f>AGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOll, GREENVILLE. N. C

Saturdajr, December 26, 1959

Saturdajr, December 26, 1959

Cant Overlook The Smaller Nations

The Big Pinch

It shouldnt take much imagination by citizens of the largest and most powerful nations of the world to understand why officials and citizens of smaller nations may look with some misgivings on what might come from the proposed summit conference in April.

In Paris next April the heads of state of four of the most powerful nations of the world will sit down together to discuss world problems in an effort to ease international tensions.. With this much all of the nations, large and small, are in accord. If the big powers can effect agreemente or understandings which will ease international tension and give a greater stability to peace a great deal will have been accomplished.

But what sort of compromises will have to be evolved for such understandings to be reached? What concessions will have to be made by the major powers? And perhaps of even more importance to the smaller nations, who will be most directly affected by such concessions?

It should be remembered that the small nations of the free world look to the United States. Great Britain and France for a major portion of their security against aggression and as the most important factor in preserving their national integrity and individual citizen freedoms. They are also aware, as w'e should certainly be, of the divergent viewpoint which small nations and major powers may have on specific international questions.

A specific concession to the Soviet Union at some remote spot on the globe far removed from the United

!r^ost-Christmas .etter To Santa

By LYNN NISBET Dear Santa Claus:

' I didnt bother you with a letter before Christmas while you were so busy lookinR after the little people. You did a magnificent job making them happy, for which I join millions of parents and grandparents in thanking you. You have earned a test, but we cant let you rest very long.

Because. Santa, you must realize that we old folks depend on you even more than the kids do. You have been so generous with u.s that we have come to expect you to take care of all our problems, So, just as soon as you catch your breath and before you get too busy wdth the kids for next Christmas, we want you to think about us. Our needs are much greater. We cannot be content with toys and little gadgets. We think big. We want Cadillacs and jets; color television and unrigged programs; air conditioned homes .surround-

States may seem of little impedance to high officials of this nation. On the other hand, this seemingly slight concession on the part of the West as a whole may be of vital importance to a tiny nation already unstable because of hostile pressures around it and struggling within for economic and political stability.

The Big Three Western leaders must also realize that when they go to Paris they will in effect be speaking for all the free world as well as for themselves. For without the Big Three the rest of the free world would be at the mercy of the Soviet Union. The little nations cannot help but feel uneasy when they are forced to assume the role of sitting on the outside looking in while their big brothers made decisions which might well determine their future.

Prior to the summit meeting in Paris the major Western powers must make special and careful efforts to consult with all the smaller nations of the free world, not only giving them assurances that their interests will not be jeopardized at Paris, but also affording each nation the opportunity to help develop basic policy in areas of specific importance to their national interests.

Insofar as possible the Western leaders must go to Paris with the assurance that the Western nations, large and small, are in complete harmony on basic points, and also with the knowledge that they have the confidence of the smaller nations in dealing at a high level with the Soviet Union.

Theyd Much Prefer To Keep A Railroad

Wilmington citizens are no doubt pleased and grateful for the gift of land and four large buildings which has been tendered the city by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.

Even so, most Wilmington citizens, we imagine, feel the giftas much as it may be appreciatedis

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education witb lower taxesand such things, tangible and otherwise.

In many respects w'e are more Impatient than the youngsters, but we do not expect all of thi.s during Christmas week. Well give you nearly all of next year to deliver. Most of our requests are rather general but we have a few specifics.

The following list Is incomplete and the items are not in order of importance or urgency.

They are jotted douTi just as they come to mind and will have to sort them out and fit delivery Into your schedule. But remember, Santa, we cant do without any of them and stay happy.

Luther Hodges has been a good Govesior for longer time than any other person in more than a century, but he cant be Governor anymore after January of 1961. So please bring him the nomination as Vice President; and if you cant do that, please help him to gue.ss right on the Democratic nominee for President so he can get a good cabinet or ambassadorial appointment. (That request, of course, contemplates that you will bring the Democratic party victory in November, in spite of Paul BuUers efforts to defeat It.)

You know how diligently Henry Belk. editor of the Gold.-boro News-Argus, and his coN league.s have crusaded for the cultural and economic development of Eastern North Carolina If you can speed up fulfilment of their hopes you will make a lot of m very happy. That request includes obtaining a good president for East Carolina College.

All those fine cars and

truck.s you have brought u.s in the past need better ways to get around. So please bring us a toll-free bridge across the Alligator river, a high level bridge at Wilmington and finish up the sup-cr-duper highway at Gastonia.

Help Prank Crane, Sam Burrow and others Interested in the minimum wage law to get a plan that will accomplish at least a part of their desired objectives.

Along that same line, Santa, help Jim Currie and his colleagues, a.s well as employers and employees in both private and public enterprise, to keep their sanity (and tempers while working out the State Income tax withholding sy.stem.

Please, and we do mean please, help Col. Bill Bailey and the other po-isom officials to solve the problems of Ivy Bluff,

Yank Stewart and the Involved procedures of effectuating the Prison Enterprises program.

I hope you c;an bring new

But the situation gives the

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go around, please treat the com- minirton on a permanent basis. Empty ACL buildings relentless

in Wilmingtoneven if they do _ belong to the city to

By ALVIN TAYLOR

The Early Bird Says

a poor consolation prize for losing the headquarters of the ACL to Jacksonville, Fla.

Almost 1,000 employes of the railroad plus their families will be involved in the shift next summer when the ACL moves its headquarters and general offices from Wilmington to Jacksonville. Then, for the first time in almost a century and a quarter, Wilmington

will he without the headquarter. for a railroad. what with aU the tuaa about

It was back in 1840 that the headquarters of the ^l^ether television shows are Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, predecessor of the beforehand for presenta-

-A_CL, .set up its offices in Wilmington. Over the period pTay it'la(e'anflticra ho ot years the railroad grew in importance, and with the top of this column, its growth the number of employes in the Wilmington Because, you see. while this ^ offices and the economic importance of the headquar- packages,""bu*! There is m

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them and learned what they hold.

Alas, though newspaper

prepare their copy several days in advance at times, they dont give them the power to see into the future.

So well know by the time this is read, exactly whats in all

being

ten on Wednesday, two days be-

ters to the city also grew.

The city of Wilmington, we are confident, will Christmas, graciously accept the unique gift of buildings and land ^ practice isnt unusual,

from the departing ACL, but if the city. official. and pIpeJTopy ppadVveTS

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ed by self-mowing lawns good business to every community, they would much prefer the ACL keep the buildings government and progressive If you do not have enough to and the employes which the buildings house in Wil-

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way we can pass these gems from the future on to Reflector readersat least not in todays column.

So another Christmas has come and gone. Its true were a day late but wed like to wish all loyal (and otherwise) readers of this column a Merry Chi'istmas for 1960.

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munities like you do the kinds bring the best to those who have show'n they deserve It. As I told you. we have come to expect Santa Claus to bring us everything. I still think the good folks who try to help themselves are entitled to more con sideraticm than tho^ who just sit back and wait for you. Finally, Santa, this big request. It may be beyond your almost unlimited capacity, but do your best: Please bring to the voters of North Carolina wisdom enough to select the best officials from among the candidates on the ballot; bring to the officers elected the intelligent humility to recognize that they are servants of the people, and not bosses; and to those candidates who may be defeated the consciousness that they still owe to their State and their country much more^ than it ever could possibly owe them.

I know full well that you operate on worldwide scope. I know, too, that you give individual attention to the letter of every child among the millions who wTite you. So, please, Santa, give a little consideration to ths letter about North Carolina and help us through the difficult period of next year.

For myself, personally, I dont a.sk much. Just a little raise in pay to offset the increa.sed co.st of livingincluding taxes. Ill settle for less than half the pay raises accorded the officials vhose salary I help to pay, or the labor union raises 'which I pay through higher prices for everything I have to buy to eat or wearor see.

Your very truly,

Lynn

by the time they are vacatedwill present a new and uncomfortable sight for the people of that city.

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we must use the past tense, although we are still wondering whats in those brightly wrapped packages with Alvin on the card.

By the time this is read we will have long ago torn into

We went to the Jaycee Christmas party Tuesday night.

Now hold on there, fellow Jay-cees, dont leave town yet. If you wont tell on us, we won tell on you.

All we were going to say is that the buffet style meal served at the Country Club that night was one of the best weve had in a long time.

And that comes from a man who, as a newspaperman, sees a lot of the banquet circuit.

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More and more voices are being raised to alert the world to the dangers of its rising population.

Last week the American Public Health Association, making the first policy statement ever issued on the subject, called soaring population growth a threat to the health of millions and asked for more attention to the means of regulating family size,

U.S. News and World Report dramatized the issue by interviewing two expertsSir Charles Darwin, distinguished BritLsh scientist, and Prof. Joseph J. Spengler, director of graduate studies in economics at Duke University.

While one tends to think that over-population will mostly affect the burgeoning new nations of Asia. Africa and the Middle Ea.st, Professor Spengler tells how the population ex-f plosion will influence life in the United States.

There will be enough food, predicts Professor Spengler. to feed the 660,0000,000 Americans expected to be inhabiting thi.s country by the year 20.=10, and there will be enough jobs for them, but the Duke economist has this question: Are we better off it we have 600,000,000 rather than 300,000.000 people, even granted that grass and national pro-ducLs per head would go up 1 or 2 per cent a year?

I happen to think, he comments, that wed be better off with a smaller number 3,-000,000.

Here is how he reaches that conclusion:

Numbers will become a problem even for the United States, though it will not assume the extreme form encountered in Asia. Africa and parts of Latin America. It will slow down the rate of income growth per capita. It will prevent the .solution of many of our urban problems. And it will intensify the shotage of all things in comparatively fixed supply, .such a.s living space, resort areas, landed property on or near b<*aehes. and productive agents and thase

raw materials for which, speaking economically and technologically. comparable substitutes cannot be found

Professor Spengler warns, too. that population growth does not guarantee endless prosperity, as some busine.ssmen and others tend to think. It solves only temporarily certain problems while creating bigger ones. It resembles, he said, the dope a sick man takes, only in the end to become a dope addict and hence sicker than ever.

So the worlds population explosion is not some farfetched, remote matter that should give Americans little concern. On the contrary, It is probably the overriding problem today.

Even right here in North Carolina, struggling with iLs own industrial revolution and endowed still With two largely underdeveloped areas, thought must be given to the future that over-crowdin.g eventually will bring.

On the international level Sir Julian Huxley, the British biologist, propased to cope with the world rLsing population.

Statistics show, he said, that the very continuance 40 human civilization is now threatened, rot merely by the passibility of nuclear war, but even more gravely by overpopulation. AU the ri.sk of being called a neo-Malthusian. he warned:

Unless we do something, human Evolution will regress, man will become less civilized, will achieve less fulfillment and will be subject to more frustrations and misery.

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(Chattanooga News-Free Press)

They call it Freeborn County, Freeborn County is in Minnesota, and in that county is t towm called Albert Lea. In Albert Lea, the Wilson & Co. meat packing plant is a primary source of employment. There are two particular groups of people in the new's i Albert Lea. Those in one large group belong to the United Packinghouse Workers. They decided to walk off their jobs at Wilson & Co., and to strike.

The other group (numbering about .500) is compased of people w'ho simply want to work, and have been going peacefully to and from the Wilson plant, doing their jobs, causing no trouble, breaking no laws. This the union strikers didnt like. So a thousand of them gathered at the WUsprt plant. When the willing workers drove by, mobsters among the thousafid threw'' huge rocks through car windows. Some cars were turned over. Some people were injured-

But doesnt Albert Lea have policemen? Yes. Where were the policemen? They were present when the violence took place. What did the policemen do? They stood by. watched, joked and laughed. The policemen belong to a union, too. They are members of Local 1018 of the County and Municipal Employes Union, AFL-CIO. They did not curb the labor union gangsters.

Minnesota has a governor

whase name is Freeman. The situation got so bad. Gov Orville Freeman declared martial law and sent in the National Guard to take over. The troops came. They did what the labor union gangsters could not do. The National Guard closed the plant, ordered the peaceful workers to go home and put them out of work.

The violent strikers laughed as they watched the National Guardsmen, with fixed bayonets, close up the plant. One of the mobsters gestured toward the National Guard force and remarked: It makes a beautiful picket line, doesnt it?

Thus when law and order finally came to Albert Lea, it came to penalize the peaceful, willing workers. It came to penalize the lawful, peaceful employer. It came to do the work of the mob that was guilty of unconscionable violence.

Yes. they call it Freeborn County. But it takes more than being freeborn to stay free. Oh, but Albert Lea is far away in Minnesota. Why should that concern Americans elsewhere? Albert Lea is in America, and when freedom and decency and right and law can be so thwarted anywhere in this country, it should be of deep concern to all Americans. The Injastice in Albert Lea has been repeated throughout the land becaase too many, too often, have looked aw'ay until it was too late.

Jesus was the setting forth of Gods love with reference to what we may call the human situation. The love of God is bigger than anything we can imagine. It may be performing functions throughout the vast universe of which we know nothing and about which we could not understand. But all we can understand we do understand by looking at Jesus. He was Gods love implemented for us.

Human life was one thing when Jesus was born in the Bethlehem manager. It has been a different thing ever since.

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There are all kind.s of movements .such as the movement for peace, for happiness, for relief and so on. The greatest movement on foot In this holiday season is that of pedestrians trying to get out of the way of speeding automobiles. Willi-amston Enterprise.

There were sliced ham, string beans, chicken and ham salad, pickles, celery and several

schedules require columnists to ' things we didnt quite recognize.

But it was all mighty tasty.

All-in-all it was a very nice Christmas party for the Jaycees and their ladies.

Strength ^ For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS HE CHANGED EVERYTHING

This is a time for us to remember that through the birth of a baby bom in a Palestinian stable the stream of human history was changed.

The enemies of the Christian movement were correct when, many years after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, they declared that His disciples were turning the world upside down. Je;sus did exactly that. He turned the human sense of values upside down. He turned human standards of behaviour upside down. He changed human objectives so that it became more noble to serve than to conquer. He gave a ne.w value to the v.'ord treasure, for the treasure upon which He put His stamp of approval was vastly different from what men had approved up to that time.

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By KENNETH ISHH AMAMI-OSHIMA, Japan (AP) Prom her appearance and talk she * a simple country girl. But to the local villagers, 20-ycar-old Natsuko Tatsuki is a living goddess.

For Natsuko is a Noro' a diety of an almost extinct faith whose very continuance reflects the backwardness of the Amaml-Oshima island group 200 miles southwest of Japans southern tip.

Most of the year, Natsuko ^ works as a weaver in a small textile factOTy in Daikuma village located on Amami-Oshima, the largest of the five Islands In the group. And she receives no preferential treatment.

But three days a year<ai the fire, water and rice festivals Natsuko wields absolute power over the villagers who conduct primitive ceremonies and present her with food offerings in the hope she will grant them prosperity.

became a goddess when I was 9 years old. said Natsuko in a rare Interview. Villagers refused a request to photgraph her In her ceremonial garb saying It would be sacreligious.

The Noro before me was my great-aunt. She died when she was 90, Natsuko said. Then the people of the village consulted the fortune tellers and I was chosen to succeed her.

Natsuko has two ladies-ln-waltlng and 13 attendants, also women to assist her In her ceremonial duties conducted in a thatch - roof house provided her by the village.

Because Noro-lsm is strictly a matriarchal affair, the village menfolk, during ceremonies, are forbidden to gaze dlrecy tato Natsukos face.

Noro-lsm is believed to have its beginnings in Shamanism, the ancient precursor of Japans Shintoism. Shamanism is a belief in the control of spirits by a medicine man.

In early times, these female deities held absolute power, but gradually they became ceremonial adjuncts to the local political ruler.

Though at one time th^e was a Noro in every village, today Daikuma is hte only place where Noro-lsm remains as a recognizable belief,

Natsuko, whose job of deity*

Is a lifetime one, matt*-of-factly accepts thp honor accorded her, Its my duty to the village, she says.

But, like other girls, she wants one day to get married,

ODinions

'h Brief

The present national d^t, one that must be paid, exceed* the total average gross earnings of all the nations wage earners for a period greater than a year. Laurel (Montana) Outlook,

We Americans ought to be thankful, not only for free .speech, but also for the fact there is no law to compel us to listen to some of it. Oglethorpe County (Ga.) Echo.

Probably the most disappointed people In the w(wrld are those who get what is coming to them.Hemet (Calif) News.

Harold Stassen must believe in the old adage: If at, flr*t you dont succeed try a-grin and a-grin.Miami Herald.

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THE UNITED WAT

Quote.... Do It Yourself And Get It Done

Where does the fault lie with the students or with the colleges? Why have primary teaohei.s almost as many

hours in e.ducation, health and physical education a.s in all English a*iid .social .science studie.s? Why do they .sj>end so much tune on vocational rather than academic subject.^? Greensboro Daily New,s.

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By ELMER ROES.SNER

This true story may have somie lessons for business:

Robert Kaye, New York publisher, vLsited hi.s friend, Victor Scales, the writer, in a hospital on a recent Saturday. He found Mr. Scales, a six-fool-four, 260 pounder, wedged in a tiny armchair in his room.

rni in agony, the big man said. The doctor wants me to sit up a certain number of hours every day. and thus Is the largest chair in the hospital.

With Christmas approaching, Mr. Kaye declared. Victor, you are yoing to have .a cl\air commensurate with your fr^ie. Im going to get you onA overstuffed ^ and with a foot rest.

Failing to find what he wanted In three small stores, he went to one of the largest furnittire .store,s in the arca. It had a hundred chair,s on the floor, iiiflud-ing a $3.5 on ethat exactly fitted the majesty of Victor bValrs.

Delivery luesday, said the.

salesman. Mr. Kaye said that it was an emergency. Our men dont work Saturdays and with weekend sales, Ttiesday is the bast we ' can do."

Cant' you hire some deliveryman in the neighborhood? persLsted, Mr. Kaye.

Ho'ffa would shut us down for three weeks! the salesman exclaimed.

The publisher scouted the 'neighborhood and found a small truck parked in front of a liquor store. He asked the proprietor w ho owned the. trtick.

"I never saw it before. the store owner said.

Mr. Kaye flipped his wallet open for a second, the way G-men show their credentials on television. He flashed only his membership card In the Over-.sea.s Pre.s.s Club, but the liquor .store man saw only .something ipipre.s,sivp with a glint of gold.

Now do you want to talk? Mr. Kaye growled;

Ask in the vegetable market

across the street. the liquor store man whispered.

MORE PROBLEMS

The' man in the vegetablje shop didnt know anythhig. Mr. Kaye again flashed the golden card. A young man ^ame out from behind a pile of crates Ill get that tail light fixed Monday, he said. Honest I will, mister.

Im overlooking that, Mr. Kaye said gruffly. Were going to make an important emergency delivery right now.

He ordered the youth to drive . to the store and park in a no-parking zone He paid for the chaii and he, the salesman anc; the youth loaded it oq the truck A few minutes later, with the help of several orderlies, it was rolled into Mr. Scales room The truck driver was given $10

Victor Scales Isnt makir. Chri.stma.s this year. But he hn several things ,jo comfort hi in his la.st da>)s. He hnd comfort of a ch^' worthy o

frame. He had th* omfort f knowing that a friend would go out and break the rule* for him. And he had the comfort ot knowhig Mr. Kaye had proved the truth again of eomethint Mr. Scales had said often:

You can get anything in thla world done if you do it yourself. ODD BITS AND PIECES OF BUSINESS NEWS A new line of vibration-damping felt pads has the hip-hip hooray name of Red-White-N-Bluo

Vibra-Sorb pads. . .Internal Revenue rulings prohibit deducUon for costs of ging to and from home to job. but a University of Hawaii professor won a tax court i.uling that he would deduct the casts of going from his job

on the campus to a second job

caching real estate in downtown lonolulu. . .A new machine

ashes lettuce heads and wraps 'm in perforated film, preven-0 wa.slage of the outer leaves,

1 contain most of the

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