PACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR,. GREENVILLE, N. C

Tuesday, February 9, 1^0

Tuesday, February 9, 1960

Politics Will Stay In Government

You Can Tell By The Sound Af^

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For years there has been talk in varying degrees about taking politics out of this or that agency of the state government, or taking the agency out of politics.

Over the years, there perhaps have been some decrease in the political activities of appointive officials and employes of the state, fundamentally there appears little hope of taking the state government out of politics or politics out of the state government.

In this election there will be considerable political activity throughout North Carolina. Many citizens who normally do not consider themselves politicians will find themselves helping with the campaign for this candidate or that because they are interested in seeing a particular individual elected to a particular office.

It is a good guess also that many employes of the slate governmentand many appointed officials

State employes, like other citizens, will have their preference of candidates. It would be unnatural for them not to put in a good word for their favorites when the occasion arises. What should be guarded against is the using of state government resources by state officials or employes in behalf of the candidates they favor.

As political campaigns gain momentum. Tar Heels, regardless of their preference for candidates in any race, should keep a sharp eye to see that none of the resources or facilities provided by tax funds are used for the benefit of nay candidate for any office. The public is always the loser when such a thing happens.

will also take an active interest in some of the political campaigns. Because of the very nature of their work they are more closely associated with the political situation and with politics than the average citizen. It would be next to impossible for them to remain entire-

No Easy Task To Cut Investigative Money

How much should congressional committees spend

ly aloof from, and uninterested in who gets elected to for their investigations that have reached into almost

, ... . ... every phase of American economic and social struc-

The government, after all, is based on politics, ture?

Under the democratic system, the man or men who ^ , ., . ,

can attract the largest followings and get the greatest There are those who contend considerable gov-number of votes at the polls are those who gain the ernment money is being wasted in investigations which responsible seats in government. Taking politics out of ave produced no legislation. There are omers who government, therefore, might be compared with taking considerably more money should be devoted to

religion out of the churches, news out of newspapers or Congress to betto do the job

entertainment out of TV,

Cost Problems And Road Sites

By LYNN NISBET

LAND USE In a speech delivered to the highway conference at State College a few days ago Chairman Melville Broughton of the State Highway Commission voiced concern over the cost of land for public roads rights of way. The place to put a road is approaching in some instances cost of building the road when located.

Others besides the highway chairman are worried both about the price of rights of way and the amount of land being required for modern roadbuild-Ing. The base requirement for an Interstate super duper highway right of way is 360 feet. One mile of that means about 44 acresa fair sized farm. Minimum width for any State highway is 60 feet, and the average for primary routes not on the Interstate system is more than 100 feet. A mile of 100-foot right of way takes more than 12 acres.

It often happens in the mountains and in coastal marshlands that the only suitable place for a road is most productive land on the farm. In such cases it is unfair to put an average farm acre value on the right of way tract. There are factors of accessibility and divided fields adding to the real value to the owner of country land.

More acute problems arise in connection with widening or locating new streets in cities. Not only must the buildings there be paid for but they must be removed. There are instances on tecord where demolition costs for clearing rights of way approximate purchase price of the buildings.

Highways may be the most obvious but they are by no means the only claimants for taking land out of production of food and fiber. Economists are also worried about the acreage taken for industrial plants, parks and playgrounds.

Worriedthese economists are not interested in the price of the land. They are worried about whether there will be enough left on which to grow crops to provide food, clothing and shelter lor the fast increasing number cf people In trfe world. The problem is real, it may even be erious. But it is not new.

Mot^ than a century ago the ame tjrpc of economists were predicting that future peoples would starve to death because there was not enough land to produce feed for farm work animals and all the people who would have to eat. Machines have replaced horses and mules, and Improved methods have increased production per acre to the

that there is somewhere a limit to the degree that land can be taken out of producing food and fiber.

Which reminds of the facetious comment by the late Bill Somers of Wilkes county, business man, sheriff. State senator. .S. marshal. The secondary road program was at its zenith and there was prospect of a big flood control dam on the Yadkin river ta prospect recently revived). Somers quipped: "It looks like all farm land in Wilkes county that Kerr Scott does not want to cover with asphalt. Charlie Deane wants to cover with water. If this trend keeps up Wilkes county folks will^have to import corn to make our liquor-

PLANNING The highway commission presently is placing major emphasis on planning., Chairman Broughton intimated in his speech that if adequate planning had been done some years ago. current conditions would not be so troublesome. There are others, outside the highway set up, who arc wonder-, ing about the distinction between planning for the future and designing for the present.

The same week that a national magazine featured an article about economists worrying over the excessive amount of land acreage being taken out of production of crops for clothing, food and shelter, another magazine told of thet rend toward toward smaller compact automobiles that would require less highway apd parking space. Nearly all the big American car makers are meeting European competition with new designs, chang

expected of it.

At present congressional committees Are spending millions annually conducting invest^ations into everything from labor racketeering to the prices of products. It is highly probable that the nation would have been just as well off without some of the investigations. Some of the investigations, although they may not have resulted in corrective legislation, have exposed conditions that otherwise might have remained unknown to the public had not a congressional committee taken an official look.

Vey2vit S.r.kau, a.

By DON SCHLIENZ

When it comes to deciding how much should be ... _

spent for each committee or subcommittee in its in- O I iT^/^

vestigations, it must be remembered that various Sena- || ICJC iJC Ivylli^ ll Vylv I tors and Congressmen head these committees. Each of J-a a

them has his pet projects, and each probably feels that his is just as important as the next fellows. Added yesterday carried its first column to that is the fact that an appropriation, once made, by George Sokoisky. we can ex-is difficult to cut out in year-to-vear budget considera- ^ ^ by-line with us

tionq Ri anv IpvpI nf crnvprnmpnt for some time to come, and read-

uons ai any levei 01 government. ^ g^s may be interested in some of

It would be a mistake indeed for Congress to eliminate the funds it provides for congressional in- prom time to tinie, Sokoisky vestigations covering a broad field. In 'the public inter- of lite-known incidents

est, however, it would be wise for Congress to take as ^

an objective view as possible of its investigations and china. His mtimatc knowledge their cost before increasing the amount of taxpayers of these things, as well as a money being spent in this field of endeavor.

Keep Your Eyes.

On That Texan

name ending in "sky, might make you think he was born in Russia.

For the record: he wasnt.

Sokoisky is a complete American. by way of his native Utica, N.Y.

His familiarity with the Russian revolution came honestly. Just as the lid blew off in Rus-

In 1918. Sokoisky made his way across Siberia to Peking and there started work for the North China Star. His intentions were to make money for passage to America. As it turned out, he married his first wife there. English-educated, Chinese-born Rosalind Phang, who died in 1933 after bearing him one son, Eric.

The China years were busy ones for Sokoisky; he was a foreign correspondent, editor of an engineering magazine, advisor to Chinese officials, political advisor to American business firms and many other things. Once he held as many as six jobs.

His background suggests George Was almost a prodigy. At the age of 10, he wasbelieve it or not, stumping for the Re-

national scene.

We think youll like

him-

sia in 1917, George finished col- * publican party (in a Tammany

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Keep your eyeboth eyes, in facton Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson all the

way up to next summer when the Democratic convention picks its presidential candidate.

He wants the nomination all right but until this past weekend hes been as coy as AUce-bluegown.

Sens. John P. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Huber H.

^ ^ Humphrey of Mlnnestoa, both

ing production quotas in mid year out-and-out candidates, can butt to supply the demand for small heads in state primaries and

point where, in this country at lea

ast, the problem isla surplus f foodstuffs rather than scarcity.

It must be recognized, however,

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cars.

Another national msigazine had a story about the trend toward narrow streets in suburban residential developments, to save paving costs and still accommodate the small cars that are becoming so popular. Public demonstrations have been given of cars without wheels but riding on air. Advancement in electronic engineering, radar control and other scientific progress raises serious question whether 360-feet w'lder Ights of way, clover leaf interchanges occupying SO acres or more, and other problems currently worrying highway engineers represent "planning for the future" or mere "designing facilities for needs proven in 1956 and being authorized in 1960 for building in 1962.

It is obvious that highway engineers cannot plan now, any better than they could 25 years ago. without taking into consideration the planning that automobile manufacturers and real estate developers may be doing at the same time.

criss-cross the country, lo<^g for support, until their tongues hang out.

Thats not Johnsons way.

This tall Texan is a real, be-hind-the scenes operator. He is one of the best maneuverers and compromisers who ever served as leader of the Senate Democrats.

The reason he can get so much legislation through the Senate with a minimum of brawls and nosebleeds is that he is a master of detail who knows exactly how many votes he can count on before he moves.

There is one other factor in his smooth operation there:

Like President Eisenhower, he seems committed to the belief that name-calling is a hindrance, not a help, in getting what he wants. It just creates enemies and opposition.

But until this weekend John

son was like a man working out quietly in a political gymnasium to build up his muscles. While he denied he was a candidate, his supporters were busy bees, trying to line up support.

Then, suddenly, Johnston apparently thought his muscles were strong. He stopped being completely coy about his candidacy.

So he finally came out with It. to the surprise of nobody. The only question about this was when hed admit it.

Theres good reason to believe that Johnson will try to build up in this session of Congress a record of legislation that will offset some of the Northern liberals opposition to him as a conservative and Southerner.

The evidence is in the almost astonishing performance of the Senate in the past week.

Within a couple of days the Senate approved two highly controversial issues a federal aid to education bill and an anti-poll tax amendment, probably a Southern filibuster. This year a Southerner introduced the amendment.

Johnson, however, is faced with an almost magical tightrope act: how can he get

through legislation that wont turn the Southerners against him and will still please the Northern liberals?

lege, and went to that country as a correspondent for the "New Republic News Service to cover the revolution. Mall service was impossible, however, and^ the young Writer found himself in Petrograd without a Job. He finally Joined the "Russian Daily News", an English language paper, as editor.

Hall hotbed) as an inspired young orator.

As a writer, our new columnist has a firsthand knowledge of anarchism. Communism and other radicalisms as well a conservative personal outlook that has won him many readers. He is recognized as a sound-thinking commentator on the

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Strength For Today

(Goldsboro News-Argus)

New Hanovers Addison Hewlett for a number of months was running for governor as an unannounced candidate.

Finally he announced his withdrawal from the race. He said that finances he thought were promised for his campaign had dried up.

Now he has announced as a candidate for U.S. Senator. In this race he says he will run on a shoestring basis.

Question:

Why does it cost less to run for U.S. Senator than for North Carolina Governor? Where is the logic in such a truth. If it is a truth? Q

Actually candidates for each office must run over the state as a whole. They must each reach the voters in the 100 counties. Generally speaking campaigns for either office will be much the same, or should be.

There are the same fixed costs; for instance: advertising.

Actually it would be easy to spend a half million dollars without even spending unwisely.

North Carolina from the mountains to the sea is a big state. It takes time, and money, to get over It. North Carolina is a state of 4.500,000. Candidates for statewide top offices if they are seriously running must determine to reach all these voters. Tar Heels are hard to stir up about political races which do not offer contests of real excitement.

It is regrettable that it takes so much money to make campaigns. but facts are facts and as yet no one has come up with a plan for reaching all the people on a poor - boy basis.

Old hands will tell you in discussing the question, that politics In modern times involves less manipulation than in other years. There is less hiring of workers at the polls and haulers on voting days. Todays voter caimot be herded to the booths and voted like some dumb

Opinions In Brief

"If the upper crust Is impala-table, the cause may be traced to too much dough in the filling.Matador (Tex.) Tribune.

"Did you ever notice that a fellow who doesnt believe we should deal with foreign countries is the same fellow who does his shopping out of town?" Aztec (N.M.) Review.

"In all the houses where George Washington reportedly slept, the White House oddly enoughwas not one of them. He was, in fact, the only American President who never slept there."Jackson (Miss.) State Times.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS LET US BE REALISTIC

A visitor to Russia was telling recently of how much the Russians are interested in knowing to what race Adam and Eve belonged. An American with a twinkle In his eye said: "Un-doubedly they were Russians." Oh." replied the Russian very much pleased. "I am glad to hear you say that. But why do you say that Adam and Eve were Russians?" "Because, said the American with a grin, "they had no clothes and they were so poor that>,they had only an apple between thembut still they thought they were in paradise.

When are we going to understand that the thing called communism is neither an economic system nor a government. It is a criminal conspiracy which has

taken over a number of governments. What they call the socialist dialectic is economic hocus-pocus. Their government is what we would have in this country if we emptied our prisons, killed our statesmen, and invited the prisoners to run things.

Let us always be on our guard. Let us make friends with the Russian people through every opportunity offered. Let us hope for the best. If we can Just go for several more decades without a war, then the problem will undoubtedly settle Itself, for communism has within it very decidedly the seeds of its own dissolution.

printing, postage, telephone, tele- animal. He is more independent

graph, travel, etc., etc.

Terry Sanford has estimated that a man making a thorough race for governor can legitimately spend $3(X).000. Some of the other men mentioned for governor have said it could be done for less.

and the Australian ballot protects him.

Costs for campaigns run mainly to costs for getting out information and making contacts. But such costs run to big figures be the race for senator or for governor.

"Downgrading of Stalin and the Hungarian revolt both had their deleterious effects on home-grown Communists in the U.S. And to this disillusionment is added domestic anticommunist pressures. Maybe that isn't a death rattle in the throat of American communism, but its color isnt a bit good." New Orleans States-Item.

"The miraculous invention that most offices still need is a typewriter that will spell correctly.Cincinnati Enquirer.

A Will To Win

Turnabout is fair play. So,

Mr. Sokoisky. . jneet some Pitt Countians.

They have some traditions you mustnt fool around with in your writings. . xomhread, chit-tlins, barbecue, fried chicken, greens and fatback. They have a love for political infighting down on the local level. All of them are Imbued with a heritage of traditions that date back to before The Republic was bom.

In relatively recent years there has been an Influx of families from other parts of the country. They made their h(nes here for a number of reasons, mostly business; bur they have also absorbed a lot of Pitt C^ounty in their blood and in a manner of speaking theyve been adopted by their communities. This "adoption" has voiked two ways, their new communities adopted them, and they have adopted their new surroundings. It has made for a better neighborhood. Theyre mostly Democrats down our way. Not many of the so-called "liberals", but so conservative that youd wonder about that.

I think youll like them. too.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY .CopyHfbt, 1960 . King Featores Syndicate, Inc.

Just plain citizens are not experts about strategic air-

glanes, rockets, missiles. A-ombs and H-bombe and all that sort of thing. When they read big headlines announcing that respected generals disagree with the program of President Eisenhower and that the President calls the generals paro-chial, the citizen wonders whether anybody knows what he is talking about. The citizen becomes worried about his own future. He wonders whether anybody knows what he is talking about. The citizen becomes worried about his own future. He wonders whether this is campaign-ycar politics or whether his country is really falling behind Soviet Russia.

Then when responsible Senators such as Lyndon Johnson and Stuart Symington say that the Russians have a three to one lead on us. the public knowing what it costs the American taxpayer every year to keep up the national defense, becomes anxious not only about our civilization and our country but about our sons. What are those responsible doing about our defenses?

President Elsenhower is a professional military man who is highly respected not only for his success as a soldier but for his personality and his character. One is not likely to believe that the President would deliberately not tell the truth or that he would imperil his country. On the other hand. It is also not likely that responsible generals would lie about the armed services or imperil the defense of our country. Senator Lyndon Johnson has shown, over the years, that he is capable of putting country above i^y and although he Is a candidate for the Presidency, he would not endanger his country in pursuit of opportunity.

This then presents a very confused picture to the layman, because U is not just a difference of opinion among honest men. It is a difference of judgment based on knowledge, upon a complete possession of aU the facts. If all these men. from the President down, who are providing data and judgment on the national defense present so confuaiBf a picture, what is the citizen to believe? Whom is the citizen to believe? We are not laving a prlse-flght to decide on a favorite: we are Jacing the future of our country.

This is very important as a military fact. C3ansewttK. the ' worlds rlsssiPil authority on war. pays great attention to the will to victory, the will of a whole people not to be defeated. The Russians te ne a double job, not only of wniit we call propaganda, but of achievement. which is having a notable effect everywhere:

1. They have created doubt, uncertainty and even fear in the United States and among the Western nations. Sputnik had nothing to do with the International Geophysical Year. Sputnik told the military men of the world that the Russians could land a missile anywhere; Sputnik told the American people that the Russians were ahead of us. Subsequent to SpuU nik, the Russians have continu* ed to devote themselves to breaking the morale of the American people with a frequency of events not presently calculable in their resulu;

2. At the same time, the Kremlin by these identical events and activities has established a confidence among the Russians and the various peoples of the Soviet Universal State In the inevitability of Russian victory. The word, inevitability. has taken on the force of religious power, producing an assurance as strong a.s religious faith. It stresses for the individual Russian the doctrine that the Marxist dogma and the Soviet method cannot fail.

This, then, is the current situation. Instead of our government divising a policy based on military and moral essentials, we are still quarrelling about what we should do and why we should do it, and we are wrast-ing unbelievable quantities of money, manpower and materials in the process. Our filurea have been colossal and our duplications of effort have been Inexcusable. Now the generals confirm what the citizens have long wondered about: we have lost time, effort and money. And the question is: Why?

There is no reason for the current Senate hearings to be held (Ck)ntlnued on Page 6)

Moskvich Cars Raise Questions

We need to be wrlse as serpents and harmless as doves but also, as Teddy Roosevelt advised, we need, as we walk softly, to carry a big stick.

By ELMER ROESSNER The deal by which Robert Castle, up-state New Yorker, has agreed to sell 10,(MX) Russian Moskvich autos in the United States in the next two years raises some interesting questions.

The Moskvich is a four-door, four-seat sedan with a 45-horsepower motor with a top speed of 72 miles an hour. It is expected to sell for under 12,000. Gag consumption is said to be comparable to that of a Volks-wagtD or Simca.

The agreement represents car sales at an aggregate retail of almost $20.000.000, and about $16,000,000 at wholesale.

Some of the questions raised are these:

Will the Moskvich face a buyers boycott in the United States?

.BUYER^ IN COVENTRY?

Will buyers be shunned by their neighbors as contributors to the Russian economy and

Ru.<>sian prestige?

Will there be acts of violence on the cars by refugees with unquenchable hatred of the Russians? Will owners of cars be picketed by Hungarians?

Will garages and service stations boycott the M(^kviches, or Increase repair and service charges? In fact, what happens if the drlvcf of a Moskvich, short of gas. pulls into service station operated by, say, a Lithuanian or a Ukranian?

What will happen when drivers of Moskviches run afoul of traffic laws? Will cops Imbued with the sense of equal justice for all. give them the same fairhanded treatment bestowed on drivers of American - made, or allied - made cars? They may. Next time you see a traffic cop, ask him.

What will be the action of organized labor toward these cars, made by labor that costs only a fraction of the cost of labor in Detroit? Will union men bs

allowed to service, repair and sell these cars built by what amounts to slave labor? Sure, secondary boycotts are against the law. but wouldnt autos built by controlled Russian la-.bor constitute a juicy case on which to challenge the constitutionality of the law?

THE BIGGER QUESTION

Most important of all. wont American manufacturers ask Congress to check the importation of these red gas-buggies? The Russians would appear to be vulnerable to anti-dumping laws, largely because of their phony exchange value for the ruble.

In terms of official exchange, a Russian must pay about $2.-5(M) for a Moskvich. But since the.se cars are expected to sell at under $2,(XX) here and the price Includes trans Atlantic shipping and dutythe Russians would have to admit dumping, or confess that the rubles valu-alioa is

Theres still another question: Will all the other questions become moot if the Russian government permits the Importation of some 10,(MX) American cars in the next two years?

BINGO IS BINGO. NOT ENTERTAINMENT, SAYS IRS The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that the amount paid for bingo cards In a night spot are not subject to the cabaret tax. (Rev. Rul. 60 - 30.) The amount paid for bingo cards la in the nature of wagers, and no payments for service or merchsndlse. the IRS con-eludes, and the playing of bingo is not a "public performance for profit.

The ruling waa made in the case of a cabaret that staged bingo games between floor shows and dancing. The IRS may have , been Influenced by the fact that a person playing bingo never hears music of floor shows Aoyhov.