Thursday, September 15, I960

Denying An Access To Information

Orders of two Superior Court Judges governing reporting of news in connection with criminal cases in Wake County are a serious abridgement of the publics right to know what is going on in the realm of public affairs.

The sweeping order issued by Judges Raymond B. Mallard and E. Maurice Braswell prohibits any accused person, his attorney, police, court officials and even witnesses to a crime from giving any information concerning the crime to news media. The judges promised any violation of their order would be considered contempt of court and treated accordingly.

While the order does not apply directly to reporters, newspapers or other news media, it is obviously aimed at denying reporters access to information and through this means denying the public information concerning crimes. It says to the public that the judges will do everything within their powersand perhaps attempt things beyond their authorityto prevent the public from knowing the circumstances of a crime.

jurope Awaits C. Promoters

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES AWAITS Europe eagerly awaits the f<Hthcoming North Carolina invasion of ^ continent.

Theyve heard of us. They know us, and they like us, ays Bill F. Hensley, director ci the states trovel and Promotion division. Theyre glad were coming back. Hensley has just return e d from a flying trip to make presliminary arrangements for the Oct. 25-Nov. 15 travel mission to Europe which will cover eight cities in seven countries. It is one of four simultaeous North Carolina missions to Europe which will criss-cross the continent.

Everywhere I went, everybody had heard of North Carolina, says Hensley. Were pretty well known over there. IMPRESSIONS - Thanks largely to {H*evious 1959 ond 1962 travel and trade missions and indusfrial development tours, Europeans have a favorable impression of North Carolina.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

Gunnar Rasmussen, agent for Pan American Airlines in Stockholm, told Hensley, one thing about North Carolina is that you come to us and ask for our business.

They are very much aware of North Carolina and know us as a iH-ogressi v e, enlightened state, says Hensley. They identify us with the South, too, and feel a close relationship with the South.

For example, Gone With the Wind has been an all-time favorite motion picture in Europe and is still playing European theaters.

ATTRACT From a tourist standpoint, Hensley believes North Carolinas strongest appeal to European travelers will be its uncrowded beaches, the unspoiled national seashore, and Indians.

Theyre just crazy about

Indian lore, says Hensley. Theyre very excited that were going to bring an Indian along in our party.

The Indian, from Cherokee, N. C., will wear full tribal regali? and wUl visit schools orphanages and playgrounds.

In ad^tion, Europeans will be attracted by Fall color in Nortii Carolinas mount a i ns. Europes mountain forests do not match the Fall colo' r the Southern Appalachians, Hensley says.

Most North Carolina history means nothing to them, he says. But they are intrigued and highly interested in the fact that the birthplace of aviation is at Kitty Hawk, N. C.

MISSION Hensleys travel mission, totaling some 45 people, has on itinerary beginning in Paris, then going to Rome, Geneva, Zurich, Hamburg, Stockholm, Amsterdam and London.

Well call on travel agents, writers, tourist carries, host receptions, hand out press kits, pictures and distribute literature and information in each city, Hensley says.

We know already that Eur-op>eans are great travelers and hav plenty of money to travel. They want to come to the United States, but almost always go to the big cities New York, Chicago, Washington and California. Our purpose is to bring them here.

LIST Hensley has prepared a list of sharply-angled inducements to toss out along the tour and is sketching plans for follow-up efforts to get a bigger share of Europes tourists.

For one thing, he wants to stress North Carolinas sunny, uncrowded beaches in contrast to the congested Mediterranean resorts in Spain and Italy. And he wants to point out that a U. S. vacation in North Carolina is less expensive than in New York and the big cities Here they can stay longer on the same money he says.

Also, Europeans want to meet Americans and see American homes. Well stress friendliness, Hensley says.

The vast majority of Eur-oj)eans live in apartments. The idea of suburban living, gardens and lots of open space intrigues them. ^

We recognize the desire of the courts to protect the accused. At the same time, the court should likewise recognize that it has an obligation to society as well as to the accused. If a crime is committed in a communty, the community has the right to know the facta concerning the matter. The community needs the benefit of accurate reporting of the facts. Otherwise rumors would spread swiftly, gossip would take every situation in its grip, and in the place of no information there would quickly be a vast quantity of misinformation.

The order issued by the judges concerning crime news in Wake County certainly does not serve the interest of the community or of the court. In our opinion it does not serve the interest of the accused either, for he too is gagged by the ruling.

It is an unreasonable, unnecessary order which, hopefully will quickly be set aside.

Trained Fire, Rescue Groups Proved Value

Once again the worth of the areas rescue squads and volunteer fire departments was proven in an early morning truck collision near Walston-burg.

One of the vehicles caught fire and units from Farmville, Fountain, Snow Hill and Walstonburg sped to the scene to be of assistance.

One driver died in the flames. The other was trapped in his crushed cab. The Greenville Fire Department rescue unit and the Greene County Rescue Squad from Snow Hill responded.

The rescuemen had to cut through crushed metal before they could finally free the driver from his imprisonment. The rescuemen had spent many hours in training and had the equipment with which to work. This was essential in carrying out the rescue.

In this era of serious traffic accidents, potential disasters and other conditions whereby humans might need aid, trained fire and rescuemen are essential.

Pitt County and the area are fortunate that so many volunteers have devoted their time and efforts to this field.

npredictable trends In China

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - It is a commonplace now that the Red Chinese are dangerously unpredictable. Among the reasons for it, and one of the best symbols of it, are the Red Guard youth brigades created by the Red leadership.

These brigades have been-turned loose by Mao Tze -tung and those close to him to frighten and club the Chinese people into a vast conformity: unquestioning acceptance of the leadership and edicts of Mao and his clique, with the idea.

It is axiomatic that power is only a temporary possession. Dissent can be hushed but not crushed, even though it lies dormant for a generation. Unless the reasons

This Date-' 40 Years Ago To(day

By FOY H. DUNCAN Sept. 5, 1926 Why the Delay?

Last Saturday aftem o o n one person is known to have been Iinocked down by an automobile at Five Points, yesterday at noon and the same place another was knocked down and injured, and not thirty minutes later, at the same corner, anot her person was struck but not injured by an auto. This is what is happening at our busi e s t and most dangerous corner, and yet the city fathers are willing foi such a thing to go on rather than take the steps needed to safe guard the lives of those who must cross this corner . . . With the plan of traffic officers for the corner having failed, there seems to be out one alternative, electric traffic signals and a routing of a portion of the traffic at Five Points, instead of permitting all kinds of turns at the corner . . .

(From the editorial page.)

for the dissent re altered, the dissent remains.

It may be silenced through force for the lifetime of the aging Mao. He will retain the power to hush it so long as he remains. No. 1 man with the support of those who share his views or who figure they can benefit by his favors.

Perhaps the irritations and disagreements causing the dissent will become to intense to wait until he dies to express themselves.

But once he is gone the dissatisfactions of the discontented whether they are intellectuals, fac 10 r y han d s, farmers or shopkeepers will assert themselves.

JAME

MARLOW

Birth Announcement

Mr. and Mrs. J. Ed Nelson announce the birth of a son, Wednesday, Sept. 13th.

Miss Margaret Ann I^we Returns

Miss Margaret Lowe has returned from New York and other northern markets.

Sidney Skinner left this morning for Chapel Hill, where he will enter the University.

Frank Wilson Jr. returned to Chapel Hill to resume his studies.

David Evans left this morning for Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he will attend school.

Miss Mary I^ee Pittman left Sunday for Currituck where she will tAttdL

This is so obvious the use of the Red Guards by the Mao leadership is an indisputable sign of its political, social and emotional immaturity. It is one of the factors which make the Red Chinese regime look frightening.

The immaturity has shown itself in various ways. For instance, the impulsive and disastrous Great Leap Forward of a few years ago, an experiment in stepped-up communism from which Red China has not yet recovered.

The immaturity has been displayed in its ragged and and (sastrous foreign policy which in the past couple of years has suffered one set^ back and humiliation after another around the world.

But the immaturity is coupled with stupidity, which makes it doubly painful. Red China, preaching world communism and proclaiming itself the leader of it, has revealed that its basic compulsion is the crudest nationalism.

Thus it has alienated itself from the rest of the Communist world with its vilification 01 the Soviet Union and its childish and primitive effort to claim a monopoly on Red wisdom.

The Soviet Union has been around longer and through time, power and other devices has attached to itself the loyality of other Red states. More than just Chinese hissing will be needed to shake them loose.

This is not to suggest that the United States, the Soviet Union and the other big powers are not equally nationalistic in their basic mo-tive.s. but they are a little more .'-ubtle about it except (Continued On Page 8)

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By HAL BOYLF

3ats In Your Own Belfry

NEW YORK (AP)- Hows your sanity index?

In a wacky world that seems to be getting wackier, it is only common sense for a fellow to pause now and then and count the bats in his own belfry.

A certain degree of balminess is acceptable in anyone. As Mark Twain pointed out, when you realize that everyone is a little bit crazy, the mystery of the w o r 1 d stands explained.

For the benefit of the perplexed, heres a handy home guide to help you figure out your SQ-Sanity Quotient. Ask yourself the following questions:

Do you repeat yourself like a parrot after the third martini at a cocktail party?

When your neighbor buys

a new car, longer and more expensive than the one you own, do you have to stifle an impulse to creep into his garage in the dea(l of night and chisel a scratch in his cars shiny fender and let the air out of its tires?

If a restaurant waiter treats you with condescension, do you then cravenly overtip him in order to win his good will?

Are you afraid to leave an office party without dancing at least once with the boss wife, even though you know she fox trots like a lame walrus?

When your wife isnt looking, do you sometimes succumb to the temptation to look through her purse ot read the letters she gets from her lady friends?

Other E(ditors Saying Gamesmanship

(Washington Post)

Like the hula hoop, the coonskin cap and the yo - yo of old, supermarket games of chance have been sweeping the country. Children are excited by die prospect of unheard-of riches, and at least one mother in this area now makes five trips to' the supermarket where one would suffice just to get more cash register tapes and a better chance of winning one of those cash prizes.

Games, trading stamps and other devices used by supermarket chains to lure customers away from the competition need not result in any net gain for the consumer. Someone must bear the added costs, either the consumer through somewhat higher prices or the supermarket through somewhat lower

profits. Just where the incidence which is not unlike that of a tax falls depends very much on the state of the food markets in general and the competitive posit i o n of a particular supermarket. Because of their episodic character, as well as for other reasons, supermarket games are less costly than trading stamps. But where a chain adds the games to an existing trading-stamp program, the costs will mount.

There are critics who insist that cash prizes and m e r-chandise premiums s h o uld not be part of the business of selling groceries. But so long as the public realizes that none of the extras is actually free, few object! o n s can be lodged against devices for making compietition more intensive.

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While playing poker for keeps, do you have to lean over backward to keep from leaning over sideways and sneaking a io<^ at the cards in the adjoining players hand?

Is it your firm opinion that the guy next door cheats a lot more on his income tax returns than you do?

When the gals at the office get their heads together, do you sometimes feel that they are gossiping about you?

Are you convinced that it never rains except when you have on a freshly pressed suit, and that the only time you spill gravy on a necktie is when the necktie is hr a n d new?

If you hand a bus driver a dollar bill, do you feel he invariably will take out his own grudge against the world by spitefully giving you 20 nickels?

At least once a week do you have a wild urge to punch one of your own spoiled offspring in the snoot?

Do you feel that your luck is so lousy you couldnt win at a racetrack even if all the horses but your choice were doped?

Do you find that the more money you earn the more worries you have?

Does everyone ar o u n d you seem nuttier and more absurd than they did ten years ago?

Well if you have answered all the foregoing questions in the affirmative, youre as healthily negative about life and its problems as 95 per cent of the population.

To put it bluntly, youre normally abnormal.

By ROWLAND EVANS And ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON - As part of the fear campaign against the open housing provision of the CSvil Rights bill, the radical right has put an outrageous and totally fictitious statement in the mouth of Attorney General Nicholas De B. Katzenbach.

For a full month now, members of Congress, newspaper editors and Katzenbach himself have been re ceiving indignant letters about the attorney general The source of the indignation it the following statement, alleg. ed to have been made by Katzenbach to a congressional committee but suppresse by the liberal press:

The policy of this administration is to favor a compelled amalgamation of aQ races, colors, and creeds in residential areas; Individual preferences, tbe rl^ t private propel, and pMnal freedcnn most be aacrifleadte this overri(fing poUey.**

Any statement Uka fliat by the attorney general weald indeed be reason aoa^ for opposing President Jolmaoni open housing provisten (passed by tbe Hoost and now confronting a Senate fiHbiis-ter). In fact, however. It is a fabrication that provldM a case study not only of how extremists on both sides cat distort debate on an important issue, but also in tht technique of tbe big lie.

The story starts on J ins 6 when Katzenbach, testifying before a Senate judiciary subcommittee, asserted that the open hoiBing provisios was unjustly labelled a fon ced housing proposal when it really was directed against forced housing requiring Negroes to stay in gbettoes.

Theory Challenged Before Subcommittee Sylvester Petro, a New York University jaw prof ' sor and theoritiaan of the respectable right, challenged Katzenbachs theory before the same subcommittee three days later.

When one removes the tortured indirectness from the attorney generals language.* said Petro, what remains U this assertion: The policy ol this administratioa is to favor a compelled amalgamation, etc., etc. . . Word for word, this is the statement now attributed directly to Katzenbach. What Petro claimed to see in the mind of the attorney general now has bees put in his mouth by direct quotation.

Actually, Petros testimony probably would have gone unnoticed had not it been placed in the (Congressional Record of June 21 by Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. of North Carolina, a foe of the o p e a housing provision. It was noticed there by Phoebe Courtney who, with her husb and Kent (Courtney, publishes the far right Independent American of New Orleans.

In an undated pamphlet apparently mailed by the Courtneys early in July the quotation pope up. Correctly, it is preceded by this clause: . . . Professor Petro said that, in essence, what the attorney general meant was: etc.

But within a few days, Phoebe (Courtney seemed to forget the source of tbe quotation. In a July 21 letter appealing for funds to save the debt-ridden Independent American, she asked:

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The Defense Against Inflation

By ELMER ROESSNER So there is going to be more inflation, as reported here yesterday. What should the consumer do? What should the businessman do?

The classic defense against inflation is to convert currency into property.

But that doesnt always work With the threat of more inflation hanging over the economy, stock prices have been sagging. Yet stocks represent tangibles, and in previous times, when inflation threatened, common stock prices have always gone up.

Perhaps recession is more threatening than inflation, in the thinking of the big money boys in Wall Street.

COMMON STOCK STILL SOUND Nevertbele.ss, common stocks continue to be a good hedge against inflation, espec

ially the sound, nonspeculative issues. Utilities, basic manu-facutes and companies likely to win government war contracts are also good gambles. But in an era of worsening inflation, which is what we face, almost every investment is a gamble.

ELMER

ROESSNER

Real estate is often touted as a hedge against inflation. Good real estate is. Other real estate is a lousy hedge.

Real estate in line of growth is almost always a sound investment. But real estate off that line can be a

losing proposition. Real estate in line of fume - carrying winds, in line of ethnic invasions, in line of civic neglect, can be a loss investment and fast.

And how about paintings, sculpture, tapestry, rare stamps, coins, china, sterling and other objets dart? Good only if you know what you are buying.

Some of the greatest increases in prices have occurred in these fields in the past two decades. But the gains were reaped only by those with basic knowledge. The ignorant put up the money others gained.

WHAT ABOUT SAVINGS?

It was pointed out here last week that savings, even at 5 per cent, might yield invest ors less than 1 per cent atter infltion, and that investments in U.S. savings bonds would

produce even less.

That is true.

But, at least, money deposited in savinM accounts and used to purchase savings bonds will unless inflation gets wilder than it has been so far at least maintain the value of the investment fairly well, preventing loss.

A deposit of flOO in a savings account today may become $105 in a year, but after inflation and taxes, the depositor may haye only about $100. But without that interest, he would have less tiian his original $100. So saving can be a hedge against inflation, although a very lew one.

And buying goods, such as sugar, hams, canned goods or flour, is a lousv hedge at this stage of inflation. Loss by siMiilage may be far greater than the savings. Better put money in the bank.