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Monday, April 10, 1961

THE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

New Monument For Wa*hingl8h, D.C.

Monday,. April 10, 1961

Prelimma^ In (2

(Second in the series of'editorials on the mechanics df urban renewal and puUic housing. This editor,^ deals with the mechanics of the urban renewal program.) "

tinued study of the project in the May 2 referendum. When the Redevelopment Commission does complete it plan, however, it is required to hold a public hear-There are clear regulations governing the means ing on the plan. Following tis hearing the Commi^ bv which local government may enter into a re- sion will make whatever adjustments in the plan it development program with cooperation and participa- feels necessaqr and then submit the plan to the local

ti^n frL the Urban Renewal Administration. Planning and Zoning Commission for consideration

non irum wic v/ m Planning and Zoning Commission will study and^

In order to be considered for redevelopment proposed plan and willwnd it bacttfrthe^

under an urban renewal program, the area under con- Rg^gyelopment Commission either with approval, or-sideration must be at least two-thir<is blighted; that recommendations for Changes.

ti^ctrrfs^Ath1nThVlrLVo'notm . After the plan is finally approved by the

vidtd bTlocal codes. In the case of the Shore Drive and Zoning Commission it is submitted by the Rearea now under consideration in Greenville, a survey development Commission to the City Council hich at showed that 84 per cent of the structures in the area this point is required by law to hold a second public wei below standard according to local codes. hearing on the plan before approving or disapproving

mi'sion'*ti^fo^S!X'*p\aLfo!\fd*e^v^e'io^^^^ li >16 ^ond public hearing the Council

arta Such inning goes through a scries of stages approves the redevelopment Plan. the city enters into rPvi^^sTon^ as a Lual thing. When the Redevelop- a financial agreement with the Urban Renewal Ad-

total cost of. acquiring the proposed area, redeveloping it and subsequently re-selling it to private owners.

In the case of Greenville, the final plan will still many months away if local votefs approve con-

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By LTNN NISBET

. SPECIAL COURTS MaJ. Charles A. Speed, chief of the traffic safety section of the highway partol, pleaded the other day for a state system of special traffic courts, maaned by Judges trained in that particular field. Appearing before a meeting House courts and judicial districts committee, with the eom-mittee on roads and highway fety sitting tn. Major Speed proposed a plan under which traffic violators would be re-Quiied to earn restoration of lioeose by study rather than by payment <A a fine. ^

A very prevalent, but very erroneous, belief is that a person has a cozffititutional right to operate a motor vehicle. Iaw enforcement officers and to some degree the courts - w handicapped by public opinion on this and other matters affectr Ing safe driving.

Speed said 48 percent of all traffic accidents are caused by 15 percent of the drivers. The other 85 percent account for 52 percent of the accidents. None of this 85 percent can be cltssed as criminal, he said. They are merely negligent: but the accident is Just as bad regardless of the motivation of the driver.

Careful study of driver habits discloses that most driving is subconsciousthe operator is lust not thinking at sU about what he is doing. Examples were Cited of persons driving akmg for miles completely unconscious of surroundings. Try it out <mi yourself, suggested Speed, and see many times youll

wake up and have no re<r-lection of having passed through a small town. Every such driver is a (landidate ftw an accident, and sooner or later the percentages will run out on him-

YOUNGSTERS The young drivers are the ones that give Major Speed most concern. They are in a lough spot- They are being brought up in an era when speed is a sort of god. When they see 120 miles an hour Indicated on the speedometer, and legal speed limits posted of 60 miles an hour, they ha..J>o experience record with Model Ts when 45 miles an hour was almost unattainable.

EDUCATION The 85 percent of non-criminal drivers should be educated rather than punished by fine or imprisonment, The negligent adults and the eager youngsters will be btiefited more, and society more fully protected, by temporary

suspension of driver license and a prescribed course of study in traffic safety rules before it could be reinstated. The study courses would be geared to the seriousness of the offense, and miglit run anywhere from one hour a week for four weeks to 300 hours over a period <rf two or three years.

This program would displace the concept that the violator can pay his way out with money and force him to pay out with time spentnot in jail, but off the roads and mostly in special class rooms. A permit to drive is not a constitutional right, but a privilege, and if more effort than writing a check is reduirw to preserve that privilege tt^will be more highly regarded.

uniformity The essence of a sound tra^ law Inforce-mcnt program 'uniformity and equality of treatment for all violators. This uniformity must include not only man and women,' young folks and old, of all races, but ij must extend to uniform court procedure costs in all communities. It should extend also to equal publicity of court records involving the banker or his wife along with the Janitor.

PUBLICITYThere are some who think that full and accurate publicity about all traffic cases constitutes one of the most potent weapons in the safety campaign. Publicity often is unpleasant for individuals and corh-munities. State employees, from the Governor down, who are d^ voting time and effort anci money to promoting industrial development including travel as an important segment squirm every time they read stories in out-of-state newspapers about speed traps in North CaroUna. Many of these stories are exaggerated and inaccurate, but If illegal and unsavory speed traps exist in the state, the fact should be made known so they can be eliminated.

By the same line of reasMiing, when a local big-shot or an out-of-state visitor seeks to pull prestige or rank in order to avoid equal treatment with ordinary citizens, that fact should be publicized.

The position of the Motor Vehicles Department including the Highway Patrol, the Travel Council of North Carolina. and other agencies concerned with safety on the roads and streets of this state, is that there should be no court action without a record, and that all court records should be open for public inspection.

the other two-thir(is of the cost. The plan is then carried out under the direction of the local Redevelopment Commission. ' "

If the City Council, following its public hearing on plan, decides it is impractical or too expensive or for any other reason the plan should not be undertaken, it has the authority to reject it. The city government does not finally commit itself to carrying out the redevelopment program until such time as it enters into the financial agreement with the Urban Renewal Administration. ^

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By GEORGE SOKOLSKY

Absurdity In

In the past this has sufficed. The record bears witness to that. But what of 'the future?

Signs and portents are growing to the effect that

Pitt County Democrats, indeed, those of all eastern North Carolina, invariably are at their best in

election years. Between elections, their tendency is to . .

lie dormant as though building up reserves of energy

for the next contest. when a b<xly of Americans

calls itself the American Nazi Party it is guilty of an absurdity. An American cannot be a Nazi. A Nazi is a German National Socialist, a follower of 1 ^ j; u* j* Adolf Hitler, against whom the

North Carolina s Republican ranks, far from being dis- united States declared .war.

heartened by -their most recent setbacks, are fuH of This so-called American organi-vigor and hope for the next affray. Sb"ie

They know that because avoters grandfather and parents voted Democratic it is no longer a fore- charter, joined in this absurdity, gone conclusion grandchildren will. ma?

Too. when Congress and the Legislature are in

session the time for dissension and enlivening discus- j^coln Rockwell, tries to look. sFbn could not be more propitious. Issues are, so to to dress, to act like Hitler which readv made ' ridiculous because

speak, reaay maae. . RockweU comes from Maine, not

Reports from other eastern N. C. counties are in-

Nazi Party

Hitler is more funny. No other word describes such a character.

There are several ways of looking at this movement:

l. They are sincere men and women who. having become distressed or disgusted by their environment. are rebelling against society and adopt Hitler as a model: __

2. That they are mad:

3. That they are insincere opportunists trying to make a dishonest dollar by a gimmick:

4. That they are agents for some neo - Nazi faction in Germany;

5. That they are witting or unwitting agents for Soviet Russia which is setting up similar groups in many countries at the present time.

Which of these assumptions or

which combination of them is correct, I do not know. But it is obvious that the American

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For that reason we applaud Pitt Democrats interest in and support of the coming Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. Practical financial backing of a political ___ TT^'P I-IV/T 0

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assuming an increasing importance. (Charlotte News)

, 4 , To blame Beaufort Countys

The days of complacency and sporadic effort in Lindsay Warren for the fraud

the traditionally Democratic East just might be draw- worked upon the North Carolina

ing to a close. A greater effort than ever may be re- te

quired to offset Republican strength ip the piedmont ^ too simple and oomforting. it

and western counties; especially if fences are not kept would wrongly suggest that oi^

an angry old man stands ^tride the road to honest and fair representation in the State Senate, and that he and constitutional defiance will depart Raleigh together. If that were so, the senators craving for ever-green laurels might be indulged patiently, for Lindsay Warren has, been a man of excellence and North Carolina has not lost its love for individualists.

But the senators was only one of 31 votes that defeated an honest re-districtlng bill giving additional seats to Mecklenburg,

Guilford and Forsyth, and passed instead a sham statute making the most minute nod possible to urban growth. Had Lindsay Warren been home rocking and reflecting on a distinguished past career, the vote would not have differed greatly.

To be sure, the senator put on a pretty good medicine show.

For a few brief moments, as spite and spleen bubbled and his oratory thundered and flashed, his adherents may have perceived the essence of (^onstitu-tionalism in Warrens bottles of colored water. Doubtless they were pleased to hear reasons given for an unreasonable act, to hear the unexplainable explained and retreat from principle called courage.

But not for long. For the senators who defeated re-districting are honorable men who know

in good repair here in the east.

^Reasons For A 'Deoressed Area

By RALPH ROBEY

Both the House and the Senate have passed a bill enabling the federal government to aid depressed areas. There was strong opposition to such a proposal, but there never was any real hope of defeating* it. President Kennedy made this one of his anti-recession measures and the Eisenhower administration had .supported such an extension of feclcral government activity.

The cost of the measure will be some $400 million. At pre.sent there are 103 areas which meet the requirements for help as de-pres.sed areas. This Is determined by the percentage of unemployed In relation to the average for the nation as a whole.

There are many rea.sons why an area may become depres.sed. and the.se are crucial from the viewpoint of appraising the wisdom of this measure. Some of the more Important of these reasons are:

High labor cost; This can force up the costs of production and thereby increase prices. The result is a smaller market and less need for the old output. This is one of the things which has happened in the coal fields To attempt to meet It the mines have made enormous investment in machines to keep prices at a level which enables them to compete with alternative sources of fuel.

Unfavorable business climate: This may take the form of a bad tax system, hostility on the part of the local government, misunderstanding of the problems of management, refusal to enforce the laws against labor abuses,' and so on. Where such a situation is found it is to be expected thaU business will not remain any longer necessary Shrtnklng market: This may bepermanent, as, for example, buggy manufacturing, or it may

Transportation costs; With competition as vigorous as it is today in most lines, the cost of getting a product to market may become a matter of utmost concern. The result in many cases is that a business will set up units as close to its market as possible, and this may leave many workers at the old site without Jobs.

Exhaustion of a natural resource: This is what gave us the gho.st towns of the west. But it may happen in any field which is based upon the extraction or manufacturing process of a natural resource.

Increased Productivityr From the point of view of employment, farming offers the best example of this. Through mechanization, larger units, better fertilizer, and better seeds, the Increased output per acre has been fantastic. The same process, to .some extent, has gone on in almost all industry.

Foreign competition: An Increasing number of industries are finding it difficult and some, impossible to meet the pricwi of competitors from abroad. Wherever this is true, it hiuts employment In this country.

Now financial aid by the federal government will not. and can not. offset any of these reasons for an area becoming depressed. This does not mean that the problem is not serioius. These unemployed persons need job.s, and the nation needs to get them back to work.

Senator Wallace F. Bennet (R* Utah), after listening to exhaustive hearings on this bill, said point-blank in the report of the Committee on Banking and Currency that the time to stoo a surge of federal Intervention . in the field of plant location is before the principle of federal Intervention is established Un-

theyre engaged in nothing Diore than raw partisan politics. They must know, too, the hollowness of Mt. Warrens primiUve Idea that the burgeoning nnetropolitan areas can be intimidated into toeing the Democratic Party line by punitive acts in, Raleigh. Ihese people crowding into the cities, after aU, are North Carolinians. They didnt leave them independence behind them. in Beaufort or in any number of other rural counties losing population. Nor will they permanently allow the senators they left behind to speak for them in the General Assembly.

The .principle of fair representation is quite beyond the reach of Mr. Warrenbeing both in the spirit and the constitution of North Carolinaand, in time, it will prevail. ^

The pity is that to avoid the most elementary concession to urban rights, the rural chieftains must back so unrelentingly at the principle of states rights and responsibilities, and at the roots of their own party. They make the Democratic Party undemocratic and weaken a long record of upright and generally responsible government. They make the Democratic Party undemocratic and weaken a long record of upright and generally responsibile government. They make rules that demand to be

If the fear of rural decline and the distaste for change is understandable. as it Is. the rejection ot principle is not. More than one among the 31 senators who defied the Constitution, we suspect, are ashamed of themselves. All of them ought to be.

Nazi Party is a nuisance and cannot be treated otherwise. Wherever it goes, it creats a ^ storm of protest, often of a violent physical turn.

The right of association is Constitutional, but it is not absolute. It is impossible, for instance, to charter Murder, Inc.; nor is it permissible for ,anar-christs to organize to assassinate the President of the United States. The limitations of a right must be exercised cautiously, but so must the right itself be exercised cautiously. The assumption that a street comer orator is within his rights if he carries an American flag is nonsense; he may carry the flag to denounce it, to assault it. Thus, I saw a photograph of some Nuclear Policy folks marching alMig the . N. Plaza carrying an American flag. Why did they not carry a Russian flag or a Red CMiinese flag? It would have served their purpose just as well, although some patriot might have hurled a brick because of high blood pressure.

When the State of Virginia granted the American Nazi Party a charter, some official was not thinking clearly. He would not have granted such a document to anybody during World War II. Are we so far from that war that we have forgotten what it was about? As a matter of fact, let us ask outselves what it was about.

The Nazi, a socialist party not

very different in basic ideology from the Communists, added a racial touch to their program. The reason tht Hitler needed racism was that socialism is not politically dramatic. It is not dramatic in any countrjr. To feed the populace, something must be added. Hitler added genocide. His program was to kill Jews and thus add the excitement of murder to his brand of socialism. He nianaged to kiU 6,(WO,000 of them. He found creatures who were willing to make lamp shades of human skin an afternoons pastime at a coffee-break. His nation w'allowed in a sea of blood before it was defeated by American troops, some of them surely coming from Virginia.

A Nazi therefore is a National Socialist who accepts racism as a creed and who believes that murder is Justifiable if It is committed wholesale and by orders of the Party. It is plea saute, to watch Gunsmoke or Have Gun Will Travel on television. Vicarious murde ris television. Vicarious murder is except for some small boys who want to pull out the whiskers of a cat or adults who are stUl small boys because although their bodies have grown, their minds continue to dwell on the (Continued on page five)

By ROGER BABSON

BABSO^ PARK. Mass.My appeal to event ^oman 4e to have her chttdree^ study obcm-Istpy In High School. When they get married they should make their kitchen a laboratory. If I were a young man I would train as a chemical engineer in connection with business administration. A woman could also do this, but there are not many Jobe to get as chemical engineers. The knowledge oi chemistry for the woman is prlmari-Iv for her to do research hi her cwn kitchen. The opportunities along this line are very great and can be very profitable.

THE IMPORTANCE OP CREATIVE WORK

Less than 1 per cent of the graduates from our schoolfl go Into creative work. Most of them manufacture or sell or advertise what has already been -created. Manufacturers are primarily Intereeted in making dividends.uot food, clothing, or shelter. Merchants arc Interest ed in selling, at a profit, what has already been produced. Bankers are reluctant to loan money for research. Yet research has given us all that we have today and it is the only cure for, or prevention of, more inflation and a higher cost of living. Our whole ec(Miomic Ufe is topsy-turvy. '

All life starts with a baby who is 100 per cent chemistry. Its incepti<Hi and its growth within the mother, for the first nine months, arc wholly a chemical matter. Yet when the baby becomes a little child the mother teaches it to eat tilings that it should not eat. If mothers knew more about the . chemistry of food, there need be .very Tittle sickness in the family. Fish live wholly in water and consume the minute plankton therein. Wa-ter. sugar, salt, and the grains are only chemicals. Sunday Schools should teach tiwnistry as a powerful manifestation of God and the Holy Spirit.

STUDY YOUR ANIMALS and SHRUBS

Every housewife can learn something from a canary In a bird cage or a cow in the bam.

A most wonderful animal is the lobster. A letter can digest an3d,hlng from a tack to sewage and produce an absolutely pure food therefrom. The lobsters shedding of iU shell is a marvelous work and suggests how furniture, and perhaps houses, will someday be built by chemistry. When the lobster sheds his hard shell which opens like a double door, a new body comes out with its very soft sl^U and the lobster then throws the old shell away. This is something which we may someday copy. During the first two or three years the lobster builds a new house several times a year.

A one-and-a-half-pound lobster, such as you eat in a restaurant.

IS four or five years old and sheds once a year.

The cloth in the dress or^coat which you wear starts with the wool on a sheep or the cotton on a stem. This is twisted into threads and thence woven into cloth. The textile industry, however. is rapidly turning into a plastics industry. The ^th of the future will be made like cellophane or newsprint. The manufacture of synthetic furs, leather, etc., is now well under way.

INVESTING IN CHEMICAL COMPANIES

Although the stock market seems to me too high for most issues, yet the chemical c<Hn-panies are still among the best. Dow Chemical is my favorite; and I must add duPoot, Eastman Kodak, and Union Carbide. Fertilizer stocks like American Agricultural Chemical also look attractive.

Because tiemical st<x;ks have doubled and tripled in price during the past two decades is no reason to assume that they have reachwl their-high for all time. The chemiciti stocks will decline with the rest of the market; but some of them will ultimately sell for many times their present price, counting new "splits. The big decline will be in the stocks of manufacturing and merchandising companies which are spending little money on research. The pharmaceutical companies also should do weQ, but many of their products are already being carried in the supermarkets and they will be subject to even greater competition. . .

Calendar Affecting The Record

be temporary as-in the case of *. fortunately it is too late for. that

auton)obiles and steel today- In either event It reduces the need for workers and hence increases unemployment In these Industries.

now But that does not chaqge the fact that he expenditure of this I4i0 ImilUon will not begin to solve, the problem of depressed areas.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Department store and other retail sales for the week ended today will be considerably below comparable figures for a year ago. It does not mean that the recession is coming back. It is almost entirely because this week in I960 was Just before Easter: this year it is the week after The economy is really worklng Its way out of the decline. ^ ^ .

Here are other look-ahead.s Inventory buildup: One reason for being sure the recession is ending is the position of inventories. Most companies have ceased living off stocks and are buying again. Well they may, too, because a turn up In prices Is likely. It is almost impossible to have a recession when, manufacturers are increasing inventories:, it is almost impossible to have* a boom when manufacturers are living off their accumulated raw materials.

NEW ERA IN SAFETY New mark la taiett: A new

auto design, the result of eight years of safety research, will soon be unveiled. It is the work of an insurance company not an auto manufacturer. If the insurance firm can get auto manufacturers to adopt its Ideas, it will save a lot of claim payments.

Safety-belt drive: Expect a

new campaign to Inddce auto owners and manufacturers to adopt safety belts. There are millions in it. The public, however, won't be convinced untjl cities start to compel urban bus services to put in a safety belt for every passenger which, of course, Is utterly impossible.

Bonib-ahelter drive: Aisq expect a new campaign, capitalizing on the trouble in Laos, to persuade Americans to build A-bomb shelters. There are millions tn it. The public.' how-ever, won't be convinced until a lot more government biggies sUrt digging shelters in, their backyards.

THE CHEAPER BUCK

More inflatioD: Despite whftt the Democratic Administration has been telling the people, the danger of faster inflation is greater now than it has been for many years. The threatening deficit in the Federal budget, plus further deficits Ukcly to arise from further increases m defense spending, can only mean a further decline in the purchasing power of the dollar.

Aluminum rise: The alumi

num - producing Industry has been picking up in the last few weeks and an Improvement, if not full health, will come to the industry.

TOP-ICING RETURNS FOR VEGETABLES The trend toward prepackaging vegetables created a problem for shippers. Some packag-mg iwouW not stand up under the weight of Ice added to railroad refrigerator' cars. One company. Vahlslng. Inc., of New York, has found that by using

bags of high density Marlex polyethylene. It can return to using ' ice on top of shipments of carrots, cabbages and lettuce, keeping products fresh for longer periods.

OLD PROMOTER PLANI END OF ALL STRIKES Strikes cost everybody money. especially the innocent bystanders, the Old Promoter, barging in for his weekly visit, declared today. "Employe, em-

gloyees, suppliers and the pub-c all lose. But I have a pkn. We knew it was ccontng.

I propose a Federal law providing that whenever 90 per cent of the employees go on strike, the comiMmy must be UquJdat-ed, he said.

Wont that mean disaster? we asked.

Contrariwise, , he replied. -If an employer faces loss of his business, hell listen to rea-.son. And if workers face the loss of their Jobs, they jsill be Just as reasonable.