PACE FOUKFHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE. H. C

fhurxlay, December 31, 19S9

Thursday, December 31, 1959

You Two Are Just Alike

Local Cooperation Is Imperative

Prompt and careful attention should be given assertions that failure of courts around the state to report convictions is weakening the states point system for suspending licenses of habitual traffic violators.

The point system law, passed by the 1959 General Assembly, is generally recognized as sound legislation which can contribute appreciably to better safety on the state s highways. Like all other such regulations however, its effectiveness depends upon how well it

is administered.

The fact that the l^w exists means little unless it is enforced. And certainly the Department of Motor V'ehicles cannot carry out its responsibility under the law unless it receives the necessary reports from courts pertaining to convictions for traffic violations.

If, as it has been asserted, the courts are not con-si.stent in reporting traffic violation convictions to the Department of i\lotor Vehicles, that in itself may ac-c(eunt for the fact that \'ry few drivers licenses have so far been susiiended under the point system. If the convictions are not reported to the Department regularly, the new law will mean little to North Carolina -so far as suspending licenses of habitual violators are concerned.

It must be recognized that there are ilerally hundreds of lower courts in North Carolina which are empowered to hear traffic ci^es. Many of these courts, because ^f lack of Adequate personnel, have difficulty in keeping proper records and making proper reports

such as the ones required if the point system law is to be effectively carried out. It must also be realized, however, that unless some method is found for effectively collecting these reports, the point system law will do the job it is intended to do.

The best approach to the problem of getting these reports to Raleigh, it seems to us, is to attack the problem at the local level where the courts are. Perhaps the governing board of each municipality which has a court could take upon itself the responsibility of seeing that its court makes proper reports. The board of commissioners of each county could initiate action to see that courts under its jurisdiction make the necessary reports on traffic convictions.

Officials of local courts and officials of local governments have tiie responsibility of cooperating to the fullest extent with state officials in seeing that the point system law is not weakened by a breakdown in the reporting of violations. The operation of the law is important to better highway safety in every county in North Carolina, and as such is important to the citizens of eyery county and community in the state.

It must not be rendered ineffective by lack of cooperation of courts at the local level throughout the state.

Marks An Enc.

Encouraging Year In The Tobacco Industry

Of Both Years

Bv LYNN NISBET YEARS ENDThe stroke of midnight Thursday will mark the end of two yearsthe final passing of one. the beginning of another. Sentimentalists are prone to depict one as a decrepit old man with a long beard, clad in a flimsy robe and toting a scythe, despondently Lmping off the field of life; the other as a plump and rosy infant wearing nothing but a vacuous smile.

This concept Ls asinine and completely false. Sure. 19.59 is oldbut not senile; and 1960 is young but not puerile. The transfer of responsibility is being made between two strong men. each with full mental capacity to understand and physical strength to assume the ob- ligations imposed.

Old man Fifty-Nine walks off with head erect, conscious that he has made many mistakes, but with pride of great accomplishment. Young man Sixty strides boldly on with confidence in his ability to carry the load for twelve months and then turn the job over to another strong man who will be known as Sixty-One. It would be a terrific blow to his morale if he thought he would be followed by a simpleton kid.

The prideful accomplishments of Fifty-Nine were made possible by contributions of all his predecessors and the faith he had that Sixty would carry on from where he quit. Young Sixty accepts the challenge and the torch with a.ssurance because of hi* confidence in the past and his faith in the future.

Away ailb the idea of a decrepit senue and an idiotic baby. At midnight Thursday two Etrona men will change places and the march of progress will be accelerated.

CONTINUITY- There is no-guch thing as absolute beginning or end. The turning of the pages of a calendar or the putting up of new calendars on

the wall when the year date changes have little significance.

The idea that the new year presents an unblemished page

upon which a completely new record may be written Ls un

tenable. There are inescapable and inevitable carry - overs representing unfinished business. In some stances it would be pleasant to forget the pa.st and to make a new start. In general it would be a horrible concept that the last day of a year mean.* absolute end of all past efforts and hopes, and that we had to .start all over again without plan to guftle us. ^

The book which Old Fifty-Nine hands to Young Sixty contains few blank pages. There are a few. becau.'^e some things will be started next year whirh have not been thought of before, All the pages will be clean in the sease that no-

tatioas will be about live matters only. Utter failures and fiiiLshed business recorded by Flfty-Nine will not be carried forward. They go into the permanent archives"nor all your piety and wit can cancel half a line, nor all your tears blot cut a word of it.

We are not greatly concerned about the unchangeable record of the past. Our interest Ls in the promise of continuing growth. That promLse is supported by the knowledge that Young Sixty realizes he is the irflieritor of all the ages, and our belief that he Ls a worthy heir and will increase his patrimony.

1960The year 1960 can be an f vent fill one for the world, the nation and our own State- Future hLstorians may be able to look back upon it as the time when mankind came into fuller realization of the opportunities and responsibilities imposed by a shrinking world.

Summit conferences of economic and political leaders of all nations are facing up to common problems to greater degree than ever before. The United Slates will elect a new President whose major task will be to recapture the world prestige which we have lost.

North Carolina will elect a new Governor to succeed one who has held office longer than any predecessor and w^ho has established a record of vigorous leadership unequaled in State liLstory. The 1960 election may determine whether North Carolina will continue its present course toward economic superiority or change direction toward other objectives.

All of these worldwide, national and state developments will be largely governed by what has gone before. Decisions made by individuals in 1960 which will influence all the rest of their lives, also will be controlled by the past. None can be entirely independent.

CHEERIO -As Fifty-Nine moves off the scene and Sixty comes on. lets not think of an ancient weakling or a puling infant. Lets give a lusty cheer for two virile fellows, whom the Head Coach of human destinies has seen fit to switchjust as the football coach sends in new strength to complete the game. The play doesnt stop and start all over again when a substitute goes in.

Cheers and goodbye to you, Fifty-Nine - Youve done a swell job. Of course, you made some mistake.^, but you earned a high place in history.

Cheers and welcome to you, Sixty. We dont expect perfection. but we do count on you strengthening the team and getting u.s closer to our ultimate goal. And remember. Sixty, you are not entirely on your own. You have the wondrous heritage of all the years that have gone before.

In spite ofAvarninga from a number of sources including an official government agency that there might be a connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, Americans increased their consumption of cigarettes by four and one-half per cent in 1959.

This fad suggests that the American people are still waiting for some conclusive proof of a link between cigarettes and cancer before they abandon cigarettes. So far, in the mind of the public apparently, no such conclusive proof has been forthcoming in spite ot a waniing iate in the year from an official government source-

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Dividec.

By Two

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP)Classlesa America tonight will Be divided into two classes.

They will ctmsist of people who intend going to a Ne^ Years Eve party even if It klUs them, and people who say, T wouldnt be caught dead at a New Years Eve party.

The second group is distinctly Intellectual and highbrow. Its members dismiss as lowbrow and mentally dbildlch anyons who enjoys anything as incredibly gauche and naive as a New Years celebration. Your trus highbrow would rather lose a front tooth than be found enjoying himself In public fun.

However, there ara a number of constructive ways to spend New Years Eve without imbibing yourself blind at a raffish and raucous party.

Here are a few tips:

If you have been postponing having your appendix taken out, tonight is the time to have it removed. There is no safer place on New Years Eve than a good hospital. And your surgeon will thank you. You will have kept him from starting 1960 with a hangover.

Hold an old-fashioned taffy pull in your kitchen. By the time you scrape the sticky stuff off your hands. It will be after midnight.

The increase in cigarette consumption during the past year is an encouraging sign for the tobacco producing areas of the South such as Eastern North Carolina. While the actual quantityYof tobacco used to produce the larger number of cigarettes did not increase appreciably over last year, the"fact that a greater demand is being made for the product suggests there will be no decrease in the domestic demand for tobacco. If cigarette production continues to rise in 1960 as it did in 1959, a larger quantity of domestic tobacco will be required in spite of greater utilization of the tobacco leaf by manufacturers, their use of filters and their increased use of foreign tobaccos.

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Peek Into A Crystal BaL

Get out a pad and some pencils and begin figuring how you can pay your Christmas bills and still meet your income taxes, Before you know it youll be worn and drawnand itll be dawn.

Cigarette production at record levels in 1959 adds further strength to the prospect that tobacco acreage allotments will have to be increased by 1961 to meet the growing demand for tobacco both at home and abroad. That in itself is an encouraging sign for farmers who have seen their tobacco acreage allotments gradually shrink over a period of several years. It may well be that the turning point has been reached and that acreage allotmentvS will in the future be gradually increased from year to year to cope with the greater demand for tobacco.

And so ends another year at midnight tonight, that is.

Old 1959, battered by the inhabitants of the world retire.* from the scene, and 1960 full of vim and vigor begins his reign.

This is the time of year when mo.st columnists put on their turbans, turn the lights down low and peer into the dark future to come up with fascinating predictions for the coming year.

We didnt want to be left out so we pulled out our crystal ball, spirited out of Tibet with Buddhist priests in hot pursuit, and came up with the following giliranteed predictions for 1960.

We predict that weather will continue to be the hottest news item day-in and day-out for Pitt county. There will be some

snow, at least one hail storm, at least one tornado and at least one hurricane warning during the year.

That ground will be broken for the eagerly awaited Voice of America transmitters and the projects will be completed and in operation sometime during 1962.

That there will be at least two million-dollar producers among Greenvilles many insurance-men during 1960. Because of this, 10 percent of the agents now operating will decide that there is no more insurance to be sold. Consequently, they will quit the business. However numbers of persons in other fields will decide life insurance is for them. Thus at years end. there will be 20 percent more agents than at present.

Other Editors SayinQ

All-in-all 1959 provided encouraging signa for the Back To Long Underwear

future of the tobacco industry and the areas whose economy is heavily dependent upon the production and manufacture of tobacco.

One Convention

(Ooldsboro News-Argus)

Men made a bad mistake w'hen he discarded long under-

Outlook Is Dul.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)The Republicans 1960 convention should be one of the dullest of the century unless they can find a way to jazz it up.

Vice President Richard M. Nixonas of this minute, with New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller stepping asideseems certain to get the presidential nomination at the convention which opens in Chicago July 25.

If he gets it without opposition, that will be the first time in this century it has happened except when a president was being renominated. Its hardly an exciting way to start a campaign against steamed-up Democrats.

Rockefellers ice-cold and dead-Rim statement removing hirruself from the race was not the kind to create party harmony. The coldness and the aim were directed squarely at the Republican party bosses-

They gave him the chilly shoulder in big doses on his last Midwestern trip. It was after this trip he decided not to fight Nixon for the nomination.

Mary McGrory in the Washington Star said Tuesday that in Milwaukee party leaders bought blocks of ticke|s for the luncheon at whh Rockefeller spoke and he faced a sea of vacant chaiis-

. If they were dedicated Nixon fans and thus wanted to discourage Rockefeller, they succeeded. But perhaps they and others like them played it a little too cute. Already some opposition to the basses Ls appealing in Republican ranks.

Tuesday the New Hampshire Draft Rockefeller" committee , turned down an invitation to join the Nixon for President camp, sa.ving it has no authority to commit its members.

In Los Angeles the Califor-nians-for-Rockefeller organization said it intends to start a draft of the New York governor for the Republican nomination.

The groups board of directors issued a statement saying; We are convinced that the present leadership of the party has its hands tied by political applications and is stifling the true expression of voter preference.

Maybe these signs of discontent will melt away and Nixon will have an unwrinkled red carpet waiting for him at the convention. But Rockefellers withdrawal statement contained indications that he may be critical of both the party and the Eisenhower administration between now and convention time. He has been critical in the past few months. He said he would continue to speak with full freedom.

It .seems fair to put this interpretation on Rockefellers statement: He was. in effect, telling rank-and-file Republicans the party bo.*se.s had deprived them of a chance to choose between him and Nixon.

He said "The great majority of those who will control the Republican convention .stand opposed to any contest for the nomination." He could have .said the majority of the convention conti-ollers wanted Nixon.

But by saying they didnt want a contest, as he went on to explain. he showed how the rank-and-file therefore would be deprived of a chance to make their own feelings understood.

The only way left open to him in trying to overcome the bosses opposition(^'as to go into state primaries where, before the convention, the average Republican voter could choase between him and Nixon in a way the bOvS.ses could not ignore.

wear.

In Grandfathers day in these parts most of us dwelled in houses which were not tight against the wind and cold. You could throw a good sized cat through some of the cracks in the floor. Windows were so loose that the blue north wind howled through them with sE weird song on its lip.s, much like the sizzling of telegraph wires you listened to as a boy.

Doors were so poorly fitted into the openings you would run your finger between them and the jambs.

Heat for the homes as we know it today had not been dreamed of. You warmed one side at a time before the open fireplace. Probably the only real warm room of the house during coldest days was the cozy kitchen where the big stove glowed cheerily.

You went to bed nights in a room where the water would freeze in the wash bowl on the dresser before morning. If you were a sissy you warmed yourself a brick and put it in the bed where your feet would hit.

As we built houses tighter and developed improved heating systems, we found our bodies too warm when we remained indoors.

So we discarded long ynder-wear and turned to scanties and shorts. That was the mistake.

Even when we now spend much of our time out of the house in the practically air tight auto, there are moments when we must walk in the open.

Then it is that we are not properly clothed. Our body heat Ls not protected from the bite of the temperature, the humidity and the wind.

An old friend is of the firm conviction that discarding of long underwear has added to the ills of man. He mentions particularly rheumatism, arthritis, bursitis, and the general field of aches and pains of the joints.

Maybe we could with impurity go abroad in hard winter with todays clothing if the air was still. But there is the winter wind.

That some of Greenvilles deplorably narrow streets will be widened.

That ten new subdivision areas will receive final approval of the City Council. Of this number, three will actually be opened.

That this will be one of the better growing seasons for tobacco and, because farmers will plant old line varieties, prices will be good next fall.

That, despite this, farmers will declare the year just average.

That severl local attorneys will close down their offices as unnecessary and move entirely to a certain local drug store where they conducted all their business this year any way.

That the number of local banks will finally pass the number of service stations and a new era will dawn locally. Fill er up will take on an entirely new meaning among local citizens.

That at least one new industry Will be announced for construction in Greenville.

That several teachers will leave the county and city school systems, declaring as they depart that they can make more money digging ditches.

That newsmen will go back to the job of reporting the news as it happens and let the future take care of itself.

At 9 p.m. sit down and start making a list of all the wonderful things that happened to you in 1959. At 9:05 p.m. take glass of warm milk and a sleeping pill, and go to bed.

You and your wife each take a volume of an encyclopedia and take turns reading exciting passages aloud to each other.

Fill a picnic cooler full of cold beer and drink it as you lay stretched out all lone on the floor in front of your television set watching its program visits to public New Years Eve revelries. Be sure to sneer throughout.

This is highbrow living at its best. You may wake up Friday with a hangover but, unlike all the guilty public lowbrows, you wont have to smuggle yours into the house.

To be a true-blue highbrow, your New Years morning hangover has to be strictly homemade.

Strength For Today

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS SOUL WINNING

We do not hear as much about soul winning today as w used to. Yet what does the church exist for if not to persuade men and women so to believe and to order their ways of life that they may prepare themselves for a divine existence in fellowship with God? If this is not soul winning, what is it? If this is not the duty of the church, what, indeed, is the duty of the church?

Its not the temperature but the wdnd which pierces you. The Surgeon General of the U. S. directed a study which showed when the temperature reads only 34 and the *v(?ind is blowing at 20 miles per hour the effect on the exposed flesh is the same as at 38 degrees below zero. With the temperature at 55 degrees a 15-mile per hour wind makes your face and hands as cold as if it were U degrees below zero.

De.spite all the political talk that surrounds electric power development . . . numerous research organizations . . . have established the fact that location of an industry depends on markets, skilled labor available, transportation and rates, equitable taxation and dependable electric power but hardly at all on the cost of electric power, except for those Industries that provide very few jobs.The Oregon Voter.

Todays clothing habits leave two thirds of the body with only a thin covering to protect it from the wind.

For best protection, probably, we should dress according to our plans for the day. If we are going to be inside a well-heated building all day, we do well with light clothing. If we have occasion to spend an hour or even half an hour in the open or going into the open from building to building, we might do well to dress for that ex-

Radio Russia says that America is a hysterical topsyturvy country where people eat upsidedown cake, doors go round in circles and everybody has an Inside outhouse. Sangamon County (111.) Bulletin.

We wonder at times as we listen to certain sermons just what th minister is trying to accomplish. This is no general criticism of ministers, for as a class they stand out as the finest people in human society, the most self-sacrificing, and the most indispensable. Yet so often they seem to feel that there is something else for them to do other than to persuade men and women to accept Gods conditions for entrance into the kingdoip of God. We ministers probably all have a general conceit and are pretty sure that we could settle the problems of the world If they were left to us to settle. But, of course, we would fumble them as badly as anyone else.

posure.

"The government count.s on a solid, productive people for .strength. When the people are corrupted to believe their salvation .springs from the government. both the people and the .state will perish. Riverton tWyo.) Ranger.

The minister is a servant of God, and the first requirement of that service is that he should try to Interpret 4o men and women the nature and will of God and the requirements God is making on those who would follow Him.

So we come back, do we not, to soul winning in the end. There appears to be no substitute.

No 'Carao' From Washington

By ELMER ROESSNER

Cargo culls flourish in the South Seas, reports Dr. Margaret Mead, the noted anthropologist. The leaders assure followers that they perform certain rituals, ships will come from overseas carrying their lifetime needs.

Silly, isnt it? Yet we in the United States have an equivalent. We have people who believe that the government has power to turn on prosperity at will. They believe tiat a cargo, in some mystic fashion, will come sailing from Washington to cure their fiscal ailments.

The belief that the government can prevent recessions or fulminate new booms us fairly persistent .

In a recent poll of what America tliink.s. many of those inlervlcw'-ert .vairi that I960 would be pros-perou.* bocau,sp the government \u)ukl make it so. It'll be an (lection year, they rra.sonrd, so file govcrnmrnt would make everybody rich. And, presum

ably, Republican.

But here are two important points:

1. The government cannot tuin prasperity on and off as if it were a faucet.

2. The fact that it cant means survival of democracy.

The government can Influence the upturn and downturn of the economy. Since the Depression bust, various legislative reforms liave been enacted, usually with both Republican and Deifio-cratic collaboration, to guard against booms and busts.

These include Social Security, which tends to force old gents to retire: bank deposit in.surance: stricter monetary

control: a vast unemployment compeiusalion .scheme: a Small Busine.ss Administration, and other devices,

BULWARKS

These actlon.s. as almost all rconomisis say. will ameliorate any downturn but. as they are just as quick to state, will not

prevent another recession.

Furthermore, the controls they provide can prevent a rise from becoming a runaway boom, but it cant completely level off a boom.

We have evidence of that right now. The Federal Reserve Board ha.s jacked up Interest rates. That has dampened the boom somewhat, but it didnt put out the fire entirely. Despite the steel strike, irtcome, prices and most profits continued to ascend.

The fact that there is not machinery to turn prosperity on and off is Insurance for continuing democracy.

If such controls were possible, the political party in power would simply increase prosperity continually, with extra spurts just before each election. Thus it could perpetuate itself, even-tuallv becoming a dictatorship. ELAPSED-TIME INDICATOR NOT V. TAXABLE (VATUH

A timer Ls not a watch, the Internal Revenue Service has

ruled.

The ruling (Rev. Rul, 59-404) dealt with a device that records elapsed time only, and is sold to racing enthusiasts, such as owners of stock cars, boats and private aircraft. And since it is not a watch, it is not subject to the excise tax on Jewelry.

Unless, the IRS added, It is decorated with gold or Jewels PAYOLA SCANDAL CUTS CASE-LOT GIFTS

Liquor package dealers in many states are hoping that sales this week will restore profits to normal December levels.

Giving of liquor as business gifts apparently fell off considerably this year, possibly as a consequence of the payola trouble and other business-bribery scandals.

Sales of single bottle* as ChrLslnia.s gifts have gone up this yar, one major retailer .vaid, "but sales of case lots as gifts to bu.sincss executives art way down.