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Tuesday, September 5, 1961

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Time For The Councilmen To Move

'Any Chance YOU Might

It has been slightly more than four months now since the citizens of Greenville went Uy the polls and gave their endorsement to the proposed programs of Urban Renewal and Public Housing. It has been just a few days less than four months since the members of the governing board of the city took their oaths of office for their current terms.

During this pepod, however, there has been little tangible progress toward the implementation of these two programs which were approved by a majority of the voters of the city.

The latest delay in the implementation of these programs has been over the proposal of the Redevelopment Commission that minor changes be made in tht boundaries of the proposed redevelopment area. At a meeting of the City Council on August 4, the Redevelopment Commission asked for the Councirs approval of the boundary changes. After considerable discussion, the matter was delayed until a joint meeting of the Council and the Redevelopment Commission could be arranged. That meeting was held on August 7, but still the Council failed to take any action on the proposals again delayed the matter for consideration at the Council meeting slated for Thursday

;?^lain Talk Has 3een Beneficial.

By LYNN NISBET

PLAIN TALKIn commenting on the Incidents of racial trouble at Mcmroe last week Governor Sanford said everybody, both ' in and out of state folks, should understand that North Carolina will not put up with violence by anybody ans^ime anywhere. , That expression is perhaps not the best quality of diplomatic language but there was no doubt about Its meaning.

Some 20-odd years ago when there was a rash of work stoppage incidents throughout the country, staged by labor unions in protest against working conditions but not quite reaching the status of a legal strike. Governor Clyde Hoey handled the situation with one very succinct statement; There wiU be no sit-down strlkM in North Carolina.

At the 1948 Democratic national convention in Philadelphia when some off-side North Carolina delegates wanted to carry the State banner in a parade. Governor Cherry put down his big foot and said This banner will not be moved.

These incidents spanning a period of more than 20 years and stemming from entirely different situations have one main thing in common. Thav POj^ay the determination of flle*chief executives of North Carolina to maintain law and order and the generally accepted rules of conduct. More important, the statements plow through the veneer of diplomacy to state the situation in language anybody can understand. A long speech about maintaining the dignity and prestige of the law could have meant the same thing, but would have lacked the effective punch of the Sanford quipwe will not put up with violence

UTILITIES LAWS Governor Sanford has said he thinks the statutes dealing with the regulation of public utilities need a complete study with a view to overhauling and rewriting them. He suggests that this study should be made a fuD-time expert working under general supervision of the General Statutes Commission.

This commission and individual members of the General Assembly have from time to time through the years proposed amendments to the laws some of which have been adopted, many turned down by the Legislature. Result is that many people agree the present utilities code is out of date, either as tp mechanics of application or Ini-tent of regulation or both,

Criticism of utilizing the General Statutes Commission for the proposed study is based on the suggestion It has been one of the purposes of that commission through the years to keep the statutes current, to some degree, at least, giving that

ro> charge of be study would be like having a bookkeeper audit his own accounts, or an editor read proof on his own copy for factual errors.

CONTINUAL NEED About ten years ago a similar overhauling of the insurance laws was undertaken, and almost a completely new code was written. It now appears that is obsolete, and there is almost as much need for revamping as existed a decade ago. More recently the building code council act was worked over. This year there was a complete rewrite of all the laws regulating small loan companies.

These periodic overhaulings are necessary because of lack of continual close check every year by some competent agency with time and adequate staff to do the Job.

PERMANENT-Nearly every session of the Legislature. since World War II has authorized one or more, sometimes upwards of a dozen, special study commissions to Investigate and make recommendations for improving conditions in specific areas Each of these groups has done Its job, made its reportwhich often thereafter only accumulated dust on a shelfand disbanded. Sometimes remedial legislation resulted. But all of this was piecemeal and insufficient so far as the overall problem of keeping government administration up to date was concerned.

There were instances when these special study commissions could not get full cooperation from the departments they were Investigating because of Jealousy and fear of political re-r,prisals.

Many students of government believe there is real need for an Independent and permanent agency to carry on continual studies of governmental Iimc-tions. The General Statutes Commission does a small segment of this type of work, but Its chief responsibility is making the text say what It is intended to say. rather than recommend organic reconstruction. The Judicial Council fills another spot, but Is limited primarily to court procedures. The Institute of Government Is available for investigation, and has done magnificent work In the field, but It is not supposed to make recommendations.

Because of so many overlapping functions of the State departments a detailed study and recommendations affecting any one along may leave gaps In essential Information on matters with which others are related. i

Ju-st how it tan be .set up Is a real question; but opinion is general that need exists for an overall continuing study of government.

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Because of this delay, the Redevelopment Commission has been stymied in its planninjr because the City Council failed to eitiier approve or disapprove the proposed clianges. Certainly the City Council should provide the Redevelopment Commission with an answer Thursday night

Further, it is our feeling that members of the city's governing board should act with,all deliberate speed in making decisions on matters which will be referred to it from time to time both by tl^e Redevelopment Commission and the Public Housing Authority as these two bodies continue with their planning for these programs in Greenyille. Otherwise the City Council will remain a stumbling block for these two programs which have been endorsed by a majority of the voters of Greenville, and which the citizens of the city have every right to expect their elected officials will make H conscientious effort to carry out.

Soviet Running Risk Of Wide Repudiation

International pressure has mounted rapidly against th Soviet Union since it announced resumption of ite nuclear testing program. Protests have come not only from the nations of the West, but from neutrals and even leaders who at times in the past have seemed inclined toward the Soviet Union.

It is likewise Increasingly evident that the renewed series of Soviet nuclear tests have failed to intimidate the neutral nations of the world and those of Western Europe who are most concerned over the mounting Berlin crisis.

Thus the Soviet Union finds itself In a position where it must either revise its plans for carrying out a series of nuclear tests or suffer the consequences of repudiation from many parts of the globe. It has failed in its effort to place the blame for its resumption of nuclear tests upon the United States and its Allies.

The question now is whether the Soviet Union will ignore prevailing international opinion and continue with the tests or back down from the position it recently took after careful consideration. For the United States there is also the yet-unanswered question of whether this country will test some of its nuclear developments of the past three years or decline to resume testing.

Does the United States and the Western world have more to gain by resuming tests of their own to prove their strength in the nuclear field, or by using the current situation to gain international support while the Soviet Union loses prestige? Will the nuclear might the Soviet Union shows in its coming tests ultimately intimidate neutral nations into submission to Soviet desires, or will it draw them closer to the United States and its allies?

In the short-term view it seems clear that the United States can enjoy greater prestige and admiration from many uncommitted nations by not resuming nuclear testing at this time. But in the struggle for freedom in which the world is now engaged, more than the short-term basis must be considered. The free world can ill afford for the United States to compromise its military strength in an effort to gain friendships or prestige which may be swept away by a sudden turn of international events.

Ancient Greeks

S]TDdicirtt. ke.

By PATRICIA MOORE

Sidelights On A Holiday

Labor Day Sunday jrtelded some underhanded surprises for us.

Down Morehead City way, about the end of church time, a man sauntered into a public seafood market and asked an attendant if he could buy some white likker there.

He was turned down. ' '

At a drivein early in the afternoon, a dazed waitress .went from car to car, looking ab(Hit, finally coming to rest at our station. Do^you know what happened to the car that ordered this food? she inquired.

The old black one? we asked. She nodded in the affirmative. It left. So she was stuck with the food.

Other Editors Saying Graybeards & No Beards

Jrlad idea rirst

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By ARTHUR EDSON

WASHINGTON (AP) - Those ancient and remarkable Greeks thought of everything.

They even had their own version of a Peace Corps.

Dr. John P. Latimer, professor of classics and associate dean of faculties at George Washington University, said today a somewhat similar idea was first thought of five centuries before Christ.

And, my soul, Latimer said, it worked.

None of these old Greeks ever went to Harvard, but they decided, Just as President Kennedy was to decide 2,400 years later, that young men should perform an act of service for the public good.

Naturally, they had a word for it. They called this institution Leitourgia, which means a public service, and a derivation of this word is still with us in liturgy, a rite prescribed for public worship.

No comparison can be pressed too far, and this is no exception.

The Greeks thought service should mean that the young men ' would contribute not only their time and talents but also their money. This limited Leitourgia to the wealthy.

Nor did the Greeks have eager young ladies racing out to do their bit. With all their pioneer thinking a misogynist might say possibly because of Itthe Greeks had little room for wo-4 T-

men in their great plans.

Nor were the jobs to be done exclusively for peace.

Indeed, one chore was the exact opposite. A wealthy young man could equip a ship for war.

Or he could train competitors for the gymnasium contests.

Or, if artistically Inclined, he could fix up a chorus for musical competitions for the great public festivals.

Or he could superintend the sacred embassies to the four great national festivals, or to Delos and the other holy places. an operation, Latimer believes, that closely parallels the spirit of the Peace Corps.

Incidentally, classical languages have no more ardent public relations man than Latimer, who for yeaxs has been insisting that the position U.S. education should adopt is not science vs. the classics, but science plus the classics.

As president of the American Classical League, hes pleased to report: Latin in high school and classics in college have been holding their own in the past 10 years and a little more than their own in the past four or fve years.

Latimer cant reassure dubious congressmen that the Peace Corps will work. But, he can say. It worked fine with the Greeks.

These young men did perform needed public services, at home and abroad. he said, and, my soul, they set a good example for all citizens to follow.

(The Charlotte News)

The widespread popularity of ultra-conservative Sen. Barry Goldwater among the college youth of the nation is leading many a thoughtful observer of the American scene to wonder what is happening. Are the college boys, once tolerantly smiled at for their radical ideas, becoming the conservatives? Many a college campus was more enthusiastic for Nixon than for Kennedy.

Up in Franklin, N.C. .that thinking mans editor, Weimar Jones, - is pondering this question. He cites a mid-Western college professor, who said: In tomorrows world, it may be the graybeards, not the young, who are the radicals.

The professor explained this novel phenomenon by the fact that todays younger generation, walking in the shadow of atomic destruction, never has known a stable world, so adopts the philosophy of eat, drink and be merry, because tomorrow we die.

Editor Jones is not entirely satisfied with this theory, so he asks some questions of his own:

Is it the great emphasis, the last 25,years, on security?

Is it the conviction that radical measures have not brought satisfactory solutions of problems?

. Is it disillusionment with liberal leaders, a feeling that they incline to be opportunists, with no deep-seated convictions based on principle?

All or none of these may be the answer. But one thing is sure; It will be a strange world indeed if and when it Is the graybeards who advance and want to try new and radical Ideas,

and it is youth that holes back.

Robert D. Novak, writing in the Wall Street Journal about the present Republican ^t to the right and the growing popularity of Goldwater, points out:

Young Republican workers now tend to be among the most militant oonservatives in the G.O.P. The Young Republicans, a stronghold of Republican liberalism two decades ago, now stands on the partys extreme right wing.

Neither Mr. Novak nor Editor Jones nor that mid-Westem college professor appesuTS to have thought of a very human phenomenon that may do more to explain the conservatism of todays young people than any of their philosophical suggestions.

Didnt they ever hear of rebellious youth?

Sure, youth was radical back in the 20s and the 30s. The E^-pressidh may have had something to do with it. But mostly the young people were rebelling against their conservative fathers, the generation who voted for Coolidge and Hoover and Harding. If father was a conservative, then son had to rebel against himand vote for FDR. Now the older generation Is liberal, having grown up in the Roosevelt and Truman tradition.

The only way the younger generation can rebel against their elders Is to turn conservative. Senator Goldwater naturally aiH;>eals to the sons of once Roosevelt fans. If he admitted liking Kennedy, he would simply be following in his father's Roosevelt footsteps. And that wouldnt be cricket, would it?

Earlier we had observed the two young men driving the old battered car struggling to get out of their parking place. The car made m(H-e noise than a diesel engine. They seemed to be getting mightily perturbed about their exit, and instead of backing out of their parking place they tried to squeeze between two parked cars td get out another way (which, incidentally, was further from the building.)

It provided us with entertainment prior to a meal. We thought it funny that they seemed afraid they would get stuck there.

Obviously their fears had grounds.

The beach wasnt too crowded yesterday, which was a great surprise. Either the hordes all got scared (rf the traffic and stayed home, or their burning headlights caused the batteries to run down and they never got there.

Neverthekss, oysters are ki season and there was a gala time. At a well known seafood restaurant, we observed not only the Usual boats boing by, but some last-ditch water skliers were entertaining us at dinner.

That wasn't all.

Two young men were fishing in the surf on the beach. On either side of them, a short distance away, groups w^e fishing and were catching.

A man in one of the catching groups went up to one of the young men who was just fishing and asked If he was keeping bluefish, obviously wanting to get rid of some of his fish. The young man nodded that he wasnt keeping bluefish.

He wasnt even catching them.

Opinions In Brief

The precedent established by Governor Hodges and continu. ed by Governor Sanforl Is a good one. All chairmen of the State Board of Alcoholic Control need not be patrolmen. But the position Itself should become a careCT-type assignment well beyond the realm of political manipulation.Greentoro Daily News.

Driving

Closer

Home

By GEORGE E. BOEOLHTr '

OiH>yrW. 1961, Ktaig Features yndleate, loe.

The Soviet forces art moytng into the Americas as rapidly as they can. They have laid down a Red Satellite In CUtw: they have built a Conunmrist en-clave m British Guiana; they are rai^dly moving iJAo Venezuela and unless we do something about it, they will siMXieed in the Dominican Republic and HaiU.

But which Conunonists are these? (hiba started with the influence of Soviet Russia In support 0 (Castro, but graduajj^ the (JMnese Communists are ,moving into every country of Latin America. Not being white, as the Russians are, the Chinese seem to btong in a tewn environment. They do not carry over any of the antipathies which the mixed peoples of Latin America have against the white peoples. They ..do not have a history, the sons of Han have always looked upon themselves as the center of the universe.

Chinese have been settling in Latin American countries for miHe than a century. Jamaica, Trdad and Other CJartbbean countries have large Chinese populations. The older families have be<me assimilated into the general population by intermarriage both with whites and Negroes.

There is a considerable East Indian element in some Latin American countries. Dr. Jagan, who is DOW taking over Britiab Guiana, is an East Indian married to a Jewess from Chicago.

The Brazilian population is ' very mixed but it has not, in the past, had a large Chinese population. The Chinese influence is new and would rather Indicate that the CJommunists and left-wing liberals in Brazil prefer to avoid a conflict with Catholicism and therefore it is necessary to estaWlsh a relationship with Red China rather than with Soviet Russia.

Brazil is regarded as a Roman Catholic country, partlcxi&rly among the remaining Portuguese families. Th*e are also a number of Italian families in Brazil who have established significant economic and social positions for themselves. The basic population of Brazil is Indian , with an overlay of Portuguese. . As the Portuguese have never accepted ra<;ial discrimination anywhere <wi Earth, intermarriage has been constant over the whole of Brazils knoi^ history.

The country is extraordinarily poor, although it possesses surpalsingly important natural resources, few of which have been adequately developed. Its grwit export crop has bewi coffee, Brazil taking the place in world markets which had earlier been held by Mooca and Java. The United States, during the war years, saved the economy of Brazil by tadtiy accepting a BraziUan price control which gave Brazil an enonnous advantage.

However, this advantage was spent in an excellent idea if carried out over a century. It has been attempted in a few years. The idea was the building of the city of Brasilia, as a new capital, thus <^ning up the vast Amazon region to economic development. The cost was enormous, altigether beyond Brazils capacity. The results could not be immediately satisfactory.

The concept is sound in the sense that whereas Brazil is an enormous country with great resources, it is devetop^ in a narrow area of limited productivity. The opening up of the Amazon hinterland would be advantageous not 01^ to Brazil but to the world. But H is such a task as couM not be done overnight. Brazils politicians had no time and the enterprise resulted in the crippling of Brazils economy, in bringing the value of Brazilian currency down to a ridiculously inflated figure.

The result has been gtoeral diasatisfactlon. Poverty became more drastic. In every sitimtion sw^h as this, a combinatUm (Oontimied on Page )

20 SteDs To Business Surviva.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLAS.S WHERE DOES THE FAULT..

LIE?

Sex and crimethats all you read about in the newspapera today What a waste of pulp-wood me. effort, and money.

But BO long as sex and crime occupy the place they do in modem life, they need to be given thoughtful Rttention. To be sure, there will always be some people off-side. There will be cheaters. There will be heave-handed hoodlums Intent on pillaging the prudent. And if for a moment we fall to give such people out attention, they will get such a hold on public life that the decent will have a hard time to survfvf .

And It is not' correct tq say that the newspapers have little In them but sex and crime. By

actual measuremerlt, such stories would ibe found to comprise only a small part of the columns. Thre is vastly more about local projects and International relations in practically every newspaper than there is about sex and crime. Unhappily, crime occupies an important place In modern life; sex, by the nature of things, occupies, and will always occupy, a considerable portion of public attention W

We never get anywhere by burying our heads in the sand. We do not have to take life as It is. but we do have to observe life as it is. And cover-upa are of no value.

What needs to be changed is not the way neVrspapera write up stories but the way milllous of musguided people behave.

By ELMER ROESSNER

There is now no doubt that the United States is moving Into a Korean War-type economy. The build-up -may be slower than it was In 1950, but eventually it will be far larger.

The Kennedy Administration and the Congress have both shown a determination to strengthen the American defensive power against communist threats in Berlin and elsewhere. Legislative enactments are along smopthly.

The immediate general result will be:

1. An increase in government spending for defense material.

2. Growing demand and rMng prices for metals, chemicals, fuels and other materials needed for defense.

3. A swing from .the present surplus-labor condition to a shortage condition, especially among those with special skills.

The .implicit corollary is an eventual Increase In taxes. WHAT TO DO I

Under these conditions, every businessman, large or small, in Industry or service, in production or distribution, must chart new courses. Those who fail to recognize the situation and adapt their operations to it will be swept away, just as thousands of businesses were In 1941 and 1950,

Here are some steps executives and enterprisers can take:

1, Re-examine the basic company operations in light of the coming change, making sure It is compatible with a Korean-

War-type economy.

2. Re-examine the basic output in the same light, making sure it will be in demand in such an economy.

3. Set up a schedule for reexamination of these problems to keep operations flexible to meet changing conditions. SEARCH OUT NEW MARKETS

4. Find out at once what the company can sell to the expanding defense market. Get In touch with nearest Commerce Department field offices. Small Business Administration offices, chambers of commerce, appropriate trade associations, etc., to find out what government purchases are in the making.

5. Dont stop there. Search out lairger companies that must subcontract part of their work. Commerce or SB/^^ offices will help you. .... ,

6. Still dont stop. Find out what you can sell to the armed forces post exchange and ships stores systems. For a start, write 10 Post Exchange and Commissary. 43 W. Front St., Red Bank, N. J., for a free sheet on the Armecj FtHties Retail Market. Also ask SBA and Commerce offices.

7. Dont even stop then. The growth of training (tenters and army bases will create great new markets for goods enlistees and their famillee want off base. Keep alert to expansions n available trading areas. LABOR PROBLEMS

8. Review your personnel situation. Find out how many employees are liable to the draft,

how many are in the reserve, and which may be reactivated by the armed forces. Seek sources of replacement now.

9. Bring files of female applicants up to date. They may be needed sooner than expected.

10. Set up a list of recallable retirees. It may come in haor dy. Also list your and employees relatives, friends, etc-, who can be called on for part-time work.

11. Strive for long terms in labor negotiations. A two-yur contract will be more than twice"^ as good as a one-year contract: a three-year contract will be more than twice as good as a two-year contract.

12. Re-examine sources of supply. Make firmer commitments if pr&ctical. with suppliers. Develop alternative sources in event your supplier diverts his output to defense contractors. FIRM UP PRICES

13. As far as possible, get future price commitments from suppliers. Dont hesitate to commit yourself to present scales if your supplier will; few prices will go down in the year ahead.

14. Consider stabilizing your own sales price structure. If it has been weakened by discounts, try to reduce them. Where margins are small, try to adjust prices. Your buyers will be as nervous as you are: a firm price list will reassure them as much as It will you.

15. Keep prices always in relation to costs.'

16. Maintain a price level con-aisteot with the (act that, while

there may be no prise freest Uiis year, there e<nild bs one in 1962.

DISPOSABLE INCOME

17. Reorient sales thinking to the fact that increasing tensions will cause consumers to swing from savings to buying. Not# that U this .Juu^naand ther are always signs that it will' goods tliat will last win bw most popular with nervous haters. Duiubles and nondurables that can be safely store wlU be in greatest demand.

18. Re-examine lines in the light of the fact that frills and frou-frou may come under restrictions. This applies to packaging as well as goods. Make sure now that your product is readily saleable without <ioo-dads.

19. Devise reserve plans; get plans ready for new products in event present products become impossible or unprofitable under possible restrictions.

20. Ke^ in mind: It is your flight. Paiiicipate in diivos and, campaigns; let' your customers know you are active.

There are. of course, aeares of other things business executives can do to aid their coun-ry and themselves in the emerging new economy. Each one can help by analyzing the probable and possible impacts on Ids op-, eration and be^ now to rtan for the inevitable changes Some Will find wisdom In one dlrecUoo; gome in another. But all should realize that time is of the essence now.

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