PAGE FOUnTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREEFfVILLE. N. C

Friday, NovamVer 13, 1959

iVidfy, November 18, 1959

Desecration

Too Eager To Accept Inferiority?

The idea apparently held by a good many Ameri- Also to be taken into consecration is the fact that cans that the Soviet educational system is superior to the Soviet students sent to the United States for display that of the United States has been conveyed again by have been carefully hand-picked in Russia for that the student newspaper of the University of Missouri particular purpose. They have been well schooled front where 12 Soviet students have been visiting. their early days in the Soviet philosophy as well as the

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Says the student newspaper, the S viet students given an intensive refresher course concerning

are making monkeys out of their American collegues. ^nqgj-ican and Soviet policies, history and government American student minds here met the Russian minds structure before they made the trip to the United and were defeated," the newspaper reported. States. i c uu icu

The conclusin apparently was based on the fact Perhaps some few Soviet students are much better

that Soviet students were much better informed on informed in this particular field than the mass of Soviet policies, both foreign and domestic, and in some American students. On the other hand, it is also a good instances American policies also than students at the bet that tjie United States could hand-pick and train Xniversity of Missouri, In this day and time when a small group of students'that could more than hold manv Amercans seem eager to concede that the Soviet their o\vn against the dozen Soviet visitors, system of education is superior to our own, the basis When the Russian Sputnik sailed aloft, there was

used by the student newspaper seems to be sufficient a sudden cry in this country that the event was absolute grounds for making such a concession. proof the Soviet educational system was developing

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every child . . , not just a selected few. Our system of higher education is open to all, not just to those who prove themselves to be well above average in intelligence.

Sixth Year O::

hodges i enure

By LYNN NISBET

BIRTHDAY Because immediate interest was focused on what Governor Luther Hodges and his coterie were doing in Europe to promote the economic development of North Carolina; and secondary interest was centered on who might succeed Hodges as Governor of North Carolina, a significant anniversary was overlooked by captol news reporters.

Last Saturday, November 7, 1959, was the fifth Birthday" date of the Hodges administration. He succeeded to the governorship on November 7, 1954, upon the death of Governor William Umstead. He filled out the term to which Umstead had been elected, and was lected for a full four year term in his cwn right in 1956, w'hich wille x-pire January 1, 1%1. If he completes that term he will set a record for tenure under the constitution of 1868. His tenure already is the seoond longest.

Tenure honors to date belong to Thomas J. Jarvis, who as Lieutenant Governor succeeded to the top office on February 5. 1879, when Governor Zeb Vance resigned to go to the United States Senate, was elected for a full term in his own right in 1880 and served until January 21. 1885 a tenure of five years, eleven months and sixteen days.

The story of progress in North Carolina during the five year regime of Governor Hodges is amazing. Comparison of conditions between the Jarvis and Hodges administrations gives a picture of the fantastic development of North Carolina.

Take the three items of public roads, public schools and public welfare for examples.

SERVICES AND DOLLARS Hoads, schools and welfare are the services which most intimately affect all the peopleand the services for which now more than 85 cents of every tax dollar collected by the state is spent.

In the 1880s, the Jarvis period, the State spend no money at all on public roads. That was entirely a local responsibility. Reconstruction had stopped the plank road and railroad development. Last year the State of North Carolina collected and spent on public roads more than $15 million, plus millions inore collected by the Federal government from North Carolinians, and a part of which was remitted back for highways.

Records in the Department of Public Instruction and other State agencies show that in 1880 the total expenditure for public schools. State and localmostly local was $396,000. The legislature of 1881 ordered the State Board of Education to sell about $200,000 worth of bonds and distribute the fund to the common schools. Last year the State appropriation for public schools was In the neighborhood of $175 millionexclusive of bonds for fid to school buildings owned by the counties.

In 1880 the only State supported institution of higher education in North Carolina was the University at Chapel Hill, for which a token appropriation of a few thousand dollars was made. Since then there have been developed State College at Raleigh, Womans College at Greensboro, strain on total assets than the Western Carolina at CuUowhee, Appalachian at Boone. Pembroke State College at Pembroke (originally Indian) and the ftve Negro institutions North Carolina at Durham. A&T at Greensboro, and the teacher training colleges (now with broadened curricula) at Elizabeth City, Fayetteville and Winston-Salem.

From an appropriation of less than $50,000 for higher education in the Jarvis regime, the State of North Carolina has moved to approximately $25 million a year for operating colleges and universitiesplus investment of half a billion in buildings and wjuipment.

WELFARE Public welfare is an elastic and embracive term. It involves, in addition to the benefits to old age and disabled personsabout which current furore is being raised, but also the extensive and ex-oanding services of general public health, mental hospitals and so on almost ad infinitum. For these services, which were not regarded as State obligations 80 years ago, the State of North Carolina is now paying more than fifty million dollars a year out of tax money collected from its citizens.

COMPARISONS Comparisons always are odious, and generally meaninglessunless all the conditions are taken into account. Taxes collected from and spent for the people of North Carolina are several hundred times more than what they were in the reconstruction era of the Jarvis administration. They are more than ten times the amounts collected and spent in the depression era of 25-30 years ago. In some brackets they are more than double the amounts allocated just five years ago, when Hodges came into office as Governor.

CONTINUITY All of which means simply that progress and development in North Carolina has been continuous, and fairly consistent, through the years from reconstruction until today. The $396,000 spent by State and local agencies for public schools in 1880 probably meant a bigger strain ont otaJ assets than the current $175 million State allocation for the same purpose.

It is much easier to get comparative figures for 1953 and 1961 than to get them for 1881 and 1961. But they do not have much more significance, and at the rate North Cnrolina is growing the 53-61 record may look like first grade stuff when butted against the 61-69 reportwhich is yet to be written,- )

educating their youngsters better than we are.

The point A that we fail to look at the entire picture. We are prone to pick tiny specks of the overall picture and say, Well, this proves it again.

On the whole, unfortunately,-were falling for this Soviet educational bait hook line and sinker. If they can persuade us to believe their educational system is superior to ours, they will persuade us to believe their citizens as a whole are more intelligent than ours. And if they succeed here, they will soon have us convincing ourselves that we are Inferior in every way , . . and then theyll have us where they want u.*?.

Its time we stopped selling oorselves short educationally and otherwisenot overlooking our own shortcomings, but not magnifying out of proportion what the Soviets them.selves are accomplishing.

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It is difficult to imagine that Americans, individually proud of their individual freedoms and adamant ^ friend, who would probably in their assertions of the.se freedoms would suggest dLalnd told

that they are slaves to anyone. of a wreck he had a year or so

Some members of the Steelworkers Union showed which never got in the their resentment this week for the back to work order

by wearing arm bands that proclaimed USW of A Seemi thia man made a short

Ikes Slaves. The steelworkers themselves didnt be- iSto'TwW^wlc

heve the message conveyed by the arm bands, else they , ^ ^ xu ,

would have stayed away from their jobs just to assert hyant^n*^the* cSmer their independence and exercise their individual freedoms. The people of this nation who saw the arm bands thoughteverybody^'^down town and read about them didnt believe what they said be- heard," he said, cause they know that Americans are free to work or But he pulled his car into a not as they please and exercise all the other privileges parking space and got out. Lucki-

of free citizens of a free society.

, ,, 1 . attention to it except one lady

In all probability, however, people of some for- who stopped at the hydrant as the

eign lands particularly those behind the Iron Cur- driver walked up.

tain will believe the propaganda approach which The hydrant was undamaged

"They sure have, replied our friend. "Here, Ill just take this piece of chrome and throw it in my car.

With that he got in his auto and headed for a garage and repairs for the vehicle.

Today, of course. Is Friday the 13th and everybody knows what that meansbad luck all day!

will be taken to the incident by the Soviet government.

We could hardly expect Moscow officials who have haSng^rom *lt. ^ preached to their captive audience the sermon of Wall Look, said the lady to the Street capitalists enslaving the American workers, of driver, "Somebody has hit this official Washington being overlords against the will hydrant- of the American people, to pass up such an oppor-

If this has been an unusually unlucky year theres a reason for it.

There have been three Friday the 13ths during 1959.

The first one came in February. The world had hardly recovered from that one when they were hit another. This one came in March. Weve had a rest since then, but here comes November and another such day.

Last year wasnt half as bad. There was only one Friday the 13th during 1958.

And the prospects for 1960 are much better, A look at the calandar shows one Friday, 13th. In case you want to make your plans early, the hard luck day comes in May of 1960.

But for 1959 there was just no avoiding them. Friday the 13th just came too often for the average superstitious soul.

Oh well, if it werent that it would be black cats or ladders in your path.

By FRANCES LEWINE

WASHINGTON '(AP) Maml# Eisenhower, who will be 63 Saturday. has managed to keep a private life of her own during tha seven years she has been in th ^White House.

By the time her birthday rolls around next year, her successor as first lady will have been named.

Prom all Indications, Mamie wont be sorry to relinquish the role-

She has not sought, as Eleanor Roosevelt did, to be a national figime in her own right.

Nor, like Bess Truman, has she openly evidenced dislike for the social and public appearances that go with being first lady.

She has kept her own public appearances to a minimum. She never makes speeches, she hold no news conferences or press interviews and accepts few outside Invitations.

Her unofficial White House comings and goings are not disclosed.

During the Elsenhower administration, the traditional White House social season has been whittled down and finally was eliminated entirely this year.

This elaborate entertaining for Congress, Supreme Court, diplomats, military and officialdom once brought thousands to the White House for receptions and formal dinners. It probably wont be revived in the remaining years of the Eisenhowers tenure.

For the entertaining she has done, Mrs. Eisenhower has gained a reputation as a gracious hostess at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. She charms guests and visitors with her ready smile, just the right inquiry, pleasantries and flattering comment.

Ceremonially, Mamie has appeared with the President and has gone out on her own for such things as the christening this year of the atomic-powered passenger-cargo ship Savannah.

Beyond these public and emi-public appearances, though, the world of Mrs. Eisenhower Is private.

Secrecy and security have been employed through the years to give Mrs. Eisenhower some privacy. Everyone from chauffeurs to chefs at the White House is under a no-talking rule.

Mrs. Eisenhower has found &

fire whistle atop City Hall. We spotted a truck at Third

and Evans St. yesterday on just such a run.

Someone had seen smoke coming from a car parked there. The truck was called by telephone.

incident.

make propaganda gains by thi., American SOyinQ ..

7oo Easy On Robbers

As a steel company spokesman in Wheeling, W. Va. said concerning the arm bands, the union members are free to w^ork or give up their jobs as they see lit. Certainly the matter is not that simple, but at least the statement gets down to the brass tacks of the situation.

The fire fighters pulled a smoldering quilt from the front seat of the car and extinguished it with water from the trucks tank.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

It may startle some of us to realize that bank robberies now

with minor police records. Obviously, then, the punishment meted out to these criminals had no effect whatsoever, or

They also had to extinguish the smoldering front seat of the car which had caught from the quilt.

Best guess was that a cigarette started the re.

In seeking to express their own side of the story. outstripping those in the

fhp tpphvorkpr^ hnvp affnrHpd fhp rnTnmiiniq+ nrnnn generally associated with was far too lenient, insofar as

me Steeiworxers na\e aiioraea me oommunist propa- the John Dillinger era when pub- length of sentence was con-

ganda machine another golden opportunity to. paint iic enemies and gangsters were cerned.

for the rest of the world a completely distorted pic- on the rampage. FBI Director

ture of life in the United States. Edgar Hoover says such

It Ls an unfortunate incident for the steelworkers, a'ifea'd"" th. glngste

the nation ana the free world. era of the I930s.

de Gaulle Role More Imoressive

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP - French President Charles de Gaulle, iron-willed at 68, acts like a man determined, if he has to, to take over the leadership of the West. He has already asserted a lot of it.

This week the Frenchman, so proud he dislikes using reading glasses in public, dictated to his Western partners and the Soviet Union the time and conditions for a summit conference.

At an extraordinary news conference De Gaulle, who heads a second-rate power but persists in thinking of it in terms of grandeur, put on an amazing show of memory, calmness and strength.

British Prime Minister Harold Macmillans attitude toward a summit meeting ha.s been; The

their Soviet friends greatest peril.

Altogether the text of his news conference took up a solid newspaper page.

In the end De Gaulle may have proved extremely wise in insisting upon complete preparations for the summit. Otherwise. He even put a stiff "if wise, he warned, the summit may turn Into disaster.

B. J. Cutler, the New York Herald Tribunes Paris reporter who attended the news conference. said that because De Gaulle does not want to use reading glasses In public, he memorized 45 minutes of statistic-packed answers to questions he had anticipated. It was a fantastic memory feat, as you will have noticed if you read the text.

During the fiscal year ending last June 30, banks and savings and loan associations were victimized by robberies or thefts on an average of more than twice daily. And says Hoover: "There is every indication that we are well on the way to witnessing in 1960 an even more appalling record of violations.

Before 1958, the previous high year for this type of crime was indeed in the days of Dillinger 1932, when some 600 robberies and thefts occurred. In 1958, however, there were an alarming 631 such crimes, and 1959 far surpassed that figure when there were 764 violations.

What to do about this problem? Well, the FBI director advocates maximum penalties for bank criminals. Theres a good reason for wanting this. A recent FBI survey shows about 50 per cent of some 200 bank robberies were committed by hardened, experienced criminals and another 25 per cent by persons

In this respect. Hoover points out: "The amateur bank robbers and thieves, from every social class from every walk of life, assuredly are not discourageti from lusting for so-called easy money if some professional robbers are given a slap on the wrist by courts after committing one of the most vicious of crimes.

To a potential bank robber. Hoover continues, the crime is a gamblehe gambles his freedom or his life for sudden wealth. Then he sees the professional hardened criminal make a strike and escape severe punishment. The odds, he may conclude, are higher in his favor.

Until the Inveterate "gamblers are made to pay maximum penalties, we can see no abatement in these crimes, Hoover warns. In other words, we can accomplish a two-fold purpose by being tough on bank robbers. First, by long sentences the tough pro is put out of circulation. Second, the would-be

private and secluded vacation Many folks dont realize that spot at Elizabeth Ardens Maine

firemen make lots of runs to which Chance health and beauty resort

they are not summoned by the near Phoenix, Ariz- She went

there in February 1958 and 1959 and may go again early in 1960.

Mrs. Eisenhowers only other

trips without the President have been to Denver to visit her mother, Mrs. John S. Doud, 81.

Her most frequent companion-traveling and at home is her only sister, Frances (Mike) Moore, wife of businessman-broker, cx-Army officer George Gordon^ Moore.

Mrs. Eisenhower is protected, too, by her social secretary. Mary Jane McCaffree, an ex-New Yorker who got her training as executive secretary to top businessmen. Every inquiry about Mrs. .Eisenhower has to go through Mrs. McCaffree, who brushes off virtually every one of a personal nature.

The President at a news conference this summer said any decision about talking an apartment in Washington when he leaves office would be up to Mrs. Eisenhower. He suggested "You had better get some of your lady reporter friends to go and talk to her about it.

A lady reporter tried, but couldnt get through by phone to Mrs. Eisenhower.

But MoUie Pamls, New York dress designer who has provided clothes for Mrs. Eisenhower since pre-White House days, says she gets through without any trouble.

Mrs. Elsenhower likes to discuss her personal things, says MoUie. and "she gets on the phone herself to talk over the dress problems.

As a customer, Mollie Pamia finds Mamie the "easiest, kindest, most considerate, and least tem-permental.

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It is hard to imagine m'hat Impelled you to reprint in todays paper an editorial from

professionalthe amateurwill the Washington Daily News, an

be discouraged before he gets started if he sees that crime does not pay.

editorial Which Ls ludicrous but, in so far as it is taken seriously, dangerously inimical to the pur

poses of higher education. On can suppose that the Daily News has followed the advice of It* editorial writer and rewarded incompetence, but why did you choose to follow Its example?

Francis R. Adams, Jr.

GreenvUle, M. C.

sooner the better. President Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev have seemed to favor such a meeting sooner rather than later.

But De Gaulle, after taking over a sagging France and giving it more stability than it has had since World War II, decided by himself that haste was unwise. He even put a stiff "iff on any summit conference at all.

Before theres a summit, he said, he must meet with Khrushchev in March; there must be an improvement in the international climate and the Western partners must be agreed on how to deal with Khrushchev.

And, just to be sure, he told Elsenhower and Macmillan his pre-summit get - together with them in December should be followed by another after he talks with Khrush(?hev in March.

This is only part of his statements at the news conference. They ranged from pensions for ench veterans of World War to a prediction the Chinese iiiniiM would uiiunately bt

What De Gaulle said, and the way he said It, had a sweep, a nobiliby, and an absolute kind of articulateness which this writer has not seen in the text of a news conference by the head of any government in years.

The use of the word extraordinary to describe the news conference was Justified by the word picture of it given by Crosby Noyes, writing from Paris for the Washington Evening Star.

It was held in the great hall of Elysee Palace with its fantastic gingerbread ceiling, crystal chandeliers, and gobelin tapestries. he said. The 7(X) invited newsmen settled themselves on gilt Louis XV chairs with pink seats.

Most of the diplomatic and literary world was there as were members of the Presidents household and the Cabinet.

Exactly on time the gold brocade curtains parted, De Gaulle Con lAtied On Page ft

CorDoration Income Increases

By ELMER ROESSNER The net income of 785 major corporations in the July-Septem-ber period was $10,786,000 higher than the corresponding quarter in 1958, s National City Bank study shows.

This is a small gain, being less than 1 per cent of the 1968 figure of $2.558,122,000, and is actuaUy $27,123,000 less than the second quarter total of $3,-596,031,000.

The second-to-third-quarter dip is partly due to the steel and other strikes. On this basis, profits for the last three months of the year will probably show an even greater drop from the second quarter. The total decline may be around 50 per cent.

Even though the steel strike has been temporarily suspended, there will be little or no profits for steel companies and steel users between now and the end of the year. And other strikes persist and more are abrewing.

COMPARISON BY INDUSTRIES

Of the 785 corporations reported upon, only one group32 iron and steel companiesreported s net loss. It was $108,366.000.

However, net income of many other industries declined from the second to third quarters.

Thirty-one auto and parts companies showed a decline of 65 per cent; 19 other transportation equipment companies showed a drop of 60 per cent, and .54 railroads registered a 52 per cent decline.

Other drops: 23 mining and quarrying companies, down 39 per cent; 109- companies making metal products other than machinery. down 15 per cent; 8 tire and rubber products companies, down 14 per cent; 17 service and amusement companies, down 12 per cent; and 35 retail and wholesale trade corporations, down 9 per cent. A number of other groups had smaller declines.

Only six groups showed gains. They were: 31 drug, soap and chemical companies, up 35 per

cent: 36 electrical equipment, radio and TV companies, up 12 per cent; 29 petroleum products and refining companies, up 10 per cent; 56 miscellaneous manufacturing companies, up 11 per cent; 10 tobacco products companies, up 7 per cent, and 39 food products and beverages companies, up 1 per cent. NINE-MONTHS COMPARISONS

rA comparison of net profits for the first nine months of the year compared with the same 19.58 months was more impressive.

The total gain was 36 per cent.

The biggest gain was by the 31 auto and parts companies: up 223 per cent; that is. from $384,-692,000 to $1.241.936.000. Twenty-eight textile and apparel com--panies registered a gain of 110 per cent.

Other large gains: 8 tire and rubber companies, up 70 per cent; 37 chemical pr(xlucts, up 62 per cent; 52 cement, glass and stone companies, up 44 per cent; 109 nonmachinery metal products, up 39 per cent; 32 iron and steel

companies (tht sam ones now taking a licking) up 12 per cent.

Only one group showed a decline. Nineteen, transport equipment corporation* other than autos, were down 44 per cent. REFRIGERATORS GAIN POPULARITY IN ITALY The refrigerator, ones a rarity in Italy, is now a hoi Rem (excuse the metaphor). Production last year was 420,000 ttnlts, double that of 1957. At the Mllar^^ Pair this year, models carried price tags about a third lower than three years ago. Most refrigerators are made domestically under license* of American firms.

NEW IDEAS THREATENING PUBLIC SALES RESISTANCE The celebrated fashion writer, Marian Rahl, is applying for a patent on a mans tie with a bullt-in-eye-glass wiper on th underside of tjje outer point. . . The proprietors of the Cheese Joint In Sodus. N Y., have re-gLsterrd the trademark, "Heluva Cheese.