t^KOE FOimTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVJLLE, N. C

Saturday, April 2, 1960

Saturday, April 2, 1960

Why No More Golden Eggs!

United Fund Too . God To Give Ujp

Pitt Countys United Fund, in its second year of fund-raising efforts of the county can be channelled operations last year, fell far short of the quota it through one annual United effort, it will certainly be sought to raise for service and charity organizations much better for the organizations and the people than

throughout the county.

As the organization moves into its third year of operations, one of the first matters of business for its new directors will be to decide whether to continue the organization or disband it.

P^ United has failed to reach its

a multiplicity of individual drives every year.

quota ill either of its first two annual campaigns would suggest that'perhaps the organization lacks essential qualities which can make it successful. Even so, throughout North Carolina and throughout the coun-

Out On A Limb, And Public Picks Up. Bill

More times than hot when a high government official goes out on a costly limb and the limb gets sawed from under him, its Jthe taxpayers throughout

try other United Fund chapters have proved successful the country who eventually picks up the tab for dam-vearnft^year.The United Fund program'has offered ages.

. Such is the case with the $10 million Uncle Sam

Whi6h_^must depend upon pubhp donations for their cranberry growers who were unable

suppoi^ crop last year after the cancer scare pre-

cipitated by Arthur S. Flemming, secretary of health,

be on if their contributions are to be forthcoming.

..After tha^ Pitt United Fund did not reach its anti-^ cipated quota of funds during its first year of opera-. Uhns, some minor changes were made in the way the "driranization jyas set up and the manner in which the money was to be distributed, particularly to the local community service org^inizations. With another year of experience^ behind thetn it is rasonable to expect that directors and officials of the organization have still more suggestions and modifying the structure or operations of the local United Fund to make it more effective.

education and welfare.

Flemming's explosive statement that chemicals used on the cranberry crop might cause cancer caused the bottom to drop out of the berry market just before Thanksgiving. As it turned out, Flemmings statement about the connection between cranberries and cancer hardly seemed justified. There was no proof of any ^ connection between cancer even in the case of berries sprayed with the chemical.

But those facts didnt come out in time to save the

While it is disappointing that for two consecutive berry farmers from heavy losses. The fact that the years the county^wide United Fund has failed to reach . fariners were done a grave injustice by the head of its goal in fund-raising campaigns, every consideration tbat impo^nt government agency was more or less should be given to continuing the organization on some conceded in subsequent statements. Now, belatedly, diJ>anding it now. To disband the United tbe government is going to reimburse the farmers for

the losses caused by the statement of the high officials.

of the major organizations now included in the United

Fund would conduct individual fund-raising campaigns every year. On top of that each of the numerous com-^ munity organizations represented by the community service committees in each of the townships of the county would also have to have individual campaigns to secure the funds needed for their worthwhile under--takings. ...

The government is reimbursing the farmers, but when the government does something with money, they are doing it with taxpayers money, which means By DON SCHLIENZ money that came from the pockets of the man on the street. i

The cranberry-canccr statement last have caused Secretary Flemn;ing some embarrassment, but now it^ is costing the taxpayers of the nation a cool

The result would be many campaigns, much du- $10 million. He made the miscue, and the public has

plication of effort on the part of solicitors and con- to pick up the bill,

siderable more trouble to those who customarily give

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service and charity organizations.

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Before abandoning the idea of a United Fund, we trust the directors of the county organization will diligently seek structual revisions in the program, together with necessary reorganization which might afford Pitt a successful United Fund organization. If the

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(During absence of Lynn Nis> , bet. each candidate tor- Governor, Lieutenant Governor and United States Senator has been Invited to write a guest column, stating his veiws.) *

By CLYDE EGGERS Rep. Candidate for Lien. Gov.

With appreciation of the opportunity of writing a guest column for Lynn Nlsbet, under his generous plah to allow ^1 candldatdi for State office to do this. I am glad to fill this spare with some of my opinions.

As is generally known 1 am a Republican candidate for the office of Lieutenant Governor, have served in the House of RepresentaUves for four terms, and have certain clear-cut ideas about our State.

Being a native of the vaulted nM^hwestem section, where the tourist industry is such vital importance, I am of necessity concerned with the continuing and increased emphasis on this jrfiase of our development in North Carolina. This industry which brings so much money into the State is of importance T(xn the Blue Ridge to the at-lantic Ocean and pours into the coffers of our general welfare fantastic sums of money. I believe in the increased advertising of our tourist attractions, and the promotion of them through every feasible effort of the State government.

, I believe in an improved public school system, staffed by better paid teachers, and the appropriation of additional money to bring our State-supported Colleges and the University into even better positions of leadership, and to iwovlde

them teachers of national stature. In other words our Institutions of higher learning should be able to go into the national market, so to speak, and compete with other great institutions for the top talent. -

I believe in the continued effort on the part of the State to attract pew Industries to this area, so as to raise the per capita income to the point where our people will be enjoying an income to permit a living standard comparable with other sections.

I am anxious that our fine highway system be expanded and .constantly improved to pace our continued growth and prosperity. .

Here In North Carolina we have been greatly blessed with a wide variety of climate, from the cool breezes of my own native hill country to the busy manufacturing Piedmont, the productive lands of the east and the Atlantic strands. It is truly a land of varietya State where industry, farming, the tourist business, churches and schools, may thrive in friendly environment.

What I seek, and have sought through my public pareer faster development of our sources and of oiu* latent ents. I am not an anti, so to speak, but shall continue to work for what I believe to be the best Interests of our people and of^ our institutions. ,

It is in the belief that I can continue to offer something constructive to my region and to my State that I again go before the voters.

By JAMES MARLOW I, WASHINGTON (AP)y-Only last Monday Vice President Richard M. Nixon, a cinch for the Republican presidential nomination,' looked out upon a political sea which for him appeared completely unruffled. Not a ripple in sight.

And there was no reason to believe it wouldnt stay like that until the rough weather of the political campaign set in late next summer. Later in the week there was even a burst of sunshine from President Eisenhower.

Then suddenly there were whitecaps, blown up by one of the most conservative of all Republicans, Sen Barry Goldwater ot Arizona.-What jQoldwateiL told him in effect was:

Dont.get giddy with liberal ideas, .Youd better stay conservative, or else.

Calm as the water was early In the week, Nixon seemed to realize people were wondering: Would he try to ride into the White House on Eisenhowers shoulders, standing on the ad-minlstratidns record and philosophy, shouting me, too? Or would he have some ideas he could call his own?

So Monday night he announced he wouldnt stand pat on what Eisenhower hador hasntdone but would develop his own program by expanding on the Eisenhower program.

This was a deft touch: It implied no criticism or repudiation

of any of Eisenhowers thinking while holding out the promise''of some different kind of thinking, or at least new thinking.

Still, there was a bit of a dilemma Involved: Nixon has the conservative Republican backing. But he cant win unless he also attracts the liberal Republicans and the independent voters, too.

This reduced his problem to a simple questio i: How can he please all thret groups without alienating any of them?

Goldwater got the point fast. For Nixon to attract the liberal Republicans and the independents might require him to move to the left of the conservatives. If he tries it. Goldwater said, he may lose the conservative Republicans.

Since Goldwater is a vigorous man, who doesnt mind saying what he thinks, Nixon is now alerted to the realization that he is going to be watched even before the campaign begins, and Is being watched by conservatives.

One of the people close to Nixon tried to explain what the vice president has in mind:

That in carrying forward the Eisenhower program he will reflect conservative thinking while beingprogressive in the sense of offering constructive solutions for national problems.

This kind of explanation isnt going to have much meaning until Nixon begins spelling it out in detail.

Curiosity and a mild case of anticipation is in order (privately, that is) as to Sunday nights Playhouse 90 presentation of Alas, Babylon.

Yes.- . .I've read the book: and my current preoccupation lies in how the script writers have adapted a story which offers a multitude of facets for development.

For instance, it could be an out'and out love story; or the theme could be one of character development, In which the stresses and strains of prolonged crises bring out the best and worst in people or it could even prove to be a simple lesson in civil defense.

The story has all of that and more, in its makeup, and the adaptationwith so many possibilitiessounds like a challenge for the television people.

Aside from the programs general reputation for producing good entertainment, the viewing public Has no guarantee of a good show.

Pat Prank, the author, is no Hemingway or Leoa Uris; though I bet hes moneymaker. Alas, Babyln was for awhile on the best - seller list. Pat Frank has done a certain amount of writing on military subjects and novels to his credit include Hold Back The Night, Mr. Adam, An Air fair of State and Forbidden Area. In a foreword to Alas, Babylon he says the story resulted from some after-thoughts to the question of what would happen to America and Americans in the event of a full-scale surprise nuclear attack.

It isnt a pleasant subject to contemplate. But the story large-

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By EARL L, DOUGLASS

BREAD OR ADMONITIONS

Has the church lost its power over the hearts of men and women today?

The story is told of jfwo

church leaders who were "discussing the fact that religion is big business. One leader remarked, The time has passed when church leaders say as the

Apostle Peter 'once did, Silver and gold have I none. His friend replied, Yes, and the

time has also passed when the

church can say as Peter did to the lame man, In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and Valk.* *

' The church, meaning the peorte that make up the church, IS full of power: but the church, meaning the organizaUon and the leaders of the church, is full of weakness. Thei*d^ has^ neyer been a time in generations when people were so hungry for splrital truth as they are right now. and very often* the ecclesiastic brass attempts to appease this hunger with mere morality, rationalism, and, at best, the secondary gospel truths.

It is as If a great multitude stood before their leaders crying

for bread and instead of giving them bread, the leaders lectured them on food values, overeating and undereating, soil conservation, and agricultural policy. Today the spiritually hungry often get only the admonition to be a good neighbor, to stand for world peade, and to be tolerant of all races and to work hard for church union.

The church will have power when it avails itself of the power always .offered to the- believing heart through the gospel of God forgiving love in Christ.

(Greensboro Daily News)

The United States has made a partial-breakthrough in reaching the Soviet people, GOTge Y" , Allen, director of the . S. Information Agency, says in his latest report to Congress.

Mr. Allen counts it a significant achievement of the last six months. Reaching the Soviet people is the hardest part of the USIAs jobinforming the people of foreign countries about the United States.

So Director Allen is understandably proud that in the last half year we have probably told more people in the soviet Union about the American v/ay of life than during the entire 15 years since the U.S. undertook an overseas information program. '

Several developments contributed to our unusual opportunities. Nikita Khrushchevs visit opened up a wedge into an alhiost isolated radio listening audience.

For the first time In 10 years, Soviet jamming stations stopped drowning out Voice of America broadcasts at the time of Mr. K.s visit. From then on to until the end of the year, there w^as selective jamming of broadcasts in Russian and other. Soviet languages, but gretiy reduced and following no discernible pattern."^

Also helpful Was a tremendous rise in number of radio sets over 1,000.000 receivers in the Soviet Unionlast year. In many parts of the world, notably Bri

tain and Japan, growth of television is holding down purchases 0 radios. But the trendy toward Tabio^ continues strong4n Tlussiar Eastern Europe and Red China the area where two-thirds of USIA broadcasts are beamed.

Does all this effort at reaching foreign peoples do any good? Perhaps we should not be surprised that George Allen feels confident that we have made progress in our effort to convince the Soviet people that the American government and people are democratic and peace-minded.

But what about the rest of us? Are w'e not justified in wondering if Soviet officials and citizens brought over to take a look at the U.S. really ever report anything other than what may be the official line?

George Allen claims that this firsthand view, the radio broadcasts and the visits of millions to the American exhibition at Moscow altogether do make a difference. ,

Already, he says, the classic Marxist line about our economic system has undergone change. Moscow now admits That the masses in America are well fed, well clothed and well housed.

At any tim, of course, Khrushchev could cut off this of people and inform a-ion, Byt in the meantime our information **gency, under direction of a V-pable Tar Heel, is aklng the most of oppof^iiities.

Opinions In Brief

An authority says women have better memories than men. Maybe so. They recall everything worn at the wedding, but are always asking whata trumps. Mattoon (HI.) Journal Gazette.

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ly overlooks tba scope of war and deals with a littie community which miraculously was spared radiation contamination, and how the people reacted to immediate pn^ems of survival.

Their situation is made more tenuous by being almost completely isolated from the outside world. . .and therein are the elements which are used for the developing of characters in the story. ^

One sidelight: after Ths

Day townspeople found a goldmine of entertainment and knowledge in their <&hltherto little-used library.

With this somewhat wordy; sketch as a background, you can understand some of my Sunday evening anticipation.

The adapters for television could do some good. . -aside from, and in addition to entertaining. . .by some subtle lessons in survival and Instilling a sense of insurance in*the public mind.

Cv Defense authorities have pretty well distributed information on what to do, but few people take it seriously enough to do anything.

W#^ spend hundreds ,of dollars each year on various types of insurance, and Ignore even the most modest kind of insurance for personal survivail in the event of war.

Perhaps this attitude of turning away from a dreadful subject. and by ignoring it in h(^ it will never come to be, would make producers of Playhouse 90 shun the preparedness theme and dwell on morp theatrical material. For, after all, they are in bTisiness to entertain and to hold their audience in order to sell merchandise. .Sunday night well see.

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By GEORGE E. 80K0LSKY

Copyright, 19M. King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The _ decUratlon by Senator Stuart Symington that he is a candidate for the Demoeratio nomination for President surpris-.ed no one Symington has.been a candidate, lo! these many years and a very active one. His future depends upon the influence and power of former President HaxiT Truman, which has been growing steadily in the Democratic Party.

It la now obviotis. by mathematical as well as p(^tleal calculations, that Senator John Kennedy must be nominated on the first or second ball(^ or be will n<H be nominated at an for President. What that means in political terms is that if Kennedy does not reach nomination by the aecood ballot, his pledged votes win (tissipate. This is always a peril to the candidate way out in front. Prom now to conventitm time, it is Kennedys task to arrange to hold his delegations up to at least the fourth ballot. This politically is a formidable task.

SenaUm Stuart Symington of Missouri steps into the race as a middle-of-the-road compromise candidate. Senator Hubert Humphrey must, at this moment. be regarded aa having passed his peak. The Democratic Party is not apparently in a mood for AJ!>.A. radical!. Hubert Humphrey has chosen that position: he need not have done that He ia too Intelligent a man to accept the sociological poppycock represented by ths A.D.A. But he made hia choice and he Is stock with It. PoUtica can be unmerciful.

Stuart Sjrmlngton la a hand-aof^e, affable personality. He has been successful in business. He entered public life on the adminlatrative side. We was Secretary of the Air Force ia the Truman Admixiistration. In the Senate, he has been one of the outstanding experts on military affairs. He has a black mark on his record in his relations with Senator Joe McCarthy, but that will not cost him aj]^ votea beeauae the McCar-thyites would not vota for him anyhow.

Symingtona attitude toward Soviet Ruaala is aotmd and realistic. He is not likely to bs tricked by a alight Russian smirk, to say nothing of a smile. Hs would Qot be influenced even slightiy by Park Avenue Intel-lectuallsm, ths disease from which Adlal Stevenson suffers.

(For .those who do not know. Park Avenue InteUectimllam im the aubstiUitlon of conservation for knowledge, of loose theories for expertness. In fact, tbs Park Avenue intellectual regarda ths expert as a bore, and any reference to hlstoT or fact as a vulgarity.)

My earlier reference to Harry Truman means more than appears on the surface. What has happened to Herbert Hoover also happened to Harry Truman. Many whn believed that Harry Truman was ^aow hi tiTeslden-cy have come to respect him since he left that office. His judgment has been sounder, less compromising. He has not been surrounded by those who made him. He has hot only applied, his I elf-pronounced common sense to public problems but, even more, he has displayed considerable evidence of precise knowledge and sound judgment. ',

Whereas A<ilai Stevenson, because he is the most recently defeated*- Democratic Presidential candidate, has the right to assert himself as the nominal tead-cr of the Democratic Party, the tendency among an increasing number of Democrats is to prefer Harry Truman who possesses greater qualities of leadership. At any rate. In the struggle between Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and CarmixMi DeSapio for control of the enormous New York delegation to the Democratic Con-ven(, Harry Truman la becoming the principal factor la New York State politics. Whenever he comes to New York, he is treated as though he were a visiting potentate and when he takes hia morning walk, newspapermen and others Join him miniature

As if all the murders and other crimes on TV werent bad until it looks like a enough, come political speeches parade, are telecast during hours when imprssionable children are still up.Asheville Citizen- Times.

In the smoke-fllled room where the Democratic candidate will (Continued cm page six)

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An exchange of students should have a marked effect up5h nations to understand one anothers problems. Ideals and governments. Students here and abroad on the whole should be among the best and cleare.st Interpreters of life. Educated men and women abroad should help to clear up some of the misunderstandings that ofttimes-prevail in motives and purposes of nations, Bethel (Ohio) Journal;

By EllMER ROESSNER

The New York Mayors Committee on Off-Track Betting, seeking new revenues for the city, has proposed that the state allow it to run a chain of horse-parlors where citizens could make legal bets on races around the country. On? feature would be a gamble now, pay later arrangement.

Other cities and states will be watching this plan, if put into effect, and you may eveh hear it proposed for your home town.

This column is not to say that the plan is good or bad. but it is to point out some of the business implications of the situation. These are ^ome factors:

1. The scheme will spread. People across th country will find wa.vs to lay bets through -this honest system, perhaps by sending money to friends to wager for them. The flow of money into New York <more money flows into a horseparlor than flows out -because of the odds, breakage, ctc.j will scare other c.itie.s and they will set up horse-parlors to keep the cash at home. WILL AFFECT RETAIL SALES

2. The difference between the money lost and the money won, about 10 per cent, will represent a loss in consumer buying power. This, in New York, could

tapping th till for |2-0-$2 beta may lead to a rise in losses and eventually a rise in theft insurance rates.

6. The scheme jvill create many

meanilO,000,000 a day. It will be Mie^ .lobs: political appointees to

argued that this buying power w'ill simply be transferred to other people, and much of it will flow to people who wont spend it, or who live out of the areas.

3. Patterns of buying will be Influenced. Losers will buy less of staple food and clothing: winners will buy furs and Bentleys.

4. The credit provision will aLso disrupt trade. Those applying for credit will be investigated. But department and other stores, which'support the credit bureau, will want to know wfiich of their customers has been checked for credit by the ^ city gambling agencies. Whether a store will continue edit accounts for customers betting on credit is one each credit manager will have iff decide-

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' 5, Dangers of defalcations will rise. A large part of defakations and Inside thefts today arc caused by persons who hve- Iqst money gambling. With gamblln? easier.

run the bet agencies, communications people, bank workers, In-

out of business, may help It. It has been proposed to close city gambUng depots at 8 PM., which would leave the excited bettors no place to make a bet unless they found a scofflaw bookie or a gambling hideaway.

10. The system would grow on

vestigators, prasecutors, judges, the local economy jike mistletoe.

inspectors, auditors, tipsters and on and on. Much of the net betting losses will go /to these people, who will spend It no less readily than the people who lost the money. The rest would go to the city, which would also spend it. In total, there would be only a slight diminution of total, except as noted under foregoing points.

7. It would result in, a loss of manpower, as many workers would take time outeven though bets ^ by phone are proposedto place bets, gets results and dope tomorrow's runs.

8. Businesses would hll^sitate to locate areas where employees could gamble because of the possible JovSses of working time, of defalcation and gambling atmosphere. ,

9. Legalized gambling, instvad of di'iving now-illegal gambling

Any opposition would be confronted with the facts that abolition of the plan woul(i throw thousands out of work.'&nd that the professional gamblers would

t-ake over the gambling operation. There are moral, psycnfco-

gical. ethical, police and other problems involved, but the fore-. going covers the main economic questions.

LET S NOT WORRY ABOUT THE INDICES

Statistics for the month and the quarter ended yesterday will have less-than-usual significance.

Total retail sales wjll tend to be down because of the unusually severe weather in March, and the late Easter, which has pushed much buying over into April.

Furthermore i February had an extra shopping^ day this year, which will distort sales figures unless diminished by l-29th.

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