PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Monday, May 4, 10S9

Monday, May 4, 1959

A Day For All Voters To Be Heard

The individual citizen is more directly affected four members of the City Council to direct the city's by the actions of local government in the community affairs for the next two years. These officials, how-in which he lives than by any other level of government ever, will be elected only by those citizens who take the in our democratic society. few minutes required to cast a ballot. They wdll not

Realizing this, it is often surprising that local elec- he elected by those citizens who stay away from the tions to name men to local government posts often nd fail to cast their ballotli.

There Is No Second Prize (McElroy) 3 OC !vS

bring fewer votens to the polls than elections in which state or national offices are at stake.

Tomorrow in Greenville and Farmville, voters will go to the polls to elect officials who will direct ocal government affairs in the two cities during the next two years. In Ayden, Grifton and Winterville, voters went to,the polls today for that same purpose.

Upon the shoulders of these oficials elected today and tomorrow in municipalities throughout Pitt County will rest the responsibility for directing local government affairs in the years immediately ahead. Upon the shoulders of the voters of the individual communities rests the responsibility of selecting the officials who will hold public office.

In Wintervdlle, Ayden and Grifton where local elections were held today, it is now too late for those citizens who did not cast their ballota to voice their choice of candidates at the polls. It is our hope, however, that voters in these communities turn out in large numbers.

It is also the hope of The Reflector that voters of Greenville and Farmville will go to the polls in large numbers tomorrow to participate in the election of their respective officials.

In Greenville there are some 7,000 registered voters on the citys books. Two years ago less than 2,500 of these voters went to the polls to parUcipata in the election of the five members of the City (^)uncil. Tomorrow Greenville voters will elect a mayor and

Scheidts Hopes Dashed Aaain

The Reflector urges every registered voter in Greenville and Farmville to make a sincere effort to go to the polls and cast his ballot for the candidates of his choice. In order for local government to be truly representative of the wishes of the people of any community, it is essential that a representative number of the people of the community participate in the election of local officials.

If only 25 per cent of the eligible voters go to the polls and cast their ballots, it means that slightly more than 12^/2 per cent of the eligible voters may be able to determine which of the candidates are elected to office. If only 50 per cent of the eligible voters go to the polls, slightly more than 25 per cent of the registered voters of th community will be able to determine which candidates are elected to office.

filvery citizen of every community has the responsibility of participating in local government affairs by participating in the election of local officials.

A Real Shocker Should Cuba Fall To The Reds

By LYNN NISBET

REQUIEM ~ Lrglslttorii in a Houae roada commitlfe wanird it undfratood la^t thay havft nothing against Motor Vehlclaa Comml&Ktonrr Ed Siholdt <*'I will not call you Commissar ono of them told him) but this doea not deter them from whacking part hia leglalatlve program* The latest funeral dirge waa anunded over a bill setting up a nioU)r vehicle Inspection law and reached a mournful and aoulfu pitch when Cousin Wayland Spruill of Bertie rose to speak.

That last Inapectlon bill may have saved some lives on Uie highway, he aald, "but it also killed off about 100 politicians. They didn't come back here *' He Runk his head down into a aeries of double china and continued in his dlrge-Iike manner: "If this bill paa.ses. I want to know what cotinty will be willing to lake me in?

McDowell," cried Rep, L. Penn Hunter.

"McDowell, said the Bertie orator thoughtfully "Well, now.

Ua to the west. And when w wanf real livln', we want to go back east so that when we're buried we'll rUe at the Reaur-rection,

But apparently it waant ao much the rlalng but the burying that bothered Coualn Wayland.

"When I go home they'll atop me on the atreet and they'll aay: Counaln Wayland. dUt, you vole for that InspecUou bill? And you know what I'll say

Hell no!

"HELL NOl -- Thla la a phraae that Commissioner Bcheldt has heard, granted in different words, a lot during tlie Itt.lS aeaalon. As a matter of fact, when It'a come to changes In motor vehicle and related laws the boya havent used a knife -theyve used a machete.

Consider what ha.i happened to the "Drunkometer bUl" a hill calling for testa for Intoxication to be given to all peisons arrested for drunken driving. After a proper and even spectacular funeral. It was burled In a *ubeommltt.ee without much hope, as Cousin Wayland W(uld aay, of resurrection CommLssloner Sr-heldl also wanted legislation which would greatly aid in the appreheniion of traffio violators. Undor Ita provisions, one patrolman would be able to radio ahead and a second patrolman acting on thla Information would be able to arrest a suspect, without aciusl-ly seeing an infraction of ths law. In so many words, 4he answer came back: "Hell no.

He has asked for an additional 100 patrolmen and will probably gel something like 25.

And in addition to all this, the Supreme Court recently took a crack at Commissioner Scheldts enforcement program by ruling that the habitual violator laws Is is unconstitutional because it doesn't spell out what Is a "habitual vlolaior."

It isn't all on the mlnu.s side; not cpiite Hut the plus factors have generally come in killltig leglslailoti, Introduced by Individual members, that would seem to under mine the department's safely program.

Such an example was Rep. lasonard Loyds effort to up the number of speeding convictions from two to three before a license csn be revoked. In ihi.s case Lloyd'a bill got the axe.

MERIT It Isnt that the changes gought by Commlsslonrr Scheldt are without merit While he admits that the motor vehicle Inspection law would be "no panacea no Cure all he wa.i able to state ftiat where stich a law has been enacted "it has had a ttee -re*

ducUon of accidents and fatalities on the highway.

No one - not Commlasioner Scheldt nor the bill's introducer. Rep. CarroU R, Holmes of Per-qutmans seemed surprised when the Roads Committee finished 11 off with ati "UNFAVORABLE" stamp Holmes anticipated the opposition by polnUng to the "Ire and rt-aentment resulting from the last mechanical tnspeotlon law enacted In 1047 and repealed in 1?4!)

That law, he said, "was ths moat Ineptly and badly administered law I've ever aeen in my life."

But he pointed out that this one was copied after laws which arc working well in Virginia and other stalea. The Inspections would have been done by prl-vata garages licensed by the state,

"At least IMl people died in North Carolina last year by reason of faulty equipment, lia pointed out.

If It Is truly a safety measure which experience In other alates proves saves lives, why cant the legislators buy it why. in ftot, cant they buy a number of the changes which Commissioner Scheldt would like to see enacted.

The Answer comes from Cousin Wayland that ImI mechanlral liupection bill "killed off about 100 polltlclsns

And poiitlclana hav** learned that the voter, n?xt to hijii pocket-book, yells loudest about his car.

Valid or not, thf* asertion.a by veteran observem that Cuba i well on the way to becominsr a communiat nation i.s a matter of concern to the United States and other countries of the We.stern Hemi.sphere.

If Cuba does become communi.st controlled, what will the United State.s do with a communist territory at ilM very door step? If Cuba becomes a base for com-miiniHt activities in the Western Hemi.sphere, what will other nations of the hemisphere do to counter the inroads of communism?

CbarRes that Cuba is leaninE t^wi^i^'^bliiWunist control have been vigorously denied by Fidel Castro

and leaders in his yovernmcnt. Castro in.sists that his By HAL BOYLE purpose is to gfive (4iba a democratic Eovernment and not let the people of Cuba come under communist con trol as they were under the control of the former die tatorship.

The views f)f these veteran observers may prove invalid, a.H we trust they will. Rut the very fact that the oi).HervationH have been made should shake the United States from its position of taking for granted its clo.se.st neighbors. It .should .shock the United States into giving more attention to it.s neighbors in its own

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Washington Is Really Humming

By RALPH ROBRY

This is the time of year when Wasliington Ls really humming.

Ihe - husel, foreign pollc.v; foreign aid, taxes. '

posed.

From the point of view of Influence upon the members of the Committee perhap.s the most 'itTiporlghi^ "ihal of

Friday the 1.3th can't be too unlucky. Horatio Alger was born on one.

Most people believe Holland is the original home of the tulip. It isnt. Tulips were brought to northern Europe from Turkey in the Kith century.

Bet Lucy Monroe never heard of Ferdinand Durang. Hea the man who reportedly first sang

unemployment conipcn.satlon. and Reverend Joseph M, Becker, S.J.

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a hoat of other problems are ail In the limelight. In later columns one after another of these Will be coiusldered, but the is.<uje of chauglng our unemploymint compensation system has now advanced to a point legLslRtlvcly where It deserves anal.vsis.

As everyone knows iincmpluy-nient compensation Li a syatem in w'hich Ihe Federal (iovern-utpiil collects, a 3 per cent tax upon the wages of rmployee.s and the lax is paid entirely by ths employers. Of Ihe sum collected all but a small fraction of one per cent Is left with the States for their use in making unemployment comiwusatlon pav-menfs. The States determine both the amount and the duration of the payments. The Slates also set the requlrementji wldrh must be met if one is m receive such payments. The.se tequirenjeuts may he stated as so and so many weeks of work, or they may be In dollars earned Among the State.s there Ls a fairly wide difference on all of tlie.se polnta, as tlie States have attempted over tlie years to fit the .system to their local conditions.

mils have licen introduced in both House and Senate to change the preaeut systam These bills would require each State to pay benefits to all eligible claim* anU for a uniform duration of 30 week.x, as coutrnaled with present State lawa, ruosi of which provide variable duration up to 2ti wrek.s, The bills would also require each State to raise its mximum weekly benefit to 23 of the average weekly wage In the Stale. If these bills were to become law the result would be to federalize drternunatlon of unemployment benefit policies. The Administration has a.sked for an Increase in'the tax base from the present $3,not to $4,2<M)

The Wav* and Meains Com-milire ha.s comitlrled rather extensive hearings on the Hot.se bills Much of the te.stlmony waa carefully prepared and outstand-

of the In.stitule of Social Order at St Loul.s University. He opened by pointing out that over the years there has been contin-uou.s debate over what he said "might be called the competitive and welfare concepts the one emphaslalug individual res-ponalblllty for the payment of unemployment benefits, the other, collective respon-sibtUty. And he emphasi/ed that we alwayg have worked under a compromise of these two polnta of view. Then he added;

"I believe ... a more viable eonpromi.se . . . can be achievea by making u.se of a dLstlnction whose pivotal importance Is be-comliJR progre.sivety clearer. I refer to the distinction between normal and abnormal periods of untjnployment and to the different roles that unemployment benefits have to play In each sUuallon.

He thtn went ahead to say that he is convinced that we need two programs one "for periods of normal unemployment and emphasizing the competitive approach, and a supplementary program designed for abnormal periods and making greater use of the welfare approach."

In Father Beckers opinion the present State system should be permitted to meet the first need, and a new. apecial system might be considered to uke care of the aecond need. He did not spell out the detaiLx of the special progratn, hit he insl.xted that it must be kept entirely separate from the current system, with distinct reserves, and all the re.st of the requirements different.

There is no factual ba.si.x for saying that this particular line of argument was controlling in the decision of the Committee, but it is a fact that the Ways and Means Committee ha.s tentatively concluded that it will not recommend a federalizatton of our unemiiloyinent eompeasatlon avslem. It may advise a sllglu

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By ROGER BAB80N

BABSON PARK, Mass. I have recently been talking with a promtnent General Motors official about small dars. He is rather skeptical as to whether small cars built by General Motors would wll after Uto first year or two. Reason: "Most people buy cars large and small for prestige, not for transportaUoD. This desire for prestige causes us to build larger and heavier cars.

The average buyer wants to keep up with go ahead of his neighbor! In fact, this Is the real reason he buys small Imported cars,'" to have a car to talk about, not to save gas. In fact, I believe he continued "that the present buying of Ramblers Is largely a fad. Style and fashion now apply as much to automobiles as to the length of skirts, size of hats, or color of shoes worn by women. CAREFUL SUPERVISION I have taken a long time to get to my point, *whicn is this: You can make no expenditure of money which will give you such prestige as will owning a few shares of stock in your best local bank. But, be sure to get the stock of your most conservative and most highly regarded bank. Owning stock in second stringers will not give you prestige.

But there are other more Important reasons for owning some shares In such a bank. Banks are the most carefully government-supervised form of investment. Once or twice each year the Federal Government Examiners call (unannounced in advance to make an audit of your local National Bank; this is in addition to certain State examinations, This means that the stock which you buy should be of a National Bank, or else you should get a letter from one of the bank officers stating that It martini. It's wacholderbeerenbran has joined the Federal Reserve Ow quoUble noUble: -I don't einhahnenKhw.n;. Make mine Syatem which Includes certain

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Companies.

DIVERSIFICATION AND HIDDEN ASSETS

The a.ssets of National Banks and of many State Banks and Trust Companies are exceedingly well diversified. As owner of a National Bank stock, your money is loaned to hundreds of different companies or individuals, most of them the best risks in your city; but loans are also made to large national companies. No Mutual Fund or Investment Trust has its assets as well diversified: furthermore, a condensed financial statement of the bank is published in your local paper once or twice a year. Whenever a bank examiner GaUtcf ws <tiaks aa xLvmtmearar.Jada ig ^

simple - minded superstiUous questionable, he asks that tha peasant out of an otherwise apparently intelligent persons- Well there goes Gallicos chances for

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Open The Mail Learn

"The Star Spangled Banner in public, in a Baltimore tavern in 1814.

believe anyone can enjoy living In this world unless he can accept Its imperfections, said Oscar Hammerstcin II, "He must know and admit he Is imperfect, that all other mortals are imperfect, that It is chlldLsh to allow these imperfections to destroy all his hope and all his desire to live.

The modern lead pencil can write about 43,(XK) words or draw a line 35 miles long.

Many U S. doctors have applied theur stethoscopes to the public as w'cll as the private pulse. At least 60 physicians have

served as state governors.

The Germans have a word for

Manhattan^"

Afraid of atomte.. fallout? Studies show that radiologists, who work daily with X-rays, have a higher than normal incidence of leukemia. But there is no proof that their job shortens their over-all life span.

Illegitimate births are on the rise In this country. The figure for 1950 was 141.000. In 1956 it was 193,.500, or 4.6 per cent of all births.

British admirers of Sir Winston Churchill have started a campaign to have his birthday designated a national holiday.

(Oreenaboro Dally News)

When Christian Hcrtcr took over a.x secretary of state, he was heralded as a "team man In conUa.st to hts "dlplomacy-under-the-hat predecessor.

Now with the unexpectedly quick agreement reached among the Western foreign ministers in Paris, Mr. Herter demonstrates teamwork ability abroad as well aa at home.

The ministers "package plan apparently contaiiis nothing new. Given the adamant French and German .stand, substantial changes in the Western approach to the Berlin or German unification Lssues were unlikely.

All the foreign mini.sters are firm in keeping Berlins .status fixed until a final German accord, German unification, according to unofficial Informants, would be achieved in a scries of steps over a period of two to three years; meanwhile a sub-comml.s.xiQn of We.st and Ea.st Oennans would get together to set up the legal basis for reuni-ficallon and free elections. This subcommission would be weighted on a population basis to favor We.st Germany.

Tha only slight bieak in the old stand-firm policy tha tentative British stab at dUsengage-ment in Central Europe was reported as watered down by the foreign ministers.

Prime Minister Macmillan Is under considerable left-wing and pacifist pres.xure at home. Demonstrators against nuclear war were viewed this year with

much greater sympathy by public and press as compared with their parades in London last year. None of the other Western governments feels the necessity for offering concessions, so Macmillan's representative. Foreign Secretary Sclwyn Lloyd, is outvoted. The West will hardly open up the summit conference by yielding on vital points. Its certain not to give unle.s8 there are equal concessions by the Russians and an unmistakable show of good faith.

Back at home the new' secretary of state is putting his department in order. He helped good administration and top policy planning by upping C. Douglas Dillon to No. 2 spot. Mr. Dillon, a former investment banker who served as amba.ssador to Paris, has distinguished himself as under secretary for economic af-faUs. As much as anyone in Wa.sh-Ington he perceives the challenge of the developing nations in the non-Western world and the answer this country should give.

Under Secretary Robert Murphy and Assistant Secretary Uv-Ingstone T. Merchant, career men who now move up a notch, are seasoned diplomatists skilled in handling tough aasignmenls. The whole higher hlerachy of the State Department has been strengthened by the promotion of more team men.

Despite a bumbling presidential announcement of his appointment, Christian Herter has gotten off to a good start. ta2 eeeelbyl ra4

an Invitation to the White House.

Todays Texas Joke; comedian George de Witt tells of the cannibal who had to take Texans off his menu. His doctor told him to lay off rich foods.

There Is a postgraduate florist shop in New York on Second Avenue, Flowers with a college education?

Whats In a name? King John, the English monarch who signed the Magna Charta, brought into his country from Eastern Europe a group of metalsmiths who called themselves "Easterlings. From them sterling silver got its name.

Generosity note: More than 92 million American adults now have served as blood donors.

The big band era of 1935-1945 may be on the way back. Guy

bank collect it, or sell it, or charge it off to one dollar! Usually, the questioned asset is charged off even though the directors believe it will turn out okay. These charged-off assets are known as hidden assets, Many of them will someday become valuable. The older a bank is, the more such hidden assets it will have. Hence, this is one reason for buying stock in an old bank.

MARKET AND YIELD With the exception of stocks of large banks in New York City and a few others, their marketability is not good. This means that local bank stocks are hard to buy or sell. that is, they are not "listed nor are they officially traded "over the counter. So, when you wish to buy or sell ten shares, you should go to the President or to one of the other highwr officers who wiU invite you in to ait by his desk and give your story. He will want to know whether you will be an asset to the bank's reputation or

Lombardos Royal Canadians have ot. Secondly, such a stock is

been grossing over $5,000 nightly during their tour.

Four out of every 10 U.S. adults have brow'n eyes.

Because the human heart pauses for one sixth of a second between beats, your heart actually stands stlU about a sixth of your lifetime.

It was Oscar Wilde who observed; "Really good manners spring from the heart. Thus a selfish person never has good manners. If you always have consideration for other*, you always have good manners.

much like joining an exclusive club.

Bank stocks are issued at various par values from $10 up to $100, Most sell at a premium over their book values. Before talking with your banker about buying, you should call upon one of the directors whom you may know. Ask him to explain ail this to you. Ask the approximate price and the annual dividend. The latter, divided by the price, gives you the yield. THat is. if the stock sells at $25 and pays an annual dividend of $1.(W, then the stock yields you 4 per (Continued on page 7)

Another Passel Of Predictions

Ing. Labor spokt'.smcn wrrr ,3n .ncifasr in the tax rato, which favor of the prnpo.xals, htif mtwt la grrattv to be preforred to lift-of the other witnesses were op- (Conilnoeg on p*gj* 7)

Strength For Today

By EARL !.. IMH (iLA.M KEVIVAI,

Chuiches are crowded to over-flDwing today. Rellglou.x hook.x sell in unprecedented numbers. Articles on religion are eagerly ira(i by mililon.s Anyone who carefully examln-e.s the .stturttion would .xay that we Rijf' surely experleticlng a re-ligioiw revival. There is a Ire-mcndou.s InlrMe.st in religion. b\it InteiT.sl in religion is one thing and a rtUgiou.s revival Is soiiie-Ihing else aguUi (Vrlalnly there Is a widessvueati intere.st in religion, hut we ate far from having a K'Vlval.

fitere are juany reason.s why a religiuu,s revival is nut taking place, but we can say with cun-

fidenee that probably the chief of these ut that, by and large people are not wUUni to repent. Je.stjs t^egan Hu teaching by saymg *retentance unto life.

To reivent mean.* to change ones mind. It means more than beinE sorry for one s sms; It mean.s forsaking ilte.se sliu and thereafter lakmg an aUifude of haliTd and aver.sion toward them. And today people give very lllUe attention tOji'cpentancf, They think they can be religloiw without going through the evptMi-ence of rViM'iitauce.

But to try to do so 1 futile. JeatLs began his ministry with ihe call U> repentance The Chru-

tiau Ufe bc.guu Uicic and nowhere else.

By ELMER ROES.SNER

Here is another psussel of pre-(llctlon.s. based on analyses of developing business trends.

Higher retail sales. Sales have been rising steadily so far this year and there ks nothing on the horizon to reverse the trend. A steady rise to a climaUc Dc-cemt)er is to be expected.

Cheaper chicken. Chicken and egg price* will rise, but they wiU drop further before they do. The poultry industry is overproducing. and more chickens beget more eggs, more eggs result m more chicks. Prices will continue depressed until more marginal producers are forced out . . consumpUon Is increa.'-ed. . .or bolh

Airless tlre.s Well, not quite, becau.se the air is lucked in tiny bubbles in foam rubber. Ht'veral compauics are reported to be developing tires with tough. fi>amed insides. They'll require no Inflation and cant be puncured. OIL HtLlLAllONS TO BE EASED

Softened Import curbs. The AiUnlmstratlon's Umltatlun,s on imports of petroleum Is trritsUnf our immediat-e neighbors so much that changes are imminent. An ea.smg of controls on Canadian and Mexican oil L% in prospect, to be followed by some easing of restrictions on Venezuelan oil.

A social welfare push. Liberals In Congre.xs feil they have been undone. Most were elected on promise* of expanding the social welfare problem but. for a complex of reasons, little has been enacted Consequently, liberals are on the spot and the only way to move off It is by genera Unf tremendous prtssure for moro governmental beneficences. That is what wtll happen in the next two months. Watch U.

Summer sales push. Merchants generally will stage more July and August sale.s this year than ever befte. Experience over the la.st few year.s has showm that proportionately fewer pe<H>le art away in any given week in sum-uitur tiuui a decade ago and that

vigorous merchandising through the hot months pays off PRK.SSl RE FOR STEEL PEACE

Government steel acUvitiy. Expect more quiet, though nonetheless strong, government pre.s-sures to avert a steel strike. Influences win be used on both labor and management.

The government will do all U can, legally, to prevent a strike, lockout or Immoderate pay ri,v es. on the theory that higher

"Going away this summer Wf asked the Old Promoter. He twirled his gold-headed cane and winked a bloodshot eye.

"Ive been reading some of those books on how to see Europe on almost nothing," he said. "One offers a run-down on hundreds of out-of-the-way places. After reading the specifications. I think ita a catalogue of run-down places. If you want to go slumming, why cross the Atlantic to do it?

wages Will feed inflation, and that I'm thinking of writing a book on

a strike will comfort the Communist nations.

More hacks lii goveritfnent, Congrc.ss treatment of Clara Boothe Luce Ls certain to make U difficult for this, or U next Admmuitration to recruit outstanding personalities to take government jobs at personal financial sacrifices. More and more the Federal government will be forced to turn to career men and politicians who have never taken Independent posiuons on any issue.

OLD PROMOTER TIRNS A BLOODSHOT VE

Staying Home on a Sh(Htrini. He'* one who could do It, of course: not writ* a book, but stay home on a shoestrinf MAGAZINE PUBLISHING GETS SPLIT DECISION Magazine publishers advertising revenue this year will bt sltghily higher than last, largely due to higher rates, predict* the Gallagher Report, a newsletter in ihe publishing field. The net after taxes, how-ever, is expected to be lower becau.se of iwcreased mechanical, personnel and postage costs, it adds.