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^ Most North Carolinians recofirnize, we believe, that the states water resources are, amohfir the most valuable assets of Tar Heelia, and in future years as water spplies betome more critical throughout the ' nation, Tar Heel wat#r will be an increasingly important asset

The far-reaching proposal for a flood control project on the Cape Fear River holds the promise of one of the most effective water conservation measures ever undertaken in the eastern section of the state. Already some objections have been raised to the projectprincipally among those people whose property would be inundated by the proposed dams. In spite of these objections, however the advantages offered by the proposed series of dams on the^ Cape Fear far outweigh the disadvantages of the proposed project.

NorthCarolina has always been blessed with an ample supply of both surface and ground water. Until recent years little attention has been given the suggestion that this situation may n#t exist indefinitely unless careful consideration is given to conserving our water resources. In a number of state who now find themselves with far less good water resources than they would like, the same attitude prevailed decades ago. They felt their water resources were ample for any possible future needs and they took no steps- to consrve the water resources they had. Now they recognize their mistake.

With its ample water supply. North Carolina might well fall into the same pattern, taking its water resources for granted.

The proposed flood control and water conservation program proposed for the Cape Fear Basin is of utmost importance to Jhe area of North Carolina through which the river flows. It offers a practical and positive approach to the problem of fload control ^on the Cape Fear and at the same time it will insure

Shrinking N.C. ?arm Acreaae

conservation and preservation of the resources .of this important Tar Heel waterway.^

It is an undertaking which deserves general support not only within the Cape Fear basin, but in other areas of the state as .well.

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New Year's Weekend Traffic Hurdle Ahead

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Of the millions of Americans who were on the highways during the Christmas holiday> only a very few comparatively speaking were involved in traffic accidents, and yet across the nation the highway death toll amounted to more than 500 lives^^

The' toll, while it is short of the record highway deaths of the Christmas holiday six years ago, tops that of intervening years and cast a grim shadow over the approaching New Years hniiday weekend. Will almost a thousand lives be snuffed out in traffic acci-. dents during the two successive holiday weekends?

As was the case during the Christmas holiday, most of the people who travel will reach their destinations safely.vFor them it will be just another routine trif. For some few, however, the trip will be punctuated by the sudden screeching of brakes, the grinding of metal, the flying of glass . . . maybe even by death.

Because of the heavier traffic load on\the highways during the period around the Christmas and New Years holidays, highway hazards are greater than at most other times of the year. This year, with both holidays being longer than usual, the hazard is increased. ,

Those who came through the Christmas holidays without being involved in a traffic accident, should redouble their caution, to make sure they also come through the New Years holiday weekend without becoming a highway accident statistic.

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By HEJRY HOWARD

UN-Record Is Adults Being Wdtchec.

B7 LYNN NISBET

FEWER FARMSThere were fewer farmt In North Carolina with leu acreage and fewer people living on the farma in l%i than in 1960, according to the Federal-State farm cetiaua. That ia actually true, but the decline ia really not much as the census report Indlcatea because of the changed definition of a farm."

In previous years a farm a contemplated by the censa waa any tracft of three aerea or more outside the corporate limita of a municipality upon which people lived and engaged in agricultural purauita. In 1961 the acreage waa increaaed to five and the definition of agricultural activity waa made more rigid. That meant a lot of farma were taken off the liat.

However, there haa been a long time trend toward ahrink-age in farm acreage in thia atate, and there ia no indication that the trend haa alowed or been reveraed. For example there waa an overall decline during the preceding ten yeara of 334.000, or aomething more than 33,000 acre.5 a year. The decrease in 1961 from the prevloua year was 213,948 arre.s. Obviously a great deal of that waa due to the changed deflnitiona.

The farnf cenaua ia taken every January as a cooperative venture of the Federal. State and county governmenta; A maaa of informaUo^ la gathered by census takers in every county, forwarded to Ridetgh where it la consolidated and analyzed by the division of atatlatlca in the Department of Agriculture. When the figures for each county have been processed the whole report la puf together hi a atate compilation.

This Information ia highly important g8 showing trends and suggesting plana for planting crops the following year..

DECREASES There were 78,880 fewer people living on farms on January 1. 1961, than a year before. Again, a good part of this decline is attributed to the changed definition of a farmbut for the preceding ten years there had been a total drop of 2l8,07^nearly*22,000 a year.

There waa a decrease of about 190 acres In total harvested

croplands, which also migbt have been slightly affected by the changed definition. There waa a decrease In total pasture lands, although a gratifying increase to improved pastures. There were fewer animals on the farms in 1961, a decline that could hardly be attributed to the changed area. Only Increase of note in - livestock was in beef cattle. Dairy cattle, awlne and poultry all were off from the previous year.

Some other facts: Land from which cropp were harvested represented about 25 percent of the total land acreage in the state; woodlands, waste, and other, acreage not used for productive purposes amounted to 58 percent. The other 17 percent of the land was in pasture or in some kind of operation from which no harvest was gathered.

CORN Because tobacco 1^ the source of more cash income than any other crop, and cotton also is regarded as a strictly "cash crop, many people fall into the error or regarding these as the major items of farm produce in North Carq^ Una. The census shows that tobacco was grown on only nine percent of the harvested acreage in the state, and cotton on only eight percenr.

The master crop ip North Carolina, as in the United States, is corn. Corn accounted for 37 per cent of all the harvested crop acreage In the state last year-Many farmers grow corn as a cash crop, but most of it is grown for use on the farm as feed.

TRANSITIONA careful analysis of these statistics and others gathered by the agents of the agricultural and economic services will show a trend toward wider diversity in agrlcul-tur? and perhaps some ventures into new territory. The fact that beef cattle population is increasing is significant. So is the fact that soybean production is up more than any other field crop. Both soybeans and hay occupy considerably more acres tn North Carolina than tobacco or cotton.

The fewer number of farms indicates the trend toward suburban type living. Five acre lots are rare In new developments, where lots from one-half acre to two'" acres are most popular.

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^ By JAMES MABLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United Nations got a belting this year for what it did or failed to do,, But it operated as any representative ajssembly could be expected to. including the American Congress.

From any adult and realistic view it couldnt be expected to please everybody aU the time.

On any given issue the 104 U N. member nations voted unanimously or broke up into special interest or selfish groups to carry a point or try to block It-for their own particular reasons.

And, from the viewpoint of Its own special interests, this country had a lot to be satisfied with in the U.N. session which ended this week. Some examples of a representative group in action;.

The Asian-African bloc stood together on racial and colonial Issues but split on political ones. There were also neutral blocs. Communist blocs. Western blocs, each looking out for Its own interests.

This could have been predicted wlthoi^ looking further than Americaj^lstory.

In, Coigress Southern Democrats down through the years formed a blocon civil rights, .for Instancewhen they broke off from a majority of their party. On some other issues they voted solidly as party reg ulars.

And. carrying the example further, groups in both the Dem-cratic and Republican parties, like liberals or conservatives, cross party lines to join their like-minded colleagues on a specific issue.

The U.N. could explode and fall apart for a number o^ reasons, but always depending on what the special Interest alignments happen to be at any one moment. This country exploded in civil war once for that reason.

Nor would It be outside the American experience If one or more U.N. members refiwed to abide by a majority decisiones has been the case.

The American Senate, for instance. has jealously esta blushed and protected the privilege of any member or group of members to try to block the will of the majority by a fillbiustcr.

penses.

The expenses were for U.N. operations against Katanga in the Congo and for the emergency force which the world set up in the Middle East after the Suez crisis of 1956. '

The Communists, Prance, Belgium, Portugal. South Africa and most of the Arab 'states in one or both cases refused to pay their share.

The United States was sorely troubled when earlier last week the .N. Security Council thanks to a Soviet veto and the opposition of Egypt, Ceylon, and Liberiafailed to rebuke India for attacking Portuguese Goa.*

This country, because of its own view and interests, had a lot to be satisfied about in actions like these:

The U-N. overcame what looked for a while like a total wrecking operationwhen the Soviet Union tried to create three sec-retaries-general instead of one by appointing an acting secretary for another year and some months.

The U.N. refused to open the door to membership for Red China. It rebuked the Chinese communists for their treatment of the people of Tibet and the Soviet Union for its conduct in ' Hungary.

And, despite .criticism even within the United States for us-force to push secessionist anga Province back into the blic of the Congo, the U.N. seems to have brought peace there, if only temporarily.

In addition; the United States and the Soviet Union were able to agree on laying the ground for negotiations on disarmament and the peaceful exploration of outer space.

Opinions In Brie:

The automobile is undoubtedly a number of good things, but one thing it certainly is not: It is no aid to scholarship. Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail.

Workmen positioned the -Greenville Utilities service truck 80 that the pivoting ladder was. .directly beneath the streetlight with the burned-out bulb.

One of the men briskly mounted ihc rear of the truck with a fresh bulb in hand and began his ascent.

When the green-and-red truck had come to a stop under the light, there had been five four- and five-year-olds playing nearby.

As the bulb-replacing operation got underway, all five abruptly halted what they had been so busy doing and scamp

ered quickly into a single line formation near the base of the streetlight. X

They had been playmg gaily and noisily, but now they stood quietly with eyes upturned, watching: the workmen at the t(^ of the ladder.

Those 10 young eyes focused sharply on the workmans every movement. And it was not an approving or a disapproving ^scrutiny that engaged the youngsters.

'Their touseled heads tilted as far backward as at all possible anfj the eager sparkle of their eyes told the story at a glance.

Other Editors Sa^ng... ;'s UN Falling Apart?

, (The Wilson pAies)

Are we witnessi-r^ the deterioration of the* United Nations? Consider recent events and you cannot be encouraged as to the future of the U. N. as an effective organization or of the United States power in the world peace forum.

Now the next invasion is to be by Indonesia, and already this nation has been told that the U.S.A. and the U.N. appeals will not stop the Invasion of the Netherlands New Guinea-So what is the result? As U.N. Ambassador Stevenson said in New York, the U.N. may col-

Go back a few years, to Korea - lapse if it is unable to prevent

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when the first signs began to show of the U N. breaking apart. Here you had a U.N. action, a war suppased to be fought with U.N. forces and supplies.

There was a complete compromise, with the thirty .eighth parallel the dividing line. Russia or Communism is firmly entrenched in North Korea and what happens to South Korea is' anyones guess.

Then step over to Viet Nam. Again another compromise with North Viet Nam going to the Communist and the southern section supposed to be self governing. But at present the South Viet Nam government is fighting for its life to prevent the entire little nation from being taken over by the Communists.,

, Laos Is gone to Communism to all intents and purposes, although we like to think that the present coalition government is balanced between the Communist and the people, we know it is not.

United Nation troops- have conquered Katanga and because of pressure an unhealthy truce will be formed. But there are many who feel the U.N. actions

Advertising undoubtedly

_ cRU.se.s some to buy what they the Congo have not follow-

Buf at TeaVt in Congresfl once'' cannot afford at the moment, ed the peace-making policies of

the will of the majority has been established by a final vote those who disagree accept the verdict, more or le.s.

In the U N., still only 16 years old. there have been rejections of the majority view which show either sheer willfulness or immaturity. even on the part of old nations which by now should be grown up.

For example:

The U N. banged into a financial crisLs in the se.sslon which ended recently it sunnoiiut-ed this by approving r $200 million bond bsne.because some members would not pay for their share of certain ex-

But adverti.slnK8 overall merit is as a basic .stimulator of economic activity.Dallas (Tex.) Morning News.

A practical man is one who looks for a wife who already owns a fur coat and has her Bppendix out.Anderson (S.C.) Independent.

the U.N.,

An appeal by President Kennedy to Nehru of India trying to stop the Indian invasion of Goa, failed and force is used again with the U N. authority tied in a knot because of the Soviet Security Council veto.

the use of force to settle international disputes.

Then we read where the Sunday Times, conservative British newspaper, believes 'that for Britain, the most important development is that adherence to the United NaNtions and to the United States is now no longer automatic British foreign policy, we wilUhave increasingly to recognize that' the EXirop>ean alignment is at least as important as. and very probably more^ Important than the Anafiriean" one.

The Independent News of the World says that all is not well between Britain and the United States and that it is as silly to gloss over the differences as to exaggerate l^iem. paper believes that' Mr. ''geminan must do some stx^ght talking in Bermuda and most of the disagreement stems from the course followed in the Congo

Yes, we agree with Mr. Stev enson, American possesses no magic powers pf settlement. But the U.S. checkbook possesses the power of keeping the U N. going.

If it is going to fall apart at the seams, and lose Its authority as a peaceful arbiter of disputes, then it is time to take stock, and that right early. And we read Mr. Slevenson is doing just that. He is also trying to assure Americans that conditions aff not as difficult'as they appear.

Those kids were watching the big people at work and were sincerely admiring every movement the workman decided was necessary.

Perhaps each of the five children entertained an honest desire that he would be fortunate enough to restore light to a burned-out street lamp , . . one of these days. And, if so. he would do it Just the way that man did.

It goes without saying that similar groups of children around here and everywhere else re-live similar scenes countless times every day. To them, theres just something about the things adults do thats utterly fascinating.

It also goes without saying that adults are completely aware of this, since most adults are fathers and mothers of -the youngsters. We all know that children have learned to become adults since the beginning of mankind in only one way by watching how that man or that lady gets things done.

Despite the realization of adults that we are being so closely examined by young and eager-to-learn eyes, it's still a sound policy to consider such a situation seriously. What the little people learn from the very beginning forms each ones adult mold.

An ultra-consciousness of this fact maintained by adults may pave the way around variou^pit-falls that could encounter and even damage the youngsters as they develop into their own generation of adults. .

But then if adults do choose to display an array of harmful examples for the eager little people, they do have a safety valve.

In a matcrlalistio and often-selfish age, perhaps we adults feel a little relieved to remember that the harshest effects of careless examples may not be spent on the teachers. The eager-learning pupils it will be who suffer most and pay most dearly.

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That juicy four-day week that some of the labor leaders keep crying for may stay out of reach a long, long timeand not only because employers are unenthusiastic about giving 40 hours pay for 30 hours work. Wives of workingmen, it seems, dont like the idea either. The reason, as discovered in a survey reported by insiders Newsletter: My* husband is home too much as it is.Tampa (Fla.) Tribune.

Nehru Shapes Ruture ,

By GEORGE E. SOKOukr Copyright. ^1, King Pegture# Syndicate. Inc.

N^mi. prattler oa idealism, dond^tq. the United Nar tlona what Mussolini did to the League of Nations. He has given It a death blow from which it is not likely that it can recover. When Soviet Russia hurls iU jOOth Veto at international morality, that is likely to be the end of the story.

For what Nehru has accomplished is the ectehlishment of a Soviet-Afro-Asian technique to force the Western powers to > subservience In the United Nsr tlons. The Afro-Asians are to perform outrageous acts and Soviet Russia is to use the Veto to protect them from .repudiation. It Is an alliance of tbe weak and backward natitms against the West. It Is a trick organized by the beggar nations to destroy their benefactors.

Only Soviet Russia can benefit from this intemationol jug^ gling and therefore Russia wlU continue to support this gambit untU either all the world is in political id economic turmoil or Soviet Russia has conquered Europe, Asia and Africa and is waiting only for it s actions against tbe American continents.

The United Nations has not the possibity left to maintain the peace of the world. Its mo-ral vlgOT Is gone. No one can rise and speak for peace without hypocrisy. The American technique of intervention by fl^ nancial assistance in a campaign against colonialism has utterly failed. Those who yesterday were freed by us from subservience to Western European powers... have enslaved themselves to Soviet Russia. This they have done out of revenge for centuries of history, but w result is nonetheless slavjBr. Nehru, who was Gandhis apostle in a successful movement to free India from Great Britain, has shackled his country to the Slav and the Chinese and now must either beg them to let him live or beg us to save his country from the power that has .seized it. The entire Eurasian continent will soon become a competitive field between Soviet Russia and Red China. What is the rest of tbe world to do while this fruitless struggle proceeds within the Soviet Universal State?

There are Americans who say that we need not worry; that neither the Russians nor the Chinese possess the power to make war on tbe West; that they will cut each others throats. There are those who believe that famine, flood and bad government in those countries will solve our problems.

What evidence do they have that Soviet Russia will not make war on us? What evidence do they have Hhat the Red Chinese will not explode *the^ firecracker that will bring on Ahnageddon? They are willing to gamble on statistics rather than on psychiatry.- They are willing to believe that no madman will let loose the forces of death and destruction as Genghis Khan did; as every Asiatic Conqueror did. They are hopeful that in an eventual quarrel between Soviet Russia and Red China, we, the United States, will come off the victor. But suppose not?

Such gambles are too dangerous to contemplate. We must be physically strong and sure of purpose against the enemies we now face and we cannot contmue to make mistakes or to hope that time will give us advantage. We dare not speculate on prospects of incidental advantage; we need to "be able to strike the first blow, if need be. We must be ready for war.

To many Americans, this may sound horrible. They will say that one will not be taken to war, as usual advocates war. They will ignore history and permit their mkids to be covered with the moss of mystical hopefulness.

But the fact is a chilling one. Year by year, since 1939, we witness the growth of Soviet power and the subservience of nations, once our friends, to the Kremlin. We have missed opportunity so often and now the enemy sits 90 miles from our doorstep and is moving swiftly. We must face this monster wherever he is and bring him (Continued on Page 6)

Removing all 'Stajin memorials and testing nuclear bombs, the Communists are giving the Russians le.ss price of Hiuestry and le.ss hope of jx)*'-tenty. It is a national policy fit for a mule."Lumberton (C.) Robesonjan.

Standardization Of Color Near

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLA.S.S OUR O.NLY JIOI'E*

In God We Trust.

These words appear on silver dollars and can in a measure be called the American . It sets forth the faith of people a large percentage of whose ancestors came to this new continent in order to have freedom of worship.

We had better harken to that slogan in these days. Think of itthe most sophisticated generation that has ever trod the earth now burrows down in the earth to escape the rain of atomic bombs. We who know every thing-or think we do- are getting ready to blast one another off the face of the planet. Had this slate arisen in the "Dark ^ges 1t woulfl-'haVi bffti' understandable. But to come in

the middle of the twentieth ceu-tiu-y is both Incomprehensible and alarming.

Even the most pe.ssimistlc today believe that the chances we shall escape war are greater than the chances that we shall become Involved in war. Yet even with this faint glimmering of hope there is the realization

- that disaster of a grotesque variety hangs over our head? in the form of the so-called fallout.

Let us arm and keep armed. Let us be firm in our international dealings. But in the end what is our hope On hope only is In the Lord who made heaven and earth.

"In God We Trust, are words

- which need to be engraved not only on certain coins but on

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Here Indeed is our only hope.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Such exotic color names as cyclamen pink, forget-me-not blue, sapphire purple, heather aiiiy, wuternielou. autumn haze and avocado will fade like invisible ink if the Commerce Departments Bureau of Standards can get everyone to adopt a new system it has developed.

Tile Bureau and the Inter-Society Color Council have been ^ponsorlng research for^28 years to devt^e a color-order system wherein colors can be accurately measured and catalogued and the names standardized. ^

They are now ready to go with their system and sets of charts, color specimens and a color name dictionary will be available at cost through the NBS standa.d materials program early in 19t2.

The Bureau claims the new system is a complete method (or coordinating color naipes, color specifications and colors themsrlve. It could be of great advantage to industries where color is important, such as paint,. juiUdioL materlAiJ^Jood. prfhting, cosmtica, fabrics and toya.

ECONOMIES POSSIBLE Analysis of color preferences, reproduction of specific colors and verbal or written communication of color requirements could be done more accurately and speedily. Companies with dispersed production* facilities or batch output particularly would benefit.

Anyone who has heard a w man try to describe a new shade of lipstick or who has attempted to get a housepainter to paint the kitchen walls a "pigeon egg blue will see the advantage Immediately.

Kepneth Kelly of the Bureau reported that there are a number of different color-order systems of varying degrees of excellence and precision in existence.

"But, he added, not only do most systems have their own sets of names but, as the art of sales promotion has expanded, the names for colors have be-

iome more and more fanciful nd. therefore, morf confusing, until a real tower of Babel has developed. This is not surprising since the normal human eye can distinguish about ten miHlon different object colors-

HUE, LIGHTNESS, SATURATION Basically, color is three dimensional. That is, it has hue (blue, green, yellow, purple, etc.); it has^Jightnefis; and it has saUirmtton (how different It is from gray of the same light-

The NBS system is organized something like a grapefruit with 28 segments, each representing color ranges, such as red, blue-green, violet, yellow and 80 on. Each segment varies from black at one end to white at the other, and from pure color at the outside where the rind would be to gray at the core.

'The system calls for 267 color specimens in the 28 segments. These specimens have been given simple, easily-understood names. Modem pigments and technology so far have made it possible to reproduce about 230 of the 267.

CONFUSION COULD CUT The new system could eliminate a great deal oP confusion over color names and do away with various competing color kysTems ROW m: net

appear to deal with metallic col

ors or the new luminous colors.

But. by devising this system, the Bureau hasnt even half-solved the problem. Good systems are useful only if they are used. A perfectly' fine, orderly and practical calendar has been available to the world for years. The months are regular, the holidays are evenly spaced and the variance between the true year and the 865-day year ia nicely taken care of.

No one uses it.

A sensible metric system for linear, square and cubic measurement exists. Europeans and others have found It eminently satisfactory for decades and decades. Americans, and others of our Uk. will have nothing to do with it.

And, aside from the natural inertia and ohstinancy the Bur^ eaus color system will encounter, It will also have to face outright hostility. The Madison Avenue adman hasnt been bora who would use something liko blue-red, 8 black, density 2 for Purple Passion Nail Polish Nor Is there a woman with heart so true as to describe IQfr "^Mlst arTy"^ liilr as black I white 8. color 0.