THE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Tusdy JuTi# 7, l.>60

Tuesday, June 7, 1960

Speaking Of Spies-

A Potential Loss Of Foreign Sales

For the past several years three major problems as th needs of purchasers change, but the quality of have faced the tobacco industry as it evaluated its leaf now being grown in the flue-cured areas now position with other tobacco-producing countries jn the much more in keeping with what foreign and domestic

customers demand than was the case several years ago.

The problem of spiraling prices was dealt with

domestic and world markets.

rrnn-tiars ^ thrce-yeat period. As a result,

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American growers:

2. The continuing'upward price trend of American tobacco because of factors in the formula used to establish support prices for the crop in this country;

3. The production of sufficient quality of Ameri-

American tobacco is expected to be in a much more advantageous position in the world market in the years immediately ahead than it has been in past years. The most important problem now ahead for the

can tobacco to meet increasing demands from both ^j^gi-jcan tobacco industry appears to be bringing the foreign and domestic purchasers for the kind of tobac- supply of leaf in line with the increasing de-

co they want. mands from purchasers at home and abroad.

Considerable progress has been made toward ^ly- estimates now available from those

ing the first two of these three problems, ^rtain f^jjiiliar with the position of the tobacco industry

varieties of tobacco which did not measure up to P^r- country and abroad, qualities of American flue-

chasers requirements for quality were put on a dis- tobacco will be insufficient to meet the demands

count basis so far as price supports were concerned, both foreign and domestic customers in 1961 unless and this move virtually eliminated them trom produc- jg increased. If the supply of leaf available

tion. Growers, with the desire to produce the Kind of demand, it is probable th^^domestic

tobacco the purchasers want, have made genuine pro- purchase what they need to fill their re

gress toward producing the quality^ tobacco being de-' quirements while foreign customers will have to look

manded. . a ^ ^ elsewhere to get the quantity of tobacco they need.

This problem will continue to exist to some degree gggyj situation would mean a further loss of foreign

markets for American flue-cured tobacco.

Grim Reaper's

Heavy Harves

By LYNN NISBET SCYTHEThe Old Man with the scythe does not work consistently. But he does not permit being ignored. At the meeting of the North Carolina Press Association at Morehead - Bilt-more Hotel, Morehead City, last July an unusual kind of announcement was made.

Miss Beatrice Cobb in her 40th year as secretary-treasurer of the newspaper association tated that for one of the few times in her experience no memorial service would be held, because no member of ttie North Carolina Press Association had died during the preceding 12 months.

A few weeks later Miss Cobb wrote 30' on her last piece of copy for the Morganton New-Herald. Not long after her death came news that Mrs. Rena B.

V Lassiter of the Smithfield Her-

* aid also had closed her typewriter and account books for the last time. Besides managing the growth of small newspapers Into influential community building journals with busing acumen, B^ss Bea and Miss Rena both wrote delightful personal columns for their papers.

t Within a short time after the State press meeting Leslie Thompason, editor - publisher of the Whiteville News-Reporter and former NCPA president, put his last paper to bed. So did Bill Arp Lowrance of the Mecklenburg Times and several

* other weekly newspapers.

* So recenUy that the hurt is still acute, Ben Atkins, editor of the Gastonia Gazette; Cecil Prince, associate editor of the Charlotte News, and Worth Bacon, executive editor of the Winston - Salem papers, had

. their careers ended by the Old Man with the scythe, and in each instance without much warning.

Last week Ben Dixon MacNeil, not a member of the press as-, sociation but for half a century

* Identified With newspapers, went to sleep in his chair on Hat-

I I teras Islandand did not wake

up. ,

INDISCRIMINATE - Miss

Bea, Miss Rena. Ben Dixon and Bill Arp had crossed the three score years and ten mark. Atkins and Prince were In that undefined area between

. youth and middle age, delight-

* fully youthful in approach to * many issues, perceptivel ma-' ture in others. Thompson and

Bacon came between, long ears of fruitful public service

# behind and reasonable expecta-

tion of many more ahead.

There a as no memorial service at the 1959 N.C. Press As-, sociation. The roll call will be ' unusually long at the 1960i meeting at Grove Park Inn next month. It will not be just a list of names, because the names represent outstanding service to North Carolina. Oldtlmers canncK recall another year in

* which the harvest garnered by the Scythe so greatly depleted

. the reservoir of strength in the

newspaper field.

CHURTH-STATE A friend sends a bulletin from one of the largest Methodist churches in Washington for a recent Sunday. The mast head had been moved down to near the bottom of. the front page in order to make room for a box setting forth reasons why a Roman Catholic should not be elected President of the United States.

News stories about the Southern Baptist Convention ot Miami gave a lot of space to discussions and actions there on the same subject. A number of North Carolina preachers, several in Paleigh, have devoted sermon time to this topic.

The burden of all these actions. sermons and writings is that the Church and the State should be kept entirely separate, and that because the Roman Catholic Church historically has sought to dominate and control civil government as well as ecclesiastic and religious activity, the election of a member of that church as President would be detrimental to the separation idea.

QUESTION That inescapably raises the question of whether in their zeal to prevent Catholic dominance of government. these churchmen may be seeking the same exclusive dominance for non-Catholic denominations.

That calls to mind a story told by Sen. Frank Carlson of Kansas, who made the keynote address at the North Carolina State Republican convention in 1956. The senator said he had never heard another prayer that pleased him as much as the one offered by a young minister who gave the invocation at his first political rally as a candidate for the Kansas Legislature in 1928. The young preacher asked, among other things, that Almighty God would give to the people of that county the- courage and the wisdom to forget all personal feelings, all partisan prejudice, and give full support to good government by voting the straight Republican ticket.

According to the World Almanac three Presidents were not members of any church Jefferson. Lincoln and Hayes. Garfield was a member of the Disciples of Christ; Coolidge was a Congregationalist; Hoover a Quaker. Harding and Truman were Baptists, Van Buren and Theodore Roosevelt were affiUated with the Reformed Dutch. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard FUlmore and William Howard Taft were Unitarians. Polk, Johnson. Grant and McKinley were Methodists. Jackson. Buchanan, Cleveland. Benjamin Harrison. Wilson and Eisenhower were Presbyterians. Washington. Madison, Monroe. William Henry Harrison, Tyler. Taylor. Pierce. Arthur and Franklin Roosevelt were Episcopalians.

Within the next few months, serious consideration must be given by members of the tobacco industry from the grower to the manufacturer, to increasing the acreage allotments for 1961.

Through a cooperative effort, all segments of the industry succeeded in persuading government officials ' to bring about the price freeze whiph removed the threat of American tobacco pricing itself out of the world market.

A similar cooperative effort, it seems to us, is necessary for the industry to undertake to see that supplies of tobacco in the next few year.s are sufficient to meet demands. It is a problem which must be revolved before the 1961 acreage allotments are estab- p PATPTPJA MOORE lished. Otherwise the tobacco industry faces a po-tential loss of foreign sales which always have been an important factor in the industrys welfare.

Chinas

.arger Role

Citizenry

Attitudes

Should Air Ou Budgets

A Story-'Mostly True

One of our sources of ideas, entitled Tales from the Attic ^ because some people believe and hope thats where they will stay) has revealed the foUow-

For the remainder of this month and probably ^

longer, local governing boards throughout Pitt County ^ ^

will be wrestling with budget problems for the fiscal a lovely black cocker span-

year which begins July 1. iel named Bonnie,

The county government and probably each of the The man and his wife are

municipal governments in the county will have more they

requests from their various departments and agencies going to attend a social

than financial resources will permit them to fulfill. The function, and had taken Bonnie

problem will become one of how to meet the most im- S'*U.e'''

portant needs m the most adequate way possible witn adequate but not too much

the revenues that will be available during the coming ventilation. By the time they

reached the front door, Bonnie

It is a time in which individual citizens as well

as members of the governing boards should give_at- Stef'nd uJerS?

ready to enter with them.

The man took the dog again to the car and locked Iwr in. with windows up and the door* securely fastened. He and his wife entered the door and proceeded to the dance floor.

It was not long before Bonnie joined the happy crowd and became the center attraction as she wound in and out of legs, over and under feet, scampering about. She was really Queen of the Ball that night.

Several nights later, as the man was being questioned about the incident by other club members and officials, he firmly denied that he owned any black cocker spaniel or any other dog. for that matter. Now, that sounded strange to everyone who knew Bonnie.

turning Bonnie loose, however It was managed, was a prank.)

Life at the college: Monday was registratiOQ day for summer students, and the cars lined up for miles. There were that many students (over 1,000) who clustered in Wright Auditorium to sign up for classes, including the student who appeared in sloppy bermudas and a t-shirt.

He waited about an hour and a half.

tendon to the needs of the local government. The ^ locked it with her

elected officials whose responsibility it is to adopt the whining in it and returned to

budgets and levy the taxes necessary to provide for the expenditures should know how the citizens feel

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My WIFE has a black cocker spaniel called Bonnie, but I have no dog, he finally conceded. (Later it was revealed that

Then, having made little progress, the student left the scene and reappeared a short time later in a neat suit, tie and white shirt. The importantly dressed student walked up the steps, through all the others who quickly made way for the well dressed man and registered immediately.

about Tne government s iiscai policies, me uiuivmuai O

citizen should not hesitate to let his wishes regarding ( jthPr iLClltOrS oQVinCT . . . -^-1 policies be known to the governing officials.

In a large measure, the budgets adopted by local

In a large measure, the budgets adopted by locai Trii - A

governments throughout the county in the next few /\QiQl JjlQQiriQ /xyU.iIl weeks will determine whether adequate services are provided the citizens of the county during the coming year, whether sound fiscal policies will be followed and whether reasonable progress will be made.

They are matters in which the citizenry should aii^'^of desiringa nd seeking a take an active interest in the interest of their individ- third try at the presidency. He is

Somebody called the office the other day when the power had been off for about 15 minutes. It was a cloudy day, so it was a bit dark.

(Henderson Dispatch)

Adlai Stevenson, twice-defeated Democratic candidate for president, has all the appear-

ual communities and the county as a whole.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP)For 30 years the opening of a new decade has been like opening a can of devils. Each time American history was affected in a major way.

In 1930 the great Depression, started by the market collapse late in 1929, got under way.

In 1940 the Germans, keeping the world guessing at the crushing of Polland in the fall of 1939, began World War II for real. In 1950 the Korean war began. In 1960 the summit conference collapsed. American Soviet relations teached their lowest point in years, the presidents of South Korea and Turkey were forced out, the world was uneasy, and changes seemed in the air.

The depression pushed the United States into isolation. It became so preoccupied with its own problems that it turned inward to solve them.

The result was a social revolution called the New Deal.

In 1940when the Nazis turned on Prance, the Low Countries and Britainthis country began to arm, move out of Isolation, take sides, and realize this is a small, interdependent world.

This country finally got into the war, abandoned its isolation as a peace time policy afterwards, joined the United Nations, and developed a permanent sense of international responsibility and leadership. . Came 1950 and the Krean War. By entering it, the United States demonstrated it was willing to act demonstrated it was willing to act to prove its international role.

Because it was the prime example of communisms deter-mmation to push where it could unless stopped, that war welded the Western allies together for mutual dcien.se in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, All the alliances which followed .'.prang from that realization. All the alliances which followed sprang from tl)at realization, No one i.s brash enough to daim he has the answer to what changes the events of I960 will

bring about.

But each of. the big events at the beginning of each decawie since 1930 has had an effect on American politics.

Just a few weeks ago the summit collapse and the Eisenhower administrations fumbling and lying about the U2 spy plane seemed certain to be a dominant Issue in this years presidential campaign.

Then Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev began his boorish personal attacks on President Eisenhower. Most Democrats and Republicans c 1 o s e d ranks against Khrushchev and rallied behind the President.

Attacking the President, it seems, is a right which Americans reserve for themselvs. They want foreigners to keep out.

Opinions Brief

seizing upon such importunities as are open to him to elaborate his own views on both domestic and foreign policies of the United States.

Free, open and frequent discussion of the nations problems is proper, for the people at large are all too ignoraht of needs both at home and abroad. Nor are they going out of their way to inform themselves as they should. After all. it is their future that is at stake as well as that of the politicians. If every one were familiar with these great issues, it is just possible that there might be a more sober approach, with the chance of more satisfactory action.

Stevensons address before the Chicago convention of the Te;^tile Workers Unipn of America was an lpparent effort to woo support from the ranks of labor, although the TWUA leadership already has given its endorsement to Senator Kennedy.

Actually there was nothing in the speech that was startlingly new. A stronger alliance with the Western Powers, in Armaments and on a political and economic basis, has been a policy of the United States for years. He wants a unified jJlan of the Allied bloc to help the poorer countries. But four billion dollars already being spent annually is not chicken feed, and it is highly

doubtful that the American people would consent to heavier taxation to provide more than that. Actually many think the outlay is already much higher than justified.

General and complete disarmament for everybody was advocated. Well, every one is in favor of that except the Communists, and neither Stevenson nor any other individual as President could whip the Reds into line without surrendering to their plan. If the world has not by now learned that freedom works in the United States, pray whot more convincing evidence to that effect could there be?

Failure of the summit conference has been accepted everywhere, and it is recognized that the Stalinist faction in Moscow is reasserting Itself. Stevenson could not alter that, nor could any one else in this country.

On paper the address in Chicago offered practically nothing new, but it formed the basis for the two-time loser to Eisenhower to display his wares by sounding forth on a Uieme which on paper sounds good. The Democratic convention may turn to Stevenson for a third time in the event of a deadlock, but that does not alter the fact that he has that does not alter the fact that he has little to offer that is new. It docs appear to indicate that he ready, willing and anxious to be drafted. Or, perhaps the term draft is unnecessary. Adlai Adlai would come running on the drop of the hat, and maybe even at that again go down to defeat.

The linotype machines, all run by electricity, had stopped. The Associated Press wire machines had stopped, as had everything else. It had been a harrying morning and press time was approaching. With no mechanical activity, the paper was going to encounter slight difficulties in productionif the situation continued.

It was during the crisis that a man telephoned and asked: When can you have the paper stopped?

We were sore tempted to tell him it 'had already stopped.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT Copyright, IMO, IClag Feataret Syndicate. Inc*

Out of Red China comes a magazine. Evergreen, "A Magazine of Chinese Youth and Students. to tell the world of the wonders of Communist (Thina-It is an interesting publication which leaves Uttle to the im*L nation. On the subject of toe relations of Sovlew Russia and Red China. Hu Yao-pang, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth Leagt of ChlnaN wrote:

During toe past ten years all enemies who are hostile to our common cause have resorted to all possible means to ereato differences between our two pe<H)les. in a fantastic attempt to weaken and undermine our groat alliance. But aQ ttaelr efforte have come to naught. They wlD newr achieve toeir aims, because our aUiance and friendship la based on the principles o Marxism-Lenninism and toe great kloal of communism. This alllaz* tad friendship to everlasting and on-breakable and nobody aaa erar spUt It. ^

Evergreen to frankly prop-sgandlstic, aimed at the Asiatle and African nations whiek emplor English as a second iaagoaae.

It to clear that Red GSiiiia. seeks to establish Itself as toe leader of tot Aslatto and African nation*. Only stnce the Bandung Conference (UM) has any period is Chinese history been related to Africa *rbare to no record, anetent or modarn. when China concerned Itoelf with Africa or had any Interooursa with African nattons*

One of toe phrases empha*^ In all issues of "Evergreen is The Big Leap. This to the story of toe move to industrialize Communist China. In an article entitled China's Students Gather for a Triumphant Leap, appears this:

Chinese students are concerned not only with the destiny of toeir own nations; they always regard It as an important constant task to maintain the struggle against imperialism and colonialism and in defence of world peace, and also to strengthen their ties of friendship and cooperation with the studoits of other countries. We firmly support the Asian, African and Latin American peoples in their just struggle against imperialiam and colonlaliam and for toe achievement and defence of national independence. We spare no efforts in building friendly relations and cooperation with the students of all lands. The world ^ situation today is excellent fori our struggles. The jtost wind has prevailed anil WU! rwutinue { to prevail over the West wind..

In the April issue to an article entitled, We Firmly Support the Struggle of Latin American Youth Against JS. Imperialism, by Chien Ll-jen, (touncil Member of China-^Latin America Friendship Association and Secretary General of All-China Youth Federation. A cartoon shows an enormous fist with the slogan, Yankee Go Horae! A smaller fist bears the slogan: Ike Go Home! The article says:

The victory of the Cuban peoples revolution was a most inspiring historical event in the national and democratic movement of Latin America. During the past year and more, the heroic Cuban youth alongside their people have time apd again smashed the U.S. ImperiaUsts* provocations and aggressive schemes. In face of the frenzied threats and barbarous outrages (Continued on page 5)

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WE ARE TO REMEMBER

How sliould we keep toe Sabbath today?

Our Lord fulfilled this commandment as he fulfilled all other commandments. He acknowledged the provision for a weekly period of rest and worship, one of Gods great gifts, and he used it as such. To him it was not a dull and melancholy season wherein men were required to put aside the interesting activities of everyday life and return a slavijto obedience to God. He regarded the Sabbath as a day of privilege. It was to be a season of joy in which men left the common round of life and gave their full and undivided attention to cultivating spiritual graces. It was a day of uninterrupted fellowship with God. It

was a holiday indeed because 11 was a boly day:

God intends that we should enjoy the- Sabbath, and enjoyt w shall indeed if we use it aright. He intends it to 'be a day of physical and mental relaxation which will make possible better achievement on tog dys which | follow. It should be a ume when^ we set aside a certain extra period for Bible reading, meditation, and prayer. The day* should not pass without our seeking an opportunity to bring help and good cheer to someone who is in need. It goes without saying that it is a day when men should take every opportunity o^ fered for public worship.

God has given man no more precious gift than the Sabbath, and that generation is w^ise indeed which remembers the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

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*If farm products, metals, etc., are stockpiled to keep their producers in business in case the excess output is ever needed, literature deserves the same break. Its not likely, but people might someday decide to take up reading again.The Montgomery Advertiser.

Recordinas Better, But--

Tt does seem ridiculous for North Carolina Taxpayers to bear the expense of training teachers then lose them because of a penurious pay scale. Whiteville News Reporter

"What any country in this modern world doesnt need at the head of government is the type of man who wants to set the vorld afirehe might do it.Memphis Pres Scimitar.

"Keep your eye on the ball, your shoulder to the wheel and your ear to the ground Okay? Now try to work in that po.si-tion"Swainsboro (Ga.t ior-esL-Blade

By ELMER ROESSNER

Whoever you are. wherever you are. you are paying more taxes because the clubhouse politicians have more power than the great corporations you have been reading about all your lives.

In this year of Our Lord, it is vastly more accurate and scfnew'hat less expensive to record the human voice on elw-tronic tape thafl it is to record words by stenography

Furthermore, It is possible to record the voice AND the image of a witness with electronic tape, something far beyond the facilities and equipment of the court reporter.

But even if only the voice is recorded, there are several distinct advantages:

1. There can be no question of whether a stenographer read his pothook correctly; the voice is there for all to hear.

2 The iiiilection becomes

part of the record, which is almost imposible with pencil-and - paper stenography. (Almost, because sometimes an opposing attorney can get into the record his statement that a witness smirked, frowned, etc., while testifying.)

DISTURBING CHESSMANS ASHES

One of the principal reasons the Chessman case became famous is that the stenographer died before he could be cross-examined on the accuracy of his notes. If the stenographer had livedor If the trial testimony had been recorded on tape!There would not have been so many appeals: there might not have been a Chessman affair.

In some courts, tape recordings are now being used. There can be no question about what anybody aid, or how she or he said it. when the recording to played back

True, crafty experts can eliminate words or segments on recorded testimony: they can

change the volume so that a tiny no becomes a big NO. But other experts can spot these changes. And in the end, a recorded tape can be much more aqurate, even when tampered with, than a stenographic report subject to similar tampering.

THE POWERS THAT BE

But toe fact is that court stenographers are part -of the political apparatus in most places (though not in your town, bud!).

In many jurisdictions, court reporter, council stenographers and recorders for other bodies are civil service employees. In other jurisdictions, they are frankly political pigs, sucking at the pubUc teats.

But in either case, they have votes: their fsanlies and

friends have votes, politi

cal power* will oust (ke* i

jobs for non-voting recorders.

Some day, the United States Supreme Court will review lower court cases by having the entire court actiwi played before them on closed - circuit television. They will be able to determine not only what the trial Judge said but how he said it. C*r, at least, they will be able to hear what was said by means of a sound tape and earphones. But this wont happen until we throw the rascals out.

EVIDENCE THAT INFLATION IS STILL GOING ON

Half the industrial companies surveyed by Mill & Factory magazine have Increased employees w'ages this ear, with most intjrcases being between 4 and 4.5 per cent.

FTinge benefits have been increased In 42 per cent of the companies. And where wages h.T.e been increased, 29 per cent of firms increased pnces.