Thursday, October 12, 1961

Place To Begin Is

In recent months there has been throughout North Carolina considerable comment about the State Utilities Commission, .the laws which govern its operations and the handling of matters which come before th^

commission. , r

There have been assertions that the work of the Commission is falling Behind the needs of the people of the state, that revisions are needed to keep pace with the times, and many other statements concerning various phases of the operations of^^is important agency of the state government. ^

It should be remembered that the State Utilities Commission operates under laws of the state regarding matters which come within its jurisdiction, and it is the job of the Commission to regulate businesses under its jurisdiction in accordance with those laws.

If there is a need for modernizing the work of the Commission, it seem.i that the place to begin is with the laws >^^ich govern the operations of the Commission. , ^ ,

There appears to be a need for a thorough study of the laws which govern the work of the Utilities Commission and the matters which come before that body^for consideration. Such a study by a competent body'should bring to light any outmoded provisions in the laws which may be hampering the work of the Commission, or which may be preventing it from carrying out its functions properly with regards to

Trying Avoic. Hysterical Air

throughout the country to put very rigid limits on political spending.

It may be conceded that entirely too much money was spent and that a lot of it was Wasted in the enae that it did not contribute full value to the basic project of getting votes. At the same time question may be raised aa to designating, this spending as waste. It went to swell incomes of advertising aRencJe.s. magazines, newspapers. printers, and hundreds of others. The money circulated through the normal channels of trade.

To some degree the same linp of reasoning applies to the timated costs of industrial and trafile accidents. There is terrific w'aste. woeful and utterly irrecoverable waste, when any man is incapacitated by accident. Complaint is that too often the evaluation of the financial loss does not take into account the income derived by doctor, nurses and others who care for the accident during his period of incapacity.

LOSSES The las.s of an arm or any other crippling incident IS very real. The loss of a building by fire is very real, and all the ballyhoo about the loss being covered by insurance does not restore the property destroyed. When the farmer loses his year.s work by having his crop destroyed by weather the loss IS real and tangible. If the farmer, or any other business man, loses money invested in his operations by reason of fiaving to sell at less that cost of production the loss is not realbecause somebody else makes a profit comparable to his loss. No money has ever been actually 'Tost around the poker table or on the stock market. It just changes hands.

If some method could be de-cLsed to distinguish between the real wa/ite in accidents and ca.su-alues and to fictitious figures so often quoted as representing the loss, a good purpose would be served.

And not entirely unrelated to this same Idea, if the stuistics released from time to time by the State agencies on the* new and expanded-industlres and increased payrolls were accompanied by reports on businesses that ceased operation during the ame period, a much more realistic picture of state progrrs. could be obtalnjed. It would still be very gratifying. There is a bit of confusion when one Slate agency reports creation of some '30,000 or 40,000 new jobs a year, and another reports the total increase in number of indatnal workers to be 10,000 or 12.fK)0 more than it was five years ego.

With The Laws .

present-day conditions in North Carolina. If, after a proper study, the laws appear not to be the stumbling block, there may be reason to look at the structure of the Commission and its work. But there appears little to be gained by studying other aspects of the operations of the Commission until careful study has first been given to the laws which govern its operation.

Such a /tudy would be a major undertaking, to be sure, but the work of the State Utilities Commission is important to every citizen of North Carolina. The importance of the work of the commission to the people.of the state would justify the study even though it is a major undertaking.

If It Had Happened Today

By LYNN NISBET

SHELTERS Interest in fall out shelters has swept the whole country even more than miniature golf courses did a few years agoand of course with much more reason. Conceding that there may be an element of hjstena in the reaction of some people to the threat of nuclear fall-out, there can be no doubt at all that a real menace does exist.

Civil defense authoiTtlcs are trying to impress upon the public the need for precaution and lor protective device>,, without appealing to emotional hysteria. Manufacturers to materials suit-able for fall-out s h e 11 e r s. especially pre-fabrlcated materials. are vigorously promoting their particular wares. There was a feature .story in many of the newspapers last Sunday featuring a reinforced concrete type of structure. There have been other promotions for brick and tile, steel and lead construction.

A North Carolina firm. Carolina Creo'^oting Company at Gulf, has developed a plan for a treated-wood and plain dirt type construction which is said to be le.ss expensive and perhaps more effective than mar4^ of the others. It has the further advantage that it does not require matcriaLs likely to be rationed or restricted in event of war. Steel and lead and other metals may be requisitioned for public defense uses. Labor for making reinforced concrete blocks, bricks and other types of tile may be scarce.

Developers of this wood and dirt plan pol^it out that trees are growing all the time and dirt is available for anybody with a shovel. They concede that the wood does not have to be treated, but untreated timbers * have a life expectancy of two or three years while their treated wood has almoet Indefinite durability.

PROTECTION The shelters built of treated wood and dirt, which require no skilled labor to construct either above or below ground level, afford little protection against a direct bomb hit. They come into value only after the bomb has fallen as protection against the fall out. The combination Jobs offering direct hit and fall-out protection run into big money.

Governor Should Take The Necessary Steps

Gov. Sanford should take immediate and positive steps to correct the situation he says he believes exists with regard to the share of federal funds for highways North Carolina is' receiving.

The governor said at his news conference this week he does not feel that North Carolina has received its fair share of federal highway funds either in terms of what we pay in road taxes or our demonstrated need. He also added that he has been working to correct the situation and that he has urged* highway official.s to follow through on the matter.

It is not enough, we think, for the governor to leave a matter of such import to the state to the highway officials alone. If, as the goveri^pr asserts. North Carolina has been slighted in th snare of' federal highway funds it has received, he should use every resource of the office of chief executive of the 'state in an effort to correct the situation. Certainly highway ' officials should do whatevera^heyv correct the

.situation, but their efforts prd[bably will bring greater results in combination with ^forts by the governors office, than by themselves. '

In spite of the fact that North Carolina generally has good highways, it likewise has many highway needs as cited by the governor. It needs better connecting linTiS with other statesparticular those to the westand it needs additional major traffic arteries within the state.

Highways have played an important part in the economic development North Carolina has enjoyed in recent year.*^, and improved highways also will play a major role in continued economic development of North Carolinas highways and likewise his expressed concern for the share of federal highway monies which North Carolina has been receiving.

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COSTS A favorito subject for many news analyst and commentator* la the exceive cost of election campaign*. They view with horror the waato (?) of upward* of a hundred million* dollars spent on the latest presidential election campaign in which Democrat Kennedy won by a narrow margin over Republican Nixon. There ia considerable aentiment

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Now Its A Big Event

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)Marriages are supposed to be made in heaven, but a young psycholo-glfil here believe* machine-made matings have a better chance for survival.

They do as much as possible to eliminate chance, said Dr. Eric Rlss, 32, who feels a scientific approach to marriage pays off in greater wedded blls*.

Dr. Rlss. a Brooklyn College faculty member, ts board chairman of Scientific Introduction Service, Inc., which puts his theories into practice for a price.

Sociologists have known for years the factors that go into making a happy marriage, but little was done about it. he aid.

How does a scientific approach to marriage operate? Dr. Riss or his assistants submit each marital prospect to an exhaustive interview to find his likes and dislikes, family background. and goaLs In life.

Some 70 personality traits are indexed on a card for each person. The card. are then run through an electronic sorter

The machine acts as a preliminary. not a final matchmaker. It picks out the people who. according to .scientific theory, have the best chances for a successful marriage.

They are then Introduced and It is up to them to decide whether the machine is a prophet. or merely a push-button mechanical bu.sybody.

We look for personality factor* that complement each other a.s weU a.s those that are alike, Dr. Ri.ss .said,

People dont look for someone just like them.selves, but for a partner who can fill their

needs. For example, a man with a stern outlook on life might need and want a wife with a more relaxed nature.

Here are some of Dr. Rlss findings;

Perhaps 15 to 20 percent of people dont really need marriage. They dont have room for it in their lives. They are too much in love with their work, their hobbiesor themselves.

The most Important factor is this: Both partners must have the same basic values in life, and share the same philosophic goals, besides being physically attracted.

Women are more concerned about character than appearance in men. They want a husband they can respect and who is brighter and more successful than themselves. 'This poses a very difficult problem for the very superior woman. Such men are hard to find.

As for men. if a woman isnt physically attractive to them, they arent particularly interested in her other values. They don't take the trouble to find out.

Does the system work:

Biiscd on hundreds of cases since 19.56, Dr. Riss claims: The divorce rate for the United States as a whole is one for every four marriages. There ha* been less than one divorce for every .500 marriages we have helped arrange on scientific principles.

"Thii is not a cold method but a real ally to romance. Tho.se who fall in love do so head over heels

Dr. Riss and his wife, a former medical social yorker, have a young son. HI. card wont go into the marriage machine for some years.

East Carolina Colleges homecoming has come and gone again.

Each year the celebration gets bigger, including the parade which moves through the business district. This started with a few units some years ago. This year it included more than 90 units and it drew thousands of spectators who lined streets from the college campus on Fifth St., and continuing all along the route.

Elaborate floats, constructed by fraternities, sororities and other campus organizations, show the results of many hours work.

On the campus itself each of the dormitories are decorated with lovinl? care as the big day comes around.

How about the alumni which

in times gone by have been accused of indifference to their alma mater? Well, restaurants were full Saturday night and hotels, motels and rooming houses were booked up for the weekend long before it rolled around.

As anyone who attended the ECC-Elon game Saturday knows, all seats in the 6,000 capacity stadium were taken and all standing room around the field was filled.

Dr. Leo W, Jenkins, the colleges popular president, made the day even bigger by announcing that a $250,000. 16.000 stadium was in the planning stage. He announced this at the Society of Buccaneers meeting Saturday night. Over $100,000 of this is already available, assuming the state bond issue passes, and a committee has been appoint-

Other Editors Saying .,. Those Sensitive Ears

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Something has happened to New Yorkers. Once famed for their willingness to call a spade a spade, they seem to have developed a reluctance to face reality. An example of what we mean can be found in the New York school systems preoccupation with its attempts to avoid hurting peoples feelings. The school system has asked the citys teachers to use terms not likely to offend minority groups, poor people and ethnic groups.

How can this be accomplished? Well, it cant, of course, but the boys iti charge seem to think it can. Like the word Slum. Its a perfectly good, working word that serves a purpose. Everyone knows w'hat It means. Its easy to spell, easy to pronounce. and everyone knows about It. Is it good enough for New York any more?

Never! In place of slum, the teachers, when talking to parents in slum areas, mustnt refer to It as slums, but rather as older, more overcrowded areas. What's this supposed to accomplish? Well, according to the experts in New York its .supposed to avoid offending tho.se poor, sensitive souls who live in slum..

But watch that word, poor. Lets not offend by using it in front of people who lack money desperately. According to New Yorkers, poor people arent poor any more. They are merely people whose experiences. generally speaking, have b'^en limited to them immedi-nte environment. Whatever that means. And thats not all. Back during the deprc.sslon when people were poor and not ashamed of it, they were called

poor. Then along came a term worked out by the sociologists designed to avoid offending: cultural deprived people. But even that isnt good enough any more. Now its got to be people whose experiences, generally speaking, have been limited to their immediate environment.

Suddenly we must be concerned with the sensitive feelings of Negroes. Jews. Italians. Greeks, poor people, Puerto Ricans. Is there any group we have left out? Among the phrases the school system of New York frovims on are such terms as: you people or your kind or Negroes naturally have rhythm or thrifty as a Scotsman or smart as a Jew.

Other terms that are offensive to the soul are watermelon for Negroes, spaghetti and meatballs for Italians, and . laundries for Chinese and rice and beans for Puerto Ri-rans.

The report prepared by the New York school system warns against the use of terms that remind anyone of his membership and of the status of his group in our social structure. What we want to know is why New York folks assume everyone is ashamed of his group membership, of his social status or his economic status.

From here it appears the folks up there prefer a cozy little dream world which excludes the harsh realities of Ufe by the simple expedient of not using realistic word.s. but rather by sugar-coating the truth with sweet phrases that mean nothing, say nothing and cannot be understood by the people theyre trying to protect.

ed in Greenville to ctrry on the fund raising drive.

If all goes well, the *tew stadium with concrete stands oh one side should be ready for football season next fall.

The Homeconiing Day continued with a big dance in Wright Building, which is also scheduled for expansion if the bond issue passes.

Beyond this there were various parties during the night given by fraternities and other campus organizations.

Homecoming has become a big day at East Carolina College. So big. in fact, that it has engulfed the community. For out in Greenvilles vast subdivision areas. where practically every young family either husband or wife or both attended ECC, there were numerous neighborhood parties as couples gathered in one home or another after the days festivities.

So. East Carolina College Homecoming has become a real local holiday with the festlvitiea as colorful as most any holiday which the city observes.

Strength For To<day

By EARL L- DOUGLASS SOMETHING TO PONDER

A woman who has spent several months recovering from a very desperate illness told me how a college friend recently gave her a lift and contributed more to her recovery than doctors and medicine.

It seems that the sick woman had several times during the last few months al^ut glvjpn up hope and had often complained bitterly about what seemed to be her desperate state. Imagine her surprise when this college friend whom she had not seen for many years, called on her one afternoon, and being pressed to tell something about herself replied that since leaving college she had lived a very active life, had gone from riches to poverty, had fought tuberculosis for twenty years, and was now resigned to the fact that within two years she would be totally blind. Yet she was th head of a great religious movement carried on by women of her domination and Intended, regardless of what her state would be, to go right on doing her useful work after she was blind and to make th best of it with good cheer.

The sick woman did considerable thinking after her guest had left that afternoon, appraised her own attitude toward life, and came to certain conclusions with reference to her own state.

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyist. 1%1. King Features Syndicate, Irtc.

I saw a piece about Germany in which it w,gs said that the Germans are the greatest miscalculators in history. I presume that the writer referred to World War I and World War IL But the German people have existed for many centuries, even before Julius Caesar tried his hand at history, and the Teutonic peoples** have produced so much in education, philosophy, , history, anthropology, chemistry, physics and ever field of learning that it is impossible to say that they miscalculated. What can be said was that they were defeated in two wars, although they have been victorious in many more wars. They were defeated by the superiority of American Industry and the willingness and capacity erf our in-dustriaUsts and workers to be productive.

This has nothing to do with miscalculation because every study of American production in, say 1912, would hav justified the assumption that Germany could win a war against Great Britain, France and Russia, And Germany held out from 1914 to 1917 when the United States upset the balance by entering World War I actively. Similarly, Hitler was able to hold out on multiple fronts from 1939 to 1945, but weakened and was ultimately defeated by the genius and capacity of American industry. World War II was won in the mills and factoriei of America.

The nature of war has changed and we are now faced by a science which can be known by a small nation as weU as by a great nation. Prance manufactured an atom bomb; so did little , Israel. Automation destroys any monopoly of production. Mass production can be accomplished by small countries as well as by large: automation eliminates the need for enormous indusr trialized populations. In fact, automation may produce such difficult social problems that larger populations will be disadvantageous.

The Germans have proved after World War II that their intellectual capacity was unimpaired by war and failure. Not only did West Germany succeed in rebuilding a prosperous state with a high and rising economy but it convinced its former adversaries that Germany as an invaluable bastion of Western civilization. It has been said that West Germany could not have achieved such a reconstruction without American aid; the wisdom of Western Germany is made evident in the swift turnabout from Hitlerism to capitalism and the establishment of a government ac<^eptable to its former enemies. The Adenaucr-De Gaulle Alliance, personal though it may be. is one of the strongest anti-Russian force* today.

If the writer of Germany s miscalculations was familiar with European history, he would know that for a thousand years. It was the Germans who kept the Slav out of what was historically regarded as Europe. The Teutonic knights, the dukes of Saxony, the Germans fighting in Latvia kept the Slav closed in. Peter the Great foresaw the nature of this struggle be-tweert East and West and moved his capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg, now Leningrad, which pushed Russia further into Europe.

World War II was essentially a struggle between Russia and Germany for the domination of the world. Hitler attempted to achieve this objective without war and in 1939, the Molo to v-Ribbentrop Pact was arranged. It could not last because both StaJin and Hitler were insincere. Stalm. as a MarxLst, could only think in terms of the conquest of the entire world by Marxism-Leninism. He could not tolerate an anti-Marxist force such as Hitler had built. On the other hand. Hitler could not be a true ally of Stalin for the same reasons in reverse. They therefore split and their alliance failed. But Hitler had managed to weaken the Soviet economy.

Hitlers error lay in an utter misunderstanding of the mentality of Franklin D. Roosevelt. There is ample evidence that Roosefelts principal antagonism was toward Eritish imperialism. As a matlbr of fact. World War II was being fiercely fought from September 1, 1939 until December 7, 1941 Without direct American participation and when the United States did go to war, it was because of the iContinued on page five)

ob Shortages - Labor Shortages

THE UNITED WAY

By ELMER ROE.SSNER

A great deal 1. being said these days about job shortages and the more than 4 million Americans out of work. But not much attention Is given to the very real labor shortage that exists.

Its not a shortage of people willing to work, as the Labor Departments report on unemployment prove. It is a shortage of people sufficiently trained and sufficiently talented to handle the Increasingly complex and demanding jobs In business and Industry today.

The labor shortage begins at high level* where companies carry on a ruthless competition for physicists, engineers, designers. chemists and highly-trained specialisto in dozens of other fields. Recruiters from b I g firms have long been a familiar sight around the college campuses near graduation time. Luring away Government and com^ retltors' technical personnel with higher pay, bonuses and fringe'

bencflis is common.

ALL LEVELS AFFECTED

But the shortage doesnt stop thereIt extends down through salesmen without t h background to handle the new products pul out by Americas advancing technology or to grasp the increasingly complicated factors in marketing and selling today:

Down through maintenance men and technicians to produce and maintain a growing variety of increaalngly complex products;

Down through operator* to utilize these products to their fullest capacity;

And even down through clerk* and typist* who are insufficiently trained to Uke part in the highly complex and demanding offlc procedures a^id system* prevalent In many companies..

Even at the retail level, how many fabric salesman are ther* available who know the advantage*. dl*dvnuge. price* and use* of the hundreds of different

fiber* and combination* aold today? How many aewlng machine or camera retailers are ther* who really keep up with prices, attachmenU, replacemtnt part* and repair altuatlon* of all the models that are available to them?

8T0P-GAP AJBSIGNMENTfl

And this leads to another aa^. pcct of the labor-ahortageover-grading worker* in their job*. Because of the shortage of sufficiently trained peraonnel, a company will often promote a man past his abilities and training. This can cause a reaction like tumbling dominoes.

To fill ttie first mans original job, another man beneath him is pushed up past his capabilities and then another and another. And the system being used or the machine being operated not only works below the level it was designed for but the man in the job I* under constant pressure and strain to keep up.

The United State* Government wont help individual busl-

ressea. They must take steps themselves to see employees get on-the-job training or even specialized school training to keep them abreast of new developments in the company and in its field.

The most modern machinery, the beet systems and proceduiea. ihe ftneat organization and the deepest research wont help a company with obsolete persou-nel.

CAT-RAT FARM IDEA PROVED PRACTICAL

Fc years swindlers have been srlllng shares in a cat-rat farm. The cats eat the rats, the cat* are killed and their for is harvested to make rabbit coats, and ihelr carcasses are fed to the rat*, for a sort of perpetuai motion scheme.

Something like that has been developed by Worthington Corp. For Chicago, it has devised a generator that unites sewage sludge and air to provide heat that provides energy to dispose of the sewage.