PACE FOURfHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Saturday, DeccmVer 10, 1960

Eatuday, December 10, 1960

Strange Things Come Out

Athletic Programs Under Scrutiny

If it is significant that a resolution to revamp high school athletic programs in the state was presented to Tar Heel school superintendents this week, it is even more significant that the superintendents turned thumbs dowm on a motion that in effect would have rejected the resolution.

Athletic programs have become an important part of the activities in most high schools of the state. The athletic programs are important not only to the students, but to adults of the community as "well. Its no secret that there has been a growing feeling among a considerable group of educators of the state that high school athletic programs are receiving too much emphasis and requiring too much student time that might be used in other ways.

Neither is it a secret that in many cominunities the athletic program serv'es as one of the rallying points which brings open expression of community support for the schools. In many communities the concern

Comments On Cabinet Choice

By LYNN NISBET HODGES TO CABINET Nearly every newspaper in the tate has had editorial conunent about the appointment of Gov-rnor Luther Hodges to be Secretary of Commerce in the Kennedy cabinet. Here are a lew excerpts:

. Burlington Times - News: his background as a sales-inan which he had kept exercised a ttecade since his active iiBdrMnent from Industry, put-ttaig It to work in his executive oflice as Governor of North GaroUna. Governor Hodges iiioiiild transfer to Washii^:ton with ease, exj)crlence and effec-tivex^ess. He understands that he wffi be an assistant to a man %3iofle poUcfes be will be expected to support and respect, and aJtoo promote. He will not be toe free agent he was. generally AibGovmior. J<rtm Kennedy is ea yet unpredictable. His iraurty PhLtform is gone socialist.' Bern much of this will Luther podges tummick? This will be ee early development after taioes over."

Z CNteenvle Reflector: "The ap-potrtcnent Governor Hodges as Secretary of commerce in the Kennedy cabinet reflects again file excellent choice of toe president-elect to securing the best .available talent for specialized ctop jobe in his athniiUstration. Governor Hodges brilliant record in toe fleWs of industry and government bespeak his outstanding qualifications for toe post to wWch Kennedy has appointed him. The appointment . . .is recognition of his abilities and achievement whl<to reflects credit not only upon the man himself, but upcm North Carolina as well.

Kinston Free R'ess: The

Free Press presumes that Governor Hodges and other souto-emers who so enthusiastically championed Senator Kennedys election to the presidency felt as many do that toe platform was more or less a piece of paper standing for little whl<to woidd actually become a reality ttMtngh legislati<xi later. Greensboro Record: So Governor Hodges goes to Watolng-too, fitted by las business

and poittical backgrmmd for a dLffict^ job encouraging toe txade which can protect fi American dcdlar by righting toe Hatton's dolkr balance In awmrding an important cabinet post to Luther Hodges, Presi-deotetoct Kennedy has done mora than select an able offi-etal; he las also shown bis approval ci the Hodges ap* QToacii, the moderately liberal Tar Hed approach, to regicmal and national problems. . . .It Is fitting recognition of the itates ability to lead not only to Its sectioo, but in toe country as a whole.

Beodersoo Dispatch; Ap-potatracnt of Governor Hodges as secretary of commerce and as a member of the Kennedy learn might be interpreted in directions. It could be

regarded as an evidence that toe new President will pursue a policy of reasonable moderation, at least so far as domestic affairs are concerned. Or it could mean that Hodges has skipped a bit farther to the left of center in conformity with promises so often heard during the campaign. . . .Prom another standpoint, toe North Carolina Governors appointment is a recog-of the status and Importance of the South in the national government. . . .North Carolinians who know the Governor and are familiar with his calm but energetic method of grappling with governmental affairs are confident that he will quickly become one of the outstanding figures in toe new administration.

Charlotte News: "North Carolina is happy. So is Luther Hodges. And Mr. Kennedy is

lucky.....Governor Hodges

will brhig to aU problems an energy, an enthusiasm, a relish for hard work, and a readiness to take bulls by their horns which the country has lacked fnwn the sedate businessmen who watched over Washington for toe past eight years. . . . Governor Hodges is an acknowledged man of the New South. His position in this region is built solidly on his position in North Carolina; as his Increasing national importance is built solidly on his reputation as a moderate, progressive southern leaders, mth the necessary touches of the Souths conservative temper. President - elert Kennedy has placed in his cabinet a man with first-rate preparation to lead the nation econ<Hnically. At the same time, he reinforces invaluable political connections in Dixie. Both are sure to be handy in future days.

Rocky Mount Telegram: The job that Hodges will assume is not an easy one. At a time when the strength and growth of the U. S. economy is vital to our own prosperity and to our ability to fulfill our commitments to the cause of world freedom, the Department of Commerce has become one of toe most important agencies in toe world. It employes more than 36.000 people will spend over $500

milliOT this year to carry out its many functions.

Gov. Ho<tee has proved a dsnmmic force in North Carolinas advance in toe field of Indiotry in the South, in its handling of toe difficult Integra-tkm problem and in the matter of labor. His abilities certainly are expected to be carried over to a national level. Hodges will bring to his new position experience in both business and government. President - elect Kennedys cabinet is far from completed, but we do not think he will fill any other position with a man any better qualified for toe job than Luther Hodges is in connection with his future duties as Secretary of Commerce.

over the won-loss record of football or basketball teams of the local high school appears to be of greater public concern than the quality of instruction students are receiving in math, English, physics or some other courses.

Although the action taken by the school superintendents of. the state this week with respect to the resolution on athletics was inconclusive, it is evident that an overwhelming majority of the superintendents feel the matter deserves careful consideration. In brief terms, the resolution regarding high school athletic programs would bring to an end such things as statewide championship competition, post-season games and eliminate the present system of high school athletic conferences. A motion to tableor in effect kill the far-reaching resolution was defeated by a vote of 150 to 10 among the superintendents. Instead, the superintendents will hear recommendations on the matter next August from a special committee appointed to study the matter.

Coming on the heels of the recent resolution of the State Board of Education calling fo greater emphasis on studies and less on extra-curricular activities at the high school level, this latest action of high school superintendents suggests that these school administa-tors might feel that the athletic programs are getting out of hand. Obviously they feel the resolution regarding athletic programs deserves careful consideration.

In a broader sense, the superintendents* action indicates their support of the position taken by the state board of education in calling for less emphasis on extra-curricular activities.

Whether the people of the communities throughout the state are in accord with this thinking as it applies to athletic programs of high schools remains to be seen. Certainly there are few if any communities which do not take understandable pride in the fact that their high school team was good enough to contend for regional or state-wide honors in post-season games. Without question there are few communities in which there would not be strong dessenting voices to any move that would de-emphisize high school athletics or limit the scope of competitionand recognitionan outstanding athletic team might otherwise expect.

As the movement for greater emphasis on basic course study in North Carolinas public schools gains momentum, however, it is only reasonable to expect that somewhere along the line there will be conflicts between this philosophy and the athletic programs that are now generally being carried on in high schools throughout the state. Ultimately, the course that is followed in resolving any such conflicts will be that which has the greater public support.

African Crisis

Threatens UJN

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By ALVIN TAYLOR

CB Operators Organize

Last column I discussed an emergency call heard by a local Citizens Band operator. The call came all the way from Colorado, well over a thousand miles from here-

The distance involved in receiving such a call is even more surprising when you consider that Citizens Band is a very short range medium for two-way communications.

The various channels have been opened by the Federal Communications Commission for assignment to businesses and other oiTganizations needing short range communication. Thus a firm with several service or delivery vehicles c)erating in and around a city would find this system helpfiri. A business with

vehicles operating over a larger area would turn to conventional slwrt wave for such communication.

Those who know, tell me the CB outfits have an output limited to five watts and they are effective for five to ten miles.

Still the waves shoot off into space, hit the ionisphere and drop back into the range of a receiver at some far distant point. That was how the local CB operator was able to hear tiw Colorado call for help.

These skips, as they are called. can usually be heard in December, June and July because of atmospheric conditions during those months.

Until recently, a BC operator could answer any call, but last

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Soviet aottvtties in Africa, coupled with Moscows pressures and blandishments among African leaders, threaten the very exi^nce of the United Nations in its present f<in.

It is all too easy to imagine some possible results over not too long a period. The .N., still in its teens, could become a dodder!^ old wreck, inable of effective action. Worse than that, there is even a possibility of a sort of African Korea.

Some of the natiwis which supplied troops for an effort to restore peace and order in the Congo now are withdrawing them. What would happen if most withdrew the troops they had assigned to the .N. mission? In all probahillty there would be attempts to fill the resulting void, and in such attempts could be the begiimlng of catas-neuvers in the heart of the

The Kremlin seems to be playing a cynical game with the African continent. And there are few signs that certain African leaiters suspect they are being used for the aims of Soviet world policy.

Puzzled Westerners frequently express wonder why leaders of former colonial countries often seem willing to accept Soviet propaganda and seem deliberately to close their eyes to ultimate Communist designs.

The answer probably is that the Kremlin promises something for each of them. In return, the Kremlin makes sure there is something to be gained from each of them.

Luckily for the Russians, and unfortunately for the West, some African political leaders seem more preoccupied with their own ambitions than with attempting to dissipate the shadow of calamity over the continent.

How do the Russians line up African leaders support?

Take Gamal Abdel Nasser, for example. His Pan - Arab and Pan-Islamlc ambitions involve a huge area of the continent. Nasser Is anxious also to exert a commanding interest in embattled Algeria.

The Russians and Red Chinese

loudly support toe Algerian Natkmalist revolution against Prance. This places the Communists and toe most powerful of Arab leaders on the same side in that argument. By Implication, it places the Western powers in an opposed camp. The arrangemeot is convenient both for the Russians and the Arab Iwiders.

Take the leaders of Ghana and Guinea in West Africa. They apparently gre ambitious to be spokesmen for all emerging black Africa. Hie Russians have encouaraged these ambitions and in return have won Guinean and Ghanaian support for Red ma-neuve rsi n the heart of the continent.

The Russians have done well in wooing these leaders, but they still are not satisfied. They are demanding more and m(M^ of what they call unity against "criminal plans of the imperialists In the Congo.

Should they succeed, the Russians will have reached the point where they can reduce the U. N. to a skeleton of what it is supposed to be, a tattered copy of Its defunct predecessw, the League of Nations.

Other Editors Saying .,. Mob In Action

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(Hertford County Herald)

There are some things calculated to turn the stomachs of all honest Americans.

In the past few days, across the South and the nation and across the front pages of the world we have had to stomach the spectacle of a Iwrde of creatures can we call them women?who, seemingly, have set themselves above the laws of Louisiana, the nation and even the most elementary of those relating t o common decency.

We refer, of cour.se, to the conglomeration of riff-raff, who have spewed forth from the by-ways of New Orleans to "boycott a couple of integrated elementary schools.

This group reminds us of nothing quite so much as the descriptions of harridens and fishwives, who roamed the streets of Paris in 1789; a particularly savage breed of she-wolves, who followed the tumbrels carrying aristocrs^ts to the guillotine, screeching every conceivable imprecation with unholy glee every time toe knife fell on another victim.

There seems to be a parrallel at least the same mob temper

the maddog viciousness is there.

Poi^etting the question of segregation or integration, th^e New Orleans "mothers have incited to riot, rioted, committed assault, destroyed property, broken the peace, blocked street, threatened innocent little children both white and colored

and amused themselves by shouting the lowest obscenities at bystanders yes, even at priests and ministers.

Now we believe any group has the right to peaceably assemble and petition for redre&s of grievances but what on earth is peaceful about the so - called

"mothers boycott in New Orleans?

And whats worse, the police apparently are willing to standby with a neutralist attitude which permits these continued violations of toe law and allows this rabble to continue to congregate around the schools instead of hauling these "ladies away to convenient cells.

The "women. of couree, accomplish nothing. Segregation vs integration will be decided in courts of law with <H?portimity for both sides to present their respective cases. But, does this mean because certain individuals disagree with toe lawhowever stronglythey have the right to riot and break every law on the ordinance books. Are we to have government by law or government by mob?

Perphaps the police of New Orleans ought to reactivate old Ben Butlers decree and apply it to the local situation;

Any woman of New Orleans, who by word or gesture, shows contempt for an. . .officer, shall be considered a woman of toe town, plying her avocation and be treated as such.

The sickening part of the NfW Orleanss boycott is the impression it creates in the North and the remainder of the world The average Northerner does not stop to realize these "women make-up but one-tenth ol one percent of the New Orleans population and an extremely tiny fraction of t South leaving a vast number of Southerners who deeply deplore the mob action.

Thus, what happens in New Orleans is a reflectionunjustified perhaps but jttill there on us all.

Latest reports indicate the mob is easing off. We hope it ends - NOW!

March, Im toW. the FCC stopped the practice of answering calls from far off areas. This ruling can be ignored in the case of emergency calls.

There are probably 15 to 20 licensed CB operators with one or more sets in Greenville presently, a CB owner tells me. These sets are used for the most part in business operations during the day.

At night, however, CB becomes a hobby for many operators and they converse back and forth from car-to-car or from house-to-house.

The local operators are now trying to organize a club. They have had several meetings already. One of their projects would be to make their sets available for Civil Defense in case of a communications treak down.

CB works like a party line in many respects. Operators must call from statlon-to-station rather* than CQ as the Hams do. Every ten minutes the operator must give a three minute break to allow others to use the channel. To make sure that the rules are adhered to, the PCC monitors the CB frequencies

Units cost from $80 to $150 plus antennas and installation The same units may be used for autos or for the office or home.

Opinions

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Poem in Which Is Reflected Of A Person Temporarily Not Up To Par; When a fellows feeling sick, He wants help and wants it quick.Atlanta Journal.

The space age has created most everything except more parking spaces. Greensboro (Oa.) Herald-Journal.

Labor leaders better recognize the signs and realize that the public is being wised up to their demands which continue to add to the cost of merchandise and services. They should do it now before government regulaticMis are demanded which, in the long run, would only make matters worse, Gllbertsville (N.Y.) Journal.

It seems to us that up to now the United Nations Is perhaps the poorest named group we know. Belleville (Kan.) 'Telescope.

"The Budapest communist newspaper complains that Red officials there are living It up.' A collective farm had a party with three kinds of goulato. Memphis Press-Scimitar,

Surplus .ood I Hoarc.

By GKOBGE E. 90K0LSKT

Copyrigirt, 1960, King Peatdres 'Syndksate, Inc.

Phor to toe present harvest, toe Government of the ITnited States owid about 1,300.000,-000 bush^ of wheat. The 1960. crop Increased this hoard. Altogether the surplus crops cost the taxpayer about $4.000,000.-000 a year.

If toere Is to be a rationall-zatkm' of government costs, something has to be done about farm simpltt^. Whenever city persons write about agricultural problems, toe farm experts contend that we do not know what we are talking about, wMch is an easy but meanimdess answer. .We do know that taxes are un-, consclonahly high and that'food prices are ridiculously hhto and that toe purttoasliig value of the dollar is low.

This the city dweller does know and he is not pleased about it. in fact, one of toe first proUems that the Kennedy Administration will have to tackle Is the deterioration of lahan life, the increase of sitan areas, the rise (A urban juvenile crime, the high cost of urban living and the blighting of suburban areas. When tlw cost of food exceeds toe ability of a.family to live (Ml its inctwnc, wijcther from earnings or charity (now euphemistically called relief), social and moral conditions in cities deteriorate.

The maintenance of farm prices contributes to the high cost of food. At the same time, the stockpiling of food serves no usefid purpose except to place an increasing burden of taxes upon .the necks of a people whose currency is decreasing In value.

This, then, is what toe otwmtry faces. The Eisenhower Administration has made no effort to deal with this probln, much less solve it. Secretary of Agrici^ure Ezra Taft Benson made qpme startling moves, birt he was unsupported by his colleagues who could not stand up against the waves of strcmgly expressed unpopularity. In fact, although wlat is loiown as the farm vote is no longer decisive as the I960 election established, the historic memory on the subJe<A differs from reality. Actually, this problem cannot be contaird in the Department of Agriciflture. Any solution must Include toe State Department which must concern itself with protests from such countries as Canada (wheat and cheese) and Denmark (butter) that are worried over our dumping large quantities of surplus foods upon world markets or to feed toe hungry in Asia and Africa who cannot afford to pay our prices. It must include the Deimrtment of Commerce for identical reasons. It is no longer possible to deal with these broad problems as though they were the private domain of some official. Food is a national problem and the Treasury must have something to say about the value of our currency and the prospect of taxes

In a word, when a country holds $4,000,000,000 of frozen crops It has so nanch of its liquid wealth tied up in a dead mans fist, which it cannot employ for useful purposes President-elect Kennedys father, Joseph, was a member of both Hoover Commissions which made a very serious attempt to find out what was wrong with a paralyzed executive branch of government that could not deal with problems that faced it and that required immediate action Brother Robert was a member of the staff of one of the Hoover Commissions. It Is to9be hoped that some of the findings and some of the conclusions are retained in the memories of thse man and of Jack who, as Senator, handled some of toe bills proposed for enactment. At any rate, a vast amount of naaterial Is available in these commis-sions which ca be useful In handling these Tlcular problems to the b. .t of both the urban and toe rural populations.

Poverty, hi a rich country such as ours still is, can only be the proddct of faulty organization and bad distribution. Thse can be corrected by keen minds and strong wills. President Kennedy cannot fall bock either on the needs of the Roosevelt Administration or toe inability of the Elsenhower Administration to act. He will have to make a new agricultural program of his own, consistent with his general economic program, progre^ive and daring and related to.the welfare of both the urban and rural populations. If he cannot do this, (Continued on page six)

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Customer Is Frequently Wrong

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE MOTE AND THE BEAM

The following notice is printed above the de-sk of a secretary whom I know; Accuracy is Our MottoWe Never Make Mls-teaks. She is Joking, of course, and the misspelling "misteaks is deliberate.

But there are quite a few people whose attitude reminds me of that signand they arc uot just joking. Their most recognizable symptom is their absolute confidence that they know best about everything, as they generally choose to demonstrate by being illogical, prejudiced, and (jonfused as possible.

You can probably recognize a few typical examples. One is the mother who scc4ds her sixth-grade son's teachers because be

gets low grades. She is so sure that he is a brilliant child that it never occurs to her to make him turn off the television set and study.

Another is the politician who proclaims widely that he can solve toe nations economic problems. It does not seem to bother him that toe state he has been running Is going bankrupt.

Still another is a neighbor who lays down the law to me about the care of my lawn and .shrubs. His own yard, of course, is badly neglected.

This whole situation is perfectly summed up in the Bible: "Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye, but considered not the beam that is in thine own eye?

By EL.MER ROESSNER

"Why dont you write something about the customer being always wrong? demanded H Allen Smith, the low humorist on the totem pole. I have been watching them this Christmas season and once or twice out of a hundred times, the customer is right, but almost always the civstomer is wrong. "Well I started.

"Take clothes. the book-wri-ter continued. "I have seen women order a dozen dressp and send eleven of them back the next day. The twelfth goes hack a week later. 'They dont do anything for me. the customer will tel! the store manager. Can he beat her head against the cash register? Of course not He has to smile and take back a thousand dollars worth of garments that can now be only shopworn half-offs

"I think- 1 said.

THE PARTY PLOY

"A worst phase of this are the party purchases. The reason I dont belong to any country clubs is that I want to keep my good wife Nelle safe from temptation. Before every country club party, theres a great rush to fancy stuff, especially furs. Women buy* out shops of furs they never could pay for, even if their husbands were promoted to executive vice president, On Monday morning, the furrier ts bac^ in business again. His customers have brought back his stock. It didnt do anything for me, each one says.

"I know, but I began.

"The cu.stomer is more wrong than ever in this country club bit, simply because the retailer has to double his asking price in order to make up for his losses on these returns.

"And the customers arc wrong In another way. They think of themselves as gilded

Brahmins, and they treat salesgirls as If they were untouchables. Ive seen women refuse to buy a bit of underwear because a salesgirl touched It. THE WORST OF ALL

Now Ive sei I broke in.

"But the worst of all Is the parental attitude toward juvenile delinquents. My tax bill says I live in an upper-class community. Most of the youngsters have bigger allowances than my wife. But when they get loose in a store, they feel compelled to steal something. And when retailers complain to their parents, the parents abuse the retailers.

"I know of one case where the storekeeper was robbed so much he kept a case watch on all his rich young juvenile customers. After most of his fountain pervv had disappeared, he saw a teenager grab one. He followed him outside, to make

sure it was an actual theft, then seized the youngster.

"His mother declared tods was an outrage, that the storekeeper was trying to ndn the brilliant career of a clean, igieUuid-Ing American, and that the mer-clmnt was a menace to the community. She organized a boycott among the oountry-<dub set and a few months later the retailer was forced to sell out at a sacrifice price.

"I say toe cuetomer Is always wrong and you ought to write something about It.

Some day 1 must.

WHY SAVE ONLY THE FOREST RANGERS Seat belts in Forest Service vehicles have saved at least 100 persons from serious Injury or death, says the U S. Department of Agriculture. On this basis It would seem that laws should require every bus and taxicab be equipped with seat belts.