PACE POUETHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE. N. C

Saturday. December 12. 1959

Saturday, December 12, 1959

How Far South Can A Bird Fly?

Find Cancer Scare In Everything?

Is the Department of Health, Education and Welfare going to decide that almost everything consumed by the American people tends to cause cancer in test animals and therefore must be guarded against?

Just before Thanksgiving \there was the cranberrj' scramble that started the departments barrage of cancer warnings. Then in a matter of days there was the assertion from a member of the department that cigarettes and cancer go together. Following this it was intimated that a look-see into lipstick and cancer might be forthcoming shortly after the first of the year.

And now, even before the first of the year rolls around, there comes the announcement that some chickens, fed with a special hormone, may also cause cancer.

To be sure, causes of cancer are of utmost importance to the American people and to the public health of this nation.

But the Department of Health, Education and Welfare is still under criticism for its cranberry splash which at best wa,s ill-handled. Just today came the announcement that the American I\Tedical Association Journal pad declared editorially there is insufficient evidence to warrant the assumption that cigarette smoking is the major~factor in the increase in lung

Safety Is Goa. Boatina Law

(Guest writer today. Rod Amundson, Director of Public Relations, Wildlife Resources Commission.)

Over the years, and especially since World War II. there has been a tremendous increase in the number of boats being used as pleasure craft. In North Carolina the use of boats has been stimulated by the creation of inland reservoirs. Tarheelia ranks fourth in the nation in the amount of water available for fresh water fishing. To the inland waters add the sounds and river estuaries and three hundred miles of ocean .shoreline and you begin to see that the increase in boating is a natural and logical development.

With the increase in the number of boats came problems. People have been injured, killed outright or drowned as a result of boating accidents. More powerful motors and lighter materials brought about the problem of hot rudders. people with too much outboard pow'er and too little common sense knowledge of boats and boating. You have *only to watch activities at a busy marina on a Sunday afternoon to see why the people of North Carolina, through the legislature, demanded and succeeded in getting boating safety legislation. Toward the end of the session the legislature passed the North Carolina Boating Safety Act.

While this legislation was being considered and drafted there was a question as to w'heth-er the boating safety responsibility should be given to a new agency created for that purpose, or to an agency already in existence.

Since the Wildlife Resources Commission had a staff of trained enforcement officers, most of whom are already equipped with boats that could be used for boating safety law enforcement, the responsibility administering the provisions of the law were given to the Commission.

Basically, the law provides that all motorboats powered by machinery of more than ten horsepower be registered with the Motorboat Registration Section of the Wildlife Resources Commission. On receipt of a three dollar registration fee the Commission issues a certificate of registration. This certificate is required to be available for inspection at any time when the boat involved is in operation. The certificate includes a number that must be affixed to either side of the bow of the boat. The letters and numerals must be of block type, at least three inches high, and of a color in contrast to the background. The number is assigned to the boat as long as the owner renews his certificate, and when the boat is .sold the number assignment goes to the new owner.

The law clearly specifies that BO funds derived from the numbering fee may be used for fish and game management activitie.s, and that no fish and game funds used for ^boating safety ad

ministration. To finance the program until registration fees start coming, the legislature authorized the Commission to borrow $100,000 from the contingency and emergency fund, repayable in two years. Thus far this money has been used to purchase equipment needed for accounting for boat registration fees, processing registration certificates. and the employment of additional administrative personnel to put the provisions of the law into operation.

Another important feature of the law empow'ers the Commis-.sion to incorporate the boating law activities into its existing organization, rather than superposing a special boating division-Additional enforcement personnel will not be added until specific needs are knowm, and funds froni registration fees permit.

The boating law provides for three basic activities: administration. public education, and enforcement. The first two of three activities began soon after the law was passed, and the third w'ill go into operation January first.

Thus far thirty-eight states have boating laws. Only eight of these states have had their boat numbering system approved by the U.S. Coast Guard, and North Carolina is one of these.

Basically, the boating law is designed for boating safety for the protection of persons and property. The nationwide movement toward boating safety began with the Bonner Act of 19.t8. This law gave the US. Coast Guard the responsibility for numbering and controlling watercraft having more than ten horsepow'er in states not having motorboat safety laws by April 1. 1%0. North Carolina was one of the first states to get a workable boating safety law. Under the provLsions of the Bonner Act and the N.C. Boating Safety Law. the Coast Guard will relinquish only its boat numbering activities. It will continue its law enforcement responsibilities, especially along the coastal w^aters- Although there are a few minor differences between State and Coast Guard boating law and regulations, it is expected that these differences will be ironed out through Commission regulation and amendments by the next General Assembly.

Meanwhile Tarheel wildlife protectors will be given inten-iiive training in boating safety law enforement; the public will be educated to boating safety and the provisions of the boating safety law. and the law will be impartially enforced-

As part of its boating safety education program, the Commission has published a pocket-size entitled "North Carolina Motorboat Owners Guide to compli ance with Numbering and Safety Laws. Free copies are available from Box 2919, Raleigh. If you arc a boat owner, this booklet will answer many of the que.stions you already have in mind.

cancer. That in itself is sufficient to place under even heavier clouds the conclusions published two weeks ago in the Journal by Dr. Leroy E. Burney, surgeon general of the U. S. Public Health Service, that listed smoking as the main factor in the increase oflung cancer.

Included in the departments most recent announcement concerning the hormone-fattened poultry that might contribute to cancer, care was taken to point out that only about one per cent of the poultry grown in the United States has been subjected to the hormone. So far as we know there was no mention of the fact that North Carolinaand perhaps other poultry producing states as wellalready have laws prohibiting use of the hormone in poultry feeds.

Perhaps Secretary Flemming of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare are only discharging their responsibility to the public with these rapid-fire cancer-cause announcements, but the longer it goes on, the more it takes on the earmarks of a publicity campaign for the department on the eve of new budget considerations by Congress.

Lambert's Selection Seems Most Fitting

Selection of another man from the ranks* for the new commander of North Carolinas Highway Patrol is a move to our liking.

Maj, D. T. Lambert, who has been named commander of the state Highway Patrol to succeed retiring Col James R. Smith, has come to the top of the organization through years of service to it. His appointment, like that of Col. Smith, brings to the head of the organization a man associated with the Highway Patrol since its beginning in 4929. His 30 years of service with the Patrol affords him first-hand information on the problems and the needs of this important agency of the state that can be found in few men.

Within the Highway Patrol organization of the state are many qualified and capable men in various stages of development that will be able to afford this important agency valuable leadership in future years. We trust that in the years ahead the pattern will continue to be the selection of men from within the organization to move to the top position as vacancies occur. Such a plan, it seems to us, will much better serve the interest of North Carolina than the former custom under which the head of the highway patrol w'as a political appointee without regarcf to experience in the Highway Patrol.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhowers White House year, drawing toward a close, have introduced a new kind of politics in 20th century America: The technique of the soft W'ord.

Whether or not you like or admire him, this is a fact: He went Into office a highly popular war hero and has remained not only extremely popular but amazingly free of personal criticism.

We are now looking for a good example.

The four Democratic senators being mentioned as presidential possibilities John F. ennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey, Stuart W. Symington, and Lyndon B. Johnsonare talking critically of the Eisenhower administration.

They even take oblique cracks at Eisenhower by saying what this country needs is leadership. But all of them are avoiding crit-iciam of Elsenhower personally and by name.

He has remained so popular they might find it unpopular for themselves to do otherwise.

The Presidents present trip abroad Is another illustration::

Everywhere he goes he is wildly w-elcomed since, no matter how Europeans and Asians may feel about the Unitd States, their image of Eisenhowir er Is that of a friendly, well-intjmtioned man.

It may be argued, since America has been so generous with aid to them and remains their chief protection against communism, that in welcoming Ei.scnhower they are in effect saying hello to Santa Claius.

But then you have to remember the Soviets always speak well of him. too- This becomes understandable in terms of Elsenhower hirruself when you look back over the record of what he has said since becoming President.

You almost never find Jriin talking in terms which pould be con.sidered provocative or belligerent or hostile. Instead, he has emphasized patience and restraint even when talking firmly

All thi.s is in contrast to the altitude of many people, at home and abroad, toward, say. iormer presidents Truman and Roose

velt who wer often up to their necks in fights-It might be argued here that if Eisenhower had been as willing as Truman and Roosevelt to initiate new and controversial programs, and fight as they did for the, hed be hit with brickbats, too-But their temperaments were different from Eisenhowers. Both w^ere more belligerent and both were more aggressive toward others, especially in showing irritation toward opponents.

Eisenhower, for instance, had plenty of excuse for hitting back at the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy but avoided it. He could have lashed out, but didnt, at Premier Nikita Khrushchev for some of the difficulties the Soviet created.

Whether or not all this adds up tothe best kind of leadership Is another and long, discussion in itself. But certainly Eisen-how'er has been popular and free from abuse.

This soft - w ord technique of Eisenhower may have a moderating effect on his White House successor if only because it has proved politically so suc-cussful for Eisenhower, if this much is granted.

That a successful politician is one who, through retaining high popularity, can get himself reelected. By that definition, no one can argue Eisenhower has not been successful.

Some critics may argue that the key to Eisenhowers popularity is the result of his letting his lieutenants carry the load so tha, if there is blame, it will he directed at them and not at him.

That doesnt hold water: Secretary of Agricultme Ezra Taft Benson and the late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were beaten over the head for year for their policies. But Ei-enhowcr didnt hide behind icm. Instead, he supported them fully all the way.

That argument is fallacious for another reason: Truman

and Roosevelt lieutenantslike Secretary of State Dean Ach-eson and Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickeswere bespattered for years.

But so were Truman and Roasevelt-

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLA.SS REGENERATIO.N

We often hear the term regeneration used in .vennon.s or religiou.s addresses. What does the word mean?

It means to produce .something rew'. Theologically it means to be born again spiritually. It is the placing by Gods hand within our hearts of a supernatural force w hich hencelorth will make life different for iis in every way. This divine force will change our way of thinkiny. It will give us new' moods. It will gradually cau.se us to resist temptation. It will rnaki- ils kindly to other* tc whom we were formerly bitter It will put love in our hearts and cast out hate.

Ciiristianily is a religion of

ledemption. ILs characteristic is that It regenerates tlie human soul.

We have examples of such regenerations in the Bible. St. Paul, of course, is the outstanding example. But there were others such a.s the keeper of the pruson at Philippi, and Lydia who kept a dress shop in the Grecian city of Philippi.

In our own day we have had Dwight L. Moody, Jerry McAuley, Bill Sunday, and the admirable modern evangelist Billy Gra-l.ani. These men have been con-veried, redeemed, and their inner life revi'nerated.

Christianity Is not just a code ol ethics. It Is the implementing ol God.s supernatural power known as regeneration.

They Came By The Dozen

Magnolia leaves are apparently in big demand at Christmastime.

S. Eugene Wests construction company is tearing down the old

Quinerly Manor at Third and Washington Sts.

He let it be known through this column the other day that some Magnolia trees on the property

Other Editors SayinQ . ^Religious Views In Politics

(Hertford County Herald)

The inevitable coming-to-the headlines of the Catholic issue in the 1960 presidential campaign has come. Sen. Kennedy, the frontrunning Democrat and a Catholic, is the focus. A group of Catholic bishops has come out against birth control. Then a Protestant clergyman comes along and says that every presidential candidate must immediately declare himself on this issue,

Kennedy, as would be expected, said he was against this country advocating birth control in overseas nations. Others have said the same thing.

hypocrites. We accept as a tenet that our politicians will have beliefs, views, and character ingrained with a will to do what they conceive to be Gods will.

That we have conicted views about w'hat is that will is self-evident. But to say that having these views renders us incapable of service is foolish.

We dont hold with the Catholic bishops the traditional Roman Church view that birth control is wrong. We do believe, with practically everybody, that this country would he foolish to impose birth control on its own

Now the inevitable whisper cam- people or any other people

paign will start. Because Kennedy supports the position of the bshops, it will be said that he is a tool of the Catholic Church, a direct arm of the Pipe.

Perhaps it is good that we are having the round of discussion now, and over a completely spurious facet of the question. Probably by the time of the political conventions, it will be as old as last years hat.

The net effect of the present discussion is nil. It is a false issue. Kennedy may never be President, or even the nominee. But that will not hinge on the question of birth control. Neither will it hinge on the whole question of religious belief. Americans all know that loyalty and service to country, on the part of any officeholder, to some degree depend on the religious beliefsor lEick of themof the official. But to say that Kennedy is unfit because he has views based on religious training is to condemn all candidates and all officials. Certainly Protestant candidates would agree that their own religious training has had its effect on their beliefs and their views.

We make a little pledge now that says this is one nation, under God. That is a highly presumptious statement. Yet it

against their wishes. That is what Mr, Kennedy, and every other candidate, has said about this foolishly-raised issue.

Some will, of course, point out that the Catholics, in some areas, are autocrats, not democrats. Such is the case in Spain, where Protestant preachers have been harried by The Church. But that is also begging the question and piling an unfair burden on Mr. Kennedy, if you start from that premise and build It to the point of therefore, Mr. Kennedy is unfit. All can condemn autocracy. wherever it is. But American Catholics have not demonstrated political autocracy, which Is essentially what is being applied to Protestants in Spain. Thousands of American Catholic politicians have taken both the VOWS of their church, and the oaths administered to every governmental officeholder in the nation, from poll-holder to President. They have, as have others, lived up to the vows and the oaths with varying degrees of effectiveness and integrity. But, following the American ideal, they have kept these vows and oaths side-by-side, not mixed together or at odds

would have to be removed to make way for the new Planters Bank building.

For that reason, he said, people wanting Magnolia leaves for Christmas decorating were welcome to help themselves.

Did people respond?

They came by the dozens, the foreman on the job said.

Workmen on the job climbed the trees and cut off branches so that the leaves could be easily obtained.

Branches at the foot of one of the trees were stripped practically clean of the long sturdy leaves.

We never knew just how the leaves were decorated but we watched sister-in-law Jean Taylor and Anne Keziah prepare a few the other night.

The girls sprayed some of the Magnolia leaves with silvej, paint and brushed gold paint on others. Then they sprinkled them with silver or gold glitter dust. The resulting decorations will be used in door decorations and on tables around candles.

We have to admit the leaves were extremely attractive after they finished the job.

Incidentally there are plenty of Magnolia leaves left at the Planters Bank site so those who w'ant them can still pick them up.

The round-the-world short wave call from Ghana recently which brought brain surgeons hurrying to the aid of an Israeli boy made head^nes in the newspapers of the United States.

The incident also received big play in the English language press of Ghana. This is indicated

All His Own

By HAL BOYLE fncw YORK (AP)They can talk about their football heroea now.

Next aprlng they'll be talking about neew baseball heroea. Football fellowa will be forgotten.

But the fellow who had the f^est grip on the local aitua-^^ tion in the old days was the soda jerker in the towns coolest hot spot. He had a following, as any hero does, and x technique, as any hero must.

He also had a language that set him apart. It was largely a language of grunts, waved hands, shrugs, squinted eyes and whatll you have?

If he didn't like a fellow, he would put one less dollop of ice cream in hla malted milk.

He didnt serve breakfast, he didnt serve lunch, and he didnt serve dinner.

All he served was a miracle of ice cream, syrup and romance.

He had other duties when the wire-backed chairs held no oou-ple sucking mutual desperation through separate straws. He had to sell perfumes, tobacco, candy and bile cures, and call the druggist on family concerns.

He had his own pleasures, toe.

He could dip into all the flavors of ice cream.

He wandered into the back part of the drugstore and knew all the wonderful long - ago smells near to the nose and distant to the mind.

There was a behind-the-scenes pungency to a drugstore then which few of the antiseptic drugstores of today retain. The old drugstore had drawers to pull out patent medicine to sell.

Soda jerkers In those days also had to bring up things from the basement. The underground area of a drugstore at that time differed only from the sales area above by an odor of moldy neglect and the carelessness in which the stock was piled. , When you go into a modem drugstore today the man who serves you at the fountain is a technician in a new field of performance. He rules an empire for a tip.

The old-fashioned soda squirt had an empire without a tip.

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by clippings which the ham operator in Ghana who sent the call recently forwarded to Charles Wells of GieenvJUe who intercepted the mercy call.

Bold headlines in the Daily, Graphic and the Ghana Times told the story of the arrival of five brain surgeons at the bedside of eight-year-old Rami Katz.

The biggest headline appeared in the Graphic on Nov. 18 w'hich announced, Rami Out of Danger, Operation Is Unnecessary.

A bulletin was issued jointly that day by the five international specialist who had been flown to Ghana. They described Rami as virtually out of danger and said no medical operation will be necessary.

Young Ramis mother did not die in the wreck which caused his injuries, as had been reported earlier. She was able to visit her son a few days after the accident.

The wife of the driver of the car, Dinah Kaufman, died In the crash, according to the clippings.

Opinions In Brie::

If we consider the relative stop thinking that to eompro-' w'ell-being of the wage earner mise is to lose. Unions no long-

wth that of the businessman, we must conclude that the wage earner has it easy. The businessman must invest his money, work 8 hours a day 7 days a week, assume all responsibilities. be .satisfied with his return on the basis of patronage, and run all the risks inherent

er have to strive upward and outward to justify and legitimize themselves. Theyre not tha underdog, so why act like B? Waukengan (111.) News-un.

Why dont the Republicana give real conservatives somewhere to hang their hats? in any business. The wage earn- Dallas Morning News, er. by comparison, has a sure

with each other. And this is exactly what every other Ameri-does reflect an idea. When the# can officeholder has done, if he

thing. Colorado Springs (Colo.) Gazette-Telegraph,

day comes that we cannot say our political candidates believe this, we are being a nation of

hasnt been a profe.ssed atheist and simply not needed to take more than an oath.

What labqr needs mo.st is a new image of itself. It needs to shake its inferiority complex, to Lynn Co, News.

An American will work hard on a farm so he can move Into town where he can make more money so he can move back to the farm, Tahoka (Tex.)

Congress Impact On Business

By ELMER ROESSNER

Lets look ahead at Congress, which resumes its 86th Session next month. Congressional action is one of the largest influences on business in the country. And the coming se.ssions actions, in turn, will be influenced by the swelling Importance of politics in the months ahead.

Here are some things that may be expected ;

A larger military budget. Despite pressures for economy and demands for lower taxes, the insistence on more money ex-pecially for space missileswill meaiin larger appropriations.

Look at it this way: A typical Congressman who votes for higher taxes may be sick politically, but if he votes against the defense of the country, he will be politically dead. SPIN-OFF FROM IKES TRIP

More foreign aid. The Elsenhower trip has whipped up a lot of evidence to show that our alies are really grateful for American assistance. The seeming lact of gratitude reported in the past has been- as any psychologist will tell you a significant factor in creating opposition to foreign aid. Americans general

ly will give fully as long as they feel its appreciated, and give reguluctantly, no matter how great the need, if that appreciation Is lacking. The almost incredible demonstrations for Eisenhower will make the Administrations foreign aid program almost invulnerable.

More Social Security. With an election year coming, and the number of older voters constantly rising. Congressmen will be unusually sensitive to demands for broadening Social Security, especially as asked for in the Forand bill, which would provide oldsters with hospitalization. This, and any other rise in benefits will mean fresh rises in Social Security levies, perhaps sooner than many expect.

AND WHAT OF CASTRO?

Tougher Cuban policy. The excesses of the revolutionary government in Cuba, plus the take-over of vast Interesls owned by Americans, will sin- Con-gre.ssional demands for doing .something about Fidel Castro's government. Congressman from the cane and beet sugar states will strongly support such action.

Review of Latin-Amencan re

lations. Despite the dissatisfaction with Castro, many Congressmen will demand a review of our policies in Central and South America. The gain of the left-wing in Guatemala, the abortive rebellion in Brazil, the flare-up in Panama, and rumors of trouble in Nicaragua, Bolivia and other spols w'ill cause demands for examination and change in our southern relations. These demands will be supported strongly by Democrats who believe they will embarrass the Republican Adniin-ustration.

Birth Control. This will flare up in Congress, especially when the issue can embarrass the c.mdidacy of John F. Kennedy, or the Administrations foreign aid plan and in some cases when a Congresman can win votes back home by taking a rousing stand. However, the subject Is pretty hot to handle, and Congress will take no action.

Tax reform. Perhaps, but dont start spending your sav-ing.s. Congressman Wilbur D, Mills (D., Ark.i, chairman of the Hou.sp Ways and Mpan.s Committee, Is building a pretty good case against the inequiUes

in the present law, but time Ig against him. An overhaul of the law will take a long time, keeping Congressmen away from the huet-ings, and it would provoke countless inter-party fights, always to be avoided in an election year.

FOR PROSPERITY, CUT TAXES ON RICH,

SAYS OLD PROMOTER The Old Promoter had walked ill and was reading over our slioulder as we write. You can add that one of the best ways to increase prosperity would be to cut thetax on those In the high-income brackets.

That sounded like treason-America has to grow. More capital should be poured Into the building of plants and fao-tories, stores and offices, schools and homes. Those in low and middle income groups havent got that kind of capital to begin with. And the rich havent got it because of taxes. If we cut taxes on the big earners, they would have the financing of the biggest boom we ever knew."

There mu.st be somethlng wrong with that theory, but it* certainly persuasive 1