PAGE POUPTHE DAILY REn-ECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

nfonday, Dcm!)ier 21, 1959

Monday, December 21, 1959

Don't Expect Too Much At Paris

Barring some radical and unexpected change in Soviet policy, the long awaited full-dress su^mmit conference between the Western Big Four and Soviet Premier Khrushchev will take place in Fans next

^ Probably of equal Importance so far as the world is concerned is the fact that this first summit conference is, for a moment in Western planning at least, only the first in a series of several such conferences aimed at reducing international tensions and adding stability to world peace. . . t.

It is a foregone conclusion that Soviet Premier Khrushchev will accept the invitation of the Western Big Four to confer with them on world problems in Paris. After making overtures for such a conference for many months, he is hardly in a position to decline the invitation even though some of the arrangements are not entirely to his liking.

The fact that the West proposes the summit meeting in Paris be the first of several such meetings in the relatively near future is a move that should enhance the Western position. In the first place it does not impose upon the first summit meeting in Paris the full responsibility of solving all the world's problems at one session. If little genuine progress results from the first summit session it will not carry the suggestion that East-West tensions will again begin to mount after the summit meeting. Such might have been the case had one summit session been held without at least tentative plans for similar subsequent sessions.

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By LYNN NISBET

GILLThe nearest thing yet to a positive announcement of candidacy for Governor came Thursday from Edwin Gill. The State treasurer called a formal news conference to tell reporters that he is thinking seriously about the matter and will have the decisive word early in January. Terry Sanford. John Larkins and Addison Hewlett have each come almost as close to positive announcements, but these statements were given casually and upon inquiry of newsmen. Each of the three has also promised formal announcements after the first of the year. Political observers are looking for a whole flock of candidates to emerge around Jeff-erscwi-Jackson Dinner time, which is February 6 Reports from High Point are to the effect that Arthur Kirkman may announce earlier his candidacy for Governor.

SECONDC. V. Henkel was in Raleigh a day or two ago and said he has definitely made up his mind to get in the running for Lieutenant Governor, but wants to talk personally with 8 few others before announcing. Dave McConnell of Charlotte, Dave Coltraine of Raleigh, Tom White of Kinston and Robert F. Morgan of Shelby are other likely No. 2 candidates. At this time Henkel and McConnell appear most likely to get in, with Cloyd Philpott a possibility,

CONGRESSRoy Taylor of Black Mountain, former legislator and for 12 years county attorney for Buncombe, has prepared an announcement for Congress in the 12th district, and i<5 expected to release it around the first of the year. Walter Jones of Farmville show's evidence of being ready tb file for Congress in the first district against Herbert Bonner.

William Murdock of Durham and Horace Kornegay of Greensboro, solicitors in ieir respective districts, have, positively announced for the sixth congressional district seat being vacated by Carl Durham after 22 years.

Rep. Ralph J. Scott of the fifth district, in Raleigh this week, said he has heard of no serious challenge In the primary. Earlier threats of opposition to Hugh Alexander in the ninth seem to have lessened, although he isnt in the clear yet, Dave Clark in the 10th may face a real primary fight for the right to again oppose Rep. Charles Raper Jonas in November.

Other Incumbent congressmen Fountain in the second, Barden in the third, Cooley in the fourth, Lennon in the seventh, Kitchln in the Eighth, and Whitener in the llth-^o far are not threatened with opposition.

RANKINEd Rankin put in

his last days work as privte secretary to the Governor last Friday, lacking two weeks of seven years at that desk. He began with inauguration of Governor William Umstead in 1953. While he has been away on vacation and on official trips, Monday was the first work day in that seven years that he did not belong to and have responsibility for the mechanics of running the office. He was replaced by Harold Makepeace, who moved over from chief of the secondary roads section in the Highway Department.

On January 4 Rankin will open an office for John Harden Associates. public relations firm, on the third floor of the Superior Building in downtown Raleigh. Tliat connection revives a team that began a quarter century ago on the Salisbury Post, continued through varying business and political associations, including several years in the public relations section of Burlington Industries.

BUILDING Those fellows Who have been going around the top State offices with yardsticks, steel measuring tapes, and little notebooks, werent just being curious. They were operating under instructions of the State Legislative Building Commission to ascertain what space the offices might require, in event they were moved to the new building.

A number of agencies are eager to get in the building, not only because it will be new and modern, but because of proximity to the Legislature. Such proximity is not important to some departments, but several agencies should be housed there if the building is to serve the purpose for which it is being built.

These include the Secretary of State department, because of its intimate relationship with the legislatureassigning seats to members, enrolling bills, certifying copies of ratified bills before they are published, custodian of original acts with signatures of the presiding officers, and of House and Senate jour-

It would seem essential also to have offices of the General S^-tutes Commission and the bill-drafting section of the Attorney Generals Department. The Budget Bureau should have at least a contact office close to the assembly chambers.'

Unless these agencies which have such direct contact with the Legislature, and decent facilities for news media, are provided for in the building it will fail of its purpose and will be just another group of public offices. The building commission and the architects are working on these details, along with the big questions of where the building will be located and style of architecture._

Another fact to be considered is the military strensrth of the West and the bearing a summit conference might have upon individual nations and citizens of those nations toward military strength to meet a Soviet armed threat. Had the policy of the West been confined to a one-session summit meeting, apparent successes at such a meeting could have been the signal for completely unjustified large-scale disarmament by Western nations. A subsequent sudden switch from the current friendship policy by the Soviets to another period of hostile demands upon the West could have caught the West in a most vulnerable position.

The fact that the Western Big Four have issued the invitation for a summit meeting with others to follow is important indeed to the West as well as iq^ the world as a whdle. By providing a series of such meetings, however, the Western leaders have made it clear that they see no panacea for world problems in one summit conference. Complicated solutions to extremely difficult international problems and conflicting ideologies will take time, and a great deal of it.

In the meantime the West can ill afford to drop its guard and leave itself vulnerable to a quick and radical change of outward attitude by the Soviet government. The summit conference set for April may help in further easing international tension; but-history should have taught us not to expect too much nor to be too disappointed if from the conference comes far less than even th minimum we hope for.

No Light Burden In Law Enforcing Role

It is only when a law enforcement officer meets violent death in the routine of his duties that the public is reminded of the fact that these officers almost daily risk their lives to protect the lives and property of citizens.

The death of young highway patrolman Harry T. Long, native of Tabor City route 2, offers another reminder that the life of a law enforcement officer isnt made up entirely of sipping free coffee at a corner cafe, crusing leisurely in a patrol car, and making idle conversation wth the people they meet.

For the law enforcement officer, an emergency situation can develop at any moment of the day or night. In the case of Pvt. Long of the highway patrol, he was making a routine check of an automobile when the hit-and-run driver struck and snuffed out his life. Undoubtedly he and other of his co-workers had gone through the same routine thousands of times without incident. But suddenly the routine changed to violence and death for the patrolman.

Fortunately, such incidents are not daily occurrences. Yet every man who raises his hand to take the oath of a law enforcement officer knows full well that at any subsequent moment he may be called upon to risk and perhaps sacrifice his life for the safety and welfare of the society he is sworn to uphold and protect.

It is no light burden which rests upon the shoulders of these men, young and old, who make up the ranks of our law enforcement officers, and daily carry out the task of providing safety and protection for law-abiding citizens.

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By HAL BOYLE

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NEW YORK(AP) - Things a columnist might never know ii he didnt open his mail:

Santa Claus wont fall asleep in his sled on Christmas Ev^, and if youre smart you wont nap at the wheel of your car if you have to make a long holiday trip. Drowsing drivers cause 70,000 accidents yearly, motor vehicles have caused motore vehicles have caused 1,265,000 deaths in this country in this century? That is double the 605,000 killed in all Americas wars from the Revolution through the battles in Korea.

If cleanliness Is really next to godliness, were surely getting closer to heaven. A survey showed Americans now take 500 million baths a week.

Do TV fans expect too much? Carol Lawrence, co star of the Broadway musical, Saratoga, has this to say: The American public is so sated with talent and with spectacle on television that unless you unscrew your head and throw it at them at the end of your performance theyre not happy.

Man bowed to evolution, but the turtle is one animal that

Other Editors Saying . Health Costs Are High

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By RALPH ROBEY

This is the time when everyone connected with business makes his prediction for the coming twelve months. The number of such forecasts is becoming genuinely prodigious, but presumably they serve a useful purpose.

As usual we shall divide the task into three parts. This week we give a brief summary of where we stand today as regards recovery.

Next week we shall discuss some of the major problems facing the nation. Finally, in the third week we shall balance the two and give conclusions for 1960.

Effects of Steel Strike

In approaching this analysis it is imperative to bear In mind that a vast number of businesses and at least a million individuals were affected by the steel strike. This led to distortions in all of our generally accepted statistics and allowance must be made for this in an appraisal of the present position. Such allowance is a matter of judgment, but it is not too difficult.

Gross National Product, which is the monetary value of all goods and services produced In the nation, hit its low point in the first quarter of 1958. Prom that it rose consistently until the second qusuter of this year. In the third quarter there was a decline of $8 billion, This item is calculated only on a quarterly basis, and the figure for the final three months unquestionably will be up. It is quite clear, however, that it will be some time In 1960 before we crocs the half-trillion dollar

mark.

For over-all industrial production everyone uses the index of the Federal Reserve Board. This index is based on physical units and uses the average of 1947-49 as equal to 100. The all-time high was reached last June and was 155, which means production was 55 per cent above the 1947-49 level. Since then the index has eased off a little, but with steel back in production there will be a sharp recovery.

A Remarkable Record Inventories have shown a remarkable record. At the height of the recession they were being liquidated at a rate of $9 billion a year. In the second quarter of this year they were being accumulated at a rate of $10 billion a year. This was partly in anticipation of the steel strike. In the third quarter, and continuing to the present, we have gone back to inventory liquidation, but this is a temporary development and soon we shall be back building inventories.

Business investment in plant and equipment in 1959 is going to be a little less than has been anticipated. These figures are developed by the Department of Commerce from questionaires sent to business firms. The last survey was made in late October and November. It shows the present plans are for an investment on 8U1 annual basis, of $34 billion in the fourth quarter. The high was in 1957 and was $37 bUlion.

Private housing starts have been declining for several months. The latest figure is for Oc-

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(Hertford County Herald)

Sen. Estes Kefauver has held a Senatorial hearing on the subject of drug prices in this country. The senator says he has proved that drug prices are too high compared to what the drug firms must spend to produce them.

But the question goes beyond that. And it should be approached from a different angle. The really crucial question is how can average Americans afford medical care? The answer is that it is impossible unless there Is some form of compulsory insurance, and some type of regulation of the various independent facets concerned with health. It would not help if drug prices were administered by the government if the government is also at the same time going to let other sectors of the health field operate completely independent.

The high cost of drugs may be completely legitimate. So, too, may the cost of medical service and of hospital care. But saying they are legitimate does not solve the dilemma of the average sick person, who is apt to be financially ruined if hia sickness requires more than passing attention from the medical field.

The answer, on a governmental level, lies in some sort of program to level out the cost of medical services so that the prices can be truly averaged to fit the pocketbook of the average American. Today, under the so-called free enterprise system of medicine, the rich pay heavily, the poor pay nothing, and the middle group the vast majority of uspay just enough to ruin the health ol a pocketbook at about the same rate that it may save the health of a body.

This so-called free system

is especially hard on the folks in the middle because there are so m.any of us and so few of those in the really rich class. Thus, the middle group finds itself, through taxes on the local level, forced to support more and more those who simply cannot support themselves in sickness. The rich mans contribution to this is large individually, but not enough in the whole picture to make much of a dent.

The search for an answer to the medical cost dilemma needs to be much broader than the has asked drug manufacturers. There Is doubt that drug companies are becoming too much like the soap flake companies their product are similar, so they must spend enormous selling costs in order to prove the small differences, or at least to try to convince doctors and druggists that there is a difference. Maybe the regulation that might be laid on the drug industry would be something like restricting their salesmanship practices.

But other fields of the medical world also need attention. There is danger that the Kefauver hearings, by focusing on but one of these facets, may befog the issue and cause a solution to the entire problems of medical costs to be postponed until the day when Americans, hard-pressed by ever-mounting and oppressive health costs, may rise up and demand immediate and drastic action. Then the politicians will act quickly and perhaps harshly.

It is time that the politicians, the medical people, and the public sat down to a real job of working out sane, sensible, and workable plans to make medical costs acceptable and just to all concerned. It is going to take action by all three to make this come true.

Smal,

pretty much refused to. It hasnt changed greatly In some 200 million years.

This sign was observed in a Greenwich Village Beatnik bar: Reservations taken here for lost weekends.

Fewer than five per cent of the people in civilized lands are left-handed. So, where do all the left-handed compliments come from?

Our quotable notables: "There Is no dignity so impressive and independence so important as living within your means, said Calvin Coolidge.

Our favorite gag of the week: Christmas is the time of year when families trim trees and fathers.

Nature study note:A grown lady codfish produces as many as nine million eggs in a single season.

Greeks in this country are noted as restaurant operators. But did you know that about one half of the worlds cargo vessels are controlled by Greek owners?

A hit song today is worth

$20,000 up. but the odds against your being able to turn one out are at least 10,000 to 1. Yet

Sammy Cahn wrote the linics

to Bei Mir Bist du Schoen, one of the big all - time hit

tunes, in exactly 10 minutes.

Opinions

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Advertising Is the power that will make little concerns grow into larger success. It is a science that requires study and be it said, character. It cannot succeed if It is based upon untruth; it must build upon ialth and integrity.Richland (La.) Beacon-News.

The men who laid the foundation for these United States treasured and gave their lives for a democratci, free way of life. It is the responsibility of us all to preserve this govem-m^t as they Intended it to be.'* Salmon (Idaho) Recordcr-Herald.

One parent we know thinks It only fair to apply a withholding tax to the youngsters allowance just so the younger generation can get gradually accustomed to a procedure to which adults are now hardened. Priest River Idaho) Times.

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BY ROGER BABSON Babson Park, Mass.,Young people often ask me whether they should start a business of their own. Of course, not everyone is suited to nmning a business. But success can be attained by those who will first learn the know-how of the type of business they would like to start, or else have as partners those who do.

NATION DEPENDS ON INDEPENDENTLY OWNED BUSINESS In todays rapidly changing world, many young people are scared away from starting or buying a business by the risks Involved. Inflation, high taxes, and necessarily small initial returns lead them to choose the so-called security offered by a supposed permanent position with some large company. Unfortunately, we have made a fesh of such-^^urity!iJji_this country. Many of our young people think it is smarter to achieve "job security than to forego this for the opportunity to own their own business.

So great has become our preoccupation with big business that we have lost sight of the self-controlled businesss contribution to the growth the prosperity of our nation. Before world War I, we were a lanl of small property and business owners belleveing In property rights as well as human rights. Small business, though not popular in recent years, is still one of the bulwarks of our nation which we should strive to strengthen and encourage.

NEED FOR TRAINING Dont go directly from school or college to start or buy a new business. Pew of those who act so rashly achieve success. Some fail, losing not only their money and effort, but also, often, their confidence in themselves. Young people either men or womenwho feel they would like to start a small business of their own should first work for at least two years in a line similar to the one which they wish to enter or else buy control of an established business.

One shoiild be well prepared to take the risks involved in business ownership. Study 'the market for your product or service by subscribing to a trade magazine in the line which you wish to enter. Competition during the next few years may be sharper than it is now for every business. I even predict that there will be a large number of new small business Jailures during the 60s. But j remember that usually only the Inefftclent and the inept are crowded out. Better buy control of some existing successful business.

SPUR TO INCENTIVE I believe In small businesses, not because I think the future for them wUl be an easy one, but because I realize we need small business if our nation Is to grow and prosper in the American tradiUon. Business ownership spurs incentive and develops character. It will also help make our people more conscious of our heritage of liberty. Therefore, when buying control of a business it may be well always to have a number of small minority stockhollers.

The encouragement of small business enterprise is one of the best ways to check the growing trend toward more government control. As the number of self-owned businessmen increases and as they assume more responsibility in civic ana government affairs, the spread of the federal bureaucracy will be slowed.

GOVERNMENT AID TO SMALL BUSINESS The Federal Department of Commerce and many State and local government agencies offer help to the small businessman. Not long ago three major bills favoring small business passed Congress and were signed by the President. These provided long-needed tax relief for small business. Another suggestion is to join the National Small Business Men's Association, 163 North Union Street, Akron Ohio.

Under the Sm%U^Business Investment Act, the federal government also sponsors investr ment companies whose primary purpose is to provide venture capital for small and expanding (Continued on Page 6)

I960 To See ADartments Boom

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE DEVIL'S WEAPON Hate!

This vile thing is of the devil. It occurs when the life of an individual loses its orientation. We are endowed with certain capacities which make it possible for us to live satisfactory lives and to help those with whom we come in contact. Some people seem to have within them an evil, poisonous secretion which gets into their glands and into their bloodstream and makes them hate everyone who opposes them and every project they cannot manage. Sometimes this hate takes the form of revenge for past injuries or acts which were presumed to be such. At other times it turns one aginst members of his own family, blames them for his failures,

attributes to them every variety of evil motive. Hitler hated certain races and sought to exterminate them. There have been other times in history when people sometimes believing they were doing Gods service by their crueltyattempted to wipe out certain groups and very often succeeded in doing so.

Sometimes hate is a disease which lays hold on the soul. At other times it appears to be a poison which man with bitterness in his own nature will drink down as a horrible libation. Sometimes as the result of rough and unjust treatment peoples lives shrivel up into a hate complex bent on injuring as many of the human race as possible.

Hate Ls the devils weapon. II is the badge of santanic evil.

By ELMER ROESSNER An apartment-house building boom seems certain In Sixty.

It is already shaping up. When starts in the next ten days are reckoned. It Is probable that the record of 250,000 units In a single year, set back in 1928, may be broken.

And starts in 1960 may approach 300,000 units. A unit is dwelling space for one family; a single-family house is one unit; a 48-apartment building counts for 48 units.

The swing toward more apartment units and fewer singlefamily and two-family units wUl probably persist aU through the coming year and into several years beyond. However, because of the increase in housing needs, the decline in smaU homes will be slight.

WHY THE SWITCH The basic reason for more apartment building is simply that the demand for private houses is slowing down, whUe

the demand for apartments is growing. ^

Behind the generalization are some specific reasons:

1. The population explosion, and the rapid expansion of met-tropolitan areas, are forcing single-home buyers further and further out into the pastures so far that transportation becomes prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. Some of the new developments in the New York metropolitan area are 50 or more mUes away from Wall Street or Times Square. They may require four hours a day getting to and from work, over commuter lines that are falling apart or going broke.

2. Related to the distance factor are land prices. They are rising so fast and so far that fewer famUies can afford the cost of a plot large enough for a single-family home. The land on which an apartment is built may be much more expensive, but each familys rent pays for only a tiny part of the total amorti

zation and taxes.

OTHER FACTORS

3. There is some reaction against the joys of homeowner-ship. MSwing lawns, raking leaves and shoveling snow may seem Uke gay adventures to a new home owner, but these tend to pall as men of the famUy age.

4. The aging of many apartment buildings, especially those put up in the boom of 1928 or earlier, means that many replacements will be needed soon.

5. Aging of many private homes Is also a factor. Many ol those erected immediately after the warespecially by builders trying to make a quick buck out of the enormous demandare in sorry shape. Families hurt by this super-deterloratlon will want somebody else, such as an apartment-house owner, to carry the risk from now on out. HARDER TO RAISE MONEY

6. Private-home financing is getting more difficult. The VA loan is about ended and when

it expires, no one will be able to buy even the cheapest house with a down payment of less than 3 per cent. In the open market, down pajrments may be even higher, and interest rates quite stiff.

The day is gone when nothing more than a dream could be parlayed into six rooms and a mortgage. Today, even if young couples have a sizeahle down payment and a willingness to take on* a mortgage at high interest rates, they may have difficulty in finding a lender.

On the other hand, insurance. pension and trust funds are seeking safe places for their accumulating hoards. They find it much more convenient to loan large sumssuch as for an apartment house complexthan to loan small amounts on private homes.

This money tightness may be the largest single factor in shifting home-bulldlng toward gparb-menu.

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