Tuesday, December 12, 1981

Willing To Pay For School Needs

If the attitude of Grifton citizens toward provid- by the casual observer is that Grifton School district Ing needed capital improvements for their public shared with the Greenville School district the dubious school-is an indication of the feeling of other citizens distinction of having the highest school district tax of this area, there should be no fear of schools being rate in Pitt County. It was stated plainly before Satur-neglected for lack of state funds for construction. Local days election in Grifton that the proposed bond issue citizens will come forward when the chips are down to ^would necessitate an increase of approximately 26 meet the needs. cents to the district rate if the bonds were passed.

By a vote of almost, three to one, Grifton citizens In many instances either of these factors may Saturday approved a $155,000 bond issue to provide have been sufficient to panic voters into rejecting the six new classrooms and a new library for their school, proposed bond issue in spite of the urgent and recog-And they did so in the face of what may superficially nized needs of the local schools. In the case of Grifton,

Going Underground-

have been considered overwhelming odds.

however, the citizens of that district rose to the occa-

Although there was little open opposition in aion, recognizing the fact that approval of the issue Grifton to the proposed school bond issue, the recent would mean higher taxes .. . the highest school district defeat of state-wide bond issues has made all public rate in the county. Apparently they weighed the situa-officials skeptical of the chances of bond proposals tion carefully in their own minds and came to the in the immediate future. In the. case of Grifton there conclusion that the school needs had to be met and was reason for concern in view of the fact that Grifton the resulting better education which would be protownship voted overwhelmingly against all of the vided their children by the additional facilities would

be worthy of whatever sacrifice is involved.

The Reflector commends the voters of Grifton for showing in such a tangible way their full support of their local schools, and for pointing the way for other communities which in the future may be faced .with a similar decision in seeking to meet local school needs

Soviet-Albanian Rift May See Repercussion

Severed relations between the Soviet Union and the tiny satellite of Albania may be but an indication of a more serious split in the communist world between^ the two major powers, the Soviets and Red China.

Moscow has attacked both Albania and Red China for not supporting the new policies of Premier Khrushchev, but rather continuing' to follow the Stalinist line which has lost favor in the Kremlin. If this were suffi-

proposeu state bond issues just month ago. The largest number of votes cast for any one of the,state issues In Grifton township was 89 for improvements to mental institutions, but at the same time there were 156 votes against this one issue. The other nine proposals fared even more poorly when Grifton voters marked their ballots on Nov. 7.

-^Another factor which could not be ignored even

Smart Politics ^ Inauauration

By LYNN NI8BET 8MART The Young Demo-entte are pulling a smart poUt* leal trick In staging the Inauguration of the new officers at .Statesville. The date will be Saturday, January 6. W. E. (Dub) Graham of Charlotte was elected president at Durham a few weeks ago over Ray Lackey of Taylorsville after a very hot campaign. The Iredell folks went along as .strongly as possible for their little county neighbor. Now to stage the inauguration in Statesville, about halfway between Charlotte and Taylorsville and seat of a county Joining both Alexander and Mecklenburg, has all , the marks a smart idea' for promoting harmony in the organisation circles.

-despite'the obvious truth they enjoyed the fight more than anything. Several years ago there was a flurry of coon on the log" cases in. North Carolina

courts, in which people were in- cient grounds for expelling tiny Albania from the rj,, criJT TtrXT^

dog'm noS Itout fphere of communiat nations,^ k may be grave enough UUJN S(./ilLlll<ISZ - , ,

Always Beaten To Draw

NO ACCIDENTOeorge Col-elough, manager of the Burlington chamber of commerce, canie to Raleigh the other day to receive an award from the State Literary and Historical Society. He took time out from his literary pursuits to do a little promoting for his community and to visit friends ..around- the square. In answer to a question .about bow things are getting along in Burlington, he answered that there is always something doing there. I dont know, another place where there Is such a delightful combination of individualism and cooperation, he said. Our people stand up vigorously for their individual opinions, and yet join hands to promote the # community as a unit.

Theyve always been like that. he aald, and then added with a grin that it was no accident that the first battle of the American revolution was fought in Alamance county.

COONSHenry Belk, the erudite and Imaginativeand sometimes nostalgic editor of the Goldsboro News-Argus, may be responsible for getting some of bis friends into trouble. He suggests an old-fashioned coon hunt as one answer to the rapidly growing problem of finding suitable play and recreation activities for those who have time on their hands. Coon hunting is rather strenuous for old folks, but some of the fondest reeol-lectlons of other years are of the excitement and thrill of /ros-ty nights, two or three ugly flop-eared, but very wise and courageous hounds, and a wily coon in the swamplands. Also a memorable part of the coon hunt was doctoring up the lacerations on the dog next morning.

Thats where Henry may be Inveigling his friends into trouble. The SPCA and other humane societies might be expected to rally to the protection of the hound and mayhap the coon

in the water. Objection to this sport (?) was not so much on humane grounds, although that entered into it. The real offense was gambling on the outcome. The coon on the log incident was much like cockfight-ing.

The old fashioned coon hunt comes in a different category, but the same philosophy which sought to break up the bunny bopping in Iredell county would likely protest putting the dogs after a coon.

BIO vs. LITTLE Another battle in the continuing war between big corporations and small business enterprises is loohiing in the banking commission. There is nothing new about that situation. It has been de

tit suggest a widening gap between the thinking of top officials in Moscow and Peiping.

Being cut off from economic aid and presumably trade with other Eastern nations of the communist bloc, Albania will have to turn to Red China for sup- There is a considerable num-port, and this new arrangement may further aggravate ber of people in the world who the misgivings which exist between the Soviets and frequently find the art of con-the Red Chinese. Certainly the support of Albania versation a rocky road, i am by Red China would be a slap in the face of Moscow

and open defiance of the usually recognized seat of circumstance has provid-

world communism. If Moscow lt Red China ijet away f^durorgiib eiiTd'-

with such defiance, what repercussions may result in justed authorities in the field other lesser nations of the communist combine? to advise and console and of-

' Red China, on the other hand, has shown increas- remedial measures,

ing inclination to move its own way rather than follow- it is a safe bet that every

ing orders from Moscow, and pressure to have it toe unwilling mutes of

the line in expelling Albania from the communist arUci^'^^and^oks. or ^

I! ThP* ~wr- might crcatc adverse reaction in Peiping. lecturer, on their personal prob-

marked in merchandLsing The Certainly the expulsion of Albania from'the com- ^em of how to engage in con-

munist orbit must be recognized as the most serious "*Tang"er:^or! rift among Red nations since Yugoslavia was thrown son with whom you have little out by Stalin in 1948. If it precipitates a break between in common,

the Soviets and ,Red Chinawhich it couldit will

So everybody knows.

And what happens?

S c h 1 i e n z is booby-trapped. -Every time.

On being introduced to a charming lady or admirable gent, and Ihe first flurry of amenities subsides ... he reaches for that secret weapon (ha!) to fire up the tete-ta-tete.

But before he can draw, his companion looses a small salvo of personal queries which set him off on a long discourse about . . . Schlienz.

small loan company hassle in the banking commission and the Legislature last year was a phase of the same thing.

But the issue may be more clearly drawn when the application of the Scottish Bank of Lum-berton to go into High Point comes before the banking commission next month. Judge Malcolm Seawell, who while attorney general initiated investigations leading the small loan law revisions, has been employed by a smaller local bank to help keep a unit from another big chain from moving into High Point.

This is dirty pool.

That well-worn story even bores the narrator.

now

The favorite and most prlml-be of con.siderably more impact*than was the expulsion tive solution preferred is get

the other party to talk about himself. Anybody who knows anything at all about overcoming conversational roadblocks, knows that one secret weapon: get party X to talk about self.

of Titos regime 13 years ago.

Gently Nudgec, 'hto Comaetina

Innumerable people know my family history, my likes and dislikes, and their owti stories are sj.il! untold.

There are pleasant evenings in store for me in 1962 because my prime New Year resolution is that I am going to force the

Action

On The Righ

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright. 1961. Kiug Features Syndicate, Inc.

When a movement is discussed, the writer needs to understand what it means. Such a movement as the Rightist or the Leftist represents ideas, concepts of life, the meaning o^ events. The reporter who runs to a fire or who gets excited over a kidnapping is not necessarily capable of understanding a mass movement whi(^h is basically philos<H>hic. In fact, many who speak most loudly in these movements cannot describe them with any degree of accuracy. They know that something has happened but what is Important is why it has happened.

Thus Newsweek recently published a lengthy article on Thunder on the Par Right, the material for which was gathered by several persons and the collation assembled by someone who picked an item here and there out of a congeries of material.

To one who has studied Rightist movements in the United States, the article is puzzling because it is not a study of mass response to a philosophic concept but rather a selection of items about this amd that. No sociologist in a foreign land coid possibly get a correct picture of the' Rlghtfetf>^rora the . article although he might put together items which are occasionally sensational and occasionally exciting.* It is a job of tailoring, not of study.

The Rightist movement in the United States is a response of youth In the 1960s to the Ideological offenses of the 1930s. It is a revolt against an effort to impose'upon the American mind an offensively alien concept of life. As such movements alttays do, the Rightist movement in the United States swings from extreme reaction to middle-of-the-road resistance to Leftist movements, particularly Communism.

Among anti-Commlinists are numerous segments of the population ranging from intellectual opponents to Marxism who have profoundly studied both the economics and sociology of Marxism to those who are indignant that the course of events has changed without their consent. Just as the Communists believe in historic Inevitability, assuming that unless things go their way, they are unscientific, so the extreme Rightists assume that all human movements j ... which differ from their concept

reasons, ^ essenally

the Me Tarzan bomb re- Among the latter are re-

mains unused. Where do you fundamentalists who do

go, what do you say, after dropping that one?

There is no place to hide.

issue if I have to stand in t; comer and silently glower until someone Interrupts with a monologue in self-defense.

Oscar /Wilde wrote when people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting. So not only have I been slow on the conversational* draw, I have also been missing out on a social heritage.

There are any number of opening gambits for the speechless, my favorite of them being Me Tarzan, you Jane . . . four words with force, drama and the element of surprise attack.

It also invites a speechless raising of eyebrows and mental consignment to the booby-hatch.

TITLEGeorge Cherry says a lot of people seem concerned about his title. He used to be superintendent of buildings and Kroundsand he has almost exactly the same duties now as .then. But the old board of build-ings and grounds was abolished and its functions taken over by the Department of Administration and classified as a general -services division. Now some folks call Cherry director of general services, others refer to him as.manager of the captol.

George will tell you that' his function is chief Janitor, that his jobs range all the way from leaky faucets to policing loose mules on capitol square and mowing the lawn at the Governors mansion He also will tell you that he likes the job, and that the title doesnt bother him at all. And anybody around captol square will tell you that George Cherry is one of the most efficient, likeable and popular persons among the 50-odd thousand State employeea.

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By J.VMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Kennedy tiptoetU around asking busine.ss and Tabor to keep prices and wages down.

He probably feels things will be tough enough for him next year without starting any extra fires, at least this soon.

He is in for a scalding battle when he asks Congress for authority to lower tariffs on imported goods.

Some sections of business, probably some sections of labor, are bound,to fight him.

Lower tariffs on imports would mean hardship competition for some American-made gooda in their own home market.

Kennedy hopes to offset that while retaining and broadening over.seas markets for American goods.

With lower tariffs here, he could ask other countries to reciprocate by lowering their tariffs on American goods.

In itself this is not new. It has been the philosophy behind the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act for 2 years.

This act ends June 30 unless Congress renews it.

This time Kennedy wants more than just renewal. He wants far broader authority than the act contains now for chopping tariffs.

American allies In Europe are joining in a common market to Increase their trade by knocking

goods could be frozen out of Europe if the allies, freely trading with one another, shut out American products which are protected at home by tariffs against European competition.

So, lowering American tariffs on'their goods would be in return for lower tariffs by them on imports from this country.

Other Editors Saying... Opinions

IsJonas Testing Winds? Brie'

(The Charlotte Observer)

Is Congressman Charles Rap-er Jonas getting ready to run for the governorship of North Carolina in 1964?

His speech to the rally sponsored by the Gaston County Re-

Last week he pitched f(M*-the women would seem to be

idea .to American business and labor in separate speeches to the National Association of Manufacturers and the AFT.-CIO.

Since all of them knew competition from European goods might hurt some, he asked them to take a long-range view and suggested they could compete better through more efficiency and lower production costs.

The key, of course, to American competition with foreign goods will be the price and quality.

Kennedy urged the NAMbut only In a very general way-^to keep costs and prices dowji through better productivity. That was on Thursday.

He told the NAM labor, too, has its responsibilities for price stability and I shall stress this tomorrow in addressing the AFL-CIO.

But ii labor was afraid he was going to ask unions not to look for higher wages, he diclnt.

What he said on Thursday was: Im hopeful that those of you who are in the area of wage negotiations will recognize the

out their tariffs on each others 'desirability of maintaining as 80i>ds. , stable prices as possible.

This will give them a broad

a straw wafting in that direction.

The people of this State are disenchanted with the Sanford administration. . .They are looking for a place to go with their political allegiance. . .Political revolution is in the air, Jonas told a cheering audience that packed the Gastonia Armory.

This is an Interesting new tack for a helmsman who has skillfully skirted the squalls of State politics while sailing to victory on the gentler breezes of national affairs.

Dependent in his early career upon votes from registered Democrats, since his own party was badly outnumbered in the old 10th District. Jonas wore his badge of Republicanism on the inside of his coat lapel.

He talked about political conservatism, about federal spending, about the national debt. He showed up at GOP rallies but without much enthusiasm. And through the years, he uttered few words of criticism about the North Carolina Democrjatic Party-and its State admhjistratlons.

The 1961 Generar Assembly' tried to redlstrlct him out of

publicly agonizing over the decision to run again in 1962, as he has done ev|n^ two years since he first won office, chances are that he will run.

If he whips Kitchin, assuming that 'the Wadesboro man is the Democratic nominee, Jonas will enchance his reputation as a political .power.

If he loses, he will be a martyr, the object ^ sympathy or section who diifi^prove of the Legislatures heavy handed gerrymandering-.

In either case, he would be a strong contender for the governorship in 1964.

If this indeed be his intention, we would offer a couple of'suggestions without any charge for this service.

There is. to be sUre. some disenchantment with the Sanford administration, but that is not the major grievance of Piedmont Democrat^.

They are rebellious against domination of the Democratic Legislature by the bloc of small rural counties whose senators and representative brazenly and even insultingly deny the Piedmont its constitutional voice in the Legislature.

The rebellion has not yet reached the point of a Catawba River tea party, but the taxation without representation resentment is growing.

They are also irritated with eastern Tar Heel Democrats who

Chinaman say many Americans killed by gas. Some light it. Some inhale 'it. But mostly step on it;^_ Amarillo Globe-Times.

Good judgment usually !!>' average between what 3rou say today and think tomorrow. Corona (Calif.) Independent.

Some things never change; thats the trouble. Moro (Ore.) Journal.

A man-about-town by *any other name will be just another bum.Scio (Ohio) Herald.

Whether two heads on one shoulder are better than one depends on whether the car is parking or moving. Aztec (N.M.) Independent-Review.

free trade area similar to that In this country where commerce between states has no barriers.

Kennedy Is not suggesting that the United States join thks European Common Market. ThLs in what he has In mind: American

, , , office. It threw him into a new

^cretary of Labor Arthur J.^ Eighth District with equally con-

not understand the Hebrew Bible but demand that every word of it translated into post-Elizabethan English be acceffted as absolute truth. Chiriously, while many of them do not question a comma or a semi-colon of King Jamess version of the Hebrew Bible, they are nevertheless anti-Semites devising numerous concepts to justify their confusions.

Prom this irrational reaction to the scholarship^ of Eugene Lyons or Lawrence Pertig, to mention only two* names that come to mind, is a vast range of thinkers who are no more closely assoclEfted than Earl Browder and Norman Thomas on the Left or James Wechsler and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,' in the center.

Unfortunately, the author of the Newsweek study of Right-ism throws everything together into a pot-pourri. He makes no sharp distinctions of what is being thought by a variety of persons of differing experience.

Much is made of the John Birch Society, a newcomer in the political world which has taken over what remains of the Joe McCarthy effort. Bob Welch, the leader of the John Birch Society, was in the candy business in Massachusetts but he is v^ry new in any kind of ideological struggle and it is doubtful whether he has studied the literature of Marxism although he is efficiently opposed to this movement. It is not to be assumed that Bob Welch or even Dr. Fred Schwarz, an Australian who operates out of Long Beach, California, coul(l stand up in an intellectual discussion on Marxism.

They are emotional antl-Com-munists which is insufficient to Influence the scholarly, mird.

Goldberg, trying to explain what the administration had in mind, was just as mild.

^ All this was hardly more than a nudge to buslnes.s and labor. Maybe later Kennedy , will give them a push.

servatlve Paul Kltchln and gave him only two of his old county strongholds. Lincoln and Mecklenburg. as solace.

Though Jonas is once again

willingly voted a sales tax on Vahi* PnclmaxfAr' Ri inrmwce me scnoiariy. mtod.

food but blocked all efforts to rostmastcr Say S. JJC antl-Communlsm is not suffl-

tax the products of their No. 1 SUTC VOUT Chstmas Cards movement. A

crop, tobacco. . . . . mass movement must be posl-

If Jonas will concentrate on and packages amve OR time; tive; its assertions must be remining those two veins; he will maH arlw ^ grdwth of the hu-

find the ore rich indeed. picas MOp anti mail early. (Continued ory page six)

lie nas in mina: American mem a push. _ T"\ T*~1 * *

Strength .For Today Again, A Record For Ghristmas

By EAUX, L. DOl GLASS,

' NORTH

The late Dag Hammarskjold la reported on one occasion to have said that he considered It the duly of the United Nations to show the world the location of north.

Mariner* discovered hundreds of years ago that nav-lgatlon depended upon their finding out which direction was north. When they did thli they could figure out where east. west, and south wer*. and all the points between. The most important thing for a navigator to know is the position of north.

In the moral and spiritual realm Hhere are circumstances as Important to mens souls as the finding of the points otf the compass to a mariner. First

God we do not know and perhaps never will know, either in this world or in the next, for eternal llff does noi mean that we will have perfect know, ledge. But does Ood exist? Is He hostile or loving? Does He have a destiny for His children or will they perish and return only to the dust? Questions of this sort constitute the point of north in our spiritual and moral calculations.

Also we want to know what constitutes authority. Jesus was put to death because he challenged the authority of the religious leaders of his day. Religloui persecution has almost always arisen over the question as what really fli and who hasfthe right to exercise It. T

be sure to hate 'a

By ELMER ROESSNBR

By today, there is no doubt Chr'jstmas shopping will set a new record this year. Retailers, who sold a total of $23-2 bil-. Hon worth of goods in December. 1960, will probably sell almost 125 billion worth this month.

Back in December, 1951, salM were only $15 4 billion.

Sure, prices and population have risen. But so has production and so have wages and Income. which are enabling consumers to- keep pace with the 60 per or more Increase v

In 1)ollda%|jgerchandtse in the l^y^en

Q^^PBVHNG -Commerce Dri>artment show tht ale ih. October were $18.8 billion, 4 pej cent above

Let us _____ ______

the compass to a mariner. First North Star in our lives to sales for September and 1 per

.we have to find out about Ood. '^hgt we say, think and^ cent above October, I960.

There are many things about thereby. The food group of retail es-

tablishments showed no gain, although eating and drinking places rose almost $20 million above year-ago marks.

' Most other groups showed gains. However, womens apparel and accessory stores were down $1 million from $467 mil-Uon; furniture and home furnishing stores were down $6 million from $600 million; the lumber. building materials, hardware end farm equipment group was down $60 million from $1.-366 million and liquor stores were down 16 million from $404 million.

The total gain was $149 million, which is a substantial increase In sales in anybodys language.

November figures are not In yet, but indications are that they will show a large stride forward from these of October.

Federal Reserve Bgures for November, for example. Indi

cate a rise in department store sales of about 6 per cent over a year ago In November. PRIVATE SURVEYS ADDS WEIGHT

Surveys by nongovernmental agencies also reflect the upsurge in consumer buying.

A study by Bulove Watch, for example, shows that toy manufacturers expect gain in sales of 12 or 13 per cent above last year. In the jewelry field, 84 per cent of the dealers surveyed said sales would be as good or better than last year, which set a new high mark in this field.

Another cheering feotor 1 that Chrlstmu Club pay-outs this year were higher than ever be-* forc->iome 11.8 bilUonwhich is certain to booat Chrlatmaa spending.

In all other fields surveyed, the prospecta (or new records In sales is good.

Writing all this may be an exercise in futility. Instead of reading all the foregoing, all one need do ie to walk into the nearest department store or shopping center,' The reader, picking himself off the floor after the initial onrush, may safely conclude tHat private or government statistics are not necessary to provq that this will be a record-setting year for spending.

TRAVEL PRIZE BEiT BAIT, SAY8 CONTEST SPEClAl^

Travel is currently the (most popular prize in adverting eontesu, aooording to B.\Jay Rtlner, oontast consultant. New research ahow* family cart, fur- miure and kitchen appUancea! follow In that order,

fifth.

Last year, he said, there wert 230 national contests, drawing 48 million entries.