PACE FOUKTHE DAILY J^FLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Thursday, January 7, 1960

Thursday, January 7, 1960

Rousing From His Hibernation

Strike Legislation Is Still Needed

This being a national election year, we may expect Congress and the administration to be extremely conscious of voter feelings, and particularly careful to da that which will be looked upon with favor and avoid that which may Irritate voters.

These factors, plus the settlement of the steel strike that was effected this week, has caused a quick and drastic change in the position of many congressmen and the administration toward further exploration of legislation covering labor-management relations.

Prior to the settlement of the steel strike, the ad-miimtration had pointed out in so many words that further legislation may be necessary to cope with the possibility of a nation-wide strike lifter all the steps provided for by the TafbHartley law had been exhausted. In so many words the administration threatened both labor and management with further, perhaps harsher, le^slation if the strike were hot settled.

While the strike was in progrew, there also was ' e\idence among members of congress that they recognized the need for legislation that might protect the nation from economic paralysis that could come from an extended strike in a basic industry.

With the settlement of the steel strike, such talk suddenly has disappeared almost entirely. The by-word now seem to be no legislation in that particular area during the currnt session. Any move in this direction probably would bring violent reaction both from big labor organizations and big industries, and t!hus

Sanford Talking ike A Winner

By LYNN NKBET

SANFORD Terry Sanford TM in Raleigh early this' Week, acting and Calking* for all the-world like* a contestant who thinks he is wizming a race. He expects to make a formal aik-sonncement around February 10 (it might come at the Jefferson* Jackson Dinner on the 6th), not so much of hla candidacy which has long been an accepted fact, as of the beginning of an organized campaign under direction of a manager. He has selected the man to head the organisation, hut his identity is being withheld fw the news splash' later.

He has been in every section of the state, if not in every one of the 100 counties, and reporU Iw has men in more than 90 counties ready to take over local management at the proper 'time. It is expected that he will open headquarters in Carolina Hotel here sometime between the middle and last of February.

Sanford confirmed belief that he and his chief lieutenants are interested only in the race for Governor. Presidents. Senators and seekers after other offices will not be both^unless they bother Sanford first. He said he had told Senator Everett Jordan that 'we will let you alone, if you let us alone.

A few days earlier Jordan had Said that he is interested only In the United States Senate and Will take no part In any other race, except to cast his ballot as a good citlaen. The Idea of Cl ticket with Jordan ' for B^ate and somebody for Gev-cmor, or Sanford for Governor And somebody for the Senate, Is not* developing.

Meantlmer Robert W. Gregory,

A retired minor textile official of Greraeboro. has paid his fUing fee of 922S as A candidate for the Senate. He.is not expected to afford real bppocition, but it means Jordan will have to go into the primary.*

LARKINS John D. Larkins Jr. also wes in town this week, but in his capacity as Democratic national committeeman rather than-u a candidate for Governor. He was working on Arrangements for the Jef-fereon-Jackson Dinner to be held in the Sir Waltel* Hotel on the night of February 6. While here, and after conierring with Governor Hodges, he nailed down the selection of former Senator Earl Clement of Kentucky if the principal speaker for*' the'^blg money-raising dinner. Clement is now director of highways for the State of Kentucky. but when the invitation Was extended him to make the North Carolina speech he was chairman of the Demoormtlc Senatorial campaign committee. Re is rated as one of the top Democratic speakers In the country.

Letters have rone out to Dem-ecraUc county chairmen advis

ing them of their quotas for the dinner, which as usual will be based on one ticket for each $50 contribution.

TELEPHONESThere is approximately one telephone for every four people living in North Carolina. The latest tabula* tion made by the Utilities Commission shows that the 35 telephone companies operating under supervision of that Agency had 1,065,117 staOons In November. Almost 60 per cent of these phones. 614,191, are credited to Southern Bell. By far the next biggest operator is Carolina Telephone Company, a Bell affiliate. with 178,358 SUUODS. Despite the statewide ratio of one phone for every four persons. there are. etlU large rural areas With very Inadequate telephone service.

SEAWELLAttomey General Malcolm Seawell is not letting up in his efforts to get rescinded the regulati9n of the U. S. Department of < Health, Education and Welf^Cf ne

gates a North CarbUna law designed to give State supervision over State money for certain welfare purposes. Hi and his chief aide In Federal relations matters. Assistant Attorney General Ralph Moody, will go to Washington within the next couple weeks to try to break the jam, ahd^o soUcit congressional help.

If that venture proves unsuc-. cesSful, Seawell plana to take the issue to the courts. He isn't very optimistic bout procpects of getting congressional aid. The congressmen, particularly Rep. Graham Barden, have bigger problems with the Federal department, and may not want to jeopardise their handling by mixing In anothw fight.

Furthermore, as a visitor in Seawells office when he was taUdnf about this matter pointed out, the parents and guardians, who allegedly are mlsus-ing the money allotted for dependent children, can vote in the election whereas the kids cannot.

Seawell says he wants to be

consistent. He has insisted in all school segregation and other Federal related mattera, that applicants for relief must exhaust every' State admlnle-tratlve and State court resource before going into Federal courts. He wants to explore and ex-.. haustevery possibility in the administrative and legislative process to obtain the remedy desired in this welfare squabble*. If these efforts fail be is prepared. in legal parlance, "to go on up.

Thoee who have tangled with the incumbent Attorney Oeneral in his various capacities u private praotitloner. eoUcitor and Judge- In the superior courte. know that one of his chief characteristics Is bulldog tenaolty.

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the administration and Congress would find themselves in hot water with one element or the other, and probably both.

In the interest of the nation as a whole, however, some thought must be given to laws which would enable the government to cope with a situation such as that which would have existed had the steel strike been renewed after the Taft-Hartley injunction expired.

Settlement of the steel strike removes the need for such legislation at the moment, but legislation for the most part is not designed to cope with a particular problem that occurs at a particular moment in history. It is designed to bolster the long-range welfare of the governed and to cope with problems that might be expected to arise. Who can say when the nation might again be threatened with a major strike that would paraljrze a large segment of the economy? Who can say at what moment the provisions of the Taft-Hartley law will be grossly inadequate to enable the government to cope with the situation?

If the roof needs fixing, it is much better to do it in sunny weather than to wait until the next downpour to try to do something about it.

Factors Behind N.C. Economical Growth

North Carolina, still primarily an agricultural state in spite of its industrial diversification in recent years, cannot measure its economic progress alone in terms of new manufacturing plants, new payrolls and new indusMal jobs.

In a state which rapidly is achieving a healthier balance between agriculture and industry, however, the annual growth in terms of industrial progress is important

It is significant that North Carolina during 1969 enjoyed an appreciable acceleration in its industrial growth compared with 1968. In terms of new jobs, new/payrolls and new and expanded plant facilities. North Carolinas progress in 1959 was considerably ahead of that for 1968. In short, the states industrial development efforts brought greater progress last year than the year before.

Compared with the expansion which took place in 1968, the industrial expansion in North Carolina in 1959 showed a 86 per cent increase in the number of new industrial jobs, and a 62.8 per cent increase in payroll totals brought about by these jobs.

Economic conditions In the nation as a* whole naturally had a bearing on these increases enjoyed by North Carolina. Probably to a greater extent, however. Tar Heel development went on at a more rapid rate because of two other factors:

1. Constantly increasing efforts in past years are now paying larger dividends to North Carolina in terms of development; and

2. More communities throughout the state, as well as the state itself, have made greater contributions to the total development effort in behalf of North Carolina.

'i^ock Along, Or A Tense Time?

By HENRY HOWARD

Hear Of Many Applicants

Tips On Staying Single <

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)Nothing worries bachelors more than leap year.

"Many firls taka it quite seriously. one comidained. "Some set unbelievably sftree-sivc. I wish I knew a sure way to lend them off.

Actually there are a number of metboda by which a wily bachelor can remain carefree and single even in the face of the moot determined glrrs marital campaign in the months ahead. But it does take ingenuity.

Here are a few tested tips on bow a resouroeful single man can ward off the moat porsistent wooer:

1. If you have a girl friend aamed Veronica, send her a box 0^ candy on Valentine's Day and enslose a card saying. "To

'Msbei. forever yourat Veronica win put you immediately on ice.

2. The next time you go to your girls house, brlnf along your laundry.

8. Always go out on double dates. If a girl can't get you alone, she cant very weD ask yot| to marry her.

4. If she asks you over tor a good old-faahioned home-cooked meal, show up earrying a stomach pump.

5. Quit your job and become a hermit for the rest of the year, Hennlts g^ fewer marriage proposals than anybody.

6. Pick a fight with a cop and go to jail.

7. Keep asking your ghl how weU she la doing at her job and what her proapeets of advancement are.

Fannville has begun its search for a new police chief following the formal resignation of a 25-year veteran the first; of this week.

The department there has operated for a long time under the management of single persea and has become accustomed to long-practiced policies.

Now the organizaticm facet a turning point. The selection of a new man to head the force will undoubtedly bring a slight change in policy. That will be quite obvious since "different men differ."

Applications are now being reviewed by the town board and Its appomted commttee on replacement tor the resigned chief.

A progressive town like Farm-vllle should definitely operate a

progressive police department. The department should be utilized to its fullest capacity.

nt should be left to other, less progressive, towns to supply law enforcement alone from police departments. A police force is potentlallj an extremely useful public servant in more ways than one. Its duties should embrace more phases of public services than tracking down fugitives and giiarding jailed prisoners.

From past experience, the town board should realize, and moat probably does, its much easier to fill a . post than to empty It. Therefore, certain degrees of careful weighing of merit ana aforethought should be exercised by "the hirers.

Rumors circulating seem to indicate that, in the group of

applicants, there should certainly be a wcU-quallfied police > chief. More applicatioxu are expected before the Jan. 30 deadline.

With due consideration, the apparent competition for the post should result in a real *cracker-jack chief for the FarmvUle Police Department.

They've got the material to. .work with in the applications.

Other Editors Saying... $750 Billion Mortgage

By JAME^ MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AT) - The" country, says Mlnnesotts Sen. Hubert Humphrey, is suffering from complacency and has been ever since 1951 when President Elsenhower' took office.

Humphrey, who wants to move into the White House on the Democratic ticket, says the next president "is going to inherit a scries of problems that have been swept under the rugwhere they have been festering and intensifying.

If Humphrey Is rightthat the country has been complacent for almost seven years who Is responsible: The Elsenhower administration or the peoplet

The two Arthur Schleslngers. father and son and both professors of AmeiiMn history, have written that nlstory moves in yeles: that a psrlod of intense feellnt and activity or crisis is always followed by one of calm while new forces and frustra* lions and demands build up. Under his pressure, the calm eventually yields to a period of new and progressive action.

After the fierce activity of World War I and President WU-sons struggle for the League of Nations, the country seemed deliberately to want peace and quiet. It elected Warren O. Harding and then CUvin Coolldgs.

For most of the 192Qe there was quiet, and increasing prosperity. 'This could be called a complacent period, too. It came to a shocking end with the crash of 1989 and the depression which called for action.

Franklin D. Roosevelt promised action. The nation turned to him and the utpid remedies of the New Deal. But there was to be no calm, Hitler created crises. The nation kept Roosevelt, in 1936 and again in 1940, as the war fear spread.

Then war. The nation still kept Roosevelt in 1944. When be died President Truman carried on through the wars end and into the turbulent late 1940s when ,jthere was no real quiet at h(ne or abroad.

At home Democratf and Republicans fought like cats and dogs. Abroad the Soviets piled up crises. The people kept Truman in 1948. Then came McCarthsdsm and Korea, both of which began in 1950.

By thd time Eisenhower ran for office In 1952 the country, torn down the middle by McCarthyism and anxious for an end to the killing in Korea, was saturated with coniUot and crises which'ex-tended unbrokenly back to 1929.

It would be 00 wonder if the nation, without consciously realizing it. wanted then a period of calm in which it could live without tensien.

It got that pretty much under Elsenhower except for the coo-

tinuing tension with Red China and the Soviet Union and (he segregation struggle in the South. The racial struggle was precipitated not by the public or the administration but by the Supreme Court.

The court. In turn, could be said to be reflecting the pressure of racial unrest and tension, building up since the -Civil War. and through its decision sought to bring this turmoil to an end, too.

But suggesting that complacencyif thats the name for it was handed down from above by Btsenhower is to overlook a very important factor w^Uch givee an insight into the mood of the nation.

The record of Congress a^e 195Sit has been run by Ddmo-crats since 1954has not been a a period of intensity, ianovatlon. experimentation, or startling changes. It has been pretty much a rock-along pdod.

This might indicate Congress was complacent except for one thing: Congreas reflects the mood of the people, who showed they liked (he Calmness by reelecting Elsenhower In 1956.

If the Elsenhower administration alone had been complacent but not the peoplethen the people would have been pressuring Congress for action in a dozen fields which have been glozzed over, delayed, or pushed asi(fr.

The most important factor In the 1900 elections next November-after making allowance for the importance of the personalities and record! of the candidateswill be the mood of the country.

If it feels the need fcv sharp action and an abandonment of its present mood, the party which promises to fill the new requirements will stand the best chance.

At this moment its questionable that the. nation wants to abandon its present mood of lock-along.

(Wilsea TImea)

Citiaens why not heed the warning given by Maurice H. Stans, director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget when he spoke to the Tax Foundation recently? Mr. Stans Is no alarmist, but he is deeply conoo'ned over the callous attitude the people have toward government benefits.

He says we legislate benefits, services, and subsidies up to the "hilt of our fiscal capacity, and then hang on to them. He thinks we have forgotten that cir-.cumstances change.

In this list he names great sums on interest charges on the national debt and no reduction of the principal. * Massive federal programs which state and locaj governments could do better. Housing is a good example here. "Large amounts to farm price supports to reduce surpluses with opposite results. He says the government lends money at rates below those whkh the government must pay to ita own creditors. We perpetuate programs which have long since met the objeotives for which they were created.

Nfr. Stans calls this a form of ancestor worahip that has no place in the budget of the United States government. The present national debt of 290 bil-Uon doesnt include the present federal liabilities for past services in even greater amounts, he said.

The figures are really 290 billion of ciurent debt, plus 350 billion of future obligations plus 98 billion of C.OD.s adds to the increditable 'sum of 750 billion-

This 750 biUlon mortgage on Americas future is beyond the annual costs ot defense, welfare, and commerce.

There Is no wonder that the President pleads for all labor settlements to be non inflationary, for the limiting of compulsive spending and for responslbUity In government.

With the pressures f;* new spending programs increasing Mr. Stans says that the 80 billion dollar budget will rise to 90 and 100 million unless there is an effort to hold the line. .

Do not blame the President, he alone cannot oope with the pressure. '

Congress meets January 6 and the pressures will begin and we fear we will be in there trying to get our share along with everyone else.

The President will try to hold the line. But Mr. Stans says th%t the only way to cut back is to look to Congress to modify laws that are already on the bo<^. In other words to get from under some of the no longer needed expenditures.

When we mature to the point that we can see the good for the whole rather than a selfish point of view we will be putting the national interest ahead of local groups. Our government is living on credit card fidancing. This is no sound way to meet the Soviet challenge that can channel its national resources where the need is. Can a democracy discipline its people? That is the most important, unanswered question today.

Somebody mentioned an interesting thing last night.

He was saying so many peo-pl9 dont know how tio uiR words correctly. He was also saying people with a little more common sense could begin to use certain "obvious words more sensibly.

Natiually. he was asea tied with a -verbal barrage of "What you mean?

What .he said was worth laying.

He pointed out that many parsons would asy "audience'* Instead of "spectators.

What's the great difference? Thats what I was wondering.

Both words mean a crowd" to me and thata what Id mean if Id say either.

Still he insisted: He explained that an audience definitely does not attend a basketball game. The first element of the word is derived from the Latin, *^udlo meaning to bear. Renee, an audience is a group gathered to hear something.

He continued; A spectator de-finltaly does not attend a concert. The first element of that word comes from the Latin, "spectomeaning to behold or look at. Hence, a spectator attends some event to watch it; not listen to it.

Not 'much of anything, but pretty interesting, aint it?

Opinions In Brief

"It is easy enough to criticize and to magnify the faults of the capitalist system. But that can-i not obscure the fact this system has given more'people more material benefits than any other in history and, at the same time, has given everyour more freedom to speak, think, and do as they like.Industrial News Review.

"The forces that oppose labor reform legislation are still active and militant. 'They want It repealed or modified or rendered impotent.Sen. John McClellan, of Arkansas.

8. Tell herM If It were a big jok*what an odd and fickle family you sprint from.

9. No matter how hite she shows up for a date, you ahrtys show up at least 15 minutes later. No woman can stand being kept walttnt by a man in public.

10. When yon go into a revolw* Ing door together, watt and let her make the first puan. Nothing infuriatea a civlttxed woman more.

11. Taka up martini drinking. Any man pomful enough lo say "yes to a fourth dry martini is strong enooi^ to say "no to any number of women.

11. Beward of bMTowing money from an attar-coaled glrL To do this owM ha rtNnr gnatest possible mistake during leap year.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS HERB TO STAY

Do you like the law of gravl-tation?

What a silly qoeattoa. The law of gravitation h<4da the universa together and is here to stay. What can we do about it? It's not a matter Ot Uklttff It or not liking it. but of obeying it. I did not like the law of gravttation when 1 slipped on the ice as a boy and broke my arm. Or in later years when 1 flipped at the top of the stairs and fell to the bottom. I should have been profoundly happy in both circumstances If I could have adjourned the law of gravitation for the time being. But I couldnt, so that was that.

II we will only use our minds and ask the Lord to increase thair capacity for discernment, we shall soon obeerve there are laws in the aptrltual world as inflexible as the law of gravttation. We may not like them, but what difference does that make? They bold the moral universe together, and they are here to stay. Chesterton once remarked that a man who jumps off a bridge doea not ety the law of gravitationhe demonstrates it. Likewise, you and I never have broken any of the laws of the spiritual universe, but on plenty of occasions they have broken us. And really we should have learned something from the experience.

So stop waging war against the pattern of the universe. Some thiA0 we can change and shouMbut not the pattern of the universe.

Those Invisible Imports Costly

THE UNITED WAY

By ELMER ROESSNER Well hear and read a lot about "invialble imports this year.

The hited Statea is importing fore than It sella abroad. To do thia, we must transfer more money than it aella abroad. To do this, we muet transfer more money abroad than foreign nations transfer here. Foreign TiStins can collect the difference in gold. Our gold supply dropped about $1 billion last year and may drop almost as much this year.

One reason the difference is so great ia that we pay for so mamr "invhtible imports.

Npw an invisible import isnt ap import at all. unless a memory of an aperitif at the Cafe de la Paix is an import. THE UNSEEN DEFINED An Invisible import . js the spending of Amerlcan-OFned money for goods consumed and services rendered abroad.

Lets see if we can explain that.

A traveler goes abroad. On the surface, that looks like an export. Weve exported good old Jack Frisbee, for a limited time, It would toem. ,

But Jack Frisbee is actually an importeran Importer of the Invisible. He takes American money out of the country and spends it for food, travel, drink, tips, comfort.

As far as the international banking system is concerned, it doesn't matter whether he brings those things back with him, or uses them on the spot.

Most of them are used on the spot. 8o ski lessons in Switzerland, a pint of bitters drunk in an English pub. or a gift to a friar in Germany become imports into America, and quite Invisible qges, financially speaking.

OTHER INVISIBLES Take the case of Mrs. Barbara Elsenhower. She visited a Paris salon, had a hair-do and bought a bottle of perfume. Thia involved a transfer of American money

into the French economy, hence it became an import transaction. The perfume became a visible import. And the hair-do, although quite visible, was an invisible import.

* There is another source of invisible imports. Thats the money American servicemen and the American Government spend abroad. The Government, when it spends $5,000,000 constructing an airfield in North Africa transfers that much money into the North African economy. -

The airport is surely visible; it surely cannot be brought back to the U.S. But it is an invisible import, .

If you buy a Bottle of British Stout in a local store, you are buying a visible British import. If a GI buys a bottle and drinks it, at his A)ase in the Fimest of Dean, he is baying .jsn invisible import.

The American who retires on Social Security dnd goes to live in his native Italian village is an importer of invisibles. Every

thing for which he spends his Social Security check is an invisible import, though we in America may never see It nore the spender again.

looidentally, travel expenses constitute one of the larger parts of our Invisible Imports. HOUSING FAILS TO GAIN ON RISING DEMAND

Despite the fact that homes and apartments for more than a million families were built last year, the vacancy rate remained low' a 250-city survey by the National Association of Real Estate Boards reported.

A severe shortage of rental apartments were noted in many areas. Rents sUyed, about the same in 56 per cent of the areas, went up in 35 per cent and dropped in 9 per cent, the study found.

Reasons for the continuing demand for Uvlng quarters are the rapid formation of new families, and the destruction of many old ones for slum clearance or by fire, etc.