PAGE FOimI HE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C

Thursday. March 10, 196^

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Thursday, March 10, 1969

Round-The-Clock Struggle

Must This Child Lose Her Home?

It is almost unthinkable that the state of New Jersey or any other state would try to take a child out of a good home in which she had lived for most of her life and place her in another foster home because of her high I. Q.

In the case of Alice Marie Combs, the state is contending she is a near-genius and would be unable to develop her full potential if she stayed in her present heme.

Have we come now to the place in our civilization that gifted children must be uprooted from homes they love and placed in environments more in keeping with their IQ? Does the fact that little Alice Marie is- a ward of the state give the state the right to snatch her out of happyand apparently wholesomesurroundings just because she is of umwually high intelligence?

Apparently the state of New Jersey is basing its efforts to take Alice Marie from her present home on the fact that her intellectual development will be more readily assured in another home. It does not contend she is not happy in her present home. It does not contend that she is not given all the loving care she needs in her present home. It does not contend that she is not getting proper training that will help her develop into a good, well-adjusted citizen.

While a childs intellectual development is important, over the long pull, the childs overall development, emotionally, spiritually as well as intellectually is of more importance.

Certainly we have not reached the point where a gifted child becomes state property to do with as the itate sees fit in order to develop its intellect.

As for the states argument that Alice Marie will not be able to attend college because her foster father is not wealthy, nothing could be more ridiculous. If she is near-genius, there will be scholarships aplenty at her disposal when she reaches college age whether shes rich or poor. And if she is allowed to lead a happy normal life as a child, she will more likely realize in future years her intellectual potential than if she is tom away from a happy home and left with insecurity and emotional problems.

''mpact Of The Superhighways

By LYNN NISBET

HIGHWAYSThe system o Interstate super highways is milng many changes in the traditional use o public roads. The purpose o road always has been to enable people to get from one place to another. For most part the traveler used the road only to the point where he wanted to leave it. and then he turned off. A paved highway was an asset to the farm or business along its right of way, because it made it easy for people to come and go.

The supers have a different approach. Their purpose is to enable people to get from here to yonder faster and easier, but without much choice as to stopping places. The interstate supers are designed tor long distance fast moving traffic, not for the convenience of local travelers or the benefit of roadside establishments. In fact, there are Instances where the big 360-feet right of way controlled access highways are actual liabilities, rather than assets, to community development.

The construction of the super highways is on a.80-10 percent basis, the Federal government putting up 90 percent of the money, and the degree of authority exercised Is about the same ratio. Maintenance is almost entirely a State expense, and this item will increase as time goes on.

The Travel Council of North Carolina at its recent meeting in Durham gave considerable attention to the Impact of the interstate highways on travel habits. There was warning that the big highways might become tunnels" through North Carolina, used solely for getting travelers out of the state as rapidly as possible, without giving them a chance to spend time or money along the way.

POTENTIALS This feeUng of tunneling" was enhanced by regulations restricting the type of informational signs permitted on the interstate roads.

The other side of the picture is brighter. While access is controlled along the super highways, the outlets are fairly fre-Querfl and travelers may get on other State roads where they can find accommodations for eating, sleeping and car service.

Furthermore, there are rest areas planned for every 30 to 40 miles, equipped with comfortable facilities in rest rooms, picnic tables, open cooking furnaces, and such. These rest areas contain five to seven acres each. Their construction is on the 90-10 ratio of all interstate highway construction, but maintenance is entirely a State expense. And that is expected to move into a big item. The State cannot leave these areas completely unattended, and the cost of full attendant service is prohibitive. The general plan is to have one attendant for every two or three areas. Whatever comfort the rest areas offer and whatever service the State renders to users of the big roads will be of questionable value to North Carolina unless some plans can be worked out for adequate Informational stations or signs directing travelers to places where they can get food, lodging and essential road services, and to places of scenic or historic interest in North Carolina.

Spokesmen for the highway commission suggested that although the regulations were tight as to what could be done on interstate rights of w'ay, there was possibility of using the rest areas and perhaps other points along the road for disseminating information about the state.

TRAVEL SPENDINGTravel bureaus and agents in foreign countries estimate they sent people into the United States last year who spent more than two hundred and fifty million dollars in this country. This amount does not include the multi-millions spent by travelers who came Independently of recognized agencies or guided tours. It is estimated that the foreign travel agencies clients this year will spend more than three hundred million dollars.

But the travel Industry does not depend upon visitors from out of the country to sustain it. Home folks are doing more and more travel, both short and long distance. A survey made last year shows that one out of every seven families in the United States has more than one automobe. Ten years ago the two-car families were in the ratio of one in twenty.

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Legally, perhaps the state can take Alice Marie from her foster parents and oversee the development of her high IQ. But is seems to us the welfare and the happiness of the child in the life ahead of her is the paramount issue. We do not sec how this can be served by destroying the only world she has known and placing her now in completely new surroundings.

Drop In Farm Income Points Up N. C. Needs

Announcement of the drop in North Carolina net farm income during 1959 was no news to the primary agricultural regions of the state, but the official figures do give farm areas an opportunity to compare their status with previous years.

The fact that the states farm income dropped 15.4 per cent from the 1958 level has economic implications of immediate and long range nature that can-^ not be overlooked. The fact that 1959 proved to be the second lowest year for farm income in ,t]ie past decade is also of signiricance, particularly for the eastern section of North Caroli*a.

In this region agriculture is the mainstay of the economy in spite of the efforts that have been made to attract industry. The sharp fluctuation in farm income which occurred in 1959 will not be felt as badly as would have been the case 10 years ago, but it will be felt, nevertheless, throughout the state.

According to the farm experts, gross receipts for farm products in North Carolina dropped only seven per cent from the previous year, but higher production costs suggests that North Carolina must make further progress in developing more effecient farming methods in an effort to off-set rising cost of production. It also suggests that the state might devote more effort to research which will help bring about a more stable agricultural situation at a higher economic level.

The conditions also point up the necessity to continuing progress toward a better balanced economy in many areas of the state as well as over the state as a whole. The better balance North Carolina achieves in agriculture, the less likely it is tri suffer a severe setback because of declining prices and increasing production cost of any one commodity. The better balance there IS between agriculture and industry, the less severe will be the adverse effects on the economy as a whole if there is a poor year in either agriculture or industry.

The drop in net farm income experienced by North Carolina last year points up the necessity of the states continuing to improve its agricultural program on an overall basis. It also points up the necessity of the agricultural regions continuing their efforts to diversify their economic situations by adding industry to supplement agricultural income.

No Indication Of Fresh Ideas

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) President Elsenhower got a thunderous reception in South America-sprinkled with some unpleasant episodesbut the people he visited may judge the worth of his journey on the follow-up.

In the talk he made to the nation Tuesday night there wasnt much indication of follow-up in the sense of new programs or projects to. help the South Americans. He talked mostly In generalities.

He took -An extremely optimistic view of what he found on his journey. He said our relations our sister republics, with very few exceptions, reached an all-time high.

Some students of Latin America may question this and wonder whether even a trip by such a popular figure as the President can wipe out the ill will toward the United States demonstrated when Vice President Richard M. Nixon went there.

Its too soon to know whether the President has, or will have, any new projects or programs in mind for the nations he visited or their neighbors. He still has time before leaving 'office to come up with some.

Still, that time is limited, extremely limited when considered against the busy year ahead of him; a summit meeting, a proposed visit to the Soviet Union, the Republican convention, the

presidential campaign. *

Eisenhower did indicate that this country will try to be helpful but he still stressed the virtue of self-reliance among the Latin Americans in solving their dilemmas.

He said: In our discussions. I stressed that all nationslarge or small, powerful or weak should assume some responsibility for the advancement of humankind, in freedom.

Though we of the United States will, within the framework of our world situation and economic capacity, assist all we can, we look for the time when all the free nations will feel a common responsibility for our common destiny."

The President touched on a sore point among Latin Americans when he said: Another persistent misunderstanding which I sought to correct wherever 1 traveled is that we sometimes support dictators. Of course, we abhor all tyrannical forms of government, whether of the left or right.

This was not quite a denial that the United States has dealt on friendly terms with dictatorships or tyrannies.

For instance, the United States got along swimmingly with Fulgencio Batista, the Cuban dictator until Fidel Castro threw him out and substituted a new dictatorship of his own.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS YESWHO ARE YOU?

Who was I. that I could withstand God?

This was the query which St. Peter addressed to his colleagues when they brought him before the council to explain why he had disregarded certain ritualistic practices inohis association with Cornelius the centurlan. "I did it." said Peter, because I had been directed by heavenly vision to visit this man, and when I did so I found that he and his Gentile friends gave every appearance of being in the good graces of God. Therefore I disregarded the lesser matter of ritual that I might accomplish the greater matter of obeying Gad and fulfilling His purpose."

In religious matters we often find it hard to get first things first and keep them there. We become adept at straining out gnats and swallowing camels. We hold our particular creed to be a matter of such overwhelming importance that we put our creeds on the level with the very word of God Itself. Yet creeds are man-made things. They are .an attempt to explain the teachings of the Bible and are not to be considered as being at all equal in value to the inspired word of God. of which God Himself is the author.

What we do with creeds we do likewise with forms of worship, with tradition. We give oui' en

thusiastic loyalty to some church because It is made up of our kind of people. We can easily slip into the blunder of putting a half-a-hundred things before God and His truth.

Watch out. Who are we that we can withstand God?

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The prevention of juvenile destruction lies in the establishment of juvenile discipline Assuredly this is the responsibility of every individual Interested in his own safety and the welfare of his country." J. .Edgar Hoover.

By ALVIN TAYLOB

Going Along With Snow

Those In the Reflector news room along with your columnist, say were just the luckiest one.

Seems the last time it snowed, old Alvin had a column due. It started snowing yesterday and whose column was due today Its usuns.

All we can say is these robins need psychoanalyzed. They think they are ground hogs.

And at this writing it looks like a real snow it will be. Already several Inches have fallen and the forecast is for more.

Recently we mentioned that first robin being the sign of spring thing.

Howard Mims, the Reflectors Line-o-type machinist, reported he has seen not only one but several of the birds in recent days.

Mayor S. Eugene West was recalling his boyhood days recently. He noted that he used to be quite a baseball player when he was a youngster.

One day he picked up a handful of kitchen matches stuck them in his hip pocket and went out to play.

Pretty soon, the boys got up a ball game.

Mayor West got on base shortly and made a seat-down slide into second.

It doesnt take much to light a kitchen match and the mayor came up with a howl. He re-

Other Editors Saying . Write Your Representative

(The Wilson Times)

Several months before Congress convened, the people of this nation became conscious of the dangers in inflation. Our representatives received many letters and when Congress met, the avalanche grew.

Now the public seems to be sitting back waiting. The President announced a hope for surplus. to pay on the hige national debt. But Congress is busy trying to find ways of spending the money. It seems to burn in their hands.

We read and hear of the missile lag. The majority of this talk comes from the armed'services. These men make out a good case for added billions to their already heavy appropriations

Then you read where this same branch of the service that is doing so much complaining, the Air Force, has spent the taxpayers money on a manual called On - the - Job - Package Program."

The name Is all right but the contents would be ludicrous if the situation were not so serious. For In this informative book you learn how to serve cocktails, to officers guests, how to wash a generals dog. serve the proper wines and so on. This is taxpayers money also.

So you see the missile lag Is not the only place money Is spent. The extra curricula activities call for money also. The AFL-CIO, meeting in Florida recently asked for a bold dynamic" program to ward off a depression. The cure is the same. Increase government spending, raise the pay of workers and raise taxes on the rich.

Reuther says we do not have sufficient economic growth. This is true. The reason, the government drains off funds that should go Into investments to create that growth.

So the surplus may turn into another deficit. This is because the forces are at work to spend more, lor government In every area. The exact reverse of the Reuther plan will resiilt.

The only way a democracy can hope to stop inflation is to write your representatives again. Bombard them with letters saying that you are ready to curb govemmenf spending from the military to labor.

Your money will buy more and your country will be better protected than by the newest types of IBM missiles. There is enough allocated or appropriated. it is how it is spent, and the evident waste, that needs attention.

But nothing will be done to curb inflation, to protect your savings and your country unless, you, the voter, recognizes and exercises your power. For as the President says, "Public opinion is the only motivating force in a democracy, and that public opinion must be an informed one If it is to be effective.

Let your representatives know you belong in the informed public group. Insist that our national. economy be directed toward a sound economy. This will include adequate protection and advancement of national defense, security and prosperity. But this does not mean political spending and inflation.

Let your representatives know you favor inflation curbs, rather than more inflation.

Opinions In Brief

Since nothings automatic about getting to be a better church member with advancing years, the best recipe seems to be a matter of getting rigbl early.New Orleans States and Item.

*Tf our government does not act quickly, the danger Is very real that the entire <farm) program will collapse under pressure of public indignation." President Eisenhower.

Too often, the business leaders of this country have allowed other group* to seize the Initiative. They have allowed others to proclaim aspirations as uniquely their own, and then to prescribe the means through which they can be fulfilled. More often than not, the ' prescriptionsin the economic field at leasthave been Ill-advised and self-defeating.-Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.

calls he did a dance that would have excited the mildest of the Apaches to the war path.

It was several days before he regained the art of sitting down.

Ladles are contr(rflint everything these days. Recently we went to a local mens wear store which would presumably be the males last strongholdto buy some socks.

We walked by the stretch sock counter and picked out size socks.

We never did like the stretch kind and we told the proprietor so.

He agreed that most men prefer the size kind.

But we noticed the stretch counter contained more socks than the size display. We asked about it.

About 60 percent of our sales are stretch socks," he replied.

Puzzled, we asked why.

The women buy them" he answered. They come in to buy socks and dont know the exact size."

Another stronghold falls.

"Nobodyll dispute that the Reds know all the answers, all righteven to a lot of questions that havent been asked." New Orleans States Sc Item.

"When a man is enthusiastic about hard work he is usually the boss." Dawson County (Ga.) News.

Fleas

For

Voters

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY COPYRIGHT. 1960, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE INC.

The hoopla will soon start to get out the vote. Both parties and various non-partisan and public spirited organizations will devote themselves to the doctrine that It is the duty of every citizen, male or female, to vote In each election. This preserves what they call the democracy.

There are those who hold that a good way to protest against the vacuity of our political parties is not to vote at all. It la a sort of get-even-wtth-them-buma attitude. When both par-tiea nominate nonenUUes and give ua the choice of voting for John Doe or Felix Roe, as often happens, we might as well stay home and let whoever wina win.

Some aty that they are prepared to choose between the lesser of two evils. But why? Why should we not choose the better of two good men? Why, out of about 180.000,000 people, do we have to choose the lesser of two evils? There seems to be neither morality nor practicality In that.

It is quite possible that In 1960, we ahaU be able to make a choice between two able and experienced men. I doubt that we shall be able to make a choice between two party platforms, that is two sets of principles. The likelihood U that the platforms of both parties when translated in non . political language, will be identical.

However, the campaign might become very interesting as the Democrats gird their loins to attack the Eisenhower forelgh policy which they,' the Democrats, male. TlUs my prove to be very exciting.yThe present foreign policy\^ the United States, a reversal of traditional policy, was formed by Franklin D. Roosevelt who led us in war in alliance with Great Britain and Soviet Russia. It was a difficult policy to formulate because Roosevelt had no understanding of Russian history or Soviet methods and at both Teheran and Yalta be became confused. Harry Truman and hia fourth Secretary of State. Dean Acheson. continued the Roosevelt policy but their problems increased as Russian cupidity discloAd itself and as our shifting. drifting activities in China produced tragedy both for China and for the United States.

Already Dean Acheson. in his criticisms of the Eisenhower foreign policy, is saying pretty much what his critics said about Dean Acheson when he was In authority. Perhaps out of office. Acheson has bad the time and philosophy to view these problems in perspective, whereas as Secretary of State, he had to meet every contingency and emergency as an immediate and pressing problem. Also. Dean Acheson. as every Secretary of State, had to face domestic political iM-essurea which as an outsider no longer concern himat least not intimately. Were he to become Ser-retarv of State again, his views might have to be different.

The Republicans will not be able to defend themselves, except by saying to the Demo-crats that they did the same wFn they were in office. In a word, we have had a real-bl-par-tlsan foreign poUcy, namely that they all agreed on the same thing. As long as John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State, he handled the foreign policy more or less on his own. The present Eisenhower policy is a departiu"e from the Dulles attitudes: It is softer not only toward Soviet Russia but toward Red China. Dulles would not have permitted Cuba to act to. ward the United States as Castro and Guevara are doing.

All this will be In the campaign and Richard Nixon will have to defend the Eisenhower foreign policies which are growing increasingly unpopular because they do not seem to focus. They are such a sharp departure from the Dulles policies which prevailed for six yeans. The change is attributed to the influence of Dr. Milton Eison-hower who is regarded by Republicans of all kinds as an outsider, more like the Adlai Stevenson type of Democ^t.

Richard Nixon cannot dtend the do-nothing policy over Cuba or the confusions in the Pent-(Continued on page five)

FTC Meets The Vanity Press

By ELMER ROESSNER The Federal Trade Commission is conducting a campaign against excesses by the vanity press. It has orders outstanding against five vanity publishers, prohibiting them from misrepresenting their services, and it issues warnings to the public about these publishers.

A vanity publisher is one who charges an author for publishing his book.

Theres nothing wrong about that. In fact, its good for many reasons. The typical nonvanity publisher will not publish a book unless It expects profit, in cash or prestige. When these publish- . crs see nq merit in an authors work, he simply cannot get published unless he goes to a vanity publisher and underwrites the venture.

Poetry is generally in such light sales demand that mast poets must pay to have theu* works printed. Many political, economic and religious theories cant be publLshed unless the authors put the costs on the

HELPS A CAREER One man I know got small fees on the lecture circuit and was constantly being asked, Whats your book?" He quickly dashed off a book-length manuscript and sent It to the leading publishers. They sent it back just as fast, frequently nothing that It would never sell.

So with eyes open he called on a vanity publisher and paid for publication. Now when he lectures there is a pile of his books on a table in the lobby. After his talk, he autographs copies of his book at $2 for both book and autograph. HLs lecture fees have gone up and he can figure on making up to $.tO extra a lecture on the profits of his book.

But while vanity publishers often serve useful purposes, the FTCs complaint is against misleading advertising some use. They advertise for manuscripts, and when an author submits his, they give him an enthusiastic report and offer a co-operative publishing plan. This usually means Uiat the author pays

from $900 up to $6,000 for production costs. They hint that future royalties will exceed the costs.

HONEYED PROMISES

Charles S. Cox, an PTC attorney, listed these Inducements:

Your book will be copyrighted In your name!" This is standard practice and costs $4.

"You will receive a 40 per cent royalty. Y'OuU be lucky to get back $100 of your investment.

Your book will be advertised." Once or twice with several other booki. Even if you pay the costs, most book-buying organizations wont accept ads from vanity publishers.

Your book will be sent to reviewers." Why not? Youre paying for it. But it's not likely to be. reviewed.

Your book will be handled by a salesman.! Commission man, who wont guarantee to show your book.

You will appear on radio and TV." If you arrange it yourself.

You will have autograph parties, If you arrange them yourself with local book dealers.

"Advance publicity releases will be sent to the nations press." Perhaps to your home town papers.

HOW TO SELL THEM

The PTC offers these ways to distinguish between a vanity publisher and a reputable pulv Usher:

1. The vanity publisher Invariably, insists on advance payment of a "co-operative" publishing fee.

2. Reputable publishers, unUke the vanity houses, never advertise for co-operaUve publishing ventures. They do, however, during negotiations occasionally ask authors to share expenses, parUcularly when it Is mutually conceded that the book wiU not

Command wide popular interest.

3. Vanity houses advertise spectacular royalties, with 40 per cent not uncommon,

4. The vanity boys are hard put to refer you to any happy former customers. o