FACE FOUR

Saturday, May 7, 1960THE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Saturday, May 7, 1960

Just A Reminder, Kids-

No Limits On Political Expediency

Will thb nation take another major step towar^ becoming a socialistic state in this political year, or will common sense and sound, judgment prevail; over the desire for presenting an appetising political pie ?

After seven years of fumbling, the Eisenhower administration has presented to Confess its plan for providing medical care for some 12 million people over 65 years of age at a cost of an estimated $1.2 billion annually to the taxpayers. It comes on the heels of a^n earlier program which originated in Congress and in effect was killed in committee.

Since the beginning of this congressional session pressure for some sort of government medical care plan has grown sfeadily. Recently there have been indications that both Democrats and Republicans are anxious to provide some such program for the people and for it to be known as a Democratic'* or Republican program. Politically, a government medical care program for older members of,our society may have tremendous voter appeal, particularly among older citizens. And too often, unfortunately, political expediency becomes the rule of thumb in a national election year.

Before election-year pressure pushes Congress Into adopting such a program, however, careful consideration should be given to the cost of the program,

and to the burden it would place on the citizenry as a

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By LYNN NISBET KEYNOTERS-Strange as it may seem. Democrats are experiencing some difficulty in obtaining, keynote speakers for their conventions. At time this .is written the keynote for the 'Stete convention, which is less than two weeks away, has not been determined. The name very probably will be announced before this item is published.

County chairmen also are having some trouble with keynoters for the county conventions next Saturday. The difficulty here is selecting one person from a surplus of availability. With four candidates for Governor and the situation de-vel(ving where few observers are primary, the neutral organization leaders are walking on egg shells to avoid show of partiality.

Mrs. Dewitt Moore, Wake county chairman, wrestled with the problem for a while and came up with four keynoters instead of one. She has arranged for each of the candidates for Governor to have a spokesmanhis manager or someone else, i^er than the candidate himself. They have been allotted ten minutes each, about the total time usually devoted to a keynote address. The variety should prevent boredom.

MACHINE21Y Meantime the machinery of the Democratic party is grinding away with spotted interest. Precinct meetings. Uj starting point for the machinery, are scheduled for this Saturday. Rural precincts generally will meet at their polling places during the afternoon. Most city precincts will have night sessions. Each precinct will name a committee, the chairman of which will be a member of the county executive committee. Each precinct also will elect delegates to the coimty convention, one for every ^ votes (or major fraction of 25) cast for the Democratic candidate for Governor in the preceding election.

CONVENTIONS The precinct meetings have the privilege of passing to the county convention resolutions or recommendations. That is seldom done. The county groups will meet in the county seat next Saturday, most of them at noon, to select delegates to the state convenion, one for each 150 votes (or major fraction of 150) cast in the county for the Democratic candidate for Governor In 1956. The counties also may petition or memorialize the State convention.

Prior to the county convention the executive committee, composed of all the precinct chairmen, will meet to select a county chairman, vice chairman and secretary. Whatever scrapping occurs is likely to be in the executive committee meeting.

The big event is the State convention scheduled for Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, Thursday, May 19, at noon.

Congressional district caucuses will be held at 10 o'clock that morning. The districts will nominate, subject to approval by the full convention, four delegates and two alternates to the national convention at Los Angeles in July- The districts also will name nine men and nine women on the State executive committee, and the number of members of congressional, judela, solicitorial and senatorial district committees allotted by the Plan of Organization. Also each caucus will name persons to the honorary positions of vice chairmen and assistant secretaries to the convention.

PLATFORMWhat has hereto fore been one of the most important jobs of the district caucuses has already been taken care of. Under the new Plan of Organization the platform committee has already been selected. That group, with J. C. Eagles Jr. of Wilson as chairman is scheduled to meet in Raleigh on Monday, May 9, to draft preliminary text of the platform. Another meeUng will be held just before the convention to put on the final touches.

DELEGATES The public Is more Interested in who will be elected delegates to the national convention than in platform declarations. Delegates nominated by the districts will almost certainly be confirmed by the lull convention. That takes care of 24 votes. To cast the remaining 13 votes allotted to North Carolina the convention will elect 22 delegates with half a vote each. (The two members of the national com-miteee each have a vote, without alternate.) There is evidence of keen rivalry for these at-large delegate positions. Traditionally, the Governor, the two . S. Senators and the state chairman go without questiHi.

These four The Governor, the two Senators and the chairmanusually get together and pick out most of the others. There have been instances when relations among the big four were not cordial. This time they are very friendly. Chances are that while the public may not know the names in advance, the delegation will be pretty well determined before the convention gets under way.

Anoter new provision of the Plan of Organization calls for the delegates to the national convention to meet in North C8|.rolina soon after their election and nominate a man and a woman to be members of the national committee. Heretofore that nomination has been made after the delegates arrived at the convention city. Present members of the committee are John D. Larkins Jr. and Mrs. B. B. Everett. Delegates will be chosen before the primary, but nominations for national committee positions will come after the next Governor and Senator are named. Primary results might have some hearing onthelr selection._

wholeyoung and old.

In the first place, the administration program calls for the state to assume half the financial responsibility for the medical insurance program, or an esti- mated $600 million annually. That means, of course, that in addition to the $600 million in new federal taxes required to support the programs, a similar amount would have to be provided through state taxes. This, of course, would be in addition to the social security and other taxes which already are being collected. It would be in addition to the higher rate of social security taxes already approved, but not yet put into effect

It would greatly expand federal and state expenditures into new welfare fields, and thus open the gate to a rapid movement toward compulsory medical care programs under auspices of the federal government. It would place a tremendous additional financial burden**upon the taxpayers of the nation that could be expected to grow heavier year by year.

The program would be another step toward making the individual citizen more dependent upon the federal government in the latter years of his life, and likewise restrict the individuals providing for his own old age by requiring he contribute to a program from which he may or may not benefit.

Further, if medical care is to be provided for people over 65 years of age in certain income brackets is it illogical that a similar program be provided for ' children? And if a program includes young people and old people, how long will it be before it is also expanded to include those in the middle group?

Unless the nation is prepared to move into a complete medical care program for all its citizens, it had best study carefully the far-reaching implications of the present administration program. Is medical care going to come under government control, or is the government going to remain out of that field?

Stage Is Set For New Propaganda Onslaught

Premier Khrushchev has set the stage for the Soviets to use the summit conference as a platform from which to unleash another high-powered propaganda barrage at the West.

The reported downing of an American plane by Soviet military aircraft has been pictured by Kremlin officials as a thwarted American attempt to intimidate the Soviet Union and its people. Thus the propaganda campaign has begun before the summit conference convenes.

There is little likelihood that the Kremlin officials will overlook the incident when the Big Four meet in Paris. It is also unlikely that the Russian sabre rattling which Khrushchev has begun anew will cease before the conference.

Certainly Khrushchevs threat of using rockets against the Western nations and their allies is the boldest verbal blast in recent months. In effect, he declared that the Soviet Union would not hesitate to unleash an attack on the United States or its allies at any moment.

The threat probably was designed to pressure smaller Western nations to deny bases to the United States, France and Britain. An<i if that was the purpose, the theme will be played time and again before and during the Paris conference.

There is no getting around the fact that the recent Khrushchev statements have completely dispelled the spirit of Camp David which existed a few months ago. After a brief period of smiles and friendly talk, the Russians are now reverting to their tough policies and we may expect unreasonable demands.

If a summit conference takes place in such an atmosphere, we can only expect to realize any accomplishment by showing the Soviets that we are firmly resolved that we will not be bullied by their threats.

Khrushchev Not ^i^elaxina Stanc.

By PATRICIA MOORE

Trench Coat Trademark

The TV audience watching I've Got a Secret howled with laughter the other night when Betsy Palmer was outfited as a woman reporter to cover Princess Margaret's wedding.

The emcees said it was such short notice to send someone to England that they were helping pack. Out of the trunk they

pulled Betsy's reporter garb.

First, a trench coatwhich the public seems to think every woman reporter wears all the time.

Second, a camera was hung around Betsys neck. Then a tape recorder was added. The audience was highly entertained.

Next, came a weird looking

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP-Premier Nikita Khrushchev has poured a dose of cold water on-any optimism that the summit meeting in Paris 10 days from now may accomplish something*

But thats what the Western leaders have been doing for weeks anyway. There have been two extraordinary features for the summit, preparations which began last September;

1. They havent produced a new idea to hit the Soviets with.

2. They are rooted in a lets stand still and see what happens attitude.

Khrushchev has never given up on the demands he started making in November 1958; That the West get its troops out of West Berlin; and that it sign separate peace treaties with West and Communist East Germany.

The West refuses to do either. And recently Undersecretary of State Douglas Dillon made a speech saying the West wouldnt budge. It wasnt new. The Western leaders had already said that much.

But Dillon made it sound, (or whatever his reason, very flery. It wasnt really very fiery for down further, in the fine print, Dillon said the West would be glad to settle for just not rocking the boat awhile.

When you put these various Western positions and statements together its easy to understand particularly if youre Soviet why Khrushchev blasted the West in a speech Thursday, o Its almost as if he were saying; What do you think I am, a patsy?

He did something else, too. He laid the groundwork for blaming the West, in the eyes of the rest of the world, if the summit IS a failure.

Even Khrushchevs brutal crack about Vice President Richard M. Nixon was understandable, from the Soviet view-poinr

It's still, puzzling why President Eisenhower thought it necessary to announce that if the summit meeting lasts more than a week, and he has to come

home, hell let Nixon sit in at the summit for him.

Nixon seenas to be a special kind of poison to Khrushchev. And last month before some editors here Nixon explained, in a way which couldnt endear him to Khrushchev, how hed handle things at the summit.

Nixon said he thinks Khrushchev would like to see progress at the summit because, realist that he is, he is concerned by Some hard facts of International life.

And at another point the vice president said, We can rightly approach the summit with full confidence that the spokesmen of the free world, rather than Mr. Khrushchev represent the tide of history.

So Khrushchev hit back at Nixon. He said letting him sit in at the summit would be like sending a goat to take care of the cabbage.

The way Khrushchev emphasized the shooting down of an American plane over Soviet territory indicated two things which, put together, probably explains his reasons for making the speech in the first place:

1. He wants the west to know his fairly mild and pleasant speeches of the pastw few months dont indicate he's turned to jelly.

2. If the West Is talking tough about the summitIn the belief such an attitude will soften him up and induce him to make concessionsIts wrong. _

Trying to link his speech in same time seems far-fetched, with the various Communist party shifts announced at the same time seems far-fetched. Prom here the shifts Indicated no profound shakeup but rather adjustments for the sake of efficiency.

(Hemlerson Dispatch)

The current Democratic gubernatorial race in North Caroling can be viewed from so many angles that it is difficult at this stage to spot strong organized voting blocs. Each candidate, of course, has supporters for a causewhatever that may bebut to be nominated ior governor, one of the foui* candidates apparently will have to pull together several voting factions.

One of the most Interesting campaigns to a political analyst is that of Terry Sanford, who is counting heavily on an out-ofpower machine that is not less than two nor more than twelve years old.

Sanford was a key political aid to the iate Kerr Scott, who was elected governor in 1948 and to the U. S. Senate in 1954. Being a Scott ally enabled Sanford to carve his name in public places throughout the state, and it was no secret when Scott went to Washingttm that Sanford had his eye on the governors chair and would be depending largely on Scotts supporters to put him there. But Scotts unexpected death two years ago caused a drastic change in the picture.

This is not to imply that Sanford lacks personal strength or that he was expecting to ride on Scotts coattail. But the situation does raise a question as to what has happened to the so-called Scott machine, if there ever was such machine.

Scott was a farmer; he chewed tobacco, spoke farm language and usually won the personal friendship of every farmer In his presence. Like anyone running for high office, he picked up some supporters who wanted to be professional politicians and they purportedly welded together what later was called a Scott machine, still looking to the farmers f6r basic strength.

There is no doubt that Scott was nominated and elected gov

ernor solei> on personal ai^al not by a machine. By the time he ran for Senate, he had had time to perfect an organization, but even with Sandorda good help among the politicians, personal appeal again played a major role in getting votes. So the question heard among political observers now Is; did Scott actually have a machine to will to Sanford, or did it crumble when Scott was buried In his native Alamance county just two years ago this month.

There is evidence that the machine crumbled, aided perhaps by Gov. Hodges appointment of B. Everett Jordan, an Alamance county neighbor of the late SenatiM-, as successor in the Washington job. Jordan and Scott differed on many political issues, and since they lived only a few miles apart and had numerous mutual friends, the selection inevitably caused some splitting of the Scott faction,

Sanfords biggest asset from Scott is probably in personal contacts. He Is not a farmer (is a lawyer) and does not have Scotts personal appeal to farmers: so for a successful campaign he will have to find support in other factions to make up for an almost certain split in the farm vote. If he is nominated, the Scott machine remnants may prove stronger than indicated; if he fails, it will be sound advice to future aspirants to work on personality and not depend too much on hand-me-downs.

All this political background will have little meaning if each voter will support the man he or she thinks is best qualified for the job and vote accordingly. Past alliances do not mean nearly so much as what each candidate believes in for the future, so for good government it is important to vote for a mannot a machine. In this way. the best man can win with our without a machine.

bag (for camerm equipment) whU:h also was hung arotmd poor Betsys neck and shoulders. She looked positively . wilted. Then came the pad and pencil (should have been at least four ball point pens as well as pencils.

Everyone seemed to think that was Ingest farce of aU, eiqieci&Uy to attend Princess Margarets wedding, when you expect the onlookers to be in their very best o the best attire, |01 formal.

And last, came a wide-brimmed hat.

You aU may laugh. It is zmnw true, perhaps than you imagine. We have only known one would-be who later became a real live woman reporter who actually wore the trench coat. Most of us resort to raineoats at needed times, but not necessarily the treiMSh coat-The camera equipment was not in the least exaggerated. And we could well Imagine how Betsy Palmer felt at the thought of arriving with all that paraphernalia. Maybe she got a jeweled purse in which to encase her reporting necessities.

The terrible drooping, hat would be a necessity in case of rain; she surely couldnt negotiate an umbrella with aU the other thingswe have never witnessed on the head of a woman reporter, in the form of the rain variety, though hats go when the occasion calls for them.

Anyway, from now on we know that thousands of people all over the U.S. (maybe Including Betsy Palmer) wUl have that picture of a wotnan rw>rter for the rest of their lives-They must think we are real Amazons!

Now that the Princess is married. the women are very much concerned that Antony Arm-strong-Jones is a commoner and still doesnt have that title.

AU the men reflect that who needs a title; they have a castle for a home, a wonderful cruise, and a moderate Income of some $42,000 per year. Who wants a title?

Opinions In Brief

Old-timers remember when a person scratched when he itched, instead of going to see an allergist. Rockmart (Ga.) Journal.

Machines are so nearly human that they can do things without using any Intelligence. Abingdon (ill.) Argus.

Room

Choice

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT CopyrigM. INO. King FeaturM Syadlcide, Inc*

As Uie chips fall at this stage of the election campaign, it seems as though Senator Lyndon Jcriinson and Senatmr John Kenned will come into the Democratic convention with an eqmti number of delegates about 800 each. It is necessary to have 761 delegates to be nominated. No one wiU bt nomi-natod on tbs first ballot.

Tbs other three candidates. Hubert Humphrey, Stuart Symington and Adlal Stevenson, are running as possible compromise candidates. Thitt is. If the convention it deadloclwsd between Johnson and Kennedy, the great men of the Dittnocratic Party will meet in the proverbUl smokefiUed room and wlU choose a candidate from among those who arc now running so ardently or someone else whs wiU be surprised that anyone thought of him. LetYt not be whispered too loud but ttere are some Democrats who Uke Harry Trumans style and who migltt tom to the old curmudgeon icC* another round. The 22nd Amendment does not forbid that.

It is an interesting pcditjgal pbenomenoo thet "Johnr Kennedy has been working at the job ot popularizing Umself as a candidate since 1956. wbe Lyndon Johnson had been using the quiet tinbogf ot organizing the profeesitmals in his support, de-peo^g upon his extraordinary work in the Senate to win popularity among the people. These variant methods luive produced about the same result. 800 or so delegates. If Kennedy or Johnson can build tills up to 761 delegates. sure and in the pocket, and before the convention, there can be a nomination on the first ballot; otherwise, it will be x battle which is Iflaly.

This makes the uncommitted delegates sO important. The

A.DJ1. could support Kennedy. Humphrey and Symington. They could perhaps combine the Kennedy and Humphrey delegations but that is not the way U is likely to go. If Kennedy is not nominstod by the third ballot,

men like Harry Truman, Sam Rayburn. Carmine DeSMiio.

David Lawrence. Jacob Arvey. Pat Brown, and two or three others wUl gather together to decide. Harry Truman will un-doubt^fly have a lovvailing

voice at such a meeting.

The test of ai^ilability. ta ttte Democratto Party, wUl be very practical. First of all, the De-mocr^ Party cannot loee the SoUd Soptl tbt

party a wafUkble msE egg ff votes. Major population changes WiU not affect the outcome in 1960, the apportiozunent of Electoral votes being based <mt he 1950 census; therefore the enormous shift of population which has taken place since 1950 wUl show up, fr the first time, in the 1964 Presidential Election. However, California used to be a Republican state and is no longer. Inroads by the Dno-crats have been made in otiier Western states which used to be Republican,

The Southern states are conservative as compared with the Northern big cities. The Western states are ideologically uncertain, basing themselves on par-sonalitles ratiier than on party practices and principles. New England, which used to be soUd-ly Republican, is so no more. From Connecticut to Maine, New England has astonishingly been electing Democrats. N^w England is no longer WASP-ish, that is. white, Anglo-Saxon. Protestant. Rhode Island is an example of this change: a smaU state with two of the historically best known cities in the couittry. Providence and Newport, it started as the ceitter of Baptism in the United States. It now has a large population of former Italians, French-Canadaians, and Portuguese. This population is Roman Catholic and Democratic.

Politicians do not ignore such realistic factors. They cannot afford to. A VanderbUt was once Governor of Rhode Island: so was a Pastore. Equally trpe, a Saltonstall is a Senator from Massachusetts; so Is a Kennedy. Plymouth Rock Is giving way to the Irish Famine, just as In Connecticut the Yankee is being (Continued on page aixl

'Soiff' Morals Due For Study

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Elections nowadays are often thought to be a little better than public auctions wherein the prize goes to the side bidding higher.Daily Oklahoman.

By ELMER ROESSNER

If and when Congress wipes payola out of the television and music industries, there are a few groups who want it to turn attention to spiffs, push money or PMs. Those are names for commissions paid salespersons by manufacturers or retailers for selling certain goods.

Various Congressmen have expressed indignation because disc jockeys have accepted money for playing records. But there has been little or no anger because salesmen accept $2 for selling one brand of mattress instead of another, or 25 cents (or selling three pair of nylons instead of another make. And spiffs, push money or PMs have been paid long before television was thought of.

TWO ARGUMENTS

There has been no authoritative answer yet to the question of whether a spiff is any more or less moral than a payola.

There are arguments on both sides.

Those In favor of spiffs con-teud that they are commis

sions, and that commissions have 'long been accepted as a fair and completely moral method of paying employees. Hundreds of thousands of salesmen get most or all of their income from co'mmlssions. Those to whom they sell know this and rarely ask. How much is your commission? Therefore, they ask, if an auto company purchasing agent buys 10,-000 tons of sheet steel knowing the salesman will get a commission on the order, why shouldnt the salesman who sells a pair of slow-moving shoes be entitled to a commissionor spiff?

Those opposed to spiffs say that they encourage something less than honesty in salespeople: they will be more inclined to attribute merits to items that carry PMs than to others. They add that once the public becomes aware of spiffs, they will be suspicious of all salespersons recommendations.

They point out that the automotive purchasing agent buys knowing that the salesman is on commLssion, but that the average shopper today does not

know that the salesperson gets spiffs, or what items he gets them on and what items he doesnt.

.WANTS ALERTS POSTED

The matter came up in the Federal Trade Commissions hearings on a fair - practices code for the hosiery industry. Edward M. Hall. Jr., who conducted the hearing, said there was a possibility that the code would Include a provision that stores post notices that spiffs were being paid to salespersons when that was the case.

It is possible the FTC will enact a new push-raoney rule. he said. If this were done, the rule would probably be Included in fair-practice codes for all industries.

The National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers has asked the FTC to forbid retailers to pay spiffs to salespersons for selling the stores private brands. The association is angered because some stores prohibit manufacturers from paying spiffs to retail salespersons. and then pay the.se same people spiffs for selling the

stores private lrands, W F.. Williamson, the hosiery association president, declared that paying spiffs by stores was much worse than the paying of spiffs by manufacturers because stores coerced or even tlffeatr ened to fire those who did not sell enough privately branded merchandise.

CHOICE RUTABAGAS IN THE GARDEN OF BUSINESS A new kind of television recording tape has been names TV-ola.. . .The Edison EUec-tric Institute reports that the Industry has 42.00.00O kilowatts of new capacity scheduled for operation, 90 per cent of which will be operating by the end of 1963...The worlds winter wheat crop this year is good, the Foreign Agricultural Service reports. . .Users of electronic machines tend to give them pet names; the Census Bureau calls its machine ,The Moron, because it cannot think. The Valley National Bank of Phoenix, Arlz., has named its machine George," because everybody says, Let George do Ul