legitimate effort to develop a farm into a paying proposition is still entitled to tax con.sideration. and the losses before a mans corporate retue-ment can become a source of income aft-erwards.

The prentice-Hall newsletter says the "classic recipe" ks to farm land or a rundown farm. . . hire a competent manager to run "buy up some undeveloped farm land or a rundown farm. . . hire a competent manager to run it for you while youre still tied clown with corporate affali's. Clear the land and till tlie soil. Stock it W'ith cows, horses, chickens or whatever else you plan to raise. Equip U with machines nocc.ssary to piit it on a paying basks "

It i.s probable that there will be an operating loss for a few

years which will serve to reduce income taxes.

OTHER BENEFITS Some of the losses. It points out. will result from clearing land, moving earth and other operations which are actuallj improving the value of the land. By retirement, the farm may be showing a profit, and the cost will be sniall because of the tax savings.

But. the letter warns, "Be careful!" It goes on; "All this Isnt automatic: you must intend to operate the farm profitably and act accordingly. . .A mere hope of profit isnt enough. Your actions must be such to warrant some justification of a hope of profit. You must be serious about farming. If your farm is a mere hobby, you will forfeit your tax advantages."

It offers many suggestions to avoid suspicion; avoid extensive iTcreational facUifle.s; create improvements to reduce expen.scs; employ an experienced farm manager: maintain a .separate bookkeeping system, give con

siderable personal attention: Increase areas under cultivation, and try to show increases in receipts and decreases in losses. LKK REMOVE FROM <OMPUTER INSTRUCTIONS jomi Diebold & Associates, % management consultant fU'Hp in the automation field, lias been establishing a European subsidiary. It has been conducting seminars abroad for European sub-.sidiary. It has been conducting seminar.s abroad for European executives. Those who explained the operations of computers spoke English, which was simultaneously translated into French, German. Swedish. Italian and Dutch. This provided some curious results.

Executives attending were puzzled when lectured on "dlousing the computer. It turned out that this was the w'ay interprelera rendered "debugging the computer, Confusion ended w'hen the phra.se wa.s translated, "taking the little birds out of the computer." Everyone undcrstoocl that.