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Monday,1 January 23, 19G1THE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Monday, January 23, 1961

Move Over. Boys

Evidence That Classrooms Added

In spite of the fact ^orth Carolina still has many needs in its public school system, the drastic reduction of the number of pupils attending school in split shifts last year compared with this year bespeaks significant progress.

A report last week by the State Department of Public Instruction pointed out that last year there

were some 6,400 youngsters attending public schools on split shifts. In the current school term which began last fall, the number of students on split ^hifts is "only 1,400.

This means, of course, that sufficient classrooms an-teachers have been provided for the other 5,000 youngsters to resume the public school work on a fulltime basis. On the split-shift basis, students attend school for approximately half a day, rather than on a full day schedule.

Such a change in one year is no small accomplishment even for a state the size pf >^th Cai^lin^. This one factor in itself has enhanced the ^caTibfe oT education being received, by those 5,000 sfudents this year, and it offers the suggestion that the number of students on split shifts in public schools will soon be re-

ust Waking Up To Their Value

By LYNN MSBET

PROPERTY - North Carolina is just waking up to the realization that hisU7 has a cash property value. Other states have capitalized on this idea for many years. In fact. North Carolinians have paid tribute to historic shrines in Virginia and South Carolina when all the while our own state had just as much to offer.

Capital investment in renova-tiwi and restoration of historic places is proving sound business, althought the State itself has invested very little tax money In any of these enterprises. Tryon Palace, Old Salem, Bath and Halifax are examples of big and small projects largely financed by private funds. Fort Macon, Old Brunswick Town. Town Creek Indian Mound. Ay-cock and Vance Birthplaces are examples of relatively small projects mostly financed >by the State. Small admission fees are clarged at the privately operated places. Nearly all the historic sites managed by the State are open to the public without charge.

Genral interest In these major sites and in many of the battle fields has stimulated local interest in history. There are a number of county and regional historic associations which almost every month discover new points of Interest in their areas.

One such is the House in the Horseshoe", restored scvwal years ago by the Moore County Historical Association and which every year attracts thousands of visitors. Success of the House in the Horseshoe project stimulated Interest in other historic places in Moore county, including the Old Shaw House In Southern Pines.

In a memorandum to Your reporter Mrs. Ernest Ives notes that lunch and tea is served there dally except Sunday, and that In the old loom house there is a fine coUecti<m of ancient household tools.

ANTIQUES - Historic societies are also getting into the antique business for profit. The Moore County association stages an antique fair every year. Dates this time are March 22-23-24. Dealers and exhibitors come from all over and the experience has proven profitable for themand for the association which gets a cut of the profits.

The only value an antique Item as such ha.* is its historic connection. Many of the items rate also as artr-and when art and history are Joined the value Is tremendously enhanced.

the factor that gives greatest value to the products of the handicraft groups is that while a.s art" the production is new, but the process is historic. Jur-town pottery in Moore is an

example of this, along the wood carvings and woven goods of the mountains. The historic background of the processes by which these goods are produced gives them more value than their inherent quality.'

GERMANS REMEMBER The C&D division (rf commerce and indu.stry has received a translation of an article which appeared in a recent issue of AmerikarHandel. the organ of the German-American chamber of commerce, which . Is an agency of the Federal Republic of Germany, about former Governor Luther Hodges. The article was forwarded by Dr. Eric Bendheim, American representative of the German government information office.

The article' is headed Profile of a Personality, the Newly Appointed Secretary of Commerce. Governor Luther H. Hodges; The translation reads;

The appointment of the 62-year old Governor of the Stale of North Carolina revives the memory of the relationship which this active and dynamic personality has been maintaining for a long time with the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1950-1951 Luther H. Hodges was the Chief of the Industry Division of the Economic Cooperation Administration in Germany with his headquarters In Frankford Main. In this position Mr. Hodges had the opportunity to establish close contacts with the leaders of the German industry during the period of reconstruction.

As Governor of North Carolina Luther H Hodges could later on contact population groups of German descent in this State of the Union. He himself admits that the State of North Carolina owes its growth and development to a great extent to the vision and initiative of the original German settlers. In 1959 Governor Hodges lead the first good-will mission of a US-state to Europe and visited on this occasion Frankford Main, 'Munich, and Stuttgart.

Though Governor Hodges is the chief government executive of a Souther state, he does not forget to emphasize again and again that in principle' he believes in free trade. He sees in an expansion of world trade and in a mutual exchange of goods among the traditional trade partners the best foundation for a continued growth of the USA.

We feel honored in pointing out that the German-Amwdcan Chamber of Commerce maintains friendly relationships to Governor Hodges. The Chainber of Commerce will try to support in every way possible the actions of the new Secretary of Commerce that will serve International trade."

duced to a miHimum if not eliminated entirely.

While the importance of this achievement in itself should not be minimized, the very fact that so much progress in this phase of public education .was made in one year is indicative of other progress as well. The number of new school classrooms built throughout the state during the past year did not reduce the teach-er load to the point that is desired; but the number" was sufficient to take care of the influx of new students and still permit 5,000 others to be taken off split ,<hift Schedules. The number of additional teachers in public schools of the state this year was not sufficient* to meet all the needs, but at least there were enough additional teachers to make possible this progress.

North Caroiipa still has a major task before it in bringing its public schools to the new higher plateu that is hoped for. Some 3.700 new classrooms are needed to replace inadequate facilities now being used, the Department of Public Instruction says, and another .*7Q0laflassrooms will be needed by next fall to take "care of incrs'e3^TffoTIfhts.,Gfeater fefforts^^b^ both the state and local governments will be necessary to meet these and other obvious needs of our public schools. And certainly the necessary effort must be made.

In the meantime, however, public education in the state has been significant progress. Important needs still remain to be met; but at least some of the most pressing needs that existed a year ago were provided for by the time the current school year began.

still Well Below The Average In Total Vote

According to the political experts, and to most casual observers, the 1960 presidential and gubernatorial campaings in North Carolina were the hardest fought in nxany decades.

According to the statistics, Tar Heel.s turned out in record numbers to go to the polls on November 8. Yet, according to a survey by the American Heritage Foundation North Carolina fell considerably below the national average in the percentage of its residents of voting age w'ho cast ballots in the November election.

In the nation as a whole, the foy^ndation said, 64.,3 per cent of the citizens of voting age cast ballots in the election. In North Carolina, according to the report, only 54.3 per cent of the citizens of voting age went to the polls. Since the percentage figures were based on the number of residents of voting age rather than on the number of registered voters, it is quite likelv that North Cgroiinas figure reflects the fact that the state has fewer of its voting age residents registered than is the case in some other states t . . or in the nation as a whole. At least in part this may be attributable to the requirements for registration in North Carolina compared with some other states.

From the standpoint of the number of Tar Heels who went to the polls last November, and the percentage of its registered voters who cast ballots, however. North Carolina made a more favorable showing than it did on the basis used in the Foundations, report.

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You Can Go Home, But--

KANSAS CITY. Mo. (AP) He looked familiar across the crowded ballroom, but for a moment I couldnt place him.

Then it came back to me. Why, of course. How could I ever forget? I had known hi* son well in high school, and had visited in his house several times then.

Its a real pleasure to see you again, sir," 1 said, stepping up and wringing him by the hand. "You probably dont remember me, but I used to know your sdh Joe real wellyears and years ago.*

The man stared at me, then said; You really are lost. I am Joe. I wondered when you were going to say hello.

Well, thats the way it is. They say you cant come home again. This isnt true. You can come home again.

But if you meet high school classmates after a quarter of a century or more you find something has happened to them.

You feel you are still the raz

zle-dazzle kid who used to drive the study hall teacher crazy. Nothing has changed you. But your classriiates are different-

The girls look like their mothers. the boys like their fathers.

What has time done to them? It is vefy hard to understand.

It is now 24 years this very month that I left this lovely home town of minethe heart of Americato storm New York City with empty pockets and a head full of dreams.

Through the years I have come back home as often as 1 could, as most sons of the Midwest do. to drink again from the renewing common sense fountain that flows deepest In the center of our continent.

' On each visit I could see signs of vital change In terms of expansion and new building, but also signs of decay in things I would like to remain fixed forever as I had known them in my childhood.

The city was getting younger and fresher and taller, but the people and houses I had known

By RALPH ROBEY

President Eisenhowers last stale of the union message is a rather remarkable document. These reports, by their very nature, are political. This means they have a strong tendency to be boastful. Usually the first message of a new President boasts of what he expects to accomplish: the others of what he has done. This final one of Eisenhowers fall'within the latter category and covers his eight years in office Since most persons do not take the tiouble to read such messages, or even to scan them, it'is worth listing the subjects covered as one means of showirvg its breadth. There is, of course, an introduction and then comes a discussion of each of the following;

Foreign policy National Defense The Economy

Government Finance and Administration Agriculture Natural Resources Education, Science, and Technology CivU Rights Health and Housing and ment Immigration Veterans Conclusion

Now that is an amazing list Of acljkyities

cern to the federal administration tlje President feels obligated to report on them to the Congress, and this is especially true since in many cases several Item's are included under onq sub-head. In all instances It is maintained that substantial pro-gre.s8 has been made within the past eight years. This, It is sail, is true even Int he case of agriculture, but the Improvement

Welfare

Urban Develop-

here has been despite the dif-iculties of administering Congressional programs which apply outmoded prescriptions and which aggravate rather than solve problems."

In many fields credit is taken for having increased government spending. Some of this growth of outlays has been warranted, This is true in military expenditures. But in some of the rest of the budget there has been no justification, and recently the non-military spending has been increasing at the most rapid rate. It appears a little out of order, therefore, for the President to say^ balanced budgets have been sought when the economy was advancing, and a rigorous evaluation of spending programs has been maintained at all times."

In spite of the length of the message14 legal size pages and single spacedthere is rib real discussion of the current business situation. The nearest thing to it is this paragraph;

"Although Intermittent declines In economic activity persist as a problem in our enterprise" system, recent downturns have been moderate and of short duration. There is. however, little room for complacency. Currently our economy is operating at high levels, but unemployment rates are higher than any of us would like^ and chronic, ^ofji^igb uneipployment

persist.

The economic report of he President will go into the current business situation In detail, and when that is submitted to the Congress we shall devote a column to it.

Should the president hav made i different kind of final message on the state of the union?

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Other Editors Saying eai Program Gets Friend

(Goldsboro News Argus

It is good news to all of us who depend largely on tobacco that the incoming Secretary of Agriculture is a friend of the tobacco control progriam.

Retiring Secretary Benson was a foe of the program and throughout most of his years in office he sought ways and means to throw it out the window.

The Incoming Secretary Is Orville L. Freeman. When the Senate Agriculture Committee was examining him to determine his fitne.ss for his new job, tobacco state senators, including Jordan of North Carolina, asked him specifically about his views on the leaf stabilization plan. He replied directly that he thought the program a good one.

The senators again pointed out that this tobacco program has not lost money for the government.

We can breathe a bit easier because we have a new friend in Washington in Freeman. Incoming Jack Kennedy gave his blessings to the plan while campaigning. There are in Congresis, however, many repre.sentatlves from industrial and or urban area.s who would like to see the tobacco fair price plan ended. You never can tell when one of

these may rise up with some plan to kill the act.

It behooves all of us in to--baccoland to support the plan to the fullest and to comply in every particular with all the provisions. We must speak as one and act as one whenever the measure is put under attack.

We know that as time rolls round there will be new efforts launched against a program which has given this section a good living for the longest time in history.

While we depend on our tobacco. we must not neglect seeking a better balance In our overall farm program. A lot of us who live on the farm must get jobs off the farm. A lot of us who have a small tobacco acreage must develop side lines which will bring in money.

We should strive to become independent in our operations over and above the tobacco which runs us. Only by such a program can we raise the average farm income of this section to one comparable to the returns to farmers in some other parts of the country. Only thus will we be able to push farm Income up and to raise North Carolinas average per capita income.

were getting older and more tired.

On this trip, for example, Punky, the family dog. who is 9 years old. didnt bark when my cab rolled up to the house. She stood there waiting, like a cinnamon - colored duchess she's mostly Chinese chowuntil I patted- her on the head. Then she smiled gravely and moved heavily after me to the frqnt door.

Poor Pdriky said my mother later. She has a bad cyst on her leg. Weve give her X rays, and shes had two operations and the doctor says a third wont do any good.

It may be necessary later to put her to sleep, and I Just cant think about it. None of us can. She has been such a good dog."

When you come home again, news like that depresses you. You feel the weight of mortality pressing on others. But somehow you feel impervious to change yourself. You are still as young as the day you left town. Nothing has happened to you.

The other night I went to a social occasion and overheard a couple talking.

Hes beginning to look more and more like his father, he said. Its almost creepy.

"Oh no, she disagreed. His father never lost that much hair and he would never have let himself get that fat."

He shushed her. "Be careful. Hes standing right there

They walked away. It took me a full two minutes w realize whom they had been talking about.

Change plays no favorites.

You can go home againbut you cant bring back quite the same person you took when you left.

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"Nothing is more demoralizing to an able-bodied and self-respecting man than to be out of work. Regular employment is the life blood of well-ordered human existence. No matter how adequate the support in the emergency may be. nothing can take the place of productive daily work.The Lynchburg News.

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By ROGER BABSON BAB30N PARK, Mass., -P^05D

$1.25 minimum wage wouro result in many employers reauo-ing the number of thcli wase-workers. They must do so to avoid baiWttplcy. But this is r. >l the only dangerous result of such legislation. If passed.

WAGE CHANGES AFFECT

all groups

II this $1.25 proposal could stop wlt those now getting less, U could have certain advantages. In addition to aiding several million deserving persons. It would come back to f^mers - and manufacturers In ln<reas5d Diiptfhaslng power. None of this Gmcrease would be saved. TWe could be aU to the good, but such legislation could upset all wage ales. ----------

Wageworkers think more of prestige than they do of money. Most people are proud by na-ture, and weQ they should be. Fur^ermore. workers who are nwWisied with$1.25 per hour naturally would not like to see inexperienced workers raised 35 per cent' without a corresponding raise for themselves and others more experienced. Hence, the proposed minimum wage could upset the entire wage scale for millions of workers with resulting price increases for foods and consumer goods and services. Unfortunately, President Kennedys economic advisors have never had a payroll to meet and are wholly Ignorant of the intricate subject of wages and prices.

UNFAIR TO MILLIONS OF SMALL STOREKEEPERS Eighty per cent of all shopkeepers employ only one or two clerks. These shops could be severely hurt as they are now barely making a living. Not only will most of them be obliged to put one of their clerks on half-time and thus reduce his or her -takeJiome nay to 62*4 cents per hours, but many of the small shops will feel obliged to close up and go out of business. President Kennedys professors say Very well, there are already too many stores in every city and town. Such a statement 1' very misleading, as such salesmen and others who are now calling upon them will lose their jobs, the local newspapers will lose advertising, and more vacant -stores will be seen on every business street.

To a certain extent tljiis same principle applies also to the merger of railroads, banks, and various other large concerns. When the merger is announced, the statement is made that no executive or other employee will be discharged. The policy of no fire, but no hire will be adopted. This means that as employees die or become 65 they will not be replaced.

, FOREIGN COMPETITION CAUSING UNEMPLOYMENT Even today, with present wage scales, our wageworkers are pricing themselves" out of work. Many manufacturers in our country are now suffering because of goods imported from Germany. Japan, and Italy, where wages are low and working hours long. As we Americans buy these imported goods, we are increasing unemployment here at hcMite. Hence, any move to further increase our U. S. wage scales at this time will result in the importation of more foreign goods. This would cause more unemployment here at home. Fearing this $1.25 minimum wage some corporations are already building factories in these foreign countries. Hence, I foresee that much more unemployment in this country Is inevitable, whatever Congress does as to our wage scale. AID FOR DEPRESSED AREAS IS JUSTIFIED President Kennedy deserves support from Congress for his appeal for certain cities which are suffering from exceptionally large unemployment. These are areas which have depended too heavily on one certain industry such as hard coal, coarst textiles, and some farm crops.

It is only fair that the entire country which is enjoying fair prosperity should be taxed to subsidize such unfortunate areas until they get back on their feet again. The money (Continued on page five)

riurt Israeli

Strength ForrToday

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THAT PROVIDENTIAL HAND

To what extent are the circumstances of our live chance and to what extent are they providence? f

Quite a few people declare that Uie world came Into being by fortuitous accident. It just happened. This type of person 'also believes that the events of their life are the result of good fortune or bad. or the result of cctent; or perhapi* the re*}) of fate.

Everyone, however., who cherishes a .sincere religious faith belle veil that the hgnd of Gocl lU* in everything. Such persona hold that everything in the world happens as the result either of Gods Command or of his permission. There Is nothing out-'^ide the orbit o his power and interest

The apparent conflict -of science and religion does not In reality exist. Science deals with the physical world, religion with _the sritual. And the two" are wholly different. Of course one cannot prove the existence of God by means of the categories of science. Such categories have a definite use In fact a very Important use but this use la not in the realm of faith, religion, and morals. Here revelation enter* i. Here ah i* the moU-vating factor Here we believe that we can see and without apology believe many things we cannot see.

The truly religious person^ believes that nothing happens In Gods universe by chance. Everything is under the providential han<l 0 God material and alike

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright, 1961, King Features - . Syndicate, Inc.

Jews in most Western countries, particularly the United States, have been disturbed by a speech delivered by David Ben-Gurlon, Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion Is apparent ly desperate that the Jewish im-mlgraMon to Israel has become reduced and that leaderships Jews from Western countries do not conft at all. Israel must now develop its population by the simple process of birth rather than by large scale immigration upon which it has depended

Israel as a nation responds to a permanent hope of the Jewish people, often expressed In the Bible. It is the basis of the most interesting holy days in the Jewish religion, Passover and the Feast of the Maccsbees.

The modcrjviliQPisijmVLemen^^^^ founded by Dr. Theodor HerzL ^ Vienese journalist, at the Basle Congress In 1897, sought to e.stablisli a Jewish homelaqd in Palestine. This was accomplished by the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and by a decision of the United Naioas in 1947 Israel thus was established as a nation for those Jews who chose

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Nevertheless, a great many Jews-rin fact, most Jewsparticularly in the Wbfitem countries, while they contributed heavily - to the development of Israel, chose hot to live there. Comparatively few American Jews left this country for Israel.

There Is the old historic argument as to what a Jew Is. Ben-. Gurlon has, for all practical purposes, tried to establish It that a Jew Is one who migrates to Israel, which Is historically an untenable position.

The Jews are a religion, the "People of the Book." who gave to mankind both the Old and New, Testaments and who pro-nounded and propagated the idea of one god. a total Being, who revealed the moral law to Moses. Jews differ from Chrlstiaiis in the essential fact that the Jews believe that the Messiah, the Saviour of mankind, Is yet ftr'VOWp,' .wtrhe- Chrtfltans be--lieve that He has already appeared in flesh upon this Earth in the ^rson of Jesus. ^

A's a"*religlon, Judaism once possessed a central temple, built iy,Solomon In Jerusalem, which was conducted b:|^ an order of priests. ,In due course, the temple was defiled and finally de-

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had no priests but have depended for their religious sanctions upon rabbis who are teachers and preachers. Judaism, having no central organization, broke up Into many sects at different times. It would serve no purpose to go into all of them now; suffice it that in the United States, from rigid to free, are the Has-sidim. the Orthodox, the Conservative and the Reform. The Zionist movement, prior to the establishment of Israel, gained its strength from the Orthodox and the Conservative. After Israel was established, many Reform Jews decided that Israel would be good for the refugees from Hitler and supported the effort financially.

The so-called ethnological Jew is, from a Jewish standpoint, a monster. This person rejects Judaism as a religion because he abhors religion, but he regards himself as a Jew by race which- i*' hrtM >ra) logical nonsense. The Jews are not a race, having assimilated with many peoples. Anthropological measurements of thousands of Jews failed to produce a racial pattern. The Yemenites, the Benjamlntes. the Bene Israel of..India,the Falashas are racially not akin to the Jew.^ of r Nn-M Ponnd or fiwe-

den.

In the United States many younger Jews who have abandoned their religion regard themselves as ethnological, Jews and express an affinity for Israel because of racial heritage. The Bible and Talmud and and all Jewish tradition, however, are antagonistic to them because from the beginning the Jews are not defined as a separate race but are the offspring of Abraham who wa^- a Chaldean, coralog from the city city of Ur. From earUest times, Jews intermarried with their neighbors.

Zionism adds to this Intensely complicated picture the third element, nationalism, which it becomes Increasingly difficult for Western Jews to accept because dual nationality is offensive to most decent folks wno belong to the country of their birth jfjfir adoption with single r loyalty- ad- mtawerrtng tiettty.

Ben-Gurlon hurt the cause of Israel by raising the Issue that good Jew* are those who migrate to Israel. The Jewish thought on the subject is that good Jews are, those who believe In God and live by the moral law which God gave to Mw?es "and the Prophets-for all men to b<vp.

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