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Friday, February 3, 1961

^ Friday, February 3, 1961

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Democrats Prepare For The Future

Under the leadership of Gov. Terr>' Sanford and a move to solidify party streiii?th in non-election years Democratic Chairman Bert Bennett it is apparent that in order that this strength may be brought to bear in the Democratic Party of'North Carolina is to be re- election years.

shaped into a political organization with considerably It has also become evident that Gov. Sanford will

more discipline and great^ cohessiveness than has work more closely with party organizations and offi-been the case in the past. cials on the local level in handing out appointments.

Although the Democratic Party has dominated shaping state policy and other matters than was tn North Carolina politics for generations, its dominance case with Gov. Hodges. PArty_discipline_thus becomes has been more or less taken for granted by political niore strict as local leaders are tied more closely to leaders. In recent elections, however, growh of Repub- state leadership both from the standpoint ot giy-

lican Party strength has become a matter of concern ing advice and from the sUndpoint of receiving favors, for Democratic leaders. A passive attitude on the part Whether these efforts on the part of the new

of the Democratic Party, even with the wide margin Democratic leadership in the state will stem the tide of strength it now has, would afford Republicans an Republican growth in North Carolina remains to

opportunity to gain considerably more influence if they seen. Both parties obviously ar .making more in-

did not gain control of state political affairs. tensive long-range plans for party organization in the

The hiring of a full-time, paid party executive riate than at any other time in recent history. Their secretary to coordinate more closely various party af- efforts are certain to have an important bearing on Tairs and activities throughout the state is a move to future political make-up of North Carolina both within build party strength from the precinct level up. It is parties and also between the two parties. >

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By MSBET

RURAL REHAB Reappointment 0 Dr. LO. Schaub ae a director, with recommendation that he be named president, of North Carolina Rural RehabiU-uUon Corporation brings to attention a right Important but liitie publicized branch ot State government. The agency was established in 1934 for the purpose Indicated by its namethe rehabilitation of farms and farmers whlch had been almost destroyed by the great depression.

The Federal Rovernment allotted about a million and a quarter dollars to the State to be used for long-time low interest loans on farm lands. to save from foreclosure and to improve buildings and soil. Three years later the State agency transferred to the U S Secretary of Agriculture a lot of its assets for administering in trust although basic title to the mortgages, bonds and cash remained in the Slate of North Carolina. As much as ten years ago the State began negotiations for reclaiming the money and .securities, but It was not until late 1959 that the transfer was effected. ' -

The N c RRC got back about three quarters of a million dol-^"lars. The difference repreaent-ed losses on loans made in the early years of operation. This approximate $750.000 consisted mainly of fully insured real estate and farm improvement loans, and a relatively small amount of cash-This money can be used only for purposes agreed upon by the State agency and the Secretary of Agriculture. Presently that is limited to farm purchase and improvement loans. In the 1938 transfer Rural Rehab retained something like a quarter million dollars for its own purposes. Almost ever since then that money has been subject of controversy, several other State agencies seeking to get control of it. Dr. Schaub. who was one of the original board members, and Carey Parker, attorney and secretary, who has been with the agency aince Its inception, led in successfully resisting such efforts.

STUDENT LOANS - These funds, the use of which is not restricted by the agreement with the Secretary of Agriculture, may be used for diverse purposes connected with Improvement of conditiona on the farms in North Carolina. That includes loans to boys and girls taking course.s in agriculture and home economics. Under that program Rural Rehab is now adding a doeen or so boys in the Agriculture Institute at State College.

Within a few weeks another bookmobile will begin making rounds in Pitt County serving Negroes in the rural areas.

It is, we think, another forward step toward affording the people of fTTe county, young and old,^opportunities to have the source of vast stores of knowledge at their finger tips.

This new bookmobile has been purchased in a joint undertaking by county funds and by individual subscriptions provided by both White and Negro citizens in communities throughout the county. Both in concept, and in the service it will provide, it is in a very true sense a county-wide undertaking in Pitt.

Since the first bookmobile began operation in Pitt nON QPWT TTnMy County several years ago literally thousands of books ^ have been borrowed by persons who may never have borrowed them had this special service not been avail- ^ ^

able. Some of these books, to be sure, were returned Cj

without been read. But others, without doubt, were L x

read by several people each time they were borrowed.

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Adding another bookmobile ^in the county will might call it an informal .report

mean that a greater number of our citizens will be to the shareholders. Such re-benefits whieb are fn h.. gained-J)v *'''? tnfrequent ovw

tapping the stores of information contained in bound (umSd volumes. Many of our countys citizens who have not but that does not mem it has read a book in years may be encouraged to read one nor out of business.

or tw'o books a year lcause of the easier access to Matter of fact, the uso ob-

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000 a year. The agency also can lend money to county boards of education to provide facilities for vocational agriculture and home economics classes.

CONTROLOriginally control of the N-C. Rural Rehabilitation Corporation was vested in a self-perpetuating board and was recognized as an arm of the New Deal Emergency Relief Administration. The 1953 General Assembly-one of several times the law was amendedfixed the board of directors at nine members, four ex-offlcio and five appointed by the Governor for staggered 3-yetr terms.

The ex-officlo members are the Commissioner of Agriculture. the Director of Agriculture Extension at State College, the Director of Vocational Education in the State Department of Public InstrucUon. and the State Director of the Federal Farm Home Admlnistfition. members are Dr. I.O. Schaub.

Raleigh: J.J. Hamlin Jr.. Ruth-erfordton; Fred E. Harris. Bailey: W P. Morris, Jackson, and Dudley Bagley. Moyock. The

D^ihi"? h ed''nnh! hem provided by this'new bookmobile. Others prob: thi,

hey are at ^here w no enke, no candles,

the annual meeting on February 21.

HIGH COURT - The spring term of the N.C. Supreme Court will convene next Monday, with arguments to begin Tuesday on appeals from the first, second. 29th and 30th districts. All told there are 18 cases slated for this-first week, only two noncapital criminal: 16 for the following week. The 1960 fall term, which adjourned Friday, was one of the heaviest In history.

Early docketing indicates the up coming spring term may beat that record.

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comics and musicians toured the world with USO to lift the spirits of servicemen.

Thousands of people outside the entertainment field joined in the giving of small services, like manning coffee and doughnut counters, soft-drink centers, information booths, and any number of hometown inspirations designed to entertain or make easier the visit of uniformed personnel.

You J^ht be surprised to know tl^USO is still functioning in a big way. More than 200

present^ returning books and borrowing new ones each no cheers, time the bookmobile comes around. The usoVas a big operation

Pitt County citizens as a whole can take Justifj^ able pride in the fact i^Uthis new bookmobile will ' dancers.

soon be put into-oprerationiMn our, county. It will'open. 1 -n T m

new horizons for many people through books. It is C jthPr^ KaltOrS SnVinn another brick that has-been set in place in building a iiiy

better Pitt County.

DIFFERENCE There's' a heck of a lot of difference between actual and simulated military operations. Last week several scheduled reproductions (?) of Confederate war battles were postponed on account of inclement weather. When the original battles were fought weather was an advantage or a handicap to one or the other opposing armies. but the battle could not be postponed just because somebody might get cold feetor a cold In the head. Two or three years ago your reporter was invited to go on a simulated air _raid engineered by the US Air Force, The jaunt was canceled because of inclement weather. In respon.se to query the commanding officer said that in actual wartime combat every person and every plane is expendable. Voting citizens and tax-

Moderate Plan Of Action Seen

Khrushchevs Warning

payers would not condone, he State College has a lot of loan^ said, the useless expenditure of

funds, available only to students taking courses leading to a degree. That eliminates the two-year institute cour.sea. Rural Rehab pick.s up there and offers loans to these students up to a present maximum of $1.-

men and planes Just for a show.

Of course that makes sense. But question remains whether this knuckling to weather gives any accurate portrayal of what the fighting boys have to go through.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres-ident Kennedy has said enough now to indicate he intends to follow a moderate course and that the keynote to his presidency will be action and change but not draztic change.

There are points on which he disagrees with the policies of his predecessor President Eisenhower. And these are apt to get more attention than the points on which he agrees.

But there are plenty of points of agreement between him and Eisenhower, as Kennedy dLsclos-ed further at his second news conference Wednesday.

Some of the fields in which he does not see eye to eye with Elsenhower may have profound Importance to the people affected.

Still, in one field after another, in.stead of proposing something completely new. he simply wants to go a step beyond where Eisenhower was willing to go.

For Instance: Eisenhower favored a medical care plan for the aged. So does Kennedy. But Kennedy wants to tie it into Social Security. Elsenhower was unwilling to go that far.

Some of Kennedys statements Wednesday Illustrate strong differences with ELsenhower.

He opened his news conference with the announcement he was reversing Eisenhowers critical cut in the number of servicemens dependents allowed to go overseas wdth them. This affected the morale of the armed forces.

But it was part of El.sen-howera effort to reduce the flow of American gold abroad.

Kennedy also announced he had ordered. In an attempt to encourage lncrea.sed home-building. a reduction from 5^4 to 5'k per cent in insured loans by the Federal Housing Administration.'

The.se were definite reversals of Eisenhower policy. But in one

field after another Kennedy showed agreement with Eisenhower thinking. He even went out of his way at times to note he was following Eisenhower policy. Some examples:

Asked why he had cracked

down on belligerent speeches by

(HeniltrflOR Diipatcli)

Khrushchev is again trowing his weight around as if Indeed he had ever stopped doing it. He is in many ways followinr the pattern adopted by Hitlef* in Germany before and during World War II. Just as Hitler, years before he reached the height of his power, gave the world a blueprint of his strategy for attempting to achieve world conquest, so also is the Kremlin ruler.

In a speech in Moscokr last month. Khrushchev bluntly warned that world war will be

with administration policy which has been non-belligerent. He pointed out Eisenhower had done the same. *

isenhower was opposed to a tax cut to overcome the business slump. Kennedy said he is, too, at least at this time.

ELsenhower in his budget message to Congress last month-seeking new revenues to balance, the budgetasked Congress to vote an increase in postal rates and the tax on highway and aviation gasoline.

Kennedy said he will do the same. In fact, he said he would ask for a ch^ge in only a few items in Eisenhowers budget.

When it was suggested to'him that his State of the Union message to Congress la.st week was critical of Eisenhower military policy and judgment, Kennedy said:

He Li waiting, perhaps until the end of February, for his own aides to give him a report on Americas military strength. And he added:

Until then I would not attempt to make any criticism or .suggest that we aie going to have to change the plans made by President Eisenhower.

Nor has he backed away from any commitments made by Eisenhower in the foreign field. Asked his pasition on defending Berlin against Communist pressure, which Elsenhower was pledged to do, Kennedy said;

My view. .is the same as the view expressed by the previous administration. . There is no change in our view on Berlin.

West attempts to resist Communist world domination. The West, of course, is not going to roll over and play dead each time he speaks. That means that one of two things will happen. Either he will retreat from the stand he has taken, or war will follow.

Very likely there la a degree of bluff in what this dictator says. But no one knows when he is bluffing and when he is in earnest. Thats w'hat makes war such a realistic possibility.

Should the West give in to all Khrushchevs demands- it would^ amount to submission and surrender. Free men are not made of such stuff. Rather they are inclined to call his hand, whatever the cost.

Khrushchev said it does not seem that war will be necessary for the Reds to acquire world domination. He plainly stated that the free nations will be prevented from making war 'by the establishment and growth of peace fronts, including pacifists of all shades of political convictions. He said further that the policy of peaceful coexistence will facilitate Communist party activities, making It a simpler matter to combat aggressive war blocs and foreign military bases. **

With some intimation and a

degree of encouragement from President' Kennedy, Khrushchev is virtually Inviting himself back to the United States for the United Nations Security Council in March, At that time the two Mr. Ks may meet for the first time. Khrushchev will proceed with his accustomed domineering attitude, probably breathing out his threats in an effort to stampede the young Kennedy into appeasement and assent to the Communist line. But by standing firm, Kennedy will not make matters any the worse. At the most, it can only hasten whatever of a showdown there may be. So that nothing is to be gained by retreat.

Kennedy /has explained to Americans that the day of sacrl-flee and austerity may come upon them, maybe sooner than a complacent populace realizes.

What it all adds up to is the absolute must that the United States, and its allies, be ready to defend themselves and to return blow for blow, if it shall come to that, which may God forbid.

Khrushchev has given a blueprint of his program for all the world to see and read. Hitler did just that in the early thirties, but no one paid serious heed to his words, and hence free peoples were forced to undergo the privations that were essential in preservation of their liberties. We may be near to another similar experience at the hands of this latter day braggart.

President Kennedy has spoken in all seriousness about what the future may hold in store. We shall ignore his admonitions only at our peril. We must at all costs stand for our own rights and for justice for ourselves and< for all nations. Short of that, free people everywhere could become a slave people as those in the satellite countries already are.

clubs are operating in the United States near large training centers and the big cities.

Servicemen find USQ_ clubs in faraway places, like Korea. Japan, Okinawa, Guam, Turkey,

Greece, the Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, Casablanca, Prance, Italy

... to name a few.

And entertainers still make the rounds of overseas posts, though the big names are now rare.

Bob Hope is one of those who has not forgotten. Anyway, troupes are giving more than 2.000 performances annually to GI audiences. Those traveling entertainers are all dedicated people. They have to be.

I never did see one of the stellar attractions USO put on the road during World War II, but watched one of the lesser troupes give a show for a small audience of perhaps a hundred GIs. The applause they received would have warmed the heart of an established prima donna at the Met.

To most of us the need for the USO today seems relatively small; the nmny mllEons of men and boys who once were far from home are now represented by a few million. (Need I remind there are scores overseas with families and friends here in Pitt County?)

The USO Is still important to many of them.

On December 12. seven troupes left for the Pacific, Alaskan,

European and Caribbean areas; in January two more units departed. one for the Pacific and ^

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Conservatives arc persons who

Wnd miSt S within the rSr-~ gins of historic memory. Conservatives regard Liberals, in this century, as persons whose judgement permits them to run wild to Uke unscreened actions upon Impulses. A Reactionary, on the other hand, is a person who resists change as adamantly as a Liberal welcomes change. The Conservative achieves more than tte LIberai because his thinking is within national traditional margins. The Reactionary is destructive'because he ignores aU new factors in a situation: he lives in the past as

since some date which he fixed in his mind. In politics such a person may accept the period of Mark Hanna as the most suit-' able for the United States or in mortis, the era of Cotton Mather as preferable. He very 5^often rejects statistical data as 'not affecting his poit of ^^ew. He Insists that he possesses an unbreakable code of life. Nevertheless, he does not wear a Prince Albert coat of the I890s or a stock of the early 1900's nor does his wife wear her hair a la Brunnhilde in a thick-long braid wound around her skull.

The Reactionary does recognize fashion but cannot adjust to change. He believes in genealogy as a guide to character despite all the investigations that have been done in the psychology of inherited characteristics. The Conservative, like the Liberal, looks at all that comes up. but he screens current data through the sieve of universal experience, whereas the Liberal too often accepts the new a.s virtuous because it is new and different.

One says that a doctor Is conservative who waits until something is proven about the side effects of a remedy. A doctor who-4snot conservative reads the Sit^ctlve catalogue and experiments on his patients. The-reactionary doctor says it is all bunk because it was not taught in his day in college. Some persons stop learning anything, except by experience,, the day they get a cap and gown. ^

^ The Conservative in economics has an enormous respect for the hardness of money, recognizing that those nations which permitted their currencies pto go soft and stay soft too long collapse politically and disappear from history. People, of course, do not disappear: only nations are conquered and absorbed. Nevertheless, there are strong men among every people who survive every adventure in history and relive their national _ traditions.

The Reactionary believes that some peoples are, superior to others. The Conservative acpepts superiority only on the basis of achievement, of "character, of personality. He respects a political radical such as Einstein for his accomplishments in physics. The Reactionary is liable to say that Einsteins politics sounded nutty to him, ignoring all else. The Liberal is liable to accept Einsteins political views because he was so great a physicist.

Similarly the Reactionary says that Bertrand Russell is an immoral person because of hig unorthodox views on marriage, ignoring the fact that Russell is one of the worlds greatest mathematicians. The Conservative looks at his mathematics

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three units are leaving for Europe, the Pacific and the Northeast. Size of the Northeast, Size of the troupes runs from three persons to as many as fifteen. Their tours last from a month to three months.

Calling your attention to the USO isnt something remote and unrelated to us at home, tor each ot us who contributed to the United Fund was also contributing something to morale-building for those from home who are now overseas or a long way from home.

Thf USO is proof to them that somebody back home does give a damn, says Lt. General Lewis B H.ershey, Director of Selective Service.

Aside from that, it seems an appropriate time (their 20th anniversary) to call attention to the shareholders to the continuous effort of a lot of very unselfish people.

Agreed? .

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By EARL L. DOUGLA.SS HOW DO YOU RATE?

Wliat does it mean to be up-to-date?

Certain politicians and scientists who have given tl)e impression that they were looking backwards rather Uian forwards have been described as persons who were djragged screaming Into the twentieth century. There is a disposition in all of us when we confront a new and novel idea to dig our heels into the ground and declare petulantly that we will not budge.

To keep up-to-date does not mean to accept every new thing, but it does m^n to examine every new thing. One out of

stltute a real advance in thinking. Perhaps one our of five.

Perhaps half the new Ideas we confront constitute advancement over old ideas.

The percentage docs not matter so much as does our attitude. Are we willing to pick up every new thing, examine it, judge It impartially, and give it an honest appraisal? if we are, theil we are up*to-(iate. Half the people who breezily announce that they are up-to-date, ahead of their age, are nothing but superficial thinkers who consider everything new an improvement over everything old. This type of liberal; U a millstone about humanitys neck. He is his own worst enemy.

Your dwpo.sitlon to give every

idea a 4a- prave .la - dcecaee .

worth Indicates whether you are TWO PROPOSALS

By ELMER ROESSNER

The new brain behind the Postmaster "NGenerals desk, James E. Day, might consider the Mstorarion of,the directory servid. ' " ^

The directory service used to be a unit in every poat office that took letters with Incomplete addresses and added sufficient information to get them delivered.

In the old days, a letter addressed to the Bjones Co., Fort Wayne, Ind., went to* the directory service in Port Wayne, directories and phone books were consulted, and the street address added. But a letter so addressed today bounces back to the sender.

The directory service was abolished to ai^ve money. This was a fruitcake Idea to begin with, because it probably eosLi as much to send a letter back to the sender as U does to fiux1 the local address of the ad*

your reporter several times sug- the wannest and best publicity gested that the directory service the department got the year

be restcH'ed on a pay basis. One round.

way would be to issue a ^tamp, . And an incalculable amount of

say of 17-cent denomination, for sales are being lost every day

up-to-date or beliind-the-times.

1" dlrecUwy senvice- , When, the sender was not sure of.an address, he would put such a stamp oh the envelope, and the receiving post office would make an effort to find the addressee.

Another way would be to authorize the marking of mail directory service requested, and if this service were neces-sai*y. the addressee would be called upon to pay an extra charge, or the extra charge could be levied back on the sender.

The former Postmaster General, Arthur E'. Summerfield, did not, get the message and nothing was done.

The abolition of the directory service had two consequences;

There were no more of those amazing stories about how post />f/A3 ttttifiiiyaesg ioceled .sees with o-ilv the scantiest of

say that his views on marriage must have validity because he is an outstanding mathematician and philosopher.

Perhaps all this is too diagrammatic but it is substantially descriptive of the three broad points of view which influence opinion in this century. Of course, in addition, there are persons who might be described as articulate screw-balls who have no philosophy of life but who pick up some special aberration or hate and make a life of that. Such persons are deceptive, particularly among Conservatives, because whereas they may believe in the economics of the welfare state, they hate the Elsenhower Administration because it has enforced the Brown decision of the Supreme Court. Or. there are those who call themselves capitalists but prefer fiat to hard money. Or, there are some who believe firmly in the Constitution but would withhold its benefits from Jews, Catholics, Armenians, Syrians, Negroes and anybody else that comes to mind.

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the business section of your public Uisary. These directories also give names of officers to whom you may wazst to write * 4. If a member of a^ credit

__because proi^ective . custotncr^s__ bhrejiu-^r raUog servia, ask t

dont know complete business addresses,

TEMPORARY SOLUTION

Every week I get letters asking how the writers can get in touch with companies they want to do business with. letters they have sent without street addresses have been returned.

Until we can get the Post Office back into the directory service business, here arc some ways to find street addresses for out-of-town 'fil-ms:

1. Look up the company at local telephone company offices where out-of-town directories ai'e kept on file. The atreet address will be given, although often In gibberish abbrevtatioiis.

2. Consult out-of-town phone books.Jjj Ittg hotels, railroad and

fdf street aifdrcsiftis 'an<J wjiat-ever other data are heeded.

5. Send the letter in care of the chamber of commerce in the addressees city with the request that it be forwarded.

A LITTLE MATTER OF SOME LOST INTEREST A Toronto cop, slapping a parking ticket on one Alex Os-bornei car dated It Nov. 7.

Mr. Osborne, a bunny if there ever was one, mailed in a check dated Nov. 7, 1968.

POST OFHCE CATAIvOGUES ALL STAMPS THROUGH 1889 For dealers and eoUeetors. & Post Office book liatlnc and describing United States stamps has been revised, brtnglng it up through 19N. It eonslsts of 214 pages, Ulustreted, and is avail-

puring the Be^mbUcan regime, cliu-s. lhee consUtiile

,^d<ieL.j/*4!d ..Able naa rht 3uiMtriataQdenl oS

telephone service stations. DnenmAnta wa^hinat/m as jqC! .

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