FACE FOUR

nU DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE. N. C

Saturdayi September 10, 1960

As Maine Goes

Food Production Isnt A Problem

While a. host of statisticians worriedly shake their heads over soaring global population and predict a future of scarcity, it seems to us the more pressing problem of the moment lies elsewhere.

Of concern today is the matter of overproduction in some areas of the world, and pressing shortages in other areas.

People complain about overproduction In this country; but if by some black magic pihduction was suddenly geared to exactly oiir needs, we*d all of us be living under a cloud of fear.

What the world requires is more production, not less.

Take food for example.

Over half the people of the world are said to be going to bed hungry each night. Another large per-^ centage hangs on from one harvest to the next In our country we worry about surpluses.

It doesnt add up.

A lot of people anticipate a time when there will be so many people they will all have to go hungry. That doesnt add up either.

Over the world at large, humanity has accomplished much in its war against disease and in prolonging life. Thats part of the picture . . . the world is a healthier place to live in than it has ever been. In time, we can expect an even higher degree of global health.

T ruck-W eighing Station Service

By LYNN MSBET

TRUCK WEIGHTS Those Bte olfiee buildings beside the road with platform acalea la iront of them, and warning gni of a "truck weighing station ahead" represent visiWe Ttdraot of a very important but little publicized phase of Motor Vehicles Department activity.

These weighing stations were ectahUshed In 1952, pursuant to act of the 1951'General Assembly, to maintain clo^ coo-tnd over truck loads for the protection North Carolina high* wayi. Prom Inception of the program tt has pad its own way la ooHectioDs and penalties tac verlMds, inadequate bceose plates, etc.. In actual cash receiptsitius the contnbuUoc protection of highways and traffic safety.

The service is adminlfr,e!re by the Lcense and Theft 2>>-visioa of the Deparase cd Motor Vtiicdes. In addftir te eleven weighing staoos the d-yislon has 26 Inspectcws eoxnp-ped with mobite weigiiit^ UEta>. and who also enfcwce bcease laws for passenger ears, serre processes fm- violatians and aid in recovery of stolen am-mobiles.

The weighing stations are strategically located on maJ(H highways in the vicinities of Asheville, Charlotte. Hertford-EUzabeth City, Hillsboro - Durham. Kinston. Lumbertoo, Apex-lUleigh, Rual Hall - Winston Salem, Salisbury, States. Tille and WUsim. The 26 inspectors cover evefy one of the 100 counties.

Last year1999 the weighing stations collected and remitted to the highway fund $576,-104-56. The inspectors collected and turned in $663,303.09. That Is an aggregate of $1,239,407.65. The budgeted allocation for operating the division was $784,-124. That meant a net "profit" of $455,000 above operating costs.

VOLUNTARY An interesting phase of the annual report of Uie weight stations is that for private license trucks enforcement procedure had to be taken in substantial majority of the cases, but with respect to "for hire" trucks (which Includes the big transport outfits) voluntary compliance was In the ratio of *'almo6t five to one. Translated into every day language that means majority of the Individually owned trucks put up an argument about the charges and penalties levied, and had to be theatcned or prosecuted to make them pay the proper fees; whereas more than per cent of the truck operators who earn ieir living from the business paid without protest and often in advance of notice that payment was due.

PROFITThe nearly half million dollars receipts above costs

of operating the division is regarded a small part of the total profit accruing to the State. The chief benefit comes from keeping weight loads, par-ticulariy axle weights, within the limits which the highways were built to carry. For example, the weight statiims and roving inspectors last year found about 21 million pounds of overweight in truck loads on the highways. Penalties paid for overweight amounted to a lot more than the freight charges collected from Shippers, so the carriers will be more careful not to violate the law Best time.

In SbdditlcQ to the collections far oTK-jisadmg and license vio-latian, the bcense and theft di-vaaaB 'mst year recovered or aided tx recovery (d 168 stolen caca aggregaie value of

a2moa $1.000 each. That does zoc show up in any mx r pohtbc revejiie state-iiifuiL bat it Tsans $162.000 - prugh le taxpaying citizens, and reirefiits aboot 20 per cen e amOTsst budgeted ior tbe diTisiact.

LOTS OF TRUCKSThe report ai the weight stations confirms te opinion shared by travelers that there are a lot of trucks on the road. The eleven stations stopped a total of 2,564,774 trucks last year. Thats an average of more than 8,200 for every working day. If the traffic had been evenly distributed each station would have processed 233,000 vehicles during the year. Actually the totals ranged from 568,182 at Charlotte down to 52,850 at Lumberton. Which suggests study of relocating some of the stations.

Of the 2.564,774 trucks stopped, 1,781,863 had N.C. license platesmore than two-thirds of the total. North Carolina trucks would show up big in similar checks throughout eastern United States, because there are more trucks registered here than in any other state in the

union.

In the enforcemrat procedure usually a notice is sufficient to obtain compliance. But the Inspectors made 299 arrests, obtained 206 convictions, resulting in collection of fines and costs in the amount of $6,899.18 and prison aentcnces of 172 - 182 years.

PROTECTION Activities of the division made substantial contribution to traffic safety. Its greatest service was in protecting the capital Investment in highways from destruction by overloaded trucks. And one of the most gratifying phases of the whole business Is the spirit of cooperation manifested by the motor carriers Evidence is than preponderant majority of the cases the violation was not intentional.

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Food, we have. There are EtagEerinE possibilities inherent in the future of food production. That is not a problem. Our world can feed many times its present population .without any effort.

Look at it this wayi

Traditional methods of food production are still far from beinE fully exploited. Beyond them are newer methods, and after them aEain are the miracles .wrouEht by biochemistry*

In America alone there are millions upon millions of acres of completely undeveloped countryside lyinE In wait. Think of the immensities elsewhere.

A British newspaper adds this thouEhtOutside the West most aEriculture is primitive, inefficient, and on the wronE lines. Fertilizers and other techniques could double food production in less than a Een-eration. But it would not stop there. Many countries haTe recorded individual yields of five tons of Eraln an acre. This should be possible nearly everywhere.

Relatively speakinE, only a small fraction of the land in our country is devoted to food production. And yet, we have from that land a problem of produc-inE too much.

Production isnt a problem for us; rather its the matter of distribution.

Somehow, some way must be found to adapt our systems of transportation and international markets that will put our unneedcd foodstuffs where it Is needed.

This country has undertaken to send a few shiploads of wheat to India; theres talk of further distribution to other Asian peoples..The Erain bears a sold tag, but thats only a part of the story. Food prices, even in this land of plenty, are too high for most people where poverty reigns.

When that one roadblock is solved, and anefficient distributive and transportation method is applied, there need be no more staying awake nights wondering how the world (five generations hence) will be making out.

That British newspaper (The Dally Mall)' concluded its observations with the thought that The human race is in sight of a very high standard of living and unlimited leisure. Unless we all go mad the best is yet to be.

That, about covers it.

By PATRICIA MOORE

Graceland

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Did you think you bad beard the last of vacations? Well, never!

We ran into someone the other day with a bit of information concerning her family trip, which took her into Memphis, Tenn. In the past, Memphis has been noted as a large Southern

town of Southern hospitality,

overflowing population and sites along the Mississippi. Tliere were colorful "Mammies" in polka dot dresses along the streets.

But no nore. Memphis will never be the same again.

Where graceful trees, lovely

Hueys Reign

Other Editors Saying Necessity Of Self-Help

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)Twenty-five years ago last night was one of the unforgettable times for me. Sen. Huey P. Long was djring in a hospital in Baton Rouge, La. It was an uneasy city.

Long had been shot the night before, Sunday, Sept. 8, 1935. Dr Carl Austin Weiss was named the assassin. This has never been proved beyond doubt. There was no autopsy. The coroners inquest was a fast, brief routine.

There is still a question whether one of the Long bodyguards excited and accidentally shot Long when he saw Weiss approaching with a gun.

At the time of the shooting I was In New Orleans, working on the Times-Picayune, and immediately afterwards was sent to Baton Route to Join the T-P staff which was working on the Legislatura when Long was shot

None of us got sleep Sunday, Sunday night, or Monday, or Monday night. Monday night Long began slipping. I was sent over to the hospital Just before midnight to Join an Associated Press reporter and a girl reporter for the Baton Rouge papers.

We had phones in a small room off the lobby of Our Lady of The Lake Sanitarium. Ltmgs room was upstairs on the second floor. The three of us had been warned by Longs bodyguards not to try to go up those stairs.

There must have been 40 bodyguards. aH with guns, in the lobby. Outside, another 10 or 12 of them shoulder to shoulder across the top step of the hospital.

All through the night another pair of bodyguards made endless rounds of door* and windows, In the ba-spment and upstair*. to make su'e no one could slip In to kill Long in his bed

The Long people didnt know whether Wets* was actine on M.s own when he went up to Long with a gun that ilunday night or whether he was part of I eonspiracv fo '<111 ^h* *en-a tor

Over the year* oi the Long regime^n which he controlled the ?our*. or iome of them, the Legislature, the S'aie Police and ^ome di.stnct attor-nevsthe enator's bodyguard* had smashed newsmen't face* nd heads

Only a short time before one of those bodyguards making the rounds of doors and windows had fractured an Associated Press photographers skull with a blackjack and was never prosecuted.

About 2 am. Tuesday the bodyguards in the lobby were nervous and agitated. A nurse had come down and said Long was going, that the doctors were giving him adrenalin.

About 3 am. Longs family and some of his top lieutenants came in quickly and went upstairs. About 4 a.m. one of the upstairs bodyguards came down and whispered to the girl reporter. I tried to hear. He said: "Get back you."

I got back. Then I heard him say Long had Just died. I ran for the stairs. It was a reflex action. I couldnt report Long was dead with noiing to go on but a whisper. I had to go up to his room to verify it.

But that reflex action, made in forgetfulness of the warning not to go near, the stairs, has scared me about my own reflex actions ever since. Suddenly all the bodyguards were running lor the stairs.

Then the fright aet in. I thought heres where I get it." But I was near the stairs. I couldnt turn back. The bodyguards were all around. They had me squeezed in. I thought "what a way to get it."

And just as suddenly the guards melted away and let me through. I went up the stain, walking, no longer running, the bodyguards walking slowly behind me, not Interfer-ring.

What happened to them at that moment whfn they had me surrounded and then let me through? I cant be sure. They used to keep In shape beating up newspapermen. Maybe they realized the boss was dead and they didnt have anything more to do.

Maybe something else. May-b? they suddenly realized the

one man who had always stood between them and punishment fur t,he!r violence was gone and they were defenseless. I dont knew. For that one moment the fight went out of the Long machine.

It came back later when

Huey* brother. Earl who died last Sunday, became ?overnor. But that moment when ! reached the stairs with 'he bodyguards was the end o' an era. before the second one hegan.

(Wall St. Journal)

As if to show their freedom from UB. influence, the l^tin American naticms at the r^ent meeting of the Organization of American States did wsential-ly nothing about our urgent complaint against Communist Cuba and told us. by word and act, that they do not need the U. S. to police the Western Hemh^here.

Now, eurioosly, tbese same nations say they are in mortal need of .S. assistance. In his welcoming address to the him-Ispheres economic ministers assembled at Bogota, Colombian President Alberto Lleras Camargo warned that Latin America teeters on the brink of a "crisis without precedent in its history, and only the . 8. can avert it.

What Dr. Lleras and his colleagues plainly want is a U.S. aid effort of the magnitude of the Marshall Plan, which he warmly praised. Most of them find the new $500 million .S. ail program barely adequate and expect that it will be merely the beginning of a "vast operation" extending over 10 to 15 years.

Viewed against the huge U.S. spending throughout the world since WOTld War n, our aid to Latin America may seem disproportionately small. But, while acknowledging our neighbors pressing social and economic prc^lems. the obvious fact is that the U.S. alone cannot and should not attempt to solve them. We have assisted Latin America in the past, but Washingtons thinking now seems to be that we must give much more aid to halt the inroads of Castroism. If we do not, Latin America presumably will heed Fidels false cry of social Justice, discard democratic government and "go Communist."

It may be that our friends to the south do not fear Castroism as much as they find It useful. After all, it is obviously the cause of the U.S.s new concern; so long as it lingers, our purse strings are likely to be loosened.

In any case, the ills to which Casiro offers a phony cure are not new In Latin America; Illit-era^'y. backward agriculture.

crackpot economics, e(Tupt and inefficient government.

Even If we spent blUions, we could not inspire the impulse to self-improvement where it does not already exist, if Latin American ix>llticians fear Castroism. Communism or home

grown revolutionary upheaval,* they must energetically set

their own houses in order.

If tiiey do not, large-scale U. 8. aid cannot help them. It can, however, hurt the U. S. by leading us deeper into the folly of attempting to remake backward lands. Talk of a new Marshall Plan for Latin America (or Africa or any underdeveloped region) overlooks the fact that our postwar aid to Western Europe was extended to the most highly skilled, politically stable peoples of the world outside the U.S. They rebuilt complex industrial economies, using our money and their own genius and experience. Most of them, in time, adopted sensible economic policies. But now we are asked to build industrial economies, literally from scratch, in countries that require, more than amrthlng else, internal reforms.

We have already blunder ed by trying' to do too much in Latin America. In Bolivia. tar example, our subsidy of a grossly inefficient socialist regime helped cause the cost of living to leap 200 per cent in a year. Was U. S. prestige among Bolivians enhanced by our Involvement with a government tiiat nearly ruined them? If we plunge into still more such government - to - government aid in Latin America, we are likely to repeat mistakes that have brought resentment and outright hatred of the .S. in other parts of the globe.

Certainly the U.S. wishes to be a good neighbor. Out of sympathy and" self - interest, wo should help the democratic nations of Latin America, chiefly with technical assistance and long-term loans, and so try to strengthen them against the false lure of Castroism. But we should never suppose that we can guarantee progress. That can come only as Latin Americans learn the overriding necessity of self-help.

Southern bells and fried chicken have reigned along with King Misslssip, Graceland has now taken over. And to Graceland the touristsah, visitorsflock in droves.

Graceland, you might note. Is the pink walled estate of one Elvis Pressly, the now-successful favorite of enough people to make him a million-dollar recording star and movie personality. (We must be In the minority.)

Mrs. Joyce McCoy, town clerk in Griiton, is the supplier of oiur information. While visitors are not allowed to enter the gates of the estate, they are allowed to pass by and wonder at the iron gates, upon which are musical bars denot* Ing a once favorite tune, Teen Age Idol." (Wow!)

The tale further takes up the fact that the gates are electrically cMitroUed and can be opened by Elvis while he is sitting in his car or relaxing within his mansion.

The mansion is located on a 13-acre tract located outside the Memphis city limits.

Note that all this Is hearsay, but what stuff. Note also that Elvis didnt live there before he made the grade."

There are other tilings in life. While we were returning from a church conference the other day thinking how the story would go, a young bicycUst apparently was thhik-ing about something else, maybe one of Elviss songs.

We had a green light and were proceeding slowly along the right of way. When up loomed a boy on a bicycle, going through a red light, across our path.

Apparently he never saw us* probably never even thought-just went But we stopped in time. And he went on. But not looMng can cause a lot of accidents. Perhaps someones parents might see this.

GIVE

THE UNITED WAY

Saturday, September 10, 1960

Rules

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Reyonc. Relie::

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1960, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Way back in 1958, I got into an argument with a garage over a car and the argument resulted in a law-euit which is stjll pending. The whole business is no great shakes one way or the other, but the due process of the law is fascinating and 1 watch it with the keenest interest, although not with anxiety.

First of all. a small matter of this sort should not take so long. Suppose it were vital to the persons concerned- Ap-parentiy the course of Justice is so slow that witnesses die, complainants forget what they are complaining about, the defendants go out of business and one actually may not know whom he is suing. In fact, in this case, the garage about which I complain is no more. Even the building does not stand. The former owner* are remote persons who own many properties under varying corporate names and a customer is dealing with changeable hired hands who disappear from the scene or perhaps even from this Earth.

Secondly, I find the due process beyond belief stupid. No reporter could ever get at the facts of a situation if he had to ask questions such as lawyers do under the rules of evidence. No one really wants to know the truth which may be a product of conversations which lawyers call hearsay. They want descriptions of actions taken. "Did you talk to so - and - so on the telephone? "Yes!" But try to tell him the details of the discussion as you recall them and he objects. He wants you to answer only as he wants you to answer, which is nonsense.

I have Just been reading an examination before trail which was a waste of time and money because in this case It ended in a brawl. The lawyers questions were aimed at particularities which maybe helpful to his side but which actually could not be told truthfully according to the rules of evidence. These questions were aimed at suppressing the essential data

and I am told that . a Judge might uphold the elimination of what a witness regards as essential data.

Relevance is a matter of

knowledge. A witness may

know what is relevant because he is part of the situation. However, a lawyers attitude toward relevance has become so narrowed that it is no wonder that Perry Mason always licks the prosecuting attorney by making relevant matter admissible despite the rules of evidence.

Congressional committees, which are not bound by the

rules of evidence, get at the truth by other methods. The word, McCarthyism, has taken on the meaning of inquisition. Joe McCarthy is pictured as a sort of Torquemada who squeezed the facts out of a witness by. sheer brutality. Many persons would say that while they were favorably disposed toward ridding the country of Communists, which was McCarthys objective, they opposed and even despieed his methods.

By the rule* of evidence, most of ti questions that are asked by Congressional Committees are irrelevant although there Is no way of estabUshing a conspiracy except by building brick on brick until one of the conspirators either confesses or leads to the truth. A lawyer who depends upon the suppression of tiie truth to win his case may serve his client but he does not serve justice which is what the courts exist for.

My own experience with this thing does not matter and I am not pleading a case. I am pleading for speedy procedures, for eliminating pettifogging and time-wasting and the pushing aside of the ritual of the rules of evidence so that the facts of a case may be discovered or uncovered without delay. If the wheel* of Justice must grind slowly, let them grind for the purpose of making data available, not for suppo.sing.

Politicians have held up the increase in the number of Judges despite the delay in the hearing of cases both in State and Federal courts.

When Justice becomes too expensive a commodity, other ways have to be found to settle grievances. One way is by the employment of the wise man a non-legal adjudicator.

More Foreign Ties For Business

Strength For Today

By KARL L. DOUGLASS WALLS OF JKRiCMO

The waii* o Jericho leli down.

So run* the ancient Btbllcal story The place wa* an impregnable fortre.ss There was not the slightest chance In the world that Joshua and his Hebrew hort could capture It And If by-pass-efl. the danger of a fierce enemy lurking in the rear would be enough to keep the Hebrews from peace of mind, and probably frcma eventual victory.

But Gods promi.se was that the wall* would fall down The Hebrews were to march around march about them seven times. And they did, and blew the horn and the walls tumbled down.

What Is the meaning of this rtory? It is. first of all, the

divine acknowledgement that there are some problems In life which man himself can never solve. There are some victories he can never win b.v hi* own efforts The'second le.s.son ts that we should tnusl G'kIs as.surance that what our live* desperately need and yet cannot get ai-com-pUshed by any effort* of our own, God will do for us He will not do for u* what we can do for ourselves but If we have to confront some Jericho. God will take that situation into his own bands Let us be obedient and then dismiss the outcome from our minds.

Maybe you are confronted by such a Jericho no'.v Oheri'>nce, faith, and God's grace will win the victory for you.

By ELMER ROESSNKR

Biv business has long been Iniciaalioaal-mlnded. Many of out largest corporations already have -ient deep roots into other count. ,t* D the form of their own pro<io(tioii plants abroad and jot)I' investments with foreign nationals

Now medmm-stza and even smaller companies are aeeking to join the ranks of the busine.ss luteri.anunalksts. The reason Is not 'laid to find. Butinesa Is boommw abroad. LU^ten to this repor' from ju.st-returned Joseph Mors*-, financial vice president of Sun Chemical Corp < annual ales- $61 million) which operates more than 50 planks turning out Ink* coating*, resins, dye.stuffs and other product* for every segment of the economy.

"Ihe economy of Western Europe in a capaoit.v-pro-ducUon fuU-employmeut boom

that promises to rnn through

1961 and perhaps beyond, this 39-old finance expert reports. V.esierrt Hlttropes economic activi ' Is ruslng at a much (ah ' pHie than In the . S Jot Mor.se who developed his lni.ernUOiiai economic tastes while erring a* director of finance operations for giant Radio Corp of America, did not scout Europe from London to Istanbul niprcly to cojToboraie the contlneTitaJ txiom He was searching out business opportunities for fitni ''hemlrai. Since 1957, when Norman E. Alexander became If* president. Sun already has aet up show in Mexico. Venezuela, England and Prance, Before then, the company derived more than 99 per cent of Its annua! revenues from within our star-spangled shores A Canadian operation was Its only foreign stake. Now It says its foreign subsidiaries

are contributing an Increa.slngly algnifcant porton of Its volume.

Sun wants stlU more foreign business. Morse says, "Profit margins abroad are fatter and the tax climate is more favorable. We figure Sun will make its greatest strides In number of plants and volume of business in the next three to five years in European countries.

Nor Is Morse concerned that a U.S. recession may dim European prospects. He reasons:

' Their boom appears to be independent of the U S. economy. It feeds on domestic consumer demand in each of the European countries, which seem to be consuming all they produce over and above exports. Nor do we expect a recession at home."

Sun, sa.vs finance-man Morse, ha. one test for all Its development; return on Investment. Its applying that principle as en-thusastically abroad as here. . *

or vice-versa?

EASY-OPEN CAN MAY SPUR DO IT YOURSELF COOKING

Several years ago this column speculated that perhaps the do-it-yourself trend was being fostered by a dont-do-your own cooking trend. Women seemed to be using more ready-cooked foods in order to have time to build their own tables. The more you think about the new new easy-open can developed by Alcoe and United Shoe Machinery Corp., the more possibilities you see for a cook-it-yourself boomlet. The new cai Is being market-tested In Providence, R.I., as a container for frozen orange concentrate. To open It, you merely pull a tab which tears out a ttun, scored strip of aluminum around the circumference of the top. The top then comes free.

But whats going to happen to the can-opener industry?