THE DAfLY REFLECTOR, SREENVILLE, N. C.

Wednesday. December 7, 1960

To Prevent Dozing

Depressed Areas Need Re-Defining

If the Kennedy administration moves into a major program of special assistance to so-called "depressed areas, it would seem logical that a broader definition be given to the term than the one which is now generally accepted.

The depressed area lerm is now generally applied to areas in which the migration of industry or changes in business conditions have left a considerable number of unemployed among the ranks of persons who normally have been regularly employed. It is obvious, of course, that federal influence in locating new industries re-opening old industries and stimulating business conditions in these areas could be an important help in eliminating unemployment and restoring better economic conditions.

It should be recognized, however, that any such program on the part of the federal government should take into consideration the fact that there are many depressed areas of the country which are not included in the present generally accepted definition of the term.

Eastern North Carolina, for example, is not ar area in which the shutting down of industrial planta

Politics Put On Pulltime Basis

By LYNN NISBET

FULL TIMEPolitics is going on full time basis in North Carolina. Partisan politics, that is, activities of the Democratic and Republican party organizations. The most acceptable definition of politics is that it is the science of government. Government is a continuing thine36.=> days a year every year. In that sense politics has been full time all along.

In North Carolina, however, the activity of party organizations has been generally limited to a few week.s before elections and such occasions as Jefferson-Jtckson and Lincoln dinners for raising money. The Democratic party has maintained a permanent office in Raleigh for the past decade, staffed by one womanwhich was inadeauate regardless of her comoptence and efficiency. The Republicans have not had central office except in the heat of general election campaigns.

National organizations for both parties have been maintained at Washington, but most times the liaison between national and state organizations has been skimpyand between state and local groups nonexistent. The recent election ha.s convinced all parties that relations between national and state should be more cordial, and contact with locals should be lightened up S*ate leadership in both par-ts is younger than ever before. The young leaders are not inhibited by precedent and are moving into new fields and new methods of approach. Almost certainly they will make mistakes. Which reminds of the tory about the old railroad mans advice to his young colleague. "When in doubt, do aomething advised the oldster. Its a lot easier to explain doing the wrong thing than to explain why you did nothing.

REPUBLICANS WUliam E-Cobb, the youthful Republican tate chairman, who achieved part of his goal this year to have candidate* for every office from Governor down, is not waiting 18 months to start the 1962 camptign. Profiting by obvious mistake* this year in not putting the full force of the party organization behind all the candidate*. be has already held several conferences looking to an all-out vigorous campaign next time. It is not understood that this plan contemplates a fulltime staffed headquarters at the present, but it means more year-round activity than has been customary.

DEMOCRATSThe Democrats are moving toward a more complete business-like organization Btaie chairman Bert Bennett has announced appointment of Wallace N. Hyde as a full time executive secretary of the Demo

cratic state committee. That position was authorized by the executive committee several years ago but previous chairmen did not recognize the need lor it. Results of the recent election emphasized its importance.

North Carolina is now definitely a two-party state. That it was largely complacency on part of the Democrats rather than activity on part of the Republicans that brought this about does not change the factual situation. It does emphasize the importance of both parties getting on the ball.

Without more inten.sive work on part of the Republicans they cannot hope to hold or increase the gains made in last months election. Unless the Democrats exert more effort than they have dming the past 125 years they

cannot expect to retain control of State government about which they have boasted since

1900.

NATIONAL-STATE - Speeded up activity in the state necessarily means closer contact with national organizations That is especially true for the Democrats. since for the next four

years that party will control

Congress and the White House It is only slightly less important for the Republicans, because it now appears that candidates of that party for Governor or Senator might be running for those officesinstead of for executive appointments if the Republicans took over the national administration.

Relations between national and state party organizations are likely to be closer from now on. That could make for better government at all levels. So long as North Carolina was considered safe" for the Democrats, re-gardle.ss, there was no reason to expect consideration from either party at national level. Now that it has moved into the borderline or doubtful column, both major parties are interested.

Appointment of Governor Luther Hodges to a place in President Kennedys cabinet is the first pay-off Other appointments of North Carolinians to high places are expected. And, while executive appointments for Republicans may be scarce during the next few^ years. Tarheel adherents of that party can look to more recognition than they have been accorded in the past.

WATCHINGMeantime, there are numerous busines men, interested in sound government rather than In party affiliation, w'ho are watchfully waiting developments to see which way they will go. Many of them are not happy about existing conditions in either party.

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has contributed to swelling the ranks of unemployed. At the same time, it could be termed a depressed area if one would take into consideration the fact that the per capita income in the area is among the lowest in the nation. From the standpoint of unemployment it might be termed a depressed area if consideration were given to the fact that thousands of people are traditionally employed in .seasonal jobs, and during the off-season have no regular employment.

Now the general term depressed area applies to locales "w hich have seen their economy sag because of recent adverse circumstances. Little if any consideration has been given to those areas which have tradi tionally lived under what might be termed depresse conditions.

If it is important to the nations economy to re-.store to permanent full-time employment people whose regular jobs have disappeared, is it not equally important to provide aid in securing year-round work to people of other areas who have never had 12-month regular employment?

If a community becomes a depressed area because it loses an industry, should another community be denied assistance simply because it has traditionally suffered from chronic unemployment?

We presume that any program for aiding so-called depressed areas will be handled through the Department of Commerce which Gov. Hodges will head during the Kennedy administration. We also feel that Gov. Hodges, having w^orked so diligently to pull up North Carolinas economic position in the past six years, recognized that a more realistic definition than the one now generally accepted must be given the term depressed area in any federal program.

It is, in our oprinion, most fortunate that any such program of the federal government during the coming administration will be largely formulated and administered under Hodges direction.

Largely Designed For Outside Consumption

The newly-composed ^Communist Manifesto disclaiming inevitability of war appeal^ largely designed for outside consumption.

Factually speaking, they are at warthey have been war, they will continue to wage w-arwith the capitalist w'orld. Absence of gunfire and bomb-dropping means nothing In the nature of warfare; and the Communist World would feel free to apply those wea-pons whenever conditions and needs called for them.

If observers are to find any great significance in the manifesto they will have to look between the line&. There, it is evident the Peiping branch has reluctantly bowed to Kremlin insistance as to the rights of leadership. Not so much because of a conviction Red China. policy-makers were in error, but because of the great need for continuing material support of the Soviet Union.

The situation could be likened to two cannibals debating how^ they wanted dinner served up, well-done or rare.

True enough, the free world can hope it has gained time before Communism finds it no longer expedient to delay attempts at world conquest by force of arms. What we do with that time could be mightily important.

Biaht Not Over

IVE BEEN TAKING EM EVERY DEC.7IS, SINCE THE TIME

I almost died

OF SLEEPING SICKNESS!

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By DON SCHLIENZ

Transition From Santa

Hes very young. . . .going on six; but from what I've been told hes on the threshhold of going beyond the Santa Claus bit.

The North Pole visitor he knows. Knows the whole story about the toy-making factory, the reindeer, the helpers, etc.

On two Christmas-pasts Santa even dropped by to personally

check up on him......which

youll agree doesnt happen to every boy and girl, *

I know for a fact that his parents, in other ChrLstmas seasons, have tried to tell him about the Fust Christmas. Even

showed him jrictures and little manger scenes. But he hung on to the Santa Claus, theme for the same reason most of us wish thwe was a real Santa with a giveaway heart.

This Christmas may be the turning point. His mother told me about it.

Seems her boy had once again been told the story of Bethlehem . . . .about the wise men who followed a star, about sheperds on a hillside, about a baby born in a stable.

This time it registered in his mind as something special.

His mother found him at play.

Public Forum

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By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press News Analyst

Now that they have had their battle of words behind the Kremlin walls, the Soviet and Red Chinese Communists are trying to make it appear that they are agreed on all matters concermng world policy. The evidence is to the contrary. The fight is far from over.

Now making a ceremonial tour of the U.S.S.R., Red China's President Liu Shao-chi gave lip service Monday to Premier Khrushchevs brand of "peaceful coexistence." His words might fool the uncritical ear. but they clash with what is stUl going on in the Communist press.

On the day the Communist summit meeting ended. Pravda, the central organ of the Soviet party, devoted much of its second and third pages traditionally the spot for important messages _ to a long article denouncing those who "distort" Marxism-Leninism. It went back to the Marxist classics for citations to show that the movements success "depend* to a decisive degree on the inviolable unity of proletarians of all countries "

Pravda added:, "Any violation of this unity, any disconnection in the actions of the Socialist parties or the national groups of the working class only weakens Its own position and strengthens the position of the bourgeoisie.

"The great Mai-x and Engel-s struggled against all attempts to pit the national interests of the proletariat against its international interest?;."

Translated. Pravda meant that failure of any party to fall in line unquestionably with Moscows leader.ship hclp-s the enemythe United Siate.sand that any attempt by a Communist party to place its own fortunes ahead of the neetis of Soviet policy harms the world movement.

What IS the overridlna interest of Soviet policy? It is to advance commu" -1 wi .. it sei ious risk of a nuclear war. The Pravda article quoted various Marxist saints as predicting that power could be seized peace- fully, and as warning against ultrarev'oiiltionary attitudes, dogmatism and sectarianism The Red Chlnist havf been accused of all those things

Theory, .said Pravda. Is jast dogma and not a guide to action. This was a reminder to the Red Chinest that theory

must be set aside if and when it conflicts with the best interests of the leading Communists nAtion.

On the same day. an article was published by the Albanian Communists, who obviously supported the Red Chinese at the Communist summit. They werent buying the Kremlin thesis, despite all their double-talk purporting to back the general Moscow line. And. if the Albanians arent buying it, the likelihood is that they still are taking the cue from Pei-Ping.

The Albanian article insisted Communists must have "no illusions at all that peace is secured" because the balance of forces in the world has changed. Khrushchevs argument is that war now can be avoided because of Soviet power. But the Albanian article insisted Soviet power could do more than provide the "possibility of peace

"All evenLs," it went on, "prove that although the positions of imperialism have weakened, imperialism has neither abandoned nor will it abandon, as long as it lives, its policy of aggression and war.

To picture peace as probable, said the article, plays into the hands of communLsms enemies.

So the argument goes on and on, unresolved by three weeks of Red summit. And because It Is unresolved, the Red Chinese, with their reckles.s and "ultrarevolutionary attitues. remain a grave threat to peace.

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To The Editor

The present Urban Renewal Plan seems to have gotten the cart before the horse. Before planning parks and new municipal buildings we had better obtain or try to obtain new industry. New industry would bring about more income and in turn more people. If we spent half as much time trying to put over the so-called "Urban Renewal Project", which will result in higher taxation with no new income, I am sure we would be doing the city and ourselves a much greater service.

If and when we are successful in twrlnging new industry here, then and only then should we consider the Urban Renewal Project. We must first create a need for parks, new municipal auditorium and other things suggested by the project. At present, I think our college facilities are ample enough to take care of our civic functions. In twenty years, if we are successful in bringing in new Income to our community through industry, then we might well be ready for such a project.

We must not forget that industry always considers low taxation in deciding on a location. If we put the Urban Renewal Plan into operation, I can assure you we would not be attracting industry, but would be preventing them from ever considering Greenville as a desirable location.

To build new, unnecessary buildings at this time would be most unfair to our children. At this time they are in grave need of a new junior high school. 1 think if our children had a voice in this project they would certainly request that you give them a school building instead of a park. Parks are indeed necessary but I think the three Rs had better come first.

As a substitute for the renewal project I would suggest the tearing down of buildings which might be condemned because of their condition. I believe that if this was done fairly all over Greenville we would have adequate housing without all the unnecessary expense of the renewal project.

Julia Brown Kachmer

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ONE OF GODS GIFTS

We have all heard the expre.s-sion about an apple a day. It is supposed to have certain wholesome physical effects. Have you ever stopped to think what a poem a day might mean to your mind and spirit?

Poets are a strange lot of folks. They see, things which the general run of mankind doc* not see. Furthermore, it is sometimes possible to express in poetic form truths which cannot adequately be expressed In straight prose. The telephone book has its place in life, but so do the many volumes of poetry. You may be amazed to know that in a recent census 90,000 people claimed that writing of poetry was their chief employment.

There has been wretched

poeti*y written in every age. There were rhymsters and literary nobodies in Shakespeares time and there are such today. But from the time of Homer to this present hour with newspaper or magazine or books setting forth the newest poetry, there have been people looking deeply Into life, expressing what they see in unforgettable terms, in beautiful language. These are true poets. ,

God Dies* the true poets of every age. And let us always remember the privilege which is ours to go to this treasure house of beauty, inspiration, and wisdom and there find Joy. new insighte, security, and enlarged ambitions.

Whether you are 15 or 75. poetry still offers its great ministry to your mind and spirit. Poetry is truly a gift from God himself.

on a recent afternoon. ... .he had gathered together some plasflc toys from a set of farm animals. Indians, firemen, and whatnot. . .and had devised his own version of a crib, an Infant, standing figures, and animals, and something he was using as a "bam". It was an exciting impmvisation for him, and be proudly told his mother all about what it represented.

In her telling, a blind man could see she too was mom than a little proud: maybe a little bit sad, too. because she knew he was moving away from babyhood.

And what jxirent of a very young boy can look to that transttlon wHhout a tug at the heartstrings?

When the boys father came hdme, there was a prompt clamor for him to "come look". It surprised him, too. He says that after the semi-indifference shown on other Christmases he was not really sure the Santa Claus game should have been played. He feels better about it, now.

There will be a gradual change in Christmas emphasis at hU house, he says. He is quite sure Santa want be abruptly killed off, but gradually retired to that perspective which belongs to him alone.

Hurrican Donna was months ago, and yet that storm could be said to have claimed one more victim in recent days.

That would be Rusty, a sraall-size dog who lived next door.

He and Cotton (the Schlienz pooch) were buddies from the time Rusty was a pup.

Rustys unhappy link with Donna represents one of those miilion-to-one things that are Just too improbable lo happen, but do.

When Donna blew through, she left a number of trees down in our neighborhood. Removing them has been a gradual process.

On this particular afternoon Rusty was playing at a distance from the tree-cleaning-up chore when for no apparent reason he frolicked up to the scene and under a falling log.

For days afterward, anyone who saw Cotton would say "there goes a lonesome dog."

He did act Uke one.

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Singer Gone Wrong

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright. 1900, King Features Sjmdlcate, Inc.

Paul Robeson is a singer He is also a Negro and an ardent Communist supporter There are many singers and many Negroes, but they do not go all over the world making speeches against the United States. Paul Robeson chooses to do that. He chooses to spew hate against his own country. That is. of cour.=;c. hie right. Anyone may hate tha United States who chooses to do so. but what does the United States do about It? Apparently, the Government of the United States takes no notice, althouah we do maintain an agency, tha U.S.'I A., to give this country a good *name.

They fact that Paul Robeson can sing Ol* Man River" better than anyone else can. docs not warrant his going down to Australia and saying this:

. .Robson said that iMhere was a war between Russia and America he would be on the side of the Soviet Union, who would winand should win.' "

This seem* to me to be pretty close to treason. He also said: "Everywhere I go I tell people Over there is the United States and there are still slaves in America. "

Of course, that 1* a lie and Paul Robeson is a liar. But he is also an artist. Is an artist warranted to be a liar? Often I hear some say of a persf f; "He Is not a politician; he is i^n artist." Birt the fact Is that he talks politics as Robeson always talks politics. Robeson ha* devoted his life to being an anti-American propagandist. However, he travels on an American passport. He docs not travel on a Russian passport although h# does Russia's ugly work against his country. .Robeson himself

said: ^ ^

"Im here for a concert tour.

m stand up there and sing all night for em if they want me.

"But Im much more than an entartainer. Wtting here now. Im not a singer. I'm Paul Rob-eson, American Negro, and Im entitled to state my views with* oiR fearing anyone."

But he was not hired for his views. He was hired to sing songs. He slogs songs beautifully; Ws views are mostly lying propaganda, wild hate for his native land, bitterness because he could not sing Otello in the Metropolitan C^era House. Furthermore, If his beloved Russia accepted him as a citizen, he could not state his views without fearing anyone.

There was a time when the State Department with greater wisdom than the Supreme Court, refused to give Robeson a passport to travel the Earth doing damage to this country. This country is i>nding a fortune in an effort to establish a fav^ orable image throughout the world. This man, knowing that people will Ufiten to his nonsense because they want to hear him sing, was unable to leave this coimtry. Thi the Supreme Court made it possible for any Communist or America-hater to travel on an American passport and Congress has failed to pass an adequate act defining the passport and stating who is entitled to one. So Paul Robeson goes down to Australia and says:

"I was a 1000.000 a year man before they took away my passport- In the next year I earned $2,000. But money is nothing. My father was a slave and X was bom poor. I have my voice and fortunately It lasted Uirough those eight years."

When asked whether he was bitter. Roberson answered:

"Id just like to knock the whole lot of em down the stairs and walk right over em. When I was playing football if a fellow hurt me I wasnt bitter. I Just waited my^ chance to knock him over and stomp right on his face."

Paul Robeson knows what he is doing. He raid:

"Everywhere I go people know me just because of my singing and because' they know me they listen to me. Last year in Paris I was able to stand right up in the street and point my finger and ray:

"Over there Is America, and there are still slaves in the South. Oh, yes, they listened to me."

One can understand Robesons dedication to his race, but it is impossible to forgive his untruthful denunciation of his country in the interest of our national enemy. He Is a self-proclaims ed enemy of the Unlisd States. It is difficult to understand why a man who despises a country insists upon being a citizen of it.

Businessmen Missing Good Bet

By ELMER ROESSNER

The typical cver-alert. wideawake American businessman appears to be dozing.

Comparatively few businessmen appear to rellze that for quile .some time now they have been eligible for their own microwave cummumcations system.

Recent Federal Coinrainica-tions Commission rules permit private point-to-pomt microwave communication. There is no restriction on the type of information that may be sent over the channels .set a.side for thLs work.

Proiluction orders may be transmitted from office to distant factory. Payroll information may bt sent from factory to main office.

MANY POfi.SIBILmE.S

A large corporation may keep in touch with many plants; department store branches may

readily communicate with headquarters or with warehouses; banks may keep in communication with branches; trucking firms may stay in constant communication with truck drivers, and any kind of chain can hold link to link conversations.

Since there Ls no restriction on the type of information., facts for electronic calculating machines can be sent In from Scattered pomts. fed into the machine and answers produced in less tife than It would take to send the data by telegraph.

Automated production at distant plants could be controlled by instructions put on tape In a central office and sent to the plant* by microwave.

OTHER r.SES

There are many other possibilities. A niultibrauch company may conduct g|l its tccountlng

and billing work tn one central office, supplied with data over a microwave system. Inventory records of a dozen branches can be kept in a central office. Officials can keep in touch with sub-ordlnate.i without depending on telephone or telegraph lines.

Tliere are several systems on the market and a new one will be available next year. This (by General Electric) will accommodate up to 240 trunk lines for vQlce, teletype or data transmission. This system cost* $10,-000 and up. depending on equipment necessary to adapt it to an individual baalness.

While some systems and layouts may cost considerably more, they may cost nothing at all-Thats because they may save spending for telegraph lines, telegrams and phone messages. INDUSTllIALI.STS EXPECT PROSPEROUS 1961

Of 230 indusU'ialists surveyed

by Mill & Factory, only 14 p#r cent feai-ed the general business level in 1961 will be lower than in I960. At the same time. S3 per cent said it would ^ the same and 3.3 per cent said the business level will be higher.

Of the 230, '11 per cent .said they did not expect unusual labor unrest in 1961 and 60 per CMt said they would expand plant operations in the comliJt year. *

TOO BAD TV FlOGBAMl CAN'T IMPROVE AS MUCH Television ctthode-ray tube faceplatf* now being produced are said to have a picture quality 500 Umra bittw than thie in UM. Plitai fivt Inches in diameter contain HQ.OOO.OOO superfine glass threads, calledfiber optics. These Ihyeads can carry light arouncj corners, and have a growing number of usca io industry.