Wednesday, November 15, 1961

Where the Truckers Eat

Impact Home-Grown Industries

North Carolinas program of economic improvement over the past decade has centered around at^ U*acting new industries to move into the state, construct manufacturing plants and provide new jobs for Tar Heels.

Ask the average man how North Carolina has been able to realize its gains, and he will tell you the state has sold industrialists in other areas of the country on what North Carolina has to offer.

To a great eictent this is true, but it is not the entire picture by a long shot.

Look around most communities of North Carolina that have enjoyed a part of the overall economic growth, and you will see that in addition to the industries that have been attracted from other areas, or new plants of corporations from other parts of the country, there are also many new, mostly small, home grown industries.

Although North Carolina and its communities must continue their efforts to sell outsiders on the benefits of locating new plants in this state, it seems to us that considerable more effort could be profitably spent in the development of home-grown industries within our borders.

North Carolina and other southern states no long-

Little Politics At YDC Meet

By LYNN NISBET POLITICS Except for the hotly contested internal ctm-paJgna there waa very little evidence of poltica around the YDC convention at Durham laat weekend. The race for president between Dub Graham of Mecklenburg and Ray Lackey of Alexander developed into one of the hotteat in recent YDC history, with active solicitation of support going on until after the roll call started Saturday morning. The issue was largely between the big urban and the small rural counties. Graham had the big counties and won.

Although the fighting was hard, there was no indication of personal anger such as has developed in some prior YDC elections. All candidates for all State offices had made a pledge to retiring President 8am Johnson that they would join hands in united effort to build a stronger organisation, regardless of who won this time.

The congestion around the affiliation desk during the final hours revived interest in the suggestion that the rules be changed so that local clubs would have to affiliate and get their voting strength certified a week or more before the convention date. Thats the "way the regular party operates. The YDC plan is subject to abuse in that clubs sometimes hold off until a candidate will pay the affUiar tion fee in return for the vote. About as overt case of putting votes on the cash auction block as can be found.

FARCEThe so-called "legislative breakfast" staged on Saturday morning at the YDC state convention has become a mockery. Its avowed purpose is to get members of the congressional and state legislative delegations at a sort of renew-acquain-tance session. At first the.se affairs attracted good attendance and they were Interesting.

It was at such a legislative * breakfast in the same Durham hotel In 1955 that Sen. Kerr Scott announced that sovfar he was concerned he would like for Sam Ervin to continue as the senior senator from North Carolina- That was enough to assure no primary opposition of consequence for Ei^n in 1956.

Senator Ervin is up for re-election next year, but nothing was said about it at the YDC meeting even by implication. Neither of the V. S. Senators attended, and only two Representatives. Horace Kornegay of the sixth district delivered the keynote address Friday afternoon and Basil Whitener of the eleventh district was at the Friday night dinner. Neither showed up for the breakfast next

morning. Only two senators and eleven representatives in the General Assembly were at the breakfast although at least three times that number were in the hotel-

It was a typical' North Carolina breakfastscrambled eggs, sausage, grits and coffeebut the designation as to legislative breakfast should be dropped.

SOFT PEDAL Secretary of State Thad Eure, who has been the master of ceremonies at these breakfasts since they began some 20 years ago, noted absence of so many legislators and suggested they might be ducking repercussions from the bond election. He pointed out that the legislators shared responsibility for submitting, supporting and carrying the bond issue with the Governor. After voting in the Legislature to submit the bonds to a popular election, most legislators went fksh-ingor went to sleep. When the bonds were defeated they are not eager to admit responsibility for the result. That is one big reason why political activity beyond the area of purely intra-YDC candidacies left the politicians cold at Durham.

GOVERNORS The opening sentence of this column might be repeated here, but with some qualification or elaboration. Except for the intra-YDC poltica there wasnt much overt activity. But there were several men present and freely circulating who are known to be Interested in the governorship race in 1964. There were perhaps more people interAted in the currently eca-demlc question of whether the president of the 1963 State Senate will be elected by the members of the Senate, or whether he will be a Lieutenant Governor elected by all the people of North Carolina.

This is the first time since the office of Lieutenant Governor was established in the constitution that a vacancy has occurred In the office. It isnt the first time a vacancy has occurred In the office of President of the Senate.

When the 195S Senate elected Luther Earnhardt as president of the senate, replacing Luther Hodges, elected Lieutenant Governor, who had succeeded to the governorship upon the death of Governor William Umstead, Barnhardt was accepted by almost everybody as the No 2 man in State government. He was accorded by Governor Hodges and by most other government agencies the recognition due the Lieutenant Governor. Whether that same recognition would be done a president of the senate elected under existing cii^ cumstances might be questionp ed.

er have to depend* upon capital from the North to finance new ventures the way they did even a couple of decades ago. We no .longer have to depend entirely upon other states in other sections of the country to furnish skilled^ management and skilled labor to handle complex businesses and perform complicated tasks. In recent years great strides have been made in North Carolina and throughout the South not only in the development of venture capital, but likewise in the training of skilled management people and skilled workers.

It is true in most cases thakthe home-grown industry which begins operations is considerably smaller than the operation which may be attracted from some other area. It is also true that the financial statement .of the new home-grown company may not be nearly as Impressive as that of the outside corporation which is'considering building a new plant In all probability the new home-grown industry will not bring into a community as many new families as a plant of comparable size owned by some out-of-state corporation.

In the final analysis, however, the economic growth of North Carolina at the moment is primarily a matter of providing more and better jobs for the people we already have living in the various communities. It is wonderful when new families are brought in to fill new jobs, hut this is the frosting on the cake.

Communities throughout the state have done a good job,'on the whole, in boosting their own economic development through attracting new industries. For the most part, however, they have not placed -a comparable effort on developing small industries of the home-grown variety which likewise offer significant potential.

Few if any communities in North Carolina can afford to lessen the effort being put toward attracting

new industries, but most communities could well afford to invest more of their time and effortand

money tooin creating more smaller industries of t-i

their own to take their place beside larger plants By HAL BOYLE

moving in from other areas.

A Dtfferenee In Wig , As Status Syinbol

"deal And Reality

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The Korean general who flew here to see President Kennedy is a symbol o the difference between an American ideal and the reality in the backward nations this country is trying to keep out of communism.

The ideal would be to see them spring full-blown out of the darkness of colonialism and feudalism Into democratic systems like this one. The reality in many places is quite different.

Gen. Chung Hee Park, 44. heads a 2S-man military junta which runs Korea as a dictatorshipfor the time being, at leastrafter throwing out the elected government of John M. Chang.

The democratic system wasnt working. Korea was riddled with poverty, graft, corruption despite the enormous American aid it was given. The U. 8. aid got largely lost in the graft and corruption.

It was only six months ago that Parks group of military officers thrust aside Changs government. That was last May.

Chang had been elected the previous August as the successor to Byngman Rhee.

Rhee, 84. supported by this country, had been elected by so-oalled democratic prooeases.

Those processes were called something altogether different by Koreans, particularly students. when they rioted against Rhte in the spring of 1960.

They screamed that the elections were crooked. They were sick of the corruption and Rhees repressions. They threw him out.

Park and his group felt that

Rhec's successor, Chang, after eight months had failed to improve things.

So they took over. Now they have American backing. Last August they promised to hold power only two years more before turning the government over to civilian authorities. How axe they doing?

Almost a month ago The Associated Press reported out of Seoul;

Parks major problems are unchangedfactionalism writhin the 28-man ruling group, natKmwide business stagnation and the danger of Inflation. Division within the junta is deep and in olves provincial loyalties, military academy classes, and family ties. '

The generals and colonels have a gigantic farm problem. Sixty per cent of the 25 million South Koreans live through farming. Most farmers exist by borrowing on next year's crop and paying* Interest rates of up to 100 per cent a year.

The junta is trying to correct this. The junta is anti-Commu-nistthe United States can take^ some consolation from this ' but communism is sitting just across the doorstep in North Korea.

If Park and his men fail to get the country on its feetor plunge into civil war because of disputes among themselves what then?,

One of the major questions of our time is: What chance does any country, lying near a Communist stronghold, have of staying out of communism unless there is an insl.stence on reforms that will make it more attractive than communism?

NEW YORK (AP) Max Miller has a simple goal.

I want President Kennedy to wear a fashion wig," he said-

That would start the ball rolling, the same way it did with George IV of England and Louis Xin of Prance.

"The Cabinet officers would follow suit, then the lobbyists.

"Soon millions of red-blooded American men would be wearing beautiful hlgh-fashion wigs. Their wives would fall back in love with them. The wholesome loving atmosphere in all those homes would put an end to juvenile delinquency, alcoholism and the television habit.

Miller, at 43 the owner of a

flourishing mop of hair that makes him his own worst customer, is the dynamic head of one of the oldest and largest wig firms in the world.

The hairpiece business is now about a $50 million a year industry in this country, and getting bigger all the time.

The bald truth of the matter, according to Miller, is that some three million American women now wear fashion wigs and some 400,000 to 600.000 men protect their scalps from sunburn,, rain, snow and Ill-natured laughter with toupees, also known In the trade as "toppers."

It is his opinionwell, anyway, his hopethat the fashion wig again will become a status

Other Editors Saying... Predicting The Enc.

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How much are you paying for that loaf of broad at the supermarket? 21 rests? Or maybe youre very thrifty and buy two for 41 cent.s? Weil, youre still getting the short end of the deal- There are 151 separate taxes on that loaf of bread. So the next time you visit the aupermarket and casually lift a neatly-wrapped loaf off the shelf, Just remember youre not only feeding your family, youre feeding Uncle Sam.Metropolis (111.) News.

trucks, aircraft, boats, buses or what have you. That would really be fun! fun! fun! No government yet has ever made a success of anything they stuck their nose In including the utilities, transportation, mail service or any other service. Random Lake (Wise.) Times.

"Talking about the transportation of the nation there are some unionista suggesting the aoclallMtlon of the entire trana-portatlon Industry; trains.

'Many a politician lives to wish he had observed the Chinese axiom: It is better to keep ones mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." Norwalk (Conn.) Hour.

"What this country needs is dirtier flngemalls and cleaner minds.Will Rogers.

(Henderson Dispatch)

Asian astrologers in Malaya are predicUng the end of the world next February 2. So If you believe in their art, or ability to read the future by means of stargailng. or whatever, you neednt worry about Berlin, Khrushchev or fallout. Just prepare for the final consummation and await the doom of humanity.

Phooey! This isnt the first time some group has come up with a pinpointed date on which everything will blow up and man and time will be no more upon the earth.

Astrology is as old as recorded history. As far back as ancient Babylon there were those who professed to super-natural knowledge about the heavenly bodies and their relation to this mundane sphere. They tried their hand at interpreting old Nebuchadnezzars dream but couldnt. Now, in this modern era. no one will become unduly excited about what these gentry predict for the future. They could be correct in their forecast. but not because of what they profess to see in the star-studded Unlvtrse.

Some will remember that back In 1914 a religious sect said the end would oome that year, and when World War I broke they thought they had a firm foundation on which to stand- But nothing happenedexcept the most terrifying and catastrophic struggle mankind had experienced up to that time. There were those also who thought something was In the card at the time of the last global confltcr, but mankind. emerged to return to something like normal.

The people who make these forecasts may or may not rest any faith In what the Bible says in quoting Jesus himself, who

came from God and spoke with authority. He said no man, not even himself, knew when affairs would be wound up upon the earth; that no one except the Almighty himself held the secret. These things could come at any moment, day or night, before the sun goes down this day or next week or month or year, or a thousand years hence.

The Malayan astrologers base their prediction upon the fact, as they put it, that seven planets will be in conjunction on February 2. and that night the moon enters the same house of Capricorn, whatever that is- Any astrologer claims that is bad. and it might be; we wouldnt profess to any inside knowledge on the subject.

When some cataclysmic event transpires, something may come about that has never been known before and which cannot be contemplated short of stretching the imagination. That could be the night of next February 2-At least thats groundhog day, and we would as soon abide by that superstition as what the astrologers propound.

These stargazers forecast floods, earthquakes, wax in the Himalayas, and collapse of the United Nations. But floods and quakes occur ever so often. War in the mountainous country of central Asia already has been carried out on a modest scal^, and the U. N. is in about the most threatening status of its history. But the world, tossed about by nuclear blasts, hatred, ill will, covetousness, ambition, is still here.

The end may come on the date the astrologers have named. But If so it wont be because of what M^ey read in the stars. It will be in the providence of Almighty God. This much we can all believe.

symbol among men, as It already is among many women-

"George Washington wore a fashion wig, he said. So did Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Would you call them

sissies?

"Actually this is the second era of American history when the wig has been a SUtus symbol.

In Colonial America wigs were sjmibols of statusbut as worn by husbands not wives. You could gauge a colonists station in life by the repertoire of wigs he owmed.

"The wealthy landowner might possess a dozen. The shopkeeper would have twoone for every day. one for Sundays. The blacksmith probably owned but one, while the Indentured servants and field hands had nothing to hide 'their hair from the contemptuous regard of their be-wigged betters."

A modem womens wig today costs from $200 to $700, a mans topper from $161 to $250. They last from two to three years, and can be sent out to be cleaned and dressed for $4.50.

Feminine wigs contain from 250,000 to 300,000 hairs, male toupees about 140,000.

The world hair bujdng center is Palermo, Sicily, and the greatest source of supply is the Italian woman peasant. The price ranges all the way from S50 a pound for straight black hair to $400 a pound for pure white or red hair, the colors in scant supply.

So far, Millers letters to the White House suggesting that President Kennedy launch a new fashion in male wigs have gone unanswered. He Is considering whether Soviet Premier Khrushchev might be a more interested prospect, and would be glad to furnish the premier with a free hairpiece as a starter.

"A nice crewcut toupee might help him get rid of his inferiority complex and give him more self-confidence," said Miller. "Anyway, its worth a try.

YOB SIPPOIT TiisUVATieilUIT NNEITOIfilVnom.

And The Wronas

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1961, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

All oxer the world, people are living longer and youth is pushing harder. The younger people want their place in the< sun and the older people do-not want to be relegated to porch-sitting. In fact, for most of our population, there are no porches: there are no rockers; in chain stores, there are no cracker barrels; and In the big cities, even the barber shops have been taken by young and pulchritudinous ladies who hold ones hand and with whom one more easily converses than with the barber.

The very young talk about their rights. No one takes them to the wood-shed to be spanked. Who has a wood-shed? And what parent knows how to spank so that it hurts him more than It hurts the boy?

One of the major rights of the very young, until they get bored with it, Is to watch television. Perhaps one reason that our children do not know how to pell, or read, or write is because they watch television while they do their home-work and as everybody is passed to prevent him from becoming a Juvenile delinquent, It is not essential to know too much to get on.

Joseph C. Brochek of San Diego has written to me learnedly on the wickedness of brats. He apparently knows the youngsters well, having suffered much at their hands. He says:

"Your insipid thought that parents could control what they want shown by throwing a coin in the slot is suggestive of the complete lack of control by parents over even the most trivial actions of their offspring. Did your old man ever have to lock himself in the bathroom so the kids would not muscle In on his can of beer? Our parents popular after-supper sport being a game of 66 (cards), did that divert me from home work, violin practice, or Other tedious obligations for my parents feeding and clothing me? And as for the little darlings being by pay viewing deprived from the older folks objective in program selecting, they would, in our opinion, merely say; Move over dad, I cant see from herel Or, should mom or dad have the termerity to demand that they remove themselves from the premises, the kids probably, their pockets being well-lined with allowance, make up T. V. parties and gang up somewhere to collectively feed the Tellies as they now do the Juke Boxes. And we, who prefer to recall the days of our youth by viewing Weatemt and similar 'He-man shows Instead (of) the maudlin moans, groans and whining of so-called singers, could sit around and comfort ourselves with knitting."

Well said, of <K>urse. But the solution is a television In every room. The girls no longer need to watch mother cook. They can get the pre-fabricated stuff which Is so well-packaged that it makes the refrigerator look like the decorations on a Christmas tree. Nobody needs to know how to make a cake; she can

buy a jnix. And to tell the

truth,-Tf one has no memory

of what grandmarther\ cakes were like, the mix actually tastes better than sweeties efforts which somehow come out wrong so often.

Brother Brochek Is too op

timistic about what the youngsters would do if they were not permitted to Watch murders at home. The kids would not spend their allowances on television parties, figuring that the stuff is OK if free but is not to be paid for. They might go back to the good old days of the movies where one could sit in Stygian darkness in palatial surroundings and neck to one's hearts content without parental supervision. Is necking worse than murder?

The moral of my tale Is really what Brochek Is writing about. Parents should control children until the children can control themselves, which may be never in such a world as ours. Nowadays everybody looks to Russia for perfection In education, but the Russians have their problems, too. Their kids, having achieved international equality by throwing bombs, are becoming hooligans which makes more sense than joining the Komsomol whence comes (Continued on Page 6)

Strength For Today

Mrs. Kilroy Just Isnt Buying

By EARL L. DOUGLASS CO.NCRETE MINDS

Someone has said that too many minds are like concrete all mixed up and permanently set.

Firmness of conviction is a virtue well to be cultivated. The wishy-washy variety of individual is a disservice to his generation and a pestiferous Influence without which the world could get along very well- But theee who arrive at decisions hurriedly, whe-tre influenced Ifl these decisions by prejudice or background, and who Uke their stand whether or no, arc of the variety which - kills the happl-neu of hornee, breaks up friendships. d I s 8 o 1 v e s partnerships. and arouses animosity.

We have had occasion ofte to remind oursfilves that life is pi*hnarlly a matter of balance.

Our planet is held on Its orbit by well ballanced forces. We walk erect because of physle-Joglcal processes which ensble us to perform this rather as-tonlshlng feat unconsciously.

William James, the phlloso^ pher, used to say that we never get enough of anything without* fttUng too much of it- There is BO vlrtus.ln the world which cannot be overdone. There is no foed policy which does not become a bad policy if pushed too far.

It would be well for all of us to cultivate the capacity for quick and firmly held decisions. But once made, these decisions, unless they are to become 11-abUlUes to us, must be capable of amendment and change.

Avoid the concrete mind which is gU mixed up and permanently set. It can do you and your generation infinite harm.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Mrs. Kilroy, won;t you come out and buy something?

Thats the unuttered plea of American retailers today.

The failure of Mrs. Kilroy and other American consumers to spend more money u one of the greatest puzzlements of business at the moment.

The economy is fattening. Employment is 2,520.000 more than it wzs last January; unemployment is 1,300.000 less. Total personal Income is at - an annual rate of more than $17 billion higher than at the start of th year-

But department store, sales have been only 1 per cent above the corresponding - period of a year ago. All retail sales in September were only $297 million above September. I960.

WHY?

In tha offices of the great merchandising establishments, in government economic sessions, and in the back r<^ms of poppa

and momma stores across the country, everyone is asking: "Why isnt Mrs. Kilroy buying?" Kilroy is working steadier, judging from employment figures. The family income is sweeter, judging from Income statistics- But sales, although rising, are not keeping pact.

Some merchandisers profess to be unworried. The coming Christmas excitement will open purses and new instalment accounts, they say. They point to the fact that there has been a rise in the purchase of autos, notably In the luxury models. Now that father has started buying, oh winds, if Chtlatmzs comli. will ma 56 farbehlnd?, WHERE THE MONEY GOl Since more Income is flpwing in to more people, wha^ happening to it? Why doyt retail sales escalate as income does?

There are mpg reason*-Some:

People are saving more.

1.

Bank

E*eonle a .interest

rates are rlslr.g;

New Yd?k State has authorized

higher returns. Saving money attracts more people at 4 or more per cent than It did at less thin 3.

2- People are spending more for services, less for goods. Realization of that phenomenon has been growing for months. People are spending more for medical expenses and insurance; more for preparation of foods and less for the foods; much more for transportation; more for education; more for beauty, more for com cure and a thousand other servlces-4n-eluding telephones. Swedish massasi^.. eyelash curling and mcOTg iips.

S. People are speculating* more. Buying stocks and bonds is increasing rapidly, for many reasons. Inflation, breathing down all our backs, is causing many to spend less on goods and services and more on stocks. The overhanging threat of the atomic bomb, constantly stressed by the government, is caus

ing many to strive to live It up while life is left, and to take chances on the stock market-PEOPLE ARE CANDY 4. The biggest reason of all may be the fact that Mrs. KU-roy and her husband (a veteran, of course) are becoming more sophisticated shoppers. There are no communal struggles to get scarce cars, television- sets and freezers as there were a few years ago- So the Mrs. Kllroys take their time about replacements, shopping the department stores and discount houses and postponing purchases if they think prices will weaken next week.

J^rhaps, merchants hopo, Christmas buying will break the dollar jam-It may. It has been written here that the ClirisUnas salee will hit a new high and there is no reason to revise that es> Umate. Meanwhile, retailers face the old problem: making goods more attracttve than dole lars saved.