PAGE FOUR^HE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Monday, May 23, 1960

Monday, May 23, I960

New Graduates Face Responsibility

For thousands of young people all across North the key to the future of the state. ... ,

Carolina an important milestone is at hand. For the The state now looks/to these graduates to inake

state also it is a moment of importance that repeats the most of the educational opportunities which have

itself year after year without losing its significance. been offered them. It gauges ^s

During the next few weeks high schools and col- these young people^will put forth to make North Caro-leges throughout the state will pour forth the members lina a better state. It must measure the success of yes-of their graduating classes. For the young people it terdays efforts by the calibre of citizens these young will mark the beginning of a new era in their lives. people become tomorrow. ... ur 4.*

Each youngster, regardless of his new status, has Every community, every state has an obligation been offered one of the worlds priceless possessions to provide its young people with the best possible ed-which no one can now take from him ... an opportuni- ucational background in order to equip these ty for education. Upon each youngster there is thrust zens for the responsibilities, the problems which lie

new responsibilities of more mature citizenship which before them. ^ ^ +

comes with the privilege of taking his place in the The youngsters, m turn, have the responsibility to

adult world. what they have been given in an effort to improve

For North Carolina, commencement is an occasion the lot of others who follow behind them, for reviewing that which has been accomplished, and v

for evaluating that which will be achieved in the fu- Z1 Iqc . J\chl0V0rXlGn1' IS

The graduates from the states high schools and - - * , ^ -

colleges this year represent an expenditure of litrally r

millions of dollars of tax money and millions of private U.U I llUll A U 1 EJXl L

funds have been . Now that the Atlas missile of the United States

these young people. I hey has set a new 9,000 mile record, apparently with pin-

countloss years of endeavor hat has point accuracy, this country has once more off-set and

building of an surpassed a Soviet missile achievement,

which the state gladly oers to In January Soviet scientists fired one of their mis-.

up 111 North Carolina, realizing that the investment is ^ central Pacific to set a new

record. At the same time they took the usual propaganda approach, asserting the new record meant the Soviets were in a position to hit any target in the world in the event of war.

Now, with the Atlas fired with complete success from Cape Canaveral to a target in the Indian Ocean, the previous claim of the Russians has been put into the background. In missile range, we have surpassed in

tests their previous record test. In capability, the U. S.

Atlas apparently is superior to anything the Soviets have yet exhibited in their arsenal.

In this period in which many experts said the nited Stales would be vulnerable because of Soviet superiority, it is becoming clear that the U. S. is rapidly improving its relative position. The gap between American and Russian missile capabilities that existed a year or so ago now has certainly narrowed, if indeed it has not changed completely in favor of the United States.

To be sure, all of us hope these missiles will never be used. At the same time it is realized that without them, the United States would be completely vulnerable to attack without comparable means of retaliation. And the retaliatory force the United States has maintained and strengthened in recent years probably has had as much to do with keeping world peace as any other one factor.

This latest successful firing of the Atlas is another achievement that will prove a deterrent to a fatal Soviet decision that would begin a hot war.

The Spy Story

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Advice To Vote iarly Still Gooc.

By LYNN NISBET The same issue arose in the

MACHINES Voting ma- Wilson county convention last chines are more popular than Saturday. It developed that a a few years ago, but still only committee named by the con-521 will be used throughout the vention two years ago to study state in the upcoming pri- the matter and report back this mary. This is the figure releas- year had not functioned. A new ed by Raymond Maxwell, sec- resolution approving the enlarg-rctary to the State Board of ed board was adopted. Rep. Elections. Maxwell also report- Tom WoodarcJ said he would ed that there are now 2.094 vot- not feel bound by the convening precincts in the stateeight tion action but certainly would

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Nikita In Our Campaign

more than were used in the October bond election. Population shifts occasioned establishing new precincts in some counties, consolidating existing voting places in others.

The polls will open at 6:30

give it careful consideration.

The same problem if found in many other counties where population and property values have lifted from rural to urban E.eas, and the old allocation of county board member-

Eaturday morning. May 28. and ship no longer affords equal close at 6:30 p.m. That means 12 hours or 720 minutes voting time. Many precincts have more then 1500 registered voters, which means less than half a minute for each if all participate. Usually only Democrats vote in the primary, but Re-

representation. Reapportionment is in some respect more necessary on county boards than in the General Assembly, becauxe cities and towns derive most of their revenue from ad valorem taxes on property, with values and rates fixed by the

publicans have a primary for county commissioners.

Lieutenant Governor, for Congress in the 12th district, and in a number of county races. The Democratic state ballots ml have four names for Governor, four for United States Senator, and three lor Lieu

INTEREST Reports from over the state indicate that in many counties there is f.%- more interest in races for county commissioners than in the big contests for Governor and U. S. Senator, or the local

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By RALPH ROBEY

Productivity Is a term which

te^nanr couniy fe"lave clESSwates" Wher^n H r)T -^TC)C 1 1 P' 1 VI ' V

ballots will have half a dozen appears that legislators hold top . JL X v,Xv.^ LX v XL y

or more nam^ from which ^ popular interest, it us-

members of Uie Legislature basis of local mat-

mMhine pinek 11 the name? S "dky meif'TOttog'cc- Proaucuvity 15 a term wnicn re listed alphabeticaUy. On ord. incumbent leg^^^^ is w dely uaed and Just about

printed paper ballots the law check on statewide mat- ^ widely misunderstood. Yet it

requires that each candidate be ,7, "trevalSaUo^ L based on extremely important con-

givcn top place an equal num- ^^6 legislation upon the

ber of times. Th^ will r^uire county's economy, rather than

the ballot to tbe whole state,

find the desired candidate, and ^

cept. c

Perhaps the most common definition of productivity is output per man-hour. This is ac-

sity for an overall increase in output per man-hour, and there is a close correlation between investment and productivity. Granted, in an individual factory it may be passible to increase output by better management, improved organization and better industrial rela-

Copyrlght, 1966, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Nikita Khrushchev is not an American citizen but he wants to run the American election. He would, for some reason, prefer to have someone like Ad- lal Stevenson as President. Khrushchev would like to control both the Republican and Demoncratic conventions. He is opposed to Richard Nixon as President of the United States. Nixon in Moscow had defended his country and his civilization and gave Khrushchev an intellectual trouncing.

On several occasions, Khrushchev went out of his way to declare his opposition to Nixon. These are remarks by Nikita Khrushchev, interfering in an American election an intolerable impudence:

I am afraid that if Mr. Nixon is instructed to hold these negotiations (Summit Conference), a situation might arise resemb

ling the one of which the people say: To leave the cabbage to the care of the goat.' (May 5. 1960)

Therefore, we think that some time should be allowed to elapse so that the questions that have arisen should settle and so that those responsible for the determining of the policies of a country would analyze what kind of responsibility they placed upon themselves, having declared an aggressive course in their relations with the Soviet Union and other Socialist countries. Therefore, we would think that there is no better way out than to postpone the conference of the heads of government for approximately six to eight months." (May 16, 1960)

The last time that a foreign government attempted to Interfere in American politics was when Citizen Genet, who was the Minister of Prance to the United States, appointed in

For example, the House and curate but raises the further tions, but such betterment is Senate Journals are being questions of how does one mea- necessarily limited. Today -it minute searched now for records of gyj-e or decrease. This defini- takes about $17,000 investment

The possibility of Jammed members voted in past disadvantage to provide the essentials of each

even the quickest minded person cannot do that In half a

Other E(ditors Saying. Compare These Worcds

lines at end of the day gives added emphasis to the old admonition to vote early.

The multiple name lists with positions changed often further delays the tabulation of results after the voting is over the boxes opened.

APPORTIONMENTThe frequent reference to legislative reapportionment usually are re

sessions on constitutional revision, court reform, reapportionment. taxes on tobacco, use of MH-30. et cetera, for campaign ammunition for or against present candidates based solely on how the proposed

of appearing to place the en- Job, and the total continces to

tire responsibility for changes increase with the development

in productivity upon labor, of better and better machines,

which of course is far from In some industries the invest-

true. ment per worker is much less

Three Basic Factors than $17,(K}0. but in others it is

- - - . u Actually three basic factors several times this amount. Ev-

legislation didor would have cause variations in productivity, en in farming the investment

effect my county." Platforms xhese are energy, organizstion, per workei^ is up to this ilg-

and capital. ure.

Energy includes both human A Significant Variable

of the several gubernatorial candidates are appraised on

lated to membership in the smil* impact basis. That of pow- With all of these elements in-

General Assembly. In some explalns^the fact that >**J * er used in production. The fluencing productivity it is to counties conditions are almost candidates are particularly changes here over the past sev- be expected, and is true, that

as acute with respect to coun- strong in certain areas, very g^al generations have been

weak in other.

fantastic. Formerly human en-

output per man - hour varies from company to company,

It explains, too, why some of ergy provided well over ninety from Industry to industry, and the men with high capacity for percent of all the power used, from year, to year. Measuring

ty commissioners.

The voters of Wake county will participate in a referen- _ . .

dum on primary day on the leadership, and to whom the Today human energy is used the result, therefore, is ex

question of increa(5ing the num- people of the whole state are primarily to direct other sourc- tremely complicated and many ber of Wake commissioners looking for constructive legisla- es o power. Even in steel of the data that are published

from the present five to seven, tion, often get bogged down mills a worker no longer has to ai*e misleading,

allotting three instead of one to with local questions that pre- lift any appreciable weight, and This is a field, in other words,

Raleigh township. The referen- elude attention to major issues, m many industries he does not where one can prove almost

dum was authorized by the 1959 There is remembered Instance have to lift anything. This tnything he desires by statis-

Legislature when the Wake del- of a good man suffering defeat change in the type of energy tics. By picking his base year

egation could not agree on pro- in his county, because he told used has been an enormous he can show that the increase

Visions of the bill. There is a group of his constituents that boon to both our workers and has been either large or small,

some doubt as to the legally he was so busy working on a our economy as a whole. An honest and conscientious

binding effect of the referendum statewide public school problem Orgaalzatoon includes bo4h analyst will not indulge in such result on the Wake members in for the state that he could not the function of management and manipulations, but unfortunate-

the 1961 session, but there can be bothered with a bill revamp- production layouts. Both of ly a lot of It goes on all the

be no doubt about its moral in- ing his home county commis- these have a profound influence time. And one must add that it

fluence.

sioner setup.

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upon the efficiency of an organization. and efficiency is a prime element in output per man-hour. One also should include under organization the skill of the working force. With incneascd mechanization of the productive process more expert workers aie required, even though many jobs become mere routine. The character of our labor force has chanyed greatly over the years In regard to skill but there still is a shortage of those with highly technical training.

Capital is an absolute neces-

Is not easy toselect a base year even under the best of circumstances. The best protection against wrong conclusions, but at least under this procedure there Is an opportunity for errors to be washed out. ,

One final word must be said: Increasing productivity is what gives us a rising standard of living, protects the value of our currency, and determines the ovcr-all growth of our production. Even though we have difficulty in measuring It, therefore, we have no choice but to improve productivity.

(Raleigh Times)

North Carolina people got some very good advice in yesterdays keynote speech to the Democratic State Convention. It can be summed up in four words: Keep Our Schools Open."

That advice came from Col. W. T. Joyner, veteran Raleigh attorney and veteran Democrat, It was a defense of the moderate policy North Carolina has followed in school matters, and it came at a time when one of the Democratic candidates for Qovqrnor is using race as a major plank in his bid for office.

The keynote speaker put the case well: "It is my considered opinion that the major leadership accomplishment in our State during the last four years is the keeping open of our public schools, an achievement accomplished without a defiance of the courts or a beach of the peace. . .The significant result, the magnificent result of our Democratic leadership up to this date is that our schools are open, our children are being educatedthere has been no school-connected violence. . .To this date no court has Issued any order taking charge of the admission of pupils to any school, as unfortunately has occurred in other states-To this date no school has been closed. . .There has not even been an attempt to close any schools ..."

That is a calm, measured statement of a fact, a calm defense of something which should need no defense.

The people of North Carolina should compare that statement with the stand being taken on schools by Dr. I. Beverly Lake, one of the candidates for Governor. He has attacked our policy of moderation, and he has said he would seek to create In North CsxoUna a very clear, well-understood climate of public opinion against integration of the schools."

That would leave the impression that some North Carolina officials have favored Integration. and that Just Isnt true. And, that would leave the impression that creating a climate of public opinion against integration could do something about preventing it. That isnt true, either, and those who be Ueve it is true should ask the people of Arkansas and Virginia if it is true. Arkansas and Virginia created climates of public opinion against integration. and they now have in their white public schools about three times as many Negro pupils as are in North Carolina white schools.

The people of North Carolina must listen well to Col. Joyners calm and well-reasoned words. And. in the listening, they will see the reasons they must reject Dr. Lakes ideas at the polls on May 28.

1792. tried to force the United States to make war on Great Britain in support of the French revolutionary government.

George Washington demanded that Genet mind his own business and had him dismissed. Genet was afraid to go back to France, settled in New York State, where he died on July 14. 1834.

Khrushchevs megalomania U so far advanced that he apparently believes that the American people will accept his choice for President of the United States- Ail Khrushchev needs to do is to say which of the candidates be favors and that man will be politically dead in this country.

Nelson Rockefeller, for some reason or other, believes that he has been designed by Providence to be President of the United States. Several months ago he made a trip about the country to make it possible lor Republicans to get acquainted with him. The Republicans did not take too kindly to his excitement over his candidacy and he withdrew therefrom.

However, always when a man holds high position and possesses great wealth, he is surrounded by sycophants and so-called friends who tell him how great and noble he Is and how the country would perish without him. Given a particular psychological complex, such a person cannot tolerate an opposite opinion. Therefore Nelson Rockefeller seems to have become conviivced that he alone is worthy of the Republican nomination: that he alone can defeat whomsoever the Democrats will nominate and that he alone can meet the crlaii which Khrushchev is preparing for the United States.

Rockefe'uer Is now organizing a blitz aftev the fasl^on of Wendell Willkie. It Is to be a tornado. As a matter of fact, a meeting of the New York State Repuglican politicians has been called for Wednesday to inaugurate this exciting escapade. And it is expected in the Rockefeller camp that Nixon will Just fold up and die in the presence of the blitz.

There must be a conspiracy among the Democrats to favor Nelson Rockefeller. Two very compentent Democratic politicians told me recently that the Republicans will nominate Nelson Rockefeller. They seemed very cheerful about It. The Democrats would be,

Richard Nixon had better begin campaigning hard, if he wants to be elected. On the one hand, he is being opposed by Nikita Khrushchev who has a candidate of his own; on the (Continued on paga five)

Neither Sifie Is Ready

By ROGER BABSON Babson Park. Mas8.,~In view of the recent shootiQi down of one of our spies, there is revived Interest in the possibility of World War III. I therefore am repeating in this column the first four paragraphs of my Outlook for I960. *

MY REFERENCE TO RUSSIA FOUR MONTHS AGO

1. Naturally, as I am Just back from Moscow and Berlin, my first thoughts arc what will happen to Berlin in 1960. My answer Is definitely. NOTHING WILL HAPPEN." Mr. K will make no more ultimatums; President Eisenhower will continue his peace talks. Therefore the Berlin situation will be Just the same in I960 and 1961 as it is today.

2. There will be no World War started between Russia and the United States in 1960. This does not mean that such a war will not come within 10 years; but just now neither country is ready for It. I am convinced of this after my recent visit to Moscow.

S. Airplane warfare with the dropping of bombs is a thing of the past. We are turning to rocketry with pinpoint precision, Our expensive air bases may gradually be vacated.

4. Moscow is Mr. Ks pride and Joy." It is a beautiful city with broad streets and thousands of new apartment houses. Mr. K does not want it destroyed. Furthermore, he wants a reduction in armaments so that he will have money to raise the standard of living in Russia. I forecast he will have to do this In order to hold bis power, EFFECT UPON THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS I am very s<Mry about the unfortunate shooting down of our spy. In addition to the apparent "lying" in Washington about our policy upon its first announcement, it should be recognized that this airplane was about ten miles above the earth when the shooting took place^ This demonstrates how high fighting can occur and also the possible aim and speed of the missile whkib Rossis used to shoot down our plane. The successful use of the parachute from such heights is also demonstrated.

Although the event, from a propaganda point of view, Is important to the Russians, yet it docs not delay or hasten World War m, in my humble Judgment.

LF.T8 NOT FORGET CHINA As I said in Paragraph No. 9 of my 1960 Outlook, . .the Russians are afraid of China." Over the long pull. China is no more friendly to the Russians thsn she is to the United States, but she is playing one against the other. Russia feels that the Chinese would walk into Rus-siaa back door" if Russia should attempt a shooting war on the West, Thus, it is very Important that we review our relations with China.

This Chinese situation is the reason I am anxious to visit China this year: but whether I will get a visa from our State Department is very uncertain. There is no trouble in getting to Hong Kong,..as I am in immediate t correspondence with Hong Kong by sir mail. The postmaster in Hong Kong tells me that any mail addressed to Peiping he forwards to Canton. Ai to what happens to it after that, be does not know.

EFFECT UPON OUR ELECTION IN NOVEMBER Surely the events of the past week will not help the Republicans, or the election of Nixon. How they will affect the Democrats, the next thirty days will probably determine. My present hunch is that thr situation will help Symington. Johnson, or one of the others familiar with the defense situation. Mr. Kennedy has not specialized in foreign affaira or defense.

Of course, the event may cause a decline in European travel this summer and it cannot be helpful to business. It will make people think more about the possibility of World War III and the serious fallout which may accompany it. On the other hand, companies actively engaged in defense work should be assured continued employment. Defense expenditures, however, will be directed to missiles and rockets, as (Continued on page five)

Business Reflects Paris Failure

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLAS.S AFTER THE DIVINE PATTERN

A man had been accused of a serious crime. Those of us who knew him. or at least knew of him, read the accusation with a mounting aense of horror. If he really did these things, then there was something very dreadful in ,his mind, m his purposes, in his acts.

Yet If we look into our own lives, Y.e may find little sins and weakne.ssps which, when pathered together anti added up, come to a total of more .sins than liLs. Our angtr. our jealuitsy, o.ui avarice, our hi.I, our li.iired of c\rlaiu per.uuis, our aversion to certain race.s and natiunulltiestlie.se mount up quickly into appalling totals of evil. Some people have their evU concentrated and, as a

result, the world looks at this dreadful evil and marvels in But a little evil here and a little evil there, an amiable weakens, a prejudice, a bigotry, a quick temperthese are by no means Inconsequential.

The Bible warns us against judging others; and it may well do so, for nobody knows enough about the facts and motives in the life of another person or the environment in which he lives to pa.s.s judgment on what he does.

So let iLs be charitablenot overlooking fftHlts In others or in ourselves. To do this to become a simpleton, But to be truly chartluble both of ourselves and other.s Ls to follow the example Him who palieiitly endures every day a great deal of evil in all of us.

By ELMER ROESSNER Most business consequences of th summit trouble are obvious; some have already begun.

The stock market has reflected a preparedness" economy; prices of stocks of companies likely to be engaged in more missile, electronic, controls, chemical and other defensive contracts are being ashed upward. Prices of nondefense shares have weakened correspondingly.

The second big effecthigher taxes is being recognized if , not yet put into effect. But it seems certain that recent events will require a vast step-up in defpn.sive measures and that will require corre.ipontling step-ups in ta.xes.

Other likely consequences of intenmliunal terLslun:

More Inflation: Fast defense expansion will require money quick before Congre.'^.s has time to debate, levy and provide for collection -of new tax

es. But borrowing can be fast, and heavy Federal borrowing is basically inflationary.

Mutual funds boom: As the stock market la torn In two directions by upward push of defense stocks and the downward push of other securities, an increasing number of investors will turn to mutual funds, especially those that seem to have a balance between defense and nondefense shares.

Boom in vacation homes: This boom has bean building up in recent years, but it Will get an added lift because so many developers will point out that summer homes distant from target areas may be safety retreats in event of a war. Some people will figure tliis out without sale.siiieii.s aid.

MOKE BUYING

liicrea.se in purchaje.4: The.se will be from two motives: Some, fearing cutbacks in production and possible shortages ahead, will step up buying of appliances, furnishings and pre-

servable foods; other, fearing war and taxes, will have a let's live it up" attitude, which will increase buying of good times as well as durables.

A simulated boom: The^ inflation, added buying and other economic activities will give the feeling of a boom. Prices will tend upward: wage demands will Increase, and the economy will have the euphoric feeling of a slight fever. But sober observcrs^will know that tha financing of this boom will come from future savings, and from the savings and the fixed incomes of the retired, the pensioned and the weak.

In summary. It looks as if we are heading into a repetition of the Korean War economy. Bus-lnes.smen may prufitably check the records of those years for clue.s a.s to what the developing East- We.st teaslons can bring them now.

nOE.S SUPREME COURT .RULE MAKE ALL LATHAMl

PRISONERS?

I am about to declare war on the Supreme Court, the Old Promoter said when he wove In today. Are you with me?"

Sure!" we said. We are in a war-like mood today."

The court has ruled that a citizen cannot sue to upset a tax assessment unless he pays it in full first," he said, "Now Im no lawyer, but it looks to me that if Dana Latham, the Internal Revenue Collector, or ,hl8 minions dont like you they can^ slap any deficiency Judgment on you they want. If they hit me with a $1,000 deficiency, it would take me ten years to pay it, and by that time the in-tcivst would be another $1,000 and ru never be al>!e to .sue to find out if 1 had been gyped."

We told the old fellow

we would call a tax lawyer, and if the court had put

everybody in bondage to Dana Latham.