PACE POUPTm DAILY REFLECTOIL GREENVILLE, N. C

Tuesday August 1, 1961

Tuesday, August 1, 1961

The Old Desert Troublemaker

Must Fight Crime At Grass Roots

The staggering increase in Uie rate of major Now th^t the figuurc^ on the increase in crfine in crimes across the nation during thel)ast decade should the United States during the past decSe have been ^use every community td^carefully take stock of its compiled and made public, what will the individual jmn situation and the steps it is taking in the way of communities do about them?

erime prevention. Will there be a general attitude of apathy? Will

It is not enough that the community look merely the matter be left entiroly to the law enforcement at the police records and the measures taken by law agencies to cope with as best they can? enforcement agencies to prevent crime. These arc im- Or will the communities as a whole undertake to portant. But the law enforcement agencies are com- feret out the conditions which breed crime in their

posed of a relatively few people in each community. The job of crime prevention must have a much broader base in the community if it is to-be successful.

The shocking increase of 98 per cent in major crimes in the United States during the past decade is even more shocking when one considers that while major crimes were increasing by that figure, the population of the nation increased only 18 per cent. To make matters even worse, the number of juvenile arrests from 1950 to 1960 more than doubled while the juvenile population increased about 50 per cent.

midst and seek to eliminate them?

What is needed, in our opinion, is a comprehen-

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By LYNN N1SBET

STATE PARKS-Thc parks COTnmittee o the Board of Con-aervatloD and Development plans an inspection tour this fall of ail the established parks, and exploratory trips to sites of two pr<^sed new parks. On the same trips the members of the com-mitte and the parks division staff will perhaps visit addition-al potential park areas. It has been Increasingly evident during the past'few years that the State must have additional park facilities to meet demands of the people.

The State now operates 12 parks, including the Hammonds Bpach park on Bear Island in C^low county, which was acquired within the past few weeks. The aggregate area of these parks is about 37,000 acres ranging from 365 acres in Cliffs of the Neuse near Goldsboro to 16,828 acres in Pettigrew Park (including Lake Phelps) in Washington county. They include ocean beaches, natural and artifical lakes, and high mountains. Mount Mitchell Stark Park is literally on the roof top of Eastern Americaa mile and a quarter above Port Macon.

Report of Parks Director Tom Ellis to the CScD board last week indicated attendance at all the imrks is increasing and the visitor are expectingand willing to pay formore recreational facilities. The saturation point is approaching on existing parks and the State is looking around lor additional areas. a.s well as enlarging several of the estab-JC8hed parks. A prolonged contro--ersy over acquisition of. land at Stepp's Gap on the edge of Mount Mitchell Park has been settled. Additional land will be acquired at the William B. Um-stead Park between Durham and Raleigh. The bonds to be voted upon sometime this fall Include about $800,000 for improv-jaents In State parks. Meantime me new park site is almost as-

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owners of Chimney Rock renewed pressure to get State to take over that attraction as a park. This is an old story, With occasional new angles. The approach this time is that the owners will donate 885 acres of land to the State without cost, provided the State pays $450,000 for the improvementsincluding roads, trails, camping facilities, elevators, etc. The next most recent offer had been to sell the whole business, land and improvements, ^or half a million dollars.

Reaction of the park officials to this latest propostion has been rather cool, although interest is conceded. If the State must have additional park facilities, the Chimney Rock deal offers op-POTtunity to get them ready made. However, the State folks indicated unwillingness to make any commitment until and impartial appraisal of value of the improvements offered can be

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There is another factor that bothers the State. That Is the cost of maintaining and oper

ating the park in relation to its probable value to the public,

OTHER OFFERS For many years the owners of Grandfather Mountain sought to sell it to the State for a park. When these efforts failed Hugh Morton, grandson of Hugh Mac-Rae, who had owned the mountain and built good roads all round it, bought the property from the estate and developed a major private enterprise attraction.

Somewhat similar efforts were made to sell Blowing Rock to the State, and when these negotiations broke down the Robbins family promoted it and other attractions in one of the chief tourist centers in the state. Over a period of years through the 1930s and 1940s owners of Lake Tahoma in McDowell county tried to sell it to the State. Now it has developed into an exclusive summer resort resi-

!2ired and another is under con- Hlential projects.

sideration.

NEW PARK Negotiations have been going on for several months for a park site on the shores of Lake Norman, the new Duke Power Company reservoir on the Catawba river between Catawba and Iredell counties. Exact location has not been determined. The State wants to acquire some 1200 acres at a site to be chosen after inspection visits by engineers representing the State and the power company. (There is a little bit of local rivalry involved. Iredell County pecle naturally want the park area on the east and north ^de of the river, Catawba folks want it on the other side.) As of now, the only sure thing and that is about as definite as any advance commitment can beis that there will be a new State park in the Lake Norman area.

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Familles of the late Moses Cone and Julian Price donated the fabulous estates of these men at Blowing Rock to the State for public park use. The State could not maintain the facilities and the areas were transferred to the National Park Service and both places are operated now as adjuncts of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

There was no question about the value of these areas. The question was whether they could be fitted into the North Carolina park scheme. The answer to that with respect to the Cone and Price estates was definitely negative; with respect to Grandfather,Tahoma and other proJeoAs highly questionable. How Chimney Rock will fit into the total scheme has not been determined. What the improvements there cost is not so Important as whether they are suited for public park use.

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sive program on the local level in every community to eliininate insofar aa possible the coftditioiis which give rise to criminal acts. A more positive program of working with youngsters who step over the line into lawless acts is needed to prevent their becoming adult criminals. Through the efforts of civic groups, churches, schools and other organizations within the community there needs to be mounted a program that will stem the tide of increasing crime and at the same time will help with the rehabilitation of those who have run afoul of the law, but are not beyond rehabilitating into good useful citizens of the society.

The situation must be met and coped with successfully at the grass roots level throughout the nation. The necessary work cannot be done in Washington, in Raleigh or at any other central point. It must be done at home, in the neighborhood,_in the town, and if the problem is effectively dealt with at.the local level, the overall result throughout the nation will reflect a decrease, rather than an increase in crime when the next annual reports are made.

Stubbornness Breeds A Base For Initiative

The lack of bombast and noisy reaction from the other side of the. Iron Curtain following President Kennedy's acceptance of the Berlin challenge, would indicate to us that sobre second thoughts have set in.

^ The firmness of the United States' stand was at a variance with what the Kremlin obviously expected ... if the world is to believe.Russian protestations of a desire to live in a world of peaceful co-existance. For Premier Khrushchev grandly proclaimed his commitment to East Germany that a separate peace treaty would be signed. A flat no to all it entails must have been upsetting.

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By HENRY HOWARD

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Now Mr. Khrushch^ must find a way to keep from appearing as though Russia would or could back away from keeping a promise to a satellite, and he must at the same time find a way to keep his country from utter destruction. At the same time, he must avoid giving the impression Russia is fearful of a military showdown.

All this is a very difficult problem for the Communist chieftain. The dilemma is one we are glad does not confront our own President.

After years of defensive tactics on the diplomatic front the United States has found a degree of initiative by merely being stubborn. The burden of avoiding a military clash and all it entails is with the other guys.

American citizens can best back up the Presidents display of firmness by themselves quietly preparing for that eventuality that nobody wants. Once the Communists get the picture of American people resigned to going the limit, if need be, their second thoughts are going to be transformed into real worries.

A lecturer the other night was pointing out how dissatisfied human beings often become with things that are readily available to them.

He was saying that routine luxuries tend to become boring to people. No matter who he is or what he has, the lecturer said, a man soon develops a tendency to want something different or additional.

I believe the term he used most was that people of today, like a historically prominent individual, seem consistently to be looking for new vv>rlds to con

quer. \

What he was saying brought to mind an insignificant event we witnessed a few weeks back. It was one of those little things that probably happen countless times every <^y a<a*pss our country.

We were enjoying an afternoon at, the pool when we noticed this little tyke (he couldnt have been two years old yet) who was having the time of his life it seemed.

On the hot afternoon, he was overjoyed as he made trip after trip across the pool deck to plunge with abandon into the

Other Editors Sayings ... Sritish Austerity Program

No Communism

'.'.n Russia Today

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Real communism for the Russians is still a long way off. They try to make It look otherwise. It wont stick.

In the 44 years since the revolution theyve had socialism. Communism is still only a dream.

Nevertheless the Russian Communist party over the weekend released Its program for the next 20 years. It holds out rich promise of a better and easier life.

Some Westerners, used to sneering at anything Soviet, are apt to call It pie in the sky stuff. Theres no reason to.

Since the revolution in 1917 the Communist party in Russua has worked miracles.

True, the miracles had bloody foundations; purges, liquidations. a whole generation of people kept at the grindstone and to a living standard far below this countrys.

But the progress made Is Indisputable. Even greater progress can be expected.

If some of the program promises are made good they can be expected to affect other areas of the world In one way or another.

For In.stance: the promise of fiee medicine, free housing.

The United States and Russia are in a contest fof the minds of men through foreign aid to backward countries. The backward people, anxious to come abreast of the 20th century fast, may be more influ

ent by the progress in the two giants.

But the Russian Communist party goes too far when it says in its program; The present generation of Soviet people shall Uv^ under communism.

.Socialism has triumphed in the Soviet Union completely and finally, within two decades, the Communist society will on the whole be built in the U.S.SR.

Communhjm means a classless society where people get paid not in accordance with their work or merit but their need.s.

Under socialism, which Russia has, there are classes and people get paid according to merit and work performed.

There are three distinct classes in Russia now: the Intelligent, peasants and workers.

The Intelligent Is a broad grouping. It Includes scientists, artists, writers, engineers, factory managers, bureaucrats, many kinds of white collar workers.

The peasants and workers can be divided into skilled, semiskilled. and unskilled.

The people in the three big groups, with all their subdivisions, get dlfcgent pay, live in different kinds of houses-

The new party program, with its rosy predictions of M years from now, says communism is a classless social system in which the great principle 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

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Rocky Mount Telegram

While the East German Communist officials have to sit helplessly and look across the gulf that separates East from West and witness the economic paradise that has been created by capitalism and private enterprises. they can nevertheless take consolation in the knowledge that at least one great Western nation is in a similar boat with the Peoples East German Republic. That nation is Great Britain which only recently announced a severe new program of austerity designed to get her back on the road to recovery and strength.

Prime Minister Macmillan has won an overwhelming vote of confidence for his austerity program but this confidence vote , in Pariament doesnt soften the fact that millions of Englishmen are growing more angry at the state of economic affairs in Britain. If an election were held this week it is doubtful that the Conservatives would win.

They find themselves in the same boat as the Laborites who attempted to force socialism on the English a dozen years ago. Things got so bad in the left-wing paradise that the Labori-Ites were thrown out and Winston Churchill returned io the helm. But Churchill, despite his brilliant and valiant service to the Empire, could offer little help for an ailing nation.

Since World War I. England has been one of the have not nations. This condition was aggravated by the Second World War. Since then things have gone from bad to worse. Today the British Empire is only a shadow of its former self. The austerity program is a serious matter. In lands governed by dictators it poses no problem. Russia for years lived from hand to mouth while Joe Stalin strug

gled to put the country on a paying basis.

Fidel Castro today has forced such austerity measures on the Cubans peasantry. He has nothing to fear because the people dare not oppose a military regime. But it is a different matter in a democracy. Such a government is supposed to be the fountainhead of economic wellbeing. Such hasnt been the case in Ehigland fof many a decade.

Too. the free people of England might well reject such severe measures. They have only to force a new election to throw out' the present government. It isnt a matter of patriotism,' The world knows the British people gave more than their share during the war and during the lean, jittery years since then while their empire fell in pieces around their little island.

Today the doughty people of that little island kingdom feel they deserve a better fate. Perhaps they are right. After all, no one in government can blame todays sad plight on a curren^ hot war. What many of the English do not understand is that a cold war such as that now being waged with the deadly ideology of communism can also be a war of attrition, and as such more demanding on the economy of a nation than an actual shooting war. a

That is what happened to England; it has also put a severe strain on our own resorces. But these things, the trade-marks of cold wars such as are fashionable nowadays, are not as tangible, not as evident to the masses as a hot war. The latter is something they understand, something they can lay a fist to. Not so with subtle strains and stresses imposed by ideological conflict that Involves principles unfamiliar to the common people, but that are real just the same.

Opinions In Brief

Cousin Fuseloyle indignantly denies ever having littered the highways. He always drops his beer cans into a passing sports car. Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union.

If the Berlin crisis is at the moment the more frightening and* chilling of the two, the crisis of foreign aid is the more enduring. We have carried the burden for 14 years now, and will have to carry it for many more.-Hartford (Conn.) Cour-ant.

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shallow pool for youngsters.

(As you know, Uie local Moose Lodge provides two pools. Theres one for swimmers and one for the little people who are barely able to walk, not to mention swim.)................

This little fellow we were Watching kept a steady pace for something like 30 minutes. As soon as he would hit the water, hed scramble right back out again and back away for another running assault on the cool water.

His mother sat by watching his shenanigans. Naturally, she was quite- undisturbed by her young sons bravery. After all, the water was only eight or ten inches deep, so he was in no danger.

Like peopleeven Little People will do, though, this little gentleman suddenly sought new worlds to conquer.

Before anybody knew what he was planning, he climbed out of the routine shallows, backed away for another try, then wheeled around and headed for deep water.

Without a moments hesitation at the brink, the little lad sailed over the edge and into water about twice his depth.

That was the moment of truth. Too late he realized he had bitten off quite a bit more than he could chew.

Still, this story has a happy ending. As it happened, the little fellow splashed into the deep water (about four feet deep) right beside a 12-year-old. The comparatively strong arms plucked the impulsive youngster from the water and set him gently on the dck.

Tears flowed for a short while as the little fellow realized he had discovered rather suddenly something he could not overcome. His new world was too big just yet.

One thing can be said for the youngster, though. At least he learned sometliing.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT ^

Copuright. 1961, King Feature Syndicate, Inc.

What the Presidents spech last Tuesday and the suhsequent comment by members of Congress and the increase in the number of txoope now called up means la that we are on the verge of war. We are not waiting to be attacked. We are not holding out for a Pearl Harbor.

President Kennedy has spoken his piece. The country has received his appeal for support enthusiastically. For no matter how one locrfcs at the Presi-denta speech, it Is a call to arms. It Is a rejection of the Soviet ultimatum concemiog Berlin. The only criticism of the President is a Republican suggestion that he cut peace-time waste and certainly the present situation gives him an excellent opportunity to get rid of aome very expensive garbage which has accumulated over the years. He might Implement the Hoover Rep(ts which his father helped to prepare, and save about $4,-000,000,000 a year, if not more.

One of the greatest advantages that Soviet Russia has over us is our wasteful ix'Ofligacy. particularly in ttie military services. Military men throw away money, which is probably due to their training. If we recognise that the accumulated fat in our economy is gone, prudence will advise a sharp cut in Federal n(m - defense expenditures. Otherwise, w rall be forced to print so much money that the purchasing power of the dollar will be further reduced.

m a free society. It is Impossible to deprive the people of their earnings and savings by inordinate spending while the people are asked to practice thrift. The leUhem-eat-cake theory of government finances doe not work well in a country, where elections are held at ^ted periods.

Khrushchev is wrong if he truly belieyes that Resident Kennedy delivered his speech last week to cover up unfavorable economic^onditions. This Is Just not so. Ax a matter of fact, the President has been very tolerant of Soviet insults, more tolerant than the American people believed to be wise. Kennedy avoided permitting the Cuban affair from developing into a maje' poUtieal issue with perhaps some shooting to estsJ>Ush out ability to take care of ourselves. This has brought upon the President considerable criticism.

Khrushchev makes a mistake if he believes that because President Kennedy took a weak stand vis-a-vis Cuba, he is a weak man. The stand toward Cuba, whether correct or not, .was calculated. The President did not-choose to make his stand against Khrushchev in Cuba. He preferred to select his own spot and his own time. He chose Berlin.

And now, Khrushchev must cither withdraw frmn an adamant position or there will bo some kind of war in October. President Kennedy has made it clear that the United States will not withdraw from Berlin or change the status of the Western world in what amounts to East Germany.

Khrushchev must act. Hs cannot disregard the Kennedy speech or the American policy regarding Berlin without admitting his inability to meet force if necessary. On the other hand a war with the United States Is not a matter of propaganda any^ longer. It means that no matter what happens much of the new strength that Soviet Russia has devel<^>cd since 1933 will be smashed to rubble. Despite aU the criticism of the U-2 program, Soviet Russia has been photographed as though it were selling picture poet-cards of its most secret spots. If we need to we shoot up the place, as they will shoot us up.

Prom Khrushchevs standpoint, this is a very bad situation. Hi program of peaceful co-existence, for which he has fought 80 hard within the Soviet ni-veral State, Is now wiped out. It was a program for the assertion of Soviet pre-eminence to which the West would agree tn retmm for trade and for an avoidance of incident. In effeet. President Kennedy sMd that W do not want to avoid hwidenU: that we shall take any risk, meet any situation, make any sacrifice but we shall not r-(Contlnued on page fiv>.

nemployment Statistics Faulty

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

THE INSPIRED WORD The work Inspiration comes from two Latin words which mean to breathe Into. We are told that all Scripture Is given of inspiration. Good literature In every ag has been inspired, but there Is a difference between the inspiration of the world's best literature and the inspiration of the Bible.

Why a difference? Because th situations with which Ute Bible deals arc different from ill other slUiatlons and constitute the most Important situations In all the '^world. The Bible deals with the sptlltuai destiny of the humsn race, God Inspired Homer. Dante, Milton. Shakespeare, and continues to Insidre msoy wrlltrs today. but tbs InsplrMloo given to

Biblical writers dealing with mat* ters having to do with the eternal welfare of human souls is superior in quality to any form of inspiration.

And we can be sure that the authority of the Bible is due to the fact that it 1 inspired of God.- The Bible has certain intrinsic worth quite apart from its inspiration. It is the embodiment of good sense and wise counsel.'But the complete authority and power .of the Bible abide in the factthat this great Book is inspired.

If we are seeking for life and light we will find them in the Bible. In an age characterized by widespread eagerness to read, mankind should not negleet th greatest of all books, namely. Gods message to the needy heart M man.

By ELMER ROESSNER

What the actual rate of unemployment is, no one knows, for our official definition of unemployment is a meaningless hodge-podge, states William P. Bogie, the executive editor of Banking, in the August issue of that journal of the American Bankers Association.

Several years ago. 1 wrote that, under techniques then prevailing, a man who had work-^ed a couple of days a week and then had been laid off could be counted five, times in government figures on employment. three times as unemployed and twice as employed.

The techniques have been refined since then, but as editor Bogle pointed out, they still do not quite tell how many people are working and how many people are out of a job at a given time.

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Mr. Rogle pointed out: When ,a factory worker loses bis job^^ then his wife and three children look for work. Five, not one, are added to the list of unemploy-'H. But wheq father goes back

to work and the family job hunt ceases, then five are removed from the total of unemployed. He also wrote; Teen-Age Freddie,tooling along to the tennis courts In dads car, is included (among the unemployed) if he has applied anywhere for a summer Job, no matter how reluctantly.

"So are Preedies teachers, if they have sought any summer sweetening for their bank accounts while they wait for the fall tent) to begin.

Mr. Bogie concluded: If

business and .government are to solve the hdmlttedly serious un-employmnt problem, more accurate ways of measuring the problem must be available. Mr. Bogle may learn here, regretfully, that no accurate measurement is possible. Systems may be set up to calculate bow many people are bn payrolls. The number off payrolls can also be countedbut are they unemployed?

WHICH IS WHICH?

Statistical deraOers might Include these:

A rich widow who is willing

to go to work for a fashion designer, but for no one else. A man who is earning $60 a week making fishpoles, but who is looking f(wr a $50-a-week job with more security.

A stenog who quit a $60-a-week job to get married, but who wlll\ return to the triremes if she can get at least $85.

A man getting $95 for a 40-hour week, who is an applicant for night work at $1-50 an hour, A man fired from a $100-a-week job who still makes $39 a week repairing television sets at night. A man who has two salaried jobs and is fired from one. A man who has three salaried jobs and is fired from one. Prom two. A free-lance writer who earns $200 a week, but who is seeking a job as an editor at lower pay. a man fettlng more unemployment and home relief for hts family than he could earn at a full-time job. TRUTH IS INTANGIBLE

Obviously* the exact meure of employment and unemployment is Impc^stble to attain.

The statistioa] picture U clouded by tlie impossibility of

isolating and counting two large groups: the unemployable and the dont-want-to-be emjdoy* ables.

The first group and it includes hundreds of thousands consists of people who. becaus of mental or physical Illness, or deformity or other cause, cant get jobs <mt hold them if they get them. Among them ara the worse cases of alcoholics,

. the psychlatrlcally disturbed and the other handicapped. Prom time to time some of ttiem will be placed in useful employment, but more of them are condemned to the unemployed statistics column forever.

The second group eonalt of the great modem philosopher American without th word of Elmer Wheeler, who wauld rather live languidly on th ra-aults of unemployment and home rdief payments thu to plunge into a work-arday world that has already proved It wasnt Interested In them.

They and thousands of othw cases are all beyond counting.

Unemployment will always rw main a vtgu statistical area.'(