FACE FOURFHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Tuesday, September 27, 1960

Tuesday, September 27, 1960

How Much Is Good Government Worth?

Big Outpouring Of Support For UN

Premier Khrushchevs .threat to destroy the United Nations unless it is revamped to suit his purposes comes at a moment in history when the international organization enjoys the greatest prestige and influence in its 15-year history.

The open threat by the Soviet Premier comes at a moment when the leaders of nations from the West, the East and the neutralist blocs have come together at the United Nations for the greatest gathering of heads of state in modern history.

Were the United Nations a weak, ineffective and unwanted agency in the field of international affairs, certainly the heads of state would not have come in great numbers to New York for the opening of the 15th annual .N. General Assembly. If the nations of the world were not determined to continue the peace-making efforts of the United Nations they would have concerned themselves with domestic problems in their own countries rather than coming to the U. N. session.

Although Khrushchevs assertion that the United Nations must be reorganized along the lines he calls for poses a threat to the U.N., the situation created by the Soviet Premier likewise has brought from many nations the greatest outpouring of support for the U.N. that has even been seen. Rather than marking the point at which the United Nations influence in international affairs takes a down-turn, we believe this historic 15th session will mark the beginning of a period of unprecedented strength and influence for the United Nations.

Individual nations throughout the world

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N.C. Provisions Comoare Wei.

By LYPN NISBET

- TIME OFF The Department Z f Personnel reports in its current publicatloD for State employees. *Career, on surveys made comparing vacation and

sick leave time in North Caro-lina with other ^tes and cities, rittat wwkcrs fare very well in

- the comparison. They can earn 15 days vacation time, which is three we^ based tm the five day work week. Vacation time can ba aaved and accumulate to

^50 days. <h* six weeks. Ten days .sick leave is granted each year. *wtth unlimited accumulation. In **addiU0D, the StsUe observes 10 holidays each year, equivalent to two work weeks.

Georgia gives the same va-caoQ time. 15 days sick leave with 120 maximum accumulation, and 11 annual holidays. Virginia 2 has amuage of 12 to 18 vacation I days vacation, depending upon teeure, with 24 days accumulation; IS days sick leave with 120 days accumulation, and 11 holidays.

The City of Raleigh allows 10 to 15 days vacation, with 22 days accumulati<m; 10 days earned

* sick leave with 60 days accu-]^mulatioii, and 7 holidays.

* The survey discovered that most government units pay fc* unused vacation time when the employee leaves the service. None pays for unused sick leave. The common limit on sick leave

accnmulation is 60 days.

Most states and cities give

* paid holidays on New Year, Memcwial, Ind^>endence, Labor, Thanksgiving. Veterans (Old Armistice) and Christmas days. In North C^upolina Easter Monday is a legal holiday, and practice is to take at least three days

* eff for Christmas.

* Public school teachers arc re-

- quired to devote 180 days to classro(n teaching, and are given two before and one after. They ref to these as two to art up and one to clean up.'*

HIGHWAY ASSET George Stephens of Asheville, chairman of the Travel Councils roads ^committee, comes up with some suggestions for capitalizing on the Interstate System of highways to promote more jobs for North Carolinians. He notes that travelers from the industrial areas in the northeast and midwest will end their first days trip just Inside North Carolina. So will northbound travelers from Florida and the Gulf Cites.

Information centers at the points where the I-numbered roads (and some other major highways) entw the state could ba established and manned at very small cost in relation to the sTice they would render. Thess centers at modest outlay

could show how North Carolina is building for the future: The Research Triangle; University teaching and services to the people: statewide modem public school system with bus transportation; largest State maintained highway system in the countryand no tolls: statewide research; also the national and state parks, private owned but public used lakes and beaches, etc.

The idea contemplates one high-class attendant at each Information center to give out leaflets, arrange for push-button sound movies, and explain other pictures and charts.

The construction, maintenance and operation of these centers would run into a good many dollars. Stephens and other advocates of the project feel sure that they will yield dividends far above the cost. The State already has welcoming billboards at most major highways entrances, but they afford no information about the advantages in North Carolina.

FAIRGROUND SPEECHES S:retary of Agriculture Ezra Benson will speak at the N.C. State Fair on Wednesday, October 12, in behalf of the Republican party. Harry Truman, former President of the United States, will speak the following day for the Democrats, Question has arisen about how to bandle fairground admission charges for these occasions. Pinal decisiwi has not been announced, but majority opinion among all those jointly responsible for arrangements is that r^-ular admission charges should be maintained. Under that plan the political speeches can be classed as extra attractions for fair visitors; and the sponsoring political parties will benefit by the crowds drawn on account of the fairand a cost-free arena for the speakings.

Both the Benson and Truman speeches will be <m the air wid thousands who do not go to the fairgrounds will be able to hear them. Those who do go at the regular 75 cents admission charge will be able to see the speakers at closer rangejust like guests at the $50 and $100 plate money raising dinners get a closer look at the speakers than outside radio and teevee audiences.

At that, the fair management is apt to come on the short end of the deal. Wednesday and Thursday crowds us-usdly fill the fairgrounds to capacity anyway, so the drawing power of the politicos is no great advantage. And many of the activities from which the fair makes money will be suspended during the speechmaking.

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showing thoir confidence as never before in the ability of the U.N. to cope successfully with problems that threaten world peace. With this greater confidence there has come more and stronger support for the undertakings of this international organization.

History alone will tell whether Premier Khrushchev has over played his hand this time in his violent attack upon the United Nations and his threat to continue the cold war unless the U.N. is revamped to suit his own purposes.

In spite of the uncertainties of the moment, however, signs point to a strengthening of the United Nations during and after the present crisis rather than a deterioration of its position in world affairs.

Calling To Reflector Readers Attention

Elsewhere on this page The Daily Reflector is carrying an editorial written by Henry Belk of the GoWsboro News-Argus.

We call our readers* attention to this impression of Senator John Kennedy as set forth by one of the senior editors of Eastern Carolina.

Editor Henry Belk is widely known in our state as an able newspaperman and as a layman leader in the field of education.

His editorial writing is of a personal style seldom found today; largely, we suspect, because it is the most difficult form to pursue in the often hurried world of editorial writers. You will recognize, we are sure, in his writing the qualities of warmth and thoughtfulness, of deep insight and studied words . . , which have been his hallmark for many years.

Editor Belk was in Greenville and in Raleigh to hear and assay the Democratic candidate for the presidency.

The Reflector believes his impressions are well worth attention of Pitt County readers.

No Reason Now

To Stay Arounc.

By DON SCHLIENZ

The Scattering Of Seec.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Premier Nikita Khnishchev, having done h best to paraljrze the United Nations, has no reason for staying around now except to watch a cripple try to walk.

He had two purposes in coming hereto make propaganda and to undermine the United Nations. He accomplished both.

By his performance last week in New Yorkdespite the bleeding heart he exhibited to backward pe<^leshe showed himself a h3T>ocritc, a destructive force, a bully and a bore.

It Is perhaps no accident he seems upset by the thought of death and disaster. It may be a pattern of his mind. Just read his speech to the United Nations vid many previous speeches.

He dwells on annihilation.

His two-hour speech to the United Nations could have been delivered in an hour. It was a long-winded kind he delivers to captive audiences in Moscow. It had a few moments of thunder. As a whole it was a bore.

Khrushchev talks peace but he acts like a man frightened of it.

For more than a year he desperately wanted a summit meeting. Then at the last moment, after the U2 spy plane incident, he backed away and wrecked it.

It was thought at the time he might have been trying to save face.

But he came to this country where it was possible at the United Nations to make a new start toward peaceful settlement. Instead, he exploded in denunication and undermined the worlds greatest agency for peace.

He talked, as he has many times before, of the need for disarmament. The next day he made disarmament impossible by declaring there could be none unless he had his way in demanding a basic change in the U.N. itself.

This was when he castigated Dag Hammarskjold, U.N. secretary-general, who had been critical of the Soviets efforts to penetrate the Congo when the United Nations was trying to restore peace there.

Khrushchev called for revising the fundamental stinicture of the United Nations by eliminating

Hammarskjolds job and creating a three-man secretariat to run the show.

One man would represent* communism, one the West, and the third the neutral nations. Under the setup a veto by any of the three would paralyze the United Nations.

But Khrushchev knew his idea was impossible of achievement when he offered it.

What it boils down to is an effort to bulldoze the world organization into not interfering with Russian adventures in the future. Khrushchev did it by expressing a lack of confidence in the ganizatlon.

This leaves the future usefulness of the United Nations badly damaged if not ruined.

Khrushchev spent more time in his speech on the evils of colonialism than he did on anything else, demanding that all territories now held by any power be immediately freed.

Here he was at his hypocritical worst, for he said: It could be said that it is easy for the Soviet Union to speak for the elimination of the colonial regime since the Soviet Union has no colonies.

But the Soviet Union is the newest and biggest colonial power. Witness the bondage of Russias European satellites. The proof: Khrushchevs bloody su-pression of the Hungarians when they tried to shake off communism.

Why does he act this way? Perhaps it is in his nature, crude ^nd explosive. Perhaps he feels it is necessary, as has been said, to convince the Red Chinese and his Kremlin critics that he is stalwart Indeed.

Perhaps it is none of those but this: Russia has now tremendous power in weapons and he is bent on using that force if only through threats because he fears American counterforceto blackmail his way through.

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Is there a teacher shortage? If so, its hard to pin down. There are 47.6 per cent more teachers now than in the 1949-50 period. The number of pupils has increased too, of course, but to a lesser degree44.9 per cent.Industrial News Review.

Strength For Today

Bv E.4RL L. DOUGLA.SS FlSHERMANhS LUCK

In the little seaside New England town where we have often spent part of the summer, one of the most popular forms of recreation is fishing. Every day dozens of boats go out. from humble rowboats powered by outboard motors to ihirty-thous-and-doUar sport cruisers, all full of eager fishermen.

For ten days last summer the fish did not bite Every afternoon we saw dejected men walking gloomily away from their boats, argiftng about different theories of baft, tides, weather, and all the other variables which can affect fishing.

But there was one man who ^as different. He had been out fishing too, and like the rest of us he had not caught anything. But he had a good time even so. He enjoys boating for its own sake. He loves the motion of the waves, the fresh breeze across the bay, the ' marveloms effects of cloud, sky, and water. Pish or no fish, he has a good time, and comes home relaxed and happy.

ll^hLs man has an attitude toward life that we can all admire. Because he looks around to seek beauty siid happiness, he

finds them. Where other people concentrate on their disappointments. he refuses to make himself miserable becau.se the fish dont bite, but look further to find the cheerful aspects which experience has tau'iht him are always there. He ha*, dricavered the secret of contentment.

. To him fishing is a snort, not a game or a project of over-whelming importance. Just fishing.

GIVE

This Is the season for a lot of things . . . among them the scattering of winter grass seed across ones lawn. And to be honest about it, I think the Schlienz - technique of seed-scattering is as good as any and better than most.

It has a classical aspect, borrowed from a painting viewed in the long ago entitled The Sower, as I remember. The artist is unrecailed; and whether the picture adorned a calendar or a gallery, I could not say. But like the figure in the scene, I clutch to my bosom a sack of seed and with right hand gracefully throw broad

cast the precious stuff which is to give me and mine a green lawn come wintertime.

So it isnt the sowing to be blamed for total failure these past two winters , . . the old throwing arm is still good, and the price of grass seed these days prohibits suspicions in that direction.

As a matter of fact, neighbors told me the 1958-59 crop didnt show because the weather was too dry too long before the freezes set in.

The 1959-60 crop fmy own deduction, here) failed nje because it was sown too late in the season.

This seasons seed was spread soon after the Hurricane incident. We have had no rain since, only heavy dews. There has been also an abundance of birds alighting on our yard, and their take-offs are said to remind one of an overloaded cargo plane.

Question: What do you have to do to win?

Cant Follow Plot But Commercials Are Louc,

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)Curbstone comments of a Pavement Plato:

The United Nations meeting are getting more and more like a bad TV show you cant always follow the plot, but the commercials sure do come in loud and clear.

The United States certainly could take lessons from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in one thinghow to get rid of a surplus supply of com.

Just when everyone was worrying about the survival of the American way, Casey Stengel and the New York Yankees came through with another baseball pennant. It never pays to give up hope too soon.

There is a growing suspicion that Pidel Castro of Cuba doesnt know the difference between 5 oclock shadow and the hour before midnight.

So many police are guarding the international statesmen gathered here for the U. N. meeting that anyone In Manhattan not wearing a uniform looks like an exhibitionist.

The easiest way to tell a civilian is this* Hes the guy without a motorcycle escort.

Khrushchevs threat to make 10 more U.N. speeches has an ominous ring to it. Once- he

said. "Well bury you.** Now it is becoming obvious how he intends to do this not with a spade but with oratory.

Demosthenes learned to speak well by putting a pebble In his mouth. Khrushchev has gone him one better. Hes trying to' do the same thing with a foot.

A lucky accident happened to one of our friends who was listening to the Soviet premiers tirade via television. The battery in his hearing aid went dead at the same time the picture tube blew out.

At last we can get even with Fidel Castro for seizing a billion dollars in U.S. assets in Cuba. We can make Castro who is a baseball fan. pay his own way to see the World Series.

The city fathers here are considering changing their tourist slogan to New York is a Summit Festival.

The international crisis has already had this result .in one home:

After intently watching President Eisenhowers . N. address, a wife told her husband:

"What impressed me most was that Ike was wearing a vest. So if you want a vest with your new suit, go ahead and buy it.

It says here (Im reading, now), that about the easiest way to pick up lunch money today is to bet the average man that he cant tell you how much snuff is sold in this country.

Four thousand pounds a year, would you say? Ten thousand? Fifty thousand A hundr'' thousand?

In almost a hundred cases out of a hundred, your manif he takes your bet at allwont come Within shouting distance of the actual, true figure of 34,200,000 pounds sold in these united States in the last fiscal year.

This data is furnished for free from the Snuff Information Center, 250 Park Avenue, New York.

After fourteen years of being surrounded by tobacco and tobacco talk, youd think I would know about the snuff business. But I didnt . . . and I bet you didnt cither.

Nobody can sneeze at 84 million pounds of snuff, unless you take it a pinch at a time.

I think Americans got their moneys worth last night in the opening Great Debate.

For the past couple days I can vouch for the fact there has been considerable local interest in the Kennedy-Nixon meeting on TV. A surprising number of people have mentioned it to me in casual conversation ... with a high degree of anticipation.

And, considering my relative immobility, the frequency with which the anticipation was raised by the few folk Ive encountered, it was truly a great audience waiting . . . this, I know.

This show really hit the road with a bang.

Course

Of The Chile.

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

Education is the accumulation of knowledge in' an orderly manner. This functicm begins almost at birth. We learn to identify objects; to know persons; to establish preferences as a baby prefers its mother to a stranger, the family dog to a prowlw, the doll that the baby takes to bed to the smoke of a cigarette. In Ume, the child learns to walk, to talk, to fear, to be careful, to know what is permissible, -what is good and what brings punishment. If there is no punishment, everything is good and is permissible.

This p r 0 c e s s continues throughout life, but there is a period between the ages of five and 18 when the process of learning is accelerated and when it occupies the childs principal attention and time. It Is the period when the child, beginning with kindergarten, goes to elementary scho<ri and to high school. The basic education of the Individual is laid down in those years. If it is not done properly and adsquately then, it is likely never to be done at all. Education is discipline of the mind and of the personality. Without discipline, a human being becomes a barbarian no matter how much veneer is used to clothe the person in the trappings <rf the day.

In the early school years, the ohfid learns first the simple mechanics of acquiring knowledge, reading, writing, mathematics, the processes of nature, something about the physical sciences, some history, something about governmeht, the distinction between one language and another, hygiene, end such fundamentals.

But there is another side to all this. This prolonged period of intense education must include drilling in self-restraint which is the essence of character-building; patriotism which is more than love of country it is self-respect; and In a well-. organized society, the child is safeguarded frtHn ugly egotism by discovering that there is a Power beyond himself, outside of himself, whose majestic intelligence rings balance into, the universe and makes for living. The child discovers advantages of self-restraint and the value of dignity of person. The child also learns communal living, of belonging. The best portrayal of this phenomenon currently on television is Dobie Gillis.

This is the beginning of education and if it is incomplete, the child suffers in later years. Many continue the process of educati(m in colleges and universities; a few continue it all their lives. But there are persons who accumulate no education, whose schooling U serving time as one might do in a prison. These unfortunates suffer all their lives from the effects of a wasted childhood and youth.

Some children are fortunate in that during tiiis process of education, they encounto* a noble and imqiirlng character, a teacher whose human qualities are so elevatinyg that it Mfts the child <h* the teiWMer out of the doldrums of usual life by example or by jnrecept. These inspired teacher are not too usual but surprisingly there are more of them than is generally supposed In these days. Children spealc of them in their own vernacular. No machine, no television screen, no trick charts can be a substitute for a fine teacher. There are men who reach their 60s and 70s who recall a teacher who has enriched tteir lives and whose words have rung in their ears all their days.

When one reads that because of a shortage of teachtn or the high cost of teachers, elos-(Contlnued on Paft ) -

A Study Of Kennedys N.C. Visit

THE UNITED WAY

By Henry Belk, Editor (The Goldsboro News-Argus) Sen. John Kennedy understands better than he has yet stressed the dangerous days upon which the United States has come. He would like more soberly to present this crisis in the presidential campaign. He may yet do so.

That is my considered opinion of this earnest young man alter hearing him at Greenville and listening to him at Raleigh.

Kennedy knows better than we do ;hat America today from al .S people requires the brand oi couiage shown by the figures of history "celebrated by the MassachOf.etUs man in his Pulitzer prize-winning book "Pro-file.s in Courage There are a doztn or so great |X)llt:cal tig-u e.s jjroMed in the yrok. All of ti; 01 are politic.ans Their couia4e v\as ihe daring to do when the cards were down what theii hearts and their consciences told them had to be done for tlif best in'crests of the nation. Thc.r vo:*. in critical issues hel<i on lie one hand security, I. :rs nal prestige, even riches. O.i the o n.h that vote meant i !it;<"ol ru'. t meant to wait: slone a.id l( . a parish among men, . nei. al at. spat upon. But these great ones of Kennedys historically accurate book put their own hearts ano con.scicnces and the te-qu.renient.s of their country above peisonal preferment.

Spirit For Today It is a thriJling book. It Is a book which rabes the level

of esteem and recognition for

mere man in his best moments. It is a patriotic document in all its chapters which makes the blood run warmer because it

tells how man when under

greatest threat and stress can rise above mere humanity and prove that he is a little les.s

than the angels. If you havent read this book, you will want to do so, I am told that It is now available in the paper backs and that a new 19-cent edition is due out soon.

At Greenville the General Manage- ard I sat only a few f?et from Sen, Kennedy during his talk. At Raleigh I was so tired that I went to* bed in a hntel and listened by tf*levision a;'d the radio. The General VI mger again had a .seat In the pre-ss section not far removed from the speaker,

Bot!) in his talks arul in hi'^ an.sv^ rinr of que.stions. Kenne-dv .<i!!owed t e knnw.s the grave (lunger v.h'ch fa^es as. He kno'ti; (00 that (he soft and ea.'^v. se(-wi)led, self - serviag mood of the ppople is not eoual to the ta.^k wlreh is upon u.s Kei.nrdv cal* d the rolls of critical times and fe red to the njen who rase f. .>m auipiv the people to lead I's t'-roigh dark da vs. He veferrrd to the Demo(-at.s. of course, a.s the partv for all of the peo de and particularly in critical davy I thought that back of his pronouncements 1 detected a great wish to take the people fully into his confidence and give tliem the score. He wondered, one' felt, if they would

accept now the harsh and cruel facts of our situation, or if it is necessary that advancing days bring more outward events of such import as regards our future that he who runs may need,

America Stowing Down

Even as Kennedy air-stormed at Greenville. Greensboro. Charle tie Raleigh Russias Premier Khrushchev rith a full retinue of satellite leade'^ was moving by ship toward our shores.

Castro, the new Cuban dictator. was packing with a bodyguard of scores and a staff of other scores to join Mr. K at the UN in New York.

The world has watched as. The world saw us practically ignore our Good Neighbors of Latin America, except to sloganize them as good neighbors, until Castros acceptance of Russian and Chinese friendship forced us to move. Hurriedly W made a half billion dollars available to them for various aid projects. Those Latins know, with a smile and a wink, the situation in which we find our-selvr.s. with Communism in fa-w 0 c'o e Ip us: they know V ed in self iiuerest and if t.iiic is a quesi on of our s.ncerity it is mast natural.

Kennedy stressed Ihe necessity for the U-S. to be first In ability to defend or to make war. A second best arms defease Is not better than the second best in a poker hand, he observed.

But what we must dofor defense and' lor survival cannot

be done by industry and armament, planes, missiles and subs alone. Such great strength mast be backed by the willing sacrifices, the belt tightening of the nation, a giving up of whatever of soft, forgetful living may be required.

Time is running out for us. The enemy of sloth, of ease, of encroaching Communism, of leveling off economy, this enemy pushes as close to us as did the Germans against England when Churchill made his blood, sweat and tears call.

One listening to Kennedy knew that he knows that we must kindle the lost spirit of "I regret that I have only one life to give to my country. It ia as simple as that. The vise may not crush you and me in our day, but that cruel vise will crush our children if we cannot find our way back to the spirit which Iq old days moved earth and heaven and made of America the greatest hope of man everjrwhere.

But as of today, Kennedy must follow the pageantry, the glamor, the way even of entertainment, of bands and parades, and hurrahs in seeking the votes.

Come on. Sen. Kennedy and Vice President Nixon, give it td as straight. Take off the brakes. Let us see exactly where we stand. Let us have the true picture. Americans can take it and do what they mast, and if they do not we shall be a Ru&slan sattellite nation before another 50 years rolls ruun(]