PAGE FOimTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE. N. C,

Wednetdfiy, February 24, 1960

Wednesday, February 24, 1960

Should Answer Postal Ultimatum

Year after year, as Congress seeks to hold down plaints pour in to the department, and these in turn the unrealistic and absurdly high Post Office Depart- are used to bring pressure on Congress to provide the

ment appropriation, there is always the threat of cur- funds the department says it needs,

tailed service by the department, and Congress sue- ^ ^

cumbs to the ultimatum to pour more- millions into the . ^e are not /avor of reducinK the se^ice now

department budget. K*''" h Department. We do feelhow;

^ . . ever, it is high time Congress called a halt to the con-

This year the same routine IS beginning again. The stant and fantastic rise in postal appropriations. As House Appropriations Committee cut some $83 mil- the elected representatives of the people, members of lions in requested postal funds. Postmaster General Congress, not the Postmaster General, should be the Summerfield has issued the curtailed service ultima- final judge of how much tax money should be appro-tum. It remains now only to be seen whether Congress priated for the Post Office Department. Further, as

Whats Percolating?

tells the Post Office Department what to do, or the Post Office Department, as in the past, tells Congress what to do.

Frankly, we hope this year Congress wdll see fit

an official of the federal government, the Postma.stcr General should see that the greatest service possible with the funds that are appropriated.

to stand by the House Appropriations Committee. We ^ o f ^

would also like to see Congress and the people demand 4.

that dollar value be received for the money already

being spent for postal services.

In spite of the fact that the House Appropriations Ccmmittee voted to cut Post Office Department request by $82 millions, the appropriation approved for the department is still $104 million more than for the present fiscal year. Even so, the Postmaster Gen-ert w^as quick to assert that unless the cut is restored in appropriations, many communities will be deprived of necessary postal services and overall service will have to be reduced.

spiral in postal appropriations.

Trend

World

Is Away From Disarmament

Wed like to know how much people really think world attitude toward disarmament and a future of peace has changed for the better in, say, the past year.

The postal service probably comes into direct con- What can they say has actually been accomplish-tact with a larger portion of the people of the country cd in that direction? than any other government operation. Reduction in service almost always brings quick reaction. Com-

Naming Bruton larns ADDrova'.

B.V LYNN NISBET COMMENDED - Pew acts of Governor Hodges have been greeted with as nearly unani-nious approval as was his selection of Wade Bruton to succeed Malcolm Seawell as Attorney General. Recognition of the ability of the man who has been a vakied assistant in the depart-mtot for more than a quarter ce||!ltry is another evidence of promoting from the ranks and utilizing experience and special training. Such incidents are good f(H- morale among State employees.

The promptness with which the Governor acted also has been widely commended. It is known that endorsements were being obtained for several others, including two or three Superior Court judges. Delay in making the appointment might have developed enmity and Jealousy.

Bruton is the fourth appointee to the office within less than five years. WiUlam B. Rodman was named upon the death of Harry McMullan in 1955. He^erved only one year and resigned to accept appointment to the Supreme Court. He was replaced by George Patton, who quit after about 18 months to seek and obtain election as superior court Judge. Malcolm Seawell was named to succeed him in April of 1958, and is now resigning to enter the race for Governor.

Through the brief tenures of these top men. as he had done for the 18 years under Harry McMullan, Wade Bruton gave to tha^* department a sense of dnUity and continuity. Person-n changes above and below the level of his particular niche in the scheme of things did not materially affect the consistency of rulings and opinions which the Attorney Generals office was called upon to deliver.

REPUBLICANS North Carolina Republicans have problems which are different but in many ways Just as serious as those bothering the Democrats. The party crganization will come to grip with some of these matter at the state convention to be held in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium Saturday.

Sen. Thurston Morton of Kentucky, national chairman, will be the keynote speaker. Also on hand will be Lee Potter, the assistant to the national chairman assigned to the southeast. These representatives of the national organization find themselves about as unpopular with the rank and file Republican party member in North Carolina as do the spokesmen for the Democratic national committee among Tarheel Democrats.

There is growing belief in ^ this state that the national party

organizations, both of them, expect North Carolinians to pay the assessed "Quota of campaign moneyand keep quiet about everything else.

In on^ respect at least the Democrats are happier. They can look forward to some fun on the state scene. Also there is a remote chance that the Democratic delegates to the national convention mi?:ht have some influence in selecting candidates for President and Vice President.

Republican candidates for State offices have no^hope, and the presidential nomination has already been determined. In view of those admitted facts, there would seem little point in going through the motions of a Republican state convention.

Except for one thing, the Democrats might profit by considering this attitude on part of Republicans. That is the determination to preserve the accouterments of democratic popular government. It has been noted here before that the Republican plan of organization is actually more democratic (spelled with a little d) than the Democratic party plan.

LINE-UP Effort is being made in some quarters to line up Malcolm Seawell as the crown prince of the Hodges regime for Governor. While it Is true that Seawell voiced resentment at attacks of some other candidates against the present administration, and said he found many things in its record which are commendable, he also was as vigorous as any candidate in op-posimn to some administration practice.

The constitution establishes the Council of State, composed of elective officials, as an advisory and counseling group for the chief executive. By implicaUon, at least, Seawell questions the degree to which the present chief executive has by-passed or ignored the counsel of this group.

The constitution also provides that all appropriations of public tax' moneys shall be made by the General Assembly. Practices which have developed in recent years have transferred a lot of real appropriating powers from the General Assembly to the executive department through extended use of the contingency and emergency funds.

Seawells advocacy of -more prestige for the members of the Council of State and less authority on part of the executive for what amounts to original appropriations, is in direct contrast with the trend of the past decade or 60 toward more absolute control in the Governors office over every phase of State government actlvitiy. .

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If anything, the trend is the other way.

No one can say the United States has disarmament on its mind; indeed, the emphasis is all on whether we should step up the pace of (ieveloping more and better weapons.

No one can say it of Russia, despite Nikita Khrushchevs talk of demobilizing a fragment of his' armed forces. Emphasis there is on more missiles, development of nuclear submarines.

Red China reportedly has set up new rocket bases sighted on Formosa.

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France, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, the United Arab Republic, Israel, . . . in fact, you name a country . . . and there youll find reliance on additional weaponary as a means of self-nreservation.

By JJUN SCHLIENZ

Weather Is Againstem

In B^vember, two members of the family departed chilly Michigan for the warmer clime of the Elsewhere in todays paper you may find a short Southland.

item about West Germany asking permis.sion to store us^ wSh thcyenioy^a Te^^ munions, food and medical supplies in Spain. day of mUd weather and more

You may attach a lot of significance to that little ^hat were cold and wet. item. Having had enough of the lat-

^r, they hied themaelvea Plorida-vv e do. way; and they tell me for a

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ror whatever else one may ascribe to the German lived up to it billing. .

national character, nearly everyone regards them as turned cold,

thorough in preparing for contingencies.

All in all, the world just doesnt seem ready to accept anything other than weapons as a basis for determining right and wrong.

When It cold in Florida, it is right uncomfortable, because houses there are generally built to cope with only minor winter spells. . .Just as ours are not designed for Northern winters.

So they tried to last out the Florida chill, but gave up and hit the road again for Greenville. Ironically, they had some fair weather for travelling.

Their arrival In Greenville coincided with the end of a reasonably mild spell and the return

and

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of some cold, wet days, nights.

They didn't stay very long, departing for Michigan the morning after one of those familiar dark, cold, wet days.

On the basis of their adventures with the weather it came as no surprise when clear skies and bright sun returned to Our Town on the morning they left.

Weve been reading about how the northeast* and midwest has been engaged in digging out of a series of heavy snowstorms, so Im almofit afraid to read the weather story tomorrow.

With their kind of luck, a real blizzard should be due to blow in off Lake Michigan late Thursday.

aabor

Difficult

By NORMAN WALKER

WASHINGTON (AP) Labor unions are in a slough. By their own appraisal theyre stuck In the mud of their own unsolved problems.

The distnrbing thing if there is value In some measure of balance between labor and management in America is that organized labors leaders see their influence dwindling and dont quite know what to do about it. '

Their membership is slipping. They still tolerate strength-sapping feuding between unions. They say employers are giving them an awful kicking around. They claim both political parties are so conservatively dominated thtat organized labor is practically a political orphan.

That is the agonizing analysis of the state of organized labor by union leaders themselves at a recent series of winter meetings. They are working on all the problems, but in a sort of half-heated way that lacks the old crusading spirit.

Take organizing. When the rival AFL and CIO merged in late 1955 one goal was a giant revival of organizing activity.

Yet after four years of merger the APL-CIO, with an estimated 13^ million members, reported the other day that union membership hasn't kept up with the growth of the labor force. About six workers out of 10 are still outside the union fold.

Whats worse, from the union standpoint, is that the complexion of the work force is rapidly changing. New machinery is reducing the number of production of blue collar workers, while the ranks of technical or. white collar workers are steadily growing.

Union organizing is still geared to the production worker and the craftsman. The unions realize they must use different techniques Co attract the "white collar wage earner. But they have

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not yet found a successful formula-

New labor law restrictions, the unions say, have hobbled their traditional organizing methods. They are still running into antagonistic public opinion resulting from the labor racket scandals. And in these times of relative prosperity workers are not too receptive tp organizing.

Despite ^ its troubles, the merged AFL-CIO is sticking together. Many of the rival leaders are still distruslful of each other. But they feel more secure together than divided.

Much of the merged organizations strength and resources are frittered away in internal scrapping. Fuzzy Jurisdictional rules dividing the types of work the members of each union are supposed to perform are constantly being crossed with consequent retaliation.

llie AFL-CIO has been working on various plans fcH* peaceful settlement of these internal disputes. but none have Jelled.

Employers, perhaps fearful than it has turned out to be so far, have tended to close ranks and stiffen their resistance to union demands.

Labor leaders point, as examples of this, to the recent lengthy steel and meat-packing Industry strikes. Employers In the railroad and airline Industries have built up big strike insurance or mutual aid funds.

Concern over a worsening labor-management relations cli-mste ld George Meany, APL-CIO president, to ask President Elsenhower to sponsor a high-level conference of employers and union chiefs.

Eisenhower said he favored the idea, and such sessions are likely to take place In the coming weeks.

But observers are doubtful the meetings will succeed. One of the reasons is union labor's admitted relatively weak position on the current economic scene.

(Wiltoa Times) 1

Senator Kennedy is trying hard to sew up his nomination for the preaidency on the Democratic ticket. He has introduced a bill to provide health care for all social seciulty beneficiaries. Of course it would be financed by higher social security .taxes.

It seems that this is a sure vote getter. For the nations bill for medical care has gone beyond the reach of many, so the politicians see the hand writing on the wall and are making all the political "hay out of the situation, possible.

The Kennedy bill would cost an estimated $2 billion more annually in social security taxes. And today money is going out faster than it is coming into the social security account. 80 if added services are given, taxes will have to be increased substantially.

Kennedy admits that insurance companies are doing a good Job insuring Americans. But he adds that It is extremely unlikely that they can reach our elder citizens.

The Kennedy bill would provide that all individuals receiving benefits under social security. including disabled (not covered in the Forand bill) would be eligible.

Hospital services would be limited to 90 days in a 12 month period. Payments would also be made for nursing home and home nursing services up to a combined maximum of 120 days. A special formula is to be used in computing days of care for nursing home and home nursing.

Diagnostic out-patient services would be provided (not in Forand bill). An eight-man National Advisory Health Council, four from hospital and health activities and four to represent consumers, would be set up to govern the program.

It goes without saying that all medical and administrative groups oppose the Kennedy bill. It ia the nearest yet offered to socialized medicine.

We are completely opposed to socialized medicine, to the government adding medical care to social security benefits. The reason is because in the end it will cost you more than you are now paying for medical services, and it fhis step to socialized medicine comes in the form of added benefits to social security, the medical profession will have to bear their share of the blame.

But the public should know that regardless of how high are the costs it win not be cheaper through government service. You will be paying the added social security taxes the rest of your life, and it always cost the government more to give the same service than it does private enterprise.

But what we fear is that it is too late. The way has been paved for government financed health insurance, and when it comes the biggest hurdle has been Jumped to socialized medicine.

Opinions In Brief

"The difference between gossip and news depends on whether you hear it or tell it. Arcadia (Wls.) News-Letter.

"To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight. Wesleyan Methodist.

"Note to husbands; Intuition is what tells a wife her husbands done something wrong before he thinks of doing it. Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont.

Blrd-watchlng is not my line.

They let me lh add 1 let them alone. . .a policy which has worked pretty well for as long as I can'^mcmbet

Even Ilf ^'scrfUls^HIl'reading, ornithology has been ignored. I only know the word (ornithology) because It has rather pleasing sound, and when its meaning was looked up my interest cooled except insofar as being a handy word to throw at ten-year-olds. I wanted to impress.

Poking a long nose into the private lives of our feathered friends has perhaps been discouraged by the fact Im the sensitive type. . and would not like It If birds took up people-watching with me as the object of their attentions. Applying the precepts of the Golden Rule to birds is about as farfetched as one can go in an editorial page column, but there it is.

Anyway, theres a magnolia tree on Washington Street, across. from the Municipal building.

Occasionally I drive by it. and for the past couple of weeks that tree has been apparently loaded with a thousand or so sparrows or some such bird, all making a tremendous racket.

Each time on approaching the tree I say to myself they must be gone by now; aivd they aren't. (And I suppose if you drove by there tomorrow morning to check up on all this, they would be goneJust to cross me up.)

Anyway, If that tree has something that attracted a swarm of birds to set up housekeeping there, it should become public knowledge.

People who dont appreciate an unending clamor by the little critters could take preventive steps;

And people who Uirive on that sort of thing could encourage it.

End of observation.

Arch ?oe :: Marx

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright. 19C0, Kiag Feateres Syadlcate. lae

To one who has studied revolutions and particularly the Marxist Revolution, which is now _112 years old, it is sUrtling that ao little is really known about what It all means. In fact, when one gets down to brass tacks, he Is liable to be called arrogant by those who prefer the relaxation of easy approximations and private dehnltlons.

Today, the course of events requires every nation to be Communist, pro-communist or anticommunist. Thus, Marxism has become, both on the political and the economic sides, the central idea of the age, the competitor of Christianity for the minds of men. To favor Marxism, or to oppose it, one has to understand it. Guessing, approximating help neither in favoring nor opposing this movement which has influenced the lives of the entire human race. For Instance, we, in the United States, continue to suffer from high* taxes, an increasing national debt and a depreciating currency only because Marxi.m is the controlling system of our objective enemy. We today face the Cuban problem as sometliiiif <Ufferent from anything we ever knew before becaosd'MkricRmis the prevailing creed of those who today control Cuba.

Karl Marx wrote many works, all of them designed to establish what he regarded as t h scientific system for a socialized* anti-democratic, pragmatic materialistic. atheistic way of life. He did not limit himself to economics but developed a sociological and philosophic system, the essence of which is that man is a product of his enviroo-ment and that whoever or whatever controls the environment conditions the nature of man. Therefore, no system of morals or ethics based upon a mysUcal power can have any validity because it is mao who can master the universe and make of it what he pleases.

The essential opposition to Marxism then is not capitalism but religion the belief in the mystical poorer of God to create the universe and to rule U by Natural Law. This oppositional viewpoint the Marxists regard as opium for the masses, a brainwashing of the minds of the majority of people everywhere by their masters.

For religin, the Marxists substitute the class struggle, namely, thiR"^the*Tifnaif'raco progresses by conflict. Just as in all nature there is conflict. Survival Is not always to the physically strongest; ft is undotitltedly to the cleverest, the most flexible, the most adjustable.

The classification of mankind, according to ability, is accepted in both Soviet Russia and Red China, where status is of pri-mary significance. As ability is so significsnt and status so respected. equality is discarded altogether and democracy is regarded as a mark of Western degeneration.

In fact, on the political side, the Marxists never fail to work with their economic opponents, the capitalists. There is no paradox in this because obviously they prefer to ''deal with those who have most suecessfully exploited the capitalist system. Such men will most successfully exploit the Communist system. Their theory is that they must Inevitably succeed because, according to their doctrine, socialism must supplant capitalism as capitalism succeeded feudalism.

This Is a tight statement of beliefs. To atudy it fully, one must read a vast literature, the principal books having been written by Germans and Russians. There are some who have satisfied themselves by reading the Communist Manifesto*' and the first chapter of Das Kapital * This is an insufficient approach to the subject for an intelligent person who really wants to grasp what Marxism is and why it functions in some places in one way and In other places differently. It is necessary to read much of the writings of Lenin to know what is happening in the Soviet Universal State. It is also necessary to know the history of Russia.

The fact that Red China, rather (Continaed On Page 8)

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Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS BEWARE SUCH FOLK Some peopleespecially extreme liberals entertain the curious notion that love for country is some sort of treason against humanity. To love ones country is supposed to mean that one loves his country selfishly. This kind of thinking Inevitably leads to an International hodgepodge which eventually would put the right-thinking people of the earths population on the bottom of the heap and designing rascals on the top.

It Is DO more treason to the human race to love ones country than it is treason to the human race to love ones home. A man does not despLse womanhood because he loves one woman above 11 other and takes her to himself for bptter or for worse.

Parents do not despise children because they love their owu children above all others.

Patriotism has through the ages been considered a virtue, and for many of us it will cease to be a virtue only on that day when human beings cease to have any virtue at all. Of course we should love our countrylove it better, than any other country, and do all this without In the least being hostile to a sane Internationalism or the loving appreciation we should all have for people of race* and nations different from our own.

Distrust those people.who decry pairlotlsmr'As sure a* you live they have something up their sleeve. They are far from being the lofty humanitarians they claim to be.

By <>ELMER R0ES8NER

This should be a good eating year.

Production of cattle, pigs and poultry are expected to set a new record. Moderate winter weather in most sections of the country so far, and the absence of serious droughts, promise bountiful crops of grains and vegetables, as well as splendid pasturage for livestock.

Earlier, government and private predictions put the probable 1960 meat output at about 28.2 billion pounds, about 4 per cent above the 1959 production and slightly above the previous record, set in 1956.

Since then, the good winter weather plus estimates of farm plantings will be heavier than last year. And, unless Congress tightens the wheat program, planting of that grain will also increase.

CONVERTING SURPLUS LNTO MEAT

Despite what havens the government offers for surplus production of varloivs cereals. much of the surplus is always

converted into me^t. Farmers know the ratios well; seven pounds of corn produces one pound of pork, and son on.

Pork production in 1958 was 10.5 billion pounds, and prices held fairly well. Production rose to 10.8 billion pounds last year.year and prices fell. If it goes to 12 billion pounds this year, another dip is certain. That makes it look like lower prices.

Beef production this year' is estimated at 14.5 billion pounds, about 6 per cent above last year. But with plentiful forage and feedsluffs. production might approach 15 billion pounds for a new record.

CONSEQUENCES , On the siuface. these facts suggest good bargains at the supermarkets and better meals at restaurants. Rut the possibilities are greater. Some of them may be:

1. Cheaper prices for all foods. All other foods are competitive-with meat. One of the things that has sustained the prices of vegetables, legumes, breadstuffs, fish and other foods

is the fact that meats were high, causing housewives to buy more of other foods.

2. More optional spending. If shoppers do not have to lay out so much for meat and other foods, they will have more to spend on autos, appliances, furniture. furnishings or what do you sell?

FEWER LABOR TROUBLES

3. Leveling off of wages. Pay is generally tied to the' cost of living, sometimes by union contract, sometimes to determination to keep wages abreast of the cost of living. If food prices level off. there will be less pressure for wage Increases,' possibly fewer strikes.

4. More sales' oi^ortunltles. If consumers have greater uncommitted spending power, more of it can be attracted to nonfood items by good advertising and salesmanship. In addition. there are some special situations: if meat prices fall as expected, sales of freezers could be increased b(if adroit promotions calling attcml^n to bargains to bestowed awa^~I^ less bountiful

Such promotions would b sound, because food prices will probably rise In 1961, unless a recession sets in. Whenever over-production reduces meat and other farm prices, producers naturally cut back iroduc-tlon plans for the following year. If, for Instance, hog prices fall below cost of growing this ^year^ hog' raisers will reduce farrowing for 1961. And without piglets, pork production fslls.

STRANGE AND CURIOUS BITS OF BUSINESS NEWS Mill b Factory reports that two Russian engineers claim to have developed a drill that uses temperatures of 15,000 degrees centigrade, three times the heat of the un. . . While other banks have offered gadgets and gimmicks to those who open new accounts, a Denver bank offered gifts to be mailed from around the world. . .There are more than 500 state and local career Jobs paying 514,-( a year or more, the Public ^ouei Association calcu-