FACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Friday, February 26, 1960

Friday, February 26, 1960

The . Money Tossing Game

There Could Be Saving In Paving

Have you traveled over a dirt street in the past few days?

If you have*, you are well aware of the fact that Greenville, like a good many other communities, could do with more miles of pa\^ed streets to replace those that become lanes of ruts and mudholes in periods of rainy weather such as we have had lately.

As soon as the rainy weather ends, countless hours by machines and employes of the citys street department will be invested in putting the dirt streets back in as good condition as possible. The ruts will be smoothed over, the holes filled, and the trenches left by water running into the ditches* will be no longer visible . . . until the next wet spell, that is.

Then the whole process wdll begin all over again.

In the course of a year, Greenville, and other cities as well, spend thousands upon thousands of dollars seeking to maintain its dirt streets in reasonable passable condition. In the course of a few years the city will spend on some dirt streets many times the amount it would cost to install curb, gutter and paving and thus eliminate the street maintenance problem.

Greenville has made progress in this direction in recent years, but there is still a great deal of work to be done before the city can relax its efforts in this direction. In spite of the fact that Greenville has paved many miles of streets in recent years, there are still many miles of dirt streets within the corporate limits which require almost constant maintenance work week after week, month after month, year after year.

Revamping The Highway Patro!.

By LYNN NISBET

HIGHWAY PATROL - The highway patrol is in process of being reorganized for administrative purposes, in order to make it more mobile and readily responsive to calls for service. No immediate increase in personnel is contemplated, but the present five troops will be revamped into six troopseach under command of a captain and the appropriate number of lieutenants and non-commissioned officers. This will mean promotions for some 20-odd mem- bers of the patrol, and in most Instances promotion will entail transfer to another area. The 'positions of captain, lieutenant, sergeant and corporal in existing trpops are already filled.

The highway patrol is a statewide organization and promotions go by seniority over the state rather than in particular troops. For this reason it is necessary to move some older men into new areas. Ed Scheldt, commissioner of motor vehicles, and Col. Dave Lmbert. commander of the<^trol, say that no transfers have been made against the will of the men being moved.

There have been two unfortunate inferences in news stories about the pending patrol reorganization. One emphasized the fact that the plan had been approved by the Advisory Budget Commission. Implication there was that the budget group was

Invading the legislative field. Truth of the matter is the law vests in the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles full authority to organize, reorganize and adjust the patnd to best meet the needs of the public for its services. The budget group was Involved only because of need for authorization of transfer of certain funds. It was further necessary to get approval of the Personnel Department for additional Job classifications. This an was routine and of no newsworthy Importance.

FUNCTIONS There was, however, a one disturbing element in the list of reasons given . by the patrol command for desirability of making it more Immediately responsive to calls for duty. Burled deep in the ^ list was the suggestion that increased labor and racial tensions made it desirable, if not .. necessary, to have the highway patrol more mobile and available for duty on short notice.

Even ths casual reference to the general police functions of the patrol is disturbing to those who have thought all along it should be dedicated to policing highway traffic. The original act setting up the highway patrol assigned lutmary obligation to

regulate highway traffic, but pro-; vided for the patrol to come to

the aid of sheriffs and other

peace officers upon official call, and to perform certain general police functions upon assignment of the Governor.

Prom establishment of the patrol in 1929 until now there have been those who thought it ought to be a general State police force, with jurisdictional power of arrest parallelling, and in some instances exceeding. that of local law enforcement officers in all criminal violations. This idea has never been generally accepted, and is not popular now.

But there can be no doubt that the free use of patrolmen in connection with the textil strike at Henderson last year and assignment of patrolmen to study the problem of adequate confinement of inmates in units of the State prison system, represents use of the patrol in areas other than highway safety. So it is that, although buried deep in a list of activities, the reference to labor and racial tensions as one reason for needing mobility and facility in patrol assignments is somewhat disturbing.

IVORY TOWER A friend called the other day and said he was involved In an argument about the meaning of the term ivory tower. He thought it ought to be ivy tower, on the theory that ivy sort of separated the elite from the common folks, in the sense of the ivy league in social and athletlo citcles.

We had recourse to the recognized authority in th^ office, Brewer's DictloAy of Phrase and Fable. There we found that ivory tower is defined as a place of refuge frtnn the world and its strivings and posturings. We found also, that the term was first used by Saine-Beuve, a French newspaperman and philosopher of the early 19th century, and has since come into common usage as a symbol of seclusion from the everyday worries that beset mankind.

There is definite implication that the ivory tower does not afford complete protection. A cross reference is to the Gates of Dreams, and the notation that dreams wMch pass through the Gates of Ivory delude, while those which pass through the Gates of Horn come true. There is further explanation that the word ivory derives from a Greek word meaning to cheat.

All of which may mean that the dwellers in ivory towers, who rate themselves as above and apart from the common run of folks, are not as fine as they like to think, and may be fooling themselves more than they are fooling the rest of the people. I___

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A major effort to hardsurface as many dirt streets as possible would nesessitate a coniderable outlay of city funds in a short period of time. But in the long run taxpayers probably would invest less dollars than they now do by paying for the constant repair work our dirt streets require.

And aside from the long range savings, think of the added convenience if most of our dirt streets were paved.

It Just Goes To Show What Can Be Done

Pitt County need have no fear of losing its membership in the regional blood bank so long as its citizens respond to the program as they did this week.

Pitt lacked only one pint of contributing its 240-pints of blood for the two-day visit of the bloodmobile here this week. The response was in sharp contrast to the meager showing the bloodmobile has received in Pitt on some of its visits in the past.

in Farmville on Tuesday 97 pints of blood were donated by residents of that community, and on Wednesday in Greenville the bloodmobile received 142 pints of blood.

Such response clearly: indicates the interest of the citizenry - iin Pitt Countys continuing a member in good standing in the program. It is evidenced that the people of these communities recognize the tremendous advantages which are offered by the countys participation in the program.

Through its affiliation with the Red Cross blood bank, Pitt County has available to it not only an unlimited supply of blood to be used in treating its ill, but it likewise has a ready supply of even rare types of blood on short notice without the necessity of seeking out special donors on the spur of the moment.

Over the years Pitt has participated in the program, there have been many periods in which the county withdrew from the blood bank more blood than its citizens donated. Obviously, that situation could not continue indefinitely if Pitt were to continue its parti-cpation in the program. Now, the response in the county to appeals to donate blood when the bloodmobile visits here has greatly improved.

Pitt County, in its own best interest, should continue to support the bloodmobile program, and see that it remains a member in good standing in the program which has meant so much to citizens of this county in recent years. -

All Involved In New Conditions

By BEM PRICE

WASHINGTON (AP) There are two methoda of treating a headache. You can use drugs to suppress the pain or you can tackle the underljng cause.

The current debate over the adequacy of U.S. defenses seems to be concerned with nothing more than temporary relief from pain.

For the one defense issue seems to be: Is the administrations reluctance to increase military spending reducing this nation to a second-class power?

Broadly speaking, the Republicans hold that defense spending is adequate, while the Democrats take an opposite view.

Apparently lost in this election year argument is the possibility that the United States is spending enough money, but is not spending it wisely. Why?

From the time men first employed sticks and stones in battle, new weapons have introduced in warfare so slowly it became an axiom that each new war was fought with weapons developed late in the last.

That axiom no longer applies.

It is true that long-range missiles were introduced by the Germans in World War n. The United States introduced nuclear weapons.

But there is no one alive who has any first-hand knowledge of a war in which missiles would deliver thermonuclear warheads at 16,000 miles per hour.

All the military experience accumulated over 5,000 years of

recorded history is now obsolescent, if not altogether obsolete, where this new weapon is concerned.

Yet each participant in the current political defense debate must rely on military men, the supposed experts, for guidance. Each can turn up a military man who can support his point of view.

And that points up the underlying cause of the headache.

The United States is trying to C(H>e with defense problems that are totally new by employing a military machine designed to fight World War H.

The military men themselves, accustomed to thinking in terms of service, Army, Navy and Air Force, cannot agree on what needs to be done.

In principle, many of these uniformed advisers agree that enough money is being spent, but they disagree on bow it should be spent and the priorities assigned to the spending. Each thinks his service should have m(M*e to meet certain contingencies.

In the current defense debate, few men of major public stature have yet raised the question whether the entire defense structure shouldnt be overhauled and streamlined.

Briefly, few have raised the question whether new means should not be found to cope with an entirely new situation, a situation unprecedented in all history.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS NEW TURN TO THINKING

Do you have a complaining spirit? If you do, snap out of it and come to. For you are truly in a nightmarish dream. You are in a trance. You are skirting the enclrons of hell whereas God intends that you walk through the Elysian fields.

There are genuine causes for complaint in this life. We often pay large amounts for service we do not receive. We purchase goods and find them shoddy. We trust certain people and they prove false. We look out over the whole of human life and see in It a tremendous amount of evil and selfishness. If we want to chew our pills and linger un-wholesOmely on the bitterness of them, we have plenty of opportunity to do .so, I.

But what an unhappy state of

mind! How much better to accept the fact that there is imperfection in the world and In all of us and agree to get alongas God appears to get alongby overlooking a lot of human inperfections and cherishing the things which spring from love and good will. And let no one tell you that the amount of goodness in the world is inconsequential. It Is tremendous. It is divine in origin and significance. It is immeasurable in quantity.

Snap out of the complaining spirit. Get yourself away from it as rapidly and with as much determination as if you were fleeing a house which is about ready to collapse. For the complaining life will collapse if indeed it has not already done so. "If there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. (Phllipplans 4:8). ta7 eessee MK 25

OPERATION

"A DOZEN DOES IT

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Notes On This &. 'i no

The * National Guard had instructions to place guards on all public buildings during its Operations Hornets Nest last week.

The Army Reserve Training Center on tho U.S. 13 bypass is a public building.

So a National Guardsman was posted there. We didnt learn whether he halted any reservists.

We spotted a young man coming out of an Alcc^olic Beverage ' Control store in Greenville, package in arms. Wednesday.

Suddenly the package slipped. He caught it before it ever hit the ground, regained his composure and proceeded on the way.

If we had been a scout for the New York Yankees we would have signed him up. What a short stop that boy would make.

various steps leading to the blood letting, a sweet young ^tbing popped a thermometer in our mouth. Then she turned to something else.

Suddenly she whirled around.

You Just went through the line, she exclaimed.

Turned out Brother Bill Taylor. a red head as is your columnist, had Just been through.

Well. I always tell my brother Bill, make a good name for the two of us.

What, that great big boy?' he said. Send him on through.*

Speaking of pintsblood were referring to now. Your columnist took the plunge and donated his first one when the Bloodmobile was in town Wedneslay.

As we went through the

It took your columnist a long time to get up nerve enough to donate blood. We went through several steps and finally got to a nurse. By that time we were ready to back out.

She went through a list of various diseases and finally got to the flu. We seized upon it.

Yep. we sure did have it,** we replied, About three weeks ago.

The nurse studied the matter for a moment and then went over to ask Dr. Potts if your columnist was suitable material. .

The doctor peered at us and we hoped for areprieve.

Other Editors Saying . May Again Do Impossible

So then it was behind a curtain where somebody directed us to a table. Standing by was a cute little brunette nurse and we felt better.

We dont know whether It was the nurse or not, but from them on It was easy. We hzrdly felt the needle and it only took a few minutes to flU the bottle hanging at our side.

After that, we had tree coffee with Dr. Ray Mlnges who had also just donated.

Believe me, its a snap.

Opinions

Brief

'The country has come a long way since former Prisident Grover Cleveland vetoed an appropriation of $25,000 to buy seed corn for drought-striken Texas farmers. On that celebrated occasion Cleveland contended that though the people support the government, the government should not support the people'.--The Daily Oklahoman.

(Goldsboro- News-Argue)

The story of how Duplin citizens rebuilt and revitalized and consolidated their schools still brings amazed comment. With complete agreement from every community, the school patrons moved as one without a single voice raised in angry opposition. They had before them a study showing how their too many small high schools had failed their children.

Now those thoughtful Dupliners seem well on their way again to doing the impossible with reference to their schools. The county to complete its modernization and improvement program needs facilities which will cost $2.2 million. The items are not pressing emergencies but they must come.

So Dupliners propose to save the $i!2 million in interest which a bond issue of that total would cost over ^ years. Instead they are favoring the levying of a special tax of 25 cents on the $100 valuation over a period of six years to meet the needs. It is a pay - as - you - go plan and also it is a save as you go plan.

There long has existed in Wayne a thoughtful group of citizens who wanted some such plan set up for capital outlay needs for schools. These would add say 10 cents or whatever sum, more or less, would be required and accumulate a fund for buildings. It wuld

save taxpayers big money by advanced planning.

Most supply and logically Duplin has shown how money is saved taxpayers by their plan. Here is their explanation:

The average taxpayers in Duplin County, not including corporations, pays $45.37 in County taxes per year. If Uie rate is increased .25 cents on each hundred dollars assessed valuation, he will pay $53.01, or an increase of $7.64. If the proposed scbool building plan of the Board of EducaticHi is adopted and put into effect It will cost the average taxpayer $45.84 over a six-year period.

The annual additional cost of $7.64 amounts to less than three Coca Colas per week. A package of cigarettes per week cost $11.44 per year, so the Increase in taxes would amount to about two-thirds of a package of cigarettes per week, roughly two-thirds of a bottle of beer per week.

A package of chewing gum per day for one year would pay the average taxpayer's increase in taxes for almost three years.

The cost of a ten-cent cigar per day for a year would pay the increase of the average taxpayers bill for almost 5 years.

It will cost the average taxpayer .0209 cents per day just a fraction above 2 cents per day to implement this plan.

A Mid-Western utility, ressed by higher costs, is seeking a rate increase of $2 million. It doesnt need $2 million, but this is where the money goes: State sales tax, $60,000; U. S. income tax. $1,008,800; left for the company, $931,200, Possible approaches to this problem: 1. cut government costs. 2. sit in the dark."Lenoir (N.C.) News-Topic. S

Mississippi Democrats can plan any strategy they wish. But if we include the idea of Southern solidarity as a weapon we may as well understand that we have a gun that is unloaded. McComb (Miss.) Enterprlse-JoumaU

The place to use our embar-ras.slng farm surpluses is In India and other free nations plagued with insufficient food. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

When a woman asks to see something expensive, she's shopping: when she asks to see

something cheaper, shes buying.Greenville (S.C.) Pied-,^ mont

When a man remains a bachelor, it Is becau.se the women want him to do so,Anderson Independent.

1 neir Weak

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By GEORGE E. 80K0LSKT

COPYRIGHT, IfW, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE. INC.

Recently one o the really authentic leaders of anU-Commun-1st activity in the United States wrote to me, Qod help us from the antl-Communlsts.

There are so many vaiieUes of them and some of them are so mixed up. They have a feeling against Communism, against Russia, against many things, but they do not know why. They have aa emotional antagonism to Cknnmunlsm but they refuse to do the home> work required to know of a force that came Into the world more than a century ago and now dominates the lives of close to a billion human beings. Instinctive opposition to so colossal a force is not good enough.

The pamphlet prepared for the Air Force by Homer H. Hyde is supposed to indoctri-Date members of the Air Force tgainst Communism. But Hyde does not know where his data about clergymen tnfiltratlDg the Protestant, churches came from. He says that be got it from Cir^ cult Riders. Inc., of ClncinnaU, fnmi Dr. Billy James HargiS/ a radio evangelist of Tulsa, from an editorial In the San Antonio Light. and a pamphlet issued by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Actually this data appeared originally In the American Mercury, in an article signed by Dr. J. B. Matthews, a well-informed student of the Amer-lean Communist problems, whose records on the subject student of the American Communist problems, whose records on the subject are perhaps the most complete. At the moment that Dr. Matthews* article appeared in the American Mercury. he was to have been appointed in charge ^of research for the McCarthy Committee. The article created such a furor that Matthews withdrew from the post. However. Matthews never property defended himself. He eould truthfully have said that a paragraph had been edited Into his material which made it more sensational than it would have been had there been no editing.

An issue at stake in this controversy is the Revised Standard Veraion of the Bible. Be it remembered that the Bible was originally written In Hebrew. Aramaic and Greek. Each English veraion ia a translation direct or indirect from these languages. The first English translation of the Bible from the Hebrew and the Greek was that of William Tjmdale, who was burned at the atate ia 1536 for doing it.

There have been a great many translations of and commentaries upon both the Old and New Testaments. One of the major difficulties about the King James version is that English is a changing language. Stuart English is not current

English. Words have different meanings and different weights in a fluid language auch as English is.

I recall once being pestered by a member of one of tha

sects that base themselves upon the Book of Daniel which they accept as final. This fellow insisted upon converting me to

his point of view; I preferred my own wickedness. Finally, in arrogant anger, I told him to learn how to read Daniel in its original tongue and I shall discuss it with him. Of course. I was wrong. It is not essential for one to know every language but it is to be assumed that translations will be improved as scholarship is shaipen-ed and It is also to be assumed that each era will translate works of significance into its. own idiom.

When all of the Dead 8ea Scrolls shall have become available, additional alterations In some texts may be made and scholars will quarrel about them for a century.

Those who are not acholara may be very embarrassed when they find themselves confronted by very early texts in original languages ' which they cannot read. As regards the Old Testament. a scholar must be fluent in Hebrew and Aramaic; he must have studied the Five Books of Moses (the Masoretio text), the. Samaritan and Syr- ^ iac versions, probably the Coptic text, the Targum, the Midrash, and much more. It is a life-time of devotion but there are Jewish and Christian scholars who are at work all the time. Dr. Nelson Glueck. of the (Continued on Pag 5)

'Business Will Hove To Be Gooc.

By ELMER ROESSNER The public may be fooled by the Administrations $84 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning Judy 1.

According to the Presidential budget message, receipts are expected to be $84 billion, expenditures $79.8 billion, leaving a surplus of $4.2 billion. ^

But the $84 blllioiV receipts depends on many things, including a gross national product (the total production of all goods and services) of $50 billion. a personal income of $402 billion, and corporation profits of $51 billion.

Here ts how those figures compare with last year, in billions;

^ 1959 1M5D

Oros.s national

product ...... $479 5 $510.*

Personal Incom? 380 2 402.* Corporation

profits ...... 498* 51.*

*stimate(i

Therefore, 1960 will have to be much lustier than 1959 to provide the taxable Income and corporation profits necessary for a $84 billion intake.

The $84 billion total is also based on the assumption that Congress will extend the present corporation tax rate and postpone scheduled cuts in excuses (which it may do, except for the cut in the cabaret tax; that it will repeal the reductions in transportation and telephone taxes (Which it is unlikely to do); that it will increase the taK on aviation fuel (which it is unlikely to do); and that it will increase postal rates (Which it almost surely wont.

The.se items could reduce budgeted receipts by mure than $1 billion.

And if business does not rally or if inflation does not flourishthe 1960 income and cor-'poration taxes may be far less lhau expected.

LETS SPEND IT!

Even if business is as prosperous as expected, there will be a conjectural surplus of only something over $3 billion.

But plans have already been made to shoot these billions for various projects.

The Armed Forces have mounted one of the greatest scare campaigns in history to get more money for missiles, planes, anti-mLssile missiles and other spending. Liberals are forming ranks behind plans to use billions to finance housing. Voters are massing behind proposals to lend billions more for building schools. And few indeed are the Representatives and Senators who have not plans and bills to seize some of that expected surplus and waft It over their election dustricts.

The budget may fool the people in another way. It causes the casual observer to think that the government takes on-

ly $84 billion out of its earnings and spendings.

But the actual take is much higher $102.2 billion according to figures compiled by the Morgan Guaranty Survey. The cash receipts in the year beginning July 1 are estimated in billions at;

Individual Income taxes .. $43,7 Corporation Income taxes 23.5 Regular budget excise

Uxes^ .................. 9 5

Highway trust-fund excise

taxes .................. 8.0

Social Security taxe^ 12.7

Estate and gift taxes .... 1.6

Customs duties ......... 1.4

MLscellaneous receipts ... 6.8

Social Security and some of the other receipts and the corresponding expenditures are outside the budget as far as collections and outlays are concerned. This keeps the puWic fron$ realizing that the tax burden is a quarter more than budget figures indicate.

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