PACE FOUPTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Monday February IB, I960

Monday, Februarj- 15, 1960

My, Youve Grown!

A Trained Labor Supply. Is Needed

North Carolinas effort to provide skilled workers for prospecti\c :ulustries through establishing techni-calwocational iiaining schools was brought to wider attention last week in a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal.

The financial newspaper pointed out that a number of industries were beginning to shy away from the South because of the lack of skilled labor in the area. It devoted particular attention to the program in North Carolina which so far has led to the establishment of six technical schools with 12 more being planned as cooperative state-local enterprises.

Availability of suitable w^orkers is a major factor considered by any industry that is looking for a new plant location. While North Carolina has a considerable supply of labor that can be trained for almost any industry, many of its areasbecause they are not developed industriallylack a surplus of people With particular skills certain industries may seek.

North Carolina has recognized this problem, and the establishment of technical schools around the state is a means by w'hich the state hopes to overcome this deficiency. The very fact that North Carolina has taken this positive step to increase its supply of skilled work-

All Now Serving After Electiori

By LYNN NISBET

ELECTEDAlthough most of them first went into office by executive appointment, all incumbent members of the Council of State, the Attorney General, both United States Senators and all members of the Supreme Court except Associate Justice Clifton Moore are now serving by election of the people. Justice Moore was appointed to succeed Justice Jeff Johnson who retired since the last general election for the term ending December 31, 1960. He will be on the ballot for election to ii full 8-year term this year.

The only member of the present Supreme Court who first went into office by elecUon is Associate Justice R. Hunt Parker. who was nominated in the

1952 primary and subsequently elected. Only member of the Council of State who went into office first by election if L. Y. tStag) Ballentlne. elected Commissioner of Agriculture in 1948, Thad Eure was nominated and elected Secretary of State in 1936 and would have taken office In January, 1937, under that election. Actually he was appointed and assumed office in mid-December of 1936 to fill a vacancy occasioned by resignation.

The historic fact that the

people have generally approved and confirmed executive ap

pointments gives support to the idea that the offices should be made appointive. There are

enough exceptions to disprove this contention. Witness failure of the people, through due democratic process, to approve appointments of Cameron Morrison, William Umstead and Prank Graham to the United States Senate, and of Murray James and Itimous Valentine to the Supreme Court Your reporter cannot recall an instance of an appointee to an executive office being disapproved in the first election after his appointment

RECORD All incombent statewide elective. Judicial and legislative officers (except Justice Moore) have been nominated and elected through due process. All of them except Attorney General Malcolm Seawell and Senator Everett Jordan have run the primary gamut. Seawell and Jordan were appointed after me 1958 primary lists had closed and were nominated by the Democratic Executive Committee and duly elected by Democratic party process and State law, Seawell for a four year term and Jordan lor six.

Cameron Morrison in late 1930, William Umstead in late 1946, Prank Graham in early 1949 and Alton Lennon in mid-

1953 were appointed to the United States Senate at times when there was no opportunity for their nomination by the executive committee. The had to go cold into a statewide primary. And they didn't fare very well. Sam Eh-vin was appointed in June, 1954. was ncmiinated by the committee and elected that fall. He was nominated for a full term in the 1956 primary

and elected. Everett Jordan was appointed in April, 1958, was nominated by the committee and elected that fall. He goes into the present primary, as Eh-vin did in 1956, with the prestige of having been elected by the people, although it will be his first primary bout. Attorney General Malcolm Seawell is in the same situation, so far as his present office is concerned, although he has been through district primaries for solicitor and a state - wide election for superior court judge.

The point sought to be made here is that every incumbent except one seeking election to statewide executive or judicial office, or to either branch of the Congress, has been previously nominated by due process and elected by the people.

HISTORY Sen. Sam Ervin was appointed by Gov. William Umstead in May of 1954, was elected that year for the unexpired term of the late Senator Clyde Hoey, re - elected in 1956 for a full six year term.

Sen. Everett Jordan was appointed in April of 1958 by Governor Luther Hodges, was elected that fall to fill out the term of the late Senator Kerr Scott and is up for election to a full six year term now.

Thad Eure was appointed Secretary of State by Governor J. C. B. Ehrtnghaus in December of 1936, after he had been elected in November, and has been elected every four years sinceand is running again.

Henry L. Bridges was appointed State Auditor by Governor Gregg Cherry to succeed George Ross Pou, deceased, in February, 1947, was elected the following year and re-elected in 1952 and 1956. He is a candidate for the same office now.

Edwin Maurice Gill, appointed State Treasurer by Governor William Umstead in July, 1953, replacing Brandon Hodges, resigned. He was elected for the unexpired term in 1954 and for a full term in 1956. He is seeking re-election.

Chwles F. Carroll, appointed Superintendent of Public Instruction by Governor Kerr Scott in August. 1952, elected that fall and again in 19.56. Currently seeking another term.

L. Y. Ballentine, elected Com-mis.sioner of Agriculture in 1948, re-elected in 1952 and 1956. Expected to seek re-election.

Frank Crane appointed Commissioner of Labor by Governor William Umstead in June, 1954, elected that fall for the unexpired term of Forrest Shuford, deceased, re-elected in 1956 and is a candidate now.

Charles F. Gold, appointed Commissioner of Insurance by Governor William Umstead in November, 1953, elected for the unexpired term of Waldo C. Cheek in 1954 and for a full term in 1956, Running again.

Malcolm B. Seawell, appointed Attorney General by Governor Luther Hodges in April, 1958, elected that year for the unexpired term, and will .seek re-electionif he does not run for Governor.

era is of utmost importance to its continued economic development. It shows industry that the state is anxious to provide what industry needs. And the persons who are completing courses in the schools now operating are proving to be capable workers.

The establi.shment of these vocational schools to provide skilled workers should point up to North Carolina, that there is more to seeking ecenomic development than just contacting executives and singing the praises of an'area.

Particularly is this true for Eastern North Carolina that has been traditionally an* agricultural area. Even though the East possesses a considerable labor supply, and natural resources that might be attractive to industry, there is much ground work to be done . . . oftbn only indirectly connected with industrial development.

It may be that one community must improve its water or electrical system before it will receive serious consideration by a prospective industry. Perhaps it lacks recreational facilities which prospective industries think are essential. Maybe its schools are not producing the kind of young people an industry feels is essential to assure it of a continuing supply of capable personnel. It may be simply that the community doesnt have a positive attitude toward industrial and economic development.

Any of these conditions and many others also might prove a stumbling block in a communitys efforts toward development.

Just as the state as a whole has recognized its handicap in not having a sufficient supply of skilled labor to meet the demands of some industrial prospects, so should individual communities carefully evaluate their own shortcomings so far as industrial leqquirements are concerned. The more realistic the evaluation is, the better able the community will be to prepare itself for industrial and economic progress.

A community may close its eyes to its own faults, but it may be sure that a visitor, looking for a plant site, will not be inclined to overlook them.

VO A Construction Is

Finally Begun In Area

The day that Pitt County has awaited for many months has now arrived.

Construction is now beginning on the hug^ Voice of America installation in and near Pitt County.

Initially there will be the clearing of land on the two 2,700 acre transmitter sites near Shelmerdine and Pactolus and the 600 acre receiving station site just west of Greenville. As the work progresses, other phases of construction will follow for the next two. years as a logical order is followed for building the huge installation that is expected to be ready for operation sometime in 1962.

While Pitt County continues to look forward to the day when it will be the center for overseas broadcast for the Voice of America, it will receive economic benefits from the project long before it is placed in operation.

A spokesman for Nello Teer Company of Durham, which has the contract for clearing the sites, has said the company will employ up to 250 people on the clearing project. In all probability a considerably larger number of people will be employed during other phases of the construction project.

It Is evident, therefore, that Pitt County will receive considerable economic benefits from the project while it is under construction. It will be like adding another major industry to the countys economy during the construction period. In addition to people who are brought in from other areas to help with construction of the facilities, there will be job openings for a considerable number of people already in Pitt County.

The start of con.struction on the project is an important day for all of Pitt County. It ushers in a new enterprise that will, for many vears to come, help to bolster the growing and diversifying economic picture in Pitt.

Science

JrQirs

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Mustve Been Another

COPYRIGHT, I960, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE. INC.

Way back in 1950 or 1951, 1 encountered H.L. Hunt who is reputed to be one of the richeat men in the world. I have known several richest men in the world but have never counted their money. Runt wanted to save mankind from. Communism which was a laudable purpose. When last I saw him. it was at Chicago, in 1952, where he tried to nominate General Douglas Mac-Arthur for President. It was at the Republican Convention that Hunt discovered that his money could not buy anything or anyone.

Now along comes E. Mullins, who writes on the stationery ot

the Institute for Biopolitics, and who recounts the following:

While I was visiting with Mr. Hunt of Dallas this winter, he asked me one day* If I knew V hat role you had played in the Russian Revolution. I replied that I was quite a student of the period, and, as a matter of fact. I was writing a book about it. but that I had not known of any particular role -that you had played. He then said that when you had been down to see him. you had given him the impression that you, Lenin and Trotsky were the three men who planned the October seizure of power.

I was rather surprised to hear this, as your name does not figure in any book I have ever

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Cost Of

involves

By RALPH ROBEY

Everyone is necessarily interested in what Is going to happen over the next several months to the cost of living and prices in general. There are numerous forecasts. These range from a slight decline, through a period of general stability, to a rise of up to three percent.

We have no generally recognized index of the cost of living. The nearest thing* to this is the Consumers Price Index compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This carefully compiled series, as in the case of all government indexes, uses the average of 1947-49 as equal to 100. But it is not a cost of living index. It covers the prices paid by urban workers of moderate income for some 300 items, weighted by the relative importance of the article in total expenditures of these groups. The Index is not corrected for seasonal variations, and this gives a certain unevenness over each year.

According to this series, consumer prices were stable during 1954 and 1955. In 1956 and

1957 prices rose moderately. In

1958 they stabilized again and this continued through the first quarter of 1959. In the second quarter of 1959, howeve^r. the index started up slightly and that has continued to the present.

The question is: what is the trend of the index^ going to be for the rest of this* year?

The answer to this will depend upon the relative movements of various components making up the series. The cost of service wlll continue to rise. So will transportation and housing.' which includes rent. Apparel also is likely to Increase slightly n price. This leaves, among the large items, food. The cost of 'this should be down- not sharply but at least a little.

iving s All

In my judgment the decline of good prices will not be sufficient to offset the upswing in other elements of the index. This means that the Consumer Price Index will drift slowly upward for the rest of 1960, The rise will will not be sharp, and it should not show an increase every month, but by the end of the year the figure should be, say. one percent above that for December 1959.

Prices in general are measured by the Wholesale Price Index. This covers only commodities services, Interest, rent and so forth are not Included. This is one of the important factors accounting for the failure of this and the Consumers Price Index to move more or less identically.

Wholesale prices were stable from the beginning of 1953 until the middle of 1955. For the next approximately three years there was a moderate uptrend, and for the past two years there has been no over-all trend. It is Important to note, however, that the stability of the past two years have been caused by farm and processed food prices declining by enough to offset the upward trend in other prices. This is a precarious manner by which to get stability and it Is questionable whether it can continue.

In other words, such evidence as we have, and the logic of the situation. Indicate that this price index will begin to rise slightly before long. Again, it will not be a sharp advance, but by the end of 1960 the ^figure probably will be at least one percent above the present. .*

It wou^ be much better for everyone, and for the nation. If such Indreases did not take place place. But there is no effective manner by which they can be prevented at this late date.

(Washington Daily News)

National defense is everybodys business in America because whatever measure of defense Is taken part and parcel of every Americans future.

Right now there seems to be much divided opinion on just how well our national defen.scs stack up with those of the Soviet Union. When Prcsidrnt Elsenhower is asked swne question about why he holds down the defense budget in the light of world developments, he has usually replied something like Well, I know more about military defense than anybody else, and I know that what Im asking for is enough. He has uttered words similar to those above on several occasions.

Along comes high ranking military experts who plead for more money for guns, nuclear weapons, and the like, and when they appear before a Democrat-tically controlled committee, they seem to get a sympathetic ear.

It is becoming more and more evident that many Democratic leaders In Congress want to dispute the claim of the President that he knows more about defense needs than anyone else. It is true that President Eisenhower In World War II was a great military leader. Probably then he did know as much or more about our military needs than other people But times have changetK considerably since World War H was won. And times have changed con-slderably since the President left active military duty to engage in active political duty.

The fact remains that as President of the United States. Mr. Eisenhower is also commander

In chief of our armed forces. But being commander in chief of armed forces does not denote military technical knowledge not known by active millUry officers of general rank.

So the Democrats seem about to say that the President was an expert in the era of 1940-45, but that today times and needs have changed to such an extent that he is no longer the military expert of today that he formerly wan.

A military man is always close to the service. He never entirely gets out (rf step once he has held a position in the army such as Mr. Elsenhower did. But once he becomes a civilian, such as our President is. he loses at least some contact with the everyday problems of military need^. That includes national defen'*'.

If national defense problems are worrying many high ranking generals today, then it is worrying many American civilians. They have become confused and do not knou how much to believe from any source.

National defense today Is too Important to dilly-dally with. The lives and welfare of our people are at stake to an extent never before known In history. The story of the atomic bomb and the history of nuclear science might well write the future of the world or its disintegration.

National defense Is one ls.stie which ought not become political. It ought not have to become political because both political parties and ail leaders realize just how' much is at stake.

But with the present controversy raging, it very likelv will be an Important issue In the next presidential campaign.

consulted on this period, and I showed Mr. Hunt, in his copy of SUlin, by Trotsky, that your name .did not appear in it. although Trotsky discusses the October Revolution at some length. I told him that the first time your name appears in my files is a clipping from the 2Uonist BuUeCtn, recounting the fact that you had addressed a Zionist group in Shanghai.

I must be the fellow who made the moon! For less than Hunt says, they put fellows in the booby-hatch. No, you're not Napoleon, I am!

Any student of the first year of the Russian Revolution would know such names as Bukharin. Zinoview. KoUontsi, Chernov, Tseretelli, even Stain. But they would not find the name of the 24 years old genius, Sokolsky. among them. Forsooth! He was a mere gatherer of news on a small newspaper published in English in the city of Petrograd where he went to from the School of Journalism of Columbia University, In bis native State of New York.

The Russian Daily News was owned by H. Chistus Vezey, an American, but It was under the control of the British Military Mission and was definitely anti-Bolskevik throughout its career, until it was seized by them.

I, along with many others, was. without much ado. put on a train leaving Petrograd. On this train were also the American. Chinese and Japanese diplomatic delegations as well as some businessmen of these countries.

One of the advantages of having seen the Bolshevik Revolution close At hand, as a reporter who daily had to visit Uie various bureaus of the Smolny Institute, is that one recognizes the nature of revolution. It is never an accident. It is never without cause. It never requires much organization in advance because it only happens when the core of a nation is rotted. Had the Bolsheviks not taken power In Soviet Russia, some other group would have. Other groups tried and

failed to hold power. The Court

party under Grand Duke Nl-

cholai Nlcholalevitch tried: the

conservative middle class under Prince Lvov tried; the patriotic nationalistic Social Revolutionists under Kerensky tried and failed; the Army under General Kornilov tried and failed.

Why did Lenin and Trotsky, representing the smallest and least important poUtlcal group, succeed? The answer is so simple that It is too often overlooked. They had carefully analyzed the inner yearning of the Russian peasants and workers and even large elements of the Continued On Pago i

auded

By ROGER BAB80N

BABSON PARK. Mass.,

When I was in Moscow, getting statistics relating to its public school system, 1 was asked what we are doing to teach science to our teenagers. By science the Moscow school authorities mean ^ mathematics, physics, and

chemistry.

WHAT ARE SCIENCE PAIRS?

For (definite information I could think only of the work of William Guild of St. Petersburg.

Fla. in developing Science Fairs.

Science Clubs, and Prevlews-for-Teachers. This work especially interests me as it discovers young people with exceptional natural talents. Any of these might easily become an Edison or a Stelnmctz or swne other great inventor if given individual attention when young.

Since my return. I have mailed back to Moscow clippings from newspapers describing this work. I have also mentioned the work of the Osborn Creative Educational Foundation of Buffalo.

N.Y.. which is endeavoring to awaken the creative possibilities in all people. Both of these are non-profit Institutions supported by gifts from interested donors,

WHAT MAKES GRASS GREEM

Guild's theory is that the true scientist is the one whose curiosity has led him to Inquire Into everything that 99 per cent of the people take for granted. At an exhibit given by youngsters st Tampa. Fla.. I noticed a boy with four saucers on his desk.

One had green peas, another yellow carrots, a third red beans, and a fourth white com. When I asked him why they were on his desk, be replied: To make me curious as to why the different colors from the same soil, same water, and same sunshine. He is much unlike a U.S. Secretary of Defense who is reported to have said: Im not interested in why the grass is green."

The primary intent of these Science Pairs is to stimulate a youngster's native curiosity into a lively desire to find out the reason for things. If he catches fire and his imagination is stirred, he is on the way to becoming a great acientlst. Rsala makes her selections in a rough and heartless manner; ^

but Mr. Guild does it on a voluntary basis,leU the youth. Instead of Mr. K. decide his future.

Yet I am happy to aay that this v(^untary American program is already being used in fifty-one cities of Floridji alone, and I do not know how many are starting in other states; while the Moscow system is hunting for prospects in over 1,(XX) Russian cities. This is something that our Defense Department should take seriously. I would like to see the Guild Science given

each year !or this work th cost of one missile experiment.

It would save our country a bUllon dollars a year as well as |

perhaps prevent World War III.

I hope this story will cause the superintendents of schools in wide-awake cities to send for further Information. There is no cost to any city for putting on a Science Pair. It interests the teachers and parents greatly.

In fact, these Palrp cqiid help in selectin# new-aMhAia; the more useful teactKtw Hke to be in a city which operates a Science Fair once each year, and the kids certainly love It all.

Once at a dinner in London I was so fortunate as to sit next to George Bernard Shaw.

Among other questions he put to me was this; Why is it that the most marvelous of all machines, poftsessed by everyone, is so seldom used and why does this especially ap^ to you Americans? When I asked him the name of this most marvelous machine, be replied, The human brain, used to less than 5 per cent of capacity.

I then asked him how the use of the brain could be increased. and he replied, By develop- . ing peoples curiosity. . .95 per cent of what you Americans read or hear acti^y goes in one ear and out the other. It Is only when something heard or seen develops ones curiosity that this marvelous brain works for a few minutes." This is what the Science Center is trying to do. I wish William Gud would not be . content to apply the work only to youngsters. Bankers and investors are especially guilty of acting upon tips" instead of thinking about and studying the valuable facta which art available.

Calendar Will Cut Retail Sales

By ELMER ROESSNKR Retail sales will dip next month. The calendar, not the economic outlook, will be to blame.

Last year, almost all Easter business occurred in March; this year most of it will be done in April. Hence March-to-March comparisons, especially In soft igoods fields, will have a downward look. But the April - to -April comparisons will make this year look far better than it will be over 1959.

February, at present indications. wlU show a gain over last February, partly because there is an extra selling day. OTHER LOOK-AHEADS Here are more forecasts, based on analyses of existing facts: Leveling off of the inventory boom. One factor in present prosperity is the purchase of steel and other commodities by manufacturing busine.sses to rebuild their Inventories. But purchasing agents say the build-up will be slower from now on and

by midyear buying for Inventory will be largely for replacement.

Stalemate of the Federal labeling bill. The House has passed without debateand without some Congressmen's awareness a bill providing that when Im-' ported articles are repackaged, the new package must state the articles are imported. The idea is sound but, in practice it would work hardships on retailers who would have to label each bag of olives sold out of a cask, or each package of slice imported salami. Importers were caught napping when the bill slid through the house, but efforts to delay action this year wUl probably be successful*, in the Senate.

More Mexican atrawberriea. Mexico, which has taken over a large share of the United States shrimp market, now bids to be a great strawberry supplier.'It can get tlie berries in earlier than mast U. S. regions, production is rising 20 per cent this year, and a company is be

ing formed to ship berriea by air freight to Laredo, whence they wUl go to markets by refrigerated trucks.

MORE RUSSIAN GOODS

A Soviet trade push is ahead. Despite Soviet talk about its gieat prosperity. Russia is desperately in need of Imports and the only way it can get them is by selling more goods abrbtid to gain exchange to buy imports. A large chemical shipment, due any day, and the deal to sell Moskvlch cars in the U. S. are Indicators of a determination to find more markets here.

More fringe demands. The ,most spectacular result of the steel strike settlement was the provision for a lump-sum payment of 13 weeks pay, expected to average around $1.500, which Steelworker President David McDonald said alone substan-tlalli makes up for all of the other economic Improvements.'* This will be strong encouragement to all unions to demand similai beueliU.

Costlier clothing. Tho textile industry has held the wage-prlce lint better than many

other industries, but a wage-increase movement is now surging through the 'ranks of workers. Several Increases have been gained so far this year and, by June wagesand p^es *-rwiU be about 5 per cent above present levels.

RETAILING GIMMICK AFFRIGHTS OLD PROMOTER The Old Promoter dropped in today and said, Ive been reading about a Kentucky store that has a talking tree, mads of driftwood and erected near the main door. When a kid is fitted for a new pair of shoes, his name is taken and when he leaves the store the tree, by means of an intercom, calls him by name.

It seems like a good idea." we said.

Sure is. the old one 'replied, "After that, no Kentucky kid will evei; touch soda pop AgAA.*