PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE. N. C

Friday, July 29, 1960

Friday, July 29, 1960

The Candidates Have Been Chosen

ThatE The Ticket

National political tickets of Kennedy and Johnson versus Nixon and Lodge in the battle for the administrative branch of the federal government leave no doubt that 1960 will see one of the most spirited and perhaps one of the most bitter in recent decades.

Both Sen. Kennedy, the Democratic presidential nominee, and Vice President Nixon, the Republican nominee, have proved themself shrewd politicians and effective speaker.^ with no hesitancy about calling a spade a spade in discussing the problems which face this nation.

The vice-presidential nominees, Johnson and Lodge, likewise are experienced in high-level party politics, they are vigorous campaigners and they posses the ability to command the attention of people when they speak.

Behind the candidates stand the party organizations which this year have the appearance of being better prepared for a difficult campaign than has been the case in other national election years. The fact that both the Democratic and Republican parties chose their candidates on the first ballot indicates an unusual degree of unanimity on the part of various factions of the respective parties in deciding who would be the standard bearer.

In the case of the Republicans, they have had months prior to the convention to make preparations for the campaign because the choice of the GOP was settled long before the convention opened in Chicago.

While Kennedys nomination by the Democrats was not as certain as that of Nixon by the Republicans, the detailed organization which swept Kennedy to the nomination surely had been projected to the campaign

jHiphasis Is On ;3asic Purposes

By LYNN NlSBET

DIVERSIONS Members of the advisory budget commission have been concerned for several yeara with the amount of time and energy college and hospital administrators were required to give to business activities, especially farming and laundries. Majority of the institutional managers are reluctant to give up the farms, even though the educational and thereapeutic values they once had have been dissipated, and the food produced might be bought more economically on the market.

It is recognized that prisoners must be kept employed, and farm work is a suitable occupation for them. The therapeutic value of farming at several mental hospitals is offered as justification for continuing these operations, although mechanization has largely replaced hand labor in many instances. Also farm work is required at agricultural colleges and institutes, both for training future farmers and for research.,

In these cases profit on operations is secondary, if worth considering at all. to the main purpose of education and therapy. No such justification can be offered for farm operations at several institutions such as Appalachian Teachers College at Boone, Elizabeth City Teachers College, schools for the blind and deaf at Raleigh and Morgan-ton and others.

The budget groups idea for abandoning or greatly curtailing farming operations except Where they fit definitely into the training or treatment program got a big boost from Dr. Walter N. Ridley, new president of Elizabeth City Slate Teachers College.

OFF-COLOR Dr. Ridley made it clear that he thiniw the farm is taking too much of the administrative time of college officers, and contributes nothing to the educational program. He would like to get rid of that burden and be free to give undivided attention to the business f teachingwhich he considers the primary functwn of a college.

With that common attitude on Iart of the budget officers and the college administration it would seem the solution is easy. Get rid of the farm land and out of the farming buginess. It isnt quite that simple. The college owns about 70 acres in the farm, approximately a mile from the mam campus. If the land is sold the proceeds go into the general fund account of the State, not into the college U-easury, Meantime the college needs land adja

cent to the campus for staff and student housing. There is question whether the need is acute enough to justify condemantion proceedings.

The board of trustees want to hold on to the farm land until some kind of swap can be arranged, either a direct exchange of titles or assurance that proceeds from sale of the farm will be earmarked for purchase of the close-in property.

A somewhat similar situation is found at Appalachian, where the college has a farm that budget people think of doubtful value, while there is admitted need for additional land adjacent to the campus for expansion. Farm lands at the schools for blind and deaf are not immediately needed for expansion of the campuses, but since the farming operations show a book profit and afford guaranteed source of supply for foods, the authorities are reluctant to give them up.

LAND ACQUISITION The need for more land for expansion of insiltutional facilities is common all over the state. North Carolina College at Durham and East Carolina College at Greenville cannot grow much without additional land~and they have nothing to sell or swap. Mount Mitchell State Park (and perhaps other parks needs adjacent acreage to balance property lines and protect present holdings from depreciation.

The State presently is negotiating for property on and around the site of the authorized new State House on Halifax street in Raleigh. Demands of the highway commission for right of w'ay is an ever present and rapidly growing problemand a very expensive one.

In nearly every instance the needed property could have been bought eight or ten years ago for a fraction of "its current appraised value. Almost certainly some of the land now under considerationand which may not be acquiredwill rise in price during the next few years.

Question facing the responsible officials is how far they can afford to gamble with State tax money in buying property against future needs, or in holding on to land which presently is not yielding any returns of con-sequencet. Private capitalists have gotten rich by anticipating land values: and some have gone broke by guessing wrong. State policy generally is to play the game tight and not risk public money on speculation, even though in the long run failure to buy now may cost the taxpayers. ____

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period which would follow.

Each of the candidates on both tickets has a dedicated personal following that will be felt during the campaign. Each of the tickets is a combination which will attract many voters from the ranks of independents throughout the country. And each of the parties is geared to cope with what is expected to be a no-holds-barred battle between young and spirited aspirants for the highest offices in the land.

TKe respective parties have chosen their candidates and while neither picked a ticket that was the first choice of all its members, each has picked a combination that will bring the issues forcefully to the people. It promises to be a campaign with all the fire and vigor of those of the past, plus considerably more in the way of enthusiasm because of the personalities and the issues involved.

Special Session For Legislature In Order

The calling of a short special session of the General Assembly in January is entirely in order in view of the unusual circumstances that will exist in North Carolina at that time.

According to the constitution of the state, the new governor is to take his oath of office in January. It has been customary in past years for the new governor to be sworn in at a time in January at which the members of the General Assembly are on hand. But since the convening date of the legislature is now in February rather than in January, the only way for the new governor to be inaugurated with the General Assembly in seession at the same time is to call a special sesesion of that body.'

In the interest of getting the new administration organized and moving as quickly as possible, the inauguration date should not be postponed until February. Since other governors of North Carolina have begun their terms in January as the constitution provides, it is only right that the next governor of the state picsumably Terry Sanfordnot be deprived of a portion of his term in office by delaying the inauguration even a month.

A two or three-day special sesesion of the General Assembly called to coincide with the inauguration in January would not cost the state a great deal of money. It would afford the legislature, if leaders saw fit, time to organize itself and be ready to move qukk-ly into the business at hand when the regular session convened in i'ebruary.

Rather than waiting until late in the year to decide whether or not to call a special session of the General Assembly in January, Gov. Hodges should in the very near future make known his intentions ^along this line. It appears proper that a special sesesion should be called in connection with the inauguration of the new governor. By announcing his intentions now to do so, Gov. Hodges would afford legislative leaders ample time between now and January to complete arrangements for the brief special session.

By ALVIN TAYLOB

Commotion In The Stree

Your columnist was driving up the hill on Cotanche St. near the intersection of Eighth St. yesterday afternoon. I passed a car pulling an outboard boat on a trailer, which is not an uncommon sight these days.

Just as I passed this car and its trailer headed down the hill,

I heard a teriffic commotion. I looked into the rear view mirror just in time to see a crazy sight of the boat bow pitched dizzily into the air.

The trailer had broken loose from the car and was rolling on its own. The heavy motor on back of the boat had pulled the rear end down. The blade on the outboard motor was making quite a bit of racket as it scraped along the pavement.

The driver of the^r slapped on brakes but the boat and trailer kept going. It struck the car a glancing blow veered to the left and came to a halt alongside the auto.

By Uils time the sight was lost to me in my rear view mirror but I circled the block and returned to the scene.

The men in the car had pushed the boat to the side of the street when I arrived. As far as I could determine little damage was done although the motor might have suffered.

Received word from our Scout Jamboree correspondents in Colorado Springs yesterday. Peter Heller and Tom Irons wrote this last letter on Sunday, al-

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In 1960

By JAMES MARLOW

CHICAGO (AP The big political conventions of 1960 accomplished two things:

1. They cleared the ring so a couple of real prosfor the first time in 12 yearscould go after each other.

2. They made both parties .sound a little more liberal, to the disgust of the ultra-conservatives in both, as shown by the effort to nominate Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, a leader of the conservatives.

Otherwise, they were simply cut-and-dried, longwinded. old-fashioned extravaganzas which needlessly took up too much of everyones lime.

Sen. John F, Kennedy, given the Democrats' president nomination two weeks ago in Los Angeles, and Vice President Richard M, Nixon, whom the Republicans named their No- 1 man Wednesday are political pros in the strictest sense.

The last time two professionals squared off for the presidency was' in 1948 when President Truman ran against and whipped New Yorks Gov. Thomas E. Dewey.

The 1952 match between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlal Stevenson was an amateur contest. Eisenhower had never run for office before, Stevenson, although governor of Illinois, was new in the business.

By the time they ran against each other in 1956 Eisenhower had learned his way around. Stevenson, in the minds of many, was still amateurish.

Its a lot different with Nixon and Kennedy.

Both have been in national politics since 1946 and when both were first elected to the House of Reprc.sentative.s. In later elections both landed in the

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Other Editors Saying Getting Out Of Hand

though actually the Jamboree clased last night.

Pete and Tom said there was a colorful arena show Friday night-

There were Indian dances, colorful fireworks and a talk by James Arness (Mat Dillon in Gunsmoke), the two reported. There were $10,000 worth of fireworks.

The two said most of the boys attended Protestant worship services Sunday morning conducted by the Rev. Dr. Edwin T. Dal-berg.

This was the largest Protestant service ever held for young people in the United States, they reported.

The Greenville scouts also said Herb Shriner was forming a harmonica band at the Jamboree.

Senate, with Nixon going on to the vice presidency.

It was no wonder Nixon had no real opposition for the presidential nomination. He had been working toward that for years:

1. By playing it smart as vice president. He stuck close to Eisenhower, got himself identified in the public and Republican mind with the Presidents ideas, attitudes, and policies, thus making himself appear the natui-al successor.

2. By building up support for himself around the country for years both by his campaigns for the Republican presidential ticket aijd campaigns to help Republicmis^unning for office in their states.

Kennedy hs been aiming at the prdency ever since 1956 when. lO'pc surprise of many, he came out of relative obscurity and almost captured the Democrats vice presidential nomination.

In the succeeding four years he ^traveled the country, surrounded himself with shrewd politicians and intellectuals, and ran and won in the primaries.

While both parties in their civil rights platform planks were more liberal than ever before, the fact Ls they had to be. Events

inevitably pushed them in that direction, beginning with the Supreme Courts 1954 decision outlawing public school segregation.

But the party platforms dont mean much by themselves.

There is a big difference

between the two parties promises in the middle of a presidential campaign and what they do about them later.

The conservative-s in both

partiea dominate in Congress, no matter which party wins control of It.

(Richmond Times-Dispatch)

A tidbit culled" from a recent issue of Punch, the British weekly, has not added to our happiness, as the Civil War Centennial approaches. It says: Kentucky flintlocks, manufactured in Italy, are selling briskly in the United States as souvenirs of the American Civil War. Italian gunsmiths can make them more cheaply than anyone else. No wonder Punch added:

The story makes one doubt the authenticity of all those blunderbusses in our olde pubbes

For our part, we are becoming increasingly disturbed by the possibilities of commercialization which loom in connection with this country's Civil War observance. We dont know anything about blunderbusses In old pubbes, but wed view with alarm the wholesale shipment from Italy to the United States of genu-wine Civil War flintlocks, possibly with tags giving battles in which they were fmed. (In fairnc.ss. it should be stated that one Italian gunsmith is marketing civil war rifles frankly as reproductions.)

Another suddenly launched and thriving business, both in this country and England, is the manufacture of Confederate buttons. An English concern is using the dies from which it , made buttons for Confederate uniforms in the Civil War. "Confederate buttons are being turned out by the thousands on both sides of the At

lantic, and are being sold already at retail in the United Slates. We are reliably informed that these buttons are bringing from 35 cents to $5 over here. While we have no evidence that retailers are representing thm as originals, purchasers who pay $4 for them evidently think they are the real article. (Authentic Confederate buttons usually bring $30 to $35, so a genuine one for $3 is felt to be a great bargain.)

Weve referred previously to the special hats, cigars and rum drinks created in New Jersey in honor of the wars 100th anniversary. Next thing you know, the Czechs or the Japanese will be turning out authentic Confederate uniforms, surrendered at Appomattox, complete with bloodstains, grease spots and moth holes. Is the centennial observance getting out of hand before it even begins?

Peter and Tom have been acting as correspondents for the Refllector while attending the Jamboree and a very good job they have done.

A total of 58.078 boys attended the fifth national Boy Scout Jamboree. They assembled on 2,-400 acres of grassland and hill-side.

All 50 states were represented plus 31 foreign nations.

Opinions In Brief

In the short span of three decades governments tax take has jumped from a proportion of about one dollar out of ten to about one dollar out of three of thfe national income. If the big spenders have their way, the proportion will soon become one in two, or still more. Russell Springs (Ky) Times Journal.

And What'i Yours?

(Savannah Morning News)

There is, it seems, an organization in Lois Angeles which calls itself The Lets Have Better Mottoes Assn. At its July meeting, the group selected as its favorite motto: *T have

great plans for wasting today, Also rans included the follow-

"If you died tonight, could

anyone straighten out the mess you're making? "Im not talking common sense. Im talking policy.I ave my wife a golng-away present, but she wont go.Im accustomed to your face, but it still scares normal people.

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Uncle Sams generosity toward junketing legislators has been abused in the past. It has been customary, with some exceptions, for members of Congress to travel in great luxury. There are limits beyond which this sort of thing cannot be Justified,"Enid (Okla.) News.

Social tact is the art of making your gusts feel at home, particularly when you really wish they were, San Diego (Calif.) Tribune.

Not much prestige attaches to being a two-car family, unless you also have a boat to tow behind each one. Raleigh Times.

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Hunting

Votes

By GEORGE . SOLOLSKY Copyright, im Kiflg Featcres Syndicate, lac.

Both conventions have witnessed splits over what is euphemistically referred to as Civil Rights. Civil Rights are those laws which protect the individual in his rights under the Constitution. of the United States and the constitutions of the various states. The amendments to the constitution, particularly the first ten and the fourteenth, deal with such rights.

In many sUtes, no issues arise under this heading. In others, where the population is very mixed racially, there are all sorts of discriminatory measures. The South has its Negro problem which in the South continues to be a serious mat* ter. In some Northern states, such as New York, where there are large Negro and Puerto Rican populations, discrimination is severe. In New York, also, social and job discrimination on a religious basis presents a problem. In California, there is discrimination not only against Negroes but also against Mexicans. Some states have laws I have tried to write the

nation.

Jews and Negroes have organized defense media to protect themselves against those who, because of race, religion or color, regard them as secondary persons. In New York State and elsewhere, FEPC laws have been passed which forbid the rejection of persona for employment because of race, color or religion. On the other hand, in some states, such as Arkansas, for instance, a defensive effort has been made to attack the concept of enforced desegregation. The Ku Klux Klan and similar organizations organize to fight for white superiority.

The Supreme Court of the United States has interviewed in this situaUon with decisions to the effect that a citizen is a citizen and is entitled to equal rights and benefits. These decisions for bid segregation as regards schools. This then is the situation as it affects both parties.

above statement objectively as A conflict of ideas, unrelated to strategically this gave them a any selfish Interests or motives on any side.

Now let us come to the politics of it. In such Northern states as New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and there arc others, the Negro vote is extremely important. In New York and Illinois, prior to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Negroes were usually Republicans because Lincoln freed the slaves. Since Roosevelt, the Negroes have been voting Democratic. The Democrats want to hold the Negro vote: the Republicans

want to recapture it.

Others who regard themselves as minority groups generally support the Negro position because they feel that unless there is absolute equality for all citizens under the law, discriminatory actions may be taken against them with impunity.

This then is the problem Uiat both parties faced in their 1960 conventions. The Democrats met it head on and wrote the toughest Civil Rights plank into their platform that has ever come out of a convention.'This plank was resented by the Southern delegates, but they did not leave the Convention. When Lyndon Johnson accepted the Vice Presidency and ran on the platform, the Southerners felt that they had been betrayed by their party.

The Republicans believed that strategically this gaeve them a wonderful opportunity to win the Southern states as Herbert Hoover did in 1928. However, Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York, who has for several years been working on these problems, announced his intention of making a floor fight on the platform which he said he regarded as more Important than the candidate, although platforms are forgotten immediately after the Election. The one Republican candidate for President, Richard Nixon, desiring to avoid a floor fight at the Convention, which readily split the Republican Party, rushed up to New York, held (Continued on Page 7)

Stronger Urge To Merge Aheac.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS DOORS

Stanley Jonc.s. the great mod-rrn preacher and writer, often speaks about the necc.ssity of turning our denials into doors. By this he mean.s that every time a door is shut against us, or every time we shut a door against something in life we very much desUe, another door IS openeda door that will lead us into great satisfaction.

The young man or woman intent on leiKling a pure life' shuts the door to uncleaiillness of all kuid.s It take.s courage to do that. Inil CM y vouiut person wiio .slnii.s lull iloui .slioillil letlli/e Unit ;iil otlit'i diior if f.il' ri-ul .suti.--laciion will be opened. Every time wc cl<v,c the door on .'omc*

thing low. God opens a door for Us on something high. Every time we say No to our evil selves, God gives us strength to say Yes to our better selves.

How many people, disappointed and left in despair, have suddenly found that because of this circumstance God had placed their feet on highways which later lead to great service and happiness! It was a personal disappointment In his home life which made Hoaea the great prophet of Jnve. It was the blasting of earthly happuiess for Stvtnarola which turned his thoughts to God and made him one of the iTcal leltyioius leadcis of all tmus ii wa.'t tlii' ilnuii ai iii,s fle.Kli wliirh in.ide 5?t Paul jneek 11)01 e avidly for Cutls stis-tainiiig grace.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The urge to merge will get stronger during the rest of the year.

Frequency of mergers began to rise shortly after World War II. While the rate has been generally up. there have been a few dips. Mergers tend to increase when corporations are fearful of the future. They also rise when companies speed plans to beat threatened legislation limiting mergers. .

The rate of mergers began to rise during the 1957-58 recession. but it has continued to rise since then. There has been considerably more activity in the first half of this year and even more activity is almost sure in the present half.

These are reasons for a further increase in mergers!

1. There arc feelings of uneasiness about the latter part of this year and the early part of 1961. Three of five top econ-omtsUs interviewed by the New York Timc.-*i^s;iw titnibh* ahrnd LCoii II Kr-y.s'iliii!, ut Mie Council of rirminituc Ad\uoti during the Truman Administta-lioii, said there lis bi'tii econ

omic stagnation since 1953: Stanley H. Ruttenberg, AFL-CIO research director, said the Administration is letting the economy slide into recession: Louis F. Licht, Calvin Bullock economist, said that the current recovery is 26 months old and only one-third of all recoveries have lasted more than 30 month.s. OTHER VIEWS Dr. Marcus Nadler, consulting economist of the Hanover Bank, and Martin R. Gains-burgh, chief ccononjist of the National Industrial Conference Board, said a continued high level of busincs.s lies ahead. * Even though opinions are divided. their expression Is likely to cause many managements to wonder if it wouldn't be best to merge while their companies' assets are high, z. The need for dtvcisifica-tion i.v growing. Even though the economy is thriving, there are spots of distre.'s, and the persistent lesson is that being In two three or more markets is rood iiLKuifliicc at'aiiuil weak

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PRODUCT MIX TI.4Na\i

In addition, changing condi

tions are changing demand so fast that products wanted today are outmoded tomorrow. Planes have gone from prop to turboprop to jet in a decade and may go to atomic power in the next. Spread of suburban living has altered the clothes buying pattern enormously: play clothes are way up, conservative garb way down. The publics choice in autos is shifting: demand is changing for countless products.

The urge to diversify has led to strange corporate marriages. U.S. Tobacco has acquired the assets of a large canner and packager of nuts. A silverware manufacturer has merged with a company making electronic navigation instruments. A maker of rugs and upholstery has wedded a maker of lingerie.

3. There is fear that tax rates will rise or that tak advantages now available to merging companies may be outlawed. If either party delivers everything its platform promls-\s, higher fax rate.s will he nece*,,!(i.v Ho pay for them, or lljeiv Will be another supercharge ut infiatiuii. And in in-crua'ing re\ciiu(S, Congress

may withdraw the privilege whereby the losses of one merged company can offset the taxable profits of the other.

4. There are several special situations promoting mergers. Many Involving electronics companies are In process. There are two reasons. One is that to keep up with the rapid progress in the field, electronic companies need more and more capital equipment and small ones are unable to raise It. The other Is that some companies are often unable to handle big government contiacts. Mergers tend to solve both these problems.

Railroads, too, constitute a special situation. Commuter traffic is being lost to buses and private cars; overland traffic has been largely lost to the airlines and buses; freight traffic is being lost to truckers and barge operators; wages arc going up, up, ub. The only pros peels are mergers thd't will permit the eliminttion of duplicating lines, faiMlilio.- and ailiniitUlraliiMi and po.ssilily Imn up .iiiiie exre>;s real estate now worth many times the

acquisition price.