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Monday, April 25, 1950

Idonday, April 25, I960

Perilous Waters

Basically, A Matter Of Insurance

Significance of the census survey of Civil Defense .shelters described on page six of todays Daily Reflector would be hard to overestimate.

Despite the general attitude of inertia on the Civil Defense front, we hope and trust the published results will inspire more activity by Americans.

It will be noted that some officials suspect more shelter construction has beei^going on than generally believed. They think some families are keeping their shelter projects to themselves, for fear of a rfeighbor-hood rush in event of actual emergency. There are also reports that some builder are installing shelters in new developments going up in certain large citiesh

So the degree of public preparedness, while admittedly lagging, is not precisely known.

There is, we are sure, a hard core of Civil Defense people devoted to their work. We see it in many aspects of local emergencies; we read of it in occasional news releases from the national headquarters at Battle Creek, Michigan.

Aside from a feeling of indifference to official urgings of shelter construction, there is also an attitude of futility involved.

Whats the use?*, say the dispirited, well all die anyhow in a nuclear war*. And, as like as not, theyll cite a novel On The Beach to back up fheir argument.

We couldnt disagree more strongly.

For every piece of fiction describing a gloomy fate for mankind there are a thousand giving a very differ-

Site For New legislative Bldg.

By LYNN NISBET

LONG RANGE Location of the new State legislative building a block north of the captol, spanning Halifax street, has been hailed as a long step toward orderly development of a complex of government building. The square upon which the building will sit is bounded on the north by Lane street, east by Washington, south by Jones and west by Salisbury. It spans and will close two blocks of Halifax street.

The square is the same size as Burke (site of the Governors Mansion) and Cabell squares, and is midway between them. Planners cnvisiwj the time when the area between the new building and the old captol will be developed into an attractive mall, flanked by government buildings cm each side, and with Burke and Caswell squares providing a sort T-formatlon in the whole area north of the captol.

When the proposal for a new State legislative building, which has been in tentative stage lor years, really got serious attention by the 1959 l/Cgis-lature, it was generally thought the building would be across Edenton street from the captol on what is known as the YMCA property and adjoining lots. When Oliver Rowe, Charlotte engineer and member of the building commission, suggested the imaginative idea of the Halifax street site, he gained little attention at first. The plan grew more attractive with study and early reaction to the commission decision as to site has been highly favorable.

. There is a problem of land acquisition, but it is not really serjous. The commission believes that funds will be available from other sources to buy the land, leaving the $4.5 million for the Imildingand expenses of the commission.

SCHOOL CHILDREN School children are coming by the Imndreds every day to visit the Btate Capitol and other buildings. But there are not as many this year as usual, according to the people who have to play host to them.

The average age of the cur-lent crop of visitors is older. School teachers have found that first and second graders really do not get much out of the trips. Because they are somewhat older, the folks are noisier. Strangely enough, however, they seem to be a little more careful about throwing trash around captol square.

BUDGET TOUR Dates for the biennial Inspection tour by by the Advisory Budget Commission have.not been fixed, but tfie trip Is expected to be staged during the first half of July. It is not likely to be earlier for

two reasons. It appears very

likely that a second primary will be necessary to determine the nominee for Governor which will be on June 25. And the members of the commission will draw $25 a^ day for time spent after July 1, and only $7 a day prior to that. Several years ago the budget group slipped up and scheduled the tour in June. The purpose of the tour is to enable the budget makers to see at first hand what is needed in the way of new buildings and other capital facilities at the various institutionsand to give the institutional personnel an opportunty to talk with the budget folks.

The inspection tour usually takes about 16 to 18 working days, during which the budge-ters visit more than 30 hospitals, colleges, and other institutions in which the State has an aggregate investment of several hundred millions of dollars.

POTPOURRI Reports are that Kemp Doughton'; 76-yeir-old statesman and veteran legislator, who had a bout with a heart ailment recently, has licked the jinx and Is able to attend his desk at the Northwestern Bank office in Sparta practically full time. But he will not be back in the Legislature next year. . .

Max Watson, Forest City business- man, long time member of the Highway Commission and the C&D board, is allergic to the little single beds with which most hotel rooms are equipped, Mrs. Watson usually accompanies her husband on his official trips, and he always requests a room with two full-size beds. He can seldom get them. He made the usual reservation at the King Cotton in Greensboro for the recent C&D board meetingand got a room with two big beds. That was the one time in several years that Mrs. Watson could not come along. So Max slept on one bed one night, the other the next night. He wasnt about to waste such accommodations

Don Elias, Asheville newspapers and radio executive, and member of the State Banking Commission, is an inveterate foe of non-par banking. When the banking commission was informally discussing the trend toward consolidation and merger of banks the other day, he quipped that he saw one advantage in the program. Absorption of smaller banks by big members of the Federal Reserve System means "a lot of little communities will have the benefit of par clearance banking for the first time, he said. Then when the discussion got around to regulation of small loan companies, he equipped ths^t since you recognize the need for changing the banking laws in this respect, 1 hope you wl recognize the need for amending the nonpar statutes., ...

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eiit picture. Fiction, and predictions that can be affec^ ed by a host ot imponderables, are no grounds for despair.

The main problem, as we see it, in nuclear war, is human survival during the earlier phases. After that, natural ingenuity and planned measures that take into consideration the many possible contingencies would take over.

We are reminded of a Russian civil defense poster, reproduced in a national news magazine.. The caption was We WILL Survive.

There simpiy cannot be any future for a. multitude of American citizens under the conditions of nuclear war unless a greater degree of shelter-construc-tion is undertaken . . . not by the government, but by individual families. Its a matter of insurance.

Families of modest means often pay several hundreds of dollars a year in various forms of insurance against any number of varied misfortunes; yet, few undertake a very simple and practical form of insurance that might mean surviving an eventuality that is constantly on our horizon. The threat is something we must live with for a long time to come.

In contrast to American indifference to shelters, the Associated Press report today notes that in some European countries shelters are required by law in all private dwellings. We could hardly do that here; but it does serve to illustrate their importance in the eyes of governments abroad.

K shelter in itself isnt enough; but it does represent the first basic step a private individual can make as a matter of insurance.

If mankind simply threw up its hands in despair, and did nothing each time a potential catastrophe shaped up, the world would long ago have been ruled by ants.

Some Students Keep Up An Old Tradition

History is full of instances wherein college and .university students changed its course, for better or worse, with introduction of new ideas or insisting on retention of old ideas.

In many instances students earned for themselves labels of radical and revolutionary.

Ancient universities were hotbeds of idealists and innovaters in social and political life. Their tradition has frequently come from academic halls.

Events of recent weeks demonstrates that old tradition is still very much with us despite outbreaks of panty-ralding, fads in dress and hair styles, or slang.

Item: It was student demonstrators w'ho tipped the scales against Syngman Rhees political power in South Korea;

Item: A mob of leftist Japanese students demonstrated against the new security treaty with the U. S.;

Item: Sitdown protests in the South were initiated by Negro college students.

We may not agree with all the aspirations involved, but we can agree there are still some students in the world today whose attention is geared to another level than goldfish-swallowing, crowding into a telephone booth, or the next football game.

Fluctuations In

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Study Your Government

COPYRIGHT, 1960, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC.

Former Pressident Herbert Hoover receives a large mail from all sort* of pe<H)le some of them very young ladies and gentlemen in the fifth and sixth

grades. They want him to tell them many things. One of them asked him: Why is the study of Government Important to all Americana?

Mr. Hoover spends his time these days writing books. He has

Other Editors Saying.. Highway 13 Designation

otDiess higures

By RALPH ROBEY

Everyone now knows that in March both employment and ployment were a disappoint-unemployment. In both cat^or-les the movement was contrary to normal seasonal behavior. Employment went down and it should have gone up; 'unemployment went up and it should have gone down.

The actual figures were: employment 64,257,000, a decrease of 253,000; unemployment 4,206,000, an increase of 275,000.

The seasonal correction which has been developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which coUets and publishes all the data on labor, is as good as can be devised. The current corrections are as followsthe size of the figure indicating whether the total should increase or decrease from the preceding month, and by what per cent:

Employment Unemployment

Jan.

96.9

114.2

97.0

116.3

Mar.

97.7

111.1

Apr.

98.6

103.1

May

110.1

99 4

June

101.8

113.2

July

102.4

105.0

Aug.

102.3

91.2

Sept.

101.2

83 9

Oct.

101.8

78 8

Nov.

100.5

90.0

Dec.

99.4

93.5

This variation of employment, it will be noted, is not great. The low month is January and the high month is July. In contrast there is a wide variation in the number of unemployed. The low month is October and from this It builds to the years high the following February; then comes a decline through May; then, as a result of pensons get

ting out of school and looking for work, there is a sharp jump in June. The variation from the low to the high is almost seven times as great for unemployment as it is for emplo3Tnent.

All kinds of things cause these fluctuations, but weather is the most important, and that is officially blamed for the March showing. March, according to the United States Weather Bureau, was the coldest on record from the plains states eastward.

The details of the figures support this thesis. Farm employment, which normally increases substantially in March, declined this year. Construction jobs declined by 120,000 although they usually increase 80,000. Workers in trade activities declined rather than increased.

Some 2.000,000 full time workers were forced on to part time shifts, and over 800,000 did not get to their jobs at all during the week that the unemployment survey was made.

. Two basic conclusions may be drawn. First, the counter-seasonal behavior of both employment and unemployment does not mean that we have started another recession. It means nothing in terms of the business outlook.

Secondly, the next report, that for April, should show a sizable increase in employment, and an equally large decline in unemployment. Whether the changes will be large enough to off-set the seasonal factor for both months is an open question. It should be at least this large, granting the economic trend is still upon the upgrade; and there is no evidence to justify even questioning that the recovery Is continuing.

(Goldsboro News-Argns)

The battle for U.S. highway 13 has just begun. Right now everything is quiet on the surface between the opposing cities, but deep down there is much activitiy, much lining up of support.

Get the picture. U S. highway extends from New Jersey by Norfolk, Windsor, Greenville and into Goldsboro. Its original destination was Florida. It was pictured as a short alternate to present major North-South routes.

More than two years ago southern terminus of the route carnet o Goldsboro.

Mount Olive. CJlinton, Faison, Lumberton and points between were leaders in organizing to extend 13 by their towns on into South Carolina. When a million dollar bridge over the Cape Fear Tar Heel was completed this was seen as smashing a major bottleneck in extending the route via Lumberton. Other bridges have been improved.

Lumberton, Clinton and Mount Olive pointed out that this roxxUt would divide the entirely too heavy north - south traffic along U.S. 301 and would open up for the first time a section of North Carolina off the tourists beaten path. They argued that the states growing tourist industry would be benefitted.

Counts made in Goldsboro the past season showed more and more tourists who started their trip in New England or New York and Jersey were coming south on 13.

Fayetteville Takes New Tack

Fayetteville, feeling itself outvoted, took a different direction. Quietly and without benefit of publicity, Fayetteville hired a highway expert. He studied the traffic count, looked at the records on where traffic, business and tourist, was originating and going, and came tip with an al

ternate proposal,

What the public needs, said this study is a mainline route to Atlanta and New Orleans.

Highway 13, continued Fayetteville, should become from' Goldsboro south a through route to Atlanta and on to New Orleans. They argued the improved highway communication between fast growing Atlanta and Norfolk, with New Or-leans as a southern terminus, was a- natural.

The Fayetteville expert, we understand, has made this pitch far and wide in counties and cities which would be affected. Some reports are that major backing for the new way to New Orleans has been pledged.

Other Side Walts Lumberton was pictured as marking time, but quite definitely certain that logic and need are on her side. What we need is this good alternate route to Florida via Tar Heel and Clinton to Florida, said a spokesman for the Lumberton Chamber of Commerce.

This group, however, takes the position that the present campaign to elect a governor most assuredly will bring a reorganization in the State Highway Commission. ,

There is not much point in making plans and presenting the issue so definitely until we know what the reorganization will bring about. 'They want to know with whom to confer about continuing 13 from Goldsboro before they expend their strength.

It is natural to assume that both sides will find opportunity of presenting their views to the candidates for governor with hopes of gaining support from some of them.

Final decision on which route the highway will follow wouth from Goldsboro is not entirely a state matter. The U.S. Bureau of Roads specifies minimum re-

always been devoted to scholarship, he and the late Mrs. Hoover. early in their marriage, translating the first book on mining by Agricola from the Latin into English. Now ha writes mostly history^

Equally significant are the numerous tetters he writes. This one Is to a very young lady in reply to her question: You ask? Why Is the study of Government important to all Americans?*

There are dozens of reasons.

I give you to start with:

1. When you begin to earn a living the Government will . take about 30 per cent of your working hours by way of taxes. You might find it iwofltabte to know what the Government does with your money.

, 2. The Government, beginning at your first grade and continuing to the university, provides for your education. It might be win-tb knowing something about it.

3, The Government provides you protection from harm, support in case of unemployment, care in case of illness and a pension in old age. It is well to know about these matters.

H you do not do so, your life may be solely washing dishes or sewing on buttons at the minimum wage permitted by law. This minimum wage does not include an automobile.

"And in the land in which you have the great fortune to live there have been great men and great women who have glv-en great sacrifice, great courage and great heroism to create y<Mir government. It might be good to know about these men and women.

It is very difficult to teach a child what money is and how very important it can be if it is properly use.

One of the greatest values that money can buy is time time to think, time to get an (Continued on page five)

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quirements for a federally numbered highway and has a system for deciding on routes, extensions of variations. The group will have great influence in the ultimate decision as to whether 13 shall go on to Atlanta and New Orleans, via Fayetteville, or whether it will go to Florida via Lumberton as originadly planned.

i rungs Arent

So Bad

By ROGER BAB80N BAB80N PARK M.ass., ~ I

am a statistician, luH a p<^ tici|m. Most statlsiticians promise the impartial truth; white most politicians appear to promise what will get them the most votes. As a result of the latter, the following facts are entirely forgotten. People allow themselves to get scared and vote foolish sums of money, thinking that they will thereby have security, freedom from accident, and raiplojrment.

NOTE THESE FIGURES Although the daily newspapers feature crime, yet only one In 10,000,000 will tomorrow suffer or witness any crime. When a man Is killed by lightning it b reported all over the country, yet only one man out of every 5,000,-

000 will be killed by lightning In the next very bad storm. Business failures are increasing; but they are decreasing on a percentage basis. The stock market has to go down before It can turn up. If trees grew any higher they would blow down. Everything which happens is for the best.

During the past ten year* the population of the UJ5. has Increased 18 per cent; the gross national product has increased almost 70 per cent; consumer income, even after taxes, has Increased 60 per cent No figures on crime, accidents, or juveoUe delinqueiK^y can equal these increases.

COST OF LIVING DOWNWARD The politicians and labor leaders present figures to show that the cost of living is constantly going up. This is because new products, greater conveniences, and other items have been added to the list which makes up the index. If it covered just the things

1 had when I was a boy la Gloucester and my father was a well-to-do merchant the U. S. cost of living index would be only one hall the figure now published.

Pnwn every point of view I am optimist. Even the accidents and deaths by automobiles are much less than those from the horse and buggy", when figured on a mile basis. The cost of light, heat, and power has continually decreased. Even food has dropped in prtee for the same menu which we had in my boylKXKl days and we were then as healthy and strong as are the young people today. We made our own candy, picked our own apples, and made our own cider; soft drinks were not thMi for sate,

UNEMPLOYMENT IS OPTIMISTIC

When unemploirment statstics Increase they are featived as dangerous and the stock market goes down I Yet the social workers tell fis that the chief cause of juvenile delinquency is the fact that mothers are engaged It industry and away from home all day. When I was a boy, no mothers worked in factories. We kids were trained to help about the house and to help take care of the large families which most of our mothers had. I grew up as a baby sitter, but never received or expected any pay therefor!

In those days the newspapers carried (mly news, with no entertainment features. We used to subscribe to the Youths Companion, or the St. Ntcholaa Magazine: while our mothers had fashion magazines and cut patterns from tissue paper for the clothes which they made. Now all these and many other features come freely from tha excellent newspapers- All that Otters is not gold, but much is gold that does not glitter.

WHAT EIGHTY YEARS HAVE TAUGHT ME Every Sunday I read a chapter from Bertha Condes A WAY TO PEACE, HEALTH AND POWER** (published by Score & Script, 76 CHiestnut St., Boston, for $3,000). At the end of tha book are several blank pages on which I write a line each month about something 1 had worried about that never happened. Then, when some new problem comes.

I read tho&e notes. 'Hiey are better than any tranquilizer pills!

The same optimism is* needed (Continued on page five)

?eeks Into Future Of Business

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS IT CAN BE DONE

One of the most striking stories that came out of the first n.eeting of the Security Council of the UN was the account of the casting of the fiist vote. The tinsmith who made the box left a note therein for the assembled diplomats to ponder. In the note he ventured to speak not only for himself but for silent millions who hope and pray for permanent peace. He left the first vote in the box, his vote for peace, and he invited world diplomats to join with him in making the vote unanimous.

One of todays most discon-Certing realities Is that with practically everyone wanting peace, humanity after each war has sunk back into further con

flict. Today, nlneXy-nine per cent ot all people in the world want peace. Even the diplomats who so often muff the ball want peace. But they have got so into the habit of playing the old game in the old way that scarcely has the order been given to cease firing before trouble starts all over again.

Certainly this matter of maintaining world peace must be more simple than we pretend to think ir is- May it not be that we lapse in these mistakes because we assume to be difficult a matter which In essence is simple? Everybody wants peace Peace means life and war means death. When it is as simple as that, how can wc permit ourselves to be plunged into recurrent conflict?

By ELMER ROESSNER

Here are more peeks into the btLsiness future, aided by analyses of developing trends and a peppering of advance information :

No credit - term strictures:

Congressional hearings have disclosed that many credit offerings of 6 per cent on deferred payments mean paying almost 12 per cent, with others in proportion. Nevertheless, it is improbable that Senator Paul Douglass bill for full disclosure o' rates will get very far. Many Congressmen and lobbyists are cheering It, but their voices are hollow because they have Interes in credit selling, even if the rates are higher than what buyers think.

(They may be right, A buyers failure to understand that 10 per cent Interests usuajly means an effective rate of 'to per cent is not the fault of Congress, but that of the public school system.f

Auto accessor; bocm. There will be an upsurge of sales of tire.<; and acces-sories this year First, it looks like the best touring year so far. Second, the compacts have few acce.ssories and t^uyers often have money

(or credit) left over to acquire more. Most tire companies say advance orders are Increasing. INSTANT SWEETS

Yam boom Government-developed instant sweet potatoes have stirred interest among growers, canners and dehydrat-ors. The instant variety can be made of misshapen and low grade potatoes with no loss of quality of the finished product. Since about 30 to 50 per cent of the crop is not satisfactory for sale fresh or canned, the in-stantizing process can overnight almost double the edible. Dehydrating plants will soon start going up In the sweet-tater belt in the South, and packaged instant products will be on the market late this year or early next.

New speakers: A ne- loudspeaker to be unveiled next week will have a revolutionary sound system, including a revolutionary speaker housing. Its so startling youre sure to' see it in newspicturea and on television.

Vacation b i: Higher W'ages and longer paid vacations may be a boom on top of boom certain in the vai'ation field this year. Run. do not walk, to the

nearest reservation office. Pren-tice-Hall estimates recreational spending will be 6 to 8 per cent over last year, topping $19 billion.

POSTAL RATES AND PAPER.

Bible paper boom. Demand Is increasing for Bible paper, an unusually thin, firm and nontransparent kind (often used in thin Bibles). Its costly, but many advertisers are figuring that the higher costs will save even more money under advancing postal rates.

Costlier canned tomatoes.

Prices on canned tomatoes will edge up further. Loss of early crops by freezing has shortened the total supply and demand stays firm.

Higher copper. Recent rises have not been the last; foreign demands have been increasing; Chilean production Is being diverted to old and noncompetitive customers abroad, shortening the export to United States.

Sweeter America .coming:. One of the strangest taxes in the U. S. has been the levy on cachous. the only one of which has been Sen-Sen. It is strange because it is a tax directed against a single manufacturer: it is strange because U is generally tnnBiAe.rad a

Prohibitionist tax. la that cachous mask Daddys breath when he has been imbiding in spirits. Congress seems ready to repeal the tax, which would bring Sen-Sen back to cigar and newsstand counters, whence it was driven by the tax.

OLD PROMOTERS INVENTIONS HELD NOT VERY IM-. PRE8SIVE

Im riding the wave of the future, the Old Promoter announced when he burst in for his weekly, uninvited visit.

I have Invented a silver mug for boy babies, he sai4.

Old stuff! we remarked.

Not mine! he retorted. Mine has a handle shaped like a pistol grip. That will make it a sure sale for every male baby in the nation.

We raised our cyebrowa.

And if that doesnt bring in a fortune, he said, I have another invention. Do you know those devices that will ahut your television or radio set off from a distance? I have one that will shut your neighbors set off!

No good," said we, grouch-ily, unless It will also shut all euf neighbors wite,**