PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Thuriday, February 4, I960

Thursday, February 4, 1960

Bullseye Every Time

Two Sides To Bank Merger Story

What do you thiu of the and Wachovia?

That question probably has been asked more in

merger of Guaranty Greenville and its area than a bank which is less than

one-tenth the size. With Greenville an area headquarters for the largest bank in the state, there should be

Greenville and Pitt County in past 48 hours than any advantages through contacts which are not readily ac-other. And as to be expected in a situation of this kind, cessabie to a bank that is primarily an eastern North there are many different answers bein gmade to the Carolina bank.

question. ^ . There is the further consideration that the officers

For Greenville it will mean giving up the name of and directors of Guaranty bank should be those most Guaranty Bank which has been a symbol of consider- concerned with the future of the bank and certainly able influence in business and banking circles through- equally concerned with other citizens for the future out the eastern part of the state for several decades, of the area. For years they have dedicated their efforts The fact that Greenville is the headquarters for Guar- toward developing the bank and the area in which it anty operations in 12 other cities and towns through- operated. They should be the ones most familiar with out the area has been a source of pride tb most resi- the needs f modern-day banking and likewise the dents of the community. needs of the area. They are also the ones most familiar

There is also the ever-present realization that here with the terms of the merger a^eement, and the ones another institution that is native to this section of the in the most advantageous position to evaluate the ad-state is becoming a part of another larger organization vantages and disadvantages such a merger might offer whose home base is outside Eastern North Carolina. Greenville and the area served by Guaranty Bank and It is part of the fear of being swallowed up by bigness, Trust Company. Certainly they would not have approv-which all people seem to share. There is concern over ^d the merger had they not been confident it would be Greenville losing its identity as a major banking center in the best interest of the community as well as in the and becoming merely a little cog in a bigger wheel, best interest of the bank itself.

rather than remaining the hub of the wheel. We are reluctant to see a Greenville institution

Though most of these reasons may be attributed to such as Guaranty, which has served the community sentimentalityGuaranty and its organization has well and added prestige to the city over a long period been identified with Greenville since 1901 when it pf years, be absorbed by an organization which has was formed under the name of Greenville Banking its headquarters elsew^here. At the same time we rec-and Trust ompanyit cannot be overlooked that sen- ognize the advantages which might be offered the city timent is a personal and important thing to individuals, and the area through the merger of Guaranty with the On the other side of the ledger, Wachovia is the largest.bank in the state, largest banking institution in the Southeastern states and the 41st largest commercial bank in the nation.

As such it should be in a position to offer more for

!-Politics

Offer A Busy Calendar

We Might Well Share Our Nuclear 'Secrets

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By LYNN NISBET

CALENDARPolitical events of statewide significance scheduled during the next few months include some statutory election procedure and several party affairs.

Piret on the list Is the Demo-crajtic fund raising Jefferson-Jackson Dinner scheduled for Raleigh on Saturday, February 6. The Republicans probably will stage the usual series of Lincoln Day dinners around his birthday anniversary, February 12. Then comes the Republican State convention at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium on Saturday, February 27, The Democratic State executive committee will meet in Raleigh on Fridaf afternoon, March 4, to fix the time and place for the State convention and other party gatherings. These dates are expected to be in May.

The calendar of events required hi statute in connection with the forthcoming primary is as follows:

March S Final date for state chairmen of political parties to submit nominations for members of county boards of elections.

March 18 State Board of Elections meets to name county boards.

March 18 Books close at noon for filing notice of candidacy for State and district offices in the primary.

March 26 County boards of elections meet to organize by haming a chairman and a secretary.

April 9 County boards of elections meet to appoint registrars and judges of election in each precinct.

Apr 15 Books close at Doon for filing notice of candidacy for the General Assembly and county and township offices.

April 30 Registration books o>en at each precinct voting place at 9:00 a.m.

May 14 Registration books close at sundown.

May 18 Last date for candidates filing preliminary expense accounts-^tate and district offices with the Secretary of State, legislative and local offices with the Clerk of Superior Court in their counties.

May 21 Precinct registrars at polling places from nine till three for purpose of challenge of registered voters.

May 28 The BIG DAY. the Bominating primary for all public State and county elective offices.

May 30 County boards of elections meet to canvass returns.

June 25 Run-off primary, in event nomination was not made on May 28.

June 27 County boards of elections canvass returns in second primary, if any.

October 15 Registration

books open for General election, to be held wi November 8.

PAY members of the State Board of Elections get seven dollars a day for time actually spent on the Job. County board members get fifteen dollars a day. Compensation of State board members has not been changed since 1943. The count folks have had two raises since then, from five bucks to ten. and again irom ten to fifteen.

CAMPAIGN MONEY Your reporter had three telephone calls in one hour the other night, two of them long distance, asking why it is necessary for a man to be rich in order to run for statewide office In a Democratic primary. In each case I asked the caller if he had decided who he would vote for. One woman had made up her mind, and she saw no occasion for further campaigning. The two men had not, and said they would not until they knew more about what the candidates stood for. Both of them insisted the candidates had to tell em something if they want my vote.

These men are good citizens. They take the obligation to vote intelligently very seriously. They want to know what they are voting for. How can they know? The candidate has got to tell them how he feels and thinks. He can do that in one of four ways. He can write a personal letter, at minimum cost of ten cents, which for two million voters adds up to $200,000 just for one letter. He can buy newspaper advertising space or radio-television time to publicize his ideas, which runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Or he can personally visit and talk with every voter. For two million voters, allowing one minute each, it would take a candidate almost four years, working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to get around. And he would have to pay travel exposes for the tour.

Sure, some of these assumptions are absurd. But no more absurd than the idea that a statewide political campaign can be conducted, with any reasonable information given to every voter, without spending a whale of a lot of money.

Democracy is the most expensive type of government. The primary election plan of nominating candidates is the most expensive method of democratic operation. So long as we have it. somebody has got to pay for it. If enough little folks dont, a few big folks will.

as wen as iniormanon on nuclear research.

)rohibiting the exchange of such information T TV T .^1 T ^ ^

allies, the United States has taken the posi- W \/ ^ Q I

its partners of the free world could not be -L^ J-O V 11 IvJ

.president Eisenhower's proposal that the law be changed to allow a free exchange of nuclear information between the United States and its responsible allies is one which should not be ignored by Congi-ess. TT P V T\/f

The change in the law should encompass nuclear --''GVOt 10113,1

weapons as well as information on nuclear research.

By prohibiting with our

tion that its partners of the free world could not be trusted with certain information concerning nuclear

re.search and nuclear weapons. Perhaps this was not w

the intention of the wording of the Atomic Act when to some men. work is ahated it was originally passed, but that is the way it has ap- burden, to others, it is a jeai-peared to some allies of the United States. mistress. business man

The world situation has changed drastically since fSids^^himseS v5g*more^nd the provision was originally written into law. The more of his time and energy to

United States has long since lost its monoply on the i^e achievement of the goal that

secrets of nuclear energy and the ability to produce cL?SirhJor

nuclear weapons. If the purpose of the provision ban- so aii-absorbing that he loses ning exchange of nuclear information with our allies himself in it. in these cases was to preserve the U. S. monoply in this field, it failed long ago.

While the United States probably would not give out all its nuclear information to all its allies, and while it would not place its latest nuclear weapons in the hands of every nation of the free world bloc, there is (itn^r

little to be gained by making believe we still have ex- ljVj.iLwi o Owy

elusive title to nuclear research and development. -p^ ^ tvt

Through a freer exchange of information (-n i.u- ijQlt S C vt clear research, the United States might effect a closer

relationship with its allies and thereby strengthen the (Rocky Mount Telegram)

position of the free world. It would at least indicate matter how hard the Free

more fully to its allies that they have our confidence,

and they in turn probably would have greater con- ments concerning desire for

himself in work is a tjrrant that rules the whole of life, and the worker is a slave. .

To others, work Is a necessary evil. They give to their work

very littleas little as possible. Their place of work la a prison where they,-4ire condemned to spend too milty of their waking hours.

It is possible to give too much or too little of ourselves to our work. A Christian understanding of work can free us from both dangers. Work for a Christian is a way of serving Ood.

It is at the Holy Communion that we acknowledge our work to be the serving of God. We offer bread and wine, perfect symbols of the economic life of man, and thereby offer our work to God. In this offering

fidence in us.

Some Progress Civil Rights

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)Progress in civil rights may seem snail-slow to Southern Negores who have been denied them. But some progress is being made, in bits and pieces.

Tuesday the Senate, by a two-thirda vote and without a Southern filibuster, approved a constitutional amendment to outlaw any requirement for payment ol a poll tax before a person can vote In federal elections. Only five Southern states still have a poll tax.

The ban wont become a reality unless two-thirds of the House, and after that three-fourths of the states, also approve. The states have seven years in which to act.

Perhaps the long delay before the tax can be banned explains in part why Southern opposition to it was less than all-out. The amendment was even sponsored by a Southerner, Sen. Spes-sard Holland (D-Fla).

Maybe a better explanatioh is that the poll tax as an issue has lost most 0 fits significance. Negroes are better able to afford such a tax now than they were in the poverty-stricken years of the past.

Nowadays Southern whites who want to keep Negroes from voting use other means: Intimi-cation or blocking them from registering. Yet, no longer ago than the I94s, anti-poll tax proposals were a flaming issue.

Actually, in those days attempts to get through such a measure were the prelude to a political farce in Congress. Almost invariablf the House would pass a bill but Southern Democrats in the Senate filibustered

1943,

it to death.

This happened in 1942.

1945 and 1947. In 1949 the House again approved but the antipoll tax bill never reached the Senate floor.

Of course there was a great difference between the anti-poll tax bills which the House approved but the Senate blocked and the amendment approved Tuesday. A bill would have become law immediately after a simple majority vote In both houses.

It may be seven years before the states approve the constitutional amendment accepted by the Senate, provided two-thirds of the House members also go along. It is still questionable whether the states will approve.

But the dam against civil rights progress was broken in 1954 when the Supreme Court outlawed public school segregation and made civil rights such a national issue that neither the North nor South could ignore it It is doubtful that Congress In 1957 could have passed its first civil rights bill in 82 yearsalso without a filibuster If the Supreme Court hadnt broken down the barriers.

Later this year there Is a strong possibUity that another civil rights bill perhaps more meaningful than the extremely mild one of 1957may get through.'

The amendment which cllired the Senate Tuesday got some Southern opposition, largely on the grounds that even a change in the Constitution to forbid the poll tax as a prerequisite to voting is an interference with the rights of states to set up their own voting requirements.

peaceful co-existence, there is always a -Soviet-made stumbling block. If Russia has any honest intentions concerning peace or even international relaxation and agreement theyre doing a pretty good job of disguising taose sentiments.

Only a few months ago, following the Camp David talks between President Elsenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev, many people felt that 1960 would be a year when much could be done about settling East-West Issues. Khrushchevs visit to the United States left the impression that the Soviets were, at long last, softening up a bit-

At that time it was felt by many that this springs summit .negotiations would produce wonderful and historic developments.

That impression, a dangerous one from the beginning, was but an illusion and has been shattered. The Soviets, it seems, are playing a nasty game of international politics in which they depend on the relaxing and tightening of tensions to produce confusion. The Reds have always been able to operate best when confusion exists.

The Russian move has an evident purposeto produce first a period of amiability and hope, quickly followed by a period of strain and tension. They figure this battle of nerves will hurt the West, for with each new crisis the Soviets expect the Western powers to have new trouble agreeing among themselves on how they should stand against Soviet pressures. And the West consistently obliges Russia by doing just that.

That the amiable spirit of Camp David has been killed by Russias rapid-fire change of in

tentions can no longer be disputed. Instead of looking to the summit talks to develop worthwhile objectives, we can now ex* pect the negotiations to be grim and even dangerous- The prospects of relaxed sessions capable of producing agreement are no longer visible.

It is quite possible that the recent collapse of talks concerning pajrment of lend-lease debt to the U.S. may be an indication of what to expect from the summit talks. The purpose of the lend-lease debt talks originally was to arrive at a figure .suitable to both countries. The debt, contracted by Russia during World War n, amounted to S2-6 billion. The ^ Soviets had previously offered $300 mllUon and we had asked $8^ million. Going into the negotiations It was expected that Washington would be willing to settle for about $500 million.

But the negotiators never got into hard dollar talk, because Russia chose to use the negotiations for another purpose. They tried to force the U-S, into trade agreements, indicating that the debt would not be paid until certain trade concessions for Russia were granted by the U.S.

Something of the sort will likely come about during the summit sessions. When it is time to discuss disarmament. Russia might just state that any talk of disarmament must be proceeded by certain Western concessions concerning the Berlin problem. When the Berlin situation comes up, they may demand that the West ease its disarmament proposals before any agreement can be reached on Berlin.

That, apparently, is the way Russia plays the game. The Soviets make It difficult, indeed, for free people to have faith in any professed intentions of honesty and peace by the Russians.

We acknowledge ourselves to be Gods agents in all of our work, and accountable to him for the way we do it.

To do our work well, to give to our work what is due to it, is itself the serving of Ood. Work is cooperation with Ood in making Gods gifts available for the needs of men. And work can be a way of Uianksgivlng. Through our work we can show our gratitude to Ood for his great bounty to us; through our work we can give back to Ood a little of what we have received.

Sirength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

What kind of an automobile are you going to buy next?

Oh. no. I am not advertising any particular make or design. 1 only want to pass on to you what seems to me to be some ludicrous and startling facts. The ludicrous' facts are that I am told by an auUxnobile salesman that the things which sell a car most often are the sound of the horn, and the sound which the door makes when it is slammed shut, and the color of the car body Only a few people want the hood raised and the mechanism of the car explained to them. They carefully examine the wheel caps. They blow the horn. They slam the door. OKthats the car for me.

The alarming lact which I glean from contact with automobile salesmen is their assurance that there are cars which are definitely prestige cars. They are in the high price held. Why under heaven do people buy them when they can get just as good at a considerably lower flgtire? Why, my dear sir, said my salesman friend, you dont seem to know that there is something in the world called prestige. People buy the expensive cars because it makes them feel superior to their neighbors. It gives them a name. It confers distinction.

Heavens above! What are we coming to? Toot the horn and slam the door and ask what kind of a car the Joneses drive.

Should we laugh or should we weepor both?

Quot

Of course they are painting the dome of the nations captol whiteto match the blood of the taxpayers. Miami Herald.

Some

Office

lypes

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) ~ One of the best places to study human nature is in an office washroom.

The white-collar worker at hla desk wears a mask. He is on guard. You cant teU what kind of a person he But In the waaliroom he quits acting. He shows ihls true per-sonaUty, and thi real man cornea through. He feels free there to be himsdli.

Look around you In your own office washroom. You are bound to recognize stHng ftmiUar characters. i

1. The crusader. He complalna the grade of washroom soap is ruining his skin and la eternally circulating a peUtion demanding that the company put In linen instead of papel towels.

2. The fastidious soul. Why do people insist on throwing their cigar butts on the floor here? be asks, ahuddcrlng. They don't do It at home do they? Then why here? Isnt this their home away from home?

3. The thrifty 'Junior executive. He is so anxious to make a name for himself by saving the company money that, he carefuUy tears off only half a paper towel to dry hia dripping face. The result is he has chapped cheeks all winber.

4. The angry wastrel. *If this chincy outftt wont pay me what Im worth, Ill get even with 'em aome other way. he growls, boldly ripping off three paper towels when one will do.

5. The scholar. He never comes to washroom without at least two newspapers and a copy of ReadeWs Digest.

6. The master of c^emonies. This guy is a frustrated Grover Whalen. He feels it his duty to give everyone who wanders into the washroom a cheerful greeting and a friendly' farewell.

7. The ambusher. Me lies in wait and as soon as you enter, he sidles over next to your wash basin and whispers. By the way. can you lend me 10 bucks until payday?

8. The office snitch. He creeps around listening to everyones conversation, and if he tiears anything derogatory about the company he gallops out to tell the boss- This male mata hari never realizes that the boss, as well as everybody else, despises him.

9. TI secret addict. This poor wretch has publicly proclaimed he has given up the tobacco habit. But every 15 minutes he sneaks into the washroom to grab tk-lew stolen, puffs,

10. The hjrpochrondriac. To,* him the washroom .is. both cUo- *., ic and drugsUM-e. He plods in i ever hour on the hour to gargle, put drops in his eyes, take

a vitamin capsule, drink something to quiet his nonexlstant ulcer, or simply stare at his tongue in the mirror.

11. The compulsive washer. He has made a mistake on the job but hasnt been caught. Every few minutes he trots In and scrubs his hand, hoping thereby to wash his guilt away before his error Is found out.

12. The juvenile Narcissus. The teen-age office boy is so proud of his duck-tail haircut, garnished with olive oil, that he spends hours combing his locks as he admires them in the washroom mirror. This drives the bald headed older employes crazy.

Last but not least, of course.

Is the boss himself. He stomps In. looks bleakly around at the crowd of washroom characters, and remarks dryly: Whats going on in here anywaya convention?

Three seconds later the boss has the place to himself.

GIVE

THE UNITED WAY

.^ax Waste In Highway Program

Opinions In Brief,

'They say it was a Texas millionaire who threw a party at which champagne. gushed from a miniature oil well. But we wonder. The true Texan doesnt bother with miniatures. R(x:kmart (Oa.) Journal.

*rhere is nothing that will ttirn the average man against the city administration more quickly Uian a No-Left-Turn sign right in his way when hes in a hurry to get to a cocktail party. Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont.

'"The fate of our nation rests upon you and the people you Influence. If you want to make a quick buck above all elae. if you would trade security for freedom. If you have lost the moral fibre of your ancestors, our nation is in grave danger. For in a free world you do your choosing as to leaders, but they caiuiot put meaning or purpose or moral standards into your live.*. That is up to you. The fate of the world is within each of us.BeevUle (Tex.) Bee-Picayune.

By ELMER ROESSNER

President Eisenhowers proposal that Congress up the Federal gasoline tax by one - half cent a gallon probably will be rejected.

Reasons:

1. Congress is reluctant to boost basic taxes in election years.

2. Gas taxes are already so high that rebellion has set in; thousands of people are buying smaller cars because they use less gas. Small cars require less manpower than large cars, hence the bunny-buses are cutting employment.

3. The waste of gas tax money so far stinks worse than exhausts on the Los Angeles Freeway.

What was sold to the public as a $30 billion highway program financed by the cent-a-gal-Ion Federal gas tax threatens to be a $40 btlllon program, laced with extravagance, waste and corruption.

BILLIONS FOR POLITICIANS

(Before the nation gets its superhighway network. Teapot Dome may look like a childs game of marbles, said Representative Burr P. Harrison. D., Va.)

Since the lid on a potential new scandal has been tilted, the public and Congress itself will be reluctant to pour in any more tea esi>cclally If it means billions more out of taxpayers pockets in the form of a rise in the gasoline tax.

There are already three Investigations under way into the highway scandal. They are:

1. A White House Investigation, ordered by President Eisenhower.

2. An inquiry by a subcommittee of the House Public Works Committee, headed by Representative John A Blatnik (D., Minn.)

3. An tnvest^ation by the House Ways and Means Committee, headed by Representa

tive Wilbur D. Mills (D., Ark.) CORPORATE CONNIPTIONS

Evidence of the surging opposition to waste of taxes appears in the fact that the current issue of Our Sun, a house organ 0 the Sun Oil Co., rips into waste of gas tax money with explosives recalUnA Captain Billys Whiz Bang.

House organs are usually conservative publications promulgating Robert Brownings contention that ^alls right with the world, But Our Sun, In an article by Judson Laird, rears back and leaves the muldlers have it, quoting authorltive sources each time. A, few samples:

An Ohio cost estimate was off $9,0(X),000 because of a typographical error ... A Georgia estimate was overstated by $19,-700,000 because of faulty arithmetic . . , The Bureau of Public Roads coerced county Commissioners into accepting a highway througji the heart of

although route 17 would be cheaper up the center of

Reno, Nev., blocks away and not rip town.

A bridge across the Narrows below Manhattan would be the 'key to the planned waste of ^$453,000,000 In public road building funds the unnecessary -and uneconomic proposals to duplicate, in close parallel, existing U. S. Route 22 from Philadelphia on the Delaware River to. Port Newark on the Upper New York Bay^wlth a brand new highway.

There are many more exam-.ples of waste, some of it mad, mad, mad.

There seems to be two courses open to^e citizen:

1. Write vigorous letters op-p^plng the propased increase in gas tkxes to his Congressman, Senators, the White House, and local civic leaders, or,

2. Get into this highway construction business. There are millions in it.