PACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREInVILLE, N. C

Thursday, February 9, 1961

Thursday,Februai^ 9, 196T , '

Wires Crossed Early In Term

Losing His Buttons'

There are shades of ie Eisenhower administra- durinfir the Eisenhower, administration. At varioua tion in the recent missile-gap or no-missile-jrap con- times it was bomber strength, conventional weapons, troversy that has blossomed out in Washington . . . missiles, space progress that brought conflicting state-this tim in the new Kennedy administration.. ments from the President, top military officials and

On Tuesday of this week there came the an- others in the government as to the relaUve position of . , nouncement that the new top command in the Penta- the United States.

' ffon had come to the tentative conclusion there is no It was not expected that the Kennedy administra-gap between the U.SHnls^e strengfTad that of the~tion would run its course without such incident, but Soviet Union. On Wednesday at his press conference, we are rather surprised that such a situation would President Kennedy modified that tentative conclusion make itself evident so early in the new administration, bv saying no firm decision has been reached as to the Under the Eisenhower administration there was relative position of the United States and the Soviet such a series of conflicting statements and opinions Union in missile strength. on our defensive strength that general confusion over

Certainly the Pentagon announcement held forth the relative position of the United States prevailed,in a much more optimistic picture of the relative missile this nation.

strength of this nation than did the inaugural address President Kennedy should see that such a situa-of the new President a few weeks ago. And certainly ticn does not come about during his administration. President Kennedy in his news conference Wednesday This should not be accomplished by silencing opinions did not indicate that he subscribes to. the tentative on these matters that differ from his own, but rather .announcem.ei^ said^by cmrefully evaluating our position and making the have* been reached. they are favor

The situation present in this incident is not greatly able or indifferent, different from that which cropped up. many times

ocal Bills

Submitted Early

By LYNN NISBET

Bly eDecommmtity soffers.

LOCAL BILL5 - Ac

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tlon and legi^iire leaders are makiiig the usual Liiscscecce jnembers of the GeaenL Assesi* hly get their local hCs '.zsrwf jc-**ed early, so they they caa be disposed of and clear the -ay far more leisurely cons;derati<Ka of aiatewide meas^I^es. It under-atandable that the beg fots would like this procedure. It is Just as easy to understand why many legislators and nearly all local governing bodies recogn^ It as impractical. Many of them think that the process should be reversed, with statewide Wlls taking priority, both as to importance and timing, and as a fuide^ to what local legislation might be advisable.

The money billa unually come In during the first week, and this year they are slated for introduction the second day of the session. Counties and cities need to know what taxes are proposed to be levied by the State before they can intelligently plan local tax levies.

Numerous commissions have been studying organization of State government and have made available to affected State departments many of their recommendations. These recommendations are embodied in bills already prepared. Local governments need to know what is proposed in the area of extension of State control or co-cpmiave activinear tpforr'-they fraft their local legislation.

Another factor is that local itnlts often find legislation proposed by other .counties and cities is better for their needs than what they had doped out. so they find it advisable to re-_Tlse their bills. This is a delaying factor that does not apply to atatewide, or specifically, ad-mlnlstratioQ sponsored p r o-frams.

ILLUSTRATIONS - Take the hypothetical case of a county which wants to change the number and manner of election of commissioners. Then a statewide act prescribes that no county can have more or less than a specified number of commissioners. Or, a county wants to adopt a county police department, and a tate law comes along to say that all county - wide law enforcement must be channeled through the sheriffs office. Since it is basic that statewide acts take precedence over local. It saves time to have the statewide laws enacted first.

Another advantage in early handling of statewide bills is "that such procedure will avoid the last hour adjournment debacles which In the past have resulted In some mighty bad State laws. If the local laws are bad.

FOOTBALL TAXESRecom-B^esMtaCk>a of a atody commis-sioc that costs of operating high school athletic programa be paid ecturely out of tax funds is not likely to meet popular approval. It is presumed that this idea also would have the school bands financed out of tax money including the purchase of instruments and uniforms.

Nearly all the athletic coaches and band directors are listed as faculty members, and their basic pay comes from tax moneyState and local. In many Instances the salaries are aupple-mented by private contributions, and more often than not some **angcl. either an Individual or a civic group, underwrllea a large part of the cost of uniforms. band instruments, transportation buses, etc.

Educational leaders have been concerned for some years about the over-emphasis on athletics, to the detriment of the regular classroom work. Public opinion apparently favors curtailment of some activities, and more control over all programs by the school authorities.

NOT READY - It Is by no means certain that taxpayers generally are ready to have their money used for all the ex-

- penses of football and other athletics, even at the - reduced

' level of activitiy recommended by the commission.

In similar category comes the

proposal that-aJl-MPflntaa-flLjXfc; litical campaigns be paid out of the public treasury. Despite the belief that too muclrinoney is spent on campaigns and some of it for questionable purposes. the people are not yet ready to forego the privilege of contributing to their favorite candidate or have their tax money devoted to helping a man whom they do not want elected. Back of all the arguments for government control over nominating and election campaign financing Is the realization that some person must make the allocation.

There Is growing sentiment for tightening up requirements that accurate reports be made, of moneys received and spent, and some favor for realistic limitation on amounts permitted. The limit of $12,00p for a statewide campaign for Governor, which prevailed until a few years ago, was ridiculous. It encouragedin fact necessitated false reports.

Your reporter has found no sentiment at all In this state for using tax money to finance personal oi*-partlsan political campaign. The conduct of elections is a governmental function and a proper use of tax money, and Is completely different from the conduct of pre-election publicity efforts in behalf of individual and party candidates.

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Council Moves Quickly

On Improvements Task

Greenvilles City Council is to be commended ior moving swiftly to put to effective use the bond money for a variety of municipal improvements approved by local voters a few months ago.

It was only a couple of weeks ago that bids were taken on the $550,000 worth of bonds, and before the end of this month the city is to receive bids on a number of bond improvements including the far-reaching street improvement program. There will be a time lag between the time contracts are awarded and the projects are completed; but because of the manner in which the Council has moved, this time lag will be kept to a minimum.

The people of Greenville, who 'will be paying for the improvements through their tax dollars, will begin to receive benefits from these improvements much sooner than would have been the case if the governing board had moved slowly in getting around to calling for bids.

Of Fate

?re^ent

By GEORGE E. 80K0LSKT

Copyright. 1961. King Features Syndicate. Inc.

Its I writ this, The snow out^

side my window must be 15 Inches or more. I had planned to go to the Metropolitan to hear Di Trovatore. However, the weather Is not such as will bring me outdoors; Instead I listen to Verdis opera on the radio. This is one of a million examples of imponderables that occur in ones life, the sudden, the unusual, the bisarre, the surprising. Had this blinzarcl occurred last week, my daughter might have had a few days grace to cram for her tamlna-tions; had it started a few hours earlier, would not have flown to Boiloh.

These imponderables affect everything and everybody. Re-

cently a man threw up his handa when I

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By ALVIN TAYLOR

A Blue Garter Waiting

The street improvement program particularly will begin to pay two-fold dividends to citizens of the city. As each block of street is paved under the bond program, it will mean one less block of dirt street which will have to be maintained by the city. It will also mean that additional money will come into the new street paving revolving fund to be used for paving more streets, and thus cut further the mileage of dirt streets that have to be kept up. In addition to this, of course, the paved streets will afford greater convenience for local citizens by replacing dirt streets.

A lovely blue g&rter with a lace fringe and a frilly artificial flower, complete to pink center Is waiting for some one at Steinbeck's.

This garter and an assortment of other items Franklin Steinbeck, operator of the store, keeps in a box labelled Found in Formis.

something blue which a blushing bride wore. It is to be hoped it came out of the grooms tux

We trust the Council will continue to move as rapidly as possible in bringing about the improvements that are to be made with the bond issue funds. The items which the bond money will provide are urgently needed by Greenville, and the sooner they are provided, the sooner local citizens will begin en-j oy in g^fRei?^ eneftsW^

It is one of many items that he has found in tuxedos and other formal wear which hie rents for weddings, dances and parties as a part of hia mena wear business.

The garter was apparently the

a cotton hankerchief. a cigarette lighter, a pair of earrings, a comb, lipstick, car keys and case for a wedding ring. _

Some wedding participant left directions tor the event in the formal wear. The notea reminded him to be at the church one hour before the services. He was also reminded that ushers carry the grooms mother in and the brides mother in at 4:30.

and not the best mans.

There are other items of less interest in the box. Right now it holds a pair of suspenders;

Public Forum

TO THE EDITOR:

sphere is an urban ^disease*

that Is recognized as epidemic 5egfior"'ttir-"ntetf^"

her countys population live within five mUes of her city limits, she receives only 50 percent nLits retail trade ~ -

bstimate On T weniy Days

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - How does President Kennedy look after less than three weeks in of-

this:

If he follows the (wurse of his first 20 days, you can expect this::

1. His'is going to be a middle-of-the-road administration. It will be more liberal than con-servative but it will shun extremes.

2. He will be an extremely active president. He already has

poured out proposals to get the economy moving.

3. In foreign affairs he will be

firm, non-belllgerenl;^^^imagina-tlve and human. He 'iWil try to

do business quietly, without playing to the grandstand.

4. He will be very political-minded in dealing with Congress, unlike President Eisenhower who showed distaste for politics and kept hands off Congress. *

5. Hell be the boss in his administration.

Perhaps the best example of his middle-road attitude Is In his proposal to raLse the minimum wage from $1 an hour to $1.25.

He could have suggested boosting It to $1.25 In one crack. That would have meant trouble with Congress, maybe no raise at all.

So he asked only for $115 this yearwhich is far as the Eisenhower administration would go and $1.25 two year^ from now.

President Franklin D. Roosevelts activity was limited to a wheel-chalr. President Harry S. Truman got around in the usual, predictable way without mingling with people much. Dwight D. Eisenhower, except for golf, stayed rather alone In the White

House.

Kennedy has hopped all over Washington: to a late movie; to friends homes for dinner or a party; to the State Department to sit in on conferences.

He has been firm with the Russians in foreign affairstoo firm, they thinkbut has said nothing deliberately to irritate them.

He has made it clear he wants to deal with them quietly, has offered to cooperate with them on earth and in space. But he Isnt rushing toward them.

He and his aides are studjrlng the problemsparticularly disarmament and nuclear testing in the hope of finding answers, perhaps new ones, as he said.

Self- interest will be Involved in American foreign policy, but Kennedy hasnt used it as a flag.

Indications are that Kenaedy will be the boss in his administration. even if he has to slap down some of his own people to prove it

When his ambassador to the United Nations. Adlal E. Stevenson. guessed out loud Kennedy would be glad to meet with Premier Khrushchev if he comee here, the White House quickly, crisply said Stevenson talked for himself.

Kennedy Is. not delegating authority as Eisenhower did with his chief assistant. Sherman Adams. There is no White House Job similar to Adams.

Because population shifts are toward the cities, it is becoming a concern to more and more citizens. It is of such magnitude that the Republican Admidistra-tion committed this country to an expenditur# of nearly two billion dollars in the past eight _years towarcL this iffoblem. President Kennedy has promised much more help. He will establish a Department of Urban Affairs with a cabinet level director.

For want of a label this disease could be called Urban-itis. It involves directly the HEARTthe heart of a city, its business district. Its symptoms are easily recognizable. The inner traffic arteries are hardened and circulation is poor. The citys geographic face has been hardly changed for a generation. For Rent signs are seen along its thoroughfare. Foci of regeneration begin to appear as small shopping centers about its periphery, but inadequate to revitalize and stimulate the whole city. Merchants who lease buildings begin to wonder when the day will come they must decide to stay with the downtown or go to the outside shopping center.

Urban-itis begins to weaken the patient in other ways too. Her retail trade begins to show less proportionate gain than her neighboring cities of comparable size and beginning. Her lessening vltaUty begins to be revealed In her difficulty in securing Industry and providing employment, as the low income of so many of her citizens reflect. And even though she may be in the heart of the sixteenth largest county in North Carolina, the largest tobacco growln county , in the world, tjie largest corn" producing county in North Carolina, and though 55 percent of

The consulting specialists have examined our city thoroughly and they agree with the diagnosis. 'They agree that she is a fine city, and that she has kept the pace of expected growth with the help of "super vitamins in the forms of East Carolina College hpdF.eaifiEal-tobfte-CO aHlmnt quotas. Her potential is as great, as any city in eastern North Carolina. But they also say that if something is not done for her heart (her business area) she can not expect to keep up to her expected growth of 1980 with 38,000 people. Her neighbors with their Magic Mile business areas, spacious streets, ample parking, river shore parks and parkways will be another story.

The treatment that has been recommended is "surgery* in the form of urban renewal. It sounds drastic and heroic but it is working in 577 cities. Equal that number are planning for It. It is not painless but, since this operation is under local authOT-ity. It can be done IN A MANNER, TO A DEGREE, AND AT SUCH A PACE AS WILL HURT THE LEAST AND HELP THE MOST. It has no precedent except faith in her (the citys) own people. Preldent Eisenhower said "the Federal Government must continue to provide leadership in order to make our cities and communities better places In which to live, work, and raise our families, but without usurping rightful local authority, replacing Indiviaual responsibility or stifling private Initiative.

. The "operation urban renewal can be curative. The business area can grow and expand in a orderly manner. More trade can be attracted, more money (Continued on page 6)

Occasionally billfolds are found in the pockets whi clothing is returned to the store, Steinbeck says, but the owners usually show up within a day or two to reclaim more valuable items such as that. Once a billfold was found containing $40 and it wak shortly returned to its owner.

Other more routine items such as silk lumdkerchiefs and bair^ brutbea.-sna xetxtexM irom^ths garment pockets.

But all of these, including the blue garter, are minor compared to one item which store em-polyees found in a coat pocket once. It was the wedding ring.

The groom had dropped it in the change pocket inside the ooftt. pocket, Steinbeck recalls. The Etching dropped at one point and the ring fell into this little crevice.

So when the ring exchanging portion of the ceremony c^me, the groom couldnt find the wedding band. The ceremony went on, however, the bride and groom spent a happy honeymoon and when they returned the groom called at Steinbecks to see if they might possibly have found the ring.

They had. One of the store employees happened to feel it in the lining. It was returned to the groom who. ceremony now complete, presumably lived happily ever after.

One coat came in with the receipt for the marriage license in the pocket. Steinbeck recalls. Some one later called and picked it up.

Strangely the collection of items is almost always found in formal wear used by wedding parties. The garments . rented for dances and other functions seldom jtield personal things.

Steinbeck attributes this to the excitement of a wedding. The groom usually changes clothes in a hurry and gets off on the .honeymoon leaving things in the pockets. he says. Often the task of returning the tuxedo is left to the best man or a. relative.

That blue garter, by the way, has been around for several months and no one has yet called for it. Steinbeck Is beginning to doubt that a claimant will ever appear.

in Jove-like disgust wi ^ tioned imponderables; yet the Christinas blizzard cost his firm several hundred thousand dollars. It is not only snow that comes at the wrong time; a word spoken by a politician out of order, a movlt actress appearing in a new style, a rain during a political parade a thousand and one unplanned, uncalculated little events ean and do occur to change the course of events. Had Napoleon not dallied in Warsaw, he might not have had such a frightful tive over his conquest of Russia. Had Charles Martel not defeated the Turks at Tours, Western Europe might have been " Moslrai. Had the Kaiser not helped Lenin to reach Petrograd, Germany today would not be divided in two. Has there been no Dreyfus Trial in Prance, in 1894, it Is quite possible that there might not be an Israel in 1961.

The politician who believes that he can depend upon five year plans or seven year plans is as balmy as Md Tze-tung who did, poL expect a famine to bring liis economic structure topling. And yet, droughts, floods and famines have been perennial In China and have upset regimes before this. |ln fact, Herbert Hoover, when he was Taotal of the Yellow River, in a conversation with Li Hung - chang, prophesied the fall of the Man-chu Empire because of the flooding of that river but that is another matter.

Imponderables play an enormous part in politics. Catholicism defeated one candidate for the Presidency, but elected another. The Ku Klux Klan notwithstanding. the South, which was expected to vote for Nixon, voted for Kennedy. Robert . A. Taft, who had devoted his ntirt life . Jo ihe

ing as iti leader, coma n(it get the nomination for President despite his smtability. It went first to his Republican competitor, Thomas E. Dcwep. and then to one who became a Republi-can for the occasion, Dwight D. Ehsenhower. General Douglas MacArthur, who did everything according to tiie niles, was cashiered by President Truman who became Vice President by accident and was on hand to take the highest office when President Roosevelt died. By all calcmations, Henry Wallace shomd have been nominated as Vice President but Roosevelt said to, Clear It with Sidney. meaning Hillman and Sidney preferred Harry Truman to James Byrnes.

Nobody planned it that way. Surely Harry Truman did not. Nor did Herbert Hoover, a mining engineer, when he worked in Manchuria, or the Urals, or in Australia expect to becomo President of the United StaUs. ^ He never planned for that.

An imponderable is a stats of affairs which comes into existence without known cause, like a sudden plague of locusts. The farmer whose crop is eaten had no expectancy of such a calamity. He did not move a msele to bring on the locusts. But there they are and his crop is gone and he will vote for another Congressman because this' one brought him hard luck.

The imponderables plague politicians and statesmen who suffer endlessly from things that unexpectedly happen to thn. For instance, no Democrat, a year ago, would have believed it possibe that Maycu* Wagner of New York womd get Into so heavy a quarrel with Carmine De Sapio^ the Tammany boss, that the Democrats would be (Continued on Page I)

Quote... Pq^q^ox Ini Presidents Position

Scientists think theres life on Mars. If this is true, why doesnt it ask for foreign aids? Chicago Tribune.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS, LOSING LIFE AND FINDING IT An artist died recently whose life had been particularly significant to the young artists of his generation. Many 'of these young men now distinguished in their field look back to him, to his wise counsel, to his friendly spirit and sacrificial ways as chief factors in keeping up their morale and encouraging them in any success they have had.

When this man had passed' sixty, a quite remarkable thing happened. He had always bfeen a good artist, but suddenly in the early sixties Jiis art blossomed out. matured, and took on new, more significant dimension. It was one 0/ tihe clearest cases imaginable of. a man who apparently giving so much of his time to others that he had In-

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sufficient time to develop himself was nevertheless growing within to such an extent that in his last years he became the artist everyone knew him fundamentally to be.

Jesus declared that, if we lose our lives we find them. He assured his contemporaries, and all who followed, that the surest way to ruin ones life is to give complete attention to its Interests and development and let the rest of the ^orld go by. He himself gave up everything and gained the world in the largest sense anyone in the stream of human history has gained it.

Hawthornes story of the humble minister Ernest how came to resenible the great ^stone face is an exaiRpla of .how. simplicity aim service pour unsought treasures into human life.

By ELMER ROESSNER President Kennedy has given the nation the factors of an interesting and significant problem In economics. .

It is: how to have Inflation and deflation at the same time.

In his economic message to Congress last week. Mr. Kennedy recommended a reduction in long-term interest rates to Increase the flow of credit for business plant and equipment, for state and local government facilities and for residential construction.

At the same time he recommended holding short term interest rates at present levels to prevent a further outflow of funds abroad (which can be converted Into gold).

CONFESSES DILEMMA Mr. Kennedy recognized the paradox in the situation. -He said:

In these clrcunoatances. monetary policy and debt management must serve two apparently

tives: checking dwnnes In we short - term rates that directly affect the balance of payments.

and Increasing the flow of credit into the capital markets at declining long-term rates of Interest to promotp domestic recovery

The President said that these two objectives can be achieved concurrently, but only with close cooperation among all govern-' mental agencies. As a result of measures already under way,

there will be an Increasing flow of funds at declining long - term rates to finance productive Investment. (He did not detail

these measures.) Measures to strengthen this countrys ability to hold and attract internationally mobile liquid funds will be outlined in my subsequent message on the balance of pay* ments."

CRUX OF PROBLEM

To understand the Presidents dilemma, lets consider the

Imaginary Investment Fund,

with $1 billion on hand, and interested In short-term investment. If short-term rates in the United States are low. the Fund "i ^

billion abroad. The billion would pass into the hands .of the na

tional banks of whatever countries invested in, and those banks could demand gold for those dollars-

But if short-term interest rates were shored up here. I.I.P. would invest In U.S. securities and so would foreign fundholders. resulting in the equivalent of a flow of gold into the U.S.

On the other hand, if I. I. F. were Interested in long - term investments %nd the U.S. forced down Interest rates on such things as 25-year mortgages. 10-year l)onds and plant and equipment loans, again it would be interested in foreign ihvest-ments.

However, with nationalization, confiscation and other foreign depredation on. American investments abroad, the foreign investments would require un-

vthey fall below oertata prleef and by other steps.

But whether the government can reduce the interest rates on long-term loans and bolster rates on^ shoit-tem loans at tbii samo time remains to be seen. It is true that auch low-high sltiia-tions have existed at various times, but maintaing it for a long time would be either difficult, expensive or both.

Lenders usually want higher rates for longer loans. To persuade them to accept lower rates might inv(dve government government could pay dlf-The government could pay differentials to keep long-term interest rates down, but this would mean taxpayers paying |rts of the costs of new private homes, plant expansion,and added local government series.

usml guarantees or benefits. Exi

experience hver the last 30 years show that the government can raise or reduce the interest rate through such actions as ehawgieg the Fe<^al -Jiosvsri* rediscount Yate, by buying back government bonds whenever

If the Kennedy Administration succeeds in lowejrlng long - term , interest rates without lessening short-term rates or without adding to the tax burden, it has rntaMed JtssO/ Ui Mttack.th old.,., puzzle of how to fit ten travelers into nine beds at the inn.

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