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THE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE. N. C

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Friday, April 1, 1960

It Gould Only Happen Today

More Than Two Months Of Effort

Governor Hodges praise for the industrial development effort now being put forth in Eastern North Carolina is^in sharp ^ntrast with his words of two months ago*in which ^severely criticized the section for not tiying to help itself to further development.

-Speaking to representatives of 35 counties at an industrial developipent conference in GoMsboro yesterday, Gov. Hodges pointed out that never before in the history has there been as much activity in Eastern North Carolina as there is at this moment. He

been locatfed in the area in the first two months pf 1960. More than likely mostcof the new industries and plant expansions -had been in the works for many months before they were announced, and communitiees of the East had been working with these prospects long before Gov. Hodges made his January statement highly" critical of the East. - .

The results cited by Gov. Hodges in his speech in Goldsboro yesterday tend to indicate that the governor was not fully aware of just what efforts were

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cited figures to show that diiring the first two months being made toward industrial development in Eastern

of 1960 some 32 industrial projects had been announc ed in this section of the state.

The implication was that since the governor spoke so sharply to the East that the easterners have waked

Carolina when he made his January statement.

Having more carefully ethltrated the effort being put forth by the East, perhaps the governor in the future will be more in sympathy- with what js being done

anyone who has worked with industrial prospects m any community knows things do not start from scratch and develop that rapidly.

If there hadn't been considerable effort in this part of the state toward industrial development prior to the first of the year, it is highly improbable that 14 new industries and 18 plant expansions would have

up and started trying to attract industry. Certainly in the Coastal Plain section to develeop hew industries.

* ' - - --------- It is to be hoped that this sectSon of the state will be

able to continue its economic deyejopment on a par with those figures cited by the gdVernor for January and February. In those two months, he said, there was developed in this section a potential for more than 1.000 new industrial jobs that would mean some $3.5 millions in additional annual payrolls.

With this, added to the $12.9 million in new payrolls for the section realized through industrial development in 1959, it appears that the East is off to a good start for 1960. . ' , ^ '

While the Eastern part of the state is proud of the progress that has been mad in its effort to raise the economic level through industrial development, no one knows better than the people of this section that a great deal yet remains to be done. The effort"toward industrialization must be continued and intensified throughout the area if the higher economic level is to be reached.

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" (During absence' of Lynn Nlsbet, each candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and United States Senator has been Invited to write a guest column, atatlng his views.)

By C. V. HENKEL

Democratie Candidate for Lieutenant Governor

MR. BOBWhen Lynn Nisbet extended me the Invitation to write a column during his convalescence, I figured that he didnt want me poUticing all over the place so J decided to write about my favorite politician - statesman: Mr. Bob

Doughton.

The dictionary says that politician and statesman are synon-_ ymous, and that, of course, if the way it really is, but for some reason that is obscure to me the public definition now is lightly different. I believe that the two are still inter-dependent and that a successful statesman must be a successful politician or -Ise he would never reach the position from which he can serve the public.

LOST PROVINCES Mr. Bobs fabulous career as a public servant began when he was elected to the State Senate from litUe Alleghany County in the mountainous northwest which was then known as the lost provinces, along with several other northwestern counties. The terrain was so rugged that it was exgremely difficult in those days to build roads in and out of the area and these counties were literally lost.

After one term in the State

Senate Mr. Bob ran for the United States House of Representatives and was successful in defeating the incumbent. He ran total of 21 times and served 42 years'in the House of Representatives. longer than any other member in the history of the country, except one. He was Chairman of the all-powerful House Ways and Means Committee longer than anyone else in history.

Mr. Bob went on from this little county' in a remote sec-ti(Mi to be one of the most powerful men in the United States. On the national scene he was regarded as the most Important man in Washington with the exception of President Roosevelt and possibly Sam Rayburn. His capacity for growth was phenomenal. To be able to move from a life as a cattle dealer, a mountain farmer and* a small country merchant to this position of great responsibility, and keep growing with the assignment all the time took a man of great ability and character and he really has both.

RUGGED He not only was politicians politician, he was a statesmans statesman, with a tremendous capacity for work and a great faculty for nego-tiation and accomplishment. Of all his many qualities I would first list his complete rugged-ness. Rugged in every way. His regular schedule in Congress up until tbe last few years was to arrive at his office about five oclock in the morning after

having walked three ^or fbur miles to work. He finished Ms day at seven oclock in the evening and usually walked home again. I remember him complaining in Ms later years in Congress.that the wcwld had turned soft, that people didnt want to work any more and he had reluctantly moved the opening hour of Ms office up until seven oclock in the morning.. He was about 85 years old-then^ He still wanted the old|^sched-ule, but the young people couldnt keep up with him.

, Mr. Bob was rugged in his politics as well. In all Ms Congressional campaigns his majority ranged from less than

1.000 at one time to more than

40.000 at another. His other campaigns carried majorities in between the two, and at one time or another (fortunately never all at one time) he failed to carry every county in Uie Ninth (Congressional district eX-cept Iredell.

One of the tMngs that 1 admired most about him was the way he did his campaigning. He realized to a very high degree the simple truth that to have a friend you must be one, and he never hesitated a moment to help a friend who needed it in a campaign or any other way. He never let that interfere with^ his own problems. Many a time I have seen him facing a tough race of his own, giving even more attention to a friend running for sheriff. Congress, and Legislature, Governor .or the United States Senate wheh most politicians would have been looking after their own Mde. But that was not his way of playing the game.

MULEY He was equaUy rugged as a lawmaker. The national press gave film the name of old muley. If you have worked mules as much as I have you know just what the niekname means. It means that once he made up his mind, determined his course and set Ms feet, dynamite wouldnt move, him. He was there from then on and everybody knew where he stood. That is the highest compliment that can possibly be paid a public servant.

When Mr. Bob first went to Congress he defeated the Republican incumbent. At that time ie Ninth Congressional district was Republican, but it has been Democratic-ever since and it was Ms leadersMp that brought it about. In all the years when he was supplying the leadersMp to establish' the Democratic party as the dominant one in the district we got to be known as the Fighting Ninth Congressional district and still are. In those earlier days we werp. fighting the other political party, but now when are not doing that we spend our time fighting among us Democrats. But after aU we thing it makes for gpod gov-' ernment. It certainly cretes a climate where the candidates get through scrutiny and the vot^ ers almost always have a"choice between candldatci.

By ALVm TAYLOR

Taxpayers of the nation were spared a tremendously expensive and completely- unnecessary expense when the House Ways and Means Committee refused

to include in Social Security revisions a provision which___

would have provided national health insurance for re- stripes, the tired persons. lished for the

. Stars And StriDes-1918

Millions of armed forces veterans remember Stars and newspaper pub-services.

The paper followed the na-The provision, known as the Forand Bill, would tions fighting men through all

have cost taxpayers millions upon millions a year and . and ^aSo^^luVgh^Sie*^ Korean put the federal governmept another giant stride down conflict, the road of credle-to-the-grave program of caring for However few are .familiar people. It would have been a step toward socialized medicine and a step toward further socializing the country.

Although the committee turned down the proposal by a 171-8 vote, its spon.or. Rep. Aime J. Forand of Rhode Island said he will try to force a House vote on the proposal.

Certainly the House should follow the example of the committee in rejecting the proposal. In this election year, however, there will be those in Congress who are reluctant to turn down any such proposal which would mean more government money flowing to more people in the form of grants. In the long run, the federal governmentand particularly the taxpayerscan ill afford to saddle themselves with such programs that will push us further toward complete socialism.

with the original Stars and Stripe^.-In fact only thoce veterans who served with the American Expeditionary Force which fought on the World War I battlefields of Europe can recall its first editions.

Resting on the book shelves of the East' Carolina College liM-ary, is a bound volume embracing a complete file' of tMs newspaper' from the day the first edition was published. Feb. 8, 1918, to the last issue, June 13, 1919.

As with 80 many newspaper fUes, this volume furnisbes an almost complete history of World War I and it docs it in a personalized way that the history books can't duplicate.

Unlike the more modem Stars and Stripes the W W I version was sold by means of

It also oirried advertising and some familiar products of today cropped up on Its pages.

Subscription luromotion jids urged the soldiers to let Stars and Stripes be a weekly letter from you to the folks back home. A Wrigleys chewing gum ad told the flg^hting fan: Its a grand tMng to march on. It makes thiz^ and fatigue take the back track. A little bit of USA to lighten and brighten a weary day."

There was a 5-in One 011 ad for cleaning rifles" and Colgate Dental Cream was 'found in the kits of all soldiers who know." the ads said.

One writer, the New York correspondent, let his concern for lackadaisicalnese state-side show in a June 14. 1918 article^

He told of tbe appearance of the Kaiser's U-Boats off New York.

At night the city darken^! itself and did It with neither panic nor objection. The Great White Way went out of business as easily as though the mere blowing out of a candle was in-volv^.

Many of us are almost

While the Forand bil} is the kind of legislation subscriptions to the doughboy.^mournfully announces 'that it that might have a belter chance of being written into

law during an election year than an off year, members Q/nXTlTirT

of Congress who are interested in sound operations of X-jUiLwiO OUyiiiy

the federal government surely should oppose the meas

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N^HINGTON (AP)-At least a couple of things seemed settled but not quitein this otherwise rather quiet political week.

On Monday Vice 'President Ricbard M. Nixon told a Nebraska audience he wtmld not run for the presidency on the record of the Eisenhower administration alone but would have an expanded program of Ms own.

And Wednesday President Elsenhower told a news conference Nixon would be absolutely stupid" to try to run on Ms administrations record alone. But what remains unsettled is this:

1^. Just how far can Nixon depart from Eisenhowers view of thingssince too much difference might look like criticism and still expect vigorous support from the President in the campaign?

2. Just what kind of program of his own is Nixon going to think up? He is trying to get a farm program different from the administrations, or so It seems. And he has listed some points he says will be'issues in the campaign.

But there is still a hazealthough its too early to expect him to get specific yet, with the campaign . still months away over how fie is going to make his thinking look new or different from Eisenhowers.

Nixon hlmslplf said last January at a Chicago dinner that, great as are our domestic problems, national security, and foreign policy transcend them all. Then he proceeded to defend the Elsenhower performance lii both fields.

Since the Democrats have been continually criticial of Eisenhowers vision in national defense. Nlxoo should be in a bit diffeiynt from the President In of dilemma saying much that is this field. .

He cant join the Democrats in their criticism and he can't very

major role in his campaign although exactly what Ms position on each will be is something he has to flgure out:

1. Education: The American system is the best in the world, he said, but inadequate classrooms, underpaid teachers and flabby standards are weaknesses we must constantly strive *to eliminate.

Thats all been said before.. The question is: How? And right there Ntxon seemed to follow me Eisenhower line. He cautioned that federal programs must not infringe upon state and local* re-' sponsibllity.

2. Agriculture: On this he said there is no Mgher legislative priority than a coipplete over-hauling of obsolete farm programs under which the prices farmers receive for major farm production continue to go down add the costs to the taxpayers continue to go up. But Nixon still hasat come up with his own farm program.

3. Unemployment: He called for programs in wMch areas of chronic unemployment can be restored to healthy, productive units of our economy.

Only Wednesday i special Senate committee of Democrats and Republicans said unemployment is a grave national problem requir^g comprehensive remedial action. But they disagreed on how to handle It.

4. Social Security: Nixon said there is need fbr more adequate methods for protecting the aged, the unemployed and the disabled.

Wednesd^ Eisenhpwer opposed any co^ulsory Insurance system to provide medical care for v the aged. In this field Nixon may break away from Eisenhowers thinking. But thats for the future to show.

5. Labor-management disputes: Nixon said these ntust be.* dealt with so that the public interest may be more adequately protected but without controls

(The AnnistoB Star)

Miss Abagail Van Buren, who writes Dear Abby and who. Incidentally, is a married woman in her early 40s, has won national acclaim for her ready wit and common sense. As for the authenticity of her counael. however, it has to be admitted that neither she nor any other counselor on love and marriage has aU the answers. For instance, we wonder what her reaction would be to a communication inquiring about the chances of happiness in a prospective union Joining, let us say. Miss X and Mr. Y.

Miss X, while Mgh-born, never went to college. She is 29, has

everyone he can think of to share it. When the guests run out of chairs, they sit on the floor.

On a more elaborate scale, he once put on a baby party, decorating his apartment to represent a French sidewalk cafe, complete with little tables and candles in Ijottles. The guests, many of whom were well known "persons, were asked to c(Mne dressed as infants. One young male socialite arrived in a pair of powder-blue rompers.

Mr. Y arranged for Ms old nurse, wearing starched white uniform, to wheel Mm into the room in a baby carriage. Decked out in a nightgown he was *^uck-ing a pacifier. His Christmas

never been married before, cards In 1954 showed a trick pic-

though at 25 she was ,njadly in love. She has an independent income of $20,(XX) a year. Her fiance also is 29. He flunked out of a famous university (Cambridge) after Ms -second year as an arcMtectural student. He presently resides in a modest apartment renting for less than $3 a week. ' '

His forte, it Is said. Is informal entertaining, wherein he will concoct a stew, usually liberally laced with garlic, then telephone

ture he had taken of himself in three posesa staid Victorian lather, a demure Victorian mother complete with ostrich feathers, and a small, boy In a sailM* suit.

The question of whether or not the union of these two persons would prove happy is not at all h3TK>thetlcal. For they are Princess MaVgaret and and Antony Armstrong-Jones. whose marriage is scheduled for May 6 at Westminster Abbey.

cause tbe vast aggregation of electrte Mgns that devoured power and fuel disgracefiilly was out of tKisiness temporarily at least.

- The prodigal extravagance in electricity along Broadway has been a source of quiet but ardent objecUon by many thoughtful men.

. . . nobody kicked except irrepressible Coney Island which mojmfuUj announces that it will have to go out of business if it is not permitted to set Uie heavens ablaze nightly,

The Ingenious ainusement proprieters of the great hot dog resort proposed to compromise by putting the Ughts, out for three days of pach week, but the police suggested that they arrange the matter with the Kaiser. As tbe Kaiser cannot be reached at present. Ckmey IsUod remains doused."

An article on Nov. 8, 1918 announced there would be no turkey for Thanksgiving.

General Pershing figured that 1,(XX) tons of TNT would be better for the AEF .than

I,000 tons of turkey it would take to go around over here to say nothing of the tons of trimmings that go with the turkey."

But ..the next edition of the weekly paper, Nov. 15, brought tidings that must have made the doughboy forget the lack o Thanksgiving turkey. It was news of the firing of the last shots in the World War. For in between the two issues, on Nov.

II, the Armistice was signed ending the conflict.

Prom that day on. or course, it was just a matter of time before publication of Stars and Stripes would end.

The last issue, with ample notice in previous editions, appeared on June 13, 1919. It reported that many divisions had already been sMpped home and ofliers were slated to leave. The paper also reported that Stars and Stripes' had made money during its existence and the profit had Jbeen turned back to the government

In the last column of the last page, boxed up Uke a little one inch ad, appeared 30" The ancient newspaper symbol for the end.

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"The Department of Labor has reiterated what many an employer has learned by himself: that office workers show no incline in either the quality on quantity of their work after passing the age of 48."Breese (111.) Journal.

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT Copyright, 1988, Kteg Feature* Syndieaic, Ihc.

Tovarisb Niglui;: Scrgeivleli Khrushchev:

I see by the newalMiphrs that you are in! OuaiTel With mi colleague. Bill Hearst. You maf imagine that he. in some manner, is my Boss because my articles appear in aora newspapers owned by Mie Hearst Corporation. You b^iev^ that I must write what he wants ma to and therefore ttiat we have no freedom of the sress.

One of your major difflcultiea is that you arc too conservative, too inflexible. If you reallY wanted to know what a free preas is, you should have tried to find out when you were her*. Bill Hearst Is a pretty good man. as . editors and publishers go, but he has yet to tell a columnist what to write "or what not to write. Only a fool would try to do that in this country.

For Instance, my work is published in many newspapers daily. Some of these newspapers are Republican, Democratic or of no party. Some like what I write and .some dislike what I write. Per-sortally I do not know many of my editors.

Can you understand what I am saying to you?

Why do they publish what I write or what Drew Pearson or Joseph Alsop or Walter Lipp-mann writes? It is only because they believe that their readers have the right to read what we say. Obviously when a man siu:h as any one of us has so many editm-s and publishers, be cannot please *n of them or even-most of them. Nor can they teU Mm what to say. ^What pleases one. may be hateful to another. So a writer is free as a bird to be wise or stupid, truthful or false, conceited or humble, honest or corrupt. In due course, the voice of tbe people will determine whethCT he should continue or not.

TMs is freedom of the press part of it. You question whether anyone can write in the Hearst press what BUI Hearst doea not like. To say nothing more about myself, I read much In the Hearst press that BUI Hearst does not like and much in the Scripps-Howard, press that Roy Howard docs not like and In other newspapers that I am sure sure tbe owners are not pleased with.

I hope you grasp what I am telling you. Back in the early days of the Revolution, in 1917 and 1918, I was an editor of the Russian Dally News in Pctro-grad. I attended tbe Cons^tuent Assembly and as my memon of lices goes. I did not see you there. I saw Lenin. Trotsky. Zinoviev, KoUantai. 8taha and many others In tbe good old days of the Smolny. You muM have been a young feUow then in the Ukraine. So the wheel of life turns they'are aU dead now and you are on Uie top of the heap.

My te paper was anti-Bolshevik, even aiter Kerensky went to Gatchina. So one day. the.. Red Guards came along and closed the paper down. So, there was nothing to do. So, In due course, I was put on a train which ended its Journey at Harbin.

It would have bWfn better for Russia had fny Utile newspaper not been shut down. You would have had real opposition and that is good for the soul. You know, as well as I do, that toward the end of Ms life, StaUn was suffocated by yeses. A man who ciui only hear the word, yes. must bec(ne unbalanced, because there must be some noes in Ufe. That is why StaUn had to kill Ms colleagues.

In this country, we walk about the right to know, In fact, at the moment there is quite a quarrel between the newspapers and the government about the right to know." The newspapers ask. Who are these temporarily Important men in the government who say that they are entitled to determine what the people should or should not know about their government?

On the other hand, m<?ny in the government, particularly the miUtary personnel, would Uke to Umit what the people should know because they ar afraid that you will find out some secrets. You know that that is a stupid attitude. You have as (Continued on page five)

Some Of The Interest Returns

weU propose what the Democrats|.Whlch would stifle the produc-suggest .without appearing to tlvlty of our free enterprise sys-agree with th#n.. tern: .'

He jputUned to the dinn^ five This will require some neat areas of the administrations record which probably a'Ul play a

By ELMER ROESSNER

Consumer credit outstanding is $52 bilUon and, if Interest charges average only 10 per cent, $3.2 bilUon is being paid

in interest instead of being spent for more goods and services.

Thats what was said here yesterday. Todays mail hasnt been opened, but there are

probably a dozen letters saying. "You dope! The money paid In interest is returned to the

stream of spending eventually.

Thats true, to an extent. The money paid in interest and other credit charges comes back, with notable exceptions. The

.money paid in taxes also comes back, but again the exceptions are strong.

Lets see to what extent that $5.2 million comes bee.*

JOBS AND PROFITS

Actually, the totol is probably much Mgher. R^olvlng. credit plans that ch8u*gc' F? per cent a month on unpaid balances actually cost the consumer 18 per

doing. Figuring out hoV otpiU to f cent. Bank loans tWt cast 6 per taka up a lot of Nixou's time, ceut ol, the toUi and which ara

paid off In 12 monthly .payments actually cost almost 12 per cent on unpaid balances. And various fees, charge.s, insurance and other add-ons increase the actual rate considerably.

But these rsUes and charges create employment. If you can get a glimpse of the credit department 'Of a large department store you may be surprised at the number * of clerks, typists, accountants, billers and others there. All are emptoyed: all are getting paychecks, most of which Is spent for goods and services.

There ar^ many more. There are investigators: there are

workers kt the local credit bur-eau: Jhere are detectives: col-lectoni, lawyers and judges; printers, advertising men and mailers, gnd many thers.

Behind this front line are the banks, factors and others who put up, the money to finance credit granted by merqhanls. Here are thdusands more work^i ers: accountants, clerks, typ

ists, AudiUu's, kivestigators.

electronic computer . operators, telephoi^ts, clegning women and on gnd on.

WHITHER THE PROFITS?

But granting and financing consumer credit is not an al-thilstic project to provide jobs and to assist sales'. It is all done for a profit.

In fact, there are retail establishments that make more money on their share of consumer credit .interest and fees than they do on their mark-up of goods-

And the money lenders, whether institutions or individuals, make a profit on their lending or factoring. The profits are far from inconsequential. It is this money that does not flow back Into the stream of sales quickly ' if at aU.

Take Flgaio Jocs.-a factor who finances a jores credit and nets $1(X).0(X) a year. Some of it is spent, of course. What is spent In thef United States be-pome^ part of the money that pays for American gooda^ and

services. Some of it may be

soeot verstws. vhioh dots Uir

tie ftxr the United States aeon-omy. *

But most of It is'probably invested in new factorins > operations. in stocks and bonds, or tucked away in safe ^ deposit vaults. Whatever Is so saved is removed from the stream of consumer connerce ' for a while. And whatever that amount is,-from $520,(XX),000 to $5.2 billion, it is lost by mer' chants and manufacturers as retail potential.

And if you have writt^ a letter of prot^t', thats your answer.

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