^ACB roufHE DAILY REn.ECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Thunilar, Norcmber 19, I95B

Thursday, November 19, 1959

If You Want The Oats-

Per Capita Income Slowly Increases

Pitt Countys lagging United Fund campaign needs the attention of citizens throughout the county in order that this second year of the county-wide effort may be successful.

So far approximately $40,000 in cash and pledges has been reported to the United Fund office. That leaves some $67,000 to be reported in order that the $107,000 goal for the current year can be reached.

Apparently many people in Greenville and thioughout the county have not yet been contacted for their contributions to the United Fund. It is quite liUely that when additional reports are received in the next week from team captains^in various communities the total of contributions will be considerably higher.

Even so, indications point to the fact that a good many citizens throughout Pitt have not yet been contacted this year in beh#lf of the United Fund. Most of these, we hope, will be contacted within the next couple of weeks, and it is also our hope that they \yill contribute generously to this county-wide campaign that includes not a few but many red feather agencies.

Each contribution to the pnited Fund goes to support eight major agencies; American Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Salvation Army, Pitt County Mental Health Association, Pitt County Association for the Blind, Pitt County Association for Retarded Children, and Carolinas United. In addition to these agencies, there are a number of local agencies in each oU the 15 townships of the county which look to the United Fund for the money with which to carry on their programs. ,

It Is important to the county as a whole and its citizens individually that these service and charity organizations have the finances with which to carry on

!3allot Frotes Heard By Board

By LYNN NISBET

ELECTIONThe Stt Board Electiona leaned over back-warda thii week to allow William E. Cobb. State Republican chairman, to preaent an informal proteat asalnat the handling of the October 27 bond election In MadJaon county. The hearing was iiragular, in the sense that the protest had not come up through channels from the county board- Because it was ii-regular in the flrat place, Board Chairman. Ben Trotter , permitted both aidea considerable leeway in their presentations.

The chairman had some difficulty in keeping Cobb from making campaign speechea asainst the absentee ballot, and also had to call down A. E. Leake, former Madison representative and attorney for the defendants in this hearing, from making a campaign speech for Luther Hodges for vice president.

FACTSCobb presented some Indisputable facts. Madison county cast a disproportionately large percentage of its voting strength in the election, as compared with rest of the atate. And the vote against the bonds was also disproportionately heavyas much as none for and 27.5 against on one item, 30 for and 905 against on that same issue In another precinct. He aubmitted affidavits indicating that voting was light throughout the county and It would take a rate of four votca every three minutes to cast 935 ballots in the 12 hours (720 minutes) the polls were open.

The Republican chairman inflated that these facta alone the heavy vote *nd the lopsided result justified investigation. The Btate election officials pointed out they could not initiate an investigation without apeclfie charges, supported by affidavits, coming up on appeal from decision of the county board. Cobb admitted no protest had been filed with the county.

ALLKOATIONS The aUega-ttens and implied accusations were more interesting than the provable facts- If Chairman Cobb and the Republicin party if really concerned about the Madison vote, why was the first publicity an open letter to the Governor, rather than a protest te the county board, or a direct appeal to the State Board e( Elections? And, since absentee voting was not allowed in the bond election, why so mi^h emphasis on that iasue in the Cobb preaentation? Since the Madison county Republicans had not protested, why should the stat chalrmsn show so much concern about the way

the local precinct officials were chosen?

Democrat Leake said he other end of the state, and a thought he had the answers to cans are not concerned about the bond electionthey are just laying the foundation for protests in connection with the general election in 1960.

SIGNIFICANT The hearing on the Madison county situation has further emphasized the significance of local events in relation to statewide movements. It is the easy and natural approach for people in other counties to say that what goes on in Madison does not concern them. Figures presented on election return* show that, despite claim* to the contrary by Cobb, the armory bonds would have failed if the whole Madison vote had been thrown out. But the quarter million for historic sites would have carried if Madison had been thrown out.

So, what happened in MadLson affected the restoration of the Marsh House at Bath, in the these questions. The Republi-number of other projects all over the map-

BIO SERVICE - Anybody w'ho question* election procedure in North Carolina, and bases the questions on facts, renders a public service. It is Inherent in the democratic system that the minority party must defend its position. So far as the State of North Carolina is concerned that means the Republicans must challenge, the temocrats must defend. But there are a dozen or more counties in which the positions are reversed aa to local affairs.

In his delayed protest about the handling of the bond election In Madison county, delayed to the point that he lost his legal day in court. Bill Cobb, State Republican chairman, nonetheless rendered substantial public service. Maybe he is more concerned about the general election next year than about what happened to the bonda in the late special election. Maybe he did try to make partisan political capital out of the Madison situation. So did the Democrats and the rather large segment of citizens who split their ballots Iq state and national voting.

There wasnt much the State Board of Elections could do, in post facto action, about the bond election. Perhaps there isnt much the elections board can do any time under the general statutes- It is still true that every time anybody can point to weaknesses which can be strengthened in election laws, that represents a public aervtce.

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their work in Pitt next year. Unless the United Fund campaign is successful, these agencies wiil have to .stage individual fund-raising campaigns of their own in order to raise fund* with which to operate.

Pitt Countys United Fund needs the active support of the citizens of the county in the next few weeks in order to complete its financial campaign for this yean We trust those people who have not already-made their annual contribution to the Fund will do so soon, and that they wiil give generously.

United Fund Needs Support Of People

North Carolinas industrial growth has been interpreted in many ways by many people, but the focal point of the all-out development effort by the state is the goal of raising per capita income. Slowly but surely, North Carolina is making progress toward that goal.

According to the report of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, per capita income of North Carolina jumped six percent in 1958 over that of 1957.

In terms of dollars, the per capita income in North Carolina remains considerably below the national average, but in terms of growth there were only eight other states which equalled or surpassed the progress made by North Carolina from 1957 to 1958.

Income per capita in North Carolina last year was pegged at $1,394 compared with the national average of $2,057. In spite of this differential, it is apparent that the industrial progress that has been made in North Carolina in the past few years is beginning to reflect it.self in a higher per capita income for the state as a whole.

Those states which rank high on the list in terms tttxt a vt

oi per capita income are those which are heavily in- By ALVIN lAYLOB dustrial. Normally the income in predominant agricultural areas is below that in industrial areas. It is unlikely that North Carolina ever will be as highly industrialized as some other states. Furthermore, agriculture will continue to form a mainstay of the economy of Tar Heelia.

Notwithstanding these factors, the state is making progress toward its goal of improving the economic lot of its people as a whole. Admittedly it is a slow process on the state-wide level. A new industry may mean a great deal in terms of jobs, papolls and economic uplifting in a particular community. Considered on a statewide basis, however, that same new industry may have little effect on the per capita income. It takes many new plants, a great many new jobs and millions in new industrial payrolls to reflect the kind of increase in state-wide per capita income which North Carolina showed during 1958.

If North Carolina as a whole and its communities individually continue to intensify their economic dedevelopment programs as they have done in recent years, there is every reason to believe that the states per capita income will continue to increase. Each nev^ rung on the ladder brings North Carolina closer to the higher economic level it desires for all its people.

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Its been said that the accusing finger is now being pointed at some disc jockeys who are said to have taken pay to play certain records.

We figured that one out long ago. Disc jockies would have to be paid to play some of th records that come over the air waves these days.

Asking Allies To Share Huge Cost

Cecil B, dcMlIle, whose forebears came from Beaufort County, had a Pitt middle name.

The middle initial stood for Blount.

Blount Is a well known family name In modern day Pitt County.

And It also goes back into history as the plaque in the hallway of Pitt County Court house shows.

One Benjamin Blount signed the Martlnborough declaration with other patriots July 1, 1775 which pledged allegiance to the Pitt Association In protest agaiiist British tyranny.

According to deMUle's autobiography, his grandfather William Edward deMlllc moved his family in March, 1861 from Washington,

N.C. to Greenville. In February, 1865 William Edward deMille, commissary of Martin's brigade, was captured in a Federal cavalry raid on Greenville and kept a prisoner of war until August.

Cecil B. deMlUe, himself, of course never lived in Greenville but he did spend quite a bit of time in Washington. Actually deMille was born in Ashfield. Mass. but his boyhood was sprat in Washington, N.C; along with Pompton. and Echo Lake, NJ. and New York City.

There is no evidence to link Cecil deMille with Benjamin Blount of Pitt County. However, it is known that WUUam Blount, a signer of the constitution from North Carolina, was a deMille ancestor.

Cecil deMille didnt keep very firm ties with this area. He attended schools at Pennsylvania Military Academy, Pa. and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.

He married the daughter of a New Jersey Judge and the couple had two daughters and two sons.

The Blount name was passed

on to one of the sons, John Blount deMille.

Cecil deMille, a man with Eastern North Carolina roots, went on to the infant movie industry and became perhaps the greatest name in a colorful industry.

He produced his first movie in 1913The Squaw Man. Prom that time until his death Jan. 21, 1959 he produced 70 movies. The last three were

Sampson and Delilah, 1949; The Greatest Show on Earth, 1952: The Ten Commandments, 1956.

DeMille was working on his autobiography when he died. The work was completed by his long time associate and literary collaborator, Donald Hayne, and it has been published.

Women

By HAL BOYLE

^ NEW YORK (AP) - What is the basic thing %rong with most American women?

There has been a rash of criticism about the hrapecked u. 8. male lately, but nobody has been putting the G. S. woman under the microscope for flaws.

Isnt it about time someone perf(H*med this neglected public service?

There are certain traditional objections that are always voiced when .the subject of what is wrong with women comes up.

They can be summarized;

Wln you first marry a woman she glows like the morning sun, but in time she kind of gets to look like a rain-stained old copper roof.

A woman talks endlessly but rarely says what she really know* or really knows what she says, so how can a man ever understand her? A man can understand only things that make sense.

In keeping appointments, a woman always arrives by the calendar instead of the clock.

A woman is supposed to have the right to change her mind, but actually never doe* and n<H}ody can make hra change it. A womans mind also never lets go the memory of a fancied wrong-H every husband knows.

A woman never knows the value of a' sound dollar or a good man until both art gone from her.

Well, there is no doubt that most of these moss-grown objections to women are still fairly valid, and probably always will be.

But if you polled most American men I doubt these reasons would explain the fact there is a vast and growing grudge among many males against U. S. women. They are, after all, old sins of the fair sex, and man has had to put up with them throughout history.

What tends to annoy a man most today is that he Is being made a sucker of in a new way by a new kind of woman. ThLs is the woman who demands the status of a man while stUl .n-sisting peremptorily on all the ancient privileges accorded women by the etiquette of romantic chivalry.

The basic thing wrong with American women is they no longer act like women. They look feminine, talk masculine and act beastly.

Maybe the country needs a national Kick a Woman In the knee Day to put the whole question of modern chivalry back on a sounder footing ior all.

Opinions In Brief

By J.\MES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Elsenhower administration is nudging the Allies to share the big daddy role. Since World War II this country has shelled out more than 68 billion dollars in foreign aid of all kinds.

The administration is also beginning to talk of the pullback of American troops from Europe. Not immediately, according to Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy, but eventually.

Both Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and Undersecretary Douglas Dillon have joined President Eisenhower In calling on the Alliesin Japan and Europeto join this country in a .stepped-up drive of aid to backward nations.

This idea isnt likely to encounter much opposition In Uils country but an attempt at a troop pull-hwck anytime soon will touch off a fiery fight at home.

The administration could argue in defense of a troop withdrawal that the only real defense of Western Europe lies in missiles and that NATO defense will "(lepend less and less on ground forces.

But Premier Nikita Khrushchev has been calling for withdrawal of both American troops and bases from Europe.

No one here is suggesting abandoning United States ba*-es in Europe since the planes and missiles there are the main deterrent to any Soviet aggression.

But the advocates of a strong NATO the Atlantic Alliance would probably interpret a troop pullback not only as an appeasement of Khrushchev but a return toward American isolation.

' They could argue that the troops are not only needed on the Continentto help swell the size of the Allied ground troops but that their very presence there is assurance of American solidarity with the Allies.

Even now, before Europe is thoroughly guarded with missiles of various ranges, the NATO ground forces apparently are only a shell of what they are supposed to be.

On paper NATO has 21 1-3 divisions of 425,000 men. Actually, they probably have no more than 250,000 men. There are 20 Soviet division in East Germany alone, with 400,000 men. In all. the Soviet Union has about 170 divisions.

Not long ago, when the West was worried the Soviets might try to cut off West Berlin. Eisenhower himself expressed about NATOs ground forces could stop the Soviets, and he emphasized the Wests main weapon was in the air.

Although Khrushchev has proposed complete disarmament, thats a long way off. This week he reminded the West that if anyone was getting soft it was the West, not the Soviet Union.

He boasted to a group of Soviet journalist* that Soviet rocket pow. er is so tremendous it could blast any nation off the face of the earth now.

Some in the West claim, he said, that the Soviet Union has changed its policy and therefore It has become easier to talk with us. This is wrong, of course. He suggested that any brightening of peace prospects was due rather to a change of heart imong the capitalist leaders.

Other Editors Saying .. Cranberries Or No

A department store in Texas, naturally, is offering a live steer, gift wrapped as best we can, plus a roast beef serving cart, for a mere $1,925. For another $75 you can have a cook-out, if the cook ever reports for work again. (Miami Herald)

ether hand, is proud of his lov spot on the totem pole of humar society. (Carlsbad, N.M. Current-Argus)

(Henderson Dispatch)

Cigarette smokers didnt forsake their luxury because of the cancer scare, and it is unlikely that cranberries will be omitted from the Thanksgiving menu two weeks hence because of the revelation of alleged contamination resulting from use of poisonous weed spray by the Public Health Service.

Wbetner cigarette smokers should have taken warning is their affair. Some did but most concluded to assume the risk. It will be much the same with cranberries at the Thanksgiving feast and later during the Christmas holiday period and at other times.

Secretary of Agriculture Ben-.on was asked in Washington if he intended to eat cranberries at his Thanksgiving dinner, and promptly replied that he did. So one department of government discounts the admonition of another. What then is the public supposed to do? As it pleases, probably.

As the story goes, only berries from the Pacific Northwest appear to have been contaminated. if at all. But the bureau was not specific as to that in its first tirade, and producers all over the country thus were made

to suffer.

Growers and farm agencies are up in arms demanding an explanation and more definite information. Tobacco manufacturers and other tobacco men have been demanding such data from their accusers, gut have had little success.

One report is that an Individual would have to eat 15,-000 pounds of cranberries in a lifetime to take in sufficient quantities of the fruit to produce cancer.

Giving the critics credit for sincerity and the pursuit of what they considered their duty, it would seem at the same time that greater accuracy is In order before statements are made that could destroy an Industry.

Nobody wants to fall victim to cancer, either from tobacco or cranberries, or from any other cause. But before launching upon a broad program of self-denial, of luxuries or of delicious foods, they would like to be convinced beyond all peradventure of doubt that there is genuine peril in these items. They are not, at least not as a whole, sure of that as yet. And until and unless they are. the cranberry scare will fade even as that about tobacco has to a large extrat.

A young composer whose rock and roll ditties have catapulated him to riches report* that he is paying the price of success. Says the composer who claims he deserve* the credit for almost all of vocalist Ricky Nelsons hits; Writing this music has given me an ulcer. We can certainly sympathize with him, for^we attribute out own ulcer to listening to the same music. (Savannah Morning News)

About a half a century ago, il was necessary for the government to put clamps upon arrogant heac s of business. It has now come lo pass where public sentiment s reaching the conclusion that ti e same sort of clamps will have to be applied to labor bosses vl o practice high-handed tactics. tEl Dorado, Kans. Times)

CARLSBAD, N.M., CRRENT-ARGUS; A North Carolina editor says about the only difference between aq^ordinary bum and one of those so-called beatnik, on the

Although the committee on national education policies originally rejected a resolution advocali; t the use of force, when needed, to maintain classroom disclplin'^. the American Federation of Teac'i-ers has now given its approval. The teacher* said, however, that force was not a desii-able thir? in itself. They said it just sometimes could not be avoided. (Antigo, Wise. Journal)

Dailroad Camnaign Is

Strength For Today

B.r EARL L. DOUGLASS THOUGHTS FASHION FEATURES Nathaniel Hawthorne In his profoundly moving story, The Great Stone Face, tells how Ernest, who lived in the valley which lay below the great mountain profile, gazed so continuously on the face which nature had carved high up In the hills and admired so deeply It* dlfdRy and character, that at liet ke came to resemble the Grat Slofie Pace. There wu a legend lu th vailty that some day there would appear a mgn pf fregt distinction who would rtsfmlplf the stone features which the people of that part of the country were accustomed to behold. Men came and went, and some were applauded and told that they

resembled the Great Stone Face. But the excitement always died down and nobody at last believed the legend.

One evening as Ernest was speaking to his neighbors about the deep things of God. someone suddenly called the attention of all present to the resemblance between Ernest's fece and the stene face high up on the mountain. The lefcnt} had been fulfilled. The dietlafulshed man has proved to be one of .simple character. living a helpful life among his fellows, cpnscluiLs of no great-nggf tjiut li,>oklng for it alway* in plhgr*.

Hawthornes story Illustrates the truth that as a man thinks within his heart, so he is. His countenance at last reveals his inner ihoughU and character.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The railroads press agentry in the featherbedding fight has backfired.

Before negotatlons were begun this month between the railrrads and the 21 unions to which their employee* belong, the roads laid down a barrage of publicity on featherbedding. They listed, in releases and advertisements, dozens of examples of the practice.

Greatest stress was laid on the fact that union rules require a fireman as well as an engineer on every Diesel locomotive.

That fact is diramatic, of course. It would have been only slightly mere amtzlng if the rules had required a barber or a trombonist on e Dle.sel. It epitomized ffatherbeclditig as almost nothing else could.

1H$ C(,)UNTERATTACK

But the unipufi hired publicity men as smart as the railroads. The extra man in the cab was not featherbedding, they said. Its safety. Suppose the engineer

should black out? Suppose he should drop dead? Tbink of a giant train, plunging on through the night, with hundreds of pte- , sengers headed, perhaps to eternity

The public was Impressed. A recent Trendex poll shows that while the public was almost 3 to 1 against featherbedding, many said that whUe opposed to the practice they favored firemen on Diesels.

Then fate added an extra fillip. Engine 1706, with no one aboard, raced out of a Jersey City switching yard and ran for 22 mile*. Then th* engineer of another Dieeel get ahead ef it and, braking hi# Own locomotive, brought both to a stop. Guess who then climbed back iuto the runway and cla^ed its tiu'ottle.* The futman.

True, the runaway, being a switching engine, was not equipped with a lit ad mans grip. a device that tjioiLs a locomotive when the engineers hand slips from the control*. True, the en

gineer might have climbed back Into the runway, since both were stopped. But the public remembers that a Diesel ran away and that a fireman figured in the heroics.

WHY NOT BUSES?

The concentration of attention on the fireman as a safety factor may lead to other union demands. If a fireman is necessary to the safety of railroad passengers, why isnt it even more Important to have firemen on buses to take over if the bus driver collapses? Especially since buses do not have dead mans grips or device* Uiat trip brake* when trains run through e light? And why not on subway, elevated and other electric lines?

And if necessary on Diesels, why not on the huge highway trucks and vans which, out of control, might ktU score*? Has Jimmy Hofla been missing opportunities to provide more work for his men?

In the end, the fight egainst

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featherbedding could result iu an Increase in no-work Jobs

The extent of featherbedding is Indicated by a lurvey of 138 industrial firm* by Mill k Factory. Of these. 27 per cent reported that featherbedding nr make-work techniques in their factories increased costs unnecessarily. Of Uie total. 72 per cent said they were planning strong efforts to eliminate these practices. Of those reporting featherbedding, 94 per cent said the employeesinvolvd belong to a union.

RETAILERS. TOYMAKERS EXFECT HOLIDAY RECORDS

A survey ef IS major markets aerse the country Indicates that, despite the steel strike, retailers expect Christinas sab s to be 6 per cent greater than last year, Printers Ink reports.

The Toy Manufacturers of the U.S.A. predict that toy sales will set a new reooi'd thli year, basing its forecast on the rise in orders since June.