PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C

Tuesday, February 23, 1960

Tuesday, February 23, 1960

Agriculture Also Needs A Program

North Carolina has come a long way with its in- quest for a higher economic plateau, North Carolina dustrial development program under the leadership of cannot overlook its farming.

governor Hodges, and all of the candidates in the race This state, which gets a considerable portion of for that post have emphasized the need for continuing its wealth from agriculture, might well consider spend-the governor s development program. ing larger sums for research and new production meth-

It IS indeed a high compliment for that phase of ods that would enhance the position of agriculture, the Hodges program in a campaign which appears It need not curtail its industrial development efforts, certain to draw criticism for some of its other phases, but rather place upon further agricultural develop-While the state seems destined to continue an ag- ment an emphasis equal to that being placed on in-gressive industrial development program for the next dustrial development.

four years regardless of which candidate is victorious Such a program could, in time, add millions of in May, there is also the need for a renewed emphasis dollars to the annual income of the state just as the on further development of the states agriculture. new industrial jobs have done in recent years. If prop-fo a degree the development program of Gov. er leadership is provided there is no reason why North Hodges included agriculture. The governor advocated Carolina cannot emphasize its agricultural develop-diversification in agriculture which to a degree was ment at the same Ume it is emphasizing its industrial achieved through expansion of cattle, hog and poultry development.

production In recent months, however, many farmers , The two-pronged atta'ck should enable the state Who branched into these new enterprises to supple- to resolve more rapidly the economic problems it faces, ment their income have vowed they will stick to their traditional crops of tobacco, corn, cotton and peanuts in the future. The reason, of course, is that a number of farmers have been disappointed in their efforts to realize profits from their diversified farming programs.

In the overall development of the states economy and particularly that of the East^it would be a grave

mistake to overlpok the natural wealth that lies in ________________________________

the productive ability of the scil. To be sure, we must steps being undertaken to seek out other intelligent have more processing plants^.we must have more in- beings presumed to exist in other worlds, dustries allied with agriculture if we are to reach our Presumed to exist, in this case, is the right

economic' potential. At the same time, this factor term.

shouldnt suggest that the vast agricultural region of Thoughtful men who have pieced together the con-

the East has reached its full potential. ditions necessary for the evolution of life as we know

While Eastern North Carolina continues its ef- it, says there are a multitude of planets with conditions forts toward industrial develoment in the next four comparable to those of Mother Earth in the scheme of years, we would like to see more emphasis placed on creation. ^

agricultural development' as well. The ultimate goal To assume that we are the only.intelligent beings

of the development effort is a higher level of economy to develop over the ages of time and in the far reaches for the area and for the state as a whole. And in this of as yet illimitable space, is regarded as an absurdity

that defies the realm of probabilities.

So the first slow, cautious feeling out of distant planets revolving about other suns will be undertaken

Twa Ever Thus

They Hope To Prove Mankind Is Not Alone

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By LYNN NISBET

REPERCUSSION. Many thoughtful people are more concerned about the national re-percus&16n of the lunch counter episodes. of the past few weeks than about any possible consequences in North Carolina or in thq cwnmunitles directly Involved. The misnamed "sit down strikes" of applicants for racially Integrated services at private lunch counters injected an entirely new angle into the total problem which already was complex enough to puzzle the wisest of men.

The first phase of the *prob-lem came og the issue of racial mixing In educational in-stituUons, beginning with State universities and quickly moving to the public schools. Next phase was in government supervised, although privately owned. transportation, chiefly city bus lines.

Latest, but perhaps not yet the final phase of the progressive demand for full integration Is in the realm of completely private owned and managed business, operated solely for profit to private invested capital. In some respects this wholly private area has more explosive possibilities than the public or quasl-public Involvement,

'There is no question of legal or constituUonal rights involved In the requests of Negroes that they be served food at private counters which have been been used exclusively by whites. There is no recognized right to demand service here, comparable to the rights claimed at tax supported and government regulated facilities. The challenge here is not to law or constitution. and is not based on questionable interpretation of statutes or court decrees.

SOCIAL.It is a frontal attack on one of the cherished social customs of this country, which is based on the concept that the private vender has a right to choose his customers, and that the individual has an inhwent right to choose his table companions in a free society.

'Thrtnigh the ages the act of voluntarily breaking bread together has symbolized congenial fellowship and genuine friendship. The host, whether his hospitality was free or paid for, was accorded the right to select his guests. And having accepted as proper that if a host broke Iwead with a bitter

in the near future. Largely, the seekers say, it will be a monitoring process; nothing in the way of contacts will be attempted because of uncertainty over what kind of beings m^ht be encounteredand not because of doubts as tp their existance.

This all sounds pretty much like something out it, i .i

of Science Fiction; but the men engaged in this ven- Couldnt decide whether it had

ture are not victims of wishful thinking, merely reach- been rolled over or if it had been

ing out into the great unknown . . . and want to take Cadillac.

no chances, ^

^ Also during our wanderings re-

Ihe prospects of someday communicating with cently we did a little research creatures of other worlds have been considered ever

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the vast ocean of nothingness has created a yearning

for the Ultimate proof we are not alone. >^lJLl0r JtljClllOrS

Somewhere, out there on other worlds revolving o *n t-i

about other suns there mu.st be beings whose evolution SPTIPH 1 Q r TrPir and culture matches or surpasses our own. kJv-xllwLAO Y ^

In the Ijibt of what we know today, to think (Rocky Mount Telegram) U.S. and Britain. But since otnerwise is the epitome of unthinking conceit. As might be expected. Prances Russia did not specifically say

of creation than we see about us and read of our past, widespread criticism in Com- pretation on the pledge it wishes

And lest we be accused of taking a too dark a ^unist and neutralist countries, and this could mean a Russian

view of Our world, we hasten to add He could have ^ Department charge of the Wests breaking

done a lot worse. ^ ^be pledge, leaving the Soviet

enemy, the enemy was entitled to a certain period of immunity because of the communal bread-breaking. There was implied in that credo no requirement that a- host must accept a guest against his will.

PUBLIC. The situation, of . z. i . , , --------

course, is different with respect Man first knew his world was not unique,

to pubUc or lax supported in- At first imaginations held sway. Later, as scientif- ^

accumulated, men were able to base their con-dition must be recognized here, elusions on something more than dreams and similarly chovia. in other words there are but there is sound basis for the vague foundations. number of letter* in

contention that there is no Jus- Thev miv fhi* will j ^hia hould simplify

tification fw discrimination ... ^ search will require long decades of things when and if the Algn is

In the pubhc service rea wondering ... a point which suggests the ever changed.

North Carolina has fared excep- secret loneliness of mankind whose gazings out into tionally well up to now. Our .

state has been far leas troubled than Arkansas and Virginia

in school matters. We have had Somewhere, out there on other worlds revolvinv

fewer problems in transporta- * .... *

tion than Alabama and Oeorgla.

And we are becoming complacent about our superiority in these areas.

JOLTEDNow we have been jolted out of complacency. North Carolina has been chosen by the long range planners as the scene for a major contest on the issue of complete integration in private social activities.

Policies, practices and statute* adopted in North Carolina have prevented overt acts in violation of Federal court decree* such as have occurred in other jurisdictions. The leadership of Governor Luther Hodge* in this field has been recognized throughout the country.

It seems obvious that integration extremists resent the reasonable attitude of North Carolina. The face that the Federal courts have approved the North Carolina statutes and policies with respect to pupil assignment, and the further fact there have been no flagrant instances of violence in this area, left the- extremists without an issue on which they could base an appeal for funds. It seem* obvious the lunch counter incident* were designed to fill this gap.

The Important question is what effect this latest development will have on the national prestige of North Carolina and of Governor Hodges as champions of moderation. The lunch counter episodes plow through the issues of constitution and law and .get right to root of the big problemthe question of survival of social customs upon which the way of life in this part of the world is founded.

No payola involved here. The results of our survey are offered gratis.

Meanwhile back at the ball thrown. gameMhe ACC-ECC game last Saturday night, that is.

Tour columnist was sandwiched between an ECC grad and an ACC grad.

Pretty soon the referee called a foul on an East Carolina man.

"Hes been doing it all night, ref," yelled the ACC rooter.

The ECC man at the

AC fan.

"Thats not true and you know it," he shot back.

Your columnist cleared the deck* for action but the two fans must have been ~built bf weak material. Not a blow was

What* more, when the game

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There must be something about play acting and politics which disturb* the .balance of an Individual. I know politicians better than I do comedians, but both suffer from this similar Ulneas which is some kind of a social psychosis that has not yet been described in the books.

Take an upcoming politician. He is usually a good guy, an extrovert, who believes that be ought to be liked because he has never done anjrthing to bother anybody. His task is to put his foot on the first rung of the political ladder and that requires subservience to a professional politician. Nobody can get anywhere any other way. Some have tried it by a publicity blitz. Others have tried .to be great reformera, outside of practical poUtio* but they usually die on the fine. The technical requiremenl la (P.-be moved upward and onward. Many person* and groups enter into the productton of a single political personality. It can truly be said that no politician is a self-made mih-

Howevfr, the moment the politician arrives, he is a diffen-ent man. Hi* voice changes. R take* ok^ the coloration of hi^ professlog^ His walk grow|i weightier aa^ rtawef. If one# he was an now i

pragmatist. Httr K^become* elongated so that be can keep it to the ground and bear the tremblings before they become noticeable to the opposition.

Some poUticlans recover frwn this functional personality. They revert to them original ways, whatever they may have been, but must protect the image which they have presented to the public.

Actors used^ (o plkt to smaU audiences, a few hundred pen-

ended. -we Wfottod the two ^^o. on whole, were

shaking itutt -anif Introducing predisposed. k> becaus*

themselves. Oh weD. we pride ^hey paid to see.and hfcar the

ourselves in not egging them on, after that happy ending.

^Llectiori-Year Boost Assurec.

By NORMAN WALKER

WASHINGTON (AP It seems a fairly sure bet now that Congress will vote an election year boost In the dollar-an-hour federal minimum wage.

The main question is how much. The proposals in Congress range up to $1.25. That level would mean a pay raise to over 3*2 million workers.

The Eisenhower administration has withdrawn earlier objections that an increase would be inflationary. Secretary of Labor James P.. Mitchell said last May an increase would

will assure workers a minimum Income and protect employers from unfair competition from rival firms paying substandard wage rates.

The law also requires Ui times the regular rate of pay for hours worked beyond 40 in one week.

The fight in Congress this year is likely to center as much on proposals to broaden the scope of the law as on the amount of minimum increase. There are about 44 million wage and salary workers in the country. The wage-hour law now applies to only about 24 million.

avoided

.statement Issued after the explosion.

Actually the Communists have grounds for protest; Soviet Russia has agreed along with Britain and the U.S. to suspend atomic tests for an Indefinite period. This is one of the best things that has happened to the worlds masses in a long time. The reason for this, of course, is because there was hope for a lessening of the deadly radioactive fallout that Inevitably follows an atomic blast. The world was already becoming filled with the lethal ashes. Now Prance adds more to the atmosphere.

free to resume the tests.

Despite French assurances that the radioacvc fallout presents no danger, there was some apprehension voiced in some nations. This apprehension is well founded, because atomic scientists have been assuring the world there is no danger from fallout ever since they invented the fiendish devices. Yet, the world has become a virtual catchall for all the radioactive dust that has been blown about by these blasts.

the atmosphere.

Until Prances test, there had

?en no explosion in more than a iO

In Brief

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bor James P. Mitchell said last May an increase would cause widespread unemployment in low-wage Industries,

Mitchell has just advised Congress, however, that a new study shows a modest Increase is feasible and could be absorbed without resulting in more unemployment. Apparently, too. he doesnt feel an increase would cause price Increases, as he cautioned last May.

With Democratic leader* of Congress charting action on minimum wage legislation, the administration go-ahead means an increase of some amount is definitely in the cards.

Behind it ail is a bit of politics, The Democrats are under pressure to give some ground to labor unions still sore at both political parties for enactment of the new labor control'law last summer.

Its likely that Republicans, sensing the Democrats arc about to launch a political haymaking venture, decided to get in on the bam floor.

Mitchell reportedly is getting ready to recommend a specific new minimum levelsomething under the $1.25 mark that Sen. John F. Kennedy D - Mass is shooting for in the Senate.

Back in 1955, when Congress raised the minimum from 75 cents to the $1 mark. President Eisenhower w'anted It increased only to* 90 cents. But he signed the bill requiring the $1 level effective March 1. 1956.

The law, known as the Pair Labor Standards Act. pegged the minimum originally at 25 cents an hour in 193. This was advanced to 30 cents in 1939, 40 In 1945 and 75 cents in 1950.

The Idea behind the law Is that setting a floor under wages

called for applying the law to about three million of the exempt workersmainly in chain stores and other retail trade establishments. All but 650,000 of this group already make the $1 minimum. The administration would continue these new workers exempt from' the overtime pay requirement.

Kennedy wants to take in an extra II million workersall on a basis of less than his proposed new $1.25 minimum, but gradually working up to that level over a period of years.

Any change in the law will have wide economic effect. Secretary Mitchell said it took four years for the nations economy to. adjust to the last increase. Even now. he said, traditional wage differential have not been fully restored.

This referred to an eddying effect any Increase in the minimum always has. When workers at the lower rung of the pay ladder get a raise, pay rates tend to increase all the way up to the top.

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year; Russia had shown no inclination to resume her tests. Then the U.S. began stirring around with its desires to resume the tests on a limited basis. This was the wrong course to follow, since Washington should be content to let sleeping dogs lie if Russia is also so inclined.

The Soviet Unions reaction to the French test was a veiled threat to resume Us nuclear testing program if the French continue their experiments. The official news^agency Tass said: "If nuclear explosions continue, then of course, the Soviet Union cannot disregard this fact and must draw the corresponding conclusion for the preservation of the security of the country." But Western officials 'doubted the French test would alter the Soviet pledge to refrain from nuclear testing as.long as the West does. This pledge was interpreted as referring only to the

act sensibly and try to cut down the national debt meets with loud protests from those who hold their jobs by spending. Pittsburg (Texas) Gabette.

"Was it. therefore, a cynic, who suggested that we all live dangerously because we cant get out of this world alive anyhow?Chatham News.

"Its a universal habit of all drivers to criticize the other fel-lo>\. But our current favorite description of a road endangering driver comes from the Lord Mayw of London. He says thi.s: A reckless driver is one who passes you on the road despite everything you can do.* *Milwaukee Journal.

If we were In the habit of requesting dedications from disk jockeys, we would a<k that they play "Time On My Hands" for the thieves who took five parking meters off downtown streets. We would also dedicate "Wish u-PUN a Star" to the columnists, commentators and others who make the joke about Jack Paar being up to ^r.. -----

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS G. WASHINGTON

This was the way the great General always signed hi* name. Some years ago the government brought out a complete set of Washingtons writings, which meant, of course, his letters and state papers. They come to thirty-six quite large volumes.

Washington was a man of such overwhelming dignity that even his closest friends treated him with marked respect. There is on record only one fellow officer In the French and Indian War who addressed Washington by his first name. Gouverneur Morris was one of Washingtons closest friends and remained so through the years. During the Revolution, Morris bet a group of his friends that he could slap his friend George Washington on the back, but the look Washington gave him cused him to pay his wager without protest.

When Washington died, all the shipj? in the British naVy lowered their flags to half-mast. Na-quiem throughout France. During the War of 1812, the British poleon decreed a seven-day re-.shlps sailing up the Potomac to burn the city of ^Washington, tolled their bells .solemnly as they passed Mt, Vernon, To this day, every craft passing Mt. Vernon tolls its bells.

Few figures in world history have surpassed the great Washington in worth and significance. He is one of the most revered and influential human beings ever to have entered the stream of human history.

actors. Great stars, like Sarah Bernhardt and Richard Mansfield, to cite two instances of the truly great, were fhrtunate if their audiences amounted to perhaps 1.0(X) persons. Few theaters existed which could hold many more.

Today, an untrained actor by a slip of fate, might be playing to 10 or 15 million persons on television.

Although this is not a select audience nor doe* be hear its applause, hedoesteUow rating which is as soothing his soul as the 3,600 who applaud Robert Merrill in the Metropolitan Opera House. Who needs applause, if be can get a rating? *

Suddenly the person to whom $100 looked like real money, even in inflationary times, is earning half a million a year which less taxes and less agents* fees, etc.. is still money. He no longer depends upon the quips which brought him to fame. He now hires professional gag-writers and the word, gag. is just right for what they do to him, for *to gag** means to strangle, imitative of the sound made when choking; it also means to retch. Macaulay used the phrase; "The time was not yet come^ when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked.**

Well, that gives jovt an Idea of what happens to the comedian when he hires a gag-wrlter. He is gagged which as a verb means putting something in the mouth both to choke and lence the victim. It also has some effect on the head which becomes unbelievably swollen. This is not surprising fw to have an audience of milUoni of hearers easily could make a person, without the balance df philosophy and the humility of religion, believe that he Is a god.

The man who did most for television was no actor. Television owes its existence to such men as Edison. De Forest, Marconi, Alexandereon. Baird. Zworykin and many others who created the device. Give comedians a few years df applause and they begin to be- * lieve in their own perfection. They become imperious to criticism.

I once askeid Eddie Cantor who apart from being a comedian, is also a human being, why comedians always tell the same (Continued on Page )

'hgenious Radio Net For Doctors

By ELMER ROESSNER

A lot of darts will be thrown at the proposed closed-circuit radio for doctors but In the end it will be accepted and probably extended to other fields, if the economics works out.

The proposal is devilishly ingenious. The. Radio Corporation of America plans to install, sometime^ later this year, clos-ed-circuit loud speakers in doctors waiting rooms and private offices.

From 8 a.m. to 9 p m., the speakers will spout music into the doctors waiting rooms and. if they can take it, into the doctors own offices. So, far its even up with Muzak.

But, under plans worked out. three times a day the instruments will beep or double beep, the waiting room speaker will shut off, and the doctor will get medical information programs. NOW. A WORD FROM

These program.*;, each 1.5 minutes long, will be of unbiased

medical information, but they will be sponsored by pharmaceutical houses. The medical Information will be edited by RCAs medical editors; the commercials wlU be distinctly separate.

This plan has been tested in Boston. Springfield, Mass., White Plains, N.Y., Los Angeles, Des Moines and Atlanta.

You can already hear the roars of protest that will come. They will make them captive audiences.

2/ That doctors will be unduly influenced by the medical houses that sponsTr the programs.

3. That the editors of the programs will be Infuenced .by pharmaceutical companies that bear the burden and pay the costs of the service. Doctors are to be charged only $10 a month. TIPS TO THE DOCTORS

4. That the big pharmaceutical houses, growing fatter with high mark-ups as exposed by the Kefauver Committee, are simply diverting some of the *ipot to doctors by underwriting the

music for the patients.

5. That the Information programs will cause doctors to pay less attention to medical journals and research reports,

6. That doctors will acept the advertising along with the non-commerical medical information, or co-nadngle ,advertising and medical infomation in their minds.

7. That small'companies, unable to afford tlm*^ will be barred from introducing new drugs.

All those charges and more will be made.

Nevertheless, the entire program is sound and. If operated within ethical limits, resistan^ to attack.

WHY' NDT?

There is no reason why RCA or anybody else should not offer doctors music and programs of news of special interest; there is no reason why ethical drug, companies should not sponsor such programs as Ions as their own Interests are kept separate

from the medical news. Surely, t drug company has as much right to explain its toothpaste to a doctor as it has to shove the goo to an unsuspecting television audience. In fact, a doctor may be better equipped to evaluate the claims than a ehlld just learning to think.

There are no reasons why this plan is not compatible with a free-wheeling democracy; there are no reasons why It should not spread to other fields. Why should not dentists have such services? Or restauranU. Rlth music fo? customers and cooking tips for chefs? Or butchers, with music for customeiw and information on the whereabouts of meat Inspectors? Or maternity patients, with commercials by diaper services? Or shoeshlne boys, with music to shine by and flashes on the results of races at Santa Anita?

Stand fst. RCA! Dont let anybodys gags prevent you from carrying on for the heater education of our medical men!