Wednesday, August 7, 1963

Ratification Is A Starting Point

Taking It Out On The Little Kids

Whatever misgivings some individuals might feel about Senate ratification of the limited nuclear test ban treaty signed in Moscow, it becomes increasingly clear that the United States must go along with it.

To put it plainly, the world can stand just so many nuclear explosions in its atmosphere; a line must be drawn, sooner or later, and there is a responsibility of the worlds major nuclear powers to do this as soon iia it i.s possible for them to finJ grounds for reasonable agreement.

From all outward appearances, Rus.sia recognizes this; the United States and Great Britain are similarly agreed. The inherent dangers of vast arrays of nuclear weapons poised for lethal delivery and mutual national suicide are enough of a problem for our world without the specter of one test series after another slowly poisoning the atmosphere.

Three unilateral announcements that each of the three nations is abstaining from further tesis until one violated the moratorium would not achieve as much a.s a joint pledge such as that reached in Moscow.

A three-way agreement carries with it a 'mutuality"if there is such a wordof .nterests, which in turn provides that proverbial "first step" toward further understandings and agreements.

True, memories of deep-seated hostility of Tlus.sia toward the West n'main bright and clear;-our suspicions re untarnished, and a conviction remains that when Rus.sia sees safety and an advantage in a double-cross, they will do it.

So far as is n(wknown there can be no ad-

Where Western

Carolina Beains

By WIU.1AM A. HIRP^H

WEST Leaving Hickory and entering Burke County the traveler turns suddenly into the sweeping vistas of new Interstate highway 40 up the lovely Catawba valley.

Making the turn Into the Interstate highway from the east. > the blue bulk of the mountains cornea Into view.

This Is where the west commences Western North Carolina, that Is.

Ahead, In the brightness of a sunny August afternoon, the mountains stretch in almost limitless waves, higher and higher, closer and closer until the crest is seen, a .dlhi light In the distance.

SKY Up there near t h e crest Is the Blue Ridge Parkway and Mt. Mitchell and the rugged Blacks and Craggles, back of Maricm and Morganton.

Nearer Is Shortoff and fabled Brown Mountain. Hawksblll is farther, gcro&s wild, Inaccessible Llnville gorge. Off In the purple highlands is Grandfather Mountain, sentinel of approaches by Blowing Rock and Llnville.

There are good views of scenic mountain country from the Dy.sartvllle Road and Sugar Hill overpasses along the new 1-40 The lure of the land of the sky is almost irresistible.

TOURIST Summer, of course, Is the reason for tour-ljts In the mountain country. The tourist season is rich, a bonanza for the regions enterprises and a mainstay of the We.stern North Carolina economy.

All signs point to this summer being a banner year. There is no official count, but more out-of-state license plates and out-of-state hotel and motel registrations are rcpoiied than during any year In the past.

Improved roads have helped, although good roads still are a major problem and concern of Western North Carolina. Promotion and new facilities and attractions have added to the boom. The chief attraction, how-every remains the natural scenic beauty and charm,

INN The Grove Park Inn, which was headquarters last week for the annual summer meeting of the N. C. Press Association. is an old, established fixture of the land of the sky. It has been in operation

for half a century celebrating Its. 50th aaniversary this year.

This world-famous hostlery was built in le.ss than a year from stone and timbers from the nearby mountains. It was completed and opened to the public in July, 1913.

It has a fascinating history, much of It a parallel of the history of the mountain legion lUself. But, as It was in 1913, beauty of the mountain land is lis key.stone.

It is built on a mountainside part of the rim of height ringing the bow'l atop the Blue Ridge plateau where Asheville grew into a city.

From its porches, gardens, terraces its rooms,-guests have a breath-taking view of Asheville's skyline in the center of the bowl, and the ring of mountains in the distance.

NEW The traveler in the west finds road Improvemenis either In progress' or being planned. Top .state highway commission officials were In Asheville last week.

There are new motels, new attractions and innovations of older, e.stablished ones.

And many of the.se are finding w'lder public acceptances and an increasing flow of clientele. The N. C. Press Association visited the once-struggling Flat Rock Playhouse which is having Its best .sea.son in history and pre.sentlng excellent talent In the drama. This Playhou.se like .several of the .states attractions. receives a .small state appropriation and now bills iLself as the state theater of North Carolina.*

There are new winter ski resort developments In the we.st, and miniature railroads, western flavor cowboy towns, .skating rinks and swimming pools to attract and entertain the touri.sts.

OLD But much of the tourist business centers around the old, the historic and nostalgic.

The major outdoor dramas in the We.st, Unto These Hills and Horn in the West, have there rooted In history of Western North Carolina. Asheville last week was ringing with its annual folk festival. Grandfather Mountain will be celebrating later in August an anniversary one that few attractions, no matter how old. can match. It will be one billion ypai*s old. give or take a few million years.

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vantuKes t(r anyone today in violating the ban of nuclear explosiona in the sea, in the atmosphere or in outer space.

Article IV, of the treaty, provides that each party ha.s the right to withdraw if events jeopardize the supreme interest.s of its country ... an escape clause open to u.h a.s well as the Soviet Union.

Barring dlsclo.sures which have not yet come to light, W'e can see no recourse for the Senate but to give its bl(?.ssing to the accord. To do otherwise would be to destroy the tiny tendril of hop:? that is in the air, and to rebuff a rare gesture of cooperation on the part of Russia.

The future po.se.s enough headaches for the major powers involved in the treaty without creating new ones for the present.

Eventually Communist China will run a series of nuclear test explosions; but before that, France may be expected to blithely ignore the pact and perhaps even attempt to wheedle West Germany into sharing the burden of a nuclear bomb program.^

But if today w e can deter the "test race" among nuclear powers, tomorrow we and our examole may have a greater influence in curtailing the tests^ of other.s.

One has to start .somewhere, ana this is as good a place and time hs any.

Early Spadework Can Prove To Be Big Help

The most heartening development in North Carolinas stalemated redi.stricting program came Monday wdth a gathering of Democratic legislators in Fayetteville.

It was all unofficial, of course.

They were summoned by Governor Sanford to do .some preliminary spadew(^rk on a problem tlie General As.semhly could not re.solve in it.s prolonged

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recent se.ssion; to arrive at some understanding of a "jumping off point" for the forthcoming special session.

The encouraging aspect about the gathering lay in the fact that a .sense of urgency on redistricl-ing has not abated.

By calling the group of legi.slators to Fayetteville, Governor Hanford demonstrated hi.s own determination that the Special Se.s.sion would- not be a long drawn-out renewal of futile wrangling; and by their presenct% the law'makers displayed their own desire to work for a speedy .solution.

Thi.s early spadework, and wo trust there wdll be more, should go far tow^ard achieving a meeting of minds as to the final form of the redi.stricting plan.

By FRANK WILSON

Hail Illustrated Concern

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Out On Duvatier

Bv JAMES MARI.OW

WASHINGTON (AP) In Loul.slana there's an old saying: God hates ugly. It

mean.s youll get yours In time, If youre a heel or you hurt people. Yet Francois (Papa Doc> Duvalier, who tsnt pretty, is still Haiti's dictator.

But time Is running out. He.s had trouble a-plenty. Hes made plenty. Monday before dawn about .'>00 exiled Haitian officers and .soldiers reportedly landed and started an invasion of this Island which Columbus liked.

If thl.s flops, Duvalier can expect .something else. His opposition within Haiti has been chopped to pieces by mas.s arrests, exile, murder, and political blackmail. He's loo hated to sleep w'ell.

Last month young rebels fought his regime in the moun-taln.s until they were crushed. He had a crisis in April with an army plot against him. It failed. But hl.s aimy suffered. Top officers fled.

He doe.sn't tni.st hUs army, about 5,000 men trained mainly In police work. He has his own militia, the dreaded Ton-Ton Macoutes (Creole for bogeymen). He had it crl.sis with the United States too.

He wa.s elected In 19'>7, sup-po.sedly for seven years, not becau.se he w'as loved but l>e-cau.se Haitis Negro ma.s.ses had to choose between Duvalier. a Negro, and his opponent, a Mulatto. The bitterness between Negroe.s, mostly Illiterate. and the better - educated mulattoes goes back almost to the beginning of the country.

But when his term was up May L5. he decided to .stay a few years more. He claimed that an election two years ago legally extende<l his rule. This country w'as self - conscious anyway for having supported the dictator, tlie woi.st in Latin America. So it .suspended diplomatic relaliQiis with him. This was an empty gesture.

He crushed his opponents and kept office. Then, even though the State Department said he

had Impo.sed a reign of terror, it resumed relations with him June 3.

Was fortunate of unfortunate, as the case might be, to observe farmers during a hail storm.

At Ballards Cro.^roads Saturday a week ago, farmers hovered under the roof of Daniels grocery and service station as hail, high winds and heavy rains thundered down.

It W'as not a pleasant spetical to witness.

About 25 farmers and hands had been caught there by the sudden cloud burst. As the momentum of the storm built, one rould see the tension mounting. ~

The climax of the general feeling of unea.siness came with the first few hail stones.

When the thil, which lasted only minutes, stopped farmers rushed to their fields to see if they had been hit.

Only a few were. But in fields hit, little tobacco remained.

Within minutes again, all the faimers in that area had gathered back at Daniels. Seemed everybody had something to say

~ all at the same time.

Finding out w'hich tobacco patches had been hit worse, vehicle loads of these men began taking simulated tours to give their own personal estimate of the damage.

Ernest Loftin, tenant for C. C. Harris, took me down to his field. He had six acres with most every leaf stripped from the stalks. His field appeared to be an ocean of green.

explained he had nothing on him to prove identification, but said he could tell Reeves who sent the money and the amount.

Reeves insited on positive identification.

Well, Dad said, wheels tuming, I have Veterans Administration dentures and they have my name F. C. Wilson and my claim number on them. Would they serve?

A new method of identification was established at Western Union in Goldsboro last week.

My father, Frank Wilson Sr., has been a heart patient since 1957. Because he seldom drives a car, he lets my mother carry all identification for him (drivers license, social security, etc.)

Last week he got a call to come t Western Union and get money which had been wired to him.

Manager Robert J . Reeves a.sked for some identification such as a drivers license. Dad

They W'ould.

Dad flipped them out of his mouth.

Astonished, Rceve.s read the name and number on them and hurridely passed over the money.

The friendly consideration of people in Pitt County during my first week at the Reflector has been most rew'arding.

With this atmosphere constantly going before us, Im sure we will be able to communicate better and I will be able to serve you better.

But Duvalier pulled Uncle Sam's whiskers, a popular tactic in Haiti which remembers that U. S. Marines occupied the country from 1915 to 1934. Duvalier demanded that Ambassador Raymond L, Thurston be withdrawn. The United States withdrew him.

Other Editors Saying. Opinions

A House By The River

Duvalier had had trouble with the United States before that, La.st March he threw out Marine Col. Robert Hetnl, former bos.s of the U. S. military mission in Haiti.

Chapel Hill Weekly

Heinl angered Duvalier a year ago by writing a letter which leaked out to army chief of staff Col. Jean Rene Boucicaut. Heinl allegedly deplored Duvaliers downgrading of the regular army in favor of a civilian militia and demanded that the militia be disolved. It wasn't.

Duvalier began to purge that ousted or exiled almost all his pro-U.3.officers, who could have led a move to overthrow him. He got even tougher. He ordered the U. S. Navy and Air Force missions to leave Haiti. The last left July 6. Remaining in Port au Prince are only the U. S. military attache. Major John Warren, and seven Marine guards.

The country is in bad shape. Its finance.s are suffering. Government employe.s are discontented with their pay cut.

Private and public Investment has disappeared in the past two years. So ha.s toinism, winch produced roughly $8 million a year, about a quarter of the national budget. American dollar aid has been withdrawn. Beggars are everywhere.

Halils 4 million people. In a country the si/e of Maryland, five 300 to a square mile.

Columbus called the island now divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic Hispaniola. But Haiti, the Indian word for Place of Mountans, stuck Columbus loved the sim-(Continued on Page 6)

Mac Hyman wa.sn't one you would figure to have writien a novle with the gut-busting humor of No Time for Sergeants..

In fact, if there was any ribald humor in him, the only way it ever came out was through his pen.

He spent a summer in Chapel Hill six or seven years ago, living with hi.s wife and children on Country Club Road in a vacationing professors house. The house was pretty w'ell .secluded, Mac Hyman even more so.

He was perched on a huge outcropping of rock beside the house one afternoon, waiting for the arrival of a newspaper reporter and photogiapher, with about the same enthusiasm that you wait for the stroke of the guillotine.

The photographer tried several times to get him to smile and the harder he tried the closer Hyman seemed to be verging on tears. I cant smile. Hyman said finally, and that ended that. He never got around to explaining why.

At the time. "No Time for Sergeants wa.s still knocking around the best-seller ll.st. had been made into a TV play, a Broadway play, and had been sold to the movies.

Hymans agent had figured to scoop off more cream by putting him on the lecture tour. I cant talk In front of audiences," Hyman said, and that ended that.

He consented to go to Hollywood to look over a fat offer to do the screen treatment. After a few days in California, he shrugged off the offer and headed home.

What he really wanted to do, he said when he was summering here in Chapel Hill, was to return to his hometown, Cordele, Georgia. There is a river at Cordele and he wanted to build a frame house beside it and settle down. He would go on with his writing, and for diversion sit out there on the bank and look at the river.

His father had run a Western Auto Supply in Cordele. When Hyman didnt put in with his father and took, instead, to sitting around writing, the townspeople tagged him as some kind of nut. That didnt bother him, and he wasnt going back to prove anything. He just wanted to go back where he had come from and .settle down and W'rite some more.

He made it back to Cordele, all right, emerging once in a while for teaching stints, at Clemson and East Carolina College.

Mac Hyman died last week in Cordele, at 41. We have no idea what loss his early death represents to American Litera-ature, But to all of those who knew this plain honest and unsmiling little man. it must mean a permanent ache in a quiet and private corner of the heart.

n Brief

The man who thinks trouble will meet him only half way is a poor judge of distance. Greencastle (Ind.) Putnam County Graphic.

"Thanks to tlie expanding chemical industry, we will eventually reach the point W'here everything is made out of something almost as good as it used to be.Carlsbad Current-Argus.

"There is plenty of room in North Carolina for reasoned, factual and persuasive con-.servatism. But even in the palmy days of McCarthyism and Birchism, the foreign devil theory has not marketed well in this state. Greensboro Daily News.

Lot.s more of us run around in circles than ever get into orbit the.se days. Bartow (Ga.) Herald.

One of the surest ways to receive unequal treatment in thi.s country is to be a male between 18*2 and 26 years old. A law called the Universal Military Training and Service Act literally guarantees unfair discrimination against many young men in this bracket, preferential treatment for others. ^The Charlotte Observer.

By JOHN chamberlain

Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

If you dont believe in the existence of something, isnt it a pretty wasteful, not to say sii-ly. busine-ss to let most of your waking hours be dominated by non - something or nothing?

I am moved to ask this question by the persistence of the more compulsive types of atheists to make their non - belief prevail. They insist there Is a great hollow', a void, at the back of the universe. I dont conten their right to do this. But the r whole lives seem to be conui-tioned by that void. They b"V tonhole you to prove that there s nothing there. They get obstreperous about It. The non-something even fills their dreams. And so this life, which is all that they believe exists, runs out on them, and they die without having had the time to enjoy the sensuous things that they can see, taste, smell and touch.

Mrs. Madalyn Murray of Baltimore, Maryland, 'who brought the suit to have even voluntary prayers eliminated from the public school attended by her son Bill, is the latest example of the person willing to be dominated by a non - something. Some four years ago she started to spend most of her free time fighting for her non - belief. Her battle against the Baltimore school system absorbed her energies. Because she was \ocal, wasting other peoples time, the people she annoyed struck back at her. Her automobile tires were cut, her flower beds w'ere ripped up, and her son Bill found himself Involved in a continual round of fist fights. All very reprehensible, but she w'ent out of her way to invite it.

Now, having won her case before the Supreme Court, Mrs. Murray has filed incorporation papers setting up an organization for people who want to let their lives be dominated by a non - something. She hopes to establish a center for atheists on the plains of Kansas. There, with nobody to bother them, they can bow' all day to the void.

I find this all very singular. I know lots of atheists and agnostics who, if you ask them, make no bones about stating their non - beliefs. Nobody trouble.s them, for they do not wax obstreperous if you disagree with them. They are live-and-let-live people, and they find time to enjoy the w'or-ld around them. Their lives are not dominated by a non-something.

This business of letting your waking hours be conditioned bv a void is all very Nineteenth Century. Karl Marx, the foiinl-er of Communism. W'as among the first to waste his hours trying to prove that religion was the opium of the people. Most of the people, whether they were Christians, atheists or agnostics, yawned and went about enjoying their religious observances on the one hand, or their beer and light opera on the other.

While Europe had its Maix, America had its Robeit or Royal Bob Ingersoll. He was an entrancing figure, a law'yer, politician and Civil War colonel. He didnt let the whole of his life be dominated by a nonsomething. Even so, he campaigned vigorously for his non-belief. He was a part - time compulsive.

People in the Nineteenth Century disagreed with Marx and Ingersoll. But even in those days an atheist had to be pretty obstreperous to invite reprisals. Village atheists were laughed at and tolerated In most communities. Percy Bysshe Shelley got into trouble at college because of his professed non - belief. But nobody stopped him from writing his poetry.

Max Eastman, a former radical who has lost his faith in Marxian economics and politics, still tiiinks that Karl Marx was right about the non - swnething the void. But Max Eastman, now in his eighties, believes in spending his time enjoying the things he can see. smell and touch. He lives for hours on the beach close to his home on Martha's Vineyr d Island, worshipping the suii, the surf, and the aroma of his big cigar. He thinks Marx was a kook to have w'asted his time being compulsive about the non - thing that is described in Archibald Mac-Lcishs sonnet about "nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing at all. (Continued on Page 6)

rhe Sixties May Yet ;Soar

Strength For Today

Bv EARL I.. nol'(;LASS

VAI.lE OF .ME.MORIZATION

Do you believe that life is enriched by the memorization of poems, rich pa.ssages from clas-Ic utterances, piecepts? Or are you among tho.se who scoff at memorlzatioiYand song that it has no place in .sound educational procedure or creative thing-Ing?

It can be said that if you or-ctipy some place in public life and are able no\* and again to quote something of striking significance you will find your hearers lending you a teady ear. If you will memoi i/r .several hundre(i vau'se.s of .scri|)turt, .several hiintired .'^hort poems (see the Home Bool: of Vei'e, by Btiilon S Bteven uiD or a few dij/ell of tiie poigiuiJfit it--murks made by gieat ni<u niul women in the past see Bartletts Familiar ()uotation.si, you will find yours<1i In posses

sion of a veritable arsenal. It you sometimes he awake at night, and during those per )od.s. ordinarily aggravating, you can recall the worke of beauty spoken and written by seers who lived in the pa.st or are li\nig in the present, insomnia will lo.se for you niucli iof its irritation and pain.

Someone told me recently of a man who at the close of a .speech had recited a pa.ssage from a well known classic ad-drrs. I wa^ like a benediction given at the close of a religious service. It hushed the miiuLs of thase who ILsteiu'd. Iirouflii tenr.% to their e.ve.s, .sen< tlielu foilh with new liojk* in iheir hearts

If you wil ladopt a program of meiiiui j,.jtiiiii any time he-wteeii yuur fifleeiiih and sixth-fifth vear, you will find it an Interesting and eni icliing experience.

ELMER ROE.S8NER

The Sixties may yet soar.

In 19.59 there was a lot'of talk about the "Soaring Sixties" based on the theory that busine.ss W'as set for ten years of boom. But the economy rolled over the bumps after that. Upward movements were short and jerky, and followed by set-downs. There was not much soaring in 1960 and 1961 and of course. 1962 saw the stock market debacle in May.

Many of tlie foix'casters were pessimistic alwut 1963 and this pessimism was increased by the fact that President Kennedy seemed to be saying that bii.si-ncss w'ould dive unless a tax cut was quickly enacted.

The lax cut hasn't been enacted and may not he voted on this year, and business didnt dive ~ hut it may later this year if the railroad .rtrike ha.sh-e larsinesa in.

However, unless the strike cau'-es a full-scale depression, there are rea>.ons lor expeeting hii.sliie.vs to .soar. The fact that there was no decline .so far thi.s year, despite discouraging talk to high a^ccs. shows an under

lying strength.

Some of this strength may be due to the shifting population ratios. Of course, the large number of war and postwar babies entering the labor market will keep unemployment figures large. But during the rest of tfie sixties, these young people will be finding jobs, getting married, buying autos, buying homes and making down payments on loads of goo<is.

A Preiitice-Hall projection, based on Census figures, shows that by 1970 there will be 14.2 million Americans in the 18 to 21 age group, an increase of 4!),2 per cent over llHiO, and that there will be 17.1 million In the 20 to 24 age group, an Increase of 53.B per cent. The 25 to 34 group will be 25 million, an increase of ') ) o^'r cent. TREMENDOlIS RU5'ING POWER

Iuptilalion of itself does not guai antee prosperitv. It It did. China and India would Le the must prosperous in the world, and Hu.ssla would fur oulsirip us. But population, plus abundant rc.sources, plus know-how and the free enterprise system,

can go a long way toward insuring prosperity.

The home furnishings needs of the war babies now marrying "pre.sage a vigorous up.surge in the retailing and credit fields In the next decade, according to Harold Grosman, chairman of Coburn Credit Co.. the largest graiiter of sales finances credit in greater new York. Instalment credit, he .said, will assure a steady expan.sion of con.stimer pure hast'.s.

The First National Bank of Boston, in its August newslet ter, pointed out Uiai "our un-lindleri postwar .spending spree., interrupted for only brief periods. has been supported by marked and widespread willingness on the part of individuals, business and gover.imens to finance rising outlays through going into debt. Public and private (Itbi.s. it noted, ])as;;ed the 1) illion-doiiar mark at the end of la;t year. It added! "V14HKMI F\P^?FU)N AllCAli

"A little later in the* Sixties will come a marked expansion in new workers and .family formations, involving hiige demanti

for homes and durable goods by those younger age groups with marked willingness to incur debt early in their carceris.

The Federa] Reserve Bank of Chicago pointed out that personal income in the United Sta'.i -s has risen almo.st 2 per cent a year since the war, after adjustment for price increases s growth of the population. Those last 10 words add tremend'" s importance to the Figures. The fcmaumy is going ahead t * fa.ster than inflation, they say.

The Chi Fed said this striking evidence of the con-tinued expansion of the Um States economy and has made possible the stable growth m consumer purchases that played an important role In 'pnting downturns In activity from developing into fuU-scal* depi(>,s.sion.s.

It added thi.s tremendou.sly sig-nifiraiit .sentence: "Develoi)-

ment thus far In I9C3 sug'e't that personal Income will be about 5 per cent higher iban la.st year.

No businus.s can afford to ov-orlook the significance of

facts prewMited today,