PAGE FOURfHE DAfLY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Monday, July 25, 1960

Monday, July 25, 1960

Guest Editorial

Witch Doctor

The Future Holds Great Promise

Edltorp Note* The following editorial nVrs prepared toy W. W. CPEIGHT, President of Greenvilles Committee Of One Hundred.

A few years ago a Superior Court Judge, who is now a member of the Supreme Court, told me that he liked to come to Greenville and Pitt County because the people here were known throughout North Carolina as the most progressive in any city and county in the State

This w'as not a mere judicial epigram. It was the truth I \

Those of us who worked in the ill fated venture of the East Carolina Airport Authority and the Mid-

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"4 The lack of air transportation adequate for the area has been and will be a serious handicap in attracting industry to Eastern North Carolina.

The seeds that were sown in this spirit of cooperation between Eastern North Carolina cities and counties will ultimately reap the desired harvest. This may be for younger hands, however, after some of the present leaders with narrow vision are no longer in the saddle.

This spirit of progress and cooperation in Greenville and Pitt County is important. We are .|old by the Noith Carolina Department of Conservation and Development that the proper climate is all-important

F^ast Airport Authority, although we were unable to in attracting worthwhilc industry. Climate involves pierce the yokelism curtain to^obtain decent area much more than the proper attitude. Included in con-air service, were proud of Greenville and Pitt Countys sideration by manufacturers seeking sites for location willingness to stand firm ajid go all the way to co- in the area are such tangible assets as churches,

..... * schools, pupil load, school buildings, recreation facili

ties, scout work and community spirit, in addition to taxes, labor supply, utility rates and services? We are not lacking in these particulars.

High on the list of requirements of industrial prospects are adequate sites that can be purchased for a reasonable price per acre. Greenville now has a 269 acre site only one and one-tenth miles from our city limits. This site has been advertised by our good ally, the Atlantic Coast Line Raihvay Company, in such publications as The Wall Street Journal. Fortune Magazine, Industrial Development Magazine, and other widely circulated publications.

This answers ore of the problems that we have been confronted with and points up the fact that Greenville and Pitt County again have taken a progressive stand. I sincerelv believe that this is one of the mo.st farsighted moves that we have ever made in our long fight for locating worthw^hile industry. Since gearing up for industrial progress by organization and' obtaining a site, we have had many prospects. We have

operate w ith other cities and counties in this vital project.

Challenging Ring "n New Frontier

By LYNN NISBET

YOUTHFUL OUTLOOK Senator Kennedys phrase the New Frontier has a chaileng-ins ring Franklin Roosevelts New Deal and Terry Sanfords New Day are fine. Somehow they connote accomplishment, a goal already attained, a time for enjoying the fi*uits of past endeavor. The New Frontier Is ahead, something yet to be explored and conquered. That is a task for young men and W'omen.

Fortunately for the United Slates and for North Carolina young men wll be in positions Of leadership for the next four year. The next President of the United Stflte.-! will toe John F. Kennedy at 43 or Richard Nixon at 48. At present odds are even on the winner In November. The next Governor of North Carolina is virtually sure to be Terry Sanford at 42. In event of the very long-shot chance of Republican victory in this state, the Governor will be Robert Gavin about the same age, Lyndon B. Johnson, Democratic Vice President is 52, nd Cloyd Philpott. Democratic Lieutenant Governor is 51. Republicans have not selected their second place candidates, but they are Ukely^to be in the 50 year class.

The next Pre.sident and Governor will be younger than anybody who has held those offices In 69 years, since Theodore Roosevelt and Charles B. Ay-cock w^ere inaugurated in 1901. While Aycock did not u.se the phra^, his invasion of a new frontier w*as the event from which North Caroina ever since has dated its era of progress.

The thing that most impressed your reporter on his tour with the budget group last week was the youth, in years and In outlook, of the top men in university administration. The only present head of any of. the State institutions visited or to be visited this year w'ho was in like capacity on the first tour made in 1944 is Dr. Francis L. Atkins, president of Winston-Salem Teachers College.

UNAFRAID - Young William C. iBll Friday, who was made president of the Con-aolidated University five years ago with trepidation on part of many trustees because of his youth has .surrounded himself with a group of equail.v youthful associates. He together with a group of equally youthful associates. He together with W. B, Aycock. chancellor at Chapel Hill; John T. CaldweU. chancellor at State College, and Gordon Blackwell, chancellor It Womans College, form a cwperative team of young men who have seen visions, but are not visionaries, and who waste BO time in futile dreams-the province of old men. They are not afraid of new' ideas, and new frontiers do not dismay them. The University, already recognized as one of the fore-, most in the nation, has seen phenomenal growth at all its units during the past five years.

The grandiose t?i plans of these young men somctime.s appall the conservative and staid

members of the Advisory Budget Commission. Apparent resistance serves only to increase the confidence of the youngsters.

We talk big because we aie big, quipped one of them,

and w'e are going to do a better job in the future than ever has been done hi affording educational opportunities for all the people. So,it was, that at each place primary emphasis

was on provision for college ___ ^______ _

age students, but the needs for workod a lot of these prospects without proper By GEORGE SOKQLSKY

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continuing education facilities for adults seeking refresher courses, improvement conference and such, were not overlooked.

Budget folks asked why this or that facility was needed. The answers of Aycock at Chapel Hill, Blackwell at Greensboro and Caldw'ell at State <note the ABC of higher education were almost the same. Men and women in business and the professions and on the farm are eager to keep abreast of the times by continuing their education. They cannot be accommodated^ in existing facilities without disrupting the regular college class routine. Butthey arc entitled to opportunity as much as the regular student.

GROWING - During legislative sessions of 1953, 55. '57 and to some degree iri 1959, opinion prevailed* that development of the co-education idea the mixing of sexes and races at all institutions might make continued appropriations for all-women and all-Negro colleges unnecessary. In fact is that under the adijiinistration of Chancellor Gordon Blackwell enrollment at Womans College has put as heavy demands upon that institution as anywhere In the state. The Negro universitiesNorth Carolina College at Durham and A & T at Greensboroface acute problems of growth, no less than at Chapel Hill and State College,

In tenure and in age Dr. Alfonso Elder, president of N. C. College, is the oldest in the

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The Democratic Convention

2. The South:

3. The A.D.A.

The elements arc divergent but their objective Is to elect a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress and then they will try to settle their dif-

screeninK and, as a matter of fact, we have literally been sprayed ^vith pro.spects. Many pro.spect.s were purely engaged in a fshing expedition and were looking for handouts. Some were needlecraft com

panies only a jump or two ahead of the bankruptcy court'i. This situation will be cleared up.

Up to this point, we have not been in favor of doing any local financing. The strong competition be- contained three elements which

tween communities may require a closer look in this to^dJieat^Th?Threc

regard and it may be necessary to finance a plants elements are: move to this area. If we do, let us be sure that the b The Big City Democrats; prospect is financially sound and is of the high type of industry we presently have in Pitt County and

Greenville.

In this connection patience is sure to be a rewarding virtue.

Pitt County and its citie.s have every right to be ferences, FranWin D. Roosevcit proud of the excellent and high caliber industry al- generally managed to keep ready living with us. Support and encouragement m

should be extended to them for the great job they are functioned somewhat like the doing for our community. Expansion and development British Crownthat is, cmo-of exhii,,g plants should not be overlooked.

Although we have some handicaps; the big one, response, of course, being lack of transportation, I feel that the The Republicans do not have future holds great promi^'e for industrial progress in similar situation, but

Pitt County and Greenville. The North Carolina De- fors Thich^wnnot bJ ignored, partment of Conservation and Development is offering Their division is not as clear-cut us excellent assistance and will put forth every effort Democratic one; defini-

to obtain industry for the area. th^Vay?

I am optimi.stic as to the future. To the people l. There is a remnant of Taft of Pitt County I would say: Be patient, but stay with Republicanism which is conser-it! Stand behind the programs of the Pitt County are ^the^^nei^r Re-

Dovelopment Commission, the Greenville Committee publicans who came in with of One Hundred, Greenville Industries, Incorporated, Wendell Willkie and who desire Farmville Economic Council, and other industrial and >

wwyaL7e"rhap tal' f orgauizations. Support these programs and 'rT Pmy? 7

samid DeWitt Proctor who ^'^ady to sacrifice some of your time and, if '

took over presidency of A & T necessary, some of your resources! Prosperity will ap-the first of this month, is young-e.st. Both have the forward looking attitude.

Budget folks are not apt to approve all the requests of A&T for capital improvements, but they liked Dr, Proctors plan to revamp the agricultural school to put emphasis on the whole business of farming, including

processing and marketing; tnd to make the technologic courses better serve the electronic age.

RESUMEThe conclusion < of the whole matter is that the government and the educational system in North Carolina is being taken over by young people. unafraid of new ideas and undi.smayed by frontiers. The challenge of Jack Kennedy.

Terry Sanford, Bill Friday and their associates is for folks with old ideas to join the parade. step aside or get run over. They may not be as sure of where they are going as the oldsters are of where they have been, but they aie going somewhereand with assurance and confidence.

'Division Within GOP

S. There are the Eisenhower Republicans, men and women who are unaccustomed to politics but who admire and even adore President Eisenhower.

Thus there Is no genuine Republican image. It was possible In t6e days of Mark Hanna to describe a Republican with a degree ol accuracy. That is altogether Impossible today. It is for this reason that a degree of paralysis has been noted in the Eisenhower Administration which, having no majority in Congress, sought to function by executive action or by agreement with Lyndon Johnson. It was a tough position for a party and it would be a great advantage to the American people if the next President and the next Congress were of the same party.

President Eisenhower was not a dyed-ln-the-wool Republican. He had been In the army most of his adult life and a professional army officer has no party. When Eisenhower decided to become a Republican, he had to learn the peculiarities of our political system which, of course, is nothing like the politics in the army. In civilian life. It is necessary for a man to be friendly with his opponent, as undoubtedly Kennedy and Nixon are and will be after the campaign. In< the arm, a

plaud your efforts.

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HOLLYWOOD (AP) - Theyre off and running in the second half of TV's big summer sweepstakesthe political futurity.

The Republican * National Con-v.cntlon starts in Chicago today, with the netw'orks straining to give home viewers the big picture. Thus starts another w'eek four days for the economy-minded Republicansof set-watching for tho.e who are interested in the great game of politics.

Are too few interested? The TV ratings would indicate that. The tetal audience for the Democratic National Convention was considerably lower than expected, if we are to believe the surveys. But then, the surveys arent infallible, as a fellow named Truman can tell you.

Its hard to imagine any alert American not wanting to switch on the set to see what the politicos are up to. For this Is TV at ils best-poking its Argus eye into the once smoke-filled but now air-conditioned rooms where the national destiny is shaped.

The networks got .started on their w'ecks labors Sunday night with .some sidCvShow attractions to the main event CBS .

took the folksy approach with Ed Murrow calling on Pat and Dick Nixon in the same way he chitchatted with celebrities on Person to Person

This time Ed was accompanied by fellow anchor man Walter Cronkite. Mrs. Nixon was a.sked if she were more thrilled over the prospect.s of seeing her two daughters in Chicago after a month's absence or watching her husband being nominated for president. She voted for the former.

The vice president wa.s asked some pointed questions about his plans and policies and then the Nixon children were introduced with their grandmother at the airport en route from California to Chicago. One daughter was a.sked if she still wanted to be an actress. I guess so, she replied reflectively.

At the same hour, NBC wa.s taking the hard-news approach in an hour-long Meet the Press. The network had a tandem team of Republicans, Sen. BariT Gold-wator of Arizona and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York reading from right to left.

Both were handsome and artic-(Contlnued on page 6)

(Greensboro Daily News)

One thing North Carolina farmers must do if they wish to retain, much less expand, foreign markets whose consumption. although relatively small, may represent the margin of difference between profit and loss when the books are balanced for the farm year: Wishes of foreign buyers must be recognized in type and quality of product.

For the past several seasons flue-cured tobacco exports have been threatened by failure of growers to produce the quality tobacco which foreign companies seek. The warning has been sounded again this year. Emphasis has In fact been expanded to include warnings from domestic companies. Our tobacco economy does not even hold its own when the Tobacco Stabllzation Corporation has to take over a growing percentage of the crop: tobac

co that no company wants nevertheless hangs as a threat over the market. What to do with this tinwanted tobacco, Its storage co.xts and its deterioration, challenges our farm leadership

and our economy.

Now a somewhat similar situation ha.s arisen over North Carolina and Virginia grown corn. A meeting of growers at Elizabeth City was told that foreign buyers are complaining that the quality of com in the two states has declined rapidly in recent years due to early harvesting and improper handling. At stake is export of about 35,000.000 bushels of corn, grown m'ostly In the Elizabeth City area and bringing annually about 118,000.000 for North Carolina and Virginia growers.

B.T. Skeels, U.S. Department of Agriculture trade specialist Just back from Europe w'here he went to check on complaints, declares that many foreign buyers already are investigating the possibility of importing corn from other countries.

Disregard of warnings by tobacco and corn growers not only invites substantial loss and further dislocation for them but contributes to a generally sagging economy. There is only one sound, sensible farm course: Find out what the market wants and grow It,

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Evidence of a faded fad;Two hula hoops on a rurbaide tra.sh pile.Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat.

Rivalry

senior officer who dislikes of distrusts a Junior can have him moved out of his way. It waa probably for that reason that President Eisenhower mistreated ex-President Truman,

It will not be possible for Vice President Nixon to accept full and unquestioning responsibility for the Eisenhower Administration. Nevertheless, the Democrats will make that their principal Issue. For instance, they have already raised some questions as to.tbe competence of the Etsenhower Administration with regard to the econmy of the nation. They have indicated that they intend to make such questions major in the campaign.

As John Kennedy discusses the farm problem, he sounds like a Taft Republican who knows how to u.se an adding machine: can Richard Nixon

deal with this problem less conservatively? He could ask Kennedy as to who started this enormous stockpile of rotting farm products. The answer, of course, would have to be that this all goes way back to the days of Henry Wallace, but that answer Is no good. It will not do In I960 when Franklin D. Roosevelt Is a mythological figure and when Henry Wallace and Rexford Guy Tugwell arc forgotten.

It will not do because a new generation exists who know Herbert Hoover as a kindly, elderly gentleman who writes books, and the Depression as something which happened before World War II. The emotional responses of each generation are its own and When one realizes how remote the 1930s are, the Repubican Party will have to face the realities of today.

Peace and prosperity do not mean the same to a youngster in his 30s as they do to an oldster in his fiOs. I can recall when this nation went to war gaily, singing Over There and calling sauerkraut. Liberty Cabbage. That was a gay, optimistic, sure America that had no doubts about anything. That America does not exist among the younger generations of our people. And It is to many generations that Richard Nixon will have to appeal.

If one studies carefully the Democratic platform and John Kennedy's acceptance .speech, they are not closely related. The platform was designed to please everybody: the acceptance speech asserted authority.

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By ROGER BABSON

BABSON PARK, Mass. i am not now forecasting World War III, but neither the United States nor Russia can continue to spend such vast amounts of money on missiles, rockets, submarines, etc. Either there must be a reduction in armaments (Khrushchev Is as anxious for this as we are), or World War III is inevitable. However, my message this week is on the subject of COM-PETmON, which will be the ammunition Russia will probably use to fight the cold war.

FOREIGN COMPETITION During my last trip to Germany. 1 was astounded at the competition which is developing there. Not only are wages very low. but the efficiency of the workers is very high. German industrialists are continuing to make new machines which can ever replace their own workers. This applies to plastics, textiles, and many other products. It seems as though this competition from Europe will cau.se unemplo.v-ment in our country sooner or later.

Added to the competition from Europe, we also have much from Japan. I could give illustrations which would seem to you unbelievable. Thes involve a great variety of articles ranging from table doilies, Which sell for 2 cents apiece, to radios, cameras, and even television sets. It all seems fantastic, and detrimental to American manufacturers and wage-workera. The only concerns which can possibly profit from It are big concerns such as Sears Roebuck, Mongomery Ward, and the chain storea which can buy and sell in tremendous quantities.

COMPETITION WITH OURSELVES Before World War II. th' leading manufacturers were content to make their own products; but they have now added products of others which, in many cases, have no relation to their basic products. This not only causes overproduction, but it reduces profits. I fear that the average United States businessman may be caught in a squeeze, with i^reased costs but with declining prices for his products.

Let me give a few illustrations of this domestic internal competition. General Tire now manufactures missiles! (Scneral Mills has wandered away from its basic food products to make precision instruments! Textron, basically a textile manufacturer. is buying into various new businesses with which it has had no experience.

EXPANSION VERSUS DIVERSIFICATION While there is no legitimate reason for much of the above diversification, there is Justlfi-fication for companies to expand in their own lines, <Pittsburgh) Consolidation Coal is becoming Increasingly active in the field of organic chemicals; this is wise. American Viscose, a major producer of rayon and nylon yam* and cellophane paper, has now legitimately gone all-out into the plactic-chemlcal field.

It is wise for a company to seek new markets for its available raw materials. American Viscose has Joined with Sun Oil Company to produce polypropylene, thus competing in the petrochemical field with Dow, Monsanto, and Union Carbide. These companiea which are expanding within their own fields should be safer investments; but some of those which have neglected th^ir own business to go into missiles and rockets may suffer large losses.

LABOR VERSUS

MANAGEMENT

During this cold war, it is too bad to see the competition between labor and management which results in serious strikes. A labor strike against management is an Industrial battle and may well be compared to military warfare between two nations. This especially 1s true now, whUe the cold war with Russia is in progress. Some believe that a national dictator Is necessary to make labor and management co-operate: but

this seems unnecessary in a nation which professes Christianity and the teachings of Jesus.

It will be difficult enough to hold our own against competition from abroad and domestic

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Another Pig Deal Out Of Canada

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLA.SS CURE FOR LONEI.I.VESS In the South Atlantic is a tiny island. Tristan da Cunha, It was originally .settled by mariners, mostly pirates who when visited by an English ship and asked what most they needed replied, Wives The English brought them a consignment of wives from Africa, and. settling down here on the top of this mountain which sticks up out of the ocean, they c.stablisheri a cortimunitv w'lueh today ron.sisis of about ?0 perrons They are a mildly pigmenieU .kmned people who speak English with a verj delightful accent.

'iu a ttvsterner visiting this Island, It .secni.s to be the la.st place anyone would want to live. Tlie cliinale is most unpleasant: the soliwhat little there is of it

is thin; the life of the people very primitive. Yet, when a few have wandered away from the island, they have returned in a few years and announced tHeir determination to stay. An Anglican clergyman is the real factotum of the little civilization. Hr is Gods shepherd of the flock, the wise man to whom all mooted questions are referred.

Some tourists, stopping off at the Island a few years ago. attended the church service. The rector in the cour.xe of his aermon made this atalement: Where Cod is, there la no lonell-ne.s.

Hts utterance made a deep InipicKslon on the tourisis In hts congregation. They knew that it came from a very deep and beautiful experience.

By ELMER ROEBSNER When this reporter was a cub on the San Pranclaco News, the pig deal came to town.

Promoters offered this proposition: Buy sow for 650.

We will leed and cherish her. She will farrow 12 young pigs. We will take half, males, in

full payment for our feed tnd care. You will have 7^ which in turn will farrow 84. Again we will keep half and you will have the other 42 which, with the 7 you already have, will make 49.

These will hae 848 piglets, f which we will keep 274. and your totsl will be 123.

This could go On until you had a million pigs, which you

could sell for $r.o each.

lb* dealers opened offire.s all over town. One of the citys biggest rum runners got into the business.

BOY .Sf.KUTH

My cily editor. Gene fohn, now ail editor for Ontral Pie.'*, aa-signed me to look into the pig

deals,

I reported back that they were obviously swindles, that if pigs could Actually multiply that fast at so little cost, the promoters would keep the pigs themselves Instead of selling theni, but that there was almost no way to prove fraud. To make matters worse, some big dealers had lined up a University of California professor to make a statement that the whole plan was sound and practical. As an old St. Mai-ys College man. I instinctively realized this was false, but Again proof was lacking.

Mr. Cohn hit upon an idea. I was sent out to visit varloiw pig-deal e.stabllshmenls each day pretending I was a .sucker. I preienUeU to have an inheritance and asked '^the simplest qup-tions.

Then each day I wrote, with wide-eyed astoiiushni*iU, about all the wonderful things I had been promised, about all the wealth that would be irioe and

how 1 would become the pig magnate of the Western World. My city editor touched up my writing, making me the perfect boob, and cartoonist George Storm added sketches.

LICKED BY LAUGHTER

Soon all San Francisco was laughing at me. But it also laughed at anyone who would fall for the pig deal. To show interest in the deals was to con-fe.ss being a aap.

Most of the pig dealers left town. One. Harry Brolaskl, didnt. He had a date for a trial on' charges of violating the prohibition laws. One day. at re-re.s.s, he walked over to the reporters table, shoi>k my hand and .*.aid, Elmer, you .sure ruiwed a fine racket for me!

iuday the mails from Canada are cirrylrig offers of a new pig deal. Yiw can buy five pigleU fur $65 and pay $5 a month each for maintenance. After four months the pig*, round and plump, will be sold and at a

profit, netting you $30 on a 1165 investment, or around 50 per cent per year. That'* what they say.

It's not exactly the old pig deal, but it involves the same principle.

Now as then, pig mortality 1* great, promoters are slick and suckers abound, As Ellis Parker Butler might have said, pig deals is big deals.

BERMUDA TRIP MEDICAL ONLY IF HALF DEAD

The Tax Court has ruled that a man who took a convaleacent trip to Bermuda on the advice of hi* doctor, after two emergency operations, is entitled to deduct plane fare for hiin.self and his wife a* a medical expense.

Don't let this give you ideas. The man was not wealthy, obviously weak, had no fun, and Was following hi* doctor orders. If you tike a medical trip, chances are the government Will decide it was a vacation andi disallow deduction*.