Friday, Mty II, 19$J

Ladies Do Some Good Promoting

Doctor Shuns The Treatment

When it comesto promoting the community and instituting events which reflect favorably upon a community, the ladies can do^ just as effective a job in some instances as the men.

An outstahding'example of this is the annual Ladies Invitational Golf Tournament which was instituted last year by ladies of the Greenville Golf and Country Club. Westerday the second annual tournament brought to Greenville some 180 ladv ffolfera from more than 20 other' towns in North Carolina. They were accompanied by other ladies

Tarheel Boaters Are Obi

By ROD AMUNDSON Wildlife CommissioD Guest Writer BOAT OWNERS ~ Tarheel boat owners, and others throughout the nation have ris-tn up in righteous, if confused, Indignation over certain provisions of legLslation Introduced to Congress. The provision would ci^ for an annual user tax on all boats 14 feet long or longer, and two dollars for each foot over 14 feet. This would include sailboats and has no provision whatever for horsepower or lack of it.

Tarheel boaters already pay an annual registration fee of three dollars for boats powered by machinery of more than ten horsepower, and the additional federal fee would run the cost of legal boat operation considerably.

Their two companion bills in-volved, H. R. 11172 and S. 3118, and the essential purpose of the bills is to get more money to buy federal lands to meet the growing need for lands for outdoor recreation. Although the general public, including boat owners, realizes the growing need for outdoor recreation, It Is difficult to see why a small segment of the population should be called on to support a program of national significance and for the benefit of all . S. citljBens of all ages. ,

A phone call to the Outboard Boating CHub of America, with headquarters in Chicago, turned up unofficial information that so many boat owners have rai^d to many objections that It is likely that the boat user tax provision of this legislation will be sliced out entirely. But boat owners had better keep a weather eye out to make certain that this is done.

The Wildlife Management Institute. speaking of the general aspects of this legislation says; "It is made necessary by a single, over-riding consideration. Recreational use of wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries and game ranges is increasing each year, and the Secretary of the Interior, through the Pish and Wildlife Service, lacks authority to regulate and accommodate this public use. The legislation would a.ssist the Service to control public use and develop necessary facilities for the millions of people already using the refuges for wildlife observation. photography, .sight-seeing. picnicking, swimming, fishing, hunting and boating The legislation makes clear, however, that such recreational lise will be secondary to the Primary purposes for which each particular area was established, and be limited to recreation compatible to the purposes and functions of the individual areas.

"The legislation would also authorize the Secretary to ac-Quire limited areas of lands adjacent to refuges or fish hatcheries |or recreational purpo.scs with appropriated or donated funds. It specifically bans the use of any duck stamp funds for this purpose.

On the surface, this appears to be perfectly sound legislation. Not having seen copies in their present form, this reporter cannot say whether the five dollar user tax will go on all boats 14 feet long or longer, or whether the fee applies only to boats using the areas affected by the proposed act. In the lat-

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ter case it would seem reasonable enough to charge a fee for using boats on government-owned waters. After all, you have to pay a fee to hunt geese at Mattamuskeet or visit Mam-mouth Cgve in Kentucky. The latter is a national .park.

RECOGNITION-North Carolina has gained world wide recognition as a blue marlin fishing center. There are two marlin toumahients scheduled in coming weeks. The first Is a local affair headquartered at Morehead City which goes on from June 2 through June 11. This will be followed by the In-temational Blue Marlin Tournament scheduled soon after at Cape Hatteras.

WILDLIFE Complete records of the w'aterfowl kUled at Lake Mattamuskeet during the past season indicate that a total of 4,040 ducks and geese were killed, an average of 1.05 birds per hunter. This Is much lower than the w'aterfowl take in past years, reflecting the drop-off of duck populations due to drouth and other adverse conditions in the northern nesting grounds.

At a press conference in ,RleiBh recently. Governor Terry Sanford told assembled newsmen that he is completely confident of the ability of the WildWe'l Resources Commission and ' .its executive director. Clyde P. Patton, to carry on our wildlife conservation program.

Patton and member.s of the Commission have been able to do an excellent job of managing the State's wildlife resources for almost fifteen years largely because North Carolina has one o the finest pieces of enabling legislation setting up a wildlife conservation program.

.Basic features of the enabling act provide for the appointment of commissioners by the Governor for staggered terms of six years for district commissioners and four years for two com-mis.sioners - at -- large. The same law makes the Commission self-supporting 'no tax appropriation from the Legislature from, hunting and fishing license receipts; it gives the Commission authority to spend its own funds under Budget Bureau supervision with State auditing, and also authorizetl the Commission to employ an executive director who may serv'e in that capacity as long as the Commission desires, and who must be highly trained in the technical field of wildlife conservation. Clyde Patton has served for more than fourteen years.

These features have given Noith Carolina a continuing wlldlif conseiwation program that has succeeded in making steady progress over the years based on applying the findings of research, careful handling of finances, and impartial and efficient enforcement of regulations and laws pertaining to hunting and fishingand more recentlyboating safety.

As a result of these factors*. North Carolina has gained a nationwide reputation of the quality and popularity of its wildlife conservation program Much credit for this must go to the men who wrote the original enabling act. and the men who put the law into efficient operation.

from these cities and towns who did not actively participate in the tournament, but came to Greenville for the event anyway.

It is significant that the tournamertt last year' attracted considerable interest among ladies throughout this section of the state and this year the field of participants had to be limited because of the overwhelming response. When the tournament was, begun last year, it was the first and only on^of its kind in Eastern North Carolina. Since that time ladies of two other cities have begun ladies invitational tournaments of their own, but Greenvilles tommament is the largest of the three

There ean be no doubt that the ladies who come to Qj^eenviite for the ev^enteven though it is only one day each yearcarry back with .them a good impression of Greenville and the local ladies who are responsible for the long hours of work which make the tournament possible. It is another , evidence that Greenville is on its toes, moving forward, not only from mens viewpoint, but from the womens viewpoint as well.

We commend the local ladies on their tournament and express to them our appreciation for this annual event which already has become a distinct asset to Greenville and its reputation- among the other communities of this part of North Carolina.

One More Day To Get On The Voting Books

Residents of Pitt County who have not gotten their names on the registration books of the precinct in which they live have only one more day to do so before the registration period closes.

Registrars of the countys 25 precincts will be at their respective polling places Saturday for the purpose of registering voters for the Democratic Primary on May 26. The registration period ends at 6 oclock Saturday afternoon.

We again urge residents of Pit't County #ho have not registered in the precincts in which they now live to do so Satiirday in order that they will be eligible to vote in the primary later this month. Each citizen ^as both the right and the responsibility to participate in the election of public officials. In order to do so, however, they jfiust first be properly registered.

By DON SCHLIENZ .

And 1 Hope It Rains

Again Soundec. jike A Theodore

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By JA.MES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (APi-Presi-deiit Kennedy, who ha^ used a Phrase or two from Theodore Roosevelt in the Past, sounded a little like him this week when he talked to the United Auto W'orker.s.

But Kennedy, in telling the UAW he intended to be an active President and was acting * for the general welfare in opposing inflationary price and wage increase.s. was laying down some of his philosophy about the presidency,

W'hat he said wasnt new, or new for him. But he did manage to pull a lot of pieces together. He said :

"I know* there are some people w*ho believe the President of the United States should be honorary chairman of a great fraternal organization and coniine himself to ceremonial functions.

"I did not run for president of the United States to fulfill that office in that way. I believe it is the business of the President to concern hlpiself with the general welfare.

This sounded like the first Roosevelt who, after leaving the presidency, said:

"My view was that every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people, and not content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin,

This was not the only resemblance between the two men. both of whom understood the importance of staying in the public eye to be persuasive, even with the help of their families. ,

In their bookThe Presidency TodayEdward S. Corwin and Louis W. Koenig in 1956 pointed out that "Roosevelt w'as the first modem president to exploit fully the possibilitieir of rallying public opinion behind his policies.

Besides all Kennedy's personal appearances on television, at meetings, conventions, public places, and news conferences. the Kennedy clan stays In new's and pictures.

Clinton Rossiter in his book --The American Presidency also in 1956 noted that "with the help of an attractive and active family he 'Theodore Roosevelt) put the presidency

on the front page of every

newspaper in America. !

All the presidents since Roosevelt some more than others have asserted some presidential leadership for the general welfare, recognizing a responsibility to act.

But it wasn't until 1946in the Employment Actthat Con-gre.ss finally said In so many words that the govemment does have a re.sponsibility for the general welfare. It put most of the responsibility for action on the president.

So, w'here tlieir predecessors had to assert responsibility under their constitutional powers, explicit or implicit, Presidents Truman. Eisenhower and Kennedy had congressional blessing for acting for the general welfare.

While business and labor may be angry at Kennedy for butting ill on them by telling them to keep down prices and wages, he could have, but hasnt, pointed to something else in that 19|6 Employment Act;

It even set up a council of economic advisers for him to foi*mulate and recommend national economic policy to promote employment, production and purchasing power under free competitive enterprise.

In addition: Kennedys antiinflation program, vague as it is. was all spelled out in the report of his economic advisers which he presented to Con-gres& last January It didnt draw much attention at the

time.

And no one needed to be surprised by Kennedys intrusion in the steel dispute even '

before the economic report

came out. His urging both sides in the steel industry to avoid wage and prices increases was all foreshadowed in speeches he made in . the lf)60 campaign, before he became President.

At. that time he was saying: "Without resorting to the compulsion of wage or price controls. the President of the United Slates must activ*ely u.sc the powers of leadership in pursuit of well-defined goals of price stability. For those powersof reason, moral suasion, and informed public opinion, influencing public oplnlon-^have by no means been exhausted to date. As for what he told the UAW r-that he intends to be an active President and not Just an honorary chaii*man his campaign speeches of abounded in such promises.

Sooner or later every father has to face up to the appeal of every small boy, "Can I sleep outdoors tonight?

This poses no problem when there are no prospects of rain, the mosquitoes arent roaming, it is neither too hot nor too cold, there is a sleeping bag or reasonable facsimile thereof, and a tent is available.

Those re some of the prerequisites.

Another might be that the boy is old enough to tolerate a night in the open without all of the above conditions and without requiring his pappy to share the ordeal.

Now this pappy, as have Innumerable others, has slept in hammocks, on steel decks, on straw-filled ticks, on the ground, in the rain, with hungry mosquitoes* on canvas

webbing, and on Inner-spring mattresses with electric blanket and downy pillows.

The last I like. The other misadventures in sleeping are better forgotten,

A couple of weeks ago, on a Friday afternoon, the skies were clear and the air warm and neighborhood mosquitoes had not yet made an appearance.

So the tent was raised in our backyard! pincstraw gathered for a cushioning effect, and a small tarp spread 'for flooring.

The process was accompanied by much ecstasy on the part of the junior tent-raiscr w ho invited the whole nelgh-fcK'irhood to camp out with him that night . . , despite the fact his tent will sleep a maximum of two (uncomfortably).

Other Editors Saying Butner Medical Center

(Henderson Dispatch)

Only a few investments such as the Federal government plans at Butner in the way of a $17 niiliion hospital arc needed to transform a small tow*n into a thriving bustling city of modest proportions. Decision of Washington authorities to locate the mental hospital for prisoners at the southern Granville county town has given high stimulus to the region directly involved.

Uncle Sam discovered the Butner area twenty years ago and spent some .$30 million in mushrooming one of the major infantry training camps in the country. With the end of the war and the mad rush to return as quickly as possible to the Ways of peace, big government had no further use for the facility. It w'as sold to the State of North Carolina for a song, a mere three million dollars. Included W'as a modern hospital which itself represented an outlay of some five to six million dollars: a water system which at that time was the last word in efficiency and equipment: barracks buildings, huge warehouses, paved streets, and even a fire department. Thousands of acres of land passed to State ownership.

Since then, industry has moved in to utilize warehouse properties. Mount Hope Finishing Company is living in several of them. The State modernized the hospitals, established a center for training youthful first offenders and another for alcoholics. Now* comes this enormous mental hospital for federal

prisoners, employing a sta-ff estimated at several hundred persons.

Here is an example of a thriving town rising within tw*enty years out of tobacco fields, w'ooded areas, infestation of snakes, wildlife and the like.

Public institutions, whether Stale or Federal, and educational facilities, all of a permanent character and to large degree immune to the ebb and flow of the tides of economic currents, are a tremendous asset to any locality. It is coming to be the making of Butner, which ultimately may rival Oxford and Henderson, and smaller communities and cause even populous Durham to lift its eyebrows.

Unfortunately, Henderson has nothing whatever of a public institution built and maintained by government. It would be a tremendous asset if it did have. We know of no way around such a situation.

Several years ago there was speculation about attempting to establish an industrial training school here, but the idea never really caught fire. Actually, according to reports, cold water was throw'n upon the talk until it was finally quenched entirely. That is an attitude which must be changed if there shall ever be any sort of public facility in our environs.

What Butner has acquired and i.s about to get are institutions which literally dropped into its lap without the lifting of a finger in encouragement. It is one of those rare instances where such things come about.

^ As the evening progressed there w*as much carrying of canteen, flashlight, a deck of cards, some bedding, a n d something - to - eat - in-case-of-starvation.

A reprieve for Dear-old-Dad came when a slightly older friend was given parental permission to join the outing; and I gracefully withdrew.

From the kitchen window it was evident the flashlight batteries were getting a real workout; and when there was no sign of quiet by 9:30 the Missus used the excuse of another late lunch to see how the campers w'ere making out.

Her report: "Theyre having a ball.

One hour later the households sieepy-eyed would-be sleeper-out-of-doors came in the kitchen door, toting blanket, flashlight, canteen and a sack of edibles.

"I cant sleep, he complained.

So w*e bundled him into the tub and then in his familiar bed.

"He has learned one of the facts of life all small bojrs have to learn at one time or another, his philosophical pappy philosophized aloud. And there was much sec^ satisfaction that this phase in child-rearing w*as behind him.

That was two weeks ago.

Thursday night the whole case was reopened with a dimly remembered "you promised you would.

And I hope it rains, or looks like, rain, this evening.

Opinions !'n Brief

"A goyernment is not an earnerbut merely a spender a distributor of our taxes. Anything that President Kennedy or any President for that matter, says he will give to the people he must first take from them. In such a process ' we inevitably grow poorer for the vital point that many miss, is that the money comes from all of us.East Dubuqe (111.) Register.

"Is a state board of any value if it passes into the hands of the institutions it was created to advise and supervise? Tne Durham Sun*,

"Tlicres only one thing -wrong with the younger generation. A lot Of us dont b-long to it any more.Anderson (S.C.) Independent.

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Curing. Weary

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Nations

By GEORGE E. SOKOI^KY

Copyright, 1962. King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Nations like people become tired. They cease to be inspired by the need for up-going, for building anew, for out-doing their neighbor, for expansion. Their people count their luxuries and seek stabilization and security. They permit themselves to be governed by clerks while they loll about in sybaritic delights, directly or vicariously. They read 09! for knowledge or inspiration, but for the excitation of their emotions which become Increasingly more frigid. They love themselves but not their country and in their religion, they substitute ritualism for belief.

There have been many such tired nations in history and they alw'ays bring calamity upon themselves. The post Hasmon-ean period In Palestine, the poist-Macedonian period i n Greece, the post-Republican era , in Rome, the post-Chien Lung dynasty in China, the post-Catherine the Great period in Russia. the post-Tudor period in Britain.

It does not alw'ays mean that a nation dies from weariness, as Spain declined after Ferdinand and Isabella or as China suffered dryrot during the end of the Manchu dynasty. However, if the civilization is affected, if the roots as well as the bloom suffer from weariness, it is altogether possible that the civilization disappears, as the Aztec or the Yucatan civilizations or the land of Khwarizm disappeared.

The American civilization is an amalgam of numerous races, numerous nationalities, varying civilizations. There has "been no clear bloodline and no clear intellectual content. It is an assimilation. a melting pot. It is now reaching a separate and distinct characteristic, more positive in music and in technology than in art and literature. The American characteristic of music, art^ulated by Gershwin, Copland,jfHindemith, Barber and Menotti, is not an imitation of European music; it is distinct. Although most musicians would deny it, it Is even nationalistic and Copland uses the American idiom more often than he believes. The popular music of Ernest Ball was not Irish, as the Irish know', just as Stephen Foster's miisio was not Negro any more than Irving Berlins came out of tl e synagogue.

These men w'ere the beginning of something and all three have become American folklore.

Similarly in technology, the American theory has ahvays been to reduce the element of human labor in both production and distribution. This trend has raised numerous social problems, but it eliminated the proletariat and increased the possibility for equality of opportunity. Not only the blue-collar class, the supervisory^Worker, but the white-collar class, management, usually emerges from what in Europe is regarded as the proletariat. Our workers are, by earning and expenditure, middle class persons, practically on an economic and social level with the bosses.

The very rich are few In number; they play a small role in the affairs of the country. On Election Day, they have only one vote. Those who talk about The Establishment talk nonsense. What happened is that intelligence Is being recognized for what it is worth: the expert is finding a better niche for himself in the affairs of the nation. If, for 'Instance, such names as John J. McCloy or Lew is Douglas appear on the boards of all kinds of organizations, it is because they choose to devote themselves to public service rather than to play bridge or do w'hat others do who have too much time on their hands.

Nevertheless, a w'eariness does manifest itself in this country and this is a disease which needs curing. It may be due to many causes and I am not quite sure of the diagnosis. Certainly the development of a large government bureaucracy and of tlie trend toward bureaucracy in business has something to do with it. Initiative is held down by excessive structure on top of nearly every large business. Education Is becoming too formalized by the rule of departmental controls in our colleges and universities.

Scholars fight for status, (Continued on page fiVe)

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE DIVINE PATTERN

The Biblical statement that Christ died for our sins has often mystified Christian believers.

And no wonder. Paul tries to explain it. but even the Apostle Peter comments upon the fact that in the epistles which Paul wrote some things are hard to understand <11 Peter 3:15). Yet it is upon the death and resurrection of Christ that the redemptive aspects of the Christian religion are built.

Jesus might have come into the w(orld and lived a' helpful life as teacher, healer, and 'ead-er. This would have been inspiring and good, but not good enough tg furni.h the basis for a redeniptivs gospel. For it was in his death on the cross

that Jesus Christ set forth a cosmic patteni to which we must all conform if we would arrive at a knowledge of the truth. Christ was not compelled to go to the cross. He simply put himself aside utterly and accepted the cros.s as the pattern to which his life must conform and by conforming furnish both a patteni and an example to the W'orld.

The secret of sound living Is to hHE> found in sacrifice. The cross of Christ is the greatest example of sacrifice in the world. Furthermore, the fact that the Being who was sacrl-fied thereon was the divine Son of God make.s Gods salvation of his creaturrs poK.sibie.- *

The cro'^s is a pattern 4o. which God. invites us to conform our lives.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Although there is no coordinated movement yet, pressures are growing for a shortening of the work week.

Since the New York construction electricians gained a 25-hour week, other unions in the New York building trades havg started shaping similar demands. -

Walter P. Reuther. president of the United Auto porkers pn-ion, has asked that the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act be amended to increase overtime pay, from time and a half to double time. The objective is to make overtime prohibitively costly.

WANTS EARLY RETIREMENT

' Reuther also advocated reducing the retirement age for men to 62, if dc.sired. under Social Security, and to provldd retirement pensions for disabled persons at 55. The.se provisions would iiiGreafe Social Seewity taxes on ^dth employer and enipioyif.

The demand for the shorter

work week arises from unemployment and from the fear that automation will create further unemployment. Employers say automation will, in the long run, create more jobs than it eliminates; labor says it will not.

Also stemming from this fear, of ttnemployml are several other demands voiced by vari-oiKs labor groups: that the number of Mexican. Jamaican and other foreign agricultural w'orkers be reduced; and that .steps be taken to limit the immigration of waitresses from Ireland, secretaries from England and chefs from Prance. CAN IVE GET THE JOB DONE?

There is another curious demand; that the temporary cm-ployee.s agencies be investigated. One complaint is that companies hire^ temporaries for short periods instead of regular employees at full time. While labor favors a short work-week, it w'ould much prefer fulltime employees lof through a seven-hour day th'an 'to see tem

poraries work steadily for three or four,hours.

The basic question about the shorter work-week is whether America can produce enough for the present standard of living, plus necessary defense ma-. terials to keep ahea(i of Russia, on the short week. Labor says that, with automation, it can. Employers say America cant, Russia, they observe, also has automation.

There is another critical problem. President Kennedy has declared America must "trade or fade, that America must import more and export more.

The United States can import more, as long as our dw-indling gold supply holds out. But it seems doubtful if we can export if our pay scales continue to accelerate, as they did in steel, as is recommended they do in nonoperating phases of railroad-''-Ing, and as Reuther will insist they do in auto making.

With high-production co.sts, we wiU lose our foreign markets to low-wage competitors. We can

reduce costs w'ith more automation, but our automatic devices can be copied far more easily than our atomic bomb techniques were. In fact, many of the companies that are now making automated gqvjipment f()f Americairi plaints have offered to do the same for foreign manufacturers.

President Kennedy, in his "trade or fade talk, urged the strengthening of Americas foreign poUcy for Latin America and nations Uko-J*pan to trade with the United States.

Mr. Kennedy should know that Japan, with factory labor around $1 a day, has already taken over a large segment of thg U. S. electronics industry, and that Japanese cameras, radios, optical goods, tape recorders, motorcycles and other goods have surpassed the quality of. many German products and are underselling American products, even , after trans-Pacifc shipment and duty, right here in the U.S.A.