PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Friday, April 29, 1960

Friday, April 29, 1960

Appreciative Audience

In Korea, Our Own Hands Not Clean

It is difficult to accept as genuine the shock and officials carried considerable influence with Rhee and indignation reflected by our top government officials other top officials knew what was going on in the at the charges of election rigging and other corruption South Korean government long before the demonstra-which brought the swift downfall of President Syng- tions began. And yet our officials sat quietly by and man Rhees government in South Korea. hoped the corruption would disappear.'

The charges that South Korean elections were . The State Department must assume at least a por-rigged and that corruption has made serious inroads in tion of the responsibility for what has happened in the government were not new when they flared with Korea because of its passive attitude toward the situa-

public protests and demonstrations in recent weeks.

Similar charges have been made in South Korea from time to time in the past five years. The State Department knew, or should have known of these charges. And yet no move was madeat least publicly by the United States government to encourage reforms which would have removed the grounds for the protests.

Not until the resentment in Korea mounted into violent demonstrations did the United States strongly urge President Rhee to bring about long overdue reforms. Then it was too late. Rhees government had lost favor with the people and its downfall was a foregone conclusion.

The United States cannot be held responsible entirely for what has happened in Korea. Neither can the State Department or other top agencies of the government completely absolve themselves of any respon-

tion as it developed over a period of years.

. It is another example of the failure of our State Department to speak out, until too late, on a matter which needed attention and could have been corrected before it exploded in our face.

The Continuing Against James

Fight

Hoffa

Another new effort to remove James R. Hoffa as head of the scandal-ridden Teamsters Union hinges on the outcome of the civil action now before the court which would ban Hoffa from his position as president of the Union,

Time and again the charges of racketeering and ...^ . .u ^ A ^ 1 corruption have been leveled at Hoffa and the union

iibihty m the tragedy A word m the right place sever- which he heads. The charges have not only come from al years ago may well have prevented the election rig- within the organization, but from witnesses before-

congressional committees, and from members of Con-

ging and corruption in the Rhee government from going to the extent it did. Earlier insistance by the United States on needed reforms in the South Korean government may well have prevented the outbursts which have taken place recently.

There is no getting around the fact that U. S.

Outlook New

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By LYNN NISBET

LEGISLATORS-One - half of the membership of the 1961 State Senate is known- Twenty-five candidates have no oppo-cition in the primary, and if there ia opposition in November

there is less than one chance In a hundred that It will prove successful. Of these 23 certain senators, 20 have had prior experience in either the House or Senate, and several in both branches. Among the 25 contestr ed seats, primary results can be pretty well forecast in at least half of them. Most of these are experienced legislators.

In several districts where primary contests are heated, the winner is sure to be an experienced man. In this group can be listed the fight between Lunsford Crew and Julian Alls-brook in Halifax; Dewey Brid-ger and Ed Clark in Bladen; John Jordan and Edwin Pou in Wake; Archie Davis and Jim Hayes in Forsyth. Chances are there will not be a woman in the next Senate. Mrs. Irving Shafer is a Democratic candidate in Rowan and Mrs. Reva Rothrock is a Republican candidate in Wake. Long odds are against them winning. Alexander Barnes, Negro newspaperman, is the Republican nominee in Durham, accorded no chance.

The only reasonably sure Republican Senator will be the .veteran Burr Brock of the 24th .district (Davie, Yadkin and Wilkes). That district has never had a Democratic Senator and Brock has never been defeated for the Senate or for the House in Davie when he was rotated out of the Senate. He Is challenged this time by Julius Rousseau Jr. of Wilkes. Odds favor Brock, although he faces one of his hardest campaigns. In other close districts which have sent Republicans in recent years present odds favor the Democrats to win.

House of Representatives is less House of Representatives i less assured. Of the 120 members only 35 can be named with fair degree of certainty now Of this number, 31 have had previous legislative experience. There arc contests, or varying degrees of intensity, for the other 85 seats. While there will remain doubt until after the primary, and in some instances until after November, fairly accurate forecasts can be made in approximately half the contests. In majority of these cases the winners will be experienced men.

Three countiesAvery, Cher

okee and Mitchellhave not nominated candidates for the Legislature. That will be done by convention later in the year. The only certain woman member of the House will be Mrs. Grace Taylor Rodenbough of Stokes, unopposed for a fifth term. Dr. Rachel Davis of Lenoir county, 1959 member, has opposition in the primary. Mrs. Lillian Cover of Cherokee, the other 1959 woman legislator, waits convention action on her candidacy. Five women Republican candidates hail from counties where their party has no hope of winning.

Analysis of the list of candidates compiled by Secretary of State Thad Eure indicates that approximately two - thirds of the membership of the 1961 House of Representatives will be experienced legfislators. Further indication is that a large number of the inexperienced will be men of mature age who have dealt with economic and governmental problems in their business and professional activities. They will be new to legislative- procedure, but not completely green as to the basic issues with which they will have to deal.

COMMITTEES - It is well known that important legislative work is done by committees. Who will name the committees in the Senate is . less certain than who will be available for service on them. A three - way race is underway among C. V. Henkel, Dave McConnell and Cloyd Philpott for Lieutenant Governor. Whoever wins that race will appoint the Senate committees. By the time he wins he will be able to begin his job of making assignments.

It appears virtuallv certain that Joe Hunt of Guilford will be Speaker of the House, and name committees in that branch. By July 1 at latest, after the second primary is ovw, he will know all but six or eight of the members who will be available. By that time, too. it will be knq^n who will be the next Governor.

These conditions set up a situation in which it seems quite possible for the incoming Governor and the presiding officers of both branches of the general Assembly to confer in advance of the meeting date of the Legislature next Friday and have committee assignments ready to announce earlier than usual in the session. The result of that should be for the 1961 General Assembly to get down to real work without the usual feeling out period.

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gress and others. There have also been assertions that time and again efforts of court-appointed monitors of the huge union have been thwarted in their attempts to clean up the organization.

Whether Hoffa will weather this nw attempt to dislodge him from his post as head of the powerful labor organizati(Jh remains to be seen.

The outcome will write another chapter in the fight against corruption and racketeering in major labor organizations in this country. It will be another indication of whether the government has sufficient power under existing laws to cope with the intolerable

situation which exists in the Teamsters organization. By ALVIN TAYLOR It Will also be an indication of whether the American people will continue indefinitely at a loss to deal effec- "iv tively with the kind of administration of affairs that N has been afforded the Teamsters through Hoffa and 1 N his associates.

The present court action may not prove Hoffas politics. . .Motorboat came downfall as head of the powerful organization, but it Whichards Beach near

may well be another step toward the eventual ouster Sdhemotorwere -Vow Of Hoffa as head of the organization.

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for Jones stickers.

Then we saw a car pass by In Greenville the same day. There were a couple of Vote for Bonner signs on it. Oh yes, Mr. Bonner himself was driving.

So the iron clad policy of equal time in this column has triumphed again.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - The American people are being prepared not to expect much more from the Paris summit meeting .May 16 than a pleasant get-together between the West and the Soviet Union.

Is anything going to be solved, there? Probably not.

President Eisenhower Wednesday and French President Charles de Gaulle last week played down the idea of solutions and played up the hope the summit would produce better relations with the Soviets.

A great deal of time, a number of meetings, and a lot of visiting gone into the preparations of the Western Allies for the Paris conference.

What they seem to lack is new ideas, What they seem to have is rigidity. If all that the statesmen and diplomats have said in speeches, statements and communiquescould be wrapped into one tight bundle this would be it;

They are determined to stand solidly together in resisting Soviet demands; they havent talked of .making demands of their own.

At his news conference Wednesday Eisenhower was sisked about his hopes for the summit session with De Gaulle, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

I think the most we can hope for, at this time, he said, -is ease of tensions, so some evidence that %e are coming closer together sufficiently so that people have a right to feel a little bit more confident in the world in which they are living and its stability.

Now, how this might come about I dont know. There is, of course, the subject of ceasing of tests, and with a controlled system for that, for developing some step in disarmament, and for greater contacts, particularly cultural contacts. I think that there are a number of ways in

which this might begin. And thats about all you can say. This was pretty much an echo of what De Gaulle had said repeatedly at different places on his visit to Washington last week.

He told a National Presss Club luncheon that the matter of relations between East and West is the question with which the summit conference primarily must grapple,

He said this would create the atmosphere for handling other problems like disarmament, Germany, and aid for underdeveloped countries- He said solutions for them at the moment are impossible,

He said what is paramount is to begin the easing of relations between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies.

It takes four to dance to this tune and since Khrushchev is the fourth member of the quartet, everything depends on whether he is in the mood for dancing.

The last time he was heard from over the weekend in Bakuhe sounded like a man in a very foul mood, indeed. He seemed to be threatening the West, like this: Youd better talk business at Paris, or else.

Eisenhower Wednesday declined to take Khrushchevs weekend belligerency very seriously. Its just more of the same, Elsenhower said. He pointed out Khrushchev knew Eisenhower wouldnt go to the summit at all under a threat.

But Douglass Dillon, undersecretary of state, last week made a speech which sounded fiery from the American side. If you read Dillons fine print, however, youd notice the blaze he created wasnt much more than match burning.

Since the summit meeting is now only 18 days awayand suddenly the two sides are growling a bitmay were in for some propaganda from both sides for a meeting which wont produce anything solid at all.

SUCCESS. . .Five years ago Speedy Sideris left Greenville for the grand and glorious land of California. At that time he had nothing but a U. S. Army discharge and N. C- State College degree in his pocket.

He returned to Greenville this week for a visit with his parents. Now hes a prosperous young man about San Francisco, has acquired a lovely wife and a beautiful baby girl.

Welcome home. Speedy.

the Voice of America explained the difference between Voice of American and Radio Free Europe before the Rotary Club the other night.

The VGA broadcasts for the American government, he said. It sends out its programs in 38 languages presenting the American point of view. Because of the wide number of languages, VGA broadcasts not more than an hour a day in each country with few exceptions.

Radio Free Europe broadcasts to six satellite countries and it is actually the voice of persons who have left those countries sending back messages to their fellow countrymen. Radio Free Europe is supported by private donations. Loomis the two work together, however.

There is also a third station. Radio Liberty which broadcasts only to the Soviet Union.

Wednesday afternoon. Their controls apparently out of order, all of the traffic lights on Dickinson Ave. remained on red.

Some drivers, regimented in this traffic light age. sat at the intersections for minutes trying to decide what to do.

Finally with guilty looks, they inched across the intersections squarely in the face of the stop lights.

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Motorists were herd scratching on Dickinson Ave. during the height of the downpour

Other Editors Saying Wins By Getting

Union strategists are doing all they can to weaken, If not ^ repeal, even the most moderate labor laws. That Is their right. And It is the rightand the obligationof those who feel different to work for legislaticm they believe to be necessary to the public interest.Industrial News Review.

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Strength For Today

(Alabama Journal)

There is no better way for the South to get revenge than to get rich, said a Texas professor of history to a Princeton faculty. Dr. Arthur Prescott Webb suggested that Southerners forget the misfortunes and injustices of the past and drown their bitterness in success.

It is probable that the next century belongs to the South, the former president of the American Historical Assn. told his Princeton friends. Dr. Webb is going even further than the Alabama Power Co- which has been proclaiming for the last 10 years that the last half of the 20th Century belongs to the South.

The economic independence of the South has been increasing enormously in the past 10 years and it is due not only to the Souths natural advantages and its resources but to its people and to the farsighted men of other sections who have decided to come down here and advance with the South.

There are those who feel that the Souths enormous gains industrially and in every other way have more to do with Northern criticism ' of this region than has the race issue which is agitated as the main point of difference between North and South.

As the North has watched, the South grow, as it has noted the hundreds of new industries started in the South, as it has seen many of its own industries move down to sunny climes and happier working conditions it has stirred a feeling of envy that has resulted in all sorts of untrue and unfair reference to the South and our wa^ of life.

Dr. Webb has certainly put his finger on one of the main reasons for Northern hostility to this region. It makes them sad to see the growth, the progress, the happy living conditions, the fast-growing market and purchasing power of millions of Southern consumers. Certainly northern industrialists and their newspaper spokesmen have long tried to overcome by unfair means the Souths industrial advantages. For many years they imposed an unfair freight rate burden upon us which prevented profitable shipment of our finished products north of the Ghlo River.

But it has all been in vain. The South is coming into her own in spite of criticism. Race agitation is merely a minor feature of the Northern attitude of hostility. But so great is the Souths surge of growth and prosperity that its momentum has not even been slowed down by continual attacks and misrepresentations.

Even In the dread age of nuclear destruction it is mournful to hear the voice of fear calling for us to lay down our atomic arms in the naive hope that the enemy will abandtm his as well . . that Communism can be won over from its birthright of aggressive cynicism by a show of trustfulness. Alameda (Calif.) Times Star.

It should be obvious that the Soviet Union, which is trying to industrialize and is short of power, must add to its power-producing facilities at a faster rate than the United States, which is inten.sively industrial-zed already. Because Russia is building needed power facilities there is no reason why we should build unneeded pwwer plants. Saturday Evening Post.

A nation without an Ideology is sejf-satisfled^ and dead, Konrad Adenauer.

Definition of a doorsomething children always get a bang out of. Gastonia Gazette. -

But of course we must realize that we cannot co-exist eternally. One of us must go to his grave. We do not want to go to the grave. They (the Western powers) dont want to go to their graves either. So what must be done? We must push them to their graves.^Khrushchev,

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By GEORGE E. SK^lsky

COPYRIGHT. 1269. RING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC.

The income tax increasinglT weakens the family structure of our nation. The family is based on the concept of mutual aid: parent nurtures the child; brother help* brother; children care for parents In their old age. The Income tax leavM too little over from earnings so >that the moet^v. prudent and hard - working persons nd it diffiGUlt to maintain a .fund for normal family relationships.

Therefore, the oldsters demand government aid and the passage of so morally degenerative an act as the Forand Bill which recalle the cam-. paigns of Dr. Townsend to turn the United States into a narcotized state of dependent people, from the cradle to the grave, the individual loses, not only his initiative but his dignity. It. would be more provident to make it possible f<H* those who labor to keep a fairer share of their income, to be thrifty, to save tnd to provide for their old age. It would surely be more moral for children to care for tbelr parents than to leave such care to question-asking iHireaucrats who can become very harassing. However, the current trend toward socialization eliminates the qualities of gitlenes8, pity, kindliness, hope, Stand on line and be counted!" There Is no freedom in that

The ymingsters have their problems, too. An actuary recently stated the case this way: ... To illustrate: under the laws dealing wtUi rent control, a necessity In wartime, but something our lawmakers neglected to abolish when the need for it no longer existed, an executive continues to live in an apartment be has occupied for tlw last ten years at a frozen rent celling of $65 a month; whereas a young newly married couple of more modest means, findi that as new tenants, they must pay $165 for the same apartment in the same building. That is to say, the rent coctiol law allows the landlord to charge his new tenant the law of supply and demand rate, while the old tenant pays the rate that aprtied twenty year* ago. . .

Further, another and even more disastrous difficulty of young people was citeduncertainty, postponed marriages, marriages while still at college, intemipted marriagesall lethal aUacks on the family system. This actuary says;

. . .the future of the young

men of our nation is in a state

of perpetual suspended animation because of the draft laws which will neither take them into the Army nor free them for an industrial career. Any prospective employer is naturally unwilling to put a young prospective emirioyee through a training period for a career with his comiwmy when the future of such a man is so un

certain as to whether be will be drafted and separated from the employer fear two years, and probably not return to the company after service. Similarly, young men cannot plan their immediate futureits too uncertain under these circumstances. The natural law must be released from the jshackles of such illogical anj ui)sm>n4 bureaucracy, if our nationa knergy and imagination are to be fully exploited In making further progress.

The Intention of socialization is to improve the lot of every individual; to reduce the power of the rich to become richer and safeguard the poor from becoming poorer. Actually the effect of socializatioQ. - nearly 30 years after the Roosevelt program was established, shows that those who possessed inherited or accumulated wealth have grown richer; the general level has gone upward but taxes and the cost of living have risen and individual debt has increased. What remains, when it is all calculated, is a life of diminishing returns for the family in sound currency and rainy-day savings.

This needs study by actuaries such a study it has never had,

80 far as I know. Great attention is being paid to the problems of the oldstors who must not be permitted to suffer but

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS YES, PONDER THIS COURAGE

Some time ago the Finnish freighter Anna was shipwrecked. Captain Vuorio got his crew ashore, but he would not leave the ship until the owners of the ship sent him orders through rescuers to abandon the ship at once. The newspapers contained a picture which Captain Vuorios descendants should contemplate with pride. It wa.s the picture of the Captain being dragged ashore half dead. He could do no good by remaining on his wrecked ship, but he would not leave that helpless derelict until his employers commanded him to do so. * *

This is what we may well regard as a real adherence to duty and to Idealism. It is a marvelous thing In this world of shadow as well as sunshine to encounter now and again a person who takes the duties of life so seriously that his own welfare is to him a matter of not the 5lighte.st consequence. Such a person feels that |ie (or she. as the case often 15 must .stick by duty come what will. It would be more pleasant to do something else, Who would have blamed Captain Vuorio if

he had left his vessel when he saw that all was hopeless. But he w'as a man who operated under a commission and a code of ethics. He would kave his ship when those who had put him on the ship commanded him to do soand not before.

Ponder courage of this''variety. It is amazing and stimulating in any generation.

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'Bewitched By Dabbling In Magic

THE UNITED WAY

By ELMER ROESSNER

Businessmen may be bewitching themselves by their own dabbling in magic.

The primary meaning of the w'ord magic involves supernatural powers. But that hasnt stopped business from using the word to describe everyday products made without the aid of sprites or fairies.

Ascription of magic to ordinary products has long been regarded by the Federal Trade Commission, distinct attorneys and Better Business Bureaus as permissible exaggerations, except when an effort is made to pretend a product has .supernatural about it.

The only exception is when thf, claims of magic are stressed to the point that somebody may believe them. Thus, anyone offering a lotion on the claim that it will cause women to swoon at the feet of the user, subpoenas will float in over the transom,

A few years ago I collected advertisements of 150 products

in which "magic was part of the name, or was used to describe the product. Someone ekse, with nothing better to do, collected 350, I became discouraged and abandoned efforts to compete. Since that time new magic products, or new products claimed to work magic, must have brought the above 1,000,

The president of a company dealing with a highly specialized service to businesses told me a few days ago about his impressions after a swing around the country,

THE SEARCH' FOR CHARMS AND POTENTS

*Tm amazed at the number of business executives who seem to be looking for magic, he said. They arent looking for magic that comes from a wand, but magic that comes In a package or a contract. They think that when anything goes wrong, all they have to do is to buy a oon.sulting deal and everything will be all right.

The head of one business couldnt tell me how well he w'as doing. He said there was a lot of money coming in and a lot going out, and sometimes there is a lot left over and sometimes only a little. But Ive sent to New York for a management consultant and total <5 everything will be all right, he _ said happily. The simple step of hiring a new local account-ant ^ apparently didnt have enough magic to it.

Another executive confessed that sales were down. But weve hired a new advertising agency and the boys will come up with a new campaign that will get us on our feet again, he said. He had no idea whether the quality of his product was being maintained or what his competitors were doing.

Another man in trouble said he was going to factor his receivables, not because he needed the money but because maybe the factor will tell me what Im dolrii wrong.

Maybe there is magic businesses can buy from consultants advertising agencies and factors. But there used to be magic in understanding ones own business and plunging in to cure the fault with imagination and hard work.

BRANDS OF SMOKES . YOULL NEVER SEE ON TV

The Japanese cigarette monopoly will introduce two ntw brands containing United States leaf. "Three As will contain 15 per cent U. S. flue - cured when Introduced In May; Hi Lite, comlnk out in June, will contain 3 per cent burley.

SIDELINE PROFIT MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS

The big magazine publishers are making money, but not in publishing magazlne.s, according to the Gallagher Report, a newsletter in the field. Great-ast increases have come from book publishing, printing, paper mills and televisiotL.