PAGE, FOUKTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

I letday, March 1, 1960

Tuesday', March 1, 1960

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None Defend The Administration

Audience Reaction Augmented II

With the first hot issue of the young gubernatorial campaign having been thrown into the political pot it appears on the surface that Gov. Hodges himself, not one of the candidates, will have to defend the administration this year if it is to be defeated.

During the past week each of three avowed candi-.dates for governor had his say about the cut in welfare payments that recently became effective in the state. All three candidates were critical of the cute, and each urged they be restored as quickly as possible.

Thus the welfare payments became the first focal point of attack on the Hodges administration. That in itself was not too surprising. The surprising thing was that the candidates were unanimous in their opposition to the cuts. Not one defended the position of the administration which at least in part was responsible for the cuts.

Candidates John Larkins and Malcolm Seawell called for a special session of the legislature to restore the payments to their former level. Terry Sanford, in an obvious slap at Seawell, said a ruling by the attorney general of the state, not legislative action, was all that is necessary to restore the payments to their old levels.

If the administration of Gov. Hodges is to have a champion in the current gubernatorial race, one might have expected some indication of it in this first big

Something New n Our Politics

By LYNN NISBET

ISSUE Thereis cumulative evidence that a major Issue in the upcoming campaign for Governor will be the record of the present administration. This Is something new in North Carolina politics.

Two men came by your re-porters office the other day at different times. Both are friends of long standing and of proven soundness in statesmanship and political philosophy. One is an . avowed supporter of Terry San-

ford for Governor. The other if less sure of his choice, but strongly leans toward Malcolm Seawell. They approached the problem from different angles but arrived at almost identical conclusion, that the real issue is going to develop along anti-Hodges and pro - Hodges lines. Neither liked the idea too much, but agreed it is Inevitable be-

I cause of the extent to which

Governor Hodges has impressed his personality on every facet <A State government during

. the past six years.

No other chief executive in history has exercised as much control over legislation and subordinate administrative policy. The face of the record will show that the General Assembly authorized a number of study

* .commissions on taxes and gov- ernment organization, and that ' .these commissions made recommendations back to the Legislature which acted upon them. It is of common knowledge that the Governor appointed the members of these commissions, considered proposals pending before them and used the full

Influence'of his office to get

them enacted.

The General Assembly enacted the laws that changed the corporation income tax formula, adopted withholding of individ-. .ual income taxes, revamped the highway and prison depari-.ments. and established the powerful Department of Administration. But->in popular opinion these items are charged or credited, d^ndlng upon viewpoint. not to the Legislature but , ;to Governor Hodges.

LEADERSHIP In other areas Governor Hodges accepted and assumed responsibility for leadership to greater degree than any predecessor in the of-

^ fice of Governor. Witness the briefing sessions he arranged with members of the General

Assembly in advance of the spe-

* |cial session in 1956 to promote .the so-called Pearsall Plan for

public school operation. No prior executive had ever gone so far to influence legislation.

Other instances of alleged executive Intrusion on judicial or legislative prerogatives came in connection with the housing authority deal at Sesrmour John-; son Air base, and the more re-. . cent episode of the small loan companies charging excessive rates.

No question is raised here as to proprietry of any of these

Instances. The sole purpose for mentioning them is to show that to greater degree than ever before Governor Luther Hodges has put the stamp of his personality on his administration, and the personal element cannot be ignored in its appraisal. It is natural, if not inevitable, that the anti - Hodges issue should be involved in the upcoming campaign.

Whether it will or should be' the primary issue is doubted-There are a lot of people in North Carolina looking for a program .that offers progress beyond anything already accomplished. one that will not abandon the ideas of Kerr Scott, William Umstead and Luther Hodges, but will not limit future development to these concepts.

If it should develop that the upcoming primary will be waged on a pro-Hodges anti-Hodges basis the net result could be to set back North Carolina for a good many years.

POLITICKING Governor Hodges has insisted in season and out that he is not a politician, that he is just doing the best he knows how to carry out the duties of his office. The record of his official acts indicates he is a consummate artist in the game of politics. He ran into some trouble early in his regime by appointing people to high office without ascertaining whether they were Democrats or Republicans. Later he announced along with naming of appointees that he had ascertained the appointees were Democrats. Even more lately he has, exhibited inclination to promote from the ranks and name top appointive officials who had manifested ability to the job. Witness, for two Illustrations, Col. Dave Lambert to head the Highway Patrol and Wade Bruton to be Attorney General.

HARD PACTS There are some hard facts to face in considering the extent to which the Hodges administration policies should be continued. Governor hodges has paramounted Industrial development as the major objective of his administration. The results are highly gratifying. But the record shows that percentage-wise South Carolina and other Southern states have shown even greater progress in this field. Despite the thousands of new jobs created by new and expanded Industry, the fact is there were only about 11,000 more people employed on industrial plant payroll in North Carolina in 1959 than in 1955. - The Hodgerf' industrialization and Ux revision program is a long range scheme. It cannot be evaluated on basis of a four or six year period. The big question is whether It should be continued or if some basic change in course is indicated. That is one of the major te.-ues, maybe the most significant, in the upcoming election cam-paign.

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issue of-the campaign. The fact that both Larkins and Seawell were participants in the attackeven though both have been mentioned as administration favorites at one time or anotherleft it to Gov. Hodges to defend the administration position if he so chooses.

Will that situation continue with other issues that are suie to come to the fore during the remainder of the campaign?

Will Gov. Hodges find himself in the position of defendipg certain portions of his program against the entire field of candidates?

In spite of the fact that the Governor has said time and again that he does not intend to be drawn into the campaign except in defense of his administration if that becomes necessary, it appears that he may find himself in such a position before the campaign moves into its final stages. In all probability he will also be placed in the position of taking the side of one candidate against the others as fssues, one after the other, become focal points of the campaign;

Now that the first flurry has begun, it will be interesting to watch the developing campaign that promises to as spirited as any gubernatorial race in North Carolina in recent years.

No Fresh Thinking By Platform - Writers

On reading and re-reading news accounts of the North Carolina Republican Party convention and platform we again confess to some disappointment.

Surely, a political party which garnered 367,475 Tar Heel votes in 1956 should have reason for really buckling down to create issues and stands that would have to be matched.

Its a matter of tradition for us to carp over stagnancy in party platforms. Both our parties could stand some freshening up on this point; but if Republicans in North Carolina are going to get anywhere, the task of breaking new ground in this field is their burden.

Lets sum up this platform they adopted over the past weekend;

They call for a $1 hourly minimum wage; a statewide liquor referendum; eliminating the absentee ballot for civilians; lowering the voting age to 19; giving the governor veto power over legislation; rewriting the states constitution; giving the duty of reapportioning the General Assembly to the secretary of state; passage of laws to eliminate abuses by labor unions and to protect rights of individual union members; salaries for teachersin keeping with their experience and training; and, a high-sounding appeal to respect civil rights.

In some respects 4he platform-writers sound as though they were anticipating Democratic planks, and threw in a couple of extra lures that might mean something to a handful of potential voters.

They have the makings for a stand-up fight on one or two points, but playing the role of a shadow to Democratic leadership and thinking generates little heat and less light.

Until Republicans become dissatisfied with a mere holding action, and show more political aggressiveness, they offer little challenge to N. C. Democrats.

Actually, they dont have so very far to go to be a real political factor. North Carolinians cast 1,098,908 vot^s in 1956. Of these, 731,433 went Democrat. A swing of 100,000 votes w6uld make Republicanism a real competitor,

.unacy If Were Not Preoarec.

By DON SCHLIENZ

'Day Made Of Leftovers

Casting back through the calendar almost anyone can recall some especialh^ nice days when the weather was grand and nothing went wr(mg. . . . you know the kind; .

The breakfast coffee was Just right, there were only smiles at the breakfast table, work seemed more like a pasttime,- you felt like a million all through the little trials and tribulations which sloughed off without a passing thought.

They were days that seemed all too brief. You may even have pondered on this before dropping off into contented slumber.

Well. . .why were these day seemingly shorter than their wont?

Look at the calendar again. It was February 29 yesterday; wasnt it? Thats the whole story in a nut shell.

The calendar-makers had to find time to fill up a whole day (they do it every four years), and they snip and pare and trim

minutes off a day here, a day therefor four years of work until,

VoUa!

Enough leftovers have been collected to be patched up into a February 29.

You can thank your stars that yesterdays leftovers didnt include samplings of hurricane weather. 104-degree heat, or a part of a big snowfall. It turned out to be an above-average kind of day. . .probably because of some good planning.

Our friends the calendar-makers are allowed to pick up five hours, 18 minutes and about 45.5 seconds each year. Thats how much is left ov- each time the earth rolls around the sun in its presumed 365 dairs-People who have birthdays on this leftover day attract a certain amount of attention. You can see why. . .we were reading of a man who had but 25 birthdays and is a centenarian. Actually, there are about

Other Editors Saying . Inflation And The Church

By BEM PRICE WASHINGTON (AP)-To prepare for the possibility of a thermonuclear war without preparing for the consequences may justifiably, perhaps, be described as total lunacy.

This is a point no one of any public stature has raised very tellingly so far In the current debate over whether the United States is lagging behind ' the Soviet Union In the so-called missile race.

There is building in the arctic something called the Ballistic Missile Early Warning* System which, supposedly, will give you 30 minutes warning of an attack.

In a casual conv^sation with Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass) one day. the question was posed as to what he would do if the warning siren blew.

The senator replied, 1 would probably just lie down on the sidewalk and pray. Id rather do that than go into a cellar. The building might collapse on me. As an afterthought. Saltonstall said he had often wondered wether no warning at all would be preferable.

The point is: There is now no place to hide in a thermonuclear war.

Prom time to time you are advised by your federal government to prepare for disaster by keeping a certain amount of .gasoline in ^your car along with an escape kit of food and water. Where are you going?

You are also advised to keep a two-week supply of food and water on hand in your home. What home? - -

Public buildings now have neat signs underlined by arrows in their lobbies saying Shelter.

Except at great distance theyd he useless if a hydrogen bomb falls.

Has anyone ever told you the effects of fire, blast and fallout to be expected by the explosion of a thermonucleaj warhead containing the equivalent of millions of tons of high explosive?

Keep in mind, too, that this nation is committed, publicly, at least, to a policy of submitting to attack first, of striking back only if we are hit.

In a general, all-out thermonuclear war the nation with the greater survival potential will be the winner If there is such a thing.

This means sheltCTs underground designed to withstand fire and blast and to filter fall-out. With 30 minutes warning at least some people can escape death by taking refuge in thepi. Those who reach them are the ones upon whom this nation will depend to pick up the pieces.

To date, however, no government agency has made a determined, massive effort to provide such shelters or to tell you what to do if you have to use them.

The Soviets are being far more realistic. There are compulsory survivial courses for the entire population. Shelters are being built around factories.

Whatever Che casualties in the cities, the Soviets apparently are making an effort to save>as many . of their technical workers as possible,

A deterrent force serves its purpose only if it can guarantee utter destruction of the enemys will and capacity to fight.

Will and capacity depend on who and what survive.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The February issue of Christian Herald features an article of timely, interest to every Christian and Jewish congregation. The article, written by Allan J. Parker, a New York attorney, deals with What Inflation Means to Your Church,

The local congregation is as much a victim of the current inflation as is every other institution. And, like the latter, it can take effective steps to protect itself against the decline First, emphasis should be laid in the value of its income.

There are several approaches. First, emphasis should be laid upon Increasing the weekly pledges of members. For example, where some individuals do not wish to make an increase of from $2 to $3. canvassers can suggest a spread-out Increase: $2.33 the first year, $2.67 the second and $3 for the third. Or a "catch-up Sunday can be suggested, with an extra dollar contributed every three weeks. And Riving In check form can be encouraged as it provides the donor with proof to substantiate income tax deductions.

Where a significant proportion of offerings is received outside of an envelope system, worshippers can be reminded that there is a wide choice of selections between a weekly contribution of $1 and $2. And. of course, tithing is ideal Irnsurance during Inflation: offerings represent a

percentage of the contributors risinr Incomes.

Tax deductible contributions are attractive to Mne members of a congregation. This applies to stocks and^ the contribution of such securities can be stressed with initial giver on every-memher canvasses or building fund drives. The congregations attorney can provide pratical information-

A ccmgregations investment Income program bear reviewing. While churches and synagogues cannot speculate in the stock market, they can shift their investments from bonds and other sources of fixed income to sound diversified stocks or mutual funds. The matter rates expert advice.' And the use of legacies merits attention. Their application to reduce a mortgage constitutes investment in a fixed-dollar asset.

Personnelwise, salary wales deserve annual review in these times. Property-wise, a contingency reserve fund should be available to cover major repairs and built up even when not drawn upon to anticipate rising costs. Fire and theft ^eraaftv should be reviewed

congregations Insurance adVtSer as the costs of replacements are on the rise. And similar attention should be given to liabjUlty coverage. in view of increasing hospital charges and Jury awards.

Every flnancial proposal rates careful weighing on the scale of inflation.

118,0(X) Americans who can claim February 29 tor their birthday. The census bureau estimate another 11.000,member were added to the club yesterday.

February 29 babies, when they grow up enough to realize what theyve been missing, celebrate their birthdays on February 28 or March 1 daring off year.

Their problem has an historical touch.

It was recognized during the reign of Henry vn when the British Parliament actually authorized February 28 for that purpose.

Personally. I fail to see any reason to feel sorry for leap year babies. The ones who really were shortchanged are those whose birthdays fall close to Christmas.

That is a sad. sad story. . . and It gets sadder with the passage of every birthday.

Slrength^.

For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS BEST IN THE BUSINESS Is there any particular thing you can do? Oh, you reply, I can do most anything. Fm not boasting, but Im handy at most everything I set my hand to. Inside work, outside, handcraft, managementmost everytiiing. Run along, little man; youre not worth your salt in a world where serious-minded people are * really trying to get worth-while projects done. Youll be carrying bricks for someone else to lay, stone for someone else to build with until you get yourself in hand and make yourself adequate, or perhaps even In-' dispensable, in some particular field. Take this advice to heart especially If you axe young. Make a place for yourself that DO one else can fill. Leam a technique which will make you sought after in the attaining of certain results.

Years ago, when anyone mentioned electricity everyone thought of Edison. When automobiles were mentioned everyone thought of Henry Ford. But you dont have to be a leader of industry to be a person whose skill and usefulness will be sought after and commented upon* with appreciation. What you leam or do does not have to be something big; it just needs to he something useful done in a big way.

Leam that one thing and try to become the best In the business. Along that route^lles happineSs.

War

Anc.

Peace

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT COPYRIGHT. IMO. KING FEATURES SYNDICATE. INC..

Peace Is truly wonderful if it lasts long and is not as expensive as war. The realistic advantage of peace is that lew are killed during its sway, except by accidents and over-eating. War is to be regarded as dreadful because people are killed outright and cities are devastated. The objectives of peace and war are identical, namely, the development, growth and defense of a country.

Andrew Camegte was a lover of peace and be founded the Carnegie Endowment (or International Peace SO yeara ago to establish In the RSlnds of men that war Is* **thg foulest blot upon our civlUxatlon. That being so, we have had the most devastating wars in history. In fact, some the officers of the Carnegie Endowment fgvored World War I to make the world safe (or democracy. Besides all the world la now preparing for a atill more devastating war. Civilization does have plenty of blots on tt despite the laudable efforts of the late Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford. The latter attempted, single-handed, to stop World War I by his Peace Ship, The genius of that enterprise was Rosika Schwlmmer. a forensic pacifist.

Great men have been associated with the Carnegie EndowmentElihu Root. Nicholas Murray Butler, John W. Davis, John Foster Dulles. Somewhere In there should have been the name of Alger Hiss, but apparently he belonged to a suhald-iary organization called Carnegie Endowment for International Conciliation.

War often changes iU' nature and Its propaganda. Presently war is called peace and President Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev travel about the world cementing allies (or peace. We call our alliance NATO and the Russiana ca theirs, the Warsaw Pact, These trips of the two head of allir ancet invariably cost their countries great auma which the ao-called underdeveloped eountriea exact from them uauaHy not for aupport but for neutrality.

President Sukarno of Indonesia. upon whom Khrushchev counted, declared himself not only neutral hut insistent upon taking aid from all sides with no strings attached. It all sounded like those messages Bruno Hauptmann sent to Dr. John F. Condon regarding the kidnapped Lindbergh babybut that was long ago and was a limited escapade. Nowadays everything Is done on so large a scale that small things become over-emphasized.

President Elsenhower is more fortunate than Chairman Khni shchev. All his promise are arranged before be arrives so that he has nothing to do hut Uke the bows, which la easy for hla personality. He would never be as gauche as to reject a gift because it was handmade rather than the product of a machine. Eisenhower would have praised the beauty of the hand-Icramt, and he would have meant it. The machine is a device, not an Ideal. *

The United States does, however. face an extraordinarily important problem in its peace campaign. It is losing Its ef- ^ fective majority In the United Nations. The Bandung Conference of Asiatic and African Nations (1955) set off a movement toward neutrality which Is now beginning to affect the countries of Latin Amnica.

Cuba, which heretofm^ was always in the American camp in the United Nations, will most likely shift to the Russian camp although it will not /)in the Warsaw Pact countries. It could he something like Yugoslavia, a country that regards itself as Independent, takes aid from both sides, but votes with Soviet Russia on most questions in the United Nations. This tendency could spread to Venezuela and Panama unless American statesmanship represents mom effective factors than are now apparent.

Castros offer to settle -all outstanding questions between the United States and Cuba on Castros terms is an example of the new impudence, for which the United States if lU self responsible. Castro has been encouraged to believe that (Continued on Page 6)

;-iber Identification Effectec.

Opinions Jn Brief

One of the great things about living in a democracy is that we have complete control over how we pay our taxescash, check or money order.Carlsbad Current-Argus.

Chattanooga News-PYec Prejss.

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spiritbefore the election returns are known."Miami Herald.

Some guys are ou. chasing girls who cant even keep up with the one theyve caught. Atlanta Journal. . '

Its difficult to make political decisions* wisely even with full awareness of all the Issues. The chances are much slimmer when voters dont even know much about the Personalities.

Take your choic/ebe an old maid and look for a husband every day, or marry and look foi him every night.Gastonia Gazette.

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' Note to bridegrooms: The

hongpvnioon is over when her fafner starts using your ^edlt cardGreenville (S C.) F*led-mont

By EL.MER ROESSNER This is a historic week in business. Its the week in which the Textile Products Fiber Identification Act goes Into effect.

On and after Thursday, the fiber content of every fabric must be d^closed In label or tag. The percentage of fibers by w'eight must also be listed.

Most consumer authorities agree the law is good: that consumers are entitled to know the exact fiber content of any piece of goods But the law is driving manufacturers and retailers crazy and will thrust consumers into utter confusionat least until the terms under the law are thoroughly understood. Or until the Supreme Court hands down decisions that w'ill clarify the rules and applications of the Federal Trade Commussion, which is authorized to enforce the law.

To simplify matters a.bit. the FTC has listed 20 generic groups into which it says fibers fall, and says that makers must list Uie contents of fabrics by these

groups.

Four are naturals: cotton,

wool, silk and linen. Sixteen are synthetics. Of the latter, six are used only Industrially, so all the shopper need familiarize herself with are the four natural fibers and the ten synthetic groups, to wit: acetate, acrylic, metallic, modacrylic, nylon, nytril, polyester. rayon, rubber and spandex.

The six industrials are azlon, olefin, vinal, vinyon, saran and glass. However, these are In secondary use appearing In auto seat covers, draperiss, tires, filters, ^belts and so on.

But 4 housewife must do more tnan learn the characteristics of the ten synthetics used in fabrics. Each group, of course, has certain characteris-tifcs, some desirable and others tolerable only under certain circumstances. But each group covers more items than a beach inihreUa at Coney Island on the Fourth of July.

ARE YOU ACRYLIC?

For example, the acrylic group includes Orion, Acrilan, Zefran

and Creslan. The inherent confusion is .somewhat dispersed by the ruling that says that each of these fibers must be labeled as acrylics as well as by their trade name. Thus, a housewife examining a swatch of Orion can see that It is an acrylic, and If she can remember what the, common jwopcrties of acrylics are, she* has some idea of what the fabric can do.

However, each of these four acrylics differ from each other. Some dye more readily. At this point we have probably left the shopper swimming in a fibrous sea of confusion.

And thats not all. Some of the manufacturers are protesting the FTC classification of their fibers and fabrics and are planning to take the matter to the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices robes are made of silk, not spandex. whatever that is.

Meanwhile, fabrics must be labeled as to fiber, and if more than ojif fiber is used, each must be listed in the order of percentage.

However, if less than 5 per cent of a fiber is used, it cannot , repeat, cannot be listed. Thus, if an Orion fabric is woven with spun gold threads, that fact taqt appear on the label unless the gold is at least 5 per cent of the total.

The law exempts upholstery on manufactured furniture, but upholstery labrics sold by the yard must he labeled.

Meanwhile, many manufacturers are complaining that their particular fibers have been incorrectly classified and they may ask (or Injunctions until the courts decide whether the classl-fieations areicosher. Until then, label everything buy with care and be kind to your parents. HERES now TO FIND MORE ABOUT TEXTILE ACT

Copies of the Federal Trade Commission rules under the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act can be obtained from Fairchild Publications, 7 K 12th St., New York 3, for 15 cents. A revised edition of Fairchilds Fabric Facts is $L