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THE DAILY REFLECTOR, CREENVnXE, N. C

fhurtday, ApHl 4, 1900

Thursday, April, 14, 1960 . ^

Encouraging Gains In Space Race

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The third successful launching of a major space weeks ago indicated a new achievement. The weather probe within a month by the United States has done satellite which is^nding back pictures of cloud for-

a great deal to dispell the feeling that the Soviet Union mations around the earth marked another dutmct

hi far ahead of the U. S. in its Ipace program. new achievement of the space age by the United

iaiaran tn Avalnate States. And now the navigational satellite that was

It is difficult, of course for the teyma^^^^ rccessfully launched yesterday represente another

ifnZLred with thor of ?hTsoviet first by the United States in the space field. . Union"lt is not'difficult. however, for Americans or Do we still lag^behind the Soviet Union, or have

people of other nations to see that the United States we surpassed them. u .

has made significant strides in its space program in ^at question still may stump our best experts, fh t vear Even so, there is no doubt that the United States

aCTA nrnirram of this country has made significant progress in its own space pro-was pock-marked with more failures than successes in srram in the past year. We are much farther advanced rttlmnts triaunch satellites and missiles. The Soviet m our space expterations now than 12 months ago. Our UnioT on the other hand, was riding high on the wave successes have begun to outnumber our failures, and of a few spectacular achievemente in the field. There the equipment being sent into space to gather infor-a reluctant but general feeling among Americans mation is considerably more advanced than

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that for the moment at least we had relinquished su- age layman gave thought to sorne months ago. oeriority in this important new field to the Soviet Whatever our, po.sition in the space age compared

Union Soviet Union, the United States is much

Bv contrast, the same feeling does not exist to- better off today in the field than it was a year ago We dav. There is greater confidence on the part of the have made progres.s at a rapid rate, and that ij^itself American people that we are at least abreast of, if not is an important factor, ahead of, the Soviet Union in the space field. . ^

The sun satellite with deep space communication Viv fVio TTnit/d States several *

equipment launched by the United States several

More Viqorous

A Better

Today For Tomorrow

State Prograrrjj

By LYNN NISBET

C.&D.The board of Conservation and Development at its sprins meeting in Greensboro this week mapped a ctmtinuing and more vigorous program for the overall development of the state. At the same time there was unanimous opinion that while some new ideas will be tried, some new ventures undertaken, there will be little variance from the policies and practices which have proven succcesful in the past.

Precedent is a powerful influence in government. For most part the C&D folks were disposed to stick with practices as a guide to future activities. rather than as a definite limitation on progress.

Por example, wme new approaches were approved in the continuing hunt for industry and for promotion of travel and tourism. It was made clear these ventures will be on experimental basis. If they work out well, they will be expanded. If they do not prove wise, they will be abandoned. At the same time, the board reaffirmed Ipng standing policy opposing the grant of tax or other concessions as industry bait; against the sale of State-owned land for private speculation, and against the gift at taxpayers* expense ot souvenirs, murals or gadgets for conventions, except in very rare instances where peculiar circumstances alleviated the setting of dangerous precedent. Several requests for such services with recognized merit were declined because of difficulty In drawing the line for participation by the State.

This doesnt mean the C & D folks are static. To the contrary they adopted subtle but vitally different approach in advertising the state. Industrial tdvertising^opy will have more direct appeal j$olicitlng immediate response, as contrasted with former policy of institu-iKHul advertising and publicizing the integrity and stability et State government and tax programs.

TOURISM ~ The fight for tourist travel does not get quite as much publicity as the scrapping for new Industry, but it is Just as keen. The advertising committee recommended and the board approved, experimental use of television and participation in some of the big travel shows, in addition to the usual run of magazine and newspaper display advertising and the distribution of printed material. And in these old and

When a community looks to the future and worries about the problems it may have years from now, its a good sign that the community is on the road to greater progress.

An example of this is the recent action of the Ayden governing board in announcing it will utilize the seryice of the N. C. League of Municipalities in rezoning the city into areas where land use will be desig-iiated for specific purposes. By undertaking such a to coordinate program, Ayden is making a move that will help as- TTT'XT'7

)ted to travel orderly growth of the town. It is taking action i>y UUiN

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more support from non-tax promotional agencies than was the case a few years ago. Spokesmen for the Travel Council of North Carolina, which is in creasing efforts aU agencies devoted

ST'thf now that will help make Ayden a better community

other phases of State activity, in which to live in the future.

mMtfng Like most other communities, small or large

Monday night emphasized the Ayden already has its zoning problems. Unlike many

fact that major credit for the in- communities, however. Ayden is taking steps to see ^ ^ack

that the current problems are not vastly complicated 2,000 years over the past

in the future for lack of adequate regulations to desig- weekend, nate what type construction is to be permitted in spe- (That would be about the prc-

cific areas of the community.

In many cases, a town gives little thought to its zoning and similar problems until it reaches a population of 8,000 to 12,000. By then its problems are acute, ______^ ______

and even though regulations are invoked to take care bright afternoon that inspired a my hands,

of future irrowth. it requires manv years to overcome

10 Know inai mis program cuum iuluic giuvvtu, it . , , . . *n 1 ,

not operate without the com- the situation w'hich was created during the time there I--

pete cooperation of all the di- zoning regulations. V-yLiiC.i LjVaiLWiO

In its current program Ayden is taking a progres-

A Mule Around The House

dustrial expansion belongs to local chambers of commerce and other privately financed groups.

The Governor also took occasion to reiterate his often voiced tribute to contributions made by other divisions of the C & D department. It is inevitable, he said, that the industry-hunters should get most of the headlines. But he wanted the people to know that this program could

plowing-with-a- mule era, I think.)

Modesty doesnt deter my claiming a big role in the matter, but thats the way it wa:^.

Looking back, I recall a

feeling of doing something around the house. It inspired someone else, too. . .my Missus.

She saw my emergence in forking garb, and summoned me with an Over here wave of the hand.

Ive been waiting for you, she said; and placed the handles of a primitive-looking gadget in

was

visions working as a team.

HOSPITALITY-This was the first time the C & D board had ever met In Greensboro. The stream - lined program which crammed all the business into one and ha^ days prevented local people from showing some of the hospitality they wanted to extend the visitors. However, they made up for any omission by depositing in the rooms of C & D piembers boxes filled with loot representing samples of many of the the products manufactured in Greensboro, along with small gifts from non - manufacturing firms. They provided also a luncheon for the ladies and a cocktail hour and banquet for the whole group.

Board members who had a little time between committee meetings visited many of the industrial plants around the city. This fulfilled the purpose of staging these spring and fall meetings of the board at different places. (The statutes require one meeting a year at some place on the coast.) The distribution of the other meetings throughout the state, plus the policy insisted upon by 'Governor Hodges that board members all through the year visit as many business and Institutions in their areas as possible, serves to acquaint board members with statewide problems and to give local people a better idea of the total job facing the department.

The magnitude of that job is staggering. It ranges all the way from the cultivation of an oyster and the planting of a pine seedling, through location

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sive step that will serv^e the town well as it continues f QOKinQ UD to srrow. Not only will it provide a better community ^ ^

in the future, it will enhance Ayden.s growth by pro-

baying... T rouble

viding an orderly program development of future residential, commercial and industrial areas.

Available Adlai

Still Politickina

(Henderson Dispatch) Hospital care for thirteen million Social Security beneficiaries, as would be e.stablished under the Forand bill now in Congress, is by no means one 0 the nations greatest needs. The most that can be said of itnot for it but of itis that

them? Only one guess is lyed-ert in answer to that. It would be the same old Uncle who is called upon for just about everything else these days.

Upshot of the whole scheme is that the advocates of socialized medicine, balked w'hen they speak of the program by

it would be another step, and its correct name, are tiring to

a long one. toward socialized niedicine. That scheme, where tried, has not solved health

get In through''the back door. Socialist-minded politicians are dead bent on getting through

problems, and isnt even as ef-. some sort of stetism project at

tried media, more emphasis is ^and processing of minerals, the

being placed on color and live lineas of subject matter. That is true of both industrial and travel advertising.

SUPPORTThere is evidence that the effort to promote the development of North Carolina, which is the prime purpose of the CAD department, is getting

attraction of tourists and vacationers, to the establishment of multi - million dollar manufacturing plants. What sometimes la apt to be overlooked is that the pine tree and the tourist may-be just as important in the total scheme as the mammoth industry. _____

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WASHINGTON (AP) Adlai Stevenson hovers around the political perimeter like a doctor in the next room. He is available if needed, he wUl prescribe if asked, but he wont come uncalled.

He sounded like the Stevenson of 1952 and 1956 Tuesday night in his speech at the University of Virginia. It was a broadside attack on the Republicans.

Stevenson, a two-time presidential loser who seems perfectly willing to try again if he is asked, used two figures, Thomas Jefferson and President Eisenhower. to make his points: that Jefferson had vision and Eisenhower doesnt.

One of the troubles facing Stevenson or any other Democrat running for president this year when he starts condemning the Eisenhower administration for lack of performanceis that the Democrats have now had control of Congress since 1954. When blame is being handed out they must be given their share.

If Eisenhower lacked vision or failed to produce or push a program, the Democrats had the numbers to come up with some ol their own. But they havent busted any stitches thinking big, either.

Stevenson can still turn a phrase but to this wTiter, who wasnt down at Charlottesville, Va.. to hearhis written speech sounded tfred and pretty much a rehash of what he had said over and over long ago.

If he/doesnt get the Democratic nomination this year again he will like all the other also-rans, become a minor figure in

American history. Nevertheless, because he had eloquence, scholars will research his speeches.

His ideas and his views about the world and Eisenhower when historians have the benefit of the hindsight which comes with passing yearscan then be measured in perspective against the Eisenhower record or lack of it.

On one point he hit a note which by now is pretty commonly ^accepted: that this countrys foreign policy has been pretty much defensive.

Stevenson insists he is not looking for the nomination this year although he says he wont duck if Its offered. But he couldnt have made a more political iyjeech if he had been on tl*e stump for .the third time,

Stm, whUe this speech may have found a hearty response in the cerebral air of the University of Virginia, its still hardly the kind that enchants the voters.

It was long on criticism and listing of problems but very short on Stevensons own solutions for solving them. Hell have to get around to that if he runs again.

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At this most critical time in our history, one of my col-league.s commented; The great American concern today is losing five pounds, and finding a place to park. Rep. Edith Green, of Oregon.

fective as the present method oi caring for the sick. It is a mechanical process, where the personal relationship between doctor and patient is largely negated.

Those who have investigated say that when government elsewhere provides hospital care, it seems to be free and most persons try to get everything in sight, regardless of their needs. Hospitals are jammed and there are long waiting lists.

If the Forand bill were in effect, here, with Social Security beneficiaries entitled to a maximum of sixty days care, all the hospitals would soon be crowded, and the problem w'ould arise as to who should get there first. With government paying the bill, wouldnt it demand priority for its patients? And would the government step in to dictate to the hospitals, even the privately - owned institutions?

Others who pay Social Security taxes but are not eligible for benefits might find themselves unable to get attention they deserve.

The demoralizing effect on the nations work force can easily be imagined. Where hospital care is urgent and not available, people would become disgruntled, and a new problem would come to the fore.

Back of all the congestion that would ensue would immediately arise an insistent demand for more and bigger hospitals. Who would finance

this session of Congress. If they do, it will constitute the cracking of the dike, and from there on the flood gates wl be opened for socialized medicine. By whatever name, it will then come and come quickly.

Social Security taxes already ^are several times greater than at the outset of the system twenty years ago. Something new and something more burdensome is added by Congress every election year as office-holders grasp for new methods of offering to swap something-for-nothing for votes at the poUs. The gullible pubUc, either ignorantly or willingly, are suckers enough to wallow hook, ine and sinker, without a thought as to what the cost will be, W'ho will pay. or what the actual consequences wU be.

We are rushing pellmell to-ward the socialist state in America. Every scheme of this sort is but another step forward in that direction. Americans sneered at Khrushchevs prediction some months ago that our grandchildren here will live in a Communist state. But it begins to appear that he spoke with far more accuracy than most of us are willing to admit. It is taking place almost daily under our very eyes, and the rank and file of the people are either too stupid or too indifferent to recognize what is being done to them.

In and through it all, more trouble for struggling citizens is being cooked up. and soon the serving of it will get under way.

What do I do with this? a natural reaction.

You plow, he replied. How?

like this, and she demonstrated.

Weil, the wheel with a sort of spade^tiiaped instrument bolted to a frame did make a feeble sort ol furrow. Not much like a mule-powered plow could do, but it held some promise.

We need a mule?", I suggested hopefully.

She only gave with a Mona Lisa smile and pointed at the garden plot.

It didnt seem so big. Maybe about the size of six billiard tables. Not mipch, to it, was the unvoiced opinfonV So to work.

I learned fast. A mule would be a handy thing to have around the house.

Once over a furrow wasnt enough; you go over It and over it and over it. The rains had packed the soil; there were some roots, too.

One row done, and the afternoon sun was noticeably lower; there was more to it than first impressions had indicated.

The Overseer showed where the next row was to go, and the Plow and I bent mutely to the chore. (Not much breath left for chit-chat when plnchhitting for a mule.)

An amiable neighbor on the sidelines generously cooperated by grunting at appropriate intervals. But even this proved too much, and the neighbor turned away to contemplate something less nerve-wracking.

The last hour of our labors is only dimly recalled. There were a number of furrows plowed, covered up again. Then there was something I think was referred to as **middle-bustlng.

Through it all my Overseer stood gamely by, smiling that Mona Lisa smile (Mona Lisa must have been a determined sort of a gal).

" The next morning, well after sun-up, we peered out the window to see the results of our labors. There wasnt much to see. Some rows were a mite crooked: and there werent as many as I thought had been done.

My Missus didnt seem very disappoined though. She had a sort of misty glow in her eyes as she ticked off some of the wonderful things her garden would produce: onions, turnip greens, cucumbers, bunch beans, etc. etc.

Thats rigjtit. Its Spring.

It flggers.

Seizec.

By Big

"nertia

BY GEORGE E. 80K0LSKY Copyright. IMO, King Featnret Syndicate, Inc.

A human being haa many relationships. He is a member of a family, of a nation, of g religious group, of a lodge, of a bowling team, of a union. His loyalties arc numerous and sometimes conflicting. A man loves his mother, his wife, and his daughter. What family has never known a conflict in theso relationships?

The politicians often seek a candidate so bland in his relationships and conflicts that he is really a meaningless creature, as so many of the leaders prove to be in rtrospect. The truly strong man does not hide his conflicts; he meets them head on.

Qulntin M. Sanger, a reader, writes to me:

The pitiful thing about all this is that we have a Presidential campaign year with little or no discussion of real issues. We have leading statesmen who are afraid to speak out in the national intereet for fear of alienating a minority group. This can only mean a paralysis of leadership, at a time when strong leadership is needed and all religious groups should be cooperating for constructive purposes, in the national interest riot that of special groups.

It is not that we suffer a dearth of issues; we suffer a lack of leadership. Leadership must be moral in the sense that It leads to an ideal, to some enormously significant outpouring of the human spirit. Thus far, there has been no evidence of such a mass emotional response to any political leader since Franklin D. Rooseve'fs first term, which ended in the bankrupt^ of the Court Packing Plan in his second term.

Since then the American people. on the whole, seem to have become pocally narcotized. In the first place, the upper middle class, the businessmen who since Colonial times pledged their lives, ttteir fortunes and their sacred honor behind the signature of John Hancock on the Declaration of Independence, abdicated their leadership. They degenerated into a 9 to 5 rich pro-leUriat which fished and played golf, drank good whiskey, avoided conflict and contest and left the administration of their affair to their managers. James Burnham intuitively captured the true natiue of the managerial Bevqhition in the course of whldhnHif dapltalist gave way before the technician-Unfortunately for the United sutes, the .capiUlUt had nowhere to go. In Briutn, he achieved sUtus. was given a tiUe and served the nation. In the United States, during war. he might be a dollar-a-year man or be on some mission. But in peacetime, his trained skills and service* are generally lost. He aits on directorates where he is enslaved to the managerial technician.

What has all this to do with Wisconsin? The two significant personaHties in the Wisconsin contest were young: Kennedy is 42; Humphrey is 48. Both are what might be termed liberals- Both favor the same degree of socialization for the country. Kennedy is a Roman Catholic: Humphrey is a Protes-Unt. Their votes in Congrcsa have not been very different.

What have these men to say against each other? It came down to nothing political in Wisconsin. Yet they felt it incumbent to talk although neither had anything in particular to say. So Humphrey accused Kennedy of being rich, which was no fault of Johns as his father, Joe, made whatever money the family has. Kennedy did not accuse Humphrey of being poor, although there were references to the New York rich who have financed the Humphrey campaign.

Their adjutants thereupon played up the religious issue, damaging to both of them and to the coi|ntry. In the conflict of loyalty between country and religion, in an election, country should prevail. Morally there is no wide gap between Kennedy and Humphrey. Both are Godfearing men. Neither would claim that he is without sin but both are decent citizens, of sufficiently good reputation to have been chosen by their neighbors to go to the United States Senate. It would be a good day (Continued on page five)

Waste In The Fetish Of Chanae?

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLAS.S BLESSING OF SERVICE

In the passage about the faithful and unfaithful servants, our Lord gave expression to a great truth in words of surpassing beauty. The Word of God has few passages more beautiful than this (Luke 12:42).^

In it Jesus uses contrast with striking effect. He gives us the picture of a faithful and wise servant and the picture also of an*^ evil and diasolute one. We observe that the servant is set o\er his Lords household, to give them their food in due .sea.son. All groups under God are family groups. He tleal.s with nations as large families of his children. Over every family, great and kmall, he sets a servant. This servant may be a king, a high ecclpsia.sUc. an employer, a humble minister, a parent, a Sunday school teacher.

The.se servants are set over their Lord^s household *to give them their food in due season. The ruler of a nation, if he is wise and unselfish, feeds his people and nourishes them. The minister feeds his people upon the Word of God and nourishes them continually with the hopes and promises of the gospel-Parents are required to do niiu:h more than merely provide food for the bodies' of their children. They must provide them education. that is, food for the mind. H they obey God explicit" demands. they e to it that their children are constantly fed on a .spiritual diet which will keep their souls healthy and produce growtli.

Our Lord dtclares that a servant who does this Is blessed. That is. he is happy in the hlgh-e.st seiuse of that term Nothing givf.s U.S so much joy as to forget ourselves and serve others.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Americans preoccupation with new thingsthe cult of noveltymay be wasting our resources, Robert Lckachman, Barnard College economist, says

The point Is not new; neither Ls the answer. When w'e were boys (and girls) the Socialists used to argue that our economy was built on willful waste and that this robbed the working

iu the current issue of New .people of their rightful share of York Universitys Challenge the nations goods.

magazine.

In the concentration of bringing out new models of autas and appliances, w'e dissipate funds and energies that might better be applied to a genuine expansion of our economy, the professor suggests.

"Over emphasis on the new . . .encourages the nnsalJoca-tion of our reources, Mr. Le-kachman wrote. The automobile Industrys annual model change con.sumcs large amount* of capital on the proce.ss of altering the tools and dies needed to produce the cars component parts. And during the season of change, plant shutdowns of varying length, which create seasonal unemployment problems, are another waste-

I recall a man who was known as the milhonaire Socialist of Berkeley, Calif., although his name ha* faded from my mind. He showed the-suit he wore. Ifc had been hand woven and hand tailored, and had lasted him for 20 years. That was w hat we could expect under Socialism, he said.

I said that suit* like that would mean thousands of tailors would lose their jobs, and some of them were Socialists. Ah. he said, if all suits w^ere so made, then the tailors, instead of being out ul work,- w'ould have material afid energy to make similar .-uits for the working cla.s.se.s.

Mr. Lckachman does not so as far and. m general, his

points seem so much sounder. He does not call iot 20 - year suits; he does not call for anything, but he does raise the question of whether the urge for newness gives the consumer less than he is entitled to. PLANNED OBSOLESCENSE Rewards of novelty are so huge and the hunger for it apparently so substantial that the new is equated with the good, he writes.

Manufacturers are powerfully , impelled to modify satisfactory old products, exaggerate the degree of change and market the result as an important innovation, * he stated. Of course, a rich society can stand a good deal of this puffery, although only at the cost of being somewhat le.ss rich than it might be.

That la, of course, very true. The 1950 model of one car, and the 1953 model of another, were about a.s fine cars a* were ever made. But both were remodeled, at enormous expense.

And the costs had to be added to the price. The subsequent models are tricked out in chrome, fins and gadgets galore and the prices are almost double, Part of the rise is due to higher labor and steel costs, andvmrt to the cost* of retooling/id adding gimcracks-Of course, those changes provided extra jobs for designers, toolmakers, and thousands of others: but the wages for those jobs had to be added to the cost of the car.

When you buy *a car today, the salesman is likely to explain that the radio costs $49.95 extra. But he never explains that the trim and the model changes are costing you $499-SO-As Mr. Lekachman concluded: It is time we learned to distinguish more sharply between the new and the good. . . .The. quest for the new, which began as a virtue in our civilization, has turned into an exce.s.s and threatens to become a destructive vice.