PACE POURTHE DAtLY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE. N. C

Wdneaday, February 8, 1961

Wednesday, February 8, 1961

Shirtsleeve Work Now Begins

Expressway Is Not For The Blind

'^When the gavels banged down today in the House and Senate iirRaleigh, it marked the beginning of an historic session of the North Carolina legisl^iture.

It will be a spectacular session for sure. There willbe fireworks aplenty, bitter debates and at ^mes high tension. But these will not be the measure of the historic value of this 1961 General Assembly. The evaluation must be made after next summer when the

body else gets there fiwt.

other ia mora 44k-4he reodern more costly, more complicated, and indeed rnora hazardous to those who would travel it. And yet it is the route a state must take if it is to keep pace with

Factual Reports As To Progress

the progress of the times; if it is not to handicap its people in the immediate future and make an almost impossible situation for its citizens a generation from, now.

To be.sure,.the expressway offers greater danger Speed increases the chance of error, and the greater the speed the more serious the repercussions from the

evaiuauuii muav uc -............ error. The expressway is not for the blind who rush

legislators have left their sweltering quarters in Ra- headlong, failing to keep proper lookout, failing to leigh, scattered back across the state and view from be aware of the danger signs which might flash by. a distance the net.result of the session. * And yet it is the route to opportunity. It is the

The task which lies before these 170 men and. route that is most rewarding to those who have the women in Raleigh is by no means eas>\ North Carolina courage' and the- common sense to travel it success-stands today at a crossroads in its progress. One al- fully.

ternative is the road conceived in horse-and-buggy Tbe legislators now gathered in Raleigh will

times, the road of plodding easily along, heading to- determine in the course of the next several months ward the goal, but giving no thought to w hether every- ^vhich of these roads North Carolina will travel. More

than that, the legislators will determine in what manner the state will -mihsue. CPurse it chooses to follow.

Will the legislature choose for the state to travel the -horse-and-buggy road? If so, will they decide upon horse-and-buggy speed for improving North Carolina, or after having chosen this course will they designate a speed greater than the road can handle?

Will they choose the expressway? And if they do, will they prescribe due caution, or throw caution to the wind?

The future progress of North Carolina and the future welfare of its people is directly tied to the answers which are proyided by the 1961 General Assembly.

Joint Responsibility To The Townspeople

The hassel over dismissal of Grimeslands Police Chief is subsiding now, but the circumstances which surrounded the incident should prove a lesson not only to Grimesland but to other communities which have watched from the sidelines.

In spite of whatever other considerations might have entered into the Grimesland board's decision to dismiss the towns police chief, we believe most people who have followed the incident will look upon the arrest of the three men immediately before the controversy became public as the incident which precipitated what has since transpired.

Certainly one cannot discount the assertions by Grimesland officials that the matter of continuing the employment of the chief had been under consideration for some time before the three^ arrests were made. Even so, there remains'the question of whether the police chief would have been dismissed at-this particular time had not the arrests taken place. At the same time the public probably vill remember that the Grimesland court found the three men guilty of the charges which the police chief brought against them.

The turnover of police chiefs in Grimesland cannot be looked upon asj^joke. Nor could a similar situation in any other commuhTty. tair CTifereement responsibility of the local government and a responsibility that must be shouldered in the interest of the community as a whole.

The law enforcers duty is culminated in preserving the peace and where necessary making arrests in order to carry out that duty. It is up to the local courts system to determine the guilt or non-guilt and act accordingly.

suggest that rather than undermining the authority and respect due its policemen, town officials everywhereand their law enforcement agencies have an obligation to each other.

Jointly they have a responsibility to the people, and where either fails, it is the townspeople who suffer most

By NISBET

PROGRESS There Is so much optimism in reports of boosters and so much pessimism among those who cannot see how we the people can pay for the things that we the people need. It is encouraging once in awhile to get factual reports of progress- As -this Is being written, your reporter has spread out on his desk three communications from people concerned with widely divergent, but vitally important, phases bf progres-4Sive'devlopment. Each of these phases embraces a lot more than can be covered in the special reports on specific achievements. This is taken from one day's mail. Tomorrow and next day emphasis may be on some other facets of the total problem'

EDUCATIONOn top of the stack of mail, as it was opened. Is a news story and cover letter from Mr.'; Lillian Hirt. director of publicity for Western Carolina College at CuUowhee. dealing with the pot program operated for specially gifted children by Dr. Carl D. Killian. head of the college department of -education and psychology. In 1958 Dr, Killian surted a class of 29 fifth-graders, selected from all over the state as specially bright kids.

The experiment Justified an anonymous gift of $10.000 to continue the program. The third year there was a gift of $18,500. For this year there^is available $70,000 from two of the Reynolds* foundations. The "pilot project begun in 1958 with 29 fifth grade pupils goes into its fourth year with twelve groups of specially talented children up to high school level, with still practically no tax money involved-

Meantime, public consciousness was aroused to ^the point -Shat..Xanvernnr _HDdges appointed a committee to study the problem of the gifted pupil. Dr. Killian headed that committee and his report will Be presented to the General Assembly shortly after it convenes.

HIGHWAYS Next letter in the days maiil deals with just one phase of highway progress, as the first dealt with just one angle of the education problem-Mrs. Alice Strickland, secretary of the South Eastern North Carolina Beach Association, writes that she has talked with a lot of people In coastal Carolina who have expressed wiU^^ess to temporarily abandon the pleas-ttre of local differences" and work together for promotion of highway development along the coast that will take advantage of the anticipated traffic imposed on these roads by opening up of the Chesapeake bridge-tunnel project In 1964. That represents progress with a capital "P.

It is common knowledge that one reason for retarded development of the sparsely settled coastal and mountain sections of

North Carolina, as contrasted with the economic progress in the densely populated central part of the state, has been lacked of cooperation among tho several communities.

HOSPITALS-The next letter in the file of correspondence is a semi-confidential report of progress made by Roy Purser, general manager of the State mental hospiUl system, to his board. Before going into detail report of progress by institutions. Purser^ makes two general observations. First is that morale among patients and attendants is at an aU time high. Next is that collections from families of patients able to pay, from Social Security and other government agencies, are "improving. That means a larger share of the burden of caring for patients in the mental hospitals is being shifted from taxpayers to'relatives of the patients who are able to pay and to other sources of income.

That, too. represents progress in that it leaves more money to take care of patients who have no resources other than public State tax money-

BREAKDOWN Purser then goes into a detail report of facilities available and contemplated at the several institutions under supervision of the State Hospitals Board of Control, with spe-cli^l emphasis on progress with-~ in the past two years. The report is gratifying in most instances. but it has discordant notessuch as the instance where 200 beds had been specified and the money available permitted only 140 Butthat is 140 more hospital beds than were In use two years ago. So that, too, rep-re,sents progresseven though at slower rate than hoped for.

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Bv HENRY HOWARD

Photo by Stuart Savage

Groundhog Is Unreliable

Granted, it probably takes an authority to discuss the subject properly, but we were just aron-dering what happened to ole Groundhog last Thursday.

While the "official watchers* of the little animal said he poked his nose into a sunshiny morning and was frightened back into his burrow by his own shadow, it would have been well-nigh impossible for our groundhog around here to have seen his shadow.

In this area it was overcast on Groundhog Day. Because of that we had begun to anticipate what is indicated by the traditional "Groundhog Weather-vane*

According to our information the groundhogs failure to see his shadow on the day he emerges

from winter-long hibernation indicates that he is pleased and will remain outside until another winter.

On the other hand, if he does see his shadow he quickly retreats into his chambers, to sleep through at least six more weeks of cold, rainy (or snowy) weather.

Like we said at the outset, it probably takes an authority to explain such a thing, but we were beginning to wonder if the groundhog around here really did fail to see his shadow.

Something seems to be amlSs. Maybe we dont even have a qualified groundhog around here.

This week the Boy gcouts of America some 5 million of

Other Editors Sayings 3ig Sum Is Needed

SUMMARY-These .three com-munieatiotia. -eitob - 4eaUag with only one segment in the complicated educational, health and social policy of North CaroBna, serve to pinpoint the basic problem facing the General Assembly in these areas. Just how much of total State revenue should be devoted to education, and what part of that total should be dedicated to average, below average and above average in IQ rating of pupils is a serious question. Just how total available money for health should be divided between mental and physical needs is s real problem. Whether highway funds should be used to serve presently determined needs or for potential development of areas not now served by adequate roads Is an eoonomie question of significance.

Decisions on these points will largely control the balanced progress of North Carolina. But, the gist of all the reports Is that whether balanced or not. North Carolina is on the progressive path.

Rusk Wants No iimelight Role

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - The new secretary of state. Dean Rusk, is a technician and neither an actor nor a politician.

This tall, round-faced, scholarly looking man, who will be 53 Thursday, is unsensational in voice and statements. He gives the impression that whenever this government has anything impor^t to announce In foreign affairs It will be President Kennedy who dots it, not Rusk.

It wasnt that way with John Poster DuUes. President Dwight D. Elsenhowers first secretary of state who died in 1959.

I^es was both a bit of an actor and a politician, a secretary who made flamboyant statements which got Into headlines but often never panned out.

Youd have to swim a lot of diplomatic channels before finding two men more unlike than Rusk and Dulles at their first news conferences.

Rusk held his first State Department news conference Monday. For all the scud news involved Rusk could have done without the meeting with the press.

He apparently called M to get

across the idea that hell try to be helpful In getting out news. But he also said that whenever he thinks the good of the country requires it, hell clam up.

This was a frank promise of what to expect. It was In keeping with a statement he made before taking office that he wants more State Department candor.

Rusk had no solutions for anything and, like Kennedy, warned against expecting quick ones.

DuUes was a lawyer who could use the language precisely as it suited him to get the effect he wanted.

Rusk gives thf impression of a mao who uses the language not for effect but for caution.

Dulles broke all records for travel by a secretary of state. He was endlessly on the move as if he felt a job culdnt be well done unles.s he did it.

Rusk isnt likely to do so much running around since he believes strongly in depending on a trained diplomatic corps.

He has written that the secretary of state must be the central figure In developing foreign policy. But this doesnt mean he will seek the headlines himself.

(Washington DaUy News)

A study group in North Carolina has reported that the state needs right now the sum of $240 million for school building needs. It says that the state might be expected in time to furnish $140 million of the amount with the various counties furnishing the other $100 million.

No one needs to be told that this is a huge amount. When we talk'in terms of our school building needs, by practical necessity we must also think in terms of spending any monies made available for the purpose.

In North Carolina today the sum of $240 million could not be spent wisely and efficiently within the space of a year." We doubt that this huge amount could be spent in the four years of the Terry Sanford administration.

What we ought to determine is a priority in needs, and those having the very top priority ought to come first. Many counties are suffering from a lack of classroom space. Makeshift rooms ought to be discarded as soon as possible. Every child In North Carolina ought to have the privilege of sitting in a room well heated, well lighted, and w'ell ventilated. And every child ought to have a right to sit in a clas.sroom which is comfortable in every way.

We are strong for building classrooms ahead of everything else in the building field. We suspect that many counties should wait on state money until such a time where all other counties have adequate classroom facilities. But practical politics being what they are, we

suspect that the old thjary of "give ^hem all something will be strong when it comes time to vote on a statewide school bond issue. After all, passage of the issue is major problem, and counties which might expect nothing from a schol bond issue certainly are not going to be very enthusiastic about supporting such an issue.

Governor Sanford has suggested that the first statewide school bond Issue ought to be in the range of about 50 million dollars. That, too, is a large amount, and it is not going to be a case of asking for a bond issue and being sure that ohe will pass. It Is going to take a lot of work to pass a $50 million bond issue for school building purposes.

When we look at, the most populous counties in the state, counties which send more money into the state in taxes than they get back in fund.s from the state, we recognize the problem imr mediately. The voters in these counties are going to be reluctant to vote for a bond issue.

Here In this Pamlico area, we are told that for every doUar we pay in state taxes, we get three back. That picture shows that we are not as developed economically as many of the Piedmont counties In this state.

We need. school buildings in the state. The people of the state must be sold on that idea. A bond Issue will not only be a means of/acquiring the needed facilities, but It should also prove an interesting and Informative method of acquainting our people statewide on the real school needs.

themare celebrating the 51st anniversary of the organizations founding in 1910.

According to BSA figures, the scouting program has affected the lives of over 33 million boys and men since its origin.

The programs organization has become an integral part of the everyday lives of members of Cub Scout packs. Boy Scout troops, and . Explorer posts around the nation.

Since 1910, scouting has spread into the lives of a high percent-age of Americas boys. Many have been directed along paths they otherwise may not have followed.

Feb. 7 through 14 has been set aside as Boy Scout Week.

Persons . who apiureciate th# existence of such a program perhaps should make a special ef-fort to express that appreciation.

Thlsl^H providey* good^ portunity to give scouting a pat on the back.

Opinions In Brief

"If you are currently worried about business problems, weath-er problems, remember that your worries are relative. Ten years from now, as the saying goes, you will have forgotten all about your curfent worries in nine out of ,tcn cases.Her-rodsburg (Ky.) Herald.

"New growthpopulation or otherwiseisnt coming to areas which cant, provide that growth, with the services considered es-senUal today. -- Durham (N.C.) Herald.

"Neither the Senate nor

House has been reapportioned since 1941, in defiance of an unqualified constitutional re

quirement. How can the people of /iorth Carolina respect the laws of their state if their lawmakers do not? Greensboro Daily News

"If there is any single reason why North Carolinas newspapers should not be called great, it would seem to be their refusal to grapple with the moral issues within our province. Chapel Hill Weekly.

"No ,small group of people sitting around a table has the rightror necessary knowledge to act as the conscience of the jfublic as a whole.The Charlotte Observer.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright. 1961. King Fcaturgs Syndicate. Inc.

The United States has sent hundreds of millions of dollars to rehabUitate Italy and Italy is now one of the more prosperous countries in Europe. However. the lUlians forget whence came their rcdempUon. This was brought out startlingly by Lyman C. Duncan, of the Lederle Laboratories which manufacture pharmaceuticals and spend huge sums on research.

Said Duncan:.

"While Italian names are prominent in every _othcr field j0f science, there fias mt beep a single medlcalr product of any consequence coming out of Italy since that law (Mussolinis withdrawal of patent protection for _ pharmaceuticals) was abrogated

Then he told his tale of woe:

"When we bring out a new pTJduct in this country or when a new product comes out in Germany. Switzerland or anywhere else, these people simply have someone pick up the product, fly it to Italy, and they start .duplicating it.

"Now, they use other dvious means of getting it a little earlier so they can also try to have It on the market at the same time, and they are absolutely immune from any kind of suit.

Naturally. It is less expensive to pirate than to do research; it is less costly to steal than to buy, unless you get caught and the Italian, in his own countrv, cannot get caught according to their law. What he does is legitimate in Italy.

Italians. In fact, go abbut their trickeries openly. Chemical Engineering News* published an advertisement which is a stimulant to corruption. It reads:

"... Proces.ses Wanted. Por-eign-^inufactur seeks information or consulting services for production of antibiotics, vitamins. steroids and pharmaceutical chemicals, by microbiological and synthetic organic techniques. Products will be sold only in foreign countries where patents do not apply. All replies held in strictest confidence. Unusually attractive compensation. Write to representative presently in U.S.A., Dr. Angelo Man-cuso, 15 Bergen Boulevard. Fair-view. New Jersey.*

The interesting fact about Fairview, New Jersey, is that it is close to the Lederle, the Merck, the.-aquibh, ABd other^-pharmaceutical manufacturers.

It would be a simple matter for - ^ a chemist to iiir

cost several deflaea,

research and the chemical could come out in Italyabout the same time that it does here.

_ The significance of this testimony before the Senate Subcom-^, .r-mittee on Antitnist and Monopoly Is that more and more American industries are becoming conscious about how the American businessman and the American worker arc being trimmed. The palliatives for taking eare of the , unemployed do not fit all meet the problem of uhempldyment The foreign producers, spending nothing on research, nothing on pilot operations, paying low . wages, can affbrd to make and ^ dump the product in the Amerl-^ can market at a low price.

A worker. In this country, who receives, let us say $84 a week and who has a take-home pay of, let us say. $60 a week, taking all deductions into consideration, cannot,-compete with a worker who gets $14 a week In the same industry in a foreign country. He cannot compete with the products of that alien worker in the American market.

The other night. I asked Henry Hazlitt. a leading American economist and an exponent of the free market, where on earth there is a free^ market today. Q\iit truthfully, he had to say: Jt "Nowhere! *17181 makes all classical arguments about the' free market futile because one deals with realities. While the United States removes protection for industry, every other country continues Its protection against Imports; quotas have been established, particularly American products at the same time that the United State.s pours huge sums into these various countries in the form of economic and military aid.

The problem of unemployment must be dealt with objectively -and systematically. There are (Continued on page five)

New Advertising Contest Rules

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS LET THEM WIN THEIR SPURS

When word was brought to King Edward in of England that his son. Prince Edward, was in great danger at the Battle of Crtcy, the king inquired, Is nay son killed? "No sire, please God, was the reply. "I* he wounded? No alre. "I* he" thrown to the ground? "No sire, but he is in great danger. "Then. said the king, "I wUl aend no aid. Let the boy win his apura; for I wish If Ood ao order it, that the honor of victory shall be his," From that time on the\"Black Prince. as Prince Edward was called from

a qanae of rnowJi throughout Europe.

Few people can let the kids take it. They muat send help.

They must ease them along. "I dont want my son to go through the sacriftce I endured in my childhood and youth.

' But bless you, that is the thing which made you the successful person you are. You were not borne up by eagles wings or angels wings. You did not even climb X ladder. You scaled the side of a precipice and the result was strength and increased daring.

We never make life better for ourselves or for our loved ones by making it too easy. There is nothing the matter with comfort, provided it is not put first In life. The first thing of impor-^ tance In life Is discipline, which liiWfvM learnfng'* Ihrdugfi) dvm-culty.

Have the courage to let youth endure those trials which will

By ELMER ROESSNER

If you are a contest fan, those "reasonable facsimiles may become easier to draw.

And if you are a promoter of advertising contests, youd better ask the" Fraud and- Mail-* ability Division, Post Office Department, Washington 25, D.C., (or a copy of its proposed new rulea for merchandising promo-' on contests in which the mails are used.

The use of contests to promote or' sell goods has been steadily increasing over the years and there may be a sharp Increase thla year because there, is always a rise when sales decline. Contests are usually one of the surest-fire. bang-bang ways of forcing Increases in sales known to advertising men. STARTED UNDER SUMMER-FIELD

Dont get the idea that new rules for advertising . contests have anything' to do with the*^ New Frontier.

(Almost six months ago. President Eisenhowers Postmaster

initiated a restudy of postal rules on contests on the theory that contest promoters had out-smarted--or at least had outgrownprevious strictures.

The F&M division has been working on the problem and ^has proposed hew ruls. Changes largely concern "consideration and chance.

On the first point, the rules would require considerable simplicity in making "reasonable facsimiles or the box top^, trademark or whatever is required to accompany an answer This proposal grows out of the suspicion that some facsimiles are so difficult to make that the contestant is forced to go ot and buy a box of the product. And when that happens a consideration Is Involved.

MUST BE HANDY The proposed regulations would also require that if a facsimile is specified, that the thing to he copied must be fully, : DfIHXKtuced along with the sh* nounccment of the contest. In other words. Geraldine need not have to gg to the public library or a local store to make a

"reasonable facsimile or the trademark on a jar of Drippee Treacle.

Another proposal provides - that, unless' a contest is limited to people already subscribing to the periodical, contestants cannot be required to buy copies of the periodical, or to make other purchases or considera-tior-s.

Another proposal would forbid contests in which participation is free, but in which extra prizes are awarded on proof of purchase, such as sending in box tope, labels, coupons or other chits. '

The new rules would forbid contests In which .something other than skill is involved. The proposal says: i

"Chance may occur, for example. because of the appllca-. tlon of undisclosed rulea or standards' of judging, the arbitrary of the rules to fully and accur ately describe the standards to be employed in judging the contest or because the natur of the entry is such as to provide no genuine basis from which to

comparative merit or skill.* ''The Post Office F&M Division will consider objections to the new rules until Mrrch 1. Then, no objections prevaUlngT the rules probably will be prolumgat-ed.

SHORT AND SIGNIFICANT NOTES ON BUSINESS Bathing can be interesting with a new line of towels with sculptured, texturej^ and some of the most colorful designs ever seen. (By Calloway Mills, 295 Fifth Ave., New York 16.). . . The first all-aluminum structural frame home, which can bo put together with wrench, screwdriver, bolts and screws is being-' buUt near Detroit. Price: $250,-000. . ."The evidence indicates, that there is little pent-up de- mand for housing at the present*' time. stated D.C. Sutherland, San Francisco banker, evidently not a Kennedy Democrat. . . Commercial production of plastic piping 80 resistant that It can*^ be used for hoi-water Wbusehold lines will start in Louisville, Ky., about May I, B.P. Goodrich announces.