MCE FOUEFHE DAILY REH-ECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Thursday, November 12, 1959

Thursday, Kovember 12, 1959

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Cranberry Case Seems Ill-Handled

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Thanks^'izx^ without cranberries will come as almost as great a shock to many Americans as Thanks-gi\iiig without turkey, but there is no doubt now that many cooks will break with tradition this year and have turkey without the cranberriea.

The statement Monday, by Arthur S. Fleming, secretary of health, education and welfare, that some of the nation's cranberry crop may have been sprayed with a weed-killing chemical that causes cancer in rats sent the cranberry industry into turmoil. Chain stores snatched the product from their shelves, cranberry producers shouted for the scalp of Fleming and at least one leader in the cranberry industry has said he js considering asking the government to reimburse his company for one million dollars, calculated to be the lois caused by Flemings statement

Although no official statistics are available, there are probably several million American women still debating whether or not to include cranberries in their traditional Thanksgiving Day meal.

If Secretary Flemings statement did nothing else, it succeeded in scaring the daylights out of a good many people. It succeeded in turning the cranberry industry upside down, and it created almost instantly a situation from which the industry may never fully recover.

Perhaps equally important h the fact that Secretary Flemmings statement left unanswered many

questions concerning any possible relationship between cranberries and cancer.

The trickle ot information that has come forth since the statement says that only about 10 per cent of this years crop may possibly be contaminated by the chemical spray. The Information further says that the chemical used to spray weeds in filds in w'hich about 10 per cent of the crop is produced caused cancer in rats over a two-year period.

Certainly it is the responsibility of Secretary Flemming to warn the public against any major threat to their health. Certainly contaminated foods should be removed from the market. On the basis of information so far available, however, it seems that the cranberry industry is justified in its complaints about the manner in which Secretary Flemming handled his announcement.

What the Secretary had to say about possible cancer-causing contamination apparently applies to at most 10 per cent of this years crop and that comes from a specific area. The other 90 of this years cranberry crop is not involved. Because of the manner in which the announcement was made, however, and the lack of full information at the time it w'as made, the thought of cancer will be irrevocably connected with cranberries in the minds of many people.

And the cranberry industry will suffer because of

it.

.Mot DisrnQy6Q Bensons New Farm 3y Bond Foiluro Program Not Answer

By LYNN NISBET LIVING HISTORYDr. Chris Crittenden and his associates in the Department of Archives and History were naturally disappointed at failure of the proposed quarter million dollar bond issue for historic restorations. But they are not disheartened. They are going ahead with all of the projects for which the bond money was intended, and some others which were not included.

Completion of restorations W1 be delayed in some instances, Dr. Crittenden said Plans ior immediate development of htstonc museums at the Charles B. Aycock and Zeb B. Vance birthplace sites must be indefinitely postponed. Projects at Bath and Old Brunswick Town will have to wait awhile for full development. It will be neces-sarj to cut down for the present on plans for Alamance Battleground and Town Creek Indian Mound and several other projects.

But dont get the idea. said Crittenden, that present curtailment and deferment means abandonment. We are going ahead with more determination than ever to make the people of North Carolin conscious of the value of living history as a cultural and economic asset.

Dr. Crittenden would not concede that failure of the historic site bond election might prove to be a good thing in the long run, by stimulating more local government and private participation in these projects. He did agree with the prediction that publicity incident to the bond election would make it easier to get local cooperation in future developments.

People are learning that history has appeal for tourist and vacation travelers almost equal to scenery and recreational facilities. Witness Mount Vernon. Gettysburg, Williamsburg, Old Salem, Tryon Palace, Lost Colony., Unto These Hills and Horn in the West,,

CASH VALUE A survey of the travel business made by Dr. Lewis Copeland, a recognized authority in that field, for the Travel Council of North Carolina, puts a price tag value of $360 million on tourism in this state. Of that amount out-of-state visitors pay $218 million, in-staters pay $142 million. A more significant figure is the estimate of $723 million gross receipts of businesses catering chiefly to the travel tradeincluding tourist and commercial, instaters and foreigners.

The difference between the $.360 million directly attributed to tourism, and the aggregate of $723 million receipts of bus-, iajesse^ pjlmarlly serving travelers, ^represents the income for communities w'here tourists spend money for incidentals other than related to travel. But that amount does not include shirts or stockings bought at de-partment stores, money paid to

doctors and hospitals for emergency services, exchange fees on bank checks cashed, telephone tolls and many other incidental items, most of which are paid in the communities where the tourist attractions are located.

So it is. that while many people think the people of the whole state made a mistake in voting down the historic restoration bonds, the opportunity remains for communities to pick up the tab for development of local projects, both as a pub* lie service and as a good investment in a profit-making venture.

lu that connection it is recalled that a wise man in the Deep South once said: A Yankee tourist is worth as much as a bale of cottonand is a lot easier to pick. And an oldtimer in the Bat Cave-Chimney Rock sector is quoted as saying he trapped fur-bearing animals in the winter and tourists in the summerand made money out of both,

SYMBOLThe white carnation, without which Governor Hodges would not be caught in public, has become almost a symbol of North Carolina. Other chief executives have been addicted to boutonnieres. Governor Hoey nearly always wore a red carnation and Governor Scott a red rosebud. But they didnt look as undressed without floral adornment as does Governor Hodges. If they couldn't get a natural flower they went without. If Hodges cant get a natural, he pins on a plastic job.

Time was when a sort of mythical lanky figure with a peaked gray beard, wearing a star - bedecked frock coat and tight - fitting striped britches, known as Uncle Sam, was a recognized symbol of the United Slates, Long after that same time a rotund fellow the crossbars of the Union Jack across his chest and called John Bull was the symbol of Great Britain. And a lumbering bear standing on his hind legs represented Russia.

The familiar figure of Uncle Sam was displaced by the elongated, pearl embossed cigarette holder of Franklin Roosevelt. And John Bulls belly yielded to Churchills cigar, and the bear that walked like a man gave place to Stalins big bowl crooked stem pipe as the symbol for Russia.

The picture of the capitol building has been the most commonly used insignia to represent North Carolina until four or five years ago. Lately most of the State advertising and other publicity has featured Governor Hodges with the big white carnation in that role. There is very little printed material about North Carolina that does not feature a picture of Governor Hodges and a picture of the Governor without the carnation is unthinkable.

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From a thumb-nail sketch of the new farm policy President Eisenhower and Agriculture Secretary Benson will offer Congress next year, it appears another effort by Benson to to carry out his pet themes that have been rejected more than once by Congress and by farmers.

If Secretary Benson fails in this try, it will likely be his last, for President Eisenhower will not continue in the White House in 1961 even if the Republicans should win next Novembers election.

Although the proposed farm program is not a duplicate of what Secretary Benson has proposed before, it follows much of the same idea of other farm proposals brought foj;th by the administration in recent years. One key point certain to be pounced on by farmers is the suggestion that price supports on storable commodities be based on market rather than parity prices. Farmers showed their dislike for a similar propo.sal earlier this year and Congre.ss rejected it.

It is unlikely that next yearwith a national election close at handthat a Democratic controlled Congress will be in a mood to accept a Benson proposal that it has previously rejected. It is unlikely that the farmers will show any morp enthusiasm for these new proposals of Secretary Benson than they have in the past.

Unless the Democrats undertake to write their own farm program in Congress next year, the farmers will have to get along with what they have now% or accept an expansion of Benson policies for which they have indicated little appetite.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Which way Rockefeller?

Its no longer a question of whether New Yorks Gov. Nelson A Rockefeller wants to run for president thats plain enoughbut whether he will try to shake loose from President Eisenhowers shadow.

To put it briefly:

1. He can be a me-too contender, agreeing with what the Eisenhower administration has done at home and abroad,

2. He can try to come up with his own ideas, even if it means differing from Eisenhower and criticizing the administrations performance.

Right now he is simply trying to see whether he has any chance at all against Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960. Nixon has had years to line up the pros on his side.

But Rockefeller is working hard at it. He has made a speech-foray into the Middle West, ducked in and out of New England, been interviewed on TV, and soon heads for the Far West, Nixons backyard.

Since Eisenhower has twice won overwhelming endorsement from the voters, it might seem politically sensible to ride his coattails with the me - too line.

Thats a course Nixon wll almost be compelled to follow since he has been so actively identified so long in the public mind with Eisenhower and his administration.

If Rockefeller took that line, too, then the race between him , and Nixon would be reduced to a personality contest and not a choice between ideas and views.

At this moment Elsenhower is taking a hands-off attitude toward these two top Republicans. He is expected to campaign vigorously for the one picked to be the party candidate.

Rockefeller could hardly look forward to over-exertion by Elsenhower on his behalf if he sought the nomlnaUon by criticizing administration policies. Besides, the Democrats will make that their main theme, anyway.

Theres another side to this, of course. It is questionable Eisenhower would have much influence in getting a Republican elected as his successor. He himself won overshelmingly in himself won overwhelmingly in

But three times in 1954, 1956, and 195A-he pleaded with the voters to back him up by giving the Republicans control of Congress, Each time the

Democrats won.

So far Rockefeller has shown signs of independence, of not wanting to win under cover of the Eisenhower mantle, although its too soon to say how far he will pursue this course.

Rockefeller has at times assumed an aloof attitude toward the Soviets, although he met with Premier Nikita Khrushchev on the latters formal visit to this country.

He has gone further since by warning the free world it may become a patsy for the Soviets if it increases trade with the Soviet bloc now. Eisenhower and Khrushchev discussed the possibiility of such increased trade.

The United Slateson Eisenhowers order has Joined the Soviet Union and Britain in suspending nuclear testing while they -tried to work out some fool - proof agreement to ban such tests altogether.

Rockefeller, unimpressed, recently came out for test resumption. Whether or not Rockefeller appreciated the support he got, former President Truman shortly afterwards called for a resumption of the tests, too.

A plea Rockefeller made this week may cost him some friends in organized labor. He asked that management and labor for at least a decade abandon any idea of a 30-hour work week in order to increase American production.

In the same speech, delivered Monday, he proposed increased defense spending. He said this at a time when the Elsenhower administration wants to keep spending down.

This may indicate Rockefeller has decided, win or lose, to walk down his own road. Its too soon tosay how far he is willing to go in this direction.

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By ALVIN TAYLOR

^Lven Hat-Eatina Riaaec,

Rigging is so commonplace these days.

First the shocked citizenry of the United States learned that their favorite television quiz shows werent all that they were cracked up to be.

Nbw we learn that Sec. of Labor James P, Mitchell ate his hat after saying he would do so if unemployment exceeded 3.-000.000 in October.

But did he eat a genuine felt

head piece?

No sir. He chomped on a fedora made of cake.

We dont wish bad luck on any body, but it looks like cranberries, of all things, are going to take the heat off tobacco.

The government has recently pointed an accusing finger at cranberries grown in certain areas. Seems a possibly dangerous weed killer was used on the

crop in some states.

An Associated Press story said the drug fed to rats over a period of two years caused cancer of the thyroid.

Tobacco Interests can sympathize with the cranberry folks since cigarettes have been on the hot seat for years.

Oh well, more cigarettes are being sold than ever before. We suspect cranberries will weather the storm as time goes by.

Other Editors Saying .. Labor Court Not Needec

(Henderson Dispatch)

When Congress gets back to Washington in January, and even before then, there will be all sorts of crackpot suggestions as to how to deal with such emergencies as the steel strike, now temporarily halted. The flow of fantastic ideas has already begun.

Cme of these Is^by Senator Smathers of Florida. He would set up a powerful new agency with five members to have jurisdiction over all national industries. It would be resorted to when collective bargaining fails.

'This would be just another step toward government dictation to and. in the final analysis. substantially the operation of, the naticais business. There would be only a thin dividing line, if that, between this and price fixing. It would restrict the rights and functions of both management and labor, and leave both with little authority unless they could minimize their differences and get together before bureaucrats barged In on the scene.

If present agencies are Impotent. why not strengthen them? Why not make the Taft-Hartley Act more applicable to grave crises? Or the National Labor Relations Board, or even the secretary of labor, or the President himself, could exercise the pow'er. If delegated to them, to overcome such threats as contained in the steel strike.

There Is a conslderaWe school of thought which holds that the steel impas.se would have been checked had the President acted before he did and before both sides became so hardened In their attitude that they could not retreat or make concessions and at the same time save face.

A new and all-powerful court such as Senator Smathers sug

gests could conceivably make bad matters worse. That would certainly be possible unless the utmost caution were exercised to name personnel who would be absolutely unbiased and who would lean neither to the right nor to the left. Such selections would be difficult, but not impossible.

Stalemates such as that which has developed in the steel strike pave the way for creations by Congress as are now and will continue to be proposed. Congress and the country might assume the attitude of a plague on both your houses. 'That would be tragic and a blow to free enterprisefreedom, that is, for both capital and lalK>r. The best way to avoid such a crackdown Is for collective bargaining to proceed on a reasonable basis. Apparently it hasnt In the current instance. The damage may have been 'done to the extent of offering, and maybe even enactment, of unwise and menacing legislation.

It seems to us that sufficient authority exists already somewhere in the labyrinth of big government, or that if it doesnt that such could be provided without a czarist agency which could constitute complete control over the nations economic structure.

We would regret very much to .see further restraints and restrictions Imposed upon the free enterprise system. Already it is hemmed in too much. 'The best weapon for assurance against such things would be for man-' agement and unions, freely and on their own initiative, to find a common ground satisfactory to both sides and for the good of the country as a whole. We cannot envision a powerful new labor court as providing the answer to the dilemma.

The Optimist Club is sponsoring Youth Appreciation Week here this week which seems to us like a cracker jack idea.

The week originated in Charlotte five years ago and has since been adopted as a project of Optimist International.

American youth, like any segment of the population, is made up of all types of individuals. There are geniuses, dopes, and plain old average youngsters.

Then there are those who behave in such a manner that they obtain the attention they crave and at the same time earn the fancy title of juvenile delinquent.

This last group is small in number. But they make a lot of roise. Thus it often seems as if there are more of them than actually exist.

We doubt if Youth Appreciation Week was designed for the juvenile delinquents. Rather it should be a time to pat on the back the millions of youngsters across the nation who are working toward becoming good citizens of tomorrow.

Opinions In Briei

Congressmen used to send people seeds to help them grow things. Now they send them pay for growing nothing. Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call.

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By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP)Remarks that hospital patients get tired of hearingor overhearing:

Just between us, Joe, why dont you quit stalling and get back to work?

Is that all the bigger yours were? My cousin had gallstones as big as bens eggs.

Now, remember when we get insideno matter how he looks, tell him he never looked better in his life.

The gossip in the corridors is that your surgeon left a sponge in somebody the other day.''You been feeling particularly thirsty?* This little pill is to help your appetite. This little pill is to help you sleep. This little pill is to balance your hormonal anxiety. And this little pill is"

Oh, dont worry about your hospital bill now. Youll have plenty of time."

Of course, youve got only yourself to blame. If youd only taken proper care of yourself, the whole thing wouldnt have happened.

Why not look on the brighter side? After all, they cant take out your gall bladder twice."

Your nurse seems like a real friendly person. When does she get her old age pension?"

Boy, you ought to see the nurse the guy down the hall has. What a knockout!"

Before they take you upstairs for the operation Id like to cheer you up on one point. I went over your life insurance policy with your wife last night, and everything seems to be okay."

Hi, Joe! Seen any interesting bedpans lately?"

Your friends can bring you all the bourbon they want, but you cant drink it here.

Dont worry about your job. The boss is letting Fred do your work in his spare time."

You know I admire your wife. Even in a period of trouble such as this, she can still go out and have a good time."

Strength For Todav

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

Many of us recall the amazement with which we learned that during World War II all sorts of nervous disturbances on the part of multitudes of people in Great Britain died down noticeably as the bombings proceeded. It seemed that the more pounding the tight little island got, the better mental health the population enjoyed. There wa, said to be a marked decrease in insanity. Millions of neurotic people seemed to forget their troubles and conflicts as they busied themselves with all sorts of helpful tasks and waited each night for the planes to come over again.

It may very well be, may it not, that many of us are continually trying to commit suicide by filling our minds with poisonous thoughts, and that the one thing which above all others makes us nervous and neurotic, is the habit of continually thinking about ourselves. Try to imagine what a shock the body gets as the result of hou^s and hours of brooding over our troubles. Think how fixation upon grief eats the very insides out of ones mind and soul. 'Think what a dither we can get ourselves into thinking of the injuries and slights we have had to endure.

One good bomb from the sky and a rush to underground shelters would be horrifying. But at least we would forget , qur troublesand ourselves as the greatest of all our troubles.

'PAT'iM

Under legislative commitments already made, we are headed straight toward a budget of $80 billion or more in 1961. Budget Director Maurice Btana.

Parents who, through bad example, indifference, or lust for worldly gain, Inflict upon their fellow men the scourge of vicious offspring deserve to feel the sting of public indignation and to face legal and financial responsibility for the criminal acts of their children.J. Ed-7 gar Hoover.

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Speaking Softly, But Stick Big

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By ELMER ROESSNER

The United States, speaking softly but carrying a big stick. Is persuading nations around the world to lower barriers against American goods.

In recent days, Prance cut restrictions on imports from the U. S., Canada and Western Europe, England has lowered its curbs on imports from tU countries except Communist nations and Japan; Japan has promised to lower bars on Imports from dollar nations. Earlier. Germany, The Netherlands. Italy, Denmark. Australia. South Africa and Nigeria reduced restrictlohs on imports.

These actions have largely been In consequence of Indirect pressure by the United States, Foreign nations have received hints that the U. S. might have to raise its tariffs unless more American goods were sold abroad.

WHY AND WHEREFORE.

The U. S. action was to protect the gold supply.

Americans have been sending more dollars overseas than have been flowing back for

American goods.

In 1958, $3.4 billion more flowed to foreign countries than flowed back into the U. S.

This year the deficit is expected to be $4 billion.

The outward flow consists of money paid for imports from foreign countries, money spent abroad by travelers, military payrolls abroad, money given or loaned to foreign countries, money Invested In foreigh countries, and money sent abroad as Interest, dividends, gifts or other payments.

Payments of General Motors dividends to an English Lord, Social Security checks to a retired couple who returned to their native Apennlne town, the money spent by a GI in a Frankfort brauhausall these contributed to the American deficit. REDUCING GOLD HOARD

One of the most serious aspects of the continuing deficit is that It drains the U. 8. gold supply.

Under international conventions. foreign governments and their central banks can get gold for their American dollars

which is more than you can do. chum.

Money spent or sent abroad eventually finds its way to central banks. Some of it is used for the purchase of American goods, or for financing foreign travel here, or for ^investment in American enterprises or securities.

But the difference between what goes out and what comes back is the U. S. deficit and that can be taken out in gold, although not all of it is.

In consequence, the American gold supply has been ateadlly declining.

The total Is now under $19.6 bilUon, compared with more than $20.6 billion this day last year. It waa $24.6 billion in 1949.

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS ,

This drain could be halted in many ways. The Administration could embargo gold, as It has done In wartime. It could increase the price of gold, as it ' did during the depression. The first step would remove the gold backing of dollars held abroad; foreign holders would have to

spend their dollars to make sure of getting value for them. The second step would wipe out part of the value of the dollars.

But cither of those actions would strike at American prestige around the world. It would be similar to going into bankruptcy, and dragging our friends into bankruptcy with us.

An alternate step has been taken. For years, the U. S. has given tacit approval to foreign trade barriers. Ours was one of the few economies to come through the war In healthy condition. We wanted our friends and allies to restore their economies and we did not object to tariffs and other restrictions to protect them.

But now that most of them are strong again, we have acted to encourage the lifting of restrictions. Businessmen and perhaps our diplomats have dropped grave hlnU that unless the way Is cleared for more export sales abroad, there will be a movement in this country to fence out foreign goods.

The hint is being taken.