Greenville's retail sales for the first half of 1965, an Important barometer of the economic growth of a community, reflects a Jheelthy pattern for the community and

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During tfve firsriix rnolfhsiSf^hS yr the retail

sales reached $29,1 million, an increase of K9 per cent over the same period last year. This growth rate for Greenville retail sales was 3.5 per centage points better than the

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growth of retail sales for the slate as a whole, and ranked near the top In incraaaes for various cities of the state.

By way of comparisor^, retail sales for the neighboring city of Kinston reflected an increase of 5.1 per cent for the first half of this year over the correipondi^'period last year. Retail sales in Goldsboro for the first six months ran 2.1 per cant ahead of the same period a year ago.

In spite of these figures, It would be a serious mistake for Greenville to assume the trend will continue with no tffact on its part. On the contrary, with the healthy growth In retail sales for the city showing a greater momentum, every effort should be made to keep the ball rolling, and the figures climbing through increased efforts to better serve the city's retail trade area.

In the case of retail sales with other indicators of sound economic growth, local effort is the primary requirement to keep the trend movir>g in the right direction. If efforts by the community slacken. It is quickly followed by a change in the economic indicators.

Extra Caution Needed InHurry To Adjourn

With adiournment fever becoming more prevalent in Congress with each passing day of September increased caution should be exercised against ramming through unwise legislation in either house.

Already in this session Congress, in our opinion, has been pressured by the administration into writing into law several highly questionable pieces of legislation. There arc several other high priority matters still remaining on the administration agenda for the current session that should be carefully scrutinized by Congress before they are written Into law. Indeed, some of these proposals should be flatly rejected by Congress.

Repeal of the states right to work law is one of those items that should be rejected by Congress. But it has high priority so far as the administration is concerned, and there is little doubt that Increasing pressure is coming from the White House for Its passage by Congress before adjournment.

In the case of this and other pieces of legislation the administration wants, Congress should not allow itself to be maneuvered into a position of having to give the President what he wants in exchange for adjournment. "

Congress has a responsibility to the people as the law making body of the nation. It should not abandon this responsibility merely to please the President and his legislative chiefs so it can end the current session.

N. C. School Of Arts Ldunchec.

By ROC.FR R.%BSON

BABSON PARK, MASS., -This is the time of yew when commodity prices tend to strengthen. For the most part the riae is seaj^ntl, reflecting the quickening puiae of busi-nejs as autumn nears. This year there is certainly enough Eip in the economy to make for a lltUe esrtfk upward prea-ture 1 commodity prices. Here is what has been happening to these prices, and what we believe wiu happen next.

During the past year, strei^h In commodity on balance. has been more decisive than tor year*. The Bureau of Labor comprehensive whoieaale pHce tndejf recently stood at 102.9. This compares with 100.4 a yew ago; 100-6 two yews ago; and 100.8 in July 1960. Industrial prices also were fairly fttabte for some years before they started their present elimb- The index for these in-dustrial.5 (which are labeled *ali commodities other than farm and foods") recently read 02.S; a yew ago it was 101.1; two years ago, 100.8; and to July I960. 101.2. A .somewhat similar price uptilt has been traced in farm products, with this index now at 100, compared with 94,1 laM year; 6.8 two years ago; and 97 in July I960.

Vet, despite the over-all price strength of the past year, there have been significant sags to prices of many individual commodities. Among these we: Anthracite coal, cocoa beans, cotton, rosto, rye, and wool. Renee, it to vitaRy imporUnt to buyers and sellers of raw materials whether agrlcul-tunti or Indurtrial to measure carefully supply-demand ratios in both domesUe and world markets before making commitments.. For, by and large It Is tiie^ supply-demand ratios that wiU wtocipally determine the direction and extent of price movements.

Mounting production and transportation costs for Industrial raw materials have been more directly responsible for price boosts In ihli group than has the impact of the ww to Vietnam. Supplies fenerally art hilly adequate for requirements In the months ahead. . .except, of course, for oertato meUtis.

At the moment, oiily a handful of metato markets are to a really strwig position, with supplies nari'ow-to-tight. We foresee higher prices for steel products and possibly atoo for Ingots, for aluminum, and for zinc. But unless there is a big widening of the war in Vietnam domestic coj^r and lead prices will bccwnc more vulnerable to downward pressures by late .winter. And these downward pressures will come from abroad, . .where markets are already ahowtog weakness.

While supplies of aeleiHed food item in the 1965-66 season may well be to clitoe toU-ance with requirements, overall shortages will irobably be avoided. Even so, as the season works along, higher prices for foods will beoome more likely and could even be marked.

Large com and soybean out* turns still to come will keep grain and feed quotes somewhat depresaed for aev* eral weeks more and may even further delay the broad seasonal price recovery which usually gets under way be early winter. However, because ai short grain crops atovad and heavy demand here at home, by late winter grain and feed i1cea should be wcdl above year earlier level. Lo(^ for more weakness than strength to beet-fed cattle quotattoni and for no more than ordinary aeaaonal easing In lower iRwde* Fall setbacks to hog i^ea will not cut very d<^ or be prolonged.

The price atrengthentog the past several month ha resulted from riatog coat for productiw, marketing, and transportation rather than from intensity or Inaiatenoe of upturns in demand. And it ha been helped mightily by climbing wage and ioaring credit. Actually it to these wtoch have exerted upward presiureg on production, marketing, and Uansportatlon costs and. hence , , . ultimately ... on prices.

The uptrend in commodity prleea may persist for another six months. Beyond that, they may have ti-ouble holding UN-Ll^ the war in Vietnam has expanded enough by then to trigger shortage not now anticipated. >

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By ART BUCHWALD

Crowd Of Peacemakers

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE BETTER WAY OF LIIFE

There la an expressimi In the teaching of Je)8 which occurs a number of tlmee and It runs aomething like this: that if we try-to save our Uvas, wt loae them, while If we will loae our live, we find them.

This declaration to aU ita varied forma really mewis that the sum totit of Ule 1 greater than way clreumsianoe of life. The more we try to get and hold certain tilinga we want for ouraelvea or for our loved onae. tilt more lurely does the tiling which we call life the great uiUty of which the dreumetanoee are only a part-...aUp thrmigh our fingers and elude us. Jeeus is the aroh enemy of that philosophy of life which says that the way to get happtoess to to pur-mse it. the way to get satisfaction Is to seek after It. the

way to make a sueoess in Ufe la to pick out certain things and say that we must have than for our own else Ufe loses for us its reUsh.

There 1s another way of looking at lile, says our Lord, and it to the better way. It Involves getting out of ones self, turning from the disposition to be transfixed by our own dcstires, and entering Into tito peace which comes to ones heart when he fixes hto attention on something outside the circle of his own personal needs, comforts and aspira-tiona.

Forget your own happiness, and you wUl get It, said Jesus Lose your life and you will find it. Stop thinking about how you can make yourself happy, and behold, powers above your own wiU begin to send shafts of light and peace down into the darkest places of your heart.

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This week some 220 young people, from as far away as Bolivia and as close to home as the backwoods mountain communities of Western North Carolina, will enter the newly organized North Carolina School of the Arts, the fiist state-supported school of the oerformlng arts in the country and the Souths only center for professional training in music, drama and dance.

The Schools first home is a converted high school building in downtown Winston-Salem. Its purchasers: the people of Wln^on-Salem, who were so enthusiastic alMut the idea that they raised $1 million In a 24-hour telethon to beat out competing cities to provide a cite for the school.

Already, the institution, headed by the nationally-known composer. Dr. Vittorio Gianninl. has acquired a star studded faculty composed of some of the worlds outstanding performing artists. Among them: Andrea Segovia, the leading classical guitarist of this generation: Rose Bampton, former star of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Norman Farrow, one of the nations leading baritones; Robert Lenrin, formerly of the B allet Russe de Monte Ciarlo; Saul CSwton, who is responsible for building the Denver, Colorado, symphony orchestra into one of the major orcheatra of the nation; Dr. Louto A, Meanlnl, foi-merly of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, Nbw York; Ruggiero Rloci, concert violinist and Gary Karr, the worlds leading double-bass soloist.

Two at the country leading chamber music ensembles, the aaremont Quartet and the (lariHi Wind Quintet, have also joined the schools faculty. These artists wlU work side by aids with a full academic faculty to provide a well-rounded education on tito elementary, high school and college levels. Fully accredited high Mhool diplomas. Bachelor of Arts and

Master of Arts degrees will be given.

Entrance requirements include one special twist before an applicant is considered, he must be auditioned by the music, drama and art faculty.

These auditions, Which began last spring, have offered dramatic proof that talent knows no economic or geographic boundaries. The school's incoming class Is made up of students from almost every state in the nation and is almost evenly divided between the affluent and the deprived. In common, they have extraor-dinary skills in the performing arts, the ability to meet strong aeademio requirements, and the willingness to take on on the double requirements of a full artistic and academic schedule.

How did this unique venture begin? Following a seven-month study bty a committee appointed by then Governor Terry Sanford to determine the feasibility of a state-supported school for the Performing arts, a billpromptiy dubbed the "toe dance" billwas passed by both houses of the State Legislature in 1963 providing for state support of the school. Through this bill, the school receives 50 per cent of Its operating costs from the State of North Carolina and 50 per cent from foundations and private sources. Tuition fees range from nothing at all for North Carolina high school students to $650 for out-of-state college students.

The opening of the North Carolina School of the Arts, coupled with new emphasis on the arts at many colleges and universities throughout the South, is evidence that our young artists no longer have to go elsewhere for training and recognition. Indeed, the roll books at the North Carolina School of the Arts indicate that many Northerners and Westerners are comtog South this year to .study music, drama and the dance.

Although there may be a shortage of peace in the world these days, there is certainly no shortage of peacemakers.

President Oamal Abdel Nasser has just gone to Moscow to explore the possibilities of peace in Viet Nam, where the United States and North Viet Nam cannot seem to resolve their differences.

While this is going on, the United States has offered its good offices to help find a peaceful solution to the Kash-mire dispute between Pakistan and India. India, who will not give an inch on Kashmir, has indicated it would be willing to act as a mediator to the Malaysian - Indonesian dispute, which has become somewhat touchy of late.

Malaysia, of course, is concerned about the Brltish-Aden controversy, while the British have been hard at work trying to resolve the Turkish-Greek dispute over Cyprua.

The Turks, though ready to attack Greece at any moment,

have asked their diplomats to find a peaceful solution to the Iraqi-Kurdlstan fighting, and Iraq wants to find some means of settlement of the Sutenese crisis at the very moment the Sudanese have been seeking a w^ay of getting Ethiopia and Somalia to stop attacking each other.

Although Halle Selassie to not about to give way on this thorny problem, he said he was willing to act as mediator in negotiations between the Congo and Brazzaville in their dispute, which has become quite bitter in the last two years.

Meanwhile, back in the Western hemisphere, C3iilc is hard at work to find an out to the Dominican Republic crisis, although it has opposed any solution to its border dispute with Bolviai.

President de Gaulle has offered to mediate any dispute anywhere, while refusing to negotiate any kind of nuclear test ban treaty.

The Soviet Union, while

harassing West Berlin, has been trying behind the scenes to stop Communist China from attacking India.

President Tito keeps traveling around asking heads of state to reason together while his troops put pressure the Abanian border.

And while Na^r to to Moscow trying to find a solution to the Viet Nam problem for

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Date Gardens Serpent

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(Richmond News Leader)

Not long ago, a California date grower wrote a hot letter to the U.S. Department of Labor. He was protesting the Departments refusal to let him import foreign workers to help out in his date gardens. According to the grower, he had lost 2(K),(X)0 pounds of dates owning to a lack of workers needed to pollinate the blooms. It wasnt that he hadnt tried the services of domestic labor, as decreed by Secretary of Labor Willard ^Wirtz. but he had had little success with American workers. Most of them had averaged only two day on the job, and Indians recruited from roservations for farm work had averaged only a week to his date gardens. As a result, the date growers costs had sky rocketed: he estimated that it cost him $4.50 an hour to get $1-50 in work aooompllshed.

His situation was made more Ironic, he said, by the fact that the U.S. government, through the foreign aid program, wa financing date packtog and process tog plants to Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan. These facilities include the moat modern equimnent, thank to the generosity of American taxpayers. In those countries, workers to date garden* are paid an average of 60 cents

a day, somewhat less than the $1.40 hourly wage paid workers in American date gardens. The U.S. imports between 40 and 50 million pounds of foreign dates annually, the grower said, presenting substantial competition to the domestic date industry. Obviously, the grower concluded, the governments policies in this respect were unfair.

Of course, the grower complaint may be dismissed on the grounds of Ignorance; be simply doesnt reali^ the eminent fairness of the Department of Labors policies to attempting to create new jobs for unemployed Americans. If the unemployed workers wont take the jobs, why, thats hknUy the Department of Lisbors concern: the jobs are there If they want them. And if agriculture in California consequently hits rock bottcan, and fertile flelds are left fallow and unplanted, Mr. Wirtz may be credited with killing, not two. Ixit three birds with one stone; He will have eUmtoated the need for imported bracero workers; he wlU have solved, slnle-hondedly, the farm surplus problem, and he will have helped to boost the economies of under developed foreign nations. As they say to the vaulted halls of PederaUs: Nothing succeeds

like fatiure.

the United States, American diplomats are working day and night to talk him out of a war with Israel,

If all this sounds a little ridiculous, the latest word is that Dr. Martin Luther King, after being hooted out of Los Angeles, now wants to go to Hanoi.

As a matter of fact, you wont find one leader in the world today who isnt willing to mediate a jtKst peace for somebody else.

Opinionti In Brie:

"An old medical textbook says that happy people have fewer diseases than unhappy people. Tlie moral seems to be that the surly bird catches the germ."Portland Oregonian.

"Experience shows that swift and impartial justice is one of the most effective deterrents to crime."FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover,

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no court, no law save it; no constitution, no law, no court even can do much to help it." Judge Learned Hand.

"Something of North Caro-Unas problem is indicated by the fact that folks in far Western North Carolina will tell you that the best way to tia-vel from Murphy to Manteo to by Georgia and South Carolina. Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN* Copyright. 1965. King Feature Syndicate, Inc.

The drive of the union leaders in America to force compulsory unionism in every last one of the fifty states could serve as a sad text for Labor Day. It means that union leaders are abandoning their own traditions. For Sam u e 1 Gompers, the Dutch . American cigar maker who was the major force in creating th American Federation of Labor, did not believe in compulsion. Nor did he believe to running to the poUtical state for everything; he wanted people to pay their own way. Gompers Is currently without honor in the United States. But, as is so often the case, when something precious In the American heritage seems to be dying at home it begin to take on new life abroad.

In Asia and to Africa, two continents which have had very Uttle experience to free-

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dom, there to a movement toward what might be called a native Gompcrstom. For example, P. P. Narayanan, th vice - chairman of the Asiatic regional division of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions comes up with the idea that governments must not be permitted to usurp the rights and freedom of trade unions. He to thinking, of course, prtmarUv about the menace of Communist governments. But hto demands, in hto speaking and writing, ar for a trade union movement that will function on its own, without asking for too much state support.

"The experience of at least one Middle Eastern country and some Scandinavian countries, he says, "should help us to aiming at new means by which both trade union and cooperative movements can work together on such programs as housing, marketing, banking, scholarship plans for workers children, teaching of new trades to woricers and creating new employment opportunities. Unions that are large and have developed a regular system of collecting trade unions dues should be able to save surplus funds and invest them in such ventures."

This is a note that we are ceasing to hear in America, where the unions support federally underwritten housing schemes, federal aid to education, and federal loans to all needy college students, incidentally using some fifty per cent of their dues for political purposes.

Mr. Narayanan, with an eye particularly on the threats of Red China and Indonesia to the rest of Asia, warns the Indian trade uniwis to emulate union practices to Japan, Malaysia, and Okinawa in resisting state encroachment on union prerogatives. He Is talking the language of Gompers-ism whether he realizes it or not.

In the new African nation of Kenya S. S. Olitiptip, the Asstotaot Minister for Commerce and Industry in the Kenyatta government, sounds oH against the attraction of Communism to "immature minds." Then, as the alternative to Communtora, he goes on into hto own elaboration .ot a Gompers approach to trade unionism in Kenya. "Trade unions, oooperatlv e and communal enterprises." he says, "are features of African socialtom, but if they becixne appendages of t h e ^ State, then they assume the characteristic o Fascist and Communist organtoationsji nd theee are entirely difieren from the same institutions ii free Socialist countries."

The Oloirlptip idea of Sc daltom to (llstinotly nan-Msb xtot. "Whatever else Ken y Socialtom may or may no (Continued On Page 5)

Coming Business Developments

'They found out the uniform reprosents 0 symbol of outhority end tends to breed resentment.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Here are coming developments in business;

New Highway extensions: The rise in population and auto sales make it certain that a new federal program for new highways and improvement of old ones Is certain. Motorists by their very numbers alone w'ield so much political power that Congress and the states must giv^ them what they want. Thtor has been demonstrated in recent years.

Fireworksi Secretary of Commerce John T. O'Connor has accepted an Invitation to speak tt a National Industrial Conference Board conference in New' York Sept. 23 presided over by Roger M. Blough, U S. steel chalrisn. If U S. Steel tries to push price higher than Rovernment guidelines prescribe there may b sparks.

Costlier rranbtrries: Thl.s

years cranberry crop will be 4 per cent under last year's so holiday cranberries w'ill be a little more expensive.

NOTE ON INFlJtTION

Con.'iumrr prlre index will continue un: Tlie so-called cos-

of-Uvtog index, which has gone up almost every month this year, will ctmtinue its rise, perhaps more sharply, in the rematotog months. One big reason: the higher price of 1966-model autos, due to more safety equipment.

Cheaper potatoes: Maines crop is big and prices will sag this fall

Air line what-ho: The major air lines have ignored the Civil

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Aeronautics Board request that they cut fares because profits are ao high, with 1964 gains averaging up to 10 per cent, with Delta up 17.4 per cChi and Western up 18.2. The CAB is reported to be miffed and to be planning action.

Freight car shortage: Tlie shortage of freight cars will

get worse before it gets better. Some roads are holding back orders in hopes of government subsidies or, at least, higher rental rates. Some soybean, milo and corn crops may not reach market this month because of the car shortage.

MORE BEEF EXPORTS, MORE STEEL IMPORTS

More beef exports: Cuts to

shipping rates for beef that went into effect Wednesday wili increase U.S. exports. Rates to Europe are down SO per cent; to North Africa, 50 per cent.

More steel imports: Ship

ments of foreign steel alres(& on the way will mean an increase In total Imports, snd further U4. gold losses.

Coestruction to increase; The 4 per cent rise to construction contracts in July over a year ago means a corresponding increase in spending an employment in the field until the winter slow down. Viet Nam War requirements will lead to further rises.

Manpower shortage: While everybody else is talking about the high rate of unemployment.

this reporter has been writini about the shortage of akilled, repeat skiUed. labor. Now th# large number (rf retirements under 1964 contracts with the Big Three auto companies threatens to cause delays in production of 1966 model. And the shortage of skilled workers all over will continue to worsen will continue to worsen will continue to ivorsen.

OLD PROMOTER PULLS SOMEBODYS LEG "IMd you hear about that poll of women on what they most wanted about a new house?" the Old Promoter asked cm his visit today.

"There have been several poll* like that,! I said. "The women want more dgpet space more built-in appUanoes, a Dl^ to hide from the famy

"Not to this erne." said my Old One, "There was one thing that came first of all: a husband with an Income to meet the payments.

I think the Old Promtrter was kidding. There was no need to take a poll to find that out.