PAGE FOUPTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Saturday, February 2.7, 1960

Saturday, February 27, 1960

Johnson Created The Situation

Heres His Replacement

- IF CHES&IAI>M ESC^P6S TME PENALTY.

Southern Senators have made it clear they intend obliged to bring the matter to the floor of the Senate, to use filibuster uctics in the senate as long as feasible Without some such move on his part, he could hardly to prevent passage of the conglomeration of civil rights hope to garner sufficient convention support from

other areas to have a chance for the partys presidential nomination.

legislation now being presented.

How effective the effort will be remains to be

^ieen.

Both the Republican administration and a good part of the Democratic party leadership, are anxious,

In spite of all the words flying around in the Senate now, we get the feeling that Sen. Johnson is in command of the situation. This master legislative for policital purposes, to enact new legislation under tactician probably already has definitely established the name of civil rights before Congress adjourns. As plans as to what kind of civil rights legislation will in recent national election years, civil rights will be an emerge from the debate . . . and when, issue in the 1960 campaign in some sections. There are He created a controversial situation in which he those on each^side of the political fence who want to will have to play the key role of compromiser. It is not be able to point to their part in passing stronger civil unlikely that he will use his experience and influence rights laws. to effect the compromise he desires at the time it is

While many Southern senators will participate in ^^^t advantageous to him and his future plans, the effort to prevent passage of civil rights legislation.

Bank Merger Could Be

their strength is limited by numbers if nothing else. They can delay the matter for a while through filibuster, but probably not indefinitely.

There is also the matter of other legislation the partisans want passed in this election year. Too long a delay over civil rights might leave insufficient time for other legislation of political importance to members of Congress.

Helpful To The Area

Stockholders approval of the merger of Guaranty Bank and Trust Company of Greenville and Wa-t * -i. i. u chovia Bank and Trust Company of Winston-Salem

Under these circumstances, it would not be sur- leaves only formalities to be completed before the mer-

prising to see a compromise emerge from all the behind-the-scenes maneuvering now' going on in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson is probably in command of the situation that he chose to bring about. He will not risk losing Southern support for the Democratic nomination by going too far with civil rights legislation. On the other hand he felt

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A Duck To Catch

By LYNN NISBET .

WOMENBoth Terry Sanford and John Larkins have para-mounted the expected support of women voters in their ambitions to be Governor of North Carolina. There is evidence that momen may have a larger part in the 1960 political campaign than they have had before. But, so far there isnt much evidence that women are interested in State or legislative offices. Reports from over the state indicate very few women are thinking about running for the Legislature. and none at all for statewide elective office.

There are more -women than men of voting age in North Carolina, and the women canif they desire to do socall the turns at the ballot box. They have not shown much interest in holding public office. There have been several women appointed to high administrative office, the superintendent of public welfare being perhaps the highest such post. There have been a number of women elected to county office iclerk of court and register of deeds). Only one woman has been a candidate in the Democratic primary for top elective office. That was Mrs. Helen Robertson Wohl, who ran for treasurer in 1936.

Miss Jane Pratt was nominated by the executive committee and elected to Congress to fill an unexpired term in 1946, but did not seek election for the full term.

LEGISLATORS - In the 19 regular sessions of the General Assembly held since woman suffrage came to North Carolina in 1920 only twelve women have held seats, for combined service of 21 terms. No women were* included in the membership of the Legislature in 1923, 1929, 1941 and 1951.

The flrst woman to serve in the North Carolina Legislature was Miss Lillian Exum Clement of Buncombe in 1921. The suffrage amendment was ratified after the 1920 primary but before the November election and Miss Clement was named to fill a vacancy on the party ballot, and was duly elected to the House of Representatives.

Other women Representatives were Miss Julia Alexander of Mecklenburg in 1925; Miss Car-rls McLean of Mecklenburg in 1927; Mrs. Lily - Morehead Meb-ane of Rockingham in 1931 and 1933; Mrs. Charles H. Hutchins of Yancey in 1935 and 1937; Mrs. G. W. Cover of Cherokee in 1943, 1945 and 1959; Mrs. Walter G. Craven and Mrs. Joe Ervin of Mecklenburg in 1949; Mrs. Grace Taylor Rodenbough of Stokes in 1953. 1955, 1957 and 1959, and Dr. Rachel Davis of

Lenoir in 1959.

On the Senate side Mrs. E. L. (Gertrude) McKee of Jackson county served in 1931, 1937

ger of the two financial institutions becomes effective.

It means, of course, that Guaranty Bank, identified with Greenville since its organization here in 1901, will no longer exist. In its place in Greenville, and the other 12 Eastern Carolina communities where Guaranty operated, the name of Wachovia will replace the Guaranty name. It will mean that Greenville will no longer be the supreme headquarters for a banking institution operating throughout a broad area of Eastern North Carolina.

On the other hand, the merger means that Greenville and other areas served by Guaranty will find in their midst an office of the largest bank in the southeastern United States and access to considerably larg- By HENRY HOWARD er financial resources represented by the institution.

This could be of considerable importance to the eco-

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nomic growth of the area. There will be the additional Plot Didnt Work

aspect of the present personnel of the Guaranty svs ind r94TanTlS?a.Vs.' Hue following the merg-

Ramsey) Ferguson of Alexander * vjreenville, the local office, officials say, will Uome of the boys around here

continue to be the Wachovia headquarters for branch- instigated and carried out a plot es in the Guaranty system. yesterday that didnt quite pro-

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inrough the merger, Greenville in one respect will During the morning, a couple relinquish its position as a locally owned banking of them sneaked downstairs and center for a broad area in this part of the state. By be- ' parking lot behind the

coming a headquarters for Wachovias operations in ufp n

tnis section, hotvever, its potential as a banking center whistie-boom bomb or some-m^y well be enhanced. Even so, it is with some reluc-tance that we see a locally owned institution that has

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in 1947. -Both Senatora McKee and Ferguson subsequently were appointed on the State Board of Education, McKee by Governor Broughton and Ferguson by Governor Cherry.

A glance at the record will show that Dr, Davis is the only woman legislator ever to come from the eastern half of the state. During the 19 legislative sessions' each with 170 members, the aggregate membership was 3,230, of which only 21, or less than two-thirds of one per cent, were women. Since women can cast more direct votes than men, and by the methods in which they are skilled can Influence a great many more, the conclusion seems inescapable that they are Just not interested in politics or in holding public office.

STRATEGYFor many years the Plans of Organization of both the Democratic and Republican parties have called for approximately equal representation of men and women on all party committees. Yet the common practice has been for the men to go ahead and run the business, without bothering much with the women. And the women have to very large extent submitted to that treatment without effective protest. There have been instances when the women mildly protested that they were not being treated right but never an instance when they moved in and exerted the power they have of majority voting strength to control the situation.

It will be interesting to watch procedure at the State Republican convention here Saturday and at the Democratic Executive Committee meeting here next Friday. Betting odds are 100 to one that a few men will run both meetingsand that after the meetings the women will complain that they have not been accorded proper consideration by the menfolks. And all the while and at any stage of activity from precinct to state level, the women had the power. If they had wanted to exercise it, to control proceedings.

Some of the men are beginning to ask if. In view of the manifest lack of interest on part of the women, they should be allowed to retain equal representation on party committees. There Is some sentiment for ignoring sex and giving places of honor and work In the party councils to the persons who

show interest in government.

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served Greenville and other communities of this area the hSd f one of the press

for more than half a century become a subsidiary room boys car. Just like imder-

part of a much larger banking concern.

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By BEM PRICE WASHINGTON (AP)

United States has promised South America a duck dinner If the United States can catch a very elusive duck.

That seems to be a pretty fair summary of what President Elsenhower has offered our neighbors to the south on his current, four nation goodwill tour.

To be more precise the President said:

Permit me to renew this pledge, which I have made repeatedly; the United States ready. . . .to devote a substantial portion of the savings made possible by disarmament to vast constructive programs of peaceful developments.

But such savings, like the duck, may be hard to come by.

Eisenhower made the offer in Brazil where President Juscelino Kubitschek proposed a sort of Inter-American self-help plan called Operation Pan America in a speech in May 1958.

Under this plan nine nations would pool resources and technical skills to attack the problems of economic underdevelopment.

The President said the United States was joining Brazil in urging an In ter-American meeting to accelerate the formulation of specific projects needed to translate this plan into a working reality. But any money the United States supplies probably will have to come from other sources.

In any case, wise South Americans probably arent looking forward to tapping Uncle Sams disarmament savings account any time in the very near future.

The United States and the Soviet Union have been talking disarmament off and on since 1955. Since November 1958 this nation, the Soviet Union and Great Britain have been talking unsuccessfully about a nuclear test ban.

There is another East-West dis-axmanKnt conference scheduled for March 15 in Geneva.

At last report the Western allies the United States, Britain. Prance, Canada and Italywere having difficulty in working out a single disarmament agreement among themselves.

And. mind you, these nations are friends. Each of the Western naUons may take its own plan into the meeting with the Soviets and the latters satellites, Bulgaria, Poland. Czechoslovakia and Romania.

If you want to assume that by some miracle there Is an East-West agreement in March, or any month In 1960, that will only be the beginning.

The United States concedes that a disarmament agreement would be ineffective unless Red China concurred. But Red China hasnt been invited.

All this means, of course, that after a successful disarmament agreement everybody will have to sit down with Red China for another round of conferences on the same subject.

So long as Red China is armed no other nation can afford to dLsarm substantially.

If the South Americans are counting heavily on a slice of the disarmament duck, they probably are going to be pretty hungry.

cover agents, the two stealthily crept away and back up stairs.

The long wait began. The remaining minutes before limch dragged slowly by and the upstairs force kept checking the rigged auto through the rear windows. They could hardly wait for the pajrroll to be distributed when this autos owner would certainly take a quick motor trip to the bank.

As the time drew nearer, the jokesters grew more and more

tense with anticipation.

Finally, the owner picked up his check and walked slowly out the back door, straight toward his wired car. Obviously preoccupied with his thoughts,!^ he was totally unaware of the anxiety his "snairs pace was producing in the upstairs boys gathered around the windows to see the fireworks.

He covered the 100 feet to his car. opened the door and paused for a long moment that seemed like eternity to the plots instigators. Then he started to get into the front seat.

Abruptly, he moved away from the car as If some little voice or something had warned him of the danger at hand. He closed the car door and w'alked away. Hed decided it was such a nice day. hed just walk to the bank.

The plotters could hardly stand It. Hed come so close, yet hed foiled them completely as

hed ironically decided to hoof It instead of taking his regular drive.

That was bad enough for the plotters, but the worst was yet to come. When the starter was finally turned and the bomb ignited. the whistliiig began, smoke started rolling from beneath the hood, and the little bomb exploded harmlessly with a bang.

Result: 'The owner harly batted an eye. Thats happened to me before, he said. "In this same parking Iqt. too. Its all in a days work!

Other Editors Saying

Not Capital Punishment

Strength For

By EARL L. DOUGLASS A RARE CAPACITY

Reflection is defined in the dictionary as the mental consideration of some subject matter. idea, or purpose, often with a view to understanding or accepting it. or seeing it In its right relations.'Which is sort of

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The NewJJleetSiment gives Icturp^UTJesus as a ma

a fancyj^y o saying that some nave

people ffave the profitable habit of thinking about the significance of life itself and all its events. They reflect upon them. They read something and then think about it. They look back over their lives and evaluate what has happened to them. They consider what is going on around about them and turn over in their minds the Implications to tl^fm and to others of this event or that.

These people are reflective in nature. But there is all too little of this mood in modern life. We are so busy that we jump from one thing to another. We seldom have time to reflect upon the meaning of lifes eventsand almost never upon

_ us a picturp^UTJesus as a man of deep reflection. Let no one think that His marvelous parables were thought up on t.he spur of the moment. He had long reflected upon the significance of human life.

We would get vastly more out 'of life ourselves il we would take time to reflect on the man-ing of its events

(Washington Daily News)

Governor Pat Brown of California has called a special session of his state legislature. Among the matters to be taken up is that of capital punishment.

And among those on Death Row is Caryl Chesman. a convicted sex terrorist who has been there for almost 12 years. Recently he was given a 60-day reprieve in order that the state of California decided in the legislature to retain capital punishment by a vote of almost two to one. Governor Brown himself is an outspoken foe of capital punishment.

Now the matter Is to be discussed ajl over again. And in the discussion which will come about when the special session of the legislature convenes on February 29, the name of Caryl Chessman will be heard frequently.

We want to ask this question- Can an individual legislator In California look at the matter of capital punishment separately and apart from the life of Caryl Chessman? We doubt that he can.

So in a real sense we see this special session as one In which the life and death of man will be paramount issue. If capital punishment is retained. It will be because of Chessman. And if it is abolished, it will be because of Chessman. He is the pawn in this political game right now.

It is most unfortunate that a convicted criminal must become the focal point in a political debate of such far reaching importance. Of course, his life is the most important worldly posses-

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of capital punishment ( 1 Q

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Sion he has.

To allow the matter of capital punishment in California or any other state to become a political matter is to throw the issue all out of perspective. One Republican legislator has called for the impeachment of Governor Brown, a Democrat. It is that bitter.

In future this matter will affect There will be murderers, arsonists. rapists, and others who will stand before the bar of judgment to be sentenced. Their names are not now known because in so many instances they have not yet committed the crimes which could now send them to their death.

So much of the future will be forgotten. It would appear that the individual legislators, in, voting on retaining or abolishing capital punishment, will in reality be voting on taking or sparing the life of one man Caryl Chessman.

All other cases will or may be forgotten temporarily. Capital punishment should never become a political issue particularly when the issue revolves around one man.

Regardless now of what the California legislature does about this matter of capital punishment, the decision will be a political issue for many years to come in that state-

And the life or death of one man becomes more important than the sum total of the lives and deaths of many future criminals in that state.

Yesterday was full of all sorts of things.

Around lunch time, one of the plottM-g In the aiore-mentloned episode was excitedly seeking to , gather spectators to watch the explosion that just dklnt make the schedule'.

Just as the planned victim was strolling out to his car. this Instigator raced into the newsroom to sound the alarm. As fate would have it, a young lady was just leaving after a ln*ief visit.

She had Just walked down the short hallway leading to the stairway when this character burst into the newsroom. Mistakenly, he was certain the young lady was someone else and dashed to the corner and hollered. Hey.

The visitor about-faced and stared questionlngly into a startled face that was suddenly as red as the hair on top of it.

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If all the worlds people were our brothers, and we were our brothers keepers, they would also be our keepers. We would be among the kept. In the slave societies of totalitarianism, from the Baltic Sea to the sad coasts of Siberia and China, everybody is required to be his brothers keeperto maintain a sharp watch on him and blow the whistle the minute he deviates from total obedience. The Saturday Evening Post.

American income per capita in 1959 is running 53 per cent higher than ten years ago, reported the Taxpayers Federation of Illinois . . . Less than half the increase is realmost of it is inflation, Sterling (111.) Daily Gazette.

Understanding in the United States of the Issues we face is absolutely essential to our well being. President Elsenhower.

By GEORGE E. 8OK0LSKY COPYRIGHT, IMO. KING FEATURES SYNDICATE. INC.

Can you tell me when Flight X from Lob Angeles will arrive? I understand it is delayed.

IU nd out for you, says a sweet voice. After a pause, she comes back: It was delayed three or four hours for mechanical servicinc. We can only say that it was supposed to leave at 1 pjn. (The last time I phoned, the girl sAid that it would leave at noon.) We have no notice yet that it has left. Call in about an hour.

I say: A passenger on that plane is due for dinner p.m. and for theater that.

WeU. says the sweet voice In this mechanical age. anything can happen. It does not matter what business youre in. the machines do go wrong sometimes.

This is a very cheerful pbilos-. ophy but not very encouraging. The airlines ought to have sufficient equipment so that they take the risk of a mechanical default. AH they have to sell is timespeed. If the airplane does not give the passenger the advantage of reaching his destination on time, speedily, safely, surely, it does not perform Its objective. The same is true of railroads. The same is true of busses. When the airplanes do not arrive on time or close to time. It can only be that their system is defective and requires correctloo. unless the failure is due to weather or another unfavorable act of God. A four or five hour delay In departure ia a betrayal of the essential function.

The excuse of the airplane companies has always been that safety is more Impcotant than any other factor. It is not a valid excuse. In their calculations as to the cost of operations. they ought to include the item of stand-by equipment to replace any which may suddenly get out of order. In a word, if at 10 am., it is discovered that a plane cannot leave, because of a mechanical defect, a substitute plsne ought to be made available to bring the passengers In.

I recognize the enormous cost of such a service, but when a common carrier sells a ticket to bring' a person from one point to another, specifying the time of departure and arrival, that is a contract and should be kept. To fail to keep It is an unfair trade practice. Both the railroads and the airplane companies have become careless about time. It used to be that the Twentieth Century Limited of the New York Central boasted that it arrived on the dot and paid a penalty when it .failed. Men took time seriously in those days as they did manners, politeness, outward decency.

One girl. In discussing an eight and a half hour delay of a jet plane, said: I'm glad that they turned back. 'nus may be good public relaUons. She was glad that they turned back; otherwise the passengers might have been killed. * However. the alternative ought not to be death or delay; here could have been a stand - by plane available to take care of trouble.

The transportation system of the United' States, like so much else of the post-war period, requires raUonalizatlon. .The rall-' roads have gone to pot on the whole, particularly the sutxir-ban lines of big cities which cannot compete with busses and private cars; crack trains hsve lost their elegance in competition with airplanes. The air^ planes have become as stuck-up as a successful television pitchman. Someday, a clever airplane manager will devise a method of guaranteed performance even if he takes his time about it. He will say that his planes arrive approximately at such and such a time, advising those anxious about arrivals to call a certain number for more precise information.

I pose no simple problem because the cost of anything associated with airplanes is almost prohibitive. On the other hand, a service either stands up or it does not. The function of management Is to make it as nearly perfect In proficiency as money and brains can make it.

It is not my function to make what is called oonstrucUve criticism; I am not an engineer

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the meaning of life itself. If life ha.1 relationship with great and perhaps cosmic Issues, we sunply shrug our shoulders and say that thoughts of that sort are i^r the philosophers.

THE UNITED WAY

By ELMER ROESSNER

Ours is a luxury economy.

There were grim moments last year. The steel strike, rising unemployment, lengthening relief rolls and stock market tremors made the year seem more austere than 1958.

But department store salc reflected strong trends to more luxury.

/The Federal Reserve has Just ^published a report on department sales by departments In 1939. Its not complete, covering something less than half the countrys sales, but the trends it discloses are probably general.

Of the stores reporting, main store sales last year were up 5 per cent, while basement sales rose'2 per cent. That is ba.slc-ally significant: there are few luxuries in the, bargain basements

The largest gain reported was in juniors coats, suits and dresses, up 14 per cent over a year. The working woman and

the executives wife must dress well, good times or bad. But when the family is luxury-minded. spending for the teenagers riseand It rose greatly last year.

The second largest Increases were in fine jewelry and watches, and in radios, phonographs and television sets, both groups up 12 per cent.

The other gains of 5 per cent or more were: linens and

towels, up 6 per cent; laces, trimmings, embroideries and ribbons, up 5 per cent: corsets and brassieres, up 6 per cent, (possibly reflecting richer diets); underwear, slips and negligees, up 5 per cent; handbags and small leather goods, up 7 per cent: womens shoes, up 5 per cent; girls wear,- up 10 per cent; womens and misse. inex-peiLsive dre.sses, up 8 per cent; better dresses, up 7 per cent; blouses, .skirls and sportswear, up 8 per cent; aprons, house-dresses and uniforms, up 8 per

cent; mens clothing, up 6 per cent: mens furnishings and hats, boys wear, up 5 per cent;

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and carpets, up 6 per cent;

major household appliances, up 6 per cent; and gift shop, up 7 per cent. The only basement department to exceed 5 per cent was dresses, up 7 per cent. FURS DECLINE

At first glance, aprons, housedresses and uniforms do

not seem to be luxury items; at second glance it will be seen that luxury-minded women often buy them for their domestics.

The only department not to go along with the trend was furs, where sales were 3 per cent under a year ago. Other departments not showing gains are non-luxury; woolen yard goods, down 3 per cent; cotton yard goods, down 2 per cent; blankets, comforters and spreads down 1 per cent; art needlework.

. unchanged: handkerchiefs, unchanged; women's, childrens

hosiery, imchanged.

And in the basement; domestics and blankets, down 1 per cent; hosiery, unchanged; coat* and suits, down 1 per cent; infants wear, unchanged: mens clothing, unchanged, and home furnishings, down 2 per cent.

Barber and beauty shops sales were up 7 per cent.

BRIGHT AND BUBBLY BITS OF BUSINESS

Genesco, Inc., has issued Its 12.000 stockholders credit cards to be honored by affiliated companies. which sell items ranging from hosiery to jewelry. . A statistician has concluded that 82 per cent of all eggs served are fried. . .The Departr ment of Agriculture is concerned because dairy heifers lose appetites when fed silage mtcTe from freshly chopped unwUted grass-legume mixtures. An appetite retardant may be formed during,the fermentation process. If isolated, it might be fed to overweight humans.

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