PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C.

f/edneciay, February 4, 19S9 ^

Wednesday, February 4, 1959

Does Party Welfare Come First?

Keep Practicing Your Draw

In every General Assembly session for the past 20 years strong sentiment has been expressed for repeal of the legislation which permits use of the civilian absentee ballot in North Carolinas general elections.

The legislature, however, has never seen fit to eliminate from the states election laws this provision which has caused more controversy, which has been the source* of more election corruption, and which does more to encourage election fraud than any other provision relating to elections in this state.

Many years ago North Carolinas Democratic party recognized the ills of the absentee ballot. It didnt stop there. The Democratic party ruled out the use of the absentee ballot in its primaries in this state iEven so, the Democratic party in North Carolina, which has retained light control of the legislature, has never seen fit to eliminate, this unwise provision in the state election laws.

The party and its representatives in the 1969 General Assembly should must^the courage to remove the absentee ballot provision m the general election laws of North Carolina.

Obviously the civilian absentee ballot provision is retained only because .some politiciansprimarily in the Western part of the state where Republicans are

more numerousfeei that the absentee ballot can be ^ ^

used to their advantage. If the Western Democrats can A XT r OUTIll V Cjlim*T*A I

use the absentee ballot to carry their point, it might *** *

well be that the Republicans in that part of the stale can do the same thing.

tices in certain areas of North Carolina.

This matter of the absentee ballot in general elections has been sidestepped by the legislature far too long already. During the current session leadership in both the House and the Senate should use their .strenirth to see that this law which breeds corrupt election practices is eliminated.

If the Democratic party cannot retain control of politics in North Carolina without the use of a regulation which encourages corruption, then it doesnt

deserve to retain control of politics in this state.

Whats bad for the Democratic party in North Carolina is also bad for the state. And the Democratic party in Tar Heelia many years ago determined the absentee ballot bred so much election corruption it could not be allowed to remain in use in the partys primaries.

Do the elected Democrats in the General Assembly not care as much for the welfare of the state of North Carolina as they do for the welfare of their party?

There Isn't Time For

VEARNltFOR HIM TO BECOME VtoR. RW./ y

Regardless of party, however, It is the duty of the General Assembly of this state to do everything in its power to assure fair and honest elections throughout North Carolina. So long as legislators allow the civilian absentee ballot law to remain in the election regulations, they are being a party to corrupt election prac-

No Chance For A Poor Choice

The most heated campaign in history for the Speakership of North Carolinas House of Representatives is now over so far as the voting among leg8lav<rs is concerned.

By LYNN NISBT

GOOD CHOICE This is being written before the General Aaaembly formally convened, but by the lime it can be read the bttic organisation will have been completed with lection of presiding officers and top clerical aldea. The aelectlona made were good, because under prevailing conditions there was no chance to make a bad choice. Opposing camps before the election each had BO many able and respon* elblc leaders, more concerned about good government - than about immediate precedence In official position, that no fears ahould be held about reasonable cooperation in the enactment of sound legislation.

It was natural that during pre-srsslon maneuvers in behalf of this or that candidate for Speaker of the House extravagant claims were made about the ehect upon the course of legislation if one or the other were chosen. There probably will be a few memtjers who will try to make good on these claims by failure to cooperate with the accepted organlaation, and may attempt to throw sand in the gears of legislativa machinery.

With apologies for personal reference, your reporter can testify he knows a majority of the leglslatora. and knows them to be Intelligent and of good character and high Integrity. A few will be inclined to go along with the administration program proposed by Governor Hodges solely because he sponsors It. A few others will be against the idea for the same reason. Except for these few, who cannot be effective becatise of extreme and unreasonable attitudes, the members of the General Assembly will support or oppose proposed legislation on its merit, regardless of sponsorship.

COMMITTEES It is to be expected that the Speaker, who has the responsibility of appointing committees which can have Isrge Influence on legislation, will show preference to his supporter* for coveted assignments. It Is unthinkable, in vjew of the close division among capabla legislators In the preSe,ssion campaign and the high level upon which the contest has been staged, that the 8i>eaker will Jeopardise good government by arbitrarily refusing to recognise and utlltre the capabilities of members who did not vole for him

WINDFAIJ. - State officials

who vigorously opposed the State Income tax withholding plan four years ago, and now favor it, ate emphaslxlng the point of a I2ri |.10 million "windfall. Inference is this I something new. Of course it isn't. The same element was present In 195S. and It was argued by advocates then that the windfall occasioned by collecting most of two years' taxes In one year would eliminate necessity for the additional sales taxes then Imposed. If the windfall advantage had been taken then, It would have been absorbed by now and necessity for new taxes would be greater. Admitting that the windfall may be more advantageous now, it still Is not a new development.

Rumor* are that advocates of withholding have worked out a aystem to make the burden lighter on employers thioughoul the stale, and they are now seeking method to lessen the impact of "double taxes" in one year. One suggestion is that the taxes due in April IPfiO on 1515 Income may be split Into at least two annual payments,^

PATTERN - Governor Ernest Hollings of South Carolina has made inqulrlea about how Governor Hodgta of North Carolina handles his news conferences. It seeuis that previous executives in the neighboring slate have never had regularly scheduled times to meet the newsmen. For many years the North Carolina Oovernors have held regular and frequent sesalons with reportera. Governor Hodge* hold* conferences less frequently than did some of his predecessors, but to compensate for that he sets them up on his weekly appointment schedule and is as meticulous to keep the date as any others he makes.

TOM News stories In Sunday papers told of the death of a former newspaper editor named Thomiui J. Henderson, late of YanceyvUle and Reldsvllle. The reader had to wade through several paragraplw to discover that death had caught up with "Tom Henderson", peripatetic and prolific writer on a wide variety of subjects. Ths newsmen who wrote the stories probably fell that Tom was entitled to the dignity of his christening name. But a lot of people did not know when they read the obit that "Tom Henderson" had finally surrendered after 75 years of flghUng physical handicaps, the world, the flesh, the <levll and Democrats.

Rep. AiJdi.Hon Hewlett won the powerful post by a 6.1-51 vote in the Democratic caucus of Hou.'^e member Tuesday night.

The battle between Hewlett and Carl Venters of Onslow County began two years ago and went down to the final wire of the actual vote with both men apparently confident of victory.

Such a aituation Is hound to have created animo-sitie.s within the General Assembly The outcome was the source of elation on the part of Hewlett supporters and disappointment for Venters supporters.

In spite of the hitter struggle for the post, the House division for the two candidates should now be forgotten. Though it may be difficult for some legislators to forget the past and the speakership campaign, for the sake of the state the factions must not continue to do battle throughout the session.

Roth speakership candidates are capable men. And both had capable supporters backing their candidacies. For the victorious Hewlett supporters to exclude V'enters or his supporters from important role.s in committee assignments would be a drastic mistake in the 1959 legislature.

With all the complex problem. the General A.ssem-bly must resolve during the next few months, It can ill afford to carry on a family fight in the House while trying to cope with the other problems before it. The citizens of North Carolina would ultimately suffer the greater loss,

Fulbriaht Can

By DON SCHLIENZ

Wizardry In Shortcuts

Its a rare thing for me to get off the beaten track between office and home, so to play it safe, in venturing outside my familiar ways and byways, I rely on reliable clues and signposts In driving from one point to another.

Thus, if a passerby should see my car parked by a roadside it Isn't necessarily an indication Ive suffered a breakdown , , . but, remembering my Scouting days, probably making sure of my directions by checking on which side of the trees the moss is growing.

Should my course take me to Ayden, Parmville, Wlnterville or Grlmesland ... I learned long ago It was Uie part of wisdom to consult a map of the county beforehand.

All this Irritates my long-suffering helpmate no end, and she pointedly refuses to move the furniture about in our home unless she has gone over the whole layout In advance with me. Her chain of thought is pretty obvious.

On long trip* my tnist In highway numbering system* is the greatest kind of tribute to cooperation between map-maker* and road buUders.

But enough of that. The foregoing was included to Justify the measure of my bafflement when my brothers-in-law (all native-born Pitt Countians) accompany me or take me for a little ride.

All of them, my slsters-ln-law too, seem obsessed by the matter of shortcuts between two points. Sometimes It appears if a shortcut cant be made theres no point In going anywhere.

I can only conclude, watching them, that the people who built our highways simply didnt know that the shortest distance between two points (the points my kin have an Immediate Interest ln> seldom Includes those long straight sections of beautifully laid out highway.

No.

You take a dirt road that angles off toward nowhere, then when it Intersect* a narrow

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. J. William Fulbrlght <D-Arki and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles differ not so much on basic policy as on how to carry It out.

But that difference over the years has bCen enough to cause one Fulbrlght attack on Dulles after another.

All that Fulbrlght saidnettle-some as It may have been had less force when hr was speaking as Just another rhember of the Foreign Relations Committee. But his position and his power have both changed.

Last week S*n, Theodore F. Green DRD, with cllmlnlahed sight and hearing at fll. stepped down a* chairman of the committee, Fulbrlght is moving up into his spot.

While the new Job carries more power, it also carries more responsibility. That may have a restraining effect on Fulhrlghts criticism. Its hardly likely, as he indicated after taking over the new Job But he said after talking with Dulles Monday that he expects their relations to be satisfactory.

In a Senate speech In 155ft Fulbrlght accused Dulles of withholding the truth about "our present perU from Soviet Ru.sla" and satd the secretary "misleads puhlle opinion, confuses It. feeds tt pp. , ."What we want and what we will support is a secretary of state who will not treat us as children, ready to clap In delight at every fairy story, however fanciful"

Last AuKUat Fulbrlght attacked the Eist'nhower Dulles handling ol foretgn iKillcy as "inadequate, outmoded, '^lul misdirected."

He said t^at when the present U.S. ieadership "ia not weak and

desultory," it "tend* to be Impetuous and arbitrary."

The indication that Fulbrlght la unlikely to follow a softer line, now that he is committee chairman, came from the senator himself when he held a news conference after Green's resignation.

He said he stands on his statement of last August that administration policy is "Inadequate, outmoded and misdirected.* #tilbright, like DuUes, is against recognition of Red China. But he thinks "we ought to explore the pos.slblllties of some kind of overall settlement which would include Korea and Formosa."

Fulbrlght approves the administrations proposals for ending nuclear testing but recognlxes there ia disagreement among his Tolleagucs and experts over the matter.

He said he thinks the administration has stalled on dead center In dealing with the Soviet demand to make West Berlin a free city.

He said: "Personally, I think it Is important to move toward the withdrawal of foreign troops. It would be a good thing if Russia withdrew its occupation troops from East Germany, Hungary and Romania."

Practically everybody in the United State.s would like to see such a withdrawal. The question ls how to get the Soviets to do It? And the Western powers have been strongly opposed to withdrawing from West Berlin.

Prom the Fulbrlght positions mentioned here, it's clear he hasn't provided an.swera to much as needles.

But, then, a.s he said hlnvself last week; "1 dodt have a blueprint for the soluUon of any of these problems " Btit he added that "we ought to have the attitude of tjtying to move off dead

Sharpen Your Pencils

(Henderten Dispatch)

Sentiment appears to be mounting in favor of establishment of a State withholding tax as a means of producing revenue when the money is needed most, and to provide a steady flow Into public coffer*. All this, too. well In advance of the convening of the Legislature a few da^ hence. It can alsmast be sa^ that there Is a groundswell 'or opinion back of the proposal. \Cpfrporate and private busine.ss 1^ as well begin to sharpen its pencils in readiness for a new task of free bookkeeping for the benefit of government.

Something, to b sure, is to be said in favor of the idea. While the wage earner and most salaried people dislike the Idea of having deductions made from their earnings without ever seeing or feeling the long green which ordinarily would be theirs, there is a mite of consolation in knowing that when Income tax return-s time rolls around most of the liability has been met in advance.

What tends to reate a bit of sorene.s.*? la that government, at all levels, is spending so much

money that necessitates this fabulous support on Ute part of individuals and business interests. If a lot of the fat were sliced away there would be less demand for taxes and more In the check or pay envelope when It reaches its owner. But it la idle to argue the point. Beneftciaries of this spending are so numerous, if indeed not in the majority, as to provide politicians with the excuse they are looking for in imposing the enormous exactions.

Whatever or how much the objection, a State withholding tax seems at this moment to be in the cards. Collectors, meaning employers of all descriptions, and workers alike apparently had a* well resign themselves to this probability.

The Federal withholding system has been operative so long that it has become Ingrained in the economic fabric of the country. We are likely now Just before seeing it broadened in behalf of the State as well. How soon the counties and municipalities. in their grasp for more income, will fall in line can only be speculated upon.

crooked little ribbon of asphalt you ride it a little ways before taking another rutted path that takes you to another intersect tion which calls for another brief stretch of paving before you hit another dirt track wWch carries you right up to the backdoor of where you want to go.

I recall at leas^one occasion, when their car had some broken' springs . . . and whether this was due to some new shortcut (across a field, perhaps) was never cleared up in my mind. But when with them on one of these Jaunts into nowhere to get somewhere, somebody is sure to say "Schlienz, which way would you go from here to get to Greenville?

And all I can do is dumbly check which shoulder the sun is over, moisten a flnger to check the wind for drift, and hesitantly point. With only four cardinal points of the ctgnpass to choose from, my batting average is as might be suspected. .250.

Jimmy^ Johnny and Tink farm. They do well at It; but R could be they missed their calling. Their talents might be a boon to the highway department, or perhaps in running an excursion service for people who want to see Pitt County as it is away from the more heavily traveled roads.

Map-makers would be sunuis-ed to find there is a shortcut between the Smith farm and the Jones Crossroads store. Law enforcers might find it to their advantage as to how my broth-ers-in-law apply the Great Circle Route principle in getting to any point in the county before anybody else.

Some months ago I accompanied the trio to a barbecue held at the Kinston armory. We left the farm Just as the sun was going down and the dusk grew fast. To me (and the map) It was a matter of logic to simply follow 'Highway 11. Not so to the driver.

He took dirt roads, those little secondary roads, and finally a small stretch of good old Highway 11: followed by another turnoff which put us in the parking lot beside the armory. All in the dark. We arrived minutes ahead of Ume for the feed. No doubt about it, this was one of his shortcuts.

Later, looking at a map, I began to wonder. Highway 11 was about as direct a route as one could wish for. And where were those dirt roads we took? Where

Money Is Also Victim

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) Curb-stone omments of a Pavement Plato:

Men Invariably grow feeblo* with age. So. often, does their money.

Time watera down most currencies. This is happening in otar own lives to the American dollar. "

There is an old slang sayiof that "money talks," and it st does. But there was a time when the U. S. dollar didnt merely talk. It ahouted in a voice admired and feared arotmd the globe.

This is BO longer qidt# so trae. The "almighty dollar" no longer is almighty. B has developed laryngtUs. While other currencies hsve been building up muscle such as the BwUs franc, the German mark the dollar has been losing weight.

If a Ruui had loct as bhkIi weight, comparatively, as the dollar has, he would be in a hospital bed calling for blood transfusions and an oxygen tent.

Postwar inflation has swepi all countries to varying degrsea. The creeping inflation in the United States has gone on so steadily that it is only occasionally we are sharply reminded that, while we have more money in our pockets now, it doesnt have the same value-Here are two recei^ examples that made me aharply ncwtalgio for the dollar that was a dollar.

1, A lady in our office casually remarked fliat it now cost her $2,25 merely to park her car in a mldtowB Manhattan lot daring working hours. Remember when a traveling man could get a go^ hotel room for $2 a night and they parked the car free?

2, A panhandler hit me up. Scratching in my pockets, I found only 23 cents In change and gave it to Mm with an apology. "Dont you have a buck you can spare?" he demanded.

Inflation waters down not only a peoples curremiy; it also waters down their dreams. Its terrible cost is paid least by the shiftless grasshopper, most by the thrifty ant and thereby it violates the morality behind all sensible living.

Inflation doesnt wait for posterity to present its bill. It presents its bill now, too, and tiie hard-earned dollar a man saved yesterday to buy himself comfort tomorrow is spent to keep himsell afloat in the higi^ priced world today.

Opinions In Brief

"The windbags on Capitol HIl! are at it againwith your money. So far this year, copies of the Congressional Record (which cost $75 a page) arc bigger, fatter and duller than ever.

"In one issue recently, members of Congress used up to, 80 pages Just to reprint stuff which already had been made public. Included were two complete articles from a national magazine which has 100 times more readers than the ReocMrd. There were also tributes to Iowas Rose Bowl victory, Atn-a-ham Lfncobi, vetmrans, Sam Rayburn and almost anything else you oaa think of. R^rinting all this ccwt $6480, Just for (me day. And the aad part was Bnt much of it was devoted to ringing declaraticms that Congrex* BOBiehow must cut down the high eoet of fovemmwH." Memphis Prese-BoimHar.

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where ttioee Bttie. eroohed stretefi-es of asphalt? The map dldnl say.

Today Im wonderinff If perhaps the whole operahon wm a deliberate attempt to confuse me just a Httk Mt more. We may well have been going to Kinston by way of Btokee . . . wlMeh Is in the opposite (HrteMon.

But bow (bd be Bo B?

Debunks Control By The Women

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLAS.S (TIAKACTEK COMl-hS FIRST Whal does an employer want to know alwut a prospective em ployee? First he want* to know if the person b reliable. Then he want* to know whether or not he is resourceful. The third quality required is common sense or the ability to ct in a manner which the situation requires and to act at the right time. Last of all. an employer wants to know 11 the appUcani for a position is well trained,

'We- would- uaturally- thlok -that the first thing, an etuployer would want to find out about a person applying for a Job would be whether or not thb per.son WR.H well trained. A.sk any em ployer and you will discover that this is the last question he asks.

He want* first of all to be assured that In dealing with this applicant he b dealing with an honest and honorable person. Then he wants to know whether the appUcant has any vbton. tmaglnatton. or resourcefulness. In the thud place he want* to be sure that he b dealing with a sensible, leve-headed person. Last of all is there something thb person can do and do well? Never forget that character comes first, personality second, common sense third, and skill . -aiMt iraiiang - iast... -

Skill and training Are important ~ hut there are other thing* without which skill and training would Iw completely inadequate Pvit first things first, ami the very flr.si thing of Importance b character.

By ELMER ROKSSNER

The economic power of American wotnen b greatly overestimated, A. Wilbert Zelomek asserts In his new book. "A Changing America" With broad strokes the econombt paints a picture of America in mid-century. But the chapter on women b the most interesting - as bnt it always?

Dr, Zelomek debunks the long-accepted idea that American women own, operate, control and domUiate the American male and American buslne?5.N.

"Women own .52 per cen! of all common stock Ibted. If thn gives a picture of 56,b0fi.0O') American'women each with a little bundle of stocks in ner name, dbmiss it," he writes. "The bulk Is still owned by a few wealthy women, although there are more and more mid-rile lncome women being added to the Ibi of stockholders -4>WN miT-NGT C41NTIUNL

"Ihls b perhaps the best place to emphasize that owning b not' conUoiling. Women gen-erail leave their Investment decisions to man, and prefer n>en a stockbrokers.

"Xbci do not coaU ol compakics

they 'own* (companies In which women own more than 50 per I ent of the stock include some of the giants of Industry A T & T., du Pont and General Electric.) Women are seldom found on the lioard of director* in in high executive posts: they have little voice in determining policy within the company."

Dr. Zelomek adds that women own half of all savings accounts and government bonds, or perhaps slightly more. But women oonstlftite half the population. "Why then," he ask*, "should proportionate owner.ship be startling unless it IK assumed that women have no ownership rights?

He cites a University of Mlchl-'.:*n survey showtng that women iiandie the money and pay the bilb in 88 per cent of the families and that the husband and wife together handle the bill* In another 31 per cent, leaving another 31 per cent In which the

handle''^ Mllsr -----------

"If we break the 31 per cent for Joint handling In half, we come out with nearly a 50-30 relationship." he concludes "These figures can only be alarming If we start by agreeing with the Koraa tuH vomea stand initcMr

to men."

QUESTIONS BUYING DECISIONS

Women buy or Influence the purchase of 60 to 85 per cent of all good* and services In the United States, according to various estimates. But as proof of the hold of American women on the economy, these estimate* should be taken with a shaker-ful of salt, he adds.

Women buy many things mostly to please husbands, he says, although with more and more women working, and with men spending more Ume at home tt te protxible that womena influence over buying will increase while actual mmchaslng may decrease. The last stronghold of the American female the. supermarket ha* already been Invaded by men."

The fact that women held lO billion In Ufe insurance ha* been . oflea. quoted, iia .rUca lUjagooc-nious. he adds, but it consUtutes only L5 per cent of the total. But women receive 75 per cent of the beneflLs

"There are two reasons why w-omen are the main Inheritor*

B< wrnm m ifeie mmrnh * b

econovnial deelarM. "Flret, women have been Icae able to support themselves and have had te be provl(jk*d for. Second Is that women live loiqier than men and are alive to inherit what men leave . . . There has been built up an unfortunately p<^u-lar notion that greedy, laxy American wives drive husbands to an early grave with overwork to supply them with fur* and Jewels. U this is true. American women start pretty early; there is an excess of male mortality before the beginning of Hie <sUU-births), through Infancy, childhood and adulthood."

"A Changing America." 181 pages, is published by John Wiley k Sons.

Other new books of more tlura usual Interest to businessmen Include ("Economic ForecasWog." by V Lewis Basale (quoted In this column yesterday), published -by MeGeew-HBJt' **TheTehe Lectures In Retail Distribution at the Harvard Business School." a second series, by nine distinguished experts, pu? '.ed by the school; and "DuS' >-.'a

Handbook," by 1 ;er.