^ FACE POURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Saturday, January 23, 1960

Saturday, January 23, 1960

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Cmon, I Dare Anybody!

The Picture Is Far From Gloomy

Viewing with alarm is a popular game among political figures, especially when election-time begins to roll around.

For the ins it is open season for painting horrendous pictures of what may happen should^^ their rivals be chosen by an unwise electorate; the outs have their owm row to hoe, in decrying conditions they lay to their rivals.

Thats politics for you.

But there is another aspect to this viewing with alarm game that is outside the political arena; the prophets of gloom and doom whose song poses a potentiality of harm to our country.

A good example is that loaded question Is America Becoming a Second-class Power?; or This is the Way to Making the United States a Second-class Nation; or 'Were Losing the Race to Communist Russia.

This singing the blues largely began when the U.S.S.R. orbited its first Sputnik, and picked up tempo Wth each occasion a new achievement was reported.

More than that, dissidents with the way things, are doneor critics of policyin this country have the same tendency to glumly pronounce an opinion to the effect that theyll get ahead of us that way.

- Then there are the statisticians who oen produce graphs, charts and figures to show Russian advances (pick your field) are faster than our own . . . and then exhort Americans everywhere to buckle down, /or else.

All this makes for good reading material when the

A Challenge For Fastern Carolina

By LYNN NISBET EASTERN INDUSTRY The blast leveled by Governor Hod-yes at the indifference of Eastern North Carolina to industrial development made some easterners mad. amused some and was taken as bad tasting but wholesome medicine by most of the folks.

The Governor admitted he poke too harshly.. but insisted his intentions were good, Eric Rodgers, the Scotland Neck editor whose comments set off the Hodges blast, concedes that perhaps what the Governor being slower to promote Industry than the Piedmont area has been. Whether the people there should be chided or condemned for that attitude depends upon the viewpoint. .

Comparisons are odious. For many years there has been progress in eliminating sectional Une* and toward the concept of one state, with mutual, if not entirely common, interests. It must be recognized that there is as much (fiffcrence in the customs . modes of living between the residents of the coastal plains, the piedmont and the mountains, as there is between the topography of the areas. Living is easier in the east and more individually independent in the mountains. Despite the fact that a great many easterners do not want to change their way of life, indj^trial de-veloisnent in the east as a whole has been at more rapid rate, percentage wise, than in the piedmont. Lenoir, Wayne and Wilson counties and the Wilmington area are outstanding examples.

AUTOMATION Mechanl-cation has brought almost as many problems for industry as for agriculture. A tractor and a teen-age boy can do as much work as ten men and ten mules. One machine with two or three men can harvest more cotton, peanuts and tobacco than a hundred women and children used to do. The industrial promoters contend that industrial pasrroUs must be provided to ab-*<Hl) the workers idled by farm machines.

But many men. as Intelligent and patriotic as any to be found, doubt that factories will afford the answer. They see multip-xniUion dollar industrial plants manned by 150 to 200 people, where a few years ago the same production required ten times as many workers.

It was noted here the other day that despite the reported 58.000 new industrial jobs created In North Carolina within the past two years, there actually were only about 11.000 more

Sople on industrial payrolls in orth Carolina in 1959 than in 1956. Obviously most of the new . job* were replacements for positions knocked out by auto

mation.

Progress in automation is responsible for many of the labor-management troubles over featherbeddingthe requirement to keep persons on the payroll who no longer contribute anything to production. Whether this type of industry would go very far in s(rfving the problems of the east is questioned by some thoughtful people. Unless there is more assurance of relief, why disturb our way of easy living for statistical purposes, is a common question.

The total problem is bigger than any of its facets. The plight of agriculture, the blight of labor troubles, the relationship of welfare allotments and unemployment compensation, are parts of the total problem of adjustment to changing conditions.

CHALLENGE Governor Hodges castigated the east for its paucity of aggressive industrial leadership. By and large, ibe answw to that charge must be a plea of guilty. Yet the record wiD show tha^the ea has proi-ided more than its share of recognized leadership in culture, education and government.

The present situation offers the greatest challenge to this type of leadership in modern times. The historic record suggests the belief that leaders will arise capable of solving the major problems. Whether that solution will be acceptance of the current emphasis on - industrialization, a manufacturing or processing plant at every cross roads, or whether it will take some . other course is not certain.

Certainly the old order is out, both for feudal tenant farming customs in the east and for the perhaps more feudal idea of overlordship of industrial moguls.

Most gratifying phase on this whole present situation is the way Easterners generally reacted to Governor Hodges* blast. Newspapers sometimes exert influence in controlling public opinion. More often they merely reflect and report that opinion. Leading newspapers from Raleigh eastward have been almost unanimous in editorial expression that the episode stemming from Eric Roderss appearance before the C&D board and the Governors response contributed substantially to ultimate solution of the problem.

, Editorials in the Raleigh Times, the Rocky Mount Telegram, the Goldsboro News-Argus, the Kinston Free Press, the ^Greenville Reflector and other afternoon newspapers, as well as many weekly papers, suggest willingness to accept the challenge and to aid in solving the total problem of economic stability for the areabut not necessarily on basis of any single idea.

day is short on disasters, men biting (Jogs, political rumors and speeches. But does it really accomplish anything?

By and large, some of the statements we read could be used to inflate the Communist propaganda balloon, perhaps to the degree where even theyll start believing their own exagerations.

Certainly the glum pronouncements could have the effect of inducing elements of uncertainty, perhaps even despondency,*^here at home; perhaps to the extent of inculcating a second-best philosophy.

All of which is pure hokum.

Does anyone really believe Americas men of .science, of government, of military affairs, of iadustry, of education, of cultural achievement, of economics does anyone honestly believe they are second-raters?

Of course not.

Does anyone believe these servants of government, or the men m private enterprise,- are on the whole any less devoted to the'cause of America than citizens of any other.country are devoted to theirs.

Of course not.

And how about you? Do you see in yourself an asset toward making for a better America? Sure, you can see it in your neighbor . . . educating his kids and by his own exa'mple of hard work training them^or the future. Chances are, hes looking at you in the same light.

To better understand Americas advances into the future, boil the whole picture down into a few square miles . . . about the size of Pitt County. Look at Pitt Countys advances over the past five years and marvel.

Then multiply it.^ thousands . . . and you have the American scene. It looks good, and no one can deny it.

As for the competition lets remember that when you start with next to nothing, the smallest kind of progressive step can be interpreted as a 100% gain.

Were all aware that theyve come a long way, that their goals are different from ours and therefore we should anticipate different attainments along the.way; some are eye-catching, some hum-drum.

But dont,

Dont belittle or downgrade the earnest efforts of the millions of men and women, past and present, who have contributed to the goliath we call The United States of America.

Its predominance in the world rests upon you, your father, and your fathers father and perhaps his father before him. As a nation this country is still a fledgling in the world of nations.

No one can stop it from growing.

Should Emerge Even Stronger And Better

Its a sad day for any community when one of its churches suffers a severe loss due to storm, flood or fire.

This past week one of Greenvilles churches, the Arlington Street Baptist Church, w*as severely damaged by fire. It must have been a discouraging blow to the congregation and their pastor.

There is a bright side to the picture, and its this:

Disaster tightens loyalties, spurs individual efforts. helps build a greater spirit of unity.

The result, for members of the local congrega- n' Jl. O

tion, should be an even stronger church to serve our IjClltOrS QVinCI

community. * ^ *

A trial by fire is a sure test of the quality of that which we have built.

We have faith in our churches.

Notions

Me^^ h>t

By HENRY HOWARD

Liked His Hospital Stay

Farmville's superintendent of water and lights. W. A. McAdams, was sitting around the other night painting us a rosy picture of a recent bout he had at Chapel Hill.

After putting it off, like all of us do, for some time, Mr, Mac decided to go on up there and have his operation.

From what he was telling us, he'd had a certain feeling about hospitals that was dispelled during this particular visit.

His surgery was what they call minor, Consequently, his stay in the huge Chapel Hill Memorial Hospital was comparatively brief.

During this Iwlef time, though, he had a multitude of interesting experiences. The one thing that impressed him most, he said, was the way everybody

wanted to do what was agreeable with the patient.

Mr. Mac said his doctor visited his room the day before the scheduled operation to find out how he wanted to be put to sleep.

The anesthetist suggested; Mr, Mac, if I were doing this to my own father, Id use a spinal injection. Mr. Mac cringed. Nothing doing, he thought, then added, I want to be sound asleep when this happens.

After that conversation. Mr. Mac relates, it wasnt long before they had rolled him into the operating room, put him to sleep, operated, and left him in the recovery room for a few minutes.

He remembers it didnt take long, and it wasnt nearly as

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) Dont worry. It wont happen.

Still, its nice to think that in the 1960 campaign Democrats and Republicans might operate on a high, nonpartisan plane, relying on logic, sweet rea.sonablene^ and the laws of evldeace to present their case.

Sen- Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, leader of the Senate Democrats, got into the subject Thursday. He doesnt admit being a presidential candidate although many observers feel this is more a matter of tactics than modesty.

He said in Chicago that both major political parties must nse above partisanship when Americas very heartland is within range of instantaneous impediment In his speech, was telling reporters here;

Ive always liked Ike but I * dont think he made a good president. Then, after stating confidently the next president would be a Democrat, he a.sked; What more do you want for the welfare of the country? Only last week President Elsenhower got irritated when a reporter raUsed a question; Whether there was political partisanship when Democrats and Republicans talked about the defense program, since the former criticize and the latter defend.

Said Eisenhower; I dont take it kindlythe Implied accu-.sation that I am dealing with I he whole matter of defense on a partisan basis. I dont have to be partisan.

While Eisenhower could remain nonpartisan on matters of defense although some question can be raised whether all the members of his admin.stra-tion are the Republicans in Congress werent being cairled away by the idea of political nobility.

On the contrary. A few days alter Eisenhower spoke out. Re

publicans in the Housewhere all seats are up for grabs next Novemeberbegan a series of attacks on the abUlty of the Democratic party to meet the challenge of the 1960s.

Their leader. Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana, even went so far as to pride himself on the togetherness of the Republi- ' cans while casting doubt on the ability of the Democrats to face the Issues.

Of all the men in both parties the two who can least afford to show either nonpartisanship or togetherness Are Paul M. Butler, chairman of the Demo- ' cratlc National Committee, and Kentuckys Sen. Thruston B. Morton, chairman of the Republicans.

The whole purpose of their job is to make their own side look good and the other awful. It was in this spirit that Butler Decently gave an opinion on Vice President Richard M. Nixon. the most likely Republican priesidential candidate. *

Butler said Nixon is a .<^mart, shrewd, devious political operator. On the subject of the united States and where it stands after seven years of the Eisenhower administration. Butler said;

We are a second - rate nation, second to Russia militarily.

And Mortons response, while predictable, could hardly be called nonpartisan; I am getting sick and tired of all these Implications about the vice president being devious.

I think it is a disservice to go around talking about the United States being a second-rate power.

Since Democrats and Republicans so far have hardly climbed into the 1960 j:iftgr-s(Hl have their bathrobes on and haven't had a chance to warm up, the few preliminaries just recorded seem to fpreshadow a lively evening.

(Chattanooga News-Free Press)

The other day a ship sailed Into Cleveland, Ohio. It had come across the ocean and up the St. Lawrence Seaway. Its purpose was to deliver a cargo of foreign-made steel bars, to Cleveland. Across town, right there in Cleveland, an American steel company, employing American steel workers, was making similar steel bars. But the foreign-made steel, after the long haul, sold in Cleveland for $118 a ton $55 less than the mill in Geve-land could make and sell similar steel. These facts come from Roger M. Blough, chairman of U.S. Steel. This is one of the danger signs that faces not only American steel Industry and employes but the entire American economy. .

^ Japanese steelworkers (in 1957) were getting only 41 cents an hours; steel workers in Luxemburg. Belgium. England and West Germany were getting less than 90 cents an hour; Australian steelworkers were getting $1 an hour. At the same time, American steel pay was about $3 an hour. Before the steel strike settlement, American steelworkers were averaging $3.10 an hour, and the settlement will provide still higher pay.

Americans used to be able to maintain competition with low-wage foreign plants because our mills were more modern. But now the reverse Is frequently true. Many foreign countries with steel plants built since World War II have more modern, more productive facilities than we do. (And in some cases the foreign steel mills were built

with foreign aid money from American taxpayers, from American steelworkers.)

What do we do Do we cut the pay of American steelworkers to 41 cents, or to a dollar Of course not. It couldnt be done. and nobody would want it done. Do we rause high tariff walls to put high taxes on foreign steel so its prices will be raised so high American steel still will have the upper hand in America That sort of thing can work two ways. Many American steelworkers owe their jobs to the fact the United States has been exporting steel; If we raise high tariffs, other countries will do the same against us.

What, then, is the answer There is one. The answer Is to increase productivity so, even at high pay providing a high standard of living, American industry can keep unit costs down and sell competitively.

That means capital investment to keep plants modem. But 52 per cent corporation taxes drair -off Investment capital that wouk provide expansion, modernization and more jobs. And even modern plants need maximum efficiency. But that is what the steel strikers were working against In refusing to permit management to eliminate waste, featherbedding and inefficiency.

Trouble lies ahead for American industry, for American workers, for the American economy If the facts arent faced. That ship from across the ocean sailing into Cleveland to sell foreign steel $.55 a ton cheaper than Cleveland steel is fair warning.

bad as some folks like to describe such things. He just lay quietly there in the recovery room until his doctor had him taken bock to his room.

With his wife by his side, Mr. Mac recovered rapidly. In a remarkably short time the doctors had him up and walking around.

Then, only five days after the operation, the doctor came in and took Mr. Mate away. Mrs. McAdams and a pair of guests were in the room when Doc rolled the patient out.

About an hour later, the three were still awaiting news from or the return of Mr. Mac. Suddenly, the door opened again, and in came two men one pushing the other in a wheelchair.

Everybody had to look twice to believe their eyes. The doctor was relaxed as ever In the wheelchair, and Mr. Mac was doing the pushing!

Just gag, of course. Thats what appealed to the veteran Farmville superintendent about the hospital.

He believes he got a little bit younger during his slay up there. He certainly Is looking well and hell be back to work before long. Its good to have him back.

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Hawaii

HONOLULU AP)Some expectant mothers in Hawaii still hold to supersititions -on childbearing that were brought to the islands by their forbears three generations ago. the State Department of Health says.

For example, mothers-to-be often say No thanks when' the squidan oriental delicacyis passed around.

They like squid, but a Chinese and Filipino belief that it may ' ' ^ result In difficult delivery or an abnormal child says they should not eat it.

Such strange superstitions showed up among mothers of Chinese. Japanese, Filipino and Polynesian ancestry.

Common to all four a**-'

belief that pregnant womeo should not loaf arouuu or t c., much. If they do. their child will be lazy and fat.

A FlUi^ beli^ restricts ^e new mothers housework, travel and dancing for three months.

She cant read or have a bedroom light immediately after delivery, to prevent blindness.

To some Japanese, the sex of the baby determines when the mother returns to her housework,

If Its a boy. the time is 30 days. She waits 33 days if Its a girl.

The expectant Filipino mother may have many things to remember to keep evil spirits away and produce a healthy child:

She should avoid funerals and graveyards. It is ill-advised for her to go out at night.^

She should satisfy her food cravings. Otherwise, her Child * may be birthmarked.

She and the father must not criticize deformed people. This could lead to a crippled baby.

If she doesnt want a fussy baby, the Filipino avoids eating green weeping papaya.

She doesnt blow on fire or sit on a coconut. They might cause the child to have a cleft lip and palate. So might eating cracked-ed foods, such as fruit with broken skin or egg from a shell with a crack in it.

Fire also enters Japanese beliefs. Looking at fire may causs a red birthmark.

A black birthmark may be the result of the mother's attending a funeral.

Some Chinese feel that a still birth, premature bjrth, defective baby and birthmarks all are considered punishmeBt for a mothers wrong-doing.

A Japanese mother may feel shame if she bears twins. Some Japanese consider multiple births shameful b^ause that is like animals, according to the survey.

Chinese care of Infants can range from the exotic to the dramatic. Still extant Is a custom of bathing the baby's eyes in honeysuckle water.

Strength For Today

By EARL L.-DOUGLASS

REVERENCE AND COMMITMENT

Fifty years ago William James, psychologist and philosopher of Harvard University, was all the rage. He had the unusual capacity of being able to write in simple terms about the most learned matters.

James loved particularly to write about religion. And he did it well. However, because of the aetachment with which he wrote, he sometime* left the reader with considerable doubt in his mind as to whether or not there really was anything to religion after all.

In one of his writings James .said, My attitude toward religion Is that of deference rather than adoption, This reminds us of Voltaire who once raised his hat as a funeral procession passed by. You believe In God asked one of his astonished friends. Voltaire smiled and said. God and I bow, but we do not speak.

James had very much the same attitude. He revered sincere religion but he never committed himself to the extent of adopting it. Religion was for him always an open question. He regarded it as undoubtedly a respectable form of knowledge. But it was

something to be Interested in rather than to commit oneself to.

How different this attitude is from that of the New Testament. There we have commitment at the very center of all the leaching and history which the New Testament contains. A Christian, unlike Voltaire, both bows to Go(l and speaks. Likewise an evangelical Christian, as compared with William James, both reveres religion and embraces it,

GIVE

THE UNITED WAY

Notes On World Of Commerce

Opinions In' Brief

Its a great kindness to trust people with a secret. They feel so important while telling it. Dawson County <Ga > News.

During this century there have developed forcc.s and evchls which, as never before

in our national life, have had so prolound an effect on our In-dep<ndence, our form of gov-err.ment. our social and economic system, and the setting of the American people m the international world. Herbert Hovuf, >

By ELMER R0E8SNER Here is a round-up of business items provingwell, prov-mg that there are strange and curious things in the world of commerce;

Regardless of how you feeK the world at large isnt afraid of lung cancer: the worlds 1959 tobacco productions was 1 per cent above that of 1958. . . .New Jersey has ruled that children can sue for damages caused by prenatal Injuries. . .Baking experts say the last wheat crop has a high ash content, requiring longer mixing but resulting in better breads A company in Japan, where most autos are small anyway, is producing a tinier car. It will seat four and sell for under |1.(K)0.

Cashews may be higher; stornxs cut the Mozambique crop heavily A new process permits commernal production of tantalum in sheets up to 36 by 72 inches. . .By harnessing lha

been developed for carving stone five or six times as fast as mechanical methods. . .When bus profits fell, Santa Monica, Calif., unlike other cities, did not cut service and advertised. Losses were turned into profits.

MAGAZINE ADS RISE

Magazine advertising increased 7,1 per cent in number of pages and 13.4 per cent In revenue last year, the Gallagher Report says. This did not quite make lip 1958 losse.s. , . .Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands is to dedicate a new Amstel brewery in Curaco, in the Netherlands Antjlles today.

Prentice-Hall lists these as the fastest growing industries In the 60s: air transportation, aluminum. atomic energy, automatic vending machines, automation equipment, beryllium, boats and boating supplies, electrical energy. electric fuel cells, electronics, housing (especially computers), plastics, research and develop

ment in general, salt water conversion, solar energy, swimming pools and ultrasonics.

THIRD FLOATING FAIR

The Japanese, who have converted two ships into floating fairs, are equipping a third to exhibit Japanese goods in South Pacific ports. . . .The U.S. Small Business Administration has published a leaflet telling small firms how they can rent and use computer equiplTOTr". . . Itaans may now lead the world as designers of mens wesm-, but a Turin firm has Just hired an American designer, Leonard Fisher. . .Oil production in the Mediterranean basin was at near-record production last year, with an output of 1.444.600 tons. FRENCH CLAIM SIMPLER. CHEAPER COLORCASTING

A new French color television system may soon by worrying United States producers. It is said to be cheaper and simpler.

The systeiA uses two colors,

flame of tiny jets, a process has instead of three, and can go out over ordinary circuits. One signal is for red and the other is blue. Subtraction of these colors from the slil^hai provides a green color, the inventors say.

With only two colors, a small adjustment permits black and white sets to receive in color, says the Inventor. Henri de France. The sets can still receive black and white pictures.

The system requires dimensional modulation at the receiver, instead of both frequency and dimensional modulation required to receive American colorcasts.

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