PAGE FOURfHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREERVILLE. N. C

fTKiirffday, May T,

Thursday, May 7, 1959

Are We Men Or Mice?

Should Streamline Voting System

Conditions which existed at Greenville^ two^ polling place during Tuesday* election point up vividly that one matter which needs the attention of the city new governing board is the present system used in municipal election/

Greenville voters turned out in record 'numbers for the city election2,909but even so these represented less than 50 per cent of the total number on the citys registration books. Most of the day at both polling places there were lines of voters waiting to cast their ballots. The lines moved lowly at time, and it was not unusual for a voter to stand in line 20 or 50 minutes before being able to ca.st his ballot.

Moreover there weie numerous instances in w'hich voters stood in line at one polling place, only to get to the registrar's tabic and find he was not registered at that place and had to go to the other and stand

in line again.

This situation caused many potential voter to forfeit their right to cast a ballot simply because it was too much trouble . * . it took more time than they could spare for the purpose.

There were al.no a number of instances in which voters who thought they were properly registered piood in line only to find they were not registered and therefore were unable to vote. To a great extent this confusion over registration is due to the fact that there is one set of registration books for municipal elections and another for couhty, iate and national elections and primaries. Voters have difficulty remembering from one election to the next whether they are properly registered and where they are supposed to vote.

Another factor which was pointed up vividly by Tuesday election w's the fact it took almost five hours from the time the polls closed at 6:30 until the final tally of ballots was made. It takes time to count the large number of votes cast at each of the

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GRIEVANCE PoUtlCiil wrt trrs throughout North CaroUns and many of ihp poUliclans who practice thf lr art at local level frel they have a real grleviJics againiit the Cicnrral Aaaembly, Thry cant charge the Icgialatori, Individually or aa a corporate body, with bad faith or failure to keep a promiAthectuse no promise was made They feel let down Just the aamc.

Expectatloim were freely voiced alx months ago that by this approximate dale legislative activities would have drawn factional lines and developed issues tipon which predictions about the nmo cainpulgn for Governor and United Slates Senators mluht lM based. After 1.1 weeks - HI IrgLslatlvp davs and t calendar days the situation Is even more uncertain than when the AsAtmbly convened early in February.

There remains possibility that in the renialnlng six to eight vrcks the boys on the secoml ih)or of the Cnpltol may redeem their piTsUgp as leaders of political thought. That pr<pecl is enhanced by the fact that major part of the statewide mal-tets have yet to be dealt with, and there la orne evidence of tightening lines.

Up to now the vote on controversial bllU has been cloae and fhere has been enough croaalng of lines to make It difficult to predict Just where certain members wUI land in the final test. The terms pro-administration and anti-administration admittedly are misnomer, but for lack of better designation they must serve. The record will show that admlnlstrallon forces have won more scraps than they have lost, but In most cases victory was achieved by making some roncesslons. On two or three occasion* one or the other side has backed off from demanding a conclusive vote becaiuie of apparent lack of assurance they could win

'nOHTENINO A good deal has been said about ahaence of lecognlaed leadership In the Legislature, Emphasis is on "recog* in/.ed* rather than capacity to lead or willingness to follow For that reason there has been no cohesive organisation. Signs are beginning to ahow that w'hip-cracklng may be In order, es* pfslcally in the Senate. iNo Individual Senator is any more ausceptlble to influence than an Individual Representative, but beciiwe 2R votes constitute a majority there, while fil vote are

necessary for a majority In the House it Is easier to deal with the Senate as a body j

An interesting sidelight on that situation Is that Joe Eagles, who la Governor Hodges legislative counsel in charge of, furthering the administration pn^gram, has served four terms in the Senate with many of the preaent members there, and in lO and 1997 was a close personal and political friend of Son C V Henke! of Iredell, currently regarded as Ihf antj administration leader.

What we started out to write iihirtit was the pu.ssihility of this I.eglshtlure furnishing issues for the l!Hn campaign, not wim might be in tlie driver's seat for j)eciflc legislation Iimnlmate l.ssues are never effective without identification With vital pensonaMties. Ho far nellher a big issue nor an oulslandlng persnnallly has evolved, with probable exception as Speaker of the Houae and the nuinner in which he ha.s conducted himself Hiuh bis office has moved definitely into the big time lUit. Next moat significant development of personal Innu-fiicp lias been by .Senator Henkel.

PROSPECTIVE The emergence of these men as recognted leaders and the enhanced prestige of some other oldtlmer* and per-hap* loss of prestige for some -does not negate the opinion that developments of the next six or eight weeks will determine whether this Legislature sets the pattern for next year's election campaign, To greater degree than ever before in memory of olwiervpi now around, ire.*4hman members are dominating this session of the General Assembly. The old folk* dont like it, r-jecially the old folks on the lobby Ine, but It is still entirely pro-bsble that some youngster will move In and capture popular acclaim as a candidate for one or both of the big offices at stake In I960,

VANISHING TRIBE In a drlva from Raleigh to Nags Head the other day your reporter aaw only three mules working in fields. Two were planting cotton in PrankUn county near Louis-burg and the other plowing a field In the edge of the Great Dismal Hwamp in Pasquotank. Not so many years ago at thla season hundreds of mules would have been seen pulling small plows. They have been replaced by mechanised equipment. Also a few years ago cows were aeldom seen sloug that road, Now large herds of both beef and dairy type cattle were much In evidence.

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two polling place Tuesday, but some provision should be made for streamlining the procedure.

It is probable that aeveral hundred more votes would have been cast in Tuesday* election had there not been long lines at the polls and the confusion which exista over registration for municipal elections.

It is a serious situation for Greenville, and one which should be remedied before local voters are asked to go to the polls again in a municipal election. It is not, however, a situation which^ can be rectified without considerable tme and study.

The men who were elected to city offices Tuesday know first hand of the situation which existed at the polls, because the candidates spent more lime there than any other citizens of the city. As soon as practicable they should set in motion plans which will lead to a comprehensive revisfon of the election machinery of the city.

It is a matter of vita! importance to every citizen of the city and one which should not be delayed.

Farmville Voters Set A Record To Be Envied

Farmville voters set a record to be envied and imitated by communities throughout North Carolina when 9.3.8 per cent of the citys registered voters went to the polls to elect local officials.

In our general apathy toward elections, most Americana view it a remarkable achievement when as mkny as 50 or 60 per cent of the registered voters go to the polls on election day. In Greenville this week less than 60 per cent of the voters turned out for for the election and it was hailed as one of the heaviest municipal votes on record.

But 93.8 per cent of the voters going to the polls!

That's one of those genuinely rare achlcvementf for a conamunity of any size. It is the finest of examples of democracy at work at the grass roots level of goy-ernment. It Is the kind of citizenship participation in government which make. for the best possible government of any city.

The people of Farmville are to be commended for getting such a high percenUge of their registered voter to the polls. They have set an example which might well be followed by the other municipalities of Pitt County.

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By JIMMY ELLIS

Now That Its All Over

By JAMES MARLOW

WA.SHINGTON AP - You're H rare one If you are not be-ros;iiP<i and befuddled by all the American and Soviet talk go-itiH on for yeara ~ about dla-armament, *u*pendlng nuclear lerttjs, and abolishing nuclear weapon*.

The result of all the talk ao far la *ero. There will be more. But here in ABC form. I an in-terpretaUn of what this gov-etnmeiit wants, dont want, and why.

It is based on answer* given by the State Department to a series of queations from the Senate Disarmament subcommittee, headed by Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, Minnesota Democrat.

Arms control, or disarmament, can be undertaken only to the degree that It can be enforced. This means some kind of Inspection system to prevent cheating by either aide.

But Arnerlcan clentWs have not been able to develop any technique* that would make It poislble to enforce an agreement outlawing nuclear weapons,

So it follows that even If there were an agreement on banning nuclear tests, It would not mean that nuclear weapons already In the hands of the United Slates and the U S.8.R. would be de-troyed.

Therefore, the poaslbllity of nuclear war even though the big powers agree not to do any more testing, will hang over the world's head a long, long time.

U would be to the disadvantage of U^ country to have an greemenr banning the use of nuclear weapons in war even if both side* lived up to an agreement not to u.%e them, Why?

Because since the Soviet. Red Chinese and satellite ground forre.* so hugely outnumber the Weatern ground force* - America's possession of nuclear weapons helps It offset the manpower advantage of the Com-muntats. How?

Because so long as this country has nuclear weapons that can be used in swift retaliation if the Communisls sl-ari a war. the Communists will be discouraged from starting one.

Therefore, the State Department says, this country has always Insisted that disarmament be carried out In a balanced way so the Soviets would not be left with a military advantage.

In short, the United States re(u.>>es to go along with outlawing nuclear weapons alone It wants balanced arnw limitation, fool-proof inspection and con-trols.

Arm* limitation would include conventional weapons, because this countj-y Insists on balanced

disarmament.

The State Department say: "We have insisted that each step In one field of military strength must be complemented with a simllai- step In other fields, and that all must be verified by International inspection."

But since the department says there is no way of knowing that the Soviet Union had destroyed It* stock* of nuclear weapons if it agreed to destroy them It is easy to *ee how far off In any agreement on destroying nuclear weapons.

And since this country links all the iteps In darmametit together, any disarmament looks a long way off, too.

As more nations besides the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union develop the ability to make nuclear weapons, it will be increasingly difficult to have a safeguarded disarmament agreement covering all types of nuclear weapons.

For instance, the department saya that If Red China reached the point of being able to, make nuclear weapons, no disarmament agreement based on Red Chinese commitments alone could be relied on to curb Peiping production of the weapons.

If this were a weather forecast on the prospects for world disarmament. It would have to say: ouUook cloudy, temperature chilly,

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Letter frtm fellow com-pUlnlng wildly about the way some of our State officials are doing, when saying he quit voting 90 years ago What right does we have to gripe? Tallahassee Democrat.

Another election time has come and gone, and at least one thing seems more certain than ever.

That ia, simply, that election prognosUcators (the so - called veteran political observer) will mLss Just as many as they hit, over the long haul. The "experts who were anything but what are almost a dime a oun these days.

Cecil LUiey, registrar in Farmville. doesnt belong in the "dlme-a-dnzen" class, however. He should have a place all to himself.

Mondays edition of The Dally Reflector quoted Lilley a.s saying between 1,150 and 1,175 person.* would cast bailte In Farmville. There were some raised eyebrows over the figures the registrar used, especially when the aize of Parmviile was considered.

When all the ParmvUle votes were counted Tuesday night, a total of 1,194 had been cast in the two-man mayors race, Lil-ley's prediction thus became slightly remarkable, but no more so than the percentage of Farm-vUlea qualified voters who re

turned ballots. More than 93 per cent of them went to the polls.

The A.ssoclated Press was so impressed with the exact percentage (93.7) that it ran a short item about it over its wires which serve North Carolina and South Carolina. The Parmviile election was one of only a few in North Carolina which rated such special attention from The AP.

While Farmville was getting its special attention, another group was losing it.

According to one post-election story now making the rounds, a group 0 coffee-break devotees were partaking of their mid-morning refreshment yesterday. All wanted to talk about Tuesday nights elections, but no one would break the ice.

A candidate, identified neither by name nor by his showing at the polls, strolled in. He walked to the counter and told the walt-i-eas. "Ill have a cup of coffee please."

The group was still sitting when he turned to face them. They looked up expectantly.

"Yall can pay for your own

Other Editors Saying... Charlies Crime

The great challenge of Journalism te deriding whether to print what the public ought to read, or what the public likes to read. This Is a decision made dally in every new rotim. -Dalia* Morning New*.

If the psychology and slogans of the Eisenhower administrations had been official policy in the old daya, the Lrwls and Clark expidltton would have been grounded In St. Louis for lack of funds; the Oregon Trail would have been cUed to balance the budget, and the sattllng of the Northwest would have been postponed indefinitely as a threat to a stable dollar Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.>

(Beaumont Enlerprise)

Charles Hawkins sold a bottle of Alka-Seltzer In his grocery store for 14 cents less than pe manufacturer thinks he should have sold It for. Upon committing this offense, he was given 20 days in the county jail.

Becaiuse he offered a customer a bargain, In the free enterprise tradition, poor old Charlie is pa.ss-Ing the time at the taxpayers expense. Where did this happen? In California, where they have what Is called a fair-trade law. Mr. Hawkins, victim of the law. traded his position behind the counter for one behind ba^.

But what is even worse, there are members of (ingress who are more than ready to extend these advantages currently enjoyed by Charlie Hawkins to cover everyone in the United States. Rep Oren Harris of Arkan.sas and pre.sldentlal aspirant Sen. Hubert Humphrey are probably the chief congressional leaders prepared to make auch a system readily available. As regularly as the season change one of the two men inproduces auch a measure in Congress.

If this Isnt a good enough Ic.vson for those who keep bringing up the subject of a fairtrade law. then w'e suggest they vuslt California. There's a man out there whos In Jail for trying to run his own business.

WHO WANTS AN *.V STUDENT IN DEBT?

(CharlestM (W. Va.) Daily Mall)

There will be a slight hitch in those glorious plana to send everybody to college on a loan of several thousand doUars from the federal government. The girls dont like it.

Oh. sure they are as interested in higher education as anybody. And there la no longer much doubt that they are just as capable. But there is something else which interests them even more, namely marriage, as they say in Cowpoke Pastures,

Thte, to be quite brutal about it. poses a que.sUon; Who is going to marry a bright young lady who comes to the altar with a note for $4.flOO tucked away In her trousseau? And when it is considered that the groom may be similarly encumbered, the difficulties multiply. Together they are in hock $a.000 before they set out for Bermuda on their nuptial flight. This is an awful lot of "togetherness," and It should not aslonLsh anyone that a g'l who is smart enough to take an "A tn economics is also smart enough to figure out the odds agaltvst attracting precisely the right man.

The U.S. Commissioner of Education is quite worried about this, and he should be Federal aid has worked Itself into a fair-sized box.

this morning, he drawled, breaking the nervous tension caused by not dlMUSSlng politic or any of ite facets earlier.

The nervous tension. If that'* the right thing to call it, which seems to wrap Itself around election E funny thing. It causes strange pactions in persons who have a keen interest in what goes on.

For instance, one veteran politician who was seeking office in a municipal election in Eastern Noth Carolina, dropped into the polling place during counting lime to see how things were going.

He stayed long enough to see the total in his favor drop to about 40 below that of an opponent. He left, and went home.

A friend called a few minutes later to tell him he had regained the lost lead. More than that, the candidate had picked up a few votes.

The office-seeker thanked him and started to hang up, but the caller asked why he had left the polling place.

T couldnt stand it, the candidate replied. "If I had stayed there a minute longer. Id have gone crazy. I had to get out.

Ordinarily, hes the kind of man who is as solid as a rock in any crisis. He was reminded of that.

Yeah," the man replied, "but in an ordinary tough situation. you can figure everybodys your friend and standing behind you. except those who are openly cussing you. Up there, where you are now, theyre counting sides. It's a little bit rough."

Opinions In Brief

Mayor Wagner of New Y'ork hRvi .submitted a two billion dollar budget showing an increase of $177,640.000 over last year. Another presidential candi-clate?Pon Myers iPla.) News-Press.

Whn you get dowm to cases, the continued existence and progre.ss of every business and of the whole free-enterprlse system. depend upon the skills, knowledge, wisdom and attitudes of the generation of young people now being educated. This la the busme.ssman.s special stake and a ba.'ilc reason for the general public interest in the Fed-rrsl-ald-to-educstion issue being considered In Congre.ss." Bedftwd (Ind.) Dally Hmes-Msll.

"Tlierr has been a great deal Of discu.s.sion of the unemploy-

By HAL BOYLE

NEW ypRK (AP) It 1 hard for a dog lover to team to Uve with a cat in the houae.

But it can be done parUcu-terly if you h*ve a small daughter who insists 'On having a cat as a pet.

It has been some six months ainci Lady Dottie. a tiny fur-pawed black andi white powerhouse, came to our houac to stay. Now she 1 a large 'and formidable powerhouse, and stomps around the place as if she paid the rent.

The only one who has any real authority over her is our laughter, Tracy, who is nearly six. She uses Lady Dottie as a pUlow, dancing partner and sub-sUtute sister.

The cat has gone for so many rides in the baby buggy that she now believes it is her own private vehicle. We are even beginning to refer to it as "the family CatiUac.

Between Lady Dote and myself there is strange and rather undefined relationship.

As a lifelong dog-man I have always dlsiiked cate, and been I suspicious of cat-fond people, fig-' uring that any human being who preferred a <jgt to a dog must have a hidden character defect of some kind.

Now I must confess to harboring a mixed feeling txM-derlng on fondness for Lady Dottie.

Part of it is based on pure gratitude. I had heard the old wives tale that cate at night

would crawl up on your chest

and breathe your breath before it reached you, thus dooming you^ to death for lack of oxygen. And I was afiraid it might be true.

To me cate were sneaky,

treacherous, wily beats who took everything they could get and gave nothing in return. Why wouldnt they rob you of breath?

For Uiree months I spelt with Hie bedroom door closed, to isolate me from the possibility of any such midnight feline assault. Gradually, however, my secret superstitious psnic abated as I realized Lady Dottie was too sensible to try to rob us of my breath. She was too busy robbing my pocketbook for beef liver, cloth and rubber toy mice and all the other niceties of a modern cats way of life.

Once I realized she had a vested Interest in me to protect, I lost my dread of her.

I noted one big difference between cate and dogs. A dog does you a favor by getting out of your way. A cat seems to have the idea that it is doing you a favor by getting in your way.

Lady Dottie, although her family tree disappears Into the nearest alley, is as supremely prou<i and sure of herself as an Egyptian queen. When she decides to honor you by running up against your tegs, yoijt are expected to pause and be flattered, even though at the moment you may be trying to carry a message to Garcia.

For a iM-ief time as our acquaintanceship ripened, I thought perhaps Lady Dottie and I shared the same world, as a man can share the same world with a pet dog.

It isnt possible. A cat will come into your world as far as it chooses, but you can come only to the outer fringes of its world. And if you fry to go further the cat coldly and silently closes the door between you.

Lady Dottie has won my admiration because of her iron self-confidence. I have always had a grudging admiration for women because they have this factor of interior independence and resourcefulness of spirit.

But women now and then show a sign of weakness. A cat never does. A man has to take off his hat to anything stronger than modern woman. And a cat is.

I suppose Ill always be a dog lover at heart weakness calls to weakness but Lady Dottie. that walking fur fort, has taught me ym never should underestimate the power of a cat.

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ment problem. A commonly suggested cure la more massive doses of government aid of one kind or another, combined with inflation - breeding govemmentr building programs. But these propoaals offer no real cure at all. They are merely alleviations, They deal with symptoms of the dteeaaeand not the disease Itself.*Industrial New* Review.

Proving Again, Business Is Ode.

Strength For Today

. B.v F.ARL L. DOUGLARH THE LITTLE TUGS Have you 'sat before your tele-vision screen and watched the bit liner, the United State*, come into dock?

' It takes a lot of little tut* to tel the bis ship there and set her out again.

The ship Is certainly one of the most beautiful creations ever drawn up by naval architect*. Hut I wax also iinpresaed by the litde tuy.x.

The big Huer would be use-Ic.vi II Would be helple.xs and unable to take on or discbarge cargo and ps.s.xniKcr.s unles.* the littlv lugs brought her Into

dock and took her out again into the broad harbor

These lutle tus* remind me ol the parte you and 1 play in life There 1* nothini particularly stately or outatandlna in our endeavors We work for a living and go along doing the work for corporations or dlsilngutehed bosses or great InstUutions ~ but we are only little tugs. But where would the luier be without the little tugs, and where would the world be without Its myrluite uf In.siguif leant persons

I wonder If it thrllLs you a.x it does n\e. thst even the big liner needs the IHUe tuga?

By ELMER ROESi^NER

Bnsine.ss. we keep telling our-selvc.s (and youu is a strange and curious affair, and there is evidence to prove It. Here is another bill of particular.*;

The Salvation Army has been saved. The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that individuals can claim an extra 10 per cent of their taxable income as a charitable contribution providing, of course, that they really gave it. . Purchasers buying major appliances at an Atlanta lore were allowed to take all the dollar* they could shovel off a tray. Becau.se the dollars wert laid flat, the average tke was only $10

An Oregon hill would tax retailers using trading atampt |6.-tkxi a year.

Largely because of higher standards. Spains export* of dried ftgs more than quadrupled last year.. .American -type cigarettes

are gaining in popularity in Egypt and last year gained more than half the market. . American imports of castor oil dropped sharply test year. FEARED OF A-ROMB87

An advertiser in a New York newspaper offer* a limestone cavern of 500.000 *quare feet with 20-foot celling for storage ptuT>a*esJust in caae. . A Florida builder placed an order lor $400.000 worth of home appliances with the manufacturer, thereby deiUng local merchants out of profite. . -About 8 S. hilUon cana will be required for American beer drinker thl* year, American Can calculates.

You may not believe it. but four types of machines now vend tea in England. One wont accept six pence* unlesa the water is boiUng.

A Los Angeles bank forecast.* busine.ss conditions from t he number of help-wanted ad*. . ,

"Have the dime of vour life," advertised a Buffalo. N. Y food Cham fesluriug 10-crnt buys. , . Automation tn offices requires bet* ter handwriting than other methods. reporte* Pennsylvania educator.

THE HAIRCUT IS.SI E

The cost of haircuts is rising faster than the wage rate, the National Indu.<tiial Conference Board finds. A haircut cot a typical wage-^earner 40 minulea of labor in August, 19.53, and 43 minute* In November. 1958, It found. Max Hess. Allentown merchant, is estebllshlnf an auto driving school in connection with his Pennsylvania department .tore

Government* got five Umes as much money in taxes out of Standard Oil last year than the aiockhoklem did.

The recent hike In postal rate* may be netting the government less than expected. A Dun A Brad-

street survey .shows three-fourths of all bufiinesse* have cut cost* to offset the increases. . .New \ homeowners spend an average of fl.Stie the firat year to equip their dwellings, a House & Home survey finds. . . .A Mamaroneck, N Y., weekly charge* only a percentage of the return for printing clsMified aiSi, thereby gettinf a* much as $250 for a real estate ad

SMALL CARS PROVE OFCRATINQ ECONOMIES Here are more reason* for expectlBT all American sute manufactuitar te produce small cara next aeason:

The City of Richmcwad, Va., found four-cylinder Oerman-madt cara co*t 37 per ceht le* te operate than six-cylinder Amerle can car.

Bay City. Mich . pulled Ite bus system out of the red by using German and English mall-type buses-