PAGE FOimTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE. N. C

TuesHay. February 16, I960

Tuesday. February 16, 1960

Electric Personalities

Lets Not Forget Who Has To Pay

Election-year spending by Congress always is a matter of major concern to members of that legislative body as well as to the people back home.

With almost everyone more vote-conscious in a national election year than in other years, leaders of both parties as well as individual office-holders are extremely conscious of public reaction to spending too much or spending too little tax money. Aware of this traditional feeling among officials, people back home are more likely to seek to influence legislation in an election year th^ is the case in a non-election year.

It has also become traditional in government that it is more popular to spend money and provide expanded sendees than it is to hold the line against unnecessary spending and be looked upon as one who is not for progress.

Perhaps as a result of this there are now pending in Congress a number of amendments to the present laws governing the federal governments welfare and educational programs. And almost without exception these amendments would liberalize the existing statutes, providing more federal funds to be funneled into welfare programs and into other programs through state and local governments.

Jusf one example of this sort of thing is the bill to put millions of dollars into federal aid for education in the way of construction funds and teacher salary increases. Other propo.als would liberalize social securi-

Seek To Revise Rotation Plan

By LYNN NISBET

ROTATION Democratic leaders in Granville county, with apparent concurrence on part of Person county, are seeking to revise the rotation agreement respecting representation in the State Senate from the Present 14th district comprising Durham, Granville and Person. Under the agreement which has been in effect for years Durham gets a senator in every General Assembly, while Granville and Person each gets one every other time. The pending plan, which seems to have apprcval of all parties, is to let Durham keep the every-tlme member and give to Granville and Person two times in succession.

Legal technicalities about timing of notice and other details are being waived in interest of party harmony. If the deal goes through, as presently seems as-aured. Wills Hancock c?.n come back to the senate from Granville In 1961. and a member from Per-aon will come in 1963 and 1965.

This development in the 14 th State Senatorial diatrict brings into focus the whole business of amatoria! allocation and the need (or redlairicting of legislative represen, a ilon. n vltw of the fact that redistricting for congressional representation may be necessary next year, and the Idea that U congressional district lines must be Juggled it would be well to go whole-hog and revamp solicitorial and State senatorial districts at the same time, any agreement made now might not be binding by the time the 1962 election comeg around.

No one can deny that the present congressional district lines have been gerrymandered beyond the realm of decency, and that the allocation of State senators is not realistic.

SCREWBALL - Under the State constitution the North Carolina Senate has 50 members. By ^tute these 50 places are al-. ,ated to 33 senatorial districts. Seven countiesPitt, Robeson, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Forsyth, Gaston and Buncombeare el-lotted one senator each. There are three two-county dislrlcts with two senators eachEdge-combc-Halifax, Johnston-Wayne, Cabamu-Rowan. By statute with respeot to Cabarrus-Rowan. and by agreement pursuant to statute in the other two-county districts, each county gets a senator every session of the General Assembly. Four other counties In multi-county districts by agree-mentogit a senator every sessionWake, Durham. Iredell and Cleveland.

That means under existing policy 17 of the 100 couttties get a full time senator every session, with the other 33 senators distributed among the remaining 83 counties. .Most of the multi-oounty districts have rotation Agreements, but some do not.

The first district comprised of

Bertie, Camden, Chowan. Currituck, Gates. Hertford, Pasquotank and Perquimans counties has DO formalized agreement' but a sort of understanding that one senator shall come from east of the Chowan river, one from the west. The second district composed of Beaufort. Dare, Hyde. Martin, Pamlico. Tyrrell and Washington, hu a similar gentlemans agreement that the big counties of Beaufort and Martin shall share senatorial reprc-ssntaMon with the other five counties.

The six county seventh district embracing Carteret, Craven, Grrcnp, Jones, Lenoir and Onslow, has no kind of agreement. Its two senators are free to come from anywhere in the district.

SENIORITY - The trend is toward longer tenure for senators, even at expe^'ie of missing out entirely for two or three sessions. Experience is important and seniority is valuable. Alamance and Orange arranged some years ago for the three-two rotation. Rockingham and Caswell have a two-one a-^reement. The Fnnklln-Nash Wilson and the Anson-Stanly-Unlon districts with two senators each have a plan for each county being in two terms and out one. These plans afford opportunity for senators to build seniority.

That Is w^at Granville and Person are seeking. The sgmc tdea has been suggested, but not pushed in Chatham and Lee, which alternate while Wake has a senator every time. Also McDowell and Rutherford have been talking about two term teaure, with Cleveland having a member every session.

INEQUITABLE - Perhaps the most inequitable rotation maintains in the 25h district comoriscd of Catawba, Iredell and Lincoln. Under existing agree-ment Iredell gets a senator every session. Catawba and Lincoln alternate. Population and voting records do not justify this allocation. Catawba had 1,794 people to 1930, Iredell had S6.303 and Lincoln 17,459. In the 1956 general election Catawba cast 15,246 votes for the Demoeratic nominee for Governor, while Iredell polled 10.898 and Lincoln 6.766.

Preference given to Iredell was due largely *to the influence of the late Bob Doughton who often said Iredell was the only county in his district which had never voted against him in a general election. Catawba and Lincoln are in a district represented by a Republican congressman and both have had Republican representatives In the Legislature. In the two most recent Presidential elections all three counties voted for Elsenhower.

Catawba Democrats are restive under the agreement which gives them half a senator, along with little Lincoln, whUe Iredell with fewer people and smaller Democratic vote has a full tlmer,^

ty benefiti, broaden the coverage to include health and hoapitalizatioi> insurance, perhap.s lowering the eligibility age and increasing the amount of other income an individual could receive and still draw benefits.

Certainly election-year efforts to expand such programs will be forceful this year. There will be many advocates of more federal funds for this and that, and these advocates will not hesitate to point out what their proposals will mean to individuals among the electorate. While this is going on, there will be a few^very fewwho will suggest that before expanding the federal welfare spending programs we already have, a careful examination should be made of the programs as they now exist.

How much more billion.s of tax money will it take to broaden and expand the programs? On a projected basis, how much more will the liberalizations cost five, ten, or fifteen years from now? Will the nations economy be able to stand such a load without taking several more giant steps toward socialization?

- Politicially, perhaps, it is better to advocate the spending of too much money rather than spending too little government money. Considering the long-range repercussions, however, the citizens of the nation should keep a close watch on Uncle Sam this year to see that programs are not expanded unreasonably; that future commitments do not get beyond our resources.

More often than not it is much esier for Congress

to liberalize the nations welfare programs than it is

for the people of the nation to foot the bill that results. ^

Left Up In The Air By Mystery Sub Story

Is the Argentine Navy going to nab that mysterious sub or is the saga of Golfo Nuevo going to remain one of the unsolved mysteries of the deep?-

Frankly were disappointed. ,

We thought the Argentine Navy would have the trespassing submarine by the tail by now, showing it off to the world and leaving its owner to make whatever explanations or protests he wanted to. Now we arent so sure the mystery will be solved. If a second sub could slip into the body of water to confuse the search for the first sub, theres no reason to believe both subs will not be able to slip out into the Atlantic.

Its like reading a novel in which the author ends the,book without letting the reader know whether the butler or the gardner committed the crime. We wish we hadnt gotten interested in it in the first place.

By PATRICIA MOORE

Abstract Art Is Lasting

laoies lurnea On Uncle Sam

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By JAMES MARLOW '

WASHINGTON (AP) The Soviets shocked this country with their Sputniks and the moon shot. But they sent a first-class chill down the American spine with Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyans trip to Cuba.

The United States doesnt like it. But what is it going to do about it? Not much right away, it seems. What the Soviets proved was that two can play at the one-sided game this country has been^ playing a long time.

We have been rooting around in their back yard for years. Now they are rooting around in ours.

Once they got nasty after the war we had no hesitancy about lining up their neighbors on our side.

W- got Turkey, Iran and Pakistan into military alliances, gave them arms and aid. Those who just wanted aid. like India and Afghanistan, got aid.

We spread our influence and help into Southeast * Asia and North Africa. As for Latin

Americawe spread help there, too. although not as freely as elsewhere. That part of the world was under our wing. The Soviets were far away and it seemed safe.

We had the Monroe Doctrine for Latin America: 'no foreign intervention there. We were

thinking of military intervention, of course. There were local Communists in Latin Amer-vlca but they did not control a government.

With everything so tidy close to home, we even extended a kind of Monroe Doctrine to Western Europe, called the Truman Doctrine. It told the Soviets American Interests were worldwide and not to push our

friends around.

All this was Intended to put a ring around the Soviet Union

to keep it in check. It worked for a while but not long. All the Soviets had to do was to iiy over the ring or sail around it.

Egypt, for Instance. The Egyptians got aid from us but when they wanted weapons, too, and help In building their Aswan Dam, we refused the arms and backed away from the dam.

The Soviets moved right in. Egj'pt got the arms and now the Soviets are building the dam. We gave Afghanistan aid, the Soviets gave more. We gave help to India. So did the Soviet Union.

Still, Latin America seemed a long way away from the Soviet Union. Then Mikoyan went to Mexico to get acquainted and followed up with last weeks trip to Cuba where Fidel Castros government has been snarling at the United States.

By last weekend he had promised to buy five million tons of Cuban sugar over the next five years, arranged for a Soviet loan to Cuba, and even offered Castro war planes if he wants them.

This country has been concerned that Cuban Communists, with or without Castros leadership, would take over the government.

Now Mikoyan ^has gone a long way in a weeks time to set a solid foundation for Soviet and Communist influence there.

At the least. Castro will probably try to play off the Soviet Union against this country. But Mikoyans trip to Cuba is just a preliminary to other Soviet efforts to create friends and dependents in Latin America.

All this puts the United States In. a kind of self-conscious fix, since the United States is anxious to avoid any action which would revive the memory of Uncle Sam hovering over Latin America with a big stick.

If you are not*a fan of the abstract art being painted by the modern artists, weve run across a little item you might enjoy.

It seems that there are some people who enjoy the abstractions immensely. They evaluate and feel stimulated by it.

Then there is the class of art appreclators who say abstract painting is just a lad. The fad has lasted quite a number of years, having really started centuries ago with some of the now traditional masters. El Greco of the 16th century Is one of theseand most galleries would give their eye teeth to obtain an El Greco painting. Some of the modems claim El Greco as tbeir master. So you might say modern art isnt a fad.

regardless of what the oponents claim.

That leaves us at our present situation of having abstract art very much alive in the art world.

It seems that the abstract

painter is more Interested in the art form he Is painting than In the subject itself. The subject, therefore, becomes lost in the artists art form, and by the time he has cmnpleted his picture, his original object is unrecognizable.

Some of our critics say this distortion of the subject in the painting is a result of our society and the artists interpretationthe artist sees an emptiness or void in the Uvea we lead.

Other Editors Saying ,. The High School Quitter

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ALL PERIODS CREATIVE

The creative period in the Uvea of most people is between the ages of thirty and sixty. It is during these years that success is made, obstacles overcome, problems met and solved with vigor.

Yet there have been great exceptions to this general rule that life reaches its highest creative-nesa between the ages of thirty and sixty. William CuUen Bryant wrote "Thanatopsia when he was nineteen. R must have been discouraging to him that throughout his long and distinguished literary career he never again I'qualleri that marvelous poem which he had conipased while he was stUl a teena?er, Titian. the great painter, produced his outstanding picture when he was ninety-six. He Uvcd to be over one hundred and was fruitful to the end.

So do not believe that 'your life is constricted and held wlth-ins the limits of certain categories. The chance* are that the years of your achievement will be between your thirllc.h and slx-Uelh birthdays. But you may change the world bcforr you are

twenty-five. You may have startling success after you are sixty. Napoleon held the world in his hand before he was thirty. Alexander Hamilton became Secretary of the Treasury and put the new government of the United States on a firm financial footing while he was stlU a very young man.

Age counts. It is significant. But it is by no means the whole of the picture. It is given us to rise above the yearsaccomplish wliile young, to continue to accomplish into old ag'

(The Birmingham News)

A study just released by Labor Secretary James .Mitchell provides food for thought for our high school studentsparticularly those for whom the prospect of getting out is becoming more appealing than a diploma.

For these the labor Department has some facts which should be considered before an unfortunate decision is made: Unemployment among drop-outs last year was twice that of graduates; 50 per cent of graduates held clerical sales or office jobs as compared with only 6 per cent of dropK)ut8, whUe lower-paying service and laborer jobs employed 44 per cent of drop-outs and only 18 per cent of graduates.

For girls, more than 60 per cent of graduates held clerical jobs as against only 5 per cent of drop-outs: 54 per cent of drop-outs held service jobs such as waitress while only 15 per cent of graduates were so engaged. Six times as many boy graduates held clerical and ales jobs as did drop-outs: five times as many held skilled jobs. Twenty-five per cent of drop-outs held part-time jobs because they could not find full-time work; only 6 per cent of graduates were in that category.

This is not Mama telling a child he has to go to school because It's for his own good. These are hard, cold factsand unfortunately the drop-out, the quitter, is going to find that as the years go by they will get harder and colder. Educational requirements of prospective employers, already high, are sure to Irfcrease as this nations technological pace and general

mechanization and automation increase.

The high school student tempted by the lure of $40 or ISO a week, more money by far than hes ever had, will do himself a favor by stopping to think not twice but ten times before he makes up his mind. His decision will not simply affect his course for a few months or yearsit will affect his whole working life and, unavoidably, the lives of his family as he faces In years ahead the problems of rearing and providing for children of his own.

The Triumph Of Elvis (The Asheville Citizen) Were not exactly crazy about rock-n-roll. But we have considerably more respect for a young man who rode to fame through this form of expression.

Hes Sergeant Elvis Presley, who will become a civilian again in March. Thats interesting to teen-agers who helped make the Memphis truck driver a millionaire. What Interests us Is that the Army made a soldier out of Elvis. It was not a routine task. The objective was to turn a $105,000 per month rock-n'-roU idol into an $83.20 a month GI and to treat him just like everyone else.

That the Army succeeded was due also to the man Elvis, who says In the February Redbook magazine: I cant recall an Incident when anybody gave me a bad time, because they saw I was trying to do my best. . . Some guys tell me, we were really laying for you. We were hoping youd be In our outfit. But theyre my buddies now. It seems the Memphis boy really staged a personal tricmph over riches.

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You might go on to aay the artist sees a nothingness. Or there Is something lacking in our. lives.

But back to the peraon who does not like the abatract art. One critic has come up with an excuse" for appreciating modem art; The abatract painting may not be understood, but it la so fascinating -that it holds the attention of the viewerUme and time again.

There is an exhibit here now at the Art Gallery, located on the second floor of Sheppard Memorial Library, and It is a one-man exhibit by Miss Anne Mercer Kesler of Winston-Salem Miss Kesler is considered one of ten most promising young artists.

At any rate, she has a gimmick in her paintings. The gimmick Is in the form of a large void space, centrally located in each of her paintings. She has said that ahe painted the void space ' unconsciously, then noticed it and tried to analyze it. The more she analyzed, the more she decided it was a necessity in her paintings, both psycbologlcally and com-positlonally. The voids never are completely negative or empty, she says.

Someone has rgtatted her voids to the emptineas in man, which compels him to reach out to other men and to God.

And to Miss Kesler, nature is made of the voids and tensions, which sh includes in her paintings.

We feel that the exhibit at the art center here now affords viewers a chance to see original paintings, whether they are abstract or not. And the artist has won awards which makes her worthwhile as a creator whether her paintings are abstract or not. They are fascinating, to say the least.

Opinions In Brief

As mountslneers know, the lower slopas may be wooded and alpine meadows flowery, while above the tree line the summit turns gaunt, gray and barren, with chill winds blowing. The West can well afford to seek out some further indicatloni of the nature of the summit before leaving their base camp.New York Herald Tribune.

As one of the Immutable principles of politics its sometimes said that governments never turn back when once they start moving toward the left. The Dally Oklahoman.

By GEORGE E. 80K0LSKT COPYRIGHT. 1160. KING .FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC.

We have become so absorbed % in the greatness of our international position that we forget , our national housekeeping which is of equal sigmflcaoce. A politician can make headlines by associating himself, with inter-naUonal relations and nasking speeches on subjeels which few understand, mr tbcrc is little excitement over such an Issue as abolishing the Postal Savings System, which ha.s no real purpose. is not used much by our people and is constantly receding in effectiveness. Periisps most citizens have forgotten that the Post Office is in ths banking business.

Pot Instance, m 1947, the Postal Savings System had 4,196,-000 subscribers; in 1955, 2,711,-000 subscribers and it is estimated that the figure for 1959 will show 1,600,000 subscribers.

Considering that the savings banks of the country are now well - estabUahed and deposits are insured, the Postal Savings System has lost Its value imd ought to be abolished. The de-the deposits have decreaaed from about $4.(X)0.000.000 in 1947 to $84$.000,000 at the end of 1989. Most of the princlpsl mutual savlnga banks in New York City have deposits equal to the entire Postal Savings System.

This Is only one of many examples of bousekeeping tasks that need to be done. The Hoover Commission has shown wbst needs to be done and great sums of money can be saved by cleaning out the rubbish that has accumulated over the years in the operations of the Executive branch ot the government. Whereas In private entarprtse. parts of businesses are dlaoard-ed when they no longer serve.

In the government, those sgen-cles which are once established are not discarded because politicians develop a vested interest in a particular govenunent agency which looks after their affairs. Thus, there is an secum-ulation of useless, costly sgen-cles In government which inflate the expense of government operations and which the people really cannot afford.

Some day some Senator or Representative will devote his career to fighting against these wasteful, (taplicatlve expenditures which are intolerable la a period of inflation.

The Ehaenhower Administration has not faced this housekeeping problem realistically. President Eisenhower, who cannot be a candidate (or re-election and who therefore is freer than most Presidents to do courageous deeds, seems never to have had the time to devote to the smaller tasks of administration. Perhaps Sherman Adams used (o look after the independent afencies, but Herbert Hoover has pointed to the impossibility of the President finding the time for it.

For instance, it is now necessary to reorganize the independent agencies, the ICX!. the FTC. the FCC, the SEQ. 3ome

of these agencies harown into bureeucratib {pQ^MetS. delaying our devcloimwot as a nation, slowing up progress, maintaining at any Tlsk the status quo. ,

Whatever advantages the independent agencies have, they have become too entrenched in their own authority and have lost flexibility. Note how long it took the Federal Trade Com-mlaalon to discover -1^ the claims about tarTn (Slcred cigarettes were iS^By tHithfuI statements. Or note that the Federal Trade Oonunission to discover that the claims about tar In filtered cigarettes were hardly truthful statements. Or note that the Federal CX)mmun> icatlons Commission. estsbUsh-ed to monitor the air which is the property of the whole American people, took forever to observe that television wu being used to perpetrate a h(MUi and a swindle and has not yet done anything about it. Even now, with aU the noise about payola, comedians slip in plugs for Florida real estate and their own private automobiles. And has the Securities and Exchange Commission done anything of any significance in connection with the dishonest sale of atock In New York, particularly the modem methods employed in 80-cglled Boiler Shop operations, which sell as much under as qver the counter? They do not even have an ado-ConiiBoed On Paga I

Oddities In World Of Business

By ELMER ROESSNER The strangest things happen in business. Some of them:

A Texas shopping center offered long distance calls to three shoppers chosen by lot each day . . . Two rustlers stole a cow in Italy and sped away with it in a small car. Unable to get the cow out again, they abandoned the car. . .Initiation fee (or the new Directors Guild of America is $2.000.

Advertising expenditures will reach $12 billion this year. Printers Ink predicts.

Last year Americans bet $3.7 billion in legal wagers the American Totalisatoi Co. reports . . . American exports of tobacco last jvar were 3.5 per cent less than in 1958 . .' . Japan has doubled Its exports of plywood to the United- States since 19rK).

Jacksonville, Fla., was the boom city of 19."9. Judging by department store sales. They were 21 per cent above 1958.

The Tampa-St. Petersburg area was second, up 19 per cent. Worst, downtown Baltimore, down 8 per cent.

Americans bought $1.3 billion worth of books last year.

Prebuilt and pre-equipped gas stations, in operation 48 hours after delivery, are now being made. They can be relocated in the same time. . .Rides in a model T lured kids to a Baltimore supermarket. . .Manage-ment-union bargains last year resulted in an average wage increase of just under 9 cents an hour, compared with 10 cents in 1958

IIOSPITAI^ GET BREAK

Nonprofit hospitals now get the same tax break as churches and schools, under a new' Treasury ruling. You can give your w'ealfh to a hospital: the hosultal can invest in tax free bonds and give you the tax-free Interest as long as you live.

A dispute about where Teddy bears got their name if rag

ing In London .newspapers, Makera of a" leething lotion are offering prkMs for best photos of smilinf babies. . .A Brooklyn professor predicts that by 1970 supermarkets wUl be completely automatic, with shoppers riding moving belts and pushing buttons to get the items wanted. . .A calendar that is 90 days ahead of the Gregorian calendar is used by appliance manufacturer to get dealers thinking ahead about season promotions.

Showing theres little new in the American eagerness to 'join things IS this quotation from Alexis De Tocquevllle, French statesman, who visited America in 1831:

The Americana of all ages, all condftlons and all dispositions constantly form associations. They have not only commercial and manufacturing companies in which all lake part but associations of a thbus-Riitl other kludsreligious, mor

al, serioup^_^t5l^, restricted, enormous ..ftr*dWlhutive. Tire'' Americana maio juMOCiaUons 'to give enterUkiiBMQtoi to found establishments fOT education, to send missionaries (o the antipodes. Wherever at the head of some new undertaking you see the Government in France or a man of rank in Englnad. in the United States you will be sure to find ani association. AUTO INDJ8TRY AS^ .EQUALITY IN CQAn^TITIQN

The auto* industry- is demanding that the government try to persuade foreign nations to reduce dutlesion American cars.

The U. S. has kept duties low. making it easy (or foreign manufacturers to compete with American cars, American man-ufrcturers say they .should have equal freedom to compete.

* The situation has been brought to a head by'the production of smaller American cars, directly compeUUvt with small foreign autos.