The Charlotte News
Thursday, April 2, 1959
FIVE EDITORIALS
Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that the President had told the NATO Council this date that the Western powers intended to make "concrete and realistic proposals" to the Soviet Union for agreements on disarmament, Germany, European security and outer space. He said that the real need for world peace was that the Communists ought abandon their "purpose of world domination". In a speech prepared for the opening session of the tenth anniversary meeting of the 15-nation alliance, the President said that though they strove for settlement, the free nations had to expect to live in an atmosphere of tension and conflict with the Soviet Union for years to come. To meet that test successfully, the greatest need of the non-Communist world was unity and unity was "the very lifeblood of NATO". The President was the headline speaker at the opening ceremonies. He referred only briefly to the Berlin crisis, with which the allied leaders of North America and Western Europe were preoccupied, the Berlin situation having dominated the NATO meeting. The President said: "We shall always open the door of honest discussion—even to those whose creed is world domination. Our government conducts continuous—almost daily—discussions and negotiations with the Soviet Union. We use regular diplomatic establishments, special committees, organs of the United Nations, and occasional meetings of responsible political leaders. No means are overlooked that yield promise of constructive results. We shall continue these negotiations and discussions. We shall continue to make concrete and realistic proposals for disarmament, for a just solution to the problems of Germany, for European security and for cooperation in the newly opening realm of outer space. Although we shall always avoid substituting illusions for reality, we shall continue to strive for a more general and far-reaching, but always practical, settlement of differences with the Soviets. The need, as we reach for a lasting peace with justice, is the abandonment of the Communist purpose of world domination. We shall never cease to encourage such a change. Meanwhile, we must be prepared during the years ahead to live in a world in which tension and bickering between free nations and the Soviets will be daily experiences. To do this, freedom's greatest requirement is unity—the unity which is the very lifeblood of NATO."
In London, it was reported that Communist China's radio had declared this date that Tibet's Dalai Lama had taken refuge in India, the broadcast, quoting the New China news agency, having said that the Dalai Lama had left Tibet "under duress by the rebellious elements."
In Auckland, New Zealand, it was reported that evangelist Billy Graham had arrived this night from Australia and had told a welcoming crowd that world prayer could avert a third world war. He said, "I am certain that if Christians in China, Russia, the United States, Europe and around the world united in prayer and put the emphasis on spiritual things, we could avert war. We don't have anything in common racially or politically. One common denominator we do have is spiritual." About 3,000 people had greeted the evangelist when he had driven into the city from the airport at midnight. He would begin a six-day campaign the following day. Reverend Graham said that his wife planned to travel from the U.S. to join him during his campaign in Sydney, which would begin on April 12. They would take a two-week holiday at Broadbeach, Australia. He said that the ailment which had bothered his left eye was much better and that his general health was greatly improved.
In Orlando, Fla., it was reported that tornadoes had hit two sections of mid-Florida this date, killing one person, injuring many others, and damaging many homes. One had struck Dade City, an island town 35 miles northeast of Tampa, prior to dawn. Two persons had reportedly been injured and a million dollars of damage done to homes destroyed or damaged. The northern edge of that town had been hit and many power lines were down. In Orlando in the center of the state, a woman had been killed en route to a hospital after her home had been damaged by a tornado. She lived in the Azalea Park area, 3 miles east of Orlando, which appeared to have been the hardest hit. Between 12 and 20 homes had been reported damaged and four persons injured in the early morning storm. A series of other small storms had hit around Orlando, one of which had done estimated damage of $10,000 to a marble and tile company. The Miami Weather Bureau said that the line of squalls and severe thunderstorms had moved southeastward over peninsular Florida and that others were likely after the storms at Dade City and Orlando. Hail had fallen at several points during severe thunderstorms along the peninsula during the night, ranging from Jacksonville southward.
In Washington, N.C., it was reported that a tornado had dipped down during the morning on the Lee Paramore farm near the town, leveling five barns and damaging seven other farm buildings, but no one had been injured.
In Tucson, Ariz., 13 universities were banding together to do something about the weather, mapping plans for a 71 million dollar weather research institute. The schools had formed a University Corporation for Atmospheric Research to begin the project. Plans had been announced at a press conference at the University of Arizona on Wednesday night. The head of the department of meteorology at MIT and chairman of the new organization said that the institute would lead to better weather forecasting and control.
In Tokyo, it was reported that seven American enlisted men going on emergency home leave, one to the bedside of his critically ill mother, had been assigned seats on a U.S. military airliner from Tokyo. The deluxe "Pacific Express" had been flying to California with a stop in Hawaii. At the last minute on March 26, a lieutenant colonel with his wife and family, six in all, had shown up at the airport bound for a vacation in Hawaii. The GI's had been bumped and the colonel and his family given the seats. An airman of Fayetteville, Tenn., had telephoned Lt. General Robert Burns, commander of U.S. forces in Japan, to protest that he was trying to get home to visit his ill mother. The plane had already taken off and was half an hour out of Tokyo over the Pacific before the General could verify the complaint. General Burns ordered the aircraft back and had gone himself to the air base to see that the GI's got their seats back. The colonel's name was being withheld pending completion of an investigation. An Air Force spokesman had explained that he "might be completely innocent in the affair." He said further that emergency leaves normally provided a priority which was sufficiently high to safeguard any passenger against being bumped by someone on regular leave, regardless of rank. He indicated that it might be that they needed some new procedures or better adherence to the old ones. General Burns, according to the spokesman, said that he had no desire for publicity over the incident, but was certainly a hero to the enlisted men in Japan.
In Raleigh, it was reported that the House Manufacturing and Labor Committee of the State Legislature had given a favorable report this date to a 75-cent state hourly minimum wage bill after taking out exemptions. A representative of Caswell County had broken a 16 to 16 tie to send the measure to the House floor. An amendment to remove exemptions, opposed by sponsors of the bill, had been adopted by the Committee by a vote of 18 to 15. A representative of Gaston County, one of the bill's sponsors, had called the amendment a maneuver to defeat the bill. Before the voting, sponsors of the minimum wage legislation had agreed on a 75-cent figure for the bill. A bill which had called for a dollar hourly wage floor was amended to the 75-cents.
Emery Wister of The News reports that a new five-story office building was planned at 317 S. Tryon Street between the First Union National Bank and the Oasis Temple of the Shrine. The Vinson Realty Co., agent for the project, had said that the structure would be of unique design and would contain approximately 38,500 square feet, with a total investment, including land, to be approximately a million dollars. A five-story structure presently on the site would have to be razed before construction could begin. The president of Vinson Realty said that demolition would likely begin in the early fall, with it anticipated that the new building would be completed in early 1960.
Julian Scheer of The News reports that blank-cartridge pistols might soon become a bootlegged product over the North and South Carolina border. The strange situation had come to light in the General Assembly the previous day when lawmakers had learned from Mecklenburg Representative Irwin Belk that a dealer could sell a high-powered rifle without a license, but needed a $200 license to sell a blank cartridge pistol or cartridges for it. The blank pistol was a necessary part of high school and college athletic programs, used to start track and swimming races and other athletic events. They were often also used on the stage to eliminate villains. The high cost of the license had forced sporting goods dealers to stop selling the pistols. The law was not new, but it was unknown to most dealers in the state. Now, if one wanted to purchase a blank cartridge pistol, the person probably would have to bring it in from South Carolina or Virginia. Representative Belk's bill would exempt dealers in blank cartridge pistols from privilege license taxes when the pistols were used by colleges, universities and schools. Most dealers had been mistakenly selling the blank pistols under city and county licenses. In Mecklenburg County, a dealer sold pistols after purchasing a $50 City and a $50 County license. No license was required for the sale of rifles and shotguns. Representative Belk had gotten the word from a local sporting goods dealer, after a spot check on licenses by a state inspector the prior January had brought the matter to a head. The inspector had seen the blank cartridge pistols in the dealer's store and had asked whether he had a license to sell them, and the sporting goods dealer had pointed out that he had local licenses to sell pistols, but was told by the inspector that the blank pistols were covered under state law and that a special state measure, one apparently written in the records when firecrackers and cap pistols had been banned in the state a number of years earlier, required the $200 license. The sporting goods dealer was surprised. Since he sold only five or six of the pistols per year, each costing between $10 and $20, he stopped selling the pistols, which were different from ordinary pistols in that they were designed only for blanks and a regular bullet could not be fired with one. The law banned fireworks and cap pistols, required a license to sell blank pistols, but regular pistols, rifles and shotguns were there for the asking. That must have been when Amurica was grrr-eat.
In Las Vegas, it was reported that singer Eddie Fisher had said this date that he and actress Elizabeth Taylor would marry in Mexico within the ensuing six weeks. On Wednesday night, he said, they would wed in Las Vegas if he could get the consent of his former wife, Debbie Reynolds. But he added later that he had slight hope of obtaining that agreement. Ms. Reynolds had obtained a California divorce which would not be finalized for another year. Mr. Fisher pointed out that he could obtain a divorce in Mexico without his former wife's consent. Asked if it meant that he and Ms. Taylor would be wed in Mexico, he nodded agreement. Both said that they had not selected the site for their wedding, as they did not want it to be public. Mr. Fisher indicated that Ms. Taylor was leaving in May for Europe to make a movie and that he would travel with her. She hoped that Ms. Reynolds might consent to a Nevada divorce on her return from movie work in Spain within a few days. She said that Ms. Reynolds had been very hurt initially when she found out that Mr. Fisher and she were in love, that it was understandable, but she believed that the hurt had now dissipated and that she might consent to the divorce in Nevada, that she had nothing to gain by opposing it. The discussion followed the opening of Mr. Fisher's show at the Tropicana Hotel, which Ms. Taylor had attended with her parents. Mr. Fisher said that he had sought to obtain his former wife's consent to a quickie divorce but had been rebuffed. Ms. Reynolds had said earlier that she would not consent because it would be embarrassing to explain to her two children how their father could have two wives at the same time. Under a Nevada decree, Mr. Fisher and Ms. Taylor could not live as man and wife in California until Ms. Reynolds's decree was final, under penalty of bigamy charges. Mr. Fisher had been favorably received in his singing appearance on Wednesday night and when Ms. Taylor had entered the crowded dining room, she received a warm round of applause. Earlier, pickets had appeared before the hotel, one of which had read: "Liz, go home!"
The President was planning to pass up baseball for golf the following week. Unless he changed his mind, he would leave on Monday or Tuesday for a few days of vacation at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. Barring a change of plans, the White House said late the previous day, the President would not be in Washington a week from this date to toss out the first baseball of the season's opening game between the Washington Senators and the Baltimore Orioles. It would be the first opener which President Eisenhower had missed, and Vice-President Nixon would probably substitute for him. There had not been a break in the tradition of the President presiding over the first game since 1945, when House Speaker Sam Rayburn had filled in for President Truman a few days following the death of President Roosevelt.
On the editorial page, "Raise Tax on Liquor? It's Too Risky" indicates that it had been proposed in the Legislature that the state increase its tax on liquor sold in ABC stores from 10 percent to 17 percent, with the advocates of it mentioning two advantages, that it would add ten million dollars per year to the state treasury and would serve John Barleycorn right.
It finds that it was to be expected that the second reason had attracted some support from the dry forces in the state, there being no general enthusiasm during the year for a statewide liquor referendum. Whatever the motive, it was bad legislation and it finds that the Mecklenburg County Commission had been wise to speak out firmly against it.
It finds it a simple question of practicality, that increased taxes on legal whiskey would only increase the amount of illegal liquor sold and would drive border North Carolinians into neighboring states where liquor prices would be cheaper. It would defeat the well-defined purpose of the ABC system.
Experience suggested that such an increase at the present time would enrich the bootlegger, poison the public and encourage organized crime. The ABC system, it ventures, ought be preserved, for aside from its effectiveness in imposing order and honesty on the sale of intoxicants, it had another important advantage, that it existed solely by majority consent in any community in which it operated. That fact tended to make the system clean, orderly and efficient. It also allowed each community to decide how it could best control the alcohol traffic, and any community under the ABC system could vote out liquor stores anytime it wished.
As for the intended slap at John
Barleycorn, it suggests that it would be well to remember the origin
of the name itself, from an old folk song, "Sir John
Barleycorn"
"The Plight of Tar Heel Wage Earners" indicates that the anguished cries of some industrialists regarding a proposed state minimum wage had rung hollow during the week. Facts gathered by a UNC committee, published on Sunday in the Raleigh News & Observer, had demonstrated the plight of North Carolina wage earners in an era of economic expansion. In average weekly earnings of all manufacturing workers, the state ranked 30th among the states in 1949, but by 1954, had dropped to the bottom, ranking 48th. Weekly earnings averaged $47.88 in that latter year.
In 1957, the latest year for which statistics were available, the state had moved up to 47th in average weekly earnings of manufacturing workers, with the average that year having been $61.05.
Since agriculture usually got the blame for the state's low per capita income, it finds it interesting that the state's realized net income per farm in 1949 had been $1,690, causing the state to be ranked 38th, and by 1954, that total had reached $2,091, rendering the state 30th, and in 1958, the total had been $2,221, resulting in it being ranked 32nd.
Since 1949, therefore, the state had slipped from 30th to 47th in average weekly earnings of manufacturing workers, while rising from 38th to 32nd in realized net income per farm.
But the quibble in the Legislature at present concerned a state minimum wage of 75 cents per hour, which would guarantee a weekly income of only $30 per week before deductions.
"A Sure Wager" notes that the Navy had purchased a bathyscaphe, cousin to a submarine, which had dove to 12,000 feet in tests. It wonders how long it would be before it heard: "If man was supposed to go that far down he'd been made like a fish."
It refers to those who had said the same about going into space and being able to fly as a bird.
"What To Do with the Hi Fi
Fanatic" indicates that more than once it had been subjected to
the ravings of the 20,000-cycle high fidelity nut, with recordings
It finds that when such people could not trap a person into a home concert, they would woofer the listener to death at work, at Sunday School or any other place.
Now, it had found a comeback, having heard from an unimpeachable source of a 200,000-watt high fidelity amplifier, contained in a box 24 feet long, 7 feet high and 3 feet wide. An inside man had allowed that if it could be hooked to a king-sized speaker system "you could carry on a conversation with a friend three counties away."
It finds that it ought be left unsaid that the amplifier had been built by Westinghouse for Lockheed to test vibration resistance in missile parts. It concludes: "Just leave the fanatic alone with his pitiful two-watt rig."
"News from Britain" indicates that the world's smallest union was Britain's Amalgamated Society of Lace Pattern Readers, Correctors, Press & Piano Punchers, with 15 members. It indicates that the latter division did not flail away at musical instruments but rather punched lace patterns from a piano-like keyboard.
A piece from the Manchester Guardian, titled "Ill Wind", quotes Danny Kaye's lament: "My father was a hobo/ Because he played the oboe,/ Which, as everyone knows,/ Is an ill wind no one blows good." While sad enough, it finds, the oboe player's troubles were nothing to that of the trumpeter, if judged from an article which Professors M. Faulkner and E. P. Sharpie-Schaefer had published in the British Medical Journal, indicating that when a trumpeter held a high, loud note "a formidable Valsalva manouevre" took place, "peripheral venous valves shut", and other unpleasant things happened until the trumpeter felt dizzy or occasionally blacked out. Some orchestras had gone so far as to employ a "mate" to stand by to take over the note if necessary.
The two professors had surprisingly concluded that "apart from the discomfort of occasional dizzy sensations or blackouts, trumpet players are not likely to come to any harm." But it finds the trouble to be serious enough for the professors to have made some practical suggestions, that orchestras could do without a mate "if the trumpeter wore a pilot's pressure suit, which could be surreptitiously inflated by a switch on the conductor's desk." The difficulty was that conductors were busy as it was and had to stick to the score. If they were not to forget to press the switch until too late, all existing compositions would probably have to be re-scored for the pressure suit.
The professors had written that it was better to sit than to stand, but the strict supine posture, which would be better still, seemed hardly feasible. It concludes that surely one of the many-jointed, delicately balanced implements could hold the score comfortably above a supine trumpeter's head.
Drew Pearson indicates that a unique and interesting dinner was being held at the exclusive F Street Club this night, being promoted by the Iron and Steel Institute in honor of Republican Minority Leader in the Senate, Everett Dirksen of Illinois. In itself, it was unusual because political or commercial dinners were not usually held at the one-time private home of Laura Curtis before she had become bored with Washington and turned her colonial mansion into a private club. But even more unusual was the fact that $100 per plate was being charged for the dinner, with the proceeds going to the Senator from Illinois to help him stage a series of television shows.
Senator Dirksen was not up for re-election, having been recently re-elected. Thus, a money-raising campaign for him at present had all the earmarks of a personal expense fund, similar to that which had caused such criticism of then-Senator Nixon in September, 1952, and almost cost him the vice-presidential spot on the ticket. Senators were not supposed to have money raised for them in between elections, especially by big businessmen.
He finds the most interesting point to be that the organization which was initiating the $100 per plate dinner, the Iron and Steel Institute, was for a Senator who was a member of the Anti-Monopoly Committee and not long earlier had done a great favor for the Institute. When Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee had written a report blasting the steel industry for touching off another round of inflation by hiking prices in 1956, Senator Dirksen had written a minority report taking vigorous exception to Senator Kefauver. Even though the President had come out the previous week with a public warning to the steel industry against price increases, the Senator had written a report implying that the steel industry could do no wrong.
General Lauris Norstad, the U.S. NATO commander in Paris, had threatened to fire French General Jean Valluy as commander of all NATO forces in West Germany based on the fact, first, that the French had withdrawn its best troops to fight in North Africa, following which, Premier Charles de Gaulle had objected to having any French troops, even poor ones, integrated with other allied troops in Europe, arguing privately that French troops fought better under the French flag. That had infuriated General Norstad who pointed out, also privately, that General Valluy, a Frenchman, commanded four American divisions, three British divisions, and the entire West German Army. The French had only two second-rate divisions in NATO, and yet Premier De Gaulle wanted them kept separate from American, British and German troops.
A screening board had narrowed down the applicants for the first flight into space to exactly 12, all of whom would be given special training at the Langley, Va., Space Laboratory, and the following year, one would be selected from the group to ride in the nose of a giant Atlas missile into orbit around the earth.
Secretary of Labor James Mitchell was withholding a report which claimed that young people were remaining longer in school because they could not find jobs. If it were not for that fact, the report warned, unemployment would be even worse. The previous year, an estimated 400,000 workers either had stayed in school or did not try to find jobs because of the unemployment problem.
Joseph Alsop indicates that in Tibet, Prime Minister Nehru of India, and a lot of other people, were receiving a much-needed demonstration of the ruthlessness, persistency and power of Chinese imperialism. He summarizes the clash by indicating that until the present, the Chinese Communist effort to transform Tibet into a dependable puppet-state had been cautious but highly disruptive. On the cautious side, the Chinese had maintained the façade of Tibet's ancient religious Government headed by the two chief living gods, the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama. But on the disruptive side, the Chinese had driven two great military roads into Tibet, at a great cost in life among the forced laborers. They had sent tens of thousands of Chinese exiles to settle in the once-closed country, especially around Lhasa, the sacred capital. And they had attempted unprecedentedly close control of Tibet's day-to-day affairs.
One of the first major reactions to the Chinese pressure had been a rebellion of the warlike Khamba tribe, which originally had occupied Eastern Tibet. They had been driven out of the East by the Chinese Communist Army, but most of the tribe's fighting men had made their escape to Southern Tibet. There, they established their present center of resistance and the resistance movement had grown, finally causing the Chinese to attempt the preventive arrest of the Dalai Lama, the living god who had always held most of the temporal power. The riots and fighting which had resulted in Lhasa, the escape of the Dalai Lama to join the Khamba resistance force, and the Peking Government's proclamation naming the Panchen Lama as the new puppet-ruler of Tibet, were all of a twice-told tale. The points to note, he indicates, were the continuing resistance and its acquisition of the Dalai Lama as a divine figurehead. For the Chinese Communists, those were very serious points.
With its secret valleys, fearful heights, and sturdy people, Tibet was ideal resistance country. Its complete pacification would not be easy, even if the Chinese shed Tibetan blood like water, as they could be expected to do. Furthermore, the two new Chinese military roads only extended to the main bases of the 60,000-man army which China had in Tibet. Guerrilla-hunting units would have to be supplied by airdrop, and it would sorely tax air transport resources which were already strained to the utmost by the frenzied tempo of China's five-year plan. The cruel display of Chinese imperialism in Tibet was the sharpest sort of corrective for the Asian woolly-mindedness about China which had been typified by Nehru.
Mr. Alsop indicates that to see the affair in perspective, however, it was necessary to note that Nehru ought not to have needed the reminder of China's persistent imperialism, as one of the two central facts in the history of the Asian mainland was the inexhaustible power-drive of the Chinese people.
During the previous four millennia, that Chinese power-drive had expanded in the area properly called "China", from three small provinces in the Yellow River valley to the present Chinese boundaries, building empire after empire, surviving a whole series of periods of Chinese internal decay and felt again by all of China's neighbors whenever China had a strong central government, as at present.
He indicates that the recent events in Tibet had even more specific echoes of the past, as previous Panchen Lamas had been the favorite puppets of China's Manchu emperors, being regularly employed as counterweights to the more independent and nationalist Dalai Lamas, just as the Panchen Lama was being employed at present. Again, the use of whole armies of exiles to make a new province into a permanent part of China was a technique which the Chinese had been using for a couple of thousand years. For instance, the technique had helped to make Canton and all of the rest of South China into Chinese territory.
Mr. Alsop indicates that no historian had explained that Chinese dynamism, which had eventually spelled the doom of every neighbor which China had ever had. But even if the phenomenon was inexplicable, it was still a central phenomenon, especially at present when Communist dynamism had been added to Chinese dynamism.
The other central phenomenon of Asian history, he finds, was India's persistent tendency to weakness and disunity. As most people had forgotten China's past, most people also seemed to have forgotten that India almost automatically had succumbed to any invader who gained control of the passes of the Himalayas, from the time of Alexander the Great until the era of the British conquest. Yet Nehru had managed to overlook both the consolidation of Soviet influence in Afghanistan and the Chinese subjection of Tibet, until the Tibetan rebellion had raised the kind of moral issue which Nehru could not ignore.
A letter writer indicates that in 1938, when the first Federal minimum wage had been set at 25 cents per hour, the average hourly earnings in U.S. industry had been less than 63 cents. Now, the one dollar minimum wage compared with an average industrial earnings of at least $2.19, a much wider differential. He indicates that in setting the 25-cent minimum, Congress had provided an elaborate system for its steady increase. A 30-cent minimum was made mandatory after one year, and a 40-cent minimum by 1945. As a result, virtually all industries had reached the 40-cent minimum by 1941. Thus, during World War II, the legal minimum wage had borne a realistic relationship to the wage structure of the nation as a whole. He finds that it was not until 1949 that Congress had raised the minimum wage under existing wages. The raise was relatively substantial, from 40 cents to 75 cents per hour, or nearly double, that increase having followed within a year in the Korean War, triggering a new inflationary spiral. Since the 75-cent minimum wage had gone into effect on January 1, 1950 and since the figure had been raised to a dollar six years later, for the period between 1950 and 1956, industrial workers as a whole had seen their wages rise an average of 50 cents per hour, with the range in 12 leading industries having gone from 45 cents in non-ferrous metals, to 67 cents in bituminous coal, with automobile, oil, aircraft and the rest falling in between. That had also been the period when old-age pensions had been established to supplement Social Security, when employers had agreed to pay all or part of the cost of hospital and life insurance, weekly sickness and accident benefits, medical care and the like. It was also the period when regular, automatic wage increases were henceforth guaranteed to the more fortunate workers through cost-of-living escalator clauses in union contracts and annual "improvement factors" to compensate for higher productivity. Thus the increase in the minimum wage to one dollar, which had taken effect on March 1, 1956, had amounted to only half what had already been gained in wages by workers in industry as a whole. During the previous three years, the higher paid workers had continued to move ahead, with the average industrial wage having risen 30 cents per hour, even more in many industries. Thus, in the nine years since the 75-cent minimum wage had been established, average hourly earnings in American industry as a whole had risen 80 cents per hour and the average in higher paid jobs had gone up by 86 cents, while the legal minimum wage had gone up by only a quarter. He finds that a substantial increase in the Federal minimum wage was thus justified by those comparisons, but that there were even more compelling reasons. The health of the national economy demanded it. Man-hour productivity had increased more than 50 percent since World War II and at least 700,000 new workers entered the job market each year. A high level of consumer purchasing-power was essential to maintain the economy in a growth pattern and to provide jobs for all Americans, achievable only if workers as a whole shared in the greater productivity of industry as a whole. The health of the lowest paid workers and their families also demanded it, as the Department of Labor's "city workers family budget" would require a wage of $2.25 per hour. Finally, he finds that it was morally indefensible for any American worker to be condemned to a mere subsistence living.
A letter from the general chairman of the Joint Episcopal Lenten Services indicates that the Council of the Episcopal Churches of Charlotte thanked the newspaper and especially John Borchert, the religion editor, for the coverage given their Joint Episcopal Noonday Lenten Services which had just been completed. He indicates that such cooperation as exhibited by the newspaper encouraged them in their efforts to bring to Charlotte during the Lenten season outstanding preachers from all over the nation.
A letter writer from Laurens, S.C., indicates that many people had been writing him from North Carolina wanting to know what he thought of the prospects for a good fruit crop during the year, and he indicates that the outlook at present was very favorable, provided they could get through March, the most dangerous month of the year for fruit trees. Lots of trees were in full bloom and some in full buds. The most dangerous part of March was a period of three days before the new moon and seven days afterward. The hot summer months also had to be considered, for he had seen some commercial orchards completely destroyed in July and August.
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