PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE. N. C.

Thuriday, January 21, 1960

Thursday, January 21, 1960

No Margin For Error

Two-Fold Problem In Enforcement

North Carolinas problem with the so-called speed traps is two-fold and the sooner the state recognizes it as such and seeks to resolve the problem, the better off it will be.

0 For a law enforcement officer to diligently do his duty in arresting and bringing to trial persons who violate the traffic laws of the statebe they tourists or home folksis one thing. For an officer, in league with a magistrate or other court official, to intentially try to trap for personal gain tourists who violate traffic rules in North Carolina is another.

North Carolina can ill afford to tolerate this latter kind of trap being set for tourists who visit this state. It can tolerate it no more than it can tolerate any other kind of usurpation of authority by law enforcement or court officials for their own gain. If such traps are being set in the state with personal profit as the primary aim of those doing the setting, every effort of the state should be directed toward breaking up the operations.

On the other hand. North Carolina must not close its eyes to flagrant violations of traffic laws by tourists anymore than it would overlook the sairie violations by its own people. For the protection of Tar Heels and tourists alike, the traffic laws of the state must be enforced diligently and legitimately. A tourist who drives down our highway at 75 or 80 miles an hour should be no more immune to prosecution in our courts than a North Carolinian who does the same thing. After all, when an accident occurs the car of a tourist can cause just as much damage, kill just as many people as a car of a native Tar Heel.

VO A Radios To See Long Lfsage

around to see that it does its Job/' ^

LOCATlON-^he facUity wiU occiipy some S',000 acres, about half in Beaufort the rest in Pitt. It will be officially known as the Greenville Facility, although it is as close to Washington. Officials decided that inclusion of Washington in the locale designation would be confusing with the headquarters of the Voice of America as an arm of the State Department in Washington, D. C.

Original contracts are scheduled for letting this week, and the facility is expected to be in operation during the latter part of 1962.

Allen said that while it was regrettable that the planned project in the Bladen-New Hanover area did not materialize, he is proud and happy that all the engineers and experts agreed that Eastern North Carolina is the appropriate location for the worlds most powerful radio station.

QUITTINGAt least 20 members of the 1959 House of Rep-sentatives have let it be known they will not seek re-election this year. A few have accepted other jobs, several have indicated they will run for the Senate, and the others are just ready to quit for various and sundry reasons. In the usual order of things there will be a number of others who will later decide not to try for re-election and some who want to come backbut are not wanted by the voters in their home counties.

All of which adds up to the prospect of a bigger turnover than usual in the next House. Also it makes some of the commitments of support for this or that candidate for Speaker of no value. The speakersWp campaigning may have to be done all over again after the primaries.

WOMEN The Republican women of North Carolina are on the war path. They had a meeting at Hickory the other night and gave notice to the powers that be in Republican party councils that they expect more recognition in party affairs. Particularly, they demand one or more delegates at large to the national convention in Chicago. It has been noted here many times that there are more women than men, more potential women voters than male voters, and if they really decide to don war feathers th^ can iexert tremendous influence. One woman campaigner commented the other day that our trouble is we talk a lot about what the men dont let us do Instead of moving in and telling them what they can do.

By LYNN NISBET

VOICEGeorge- V. Allen, director of the . S. Information Agency, is confident that the Voice of America will be heard for a long time, beamed from the most powerful radio sending station in the world, located In Beaufort and Pitt counties. North Carolina. The Durham-born Allen, who had made a world reputation as a diplomat, was in Raleigh to speak at the Institute of Religion sponsored by the local United Church. Before the church meeting, where he talked mostly about optimistic prospects of hving m peace with the Soviet, he held a news conference in the capitol. He talked with news conferenceand the assuranceof penetrating every era in the world with the story of democracy through the Voice of America.

He gave some techhlcal data about the power of the proposed station, for which $26 million has been appropriated, and said it would replace several small old^ stations in the New York-New England area. Asked about the relationship of the present Beaufort - Pitt county project with the installation authorized for the Bladen Wilmington area some ten years ago. he said it' was the same thing. The original plan was abandoned after the McCarthy hearings scared so many people about Communisti infiltration into the Voice of America program. The Federal government finally sold the land, on which several million dollars had been spent.

A reporter asked the specific Question: Assuming change in administration, and the rising up of a junior McCarthy, is there likelihood, this project also will be abandoned?

Allen sees no danger of that development. The Voice has proven itself and there is no prospect the program will be abandoned or curtailed.

RELAYBecause of the relatively low power of the existing sending stations, the messages must be relayed by stations based in Europe and North Africa to audiences in Communist countries. Notice has been given that some of these relay stations will not be available after another two or three years. Hence the necessity for a sending station with original power enough to carry the message around the world. The Eastern North Carolina unit is planned to be ready by the time the relay stations move out of the picture. And with typical North Carolina courage and patriotism. Allen said I expect to be

If North Carolina is to make 4ts highways safer, it must enforce its traftic regulations where tourists are concerned just as it enforces the same regulations where local people are concerned. If North Carolina loses tourist business by following such a policy, it will just have to stand the loss. We can stand the loss of a bit of tourist business better than we can stand the loss of more lives on our highways.

At the same time, the state must be careful that it does not gain the reputation of preying on tourists to boost the income of its jaypee or traffic courts. The tourist traffic violator should be penalized no more than the native violator. Neither should the tourist receive more lenient treatment by the officer or the court just because he is a tourist.

The matter of resolving this two-fold problem is not simple. So long as our court system is constituted in its present form the battle against special traps for tourists will have to be continued. At the same time, we must not let our desire for tourist dollars cause us to ignor the traffic violations of those who would turn our north-south highways into north-south speedways.

National Defense Not For One-Man Review

President Eisenhowers assertion several days ago that he knows more about defense than almost anyone else in the country has given rise to a number of editorial cartoons and statements pointing up the apparent advantage the Soviet Union has gained over the United States in missiles and space probes.

While the President may well know more about defense than anyone else in the nation, it doesnt mean that he or anyone else individually knows all there is to know. Neither does it mean that a one-man defense program or a one-man space program is sufficient today for the United States or any other nation.

Certainly there must be a top figure to make final decisions. But a man in the Presidents position must of necessity rely on the recommendations of others who specialize in particular fields. It may well.be that the defense position of the United States today is a result of the Presidents feeling that he knows more about defense than almost anyone else in the country. It may be that during the years in the White House he has overlooked the fact that many military changes have taken place while his attention has been divided between defense, foreign affairs, economic problems, domestic issues and all of the other facets of important responsibilities which rest upon the shoulders of a president.

A little more than a year ago Gen. Van Fleet severely attacked the nation's lack of a modern positive approach to its military problems in a book published shortly after his retirement from active duty. More recently Gen. Maxwell Taylor has likewise pointed out severe gaps that he says exist in the nations defenses. ^

The opinions of military experts such as these cannot be ignored, and indeed their views should not be ignored even though they later may be overruled.

The nations defense posture, it seems to us, needs a carejul examination in the light of todays conditions . . . and not by just one man who asserts he knows more about defense than almost any other person in the country. ^

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By ALVIN TAYLOB

terns Jrrom Here, mere

From McGraw-Hill publicationa we learn that the Soviets claim to have produced a dual-carbu-rator system which reduces fuel consumption by 20 percent.

The news release doesnt say where you can order one. However, it does say that the system was originally designed for an engine for cold climates where diesels are hard to start. The Soviets claim this system exceeds even the diesel in economy.

We presume dealerships may bd obtained by writing the Kremlin. Wed advise interested persons to act in a hurry before the oil companies find out about it.

bandage.

The developer says his product is pure paint that comes scaled in a sandwich between two layers of paper. To use, a person strips off the bottom, sticks the paint down and then removes the protective cover.

All we can say is. we hope the strips are well-labeled. Otherwise the use might wind up with a striped room.

From the same publicatl<Hi we also leam that some company has come out with a paint which you apply just like adhesive

Mayor 8. Eurene West wore a bright blue sports coat as he entered the comer drug store the other morning.

Needless to say. that portion of the electorate who happened to be there at the time, was quick to notice it.

No one actually called the coat loud, but several of them did say it certainly was notice

able.

Your columnist didnt say anything. He just snickered.

A couple of days later we reached the bottom of the sock pile and all we had left was a bright red pair.

You have to wear socks these cold days so reluctantly we donned them. Who was first to spot them? The mayor, of course.

The moral of this story is: People who wear red socks shouldnt snicker at folks who sport bright blue coats.

History To Tel. The Final Score

Other Editors Saying... Governor Raps The East

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower took office seven years ago yesterday. So. now that he has only one year to go. it can be asked: How has he done? ^

People generally at home and abroad seem to think hes done extremely well. As the polls show, hes immensely popular. But the judgement of history, as usual, will take time.

One thing is sure: He has provided a presidency different from what the country has grown used to under the emphatic aggressiveness of Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt, both of whom willingly made enemies to get things done.

Eisenhower has plenty of critics but its difficult to think of one person who could be called his enemy. That is perhaps the most amazing feature of his presidency. But its no wonder. He was made a White House career of restraint.

He has avoided conflicts and name-caUing. He has tried to get things done without leaving scars. Is that the way to run the presidency? Therell be arguments over that lor years.

Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who wants to be president, says Eisenhower is a weak leader, that in effect he has pushed problems under the bed', leaving them to his successor to struggle with.

But Vice President Richard M. Nixon, anxious to be that successor, only last weekend called his boss a strong leader with a different technique. Nixon says Eisenhower sljnply gets things done by persuasion instead of tablethumping.

One thing history will have to decide: Did this happen to be a period when Americans, happy in many other ways with thtlr proaperity, were perfectly content with the soft approach?

How else explain Eisenhower's popularity 11 the people felt he was Ignoring their needs? There has been no great public clamor to get done the things he has left undone.

One historian. Clinton Rdssit-er, knowing time alone can give the final appraisal, took a cautious stab at sizing up Eisenhower.

In his book. The American Presidency, Rossiter noted:

No observers could fall to be , troubled .by the gap that often exists between what the President says and what he does . .. But his character, like his life, is an amazingly accurate pro

jection of what is best in the American dream ... He is charming, manly, brave, honest, capable,- democratic, fair-minded and incredibly lucky.

Elsenhower began under sour circumstances. The Korean War was on and the country was split by McCarthylsm. He got the war ended. His administration, by finally refusing to let Sen. Joseph McCarthy shove the Army around, finally set in motion, with the Army - McCarthy hearings, the wheels that ground McCarthyism out of the American scene.

Yet, Eisenhower himself avoided personal conflict with the senator.

Only the years ahead will show whether the Korean truce was really a settlement or only a prelimlnafy chaos In Asia.

One of Eisenhowers first acts was a kind of Madison avenue empty gesturepulling back the 7th Fleet from around Formosa 0 Chiang Kai-shek could attack the Red China mainland.

Without American help Chiang couldnt attack his grandmother-er. And Eisenhower didnt give him that kind of help. Still, he backed up Chiang pretty solidly when the Red Chinese tried to pick on him.

Among other things. . Nixon said, history will consider Eisenhower a strong leader for his part in ending the Suez crisis and in going into Lebanon when communism threatened. Even this, which seems factual enough on the surface, may be disputed.

History may decide Britain and France would never have begun the Suez adventure if the Eisenhower administration had backed France and Britain against Egypt beforehand. As for Lebanon, no one seems sure now how close communism was.

During Eisenhowers administration the Soviets got ahead of America in missile and space development and confidently threatened to overtake and surpass the United States economically.

Yet, if Elsenhower hadnt been the kind of man he is patient and exuding good will Bremier Nikita Khrushehev might have tried to work out a peaceful settlement with America.

Still the Soviet peace offen-.sive seemed to be strictly a Soviet idea, to which Eisenhower simply reacted favorably. This above allWhether peace results from his efforts may prove the supreme test of his presidency.

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(Rocky Mount Telegram) Governor Hodges got pretty rough on Eastern Carolina at a Board of Conservation and Development meeting Monday in Raleigh and the first impulse of residents of this area perhaps would be to show their resentment in the form of a heated reply to the Governors heated remarks. The more one considers what the Governor said, however, the more one must agree with him regardless of what personal pride may be at stake.

Until Eastern North Carolinians are willing to milk and feed the cow seven days a week, Governor Hodges was quoted, "there will be little economic development. He also said they must have the will to do the job. He took occasion, too. to rap Outer Banks people for failure to do something about the cattle and ponies that eat up every damned thing in sight.

Of course, it is a bit unusual to be damned by our States chief executive, but perhaps even that was regarded by Governor Hodges as necessary to awaken us from our lethargy.

Some time ago in Raleigh we heard a well informed and prominently connected person discussing the original effort to create the Research Triangle, the institution which it is believed will have an enormous Influence upon the State in an Industrial way in the years to come. / This man was telling about the fund-raising effort and how much was contributed throughout the state to. start the wheels rolling. The sum was enormous but it was generally recognized that it had

to be raised if the Triangle was to come into being. Then, the man was asked by an Eastern Carolina resident how much this section had contributed toward the project. The aad-faced reply was that it was only $6,-000.

Sure Eastern Carolina residents have money. Right here in Rocky Mount there is between $50 million and $10 million in cool cash stored away earning Interest. Sure we have some mighty fine financial institutions and the money is quite safe there. There also it will stay, or at least the vast portion of it will, regardless of efforts to entice more wheels of industry.

The picture is much the.same throughout this great region. We believe too firmly in the old saying that a bird in the hand if worth two in the bush, but forget the fact that we may be destroying both the bird and the bush by failing to awaken to industrys handwriting op the wall.

We still cling to the old ideals despite the fact that farm tenancy as represented by the sharecropper is fast disappearing; the famed company store* has all but vanished; throngs of our young people are leaving the farm each year to seek the future and their fortunes in industry; and crop controls. together with other complications, are rapidly curtailing income from the areas chief money crops.

Yes, Governor, it sorta hurts for you to cuss at us, but then even a mule sometimes requires pretty strong language before hell go ahead and get his work done.

Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. took the wraps off its new bank with an open house yesterday and probably broke all records for attendance.

During most of the four hours that the building was opened to the public the main floor w'as absolutely Jammed with people wishing to view the nlace.

The second floor, where the Trust I>partment and bookkeeping department are located was Just about aa packed with sightseers.

And the same was true of the third floor where the showplace of the beautiful building, the directors room, is located. Refreshments were also served on the third floor in a room which is to be reserved for inibllc meetings.

The new structure Is without a doubt Greenvilles most elaborate building. We dont believe anybody who saw It last night came away disappointed.

Opinions

"Farm programs designed to restore normal market forces would certainly justify reasonable expenditures for a time. Instead we are spending these staggering billions year after year, on program.s to make the problems worse. No possible excuse can be found in politics or sanity for Congress continued refusal to unravel this costly crazy-quilt.Wall Street Journal.

Too often the comment Is What can I do? How I fed doesnt make any difference. How wrong la this attitude. Each and every one of. us has a weapon-our vote. If only we could be bothered to take the tme to mark a ballot when it is presented to us, we could do something. Too often, only a few take the time to voteexposing us not to the rule by majority, but to rule by minority.Ontario (Oregon) Argus-Obivver.

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By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK CAP) - Why would anyone live here unless he had to?

WcMidering tourists in Manhattan, worn out by the fast-paced tempo of a visit here, often ask that question. If suddenly told they had to become permanent residents of New York City, they would regard it as a form of punishment.

They think of Americas largest metropolis as a civic madhouse Inhabited by eight million moles who dont know what real living really is.

A( times the thousands upon thousands of people who have come here from other parts of the country to carve out a career feel that way. too. They get homesick for the old home town.

What do they miss most from , their old life? WeU. Its usuaUy something simple.

They miss- driving to work In the morning and drifing home at night.

They miss walking down street* canopied by green-leafed trees.

They miss the easy Informality you enjoy when you life in a town where you can at least recognize every 10th person you meet. Here you wont know one in 10,000.

They miss the eacygoing and friendly politeness people have in towns less crowded and in which life is lees hurried.

They miss a sense of being a real person in a real community. Here, bo matter how big and important a man is, he is merely another bee in a mighty hive.

After living here 23 years, however. the thing I miss moet from my native Midwest Is a simple old-fashioned dining room, such as I knew in my youth.

I still cant get used to eating dinner in the living room of my apartment.

When then, considering all the Inconveniences, does anyone want to live here by choice?

Well. Its hard to put into words. But it is certainly one of the best places in the world to enjoy two of mankinds greatest pleasures window-shopping and girl-watching.

Strength For To(dav

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS MYSTERIES OF OUR FAITH

A great English scholar has said that In the New Testament the Centa- of gravity lies beyond the grave.

There is a profound tnd very earnest attempt on the part of many people today to put practically all their emphasis on the necessity of making the world better. Such people are tied up with every known sch^e to improve human life.

That most of these people are honest, no one can deny. Furthermore, the necessity for making the world a better place In which to live becomes more apparent the closer modem living conditions press in one against the other. Our Christian faith has largely come to be considered only in the light of social reconstruction and betterment. But there is a lot more to Christian faith than that.,

Individual morality does not disappear or have to^ take second place because of the pressing necessity of social morality. But after we have done everything we can to make ourselves and the world In which we live better, there is still a lot to our religion which deals not with life here on earth but with life beyond the grave. In the New Testament the center of gravity lies not here but therenot in what we are or in what we can cause our world to become, but in eternal life, in heaven, in fellowship with the angels, the heavenly host, our departed loved oneswith God.

Our faith deals with many* mysteries. Let us try to understand and utilize these vast mysteries.

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"An astute English observer of the American scene observed that the television mess may prove to be of enormous benefitby awakening th American people to the extent and character of moral decay, and removing the blinders from their eyes. . Industrial News Review.

Over-65 Group Will Hold Power

By ELMER ROESSNER

The over 65 age group may, for the first time in American history, achieve political pow

er greater than that of the farm bloc this year.

This political ascendancy will influence business planning.

This is a census year, but the nose count will not be roady for the public, despite the new batteries of electronic counters, until long after the election-

Nevertheless. Census Bureau projections are available and

they provide some idea of where the votes areand the business is.

For many years the ' farm vote has been regarded a.s a monolithic factor in American politics.

That concept is something

less than sound. Farmers vote Republican or Democratic regardless of occupation. However, the politicians usually have

adopted the policy of giving the farmer everything he wanted. THE BIG CHANGE

But new fjgures may revise this idea.

The farm population in 1940, according to Census records, jyas 30,547,000. In 1950, it was

25.058.000, a drop of 5,489,000. If there has been the same drop in the last decade, the April 1 farm population will be 19,-

569.000,

The population of those 65 and over was 12.287,000 In 1950, and It wUl be an estimated 15,779,-000 this year.

That still leaves, the - firm population almost 4,000,000 higher than the over-65 'group.

But that 19.569,000 farm population Includes around 9,000,000 under voting age. whereas the 16,779,000 over 65 are all voters, except those unable to get to the polls.

Roughly, the over - 65 group

outnumber the farm group by three to two in votes. VARIABLES

However, the strength of the blocs cant be determined as easily as that. The farm population over 65 belongs to both groups; a 66 - year - old farmer might want higher crop supports and fatter Social Security benefits. Furthermore, many farmers are working in urban Jobs, and tend to vote with the city fellers.

On the other hand, as it has been contended here many times, the farm vote includes more than farmers; the noisiest and most aggressive campaigners for itiore farm benefits are the rural merchants and smalltown enterprises that " profit with farm prosperity.

But even this group Is diminishing. With good roads ^nd fast cars and planes, farmers are doing more shipping in the

big centers. And even in rural areas, much of the trade is being captured by branches of the big mail-order and department stores.

In general. It would appear that the political powef of the farm vote whether by farmers or by their suppliers is waning and that the power of the over-65 group Is waxing. PAPER MULCH TIES .BACK PLASTIC COVER

There was great excitement a few years ago over the use ot black plastic film as a mulch in farming. The plastic prevented weeds from growing, and held moisture around the roots of the plants.

Now tests at the University of Illinois farm at Urbana indicate that an improved kraft paper mulch is as good or better. The paper costs less and is easier to dispose of at the end of the season. It Is found.