^dnesday, October 18, 1961

Tide Changing In War Of Nerves?

FREEDOMS FLME

Has the war of nerves for the divided city of Berlin turned against the West?

The question is being asked not only in this country, but throughout the world, and perhaps most frequently and most diligently by the people of West Berlin. The significant change in American policy toward Berlin and the German question in recent weeks has clearly raised doubts in the minds of people of West Berlin and perhaps West Germany as well as to the intention of the Western Allies to defend the Western half of the divided city and ^he divided nation. _ , -

It was only recently that the West assei^d adamantly that the only course to follow in international affairs was one which eventually would reunite Germany into one nation rather than.having it permanently split between East and West. This would likewise mean one Berlin which would again be the capital of the nation. /

Recently, however, U.S. officials have impressed upon West German officials the importance of recognizing the de facto existence of the East German government and the fact that Germany is, in reality, now two nations rather than one. The talk of a united Berlin as the capital of the nation has been replaced by talk of a united Berlin as a cultural and university center as well as a bustling industrial city.

This change in American policy may reflect a more realistic appraisal of the situation which now exists in Germany than the old policy which held out for a united Germany with Berlin as the capital. At the same time, this new attitude on the part of the United Suites and its allies is bound to*4iave had a decided effect upon the Germans of both the East and West sectors who have dreamed of the day when all Germany would be united again under one government. It is bound to have had an effect upon the outlook of the people of West Berlin who have looked

Goals Differ In Two Big Fairs

By LYNN NISBET

FAIRS ~ The number and quality of the exhibits, the number of people attending, and the exclamations of pleasured surprise by moat of them attest the auccess of both the Trade Fair in Charlotte and the State Fair at Raleigh.

No one could meander among the Trade Fair exhibits and not gain a new appreciation of the capacity of North Carolina induar try to produce almost anything for comfortable modem living. Product* were on display, but emphasis was on equipment and processes which brought these products from raw materials into their final completed state. Of necessity this appeal is to a restricted groupt^e men who want to buy finished products and also want to buy equipment to produce them.

A visit to the State Pair quickly shows the distinction between the two ideas. The State Fair has mass appealand the masses have been coming. The Charlotte event has no mass appeal except its designation as a fair. One weakness already discovered is that heavy attendance of the miscellaneous public at Charlotte has served to interfere to some degree with the prime objective of a merchandise display. and has occasioned disappointment on part of many 'Visitors because the entertainment and give-away features were under emphasized.

While the Trade Fair displayed mainly machine and industrially process exhibits, the State Fatr was showing quality items processed natural laws. Better live-atock. better cars of corn, better cotton, better lumber, prettier flowers, and so on. A thing to remember is that at both Charlotte and Raleigh a major idea was to promote North Carolina beyond our state lines, but that at both places the major contribution has been showing our own people what this state can do.

N. C., to Los Angeles. Calif., nearly 3,000 miles. This meeting was scheduled within 40 miles of its eastern terminus.

The national meeting attracted only about three dozen peoplebut they came from Texas. New Mexico and points between there and here. That small group made up in interest and energy what it lacked in numbers. One of the items discussed was whether to designate this US-70 route as the Lost Dutchmans Gold Route, to get some imaginative publicity.

US-70 has less significance as a cross-continent road than it has as the lineal descendant of the old N. C. 10, which for many years was called the main street of North Carolina. The national association is Interested in promoting travel all ' along the route. Most North Carolinians are concerned about getting sections of the road, which may be integrated into the interstate system, completed to standard and ready for use. and uninterrupted passage from the coast to the mountains.

FLY-TRAPS One of the exhibits in the State booth at the Charlotte Trade Fair last week was a pot of Venus fly-trap plants contributed by Dr. and Mrs. A. H. ElUott. Mrs. Elliott said she thought the State booth ought to have something distinctive and different. The flytraps are that and they attracted as much attention as any exhibit in the building.

NATIONAL It doesnt take a lot of folks to represent a nation-wide association. The U, S. 70 Highway AssociaUon staged Its 1961 annual convention at Morehead City and Atlantic Beach this week. The highway runs from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific, fnmi Cedar Island,

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forward to the day when their city would again be the capital of Germany.

Whether these new conclusions by the Western Allies will weaken the fiber of the morale of the West Germans to the extent that they will not be able to withstand the constant pressure and war of nerves being waged from the East remains to be seen. Whether it will be interpreted in Germany and in other parts of the world as a weake/iing of the "cause of freedom and liberty is a moot question.

This n^ attitude on the part of the West may lead the way to an easing of international tension that has become the German crisis. But it might likewise lead to a new critical situation for the free world in which the sincerity of its leaders and their devotion to the causes they expouse is seriously questioned by those who have looked to thenL fqtprotection from the creeping tide of communism.

Fortunate Indeed In Our Volunteer Rescuers

Fortunate indeed is the community which finds itself the beneficiary of outstanding volunteer services such as those rendered in this community by members of the Greenville Rescue Squad.

For the second consecutive year the Greenville Rescue Squad has distinguished itself by winning the state championship in first aid in competition with Rescue Squads from other parts of North Carolina. This year, in addition to winning the first aid competition, the Greenville Squad also took first place in the state rescue contest.

Members of the Rescue Squad are to be commended for these honors and for the recognition they have received state-wide. Of even greater significance, however, is the every day service which these volunteers provide for Greenville and its surrounding area. Hardly a day passes when this Rescue Squad is not called upon for emergency service somewhere in the county. Any hour of the day or night its members stand ready to answer a plea for help and during the course of a single year they put in countless hours of hard work in helping others. Their efforts over the years must be credited for saving many lives in this community which otherwise would have been lost.

The Daily Reflector commends the Greenville Rescue Squad for the new high honors it received at the fifth annual convention of the North Carolina Association of Rescue Squads held here this past weekend. At the same time we would express to the men who make up this important volunteer group our sincere appreciation for the outstanding service they render the people of this community day after day, year after year.

Contributor For New Dictionary

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By ALVIN TYLOR

eothernecks Stayed On

The recruiting posters have hung in a metal frame in front of the post office for years. Most folks havent paid much attention to the frame, however, for it has always been painted a drab color.

Now the frame attracts more attention . than the posters. Seems someone has given it a coat of almost luminous bright orange paint.

HAHi-CHILLED Fred Patton. a public relations-adver-tising-showman from Santa Fe. New Mexico, brought some aj?-ples almost all the way across the continent for give-away at the DS-70 Association meeting at Atlantic Beach. The boxes in which the apples were displayed were clearly marked hAll-chiUed apples. Patton said he has displayed and given away a lot of apples In recent years under that label. Two or three Umes he had received mall order specifying hall chilled quality for the apples desired.

The gimmick in that deal is that hail-chilled is a trade term for haU-damaged, and means that every apple will have some bruise or blemish caused by hailstones.

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (APII can see my high school English teachers getting the news now.

You mean to tell me, says the first one, "that Harold Boyle, that big-eared lazybones, always come to class in his tennis shoes, is quoted twice in the new unabridged dictionary?

I know it sounds impossible, but its true, says the second. .This is the blackest day for literature since William Shakespeare died.

Many of my editorial coworkers couldnt believe it either when the massive, 2,720-page new dictionary arrived in our office. '

But there in bright clear print both on page 224 under black-and-white and on page 295 under bum" was the defining quote black-and-white world where a guy is either your pal or probably a bum. Hal Boyle.

How did this disaster happen to our beloved language? asked a Jealous confrere.

Oh, I replied, the editors decided to modernize the dictionary. So they threw out .some of the explanatory phrases of a bunch of old mossback writers like J. Milton and Alex Pope, and replaced them with new quotes from 14,000 contemporary notables."

Whats a contemporary notable? he inquired.

Well, according to the dictionary itself youre looking at one of them, Buster. I told him coldly. *

Actually. Im in a pretty classy crowd. Among the other contemporary notables are such renowned literary figures as Willie Mays, Ethel Merman. Ted Williams, Dinah Shore.

They also managed to find room for quotes by Mickey SpU-lane, Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur, W. Somerset Maugham. and Ernest Hemingway.

The quote from WUlle Mays Is one of my favorites. Defining one meaning of puff, it says, Hit too many homers and people start puffing you up.

The new unabridged dictionary 1* the first new edition in 27 years, cost $3.5 million to prepare and has 450,(XX) entries, including l(X),(XX) new terms. How does it feel to be quotr

ed in the dictionary? asked one of my coworkers.

"It doesnt really leave you much to live for, does it? Jeered a second.

But Ill tell you how it felt. To a boy who started throwing newspapers at the age of 10 and has loved words all his life, being quoted in the dictionary was like well, it was like one who, lost in a wilderness, looks up and sees an airplane, and suddenly the airplane rites his name in giant letters against the eternal blue sky. and the letters hang there, fadeless and fine.-^

Theres only one thing wrong. The dictionary costs $47.50. Thats a lot of money even for a contemporary notable.

But the next time you drop Into the public library, be sure and look me up. Page 224! Page 2951

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TO THE EDITOR:

There is, was, or never will be much or any interest in the Federal Aid to Educational Bill. Why keep harping?

No one arount' here is interested in Frank Graham either.

Too, there Is no need to push the integration or desegration issues

Dave Nanney

There always has to be one in any given football seasona cold, rainy night, that is. East - Carolina College got theirs for the year Saturday night in what turned out to be an ill fated game with West Carolina.

, A goodly crowd. Including several hundred marines on campus for Camp Lejeune Day, showed up for the kickoff at 8 oclock. But, alas, that slow bone-chilling , drizzle started 'about the sanie time.

First It beat on your face, then it dripped agonizingly

down your collar and finally your teeth were chattering. Miserable Is the way to describe such a night.

It wasnt long before the stands began to empty as it became obvious that the weather would remain that way. First on the reserved seat side, fans began to file out, then a few reluctant students gave up the ghost.

At half time more left. It appeared only the officials and football players would remain.

But the leathernecks lived up to their repuUtlon. They stayed almost enmasse, until the end of the game. Whats more they cheered lustily imtil the end.

Your columnist knows. He could hear them on the radio, above the noise of the heater, that is.

That Idea of constructing tremendous fallout shelters in the ravine along the eastern

Other Editors Saying ;^{[uscle Of Austerity

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(The Columbia (S. C.) State)

All experience strongly suggests that Gen. Lewis B. Her-shey is right when he said, as he did recently, that every country which got to living pretty well then faced a struggle to stay alive. Hence he believes in the austere life, one exposed to wqik and some of the hard facts of existence. It is a toughener of men.

The counsel cornes from the diiector of Selective Service, a man who over the last 21 years has directed the drafting of no less than 13,0(X),(X)0 young men into the Armed Forces of this country.

The general said nothing of the effect of living pretty well on the young American of today, but others have, and in critical terms. We struggle to improve the standard of living and then, with Justification, complain of some of the by-products which actually lower it.

Raising the moral standards of living is not always contingent upon economic and cultural advance, but usually is believed to be. We have made those advances in this country, and in the process millions of men and women have built force and fortitude into their characters, only to see some of their progeny, the next generation, soften under the availability of the fruits

of hard-earned progress.

The successful man who has, through his own experiences, learned the value of what Gen. Hershey cadis the austere life, and who is able to temper the lives of his children through emphasis upon it, is the man who contributes to the strength of the succeeding generation.

Under todays devices and exposures man, no matter how strong, no matter how deeply imbued with the facts he has discovered and used successfully, faces difficulties his forebears were spared. It is often a stern ta^k in these times to mix with inherited luxuries and conveniences a potion of disciplined and toughening austerity meaning work, a sense of prudence. a feeling of duty, an understanding of sacrifice.

Many heroic parents and other teachers nevertheless achieve it, even in the face of barriers their own parents and grandparents in less luxurious and tempting eras did not encounter. This is not entirely a moral problem for the country; it has Its economic phase. The austere life must also be one of practical and reasonable thrift. Todays economy calls for spending. But the economy could adapt to that austerity which strengthens the character of the American.

boundary of the Shore Drive Redevelopment area la still in the works.

Civil Defense Director J. H. Rose approved of the idea at the last Redevelopment meeting. The stream which flows through the ravine would be Ideal for removal of human wastes, he pointed out.

One problem brought up: Would the stream moving through the shelter bring radioactivity in? Probably not. It is covered a portion of the way and if this is not enough to eliminate the radioactivity additional shielding could be added.

Who would pay for It? Probably the city or private investors.

All-in-all It* quite an awesome idea and some day Oreen-ville may boast of the nations largest faU out shelter.

Opinions In Brief

A silk purse, were reminded, has indeed been made of a sows earthough the makers might have been richer today if theyd directed their efforts toward building a better mousetrap. For the truth of it is that the ladies never did seem to take to a sows ear purses the way theyve snapped up alligator shoes and squealed over pigskin gloves. Winston-Salem Twin City Sentinel.

These days, a husband and wife have minds that run in the same channel or they have two TV sets. Sparta (DI.) News-Plain Dealer.

Women are beyond a mans comprehension. If you doubt this, let some male come up with an explanation of that back closet full of sack dresses, hanging there utterly and completely forgotten. North Vernon ilnd.) Sun.

From a roadside advertisement in central Illinois, ye ed gleaned this warning: "Thirty days hath September, April. June and the speed offenders.Laurens (Iowa) Sun.

Newton Minow, Federal communications Commission chairman, has received this suggestion from a viewer for cleaning up Westerns on TV: Let them use live bullets in their guns. Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel.

Accept-Choice Of Evil

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright. 1961. King Feature! ^smdicate, Inc.

The Evening News of Newburgh. N. Y published the fol- . lowing comment by Rev. Em^t L. Howard, a Unitarian minister*

There are some highly dp-geroua trends of thought behtod certain slogans being bandied about in out country today. Aa an example, take the motto, Better Dead than Red, now beginning to crop up on bumper suckers. What kind of motiv^ tion could possibly lead to such a superficial and dangerous gen-crallzaUon? A martyr complex, irrational fear and hostility, ignorance regarding alternatives, em otionallsUc nationalism: these are some of the possibilities that must be consider-

Mr.-* Howard might think of other slogans: We cannot ^ half slave and hall free. Or, Give me liberty or give me . deaUi. Or. I have but one life to give for my country.

Where these superficial and dangerous generalizatlona? Perhaps it would have been smarter for Nathan Hale to go to Canada with other Toi^ or for Patrick Henry to play it safe by saying nothing at all. We surely might assume that John Hancock and the other signers of the Declaration of Independence took a frightening risk when they prepared that document, for which they declared:

And for the support of this DeclaraUon with a firm reliance on the protecUon of Divine Providence. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

Was this rhetoric? Shall we attribute to Thomas Jefferson, who wrote those words, a martyr complex, IrraUonal fear and hostility?

Mr. Howard has raised many questions in his sermon, preached in a Unitarian church. He spoke of ignorance regarding alternaUves. The phrase fascinated me. Do not men have ideals for which they are willing to fight, even to die, or are we craven clods to whom life itself is so valuable that to remain alive we are willing to accept every Indecency and horror in life? What is the alternaUve to love, for instance? Would Mr. Howard say that men who, in many countries, have stood on the barricades and fought for human liberty, for the rights of man. had alternatives? What were they? Of course, they might have stayed at home to eat rabbit stew and drink a bottle of wine.

Mr. Howard spoke of emo-tionalisUc nationalism, by which we must assume that he means patriotism. It is possible for a man to have no emotions regarding his native land. To such, one country is as good as another, as meaningful as another. Such a man does not thrill, at the sight of his national flag when he sees it after a sojourn in distant places nor does the national anthem mean more than a jingle that is usually badly sung and loudly played. Such a man does not understand the emotionalism of Walter Scotts poem:

Breathes there the man, with soul 50 dead, who never to himself hath said. This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath neer within him bumd, As home his footsteps he hath turnd. Prom wondering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go. mark him well: For him no minstrel raptures swell: High

though his titles, proud his name. Boundless his wealth as wish can claim: Despite those titles, power, and pelf. The wretch, concentered all in self. Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung. Unwept, unhonord and unsung. The time has come to ask what Is the alternative to nationalism, to patriotism. Howards church is an American institution, founded as an expression of the right of the individual to worship God as he chooses, according to his own philosophy and precepts without interference by authority. It is a church which has played a great role in American history.

The Unitarians descend from the Socinians, named after Faus-tus Socinus (1539-1604), an Ital-(CJontlnued on page live)

Most Curtailed Of Industries

THE UNITED WAV

Strength' For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS PURPOSE AND WILL POWER

Some people are apparently bom to be bullderi. To use the expression of a poet popular some few yeara ago, they think in gold and dream in silver, imagine in marble and in bronze conceive.

In thinking of builders one naturslly thinks of the great Greek. Pericles, who was largely responalbli for the glorloua architecture of Athens. We think of such men In modern life as Carnegie and Ford. These are all quite valid examplea of the capacity to create and build. >

But In every viilage and town in our country or any other there are men who are naturally builders. They start withnothing and end up with perhaps a amall-r perhaps not so small fortune. They clerk tn a store

and end up by owning It. They begin the practice of a proles-alon in a little office and end up by being one of the^ great men in their field.

Much of this is due to heredity. The Influence of parents upon children can either bring out or atlfle innate capecitlea of leadtrahip. But above everything else, will power and inflexible purpose are the things which make an ordinary man a builder. Other men about him have a atunted growth or wilt in the first strong sunshine, but he goes on and growa on. He la a builder. He has the re-anvircefulnesa the stuff in him.

Birth? Good fortune? Hard wo^lc^ Thfe breaks? Yes. all these to a certain extent. But above alT else, purpose and will power

By ELMER ROESSNER

About 25 years before the Revolutionary War colonial Georgia enacted a law forbidding the issuance of liquor licenses to persons who were otherwise capable of earning their livelihood by honest labor.

This attitude of government toward the business which in 1960 produced upwards of $4 billion In taxes has never changed.

Despite the fact that the business was relegalized by the 21st Amendment and later the laws of 49 states, officials continue to treat the alcoholic beverage industry as one requiring unique forms of regulation. And the courts, in their Interpretations of the laws, have handed down unique decisions.

Ap example of such Interpretations was the decision handed in the now celebrated Young's Market case, the flrtt to reach the U. 8. Supreme Court for Interpretation of the 21st Amendment. The case turned oo the light of the state of California to require a beer wholesaler to pay an Importers fee for bringing in beer manufactured out-of-state.

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Plainly, the fee violated the Constitution. But the court upheld the right of the state to levy

it.

In 1939. the Missouri Supreme Court, enlarging upon this interpretation in another case, said: ^The liquor Industry does not stand upon the same plane. In the eyes of the law, with other commercial occupations. It Is hereby separated or removed from the natural rights, privileges, and immunities of the citizen.

In effect, these decisions have demed to the industry the .protection of the Constitution.

Although the liquor industry did not use a woman in ita printed advertlsementa for the first 26 yeara of Its life, seven atatea passed laws prohibiting the practice and the District of Columbia prohibited the * use of nude women in liquor ads I

Lewis 8. Rosenstlel. board chairman and president of Schenley, recently brought to the attention of a group of New York financial writers two &lar-Ing ineqidUes in Federal regulations.

NEW BARREL RULE COSTLY

First. United SUtes dlsUllera are required to age their whis

key in brand new white oak barrels which cost nearly $25 apiece, while foreign distillers are permitted to age theirs in reused barrels which they often buy from U. S. distillerswho are not permitted to reuse them for about 50 crats each. As a result. . 8- distillers now have nearly $500 million in w(X*king capital tied up in barrels.

Second, U. S. distillers may not bottle their whiskey until they have paid the excise tax on it, while foreign distillers are permitted to ship theirs Into the United States, store it and not pa: the excise tax until after it has been sold and shipped to wholesalers. This inequity has frozen upwards (rf $1 billion of U S. distillers money in tax prepayments, while fortlgn distillers have not a dime tied up.

Tougher restrictions apply to advertising and merchandising. An advertisement which complies with Federal regulations might have to be changed 2S times In order to meet state Tegulations. ^

MiMissippl Is the only dry state left In the unioq, But old Miss, to get its share of liquor tax rerenues, has a ao-caUed "black market tax. This enables bootr leggers to buy taxpsid liquor out-

of-state, bring it.into the state, and pay the black market tax on their invoices. The liquor is then sold openly in cocktail lounges, some of which are within sight of th* state captol-AGE LIMITS CONFUSING

In Illinois, the minimum age for buying a drink until this year was 21 for boys. 18 for girls. This year the law was amende^ to make it 21 for both. Now^a girl, who attains all other legal rights at 18. must wait until she is 21 to buy a drink. Boys and girls, on the other hand, are permitted to sell liquor before 21.

In New York, a licensed retailer may not sell a drink to an habitual drunkard; in New Mexico, he may not sell to a lu natlc; in Miasouri, he nv^y not sell to persons who are mentally incompetent; in Illinois, he may not sell to spendthrifta; and in Nevada, he may not asQ to imbeciles.

In Wisconsin, a girl may not buy a drink until ahe is 2 unless accompanied by either a parent or a guardian. The courts have ruled that a husband is neither g parent nor a guardian.

In Massachusetts, no drinks may be sold during riots.