FACE rOUKTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

rhurtday, July t4, 1960

Thursday^ July 14, 1960

That Buttons It Up

Better Communities Grow Bigger

As Nofth CaroIina\s communities have whetted their appetite for economic advancement and have set about to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, the phrase bigger and better community, town, city has become common in conversation.

No one ever speaks of building a better and bigger community, and seldom docs one speak of building a better community without dispelling any doubt that by it he means a bigger community.

Always the bigger comes first, indicative perhaps of tbe way of thinking that has captivated us in the fast-moving mid-century way of life. We have been told to think big until that is paramount in our thinking. We think in terms of more population, more facilities, more payrolls, more square miles within our corporate limits.

Certainly these are included in the goals of most progressive communities, but they are not the only factors most communities seek as they strive for improvement. The sought-for improvements include schools, churches, adequate residential areas in the place of slums, good playgrounds instead of weed-grown lots for the kids to play on. These are all part of the goal most progressive communities seek; but most have the idea that these will come after the bigger community is a reality.

The average person considering changing his place of residence from one conimunity to another usually considers the factors \vhich make the prospective new home-to\vn better rather than bigger. If it is just bigger and not better, it holds little attraction for the prosfective resident.

Much the same attitude is being displayed by businesses and particularly industries considering possible locations for new plants. They are interested more in how good the community is than in how

'i^an Into Basic

!i^olicy Issues

By LYNN NISBET

POLICY The Advisory Budget Commi&Bion ran head on into basic policy issues on the first day of its current tour of State Institutions. The nearly $16 million requested for capital improvements did not bother as much as the policy matters. Some of the expenditures will not be required for the purposes stated in event decision is for one course of action.

The big issue in principle, although it -involves only |70.0(X). is whether State College should be required to pay the City of Raleigh an assessment of $300 per acre on areas presently undeveloped but slated for building sites, for the privilege of tapping City and water and sewer lines

That chai-ge is made by the city against all vacant lands where development is contemplated. Several municipalities have adopted the plan as one means of bolstering the desperate plight of their water and aewer department finances. Prank Turner, chief of the property control division in the Department of Administration, said the State is affected only at Raleigh and Rocky Mount. The State has large real estate holdings in Durham and Greensboro and several other cities, but owns BO undeveloped acreage in those places.

In the Raleigh case. State College offlcUis say the deal will imi*ove their water supply and in tl long run save money. The Department of Administration approved the request, so far as the money is concerned. The budget commission was disposed to go along on those points. But the keen-minded hard-boiled law-yer-businessmen who make up the commission raised other questions.

BIG QUESTION This 1300 per acre permit assessment is in fact a franchise tax, not a service charge or purchase like the payment for water used.

That poses the basic, maybe constitutional question of whether any local government unit can levy any kind of tax against the State of North Carolina. The budget commission deferred further consideration until an opinion has been obtained from the Attorney General,

This !s just one and relatively new phase of the overall problem of municipal-state relations. It is more apute at Raleigh than anywhere else. Because of tbe cmcentration. of State-owned property in Raleighthe capitol

and other office buildings, Dorothea Dix hospital, State College, the school for blind and deaf and other holdings the City of Raleigh has to provide fire and police protection, garbage collection and other services for multi-million dollars worth of property from which the city can derive no tax revenue.

State budgeting officers appreciate this fact. They also recognize the danger of setting precedent, that might be pleaded later, in taking hasty action on the water permit situation.

RESEARCH - Other policy matters, involving less fundamental principle but many more dollars, arose In discussions over requests for appropriations to expand research facilities. Proper division of activities between the University at Chapel Hill and State College at Raleigh in chemistry, mathematics and several fields of engineering, is a continuing problem. This is primarily an internal matter within the University family. The purpose is to avoid wasteful duplication of effort in achieving the same goal.

A different side of the picture was presented when it came to the joint administration of the 17 fai-ra research stations by. Central Experiment Station (an adjunct of State College) and the State Department of Agriculture.

Under a working agreement adopted more than 20 years ago. the Department of Agriculture is responsible for providing and maintaining physical equipment. Central Experiment Station is responsible for the technical programs at all these stations. Information given the budget group indicates that while title to all property, realty and equipment, vests in the State of North Carolina, eight of the research station farms are owned by the Department of Agriculture. nine by Central Experiment Station.

The budget folks are not presently concerned with the working agreement as to operation of these research stations. They did raise question as to why they had to listen now to requests for nearly two million dollars for capital improvements at nine places, and later on-listen to similar presentations for the other eight. Why not vest title to all lands and equipment in one agency, all technologic control in the other, for all 17 stations or else put both phases of control in one agency?_

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By JAMES MARLOW

LOS ANGELES (APi The 1560 Democratic convention is something less than emotional because more than just enthusiasm for an individual is involved.

The delegates problem is a mixture of issues and individuals, since none of the would-be Democratic presidential candidates is an overwhelming personality.

And when the campaign beginswith Vice President Richard M. Nixon almost certain to be the Republican candidate the voters will have to wrestle with the same twin problem of issues and personality.

This was not the case, for instance, in 1956 when Adlai E. Stevenson went into far more details on Issues and where he stood than President Elsenhower, only to see the immensely popular Elsenhower swamp him.

The hopeful senators from whom the Democratic convention had to chooseSens. John P. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Stuart Symington of Missourihave had fairly liberal voting records.

The distinction between them on the issues has been, in a broad sense, a distinction on fine points. ,To put it another way, on the issues the convention had little to choose, although Northern voting Negroes and organized labor made the fine distinctions and chose Kennedy over Johnson.

Symington has had an extremely liberal voting record, yet he was seen as a poor third. Therefore, something more than just Issues alone have to be factors in whatever the convention does.

Its at this point the personality problem enters, plus some other factors.

Kennedy spent far more time in 1960 trying to line up delegates for todayby visiting their slates, seeking them out, running in their primaries than did Johmon or Symington. They ran in no primaries.

Symington handicapped himself in other ways. He didn't say he was a candidate until late, didnt get around enough, and concentrated so much on national defense that he sacrificed appeal to various other group In-

big it is in terms of area of population.

Most communities which have setc about to .make themselves better find that during the period in which they are becoming a better community they have likewise become bigger. Their efforts to improve the community attracts the attention of othersindividuals as well as industrieswho are looking for better communities in which to make new homes.

Other communities which have sought to become bigger without becoming better communities first have achieved neither.

Those who would like to see their home community grow bigger over the years may best achieve their goal by constant efforts to make it a better community in the broadest sense of the term.

The tried and proven success formula doesn't say build a bigger mouse trap. It says build a better one.

Cause To Reflect On Their Own Readiness

The collapse of governmental control, the collapse of a thin veneer of civilization . . . law and order . . . self-control . . . call it what you will, is an example of what can happen when a people grasp for the elusive dream of liberty and are unprepared.

Disasterous happenings in the newborn Congo Republic can now, in retrospect, be attributed to failure of the Congolese to be ready for the self-rule they wanted.

It would be naive in the e.xtreme to assume Belgian officials did not foresee the outcome.

Observers warned, months ago, that such an uneducated and untrained people could not possibly maintain the functions of government.

The impatient mobs screaming for Freedom might better have demanded schools and practical training for independence at a later date.

There are yet a number of territories and colo-iiie.s in Africa, whose nationalism has been riding the popular tide, and who have been assured of mdepen-dcnce at an early date.

The chaos in the Congo should give them cau.se to reflect on their own re.-to assume the role to which they aspire.

Samethina Less

By DON SCHLIENZ

Newspapers From Japan

terests, even though his interests are far wider than just defense.

Johnson probably outsmarted himselfalthough extraordinarily careful about detailsIn relying on supporters than Kennedy did In rounding up delegates In the months preceding the convention. Kennedy did a lot of it first hand.

Johnson may have felt his vpork as majority leader in the Senate would make up for this pau'ticularly as the Sengte rolled up 'a legislative record. And the Senate record has been very meager.

In addition to any leg work they did in rounding up delegates, the three men had to concern themselves with the problem of ' their personality.

Each had the task of trying to make himself appear the one best fitted to cope with the tense and unpredictable issues facing the country in the next four years.

This explains why Johnson, eight years older than Kennedy, tried to get across the idea an older man is needed and why former President Harry S. Truman, backed Symington who is older than either Kennedy or Johnson,

The one chosen at this convention will have that same compete nt-personality problem to put across to te voters when the campaign begins and he run* against Nixon.

But Nixon will have exactly the same problem, beside dealing with the Lssues, since he cannot hope to sail in on personality. And for this reason: He simply lacks the popularity and war-hero stature that Eisenhower had when he won In 1952 and 1956.

The voter will have to decide which man's idea*meaning his stand on the issuesappeal* to him and which seems the m'^re likely to be able to handle what lies ahead.

Quote..

"The treasury reports that tax receipts are running below what it expected. Either bu.sine.ss Is getting worse or the income tax experts are getting better. ^ Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Prcs.

X suppose its the same story in any field of endeavor: Educators in one locale are interested in another areas system; mechanics, merchants, farmers, are all curious as to how other people In other place* perform their roles.

It js safe to assume that in my case newspapers from across the land, or foreign lands, excite my interest.

Two weeks ago three Japanese newspapers were put within my clutching grasp: and know what? I could read them.

All three papers looked as familiar in style and contents as those you might find in any of our fifty states.

The three were English language papers, printed in Tokyo, and known as The Japan Times, The Asahi Evening

News and The Mainichi Dally News.

They were published in late June,immediately after President Elsenhower cancelled his visit to Japan. Capt. Billy Moss (U.S.A.F.), now in Japan, sent the papers to Dave Whlchard to provide some Idea of the atmosphere over there regarding the cancellation.

Inasmuch as the papers were oriented to the West (thats pretty close to being a pun>, there was a preponderance of news from the U. S. in the field of international relations, sports and entertainment.

Comic strips were largely American (Beetle Bailey, Lll Abner, Pogo, Peanuts, etc.) and a number of American columnists were used.

News wire service* were the

familiar AP, UPI and Reuter*.

Pictures usually kept to one and two columns in width, though there were a few, very few, three-column photos.

They used, of course, a number of Japanese columnist* (weighty writers, those sons of Nippon), and a comparatively light quota of localized nonpolitical new*.

There was no society section.

They did have a rather remarkable load of Letters to the Editor; many of which came from Americans

All three papers permitted two to three small advertisement* on their front page*. OtherwUic. as I said before, their style was quite Western.

Other Editors Saying A Shocking Disclosure

(Washington Daily News)

When we hear a lot of talk about care of mentally ill people of North Carolina, we are inclined immediately to say, "Yes, lets go ahead and do something about it.

But when John W, Umstead of Chapel Hill, the man who has fought more battles for mentally ill people than any other man In North Carolina, says that today in our state we have only 10 beds available for psychotic children, then such information is shocking.

It is shocking because it tends to show that our state is not accepting its full responsibility in the care and treatment of mentally deficient children. It causes us to wonder just where these children are now, how much treatment, if any. they are now getting, and what the future holds for them.

Mr. Umstead has suggested that the state establish a 200-bed unit for the care of mentally ill children who are 12 years of age *r less. He would establish this unit at Camp Butner.

We must accept what Mr. Umstead says as truth. After all, he probably knows more about conditions than any other North Carolinians regarding our mental picture in this state.

If there are only 10 beds now for psychotic children, then for every child the unit can take care of. there must be a hundred more mentally ill children who are being passed over.

Why are we so slow in North Carolina to take the bull by the horns and do something about unfortunate children who are

born with mental lUnesst? Is it a case of indifference? When parents of mentally 111 children cry out for help and no help 1s forthcoming. can there be a greater heartache on our moral and spiritual conscience here in North Carolina?

Mentally ill adult* cannot hire lobbyists to fight their battles before the legisUrture. And mentally ill children cannot either. The only ones to battle for them are those who are concerned with the problem. The trouble today in North Carolina is that apparently too few are really concerned.

The parents who have a mentally deficient child are vitally concerned. The parents whose child is normal seem too indifferent. When we awaken to some bitter truth* rere in our state, then well really do something about some matters which have too long been neglected.

When we read stories of what is being done for mother* of illegitimate children, then sometimes w'e want to make some comparisons. Well admit that the illegitimate child deserves every chance in life we can give him. But a mentally 111 child has little chance in life at the best. What we do for him is a matter of conscience, and it comes out of the very heart of this state.

We didnt realize that we are doing so little for mentally lU children. Mr, Umsteads proposal should get more than passing attentionand more than an indifferent head shake from those not directly concerned wRh the problem.

With a sense of relief.

It is worth noting the convention fever is about to subside.

Not that anybody hi* been complaining; tait itll be good to get back to regulax* sleeping hours.

I found out a long time ago that when one becomes accustomed to beddy-l^e at a certain hour, and then flagrantly violates that hour two or three nights in succession, there -Is a seizure of midafternoon-yawns.

No one makes me stay up late.

And Im quite sure of the results even before embarking on such ventures; so there can be no excuse.

This time convention pundits have been saying the issue has never been in doubt, our man w'ill win. So, in view of the fact they all knew far more than I about what was going on. it was admittedly pretty silly to sacrifice all those good sleeping hours to watfch developments in Los Angeles.

There are compulsive eaters, compulsive talkers . . . and apparently, compulsive convention-

watchers.

ODinions

3rief

If parents are truly concerned about driving skills of their offspring, they .should take the lead in seeing that their children take driving courses when offered. Greensbero Dally News.

Was the United States founded to guarantee a fixed Income to a certain group of people or was It founded to enable those people to work freely to earn whatever they could? Savannah Morning News.

Out O:;

Date

Device

By GEORGE E. 80K0LSKY Copyright, 1960, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

There can be no question but that the convention is an out-moded device for selecting a candidate for President, It was outmoded In 191*2 when Theodore Roosevelt battled for the direct primaries. It, today, represents neither a partys choice* nor the peoples choice. It is a grand fiesta to excite over what has already been arranged. -Here Is an enormous gather-^ ing of men and women, most of whom have no say in theT proceedings anc^ do not evenc vote as they choose. The galler-iers are filled with onlookers, visitors, the curious, the gullible. They come to watch the donkeys or the elephants. Most of them have no idea as to what is going on. The heavy contributors and the currently and formerly distinguished sit in special reservations, usually box seats. Everybody has to have a ticket or a badge.

The noise is unbelievable and constant. The lights glare. There is an orchestra which blares and an organ which does not play a Gregorian chant. Those who march in honor of a candidate, not only Include the delegates who favor him but also hired marchers who swell his ranks, prolong the pandemonium and excitement, and continue the impression of unrestrained enthusiasm.

Speakers rise to speak. Sometimes they are heard in the convention hall. They are' bet-ter heard on radio and televl*. ion. The speeches are never ex-temporaneous because no politician can risk a slip of the tongue. Besides, he wants hi* speech printed in the newspapers and commented upon. So he sends it out in advance.

Quietly, without excitement, the great men sit in hotel suites. They come to the con-v^ ventlon hall only when it is solutely necessary. They hold conferences. They meet in committees. They make deal*. Whenever a candidate says thst he ha* made no deal*, he is lit^ ertUy not teUing the truth. Ths-. deal* are made and they are lived up to. Sometime* a candidate ha* to avoid the direct conversation: but an intermei^ iary can always be found.

The candidate promotes himself, He i* drafted by nobody.

He raise* his own money. A rich candidate or one that has rich friends or has access to labor union money has an easier time than one who has to watch hi* nickels and dimes.

As a businesslike institution, the convention is nothing at all*

It ought to be abolished. How- : ever, no ubstttiitje for the convention has been devised because neither of our principal, political parties is a member- ' ship organization. They art mechanism* for gathering votes for chosen candidates. The Bos<, system continues in various forms. A politician Is more concerned about the opinion of Lawrence of Pennsylvania of DeSapio of New York or Pal Brown of California than he is about hundreds of delegates. In the Democratic Convention, > David Dublnsky and Alex Rose matter: Walter Reuther matters, These are the politician* of labor. They have access t* enormous labor treasuries and can make promises of support to candidate*. Nothing would please them better than to have ^ John Kennedy as the Democratic candidate and Nelson Rockefeller as the Republican candK date. Then they would win n(i matter who lost.

Other groups are at work at convention, offering huge blocks of vAtc*. Most of them cannot deliver on the barreif head but a nervous candidal* doe* not want to risk losing any group that can be satisfied with

a bone or a scrap.

Meanwhile there I.* no dellb** eratlon. What is called a Platform is intended to be a statement of principies. A large com-, mlttee meets to draw, up this document. It holds hearings over a prolonged period before the convention and listens to au sort* of ideas, proposals, concepts. But usually three or four knowledgeable men do th* writing and their ideas prevait The Platform is usually too long for general reading, It cov-. era too wide and too detailed a statement. It rarely has *n elevating thought or an emotional paragraph. After all the fuss that is made over it. It ifi (Continued on page 6)

Meat-Eatinaest Peaale Araunc.

Strength For Today

Bv EARL L. DOUGLA.SS IT .MEANS .SPIRITUAL GROWTH

Practicing the presence of God!

There was a famous religious figure some centuries ago. Brother Lawrence, who gave this religious exercise its name, described it. and commended it to multitudes of people

Practicing the presence of God means something more than simply reflecting on re-livimus truth. It means more than making good resolutions. It means more than reading the Bible, or praying, or attending to any church duty. It means precisely what It sayspracticing the presence of God.

Trv it sometime. Relax and raitNC your mind to become a.s eoMiiilf'tely fret* of ibourht as you e.iii pii'Mhlv make it hv the e\'er-cc-.e ti yuiu will. '1heii think M>HJUt God-'iioi just aliout thi.^ or that a.q>ccl of God. Think

about God with the whole of your mind. Try to make yourself conscious of Hi.* reality. Push Him steadily Into your mind. Let no extraneous thought edge in and take possession of even the smallest arpa of your consciousness. Let the whole if it be occupied not just by a thought about God but by God Himself. If you can think of lifting something up and holding it against the wall, perhaps that figuring will help you lift up not only your mind but the whole of your personality and bring it in contact with God.

It is at one and the same time easier than you would think and more difficult. You may not .arhieve it the first tin)e ynu try it. Try "aim and atMm, and a'zadi

Anyone can do this who want* to do it and tries to do it.

By ELMER ROESSNER The United States 1* the meat-Ingest nation in the world, Judging from figures compiled by the Foreign Agricultural Service-It compiles data from 44 countries; all the major nations except Nationalist and Red China. Pakistan and largely vegetarian India. In 19.59 the first year in which meat production in these countricil exceeded 100 billion pounds for the first time the United States produced a total of 27,472.000.000 pounds of the 44-nation total of 100,500.000,-000 pounds.

Soviet Russia wa.s second with 13,600,000.000 pounds, and West Germany thlid with 5.922.000.000 pounds. France was a clo.*ie fourth with 5.^20.000,000 pounds.

Thats about 157 pounds per man, woman and child in the United States; 6.5 pounds per person in Russia: ahont 1011

r)oun(l.s in Germany and around i:!.l iMiunds in Franre.

Per capita pratliiction in Ra.'.t Germany - largely agrarian was alxjut 0 pounds pr person,

which may prove that a pcr.son needs less food to survive under Comrpunism,

AMERICAN DIET UNDER* STATED

The figure* cover the production of beef, veal, pork, mutton, lamb, goatmeat and, in Japan, the Philippine* and West Europe, horse-meat.

They do not include poultry. And in the United States there has been a great expansion in the poultry Industry, especially In turkeys and broiler chicken*. Last year broiler production was about 7 billion pound* exceeding the total meat production of every^ other country except Russia.

Production is not Idontical with consumption, but imports tend to balance exports except in the big exporting nation.s of the world: Canada. Australia. New Zealand and Argenllna. and In the hig importiim coiintrle.*., .':uch as (it eat Hi I tain.

Great Brillan, famed a.* the heef-ealiiMi n.itlon of the world, produces only about 72 pounds

per person, but imports considerable quntities from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. LESS ARGENTINE BEEF ^

The 1959 production showed generally higher totals In almost all countries except Argentina, Which showed a decline of 20 per cent.

This was caused by the fact that Argentina cattle grower* are holding back more cattle for breeding to build up their herds. There will probably be no great increase In Argentine production before 1962.

A build-up of herd* 1* going on in the United States not at a slower rate. Production last year was only 1 per cent higher than In 1956, but 1* expected to be more this year.

World meat production is believed to be rising this year, especially in beef and veal. The figures are far from complete. 'Ilie |)iR a farmer slaughleis fur ligi family.s food in Iowa, or the calf that 1* quietly butchered b-hlnd the Iron Curtain and sold on the black market, does not get

into international itatistic*.

UNCLE SAM TO FIRE FASHION STARTING GUN

The rivalry among importer* of Paris fashions has caused the Bureau of Costume to promulgate new rules to equalize competition. '

Under these rules, all* gowns from the same showing will be released from customs at the same time, even if they arrive on different planes.

FOR COMPANIES SELLING TO ARMED FORCES ^

A new edition of the Armed Force* Procurement Regulatione, Important to all manufacturer* seeking to sell to the government. will be Issued in August. Orders are being accepted now by the Government Printing Office. The price Is $18, which in-chide.5 revised pages for the next two years. The regulations are is.Hued in laxe pages, punched for alandard threc-i lng liinder.s. Th* govenmient does not sell blnii' era.