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THE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C.

Friday, September 30, 1960

Friday, September 80, 1960

One-Man Uplift Program

This Campaign Touches All Of Us

The 1960 United Fund campaign in Pitt County is now underway. It represents the means our people have of supporting a multitude of agencies and services that reach us all.

If anyone has a better way of doing the job wed be happy to hear it.

The only alternative to a combined fund-raising job, that we can conceive, is a multitude of little individual drives.

Were all of us too familiar with how that works ... one solicitation after the other, month in and month out; and each month brings nearer the time when community giving is overwhelmed by unending demands.

A considerable number of able and unselfish Pitt Countians have been devoting recent weeks to preparatory United Fund work. Their intention is to finish up the campaign on October 29. It wont be easy. No UF campaign in Pitt has yet reached its goal despite several extensions.

This year it is generally felt that stretching out the campaign would partly ser\e to defeat its purpose, that of one fast and businesslike program of systematic

solicitation. ^ ^ .

Despite the reasonableness of the United Fund program, despite the careful preparatory planning, despite the devoted efforts of campaign workers in the month ahead, it can fail unless the people of the community are convinced of the drives worth and that they are personally involved in all it represents.

Well, we are all involved.

United Fund represents the things taxes do not buy: Scouting program, the American Red Cross, the Association for the Blind, the Mental Health Association, the Salvation Army, the Association for Retarded Children, Carolinas United (10 State and National agencies), and 14 Pitt County Community Services.

In one way or another, these UF members touch the lives of every individual adult in Pitt County, and many if not most of the children. The work of thoseProving i ravel s Big Business

By LYNN NISBET

NATOThe National Association of Travel Organizations in tta 20th annual conference at Virginia Beach afforded further testimony to the fact that trav- is big business. The 400-odd attendants represented 38 states and three foreign countriesCanada. England and Mexico, and Included several high ranking Federal officials.

rustics were given showing that travel last year was a S28 billion business In the United States. Considerable emphasis was placed upon international travel. For more than 30 years the United States government has promoted travel of Americans in other countries, but only since World War n has any attention been given to promoting travel from Europe to the United States.

The goal of the government agencies and privately financed organizations Is to attain a balance, a situation in which foreign visitors would spend as much in the United States as American tourists now spend abroad. That figure is in excess of three billion dollars a year.

Chief barriers to interchange t travel among nations is government red tape including exchange of money, and lack of free communication because of language and social customs. The teaching of foreign languages in our schools so that \ls-ttors could talk with our people i^re and we could make ourselves understood in other lands was suggested as a great boost to international travel. And the result of this free communication would be a long step toward solution of many w'orld ^oblems.

ILLUSTRATIONThis was illustrated at the international luncheon'* Monday, when men from Canada and England spoke asily, whc the Mexican representative obviously had to give thought to each word.

John Fisher, director of the Canadian Tourist Association, made the principal talk at the luncheon. He emphasized the difference in attitudes of visit-rs between the United States and Canada and the recent disturbances in New York involving the Castro and Khrushchev parties. He said if he could have handled the Khrushchev visit he would have taken him to Niagara Falls and shown him that

mass of water and explained that neither the United States nor Canada could touch a drop of that water without consent of the other. And there has been no trouble between the two nations in 150 years. That's the way the world could operate if all nations understood and respected the rights of others.

TAR HEELSNorth Carolina was well represented at the nation-wide travel meeting. About two dozen delegates registered from this state and four appeared on the programCharlie Parker, Hugh Morton, Ed Rankin and Lynn Nisbet. The North Carolina exhibit of travel promotional material and advertising was one of the best. That despite the fact that many other states, through combination of private and public funds, spend several times as much money for such publicity as does North Carolina.

SHERLOCHOne of the men on the Amoco bus party from Durham to Baltimore for the Colt-Redskm ball game decided to do a little shopping in Baltimore. He bought a nice present for his v.ife ana .several

toys for the kids. When he got

back to the hotel room he discovered he had left the wifes

package in the cab. But he did not remember the number of the cab, or even the company. A colleague suggested the number on the cabbies cap. From that starting point the license section of the police department was contactedand half an hour later the man had recovered his package.

WHATS IN A NAME? The National Association of Travel Organizations for 20 years called its annual meetings conventions. Last year the designation was changed to conference The reason; Somebody said the word conference connoted more .serious study than conventionwhich often means just a good time gathering.

This year the slogan Vi.it USA in 1%0 wa.s abbreviated to Vnsit USA Reason: Why limit the campaign for increa.s-ing foreign travel to jast one year? It was agreed all around that it must be a long range program. \Mth rui-ults of this years activity not showing up for three to five years from now.

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Agcncies or programs which do not personally affect the individual now, may well become important to him or her in the future.

While the goal of $111,000 is a respectable sum, it is by no means out of reasonable range of all the people of Pitt County as long as each bears his small share of the total. Lets remember in the solicitation that many services and many agencies are involved, and contribute accordingly. It will do much toward helping the UF meet its target date, it will do much toward making Pitt County a better place in which to live.

Greater Participation In Affairs Is Required

Greenville voters pushed their city toward another progressive step this week as they overwhelmingly approved bond issues totaling $550,000 for a variety of capital improvement programs.

As a result of the bond election, Greenville will get a new fire substation and equipment to prevent an increase in the citys fire insurance rating; it will get a new Negro library and needed improvements to Sheppard Memorial Library; and a revolving fund to be used to pave many of the citys dirt streets that year after year put a heavy maintenance burden on the citys budget.

These and the other items approved in the bond issues put Greenville in a position to move ahead by providing better services to its citizens and meeting the increasing demands being made upon it by its continued growth.

While approval of the bond issues provides a source of encouragement for the future progress of the city, the fact that a relatively small portion of the eligible voters of Greenville participated in the election was a source of disappointment. Slightly more than 750 voters cast their ballots in Tuesdays referendum. That figure represents about 10 per cent of the number of eligible voters in Greenville. It means that about five per cent of the total number of eligible voters could have decided whether the important bond issues were approved or disapproved.

If Greenvile is to continue on the road of progress, there must be a greater participation of citizens in affairs of government than was represented by the number of people who voted in Tuesdays referendum.

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By ALVIN TAYLOR

The Word Gets Arounc.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) So far the unfiery 1960 presidential campaign is like a Sunday stroll In the park compared with some blazing campaigns of the recent past, for instance: 1952 and

1956.

Until now Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John P. Kennedy have liattled each other on a fairly high and often dull plane, pretty much free of personal assaults and recriminations.

There are some good reasons for the difference.

Issues are less exciting, circumstances are different, and in the past others besides the presidential candidates got mixed up in the contest in a red-tiot way.

In sheer voter excitement todays issues like teachers pay, medical care and better defense, which cant be visualized dont compare with such 1952 sore spots as McCarthyism, the Korean War, corruption and Reds in government.

Even the 1956 campaign, easier on the blood pressure than 1952, erupted in crashing climax when the Hungarians revolted and President Eisenhower had to interrupt his speech-making to get the British-French-Israeli troops out of Egypt.

That 1952 campaign was a lulu. Before it even began Eisenhower had a knockdown fight with Sen. Robert A. Taft for the nomination. And Adlai E. Stevenson, who didnt want the Democratic bid, had to be drafted to take it.

EvenUs. some of them under and some beyond Eksenhowcrs control, kept throwing diamatic logs on the Lre.

He had a reconciliation wuth Taft, he backed McCarthy, he banged his old bo.ss. President Truman, and Truman, never a political patsy, banged him back. The campaign sizzled all the way through.

And the man Eusei.liower was to pick as his secretary of state. John Foster Dulln.s. got him into a jam - which Eisenhower had to explain away by sugge.'^t-

ing the Republicans would encourage the Communist satellites to revolt

In the end with the most dramatic gesture of all Eisenhower promised to go to Korea if elected. All through the campaign both sides hit each other with charges and countercharges.

The present campaign is a pale echo of that one with Kennedy not going much beyond saying the Eisenhower administration didnt do enough things for the country and Nixon saying things are pretty dandy.

Customarily the vice-presidential candidates are so over-shadowed by the No. 1 men that a year after election most voters probably cant remember w'ho the unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate wa.s.

This year the vice-presidential candidates are running true to form. The Democrats' Sen. Lyndon Johnson is beating the bushes away off on the fringes of Kennedys campaign trail, almost out of sight.

Nixons partner, Henry Cabot Lodge, is kicking up a bit of a fuss, getting on TV and getting around, but his greatest publicity came from visits to the borscht belt in the Catskills and bathing beaches on a Sunday.

The dullness lingers although before this 1960 campaign is over Kennedy qr Nixon, depending on which one thinks hes losing, may trot out the bare-knuckles technique.Quote.,,

What probably gripes mo.st Americans most is the fact the Russians capture one of our men spying over the Soviet Union, and they make a world .-pectacle out of hi.s trial. 'We ( apture scores of Soviet agents ojierating in the USA., and mo.st ot them are simply sent back to Russia Without fanfare ,^d(ii.son (N Y.) Adver-ti.'.er.

My little neice Kim went to the dentist recently. She didnt like it. She bit his finger.

This perturbed the dentist no end. but being a good dentist he pried her mouth open removed his finger and finished the job.

Kim, is only three and most of her playmates are approximately the same age. But even among this group new's travels fast.

So when the time came for Lynn Laughinghouse, 3-year-old daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Billy Laughinghouse to go to the dentist, her mother had to do some coaxing.

Lets go see the dentist," the mother said.

Does he wer a white coat?"

asked the little girl.

Her mother replied that he did but that he was a nice man.

I dont know. said Lynn. There must be something wTong with him or else Kim wouldnt have bit him.

Oh well, these things happen.

mented Kennedy will appoint Hodges Commissioner of Hurricanes.

In big time circles the job seeks the man.

A group of newspapermen went to Washington awhe back to interview Kennedy. Of course, there has been much talk of North Carolinas Gov. Hodges being appointed to an important post if Kennedy is elected president.

As newsmen will, this group speculated on what that position W1 be.

I have it, one wag com-

Other Editors Saying Earmers Are Individuals

(Washington Daily News)

Why is it that labor unions can swing so much political power and farmers seem so impotent in that regard?

That question has been asked so often. There was a time when the farmers spoke w'ith a clear ringing voice in politics, but that w'as before the day of the labor unions became so strong.

Today a national political candidate, by necessity it seems, must make his first appeal to labor unions. Then along the way somewhere he courts the farmers in a sort of left-handed way.

We have organizations of farmers. We have the Grange, the Farm bureau, and several other such organizations. But the farmer is an individual. He believes now, as he has always believed, that each American has a right to speak or not to speak as the desire impels him. If he believes something, he has a right and duty to speak his mind. If ne dksbelieves something mind. If he disbelieves something, he has the same right to keep quiet. In a sort of logical way he believes that once he submerges his own thinking to join what seems to him to be an automatic voice such as many labor unions seem to have, he has lost his individuality.

The farmer points with pride to that little piece of ground I own. The union member can seldom make such a claim. Farm mechanization and operational costs have combined to cause many farmers to leave the land and go to the cities in search of work. Many of them then become labor union members. but if they go back to the farm, they once more become individuals rather than cog.s in a giant movement.

As more and more farmers have gone from the land, of course the number remaining on the farms has decreased. Today perhaps less than 10 per cent of our population actually Is compased of farmers. But this percentage is raising enough farm products to feed all the rest of us and have surpluses too. in this country.

If the farmers stood together with the cohesiveness of the labor unions, then surely their political voice would be much louder than it is. But farmers still prefer individuality. And that quality is passed on from father lo son through generations.

Even within one organization, weve seen one type of farmer favor a program and another type oppose it. In truth, it can be said that many times the national Farm bureau and the State Farm bureau here in North Carolina stand at odds.

The idea of that word union seems so often to go against the farm grain. The North Carolina farmer does not want to join any farm union which would d ictate to him what he must do or must not do. He wants to be the determiner of his own destiny be that destiny political, economic, or social.

After all is said and done, there is something real great about the attitude of the average North Carolina farmer. He might not have the political power in an organization. He might not have much money left at the end of the year when he pay.s his debts. But he ha.s something which money cannot buy and which politicians cannot swing his individual personality. And in that area he finds real greatness.

A couple of fires have come along in the last few days which again point up the need for a rural fire truck here.

One was a tar fire in a warehouse near the city limits. Two volunteer firemen put it out with a hand extinguisher, but It had the potential of being a major fire.

The other was a house that burned down in North Greenville. also just beyond the city limits. Local firemen couldnt go to either one. The Fire Underwriters who control fire insurance rates, wont alV?w the trucks to go beyond the city limits.

However a move Is underway to obtain a rural fire truck. This piece of equipment would be kept in Greem^le for fighting these fires outside the city limits.

Lets hope it is soon in coming.Opinions

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"VVc are fast becoming a people who camiot see beyond our nose. All the bureaucratic red tape, regulations and poppycock connected with our ready attitude of Tll accept anything has created a dependence on our government which weas the governmentcan 111 afford, Clanton lAla.) News. ^

A wdt observes: The 10 per cent federal tax on air conditioners is the closest Uncle Sam has come yet to putting a tax on the air we breathe,A Value

La.'^t year U. S. tourists spent two billion dollars overseas, about one billion more than visitors spent in this country. Thus, getting more foreigners to visit and spend In the United States is one way to help close the trade gap. It will also help relieve an economic pinch on the American travel industry. Antigo (Wise.) Journal.

Of course, Khrushchev, Castro, Gomulko, Tito & Company are entitled to visit the international no mans land when they please. But. ironically, they arc able to come to the U.S. to do their dirty work because the U.S. wanted it that way.Wall Street Journal,in me Atoning

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Ck^yiight, MO, King F^torca Syndicate, Inc.

The Jews tonight begin the celebration of their moat holy day. the day ol faating, or meditation, of confession, contrition and atonement. For 24 hour*, Jews fast and many of those hours are spent in prayer.

Sin has a very long history in human consciousness. It is the knowledge not only of unlawful conduct but ol a violation of conscience. The laws of man may change from time to time, but conscience transcends the laws of man. Conscience is an automatic unfavorable mental response not (mly to action but to thought. .

For instance, one was startled as he listened to Khrushchevs speech before the United Nations that this man literally lied but a,ppeared to be as sincere when he lied as when he told the truth. In a word, his conscience does not trouble him. His consciousness of sin is very remote. The Jews, in their long association with the Natural Law, over a period of four or five thousand years, first with Hammurabi and then with Moses, knew that sin is a poison that destroys nations as it does men.

The tale about Lots wife an-doubtedly was designed to point dramatically to the perils of an amoral life. Lot, you may recall, left Sodom because of the vile habits of its inhabitants but his wife, who enjoyed the life of the sinful city, turned to have a last look at the place and was turned into a pillar of salt.

It is this concept of sin and retribution that is rapidly passing out of OT lives in this era of materialism. For if there is no free will, there can be no lin. If man is a product of accidental forces playing upon each other, there can be no retribution. That is right which succeeds and A1 Capone was not punished for murder but lor failure to pay his income taxes. So Khrushchev can stand before the United Nations and speak a series ol lies, known to all who listen to be lies, known to Khrushchev to be lies; nevertheless, the lies become facts because Khrushchev spoke them. They are facts of history. They are facts that will have to be dealt with because Khrushchev demanded a reorganization of the United Nations administration and that must be accepted or rejected.

So, in an era which IgnMTS sin and retribution, disowler can be proposed as a solution to current problems and the shock is not sufficiently great because moral resistance to evil is not sufficiently great.

This Is really what the Day ol Atonement is about. The Jews have been worshipping on this day throughout their history not merely because it is a holiday but as a recognition that they have transgressed.

On the day before Yom Kip-pur, we sat down to an evening meal and then we went to the synagogue where my father clothes himself in white garments and In a woolen prayer shawl. The prayers were intense and sincere and many wept and some even cried out loud for their sins were heavy upon them. Slowly one walked home and soon went to bed, for neither food nor drink were permissible and conversation was short. The following morning, we went to the synagogue ear-ly and stayed until sundown. Everyone fasted. True, one went out for a breath of air, but the older ones stayed throughout the day in constant prayer and confession of sin.

The late afternoon service on Yom Kippqr is particularly beautiful if one knows Hebrew and has a love for mysticism. The body has been conquered. Hunger has been overcome without food. Thirst has been slackened without drink. The tears are dry. The heart feels refreshed. The sins have been washed away and one returns to the world hopeful for a better year and a better life.

Whoever has never experienced thLs enormous emotional baptism does not really know how profoundly the human spirit can express itself even in the simplest person. On such a day, one feels that God Is near and that His words are clear. It is not possible to have lived through such a day casually: (Continued on page iivc)

Strength For Today ppj^sonal Income Rise Is Smal.

Bv FARI. h. 1)01 BLA.SS .SI BKEMK VALl FS

As St. Paul lay a pn>Oiier i:t p Roman diinsi>n. he wrute t i bus young coilea-ue iiniothy aiel said; Do your very be.Nt come to me before wnter. Ancll^ ttic cloak that I left at Troas with Carpu:. when thou come.st. bring vith tliee, and the book.>. but especially llie paicliirient.s.

These parchnient.s were un-(ioubtedly the Old Te.liiiiu':it scripturei,, tlu* only Bible yvhu h both Jew.s and Clin-st.aiis at th;U tiine po.s.se.s.'ed I want telIow.lnp. .said Paul--'Uo yoiir very b;*. t to come lo me before winter

I need a w ai m-cloack - briny the one I lelt at TroaX* with Carpin Bring my boolcs, for my niiiiri b: hungry. But e.speciaHy briim me the parthmentsj-the Bible -for the hunger ofJ my soul ls the most poignant/of all

More Bible.s ayr printed every day than any,<Jmer book. Yet we wonder .s^ietimc.'^; wlio reads them. In/ hundred.^ o! hem -they are XiS' a cupboard or on top of a shelf gathering diuf. People in every gdieration have gloved ieUowship, and the pr(-

rnt 'veneration is no exception. We !iK(- comorl the cloak left at Trao.s whn Cat pU . M-re book.-^ are .sold and r ad t ida-than evi'r before It at whul uboiit [;ie pirchnuui. the

Bible?

Man .shall not live be bread clone but by every word tirat prucc' deth oip of t i< mouth of God. The parchniiiit.s .stand supreme in every a e.mm

Omiic(d,.Ow qif ..Dm iSmt

Bv n.MIR KOINSNER

T ,r.e ,s not a* much boom in toiai oer-.tnal income as the ligures indicate.

The toal reached a new hi'ih in Auftu i. F was at an annual rate o; sd'i .(> t;'Ilion. eomp.fi'd with ; d bitlion m Anr.iisi, lU.ra, acc.ovhihi lo Depar.im-nt of ( oiiiineiCf ii'utre.s.

1 .le ri.''i ol $213 billion .secin.'' lac" a t I om;.'

Hilt n' li> ., In-h than it .seenn. her - 0 lactors; the pop

ulation ! >.- Iroin Hii estimated 177.374.(M) m IH ),7hi).(KK) When the tot.il i;i-u.m-- i.. related to tin popula'inii, u appears that Au'ju..l i me wa 'at an annual rate o! iti p= r per i in hklH and 22'4 - l pu. ee .i '%().

Tins ma ;. U ap; ar l ' per capita inconee went up a .sear

hh: did ,n p.iper money.

Dlt.AIN OF INFLATION

Bin de pile h1! the psilhician.s !ia\" bcf't) tf liing u.-. inflati>>n persiste and the buying power of the dollar still declines

If Ihc purcha-.iiig power of the

cnn.sumer dcllar In 19J7-49 w'as 10 c('nt -an assumiion the guveinment makes in its statisticsthen the dollar had a pur-cha.sim? power of 80.1 cent.s in Amne t. I!* i9. and 7i) 0 cent.s in Au:. i.u. i:;;o

Oil tliat basi.s, the per capila income at the annual rate ol $2.11)1 in Augu 1. ID.')!), bad

a puri ha.'-ui'.: iitiwei ot $1.73(196.

And the p: r caiiita income at Uii- rale ot $2.2.) 1 in Augu.'^t. 196'), had a purcha.sing power of 17.7ii(l.(i()

Thu.s he per capita increa.>ie from August 10 Augu.st wa,- only $49.7(1 in aetual buying p -w cr, or a litlle h than week

OOVLKNMBNT - MAOF. INRFASF

Thus higli income

small caiL-e for rejoicing other reasors.

Of the $24't billion incrca c. one big chunk wa.s due to the ral c granted Federal civil ."er-vicc employ ee.s by Conercss. Government wage and salary payincnts rose from rates of

$2 a

is a for

$45 6 billion to $49 0 billion In the year, a $3.4 bill jump.

Another chunk was the increase in unemployment benefits. Transfer payments, which include these benefits, social security payments, veterans benefits and pensions, went from rates of $26.7 billion to $29.1 billion, a rise of $2.4 billion. It la a strange economy we are living in. my bunnies, when a rise in unemployment benefits look.s like an upsurge of prosperity!

Total wage and salary pay-mente. including civil service, rose from raes of $258.6 billion to $27.5 I billion, a $16.5 billion r-m. much due to higher unin.i wage lates.

All other types of income thdwed rises. Smallest gains were in rental income, from rates ol $12 4 billion to $12.5 billion. and divldenri.s, from rates ol $13 6 billion to $14 billion.

Agrucultur'il Income rose from rates of $14.4 billion to $15.7 bil-l.on which-Judging from what the Presidential candidates are

now saying was humiliatingly

small.

WARNS AGAINST HIRINa FORMER UNION OFFICERS

Dont hire an ex-union man for personnel work, J I. Patin, director of personnel administration for the Pennsylvania Railroad, told personnel group at Michigan University.

The notion that if you cant lick them, pay them to join you, generally doesnt work, he aald. When the union officer steps into personnel management, he checks his Influence with labor at the door and is likely to be resented. Why not? In the unions eyes hes at best an opportunity, at worst a traitor.

If you decide to hire a talented labor officer for your personnel department, make sure you are hiring hlnji, for his ability and not for his influence Then put him wlif-re he isnt asked to deal with his former associates.