PAGE POURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Tuesday, August 2, 1960

Dont Mind Me, Lyndon

They Can Play Politics, Or Work

When Congress goes back to work next week will the emphasis be on finishing up the work that was left hanging a month ago, or will it be on political maneuvering as a part of the national election campaign?

Top political strategists in both parties agree that ihe campaign already has begun now that the two major parties have chosen their nominees for the November election. Each of the parties and their officials will now be much more easily influenced by political considerations than was the case even a month ago. Democrats and Republican alikein Congress and out will be looking for votes that can be gathered now' for the November election.

Against such a background members of Congress will return to Washington to try to wind up the busb ness they did not complete before the national political conventions. Against such a background each party will try to display itself as the champion of the people in the hope that the image created during this rump session of Congress will attract the voters to their support for the campaign. Against such a background political expediency rather than careful, genuine con-eideratin for the total welfare of the nation might be the determining factor in deciding what action is taken on legislation still under con^deration.

It is important to the citizens of the United States, regardless of political affiliation, that the post-convention session of Congress does not become a battle to

State Will Be A Battlearounc.

By LYNN MSBET

CAMPAIGN - Both Demo-crtts and Republicans are planning intensive campaigns in North Carolina in advance of the November general election. On the big circuit it is expected that the presidential candidates. Kennedy and Nixon, will visit the state although some party leaders think the second place running mates, Johnson and Lodge, might be more effective in this area. Appearances of the big-timers will be arranged jointly by national and state organizations. Candidates for State offices from Governor down will work closely with national groups bdt there will be a lot of separate activity. Every indication is that Robert L. Gavin, Republican candidate for Governor, and the Republican committee under chairmanship of WUliam E. Cobb will wage the most vigorous campaign since 1928.

Democrats led by Terry Sanford, candidate for Governor, and Bert Bennett as state chairman expect to put forth greater effort than at any Ume since 1900 when North Carolina was redeemed from the Pop-uli6t-Repu|i)lican eolation. During the past 60 years the state ticket has not been seriously threatened, and allegiance to the national party nominees suffered only one deviation in 1928,

The campaign will be kicked-off on August 9 when the Democratic Executive Committee meets to formalize selection of Bennett as chairman and name other members of the official organization. Information is the vice chairman will be Mrs. Gla-d.vs TiHett of Charlotte or Mrs. Faye Webb Gardner of Shelby

although Governor-nominate Sanford may pull another surprise by suggesting someone else, possibly from the far west.

STRATEGY - The formal meeting of the committee next Tuesday will be followed by an informal luncheon get-together of party leaders to develop ftratcgy. It is already apparent that the 1960 campaign will have several new facets. 'It may have two distinct but closely correlated phases.

Terry Sanford, who has proven himself a master in the fields of organization and personal politics has indicated he may make full use of both. Organization will be left to the regularly elected party officers

statewide, district, county and piecinct. Sanford may keep himself free to follow through on personal contacts and appearances. co-ordinated with, but not always controlled by, the organization.

The plan of congressional district rallies which has been in vogue for 30 years will be modified- It will be replaced by a criis of area or regional rallies without strict adherence to

congressional district lines, and with emphasis on all-out support of all party nominees.

A preview of the new idea was afforded Friday night when Sanford was host at an informal dinner party at Fayetteville attended by representatives from the third, fourth, seventh and eighth congressional districts-There are many points where voters from three or four districts can get together with less than half the travel distance required for attending their own district rallies.

This approach makes sense for the further reason that numerous judicial. soUcitorlal and state senatorial districts cross congressional district lines. In most instances voters have more common interest with close neighbors in these local units than in the far-flung gerrymandered congressional districts.

OVERALL Your reporter has been privileged during the past three weeks to travel more than 2.200 miles of state highways. traversing 60-odd counties and visiting 10-odd State institutions with the advisory Budget Commission. Because of the tight schedule and emphasis on capital improvements of facilities, opportunity for political discussion was very limited. From bits of information picked up in quickie interviews and casual conversation some conclusions were reached.

The Democratic national ticket, headed by Kennedy and Johnson, has slightly better than even chance to win. The religious issue will' cut two ways and may not be influential in determining results, in view of other economic and political factors.

The State Democratic ticket, > headed by Sanford and Philpott. is not seriously threatened although percentage majority may be smaller than in recent years.

The November vote will be bigger than any in history, perhaps exceeding a million and a half total.

Despite current ballyhoo in promotion of a write-in movement for unlisted candidates, the number of votes to be cast for other than regular Democratic and Republican nominee will be negligible. Any person who permits his name to Be used on a write-in ticket, without more vigorous protest than simple denial of active participation, will be committing political suicide.

Thats how it looks from here as of now. The November election Is just 14 weeks away. A lot can happen in that time. Very few of the people with whom your reporter has talked think enough can happen to divert a majority of North Carolinians from voting the authorized party ballots.

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see whether the Democrats or Republicans can give away more of Uncle Sams money. It is important to the citizenry as a whole that in the extremely electionconscious session, Congress is not unduely influenced by highly vocal pressure groups that throw their weight behind special interest legislation that is still pendifig.

How much genuine accomplishment for the good of the country as a w'hole comes from this post-convention session of Congress remains to be seen.

It is a session which members of Congress should approach with caution, and a session which the citizens of the nation should watch closely.

Promising Outlook In Arrival Of Fieldcrest

The purchase of Greenville Mills, Inc. by Field-crest Mills, Inc., one of the best-known textile firms in the nation, places in Greenville a new corporate citizen whose record of growth and progress points clearly to future assets for this community.

Fieldcrest President Harold VV. Whitcomb, who announced the purchase of the Greenville plant here yesterday, said his company hopes by early 1961 to be operating the plant on a three-shift basis at which time it would employ approximately 350 people. That would be a considerable increase over the number of people now employed by the plant which is operating only one shift.

The fact that the Greenville plant becomes the first plant in which Fieldcrest will manufacture its own carpet yarn likewise points to. the possibility of expansion of the local operation at a later date.

Fieldcrest has enjoyed a steady record of growth in the textile industry and there is every indication that its growth will continue. It follows, therefore, that barring unforeseen circumstances, the Greenville plant which it has purchased should likewise have the prospect of good growth possibilities.

It is, in our opinion, an important new feather in Greenvilles economic cap that Fieldcrest has purchased the local plant. With its position m the textile industry, its progressive management and its financial resources, Fieldcrest represents the kind of firm most communities dream of having as a part of their economic structure.

The Reflector joins with many other citizens in welcoming Fieldcrest as a new corporate citizen of Greenville. We are confident the Fieldcrest operations here will prove an important asset to Greenville, and we are likewise confident that Greenville will prove itself a good home for the new Fieldcrest plant.

?uzzy Areas In The Camaaian

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By PATRICIA MOORE

A Prize, And Pasternak

Ppr those who are interested in Doctor Zhivago, author Boris Pasternake and his su-pressed literary career in Soviet Russia, before his death, there was an interesting article which recently appeared.

The article, released by the Associated Press, was written by Gustav Svensson, who was formerly assigned to the Moscow staff of the AP and speaks Russian fluently. Though Pasternak spoke freely with the press, it was suggested that parts of this 1958 interview be withheld for Pasternaks personal safety during his lifetime.

Svensson said in his story that' Pasternak once told him that he believed the Nobel Prize had saved his life. He saidcontrary to some popular beliefthat he. Pasternak, had never renounced the Nobel award.

The new'sman continued, Two days before King Gustaf VI of

Sweden was to present the Nobel awards to the winners in Stockholm, Pasternak asked me, as a Swede, to tell the Swedish, Academy that he still claimed the prize although he was unable to go to Sweden to receive it in person. Consequently, the Nobel Committee inscribed Pasternak as the 19.58 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, but the award money in the amount of $41,420 was returned to the fund because he (Pasternak) had declined it.

The Russian author was the first of his country to be awarded the coveted honor.

Svensson said the Communist party newspaper Pravda had published a letter in Pasternaks name declining the award. Pasternak once told Svensson I had to write that book and I had to publish it where it could be published. I put all 1 had of

strength and ability as a writer into the book and there is nothing I would change.

rhe Nobel Prize was of tremendous help. To me It meant the support of the world. This saved me from the worst. They could not get rid of me.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - This Presidential campaign will leave many voters so fuzzy on major issues their choice will turn on personality, history, and, to some extent, on prejudice.

This is the fuzzy area:

1. Democrats and Republicans agree on the need to step up the economy. Deinocrats say the national product must, increase by at least 3 per cent.' Republicans dont set a figure.

How is a voter going to visualize something so vast and vague as the national p- *ict, especially in percentag

2. In foreign u .rs both parties agree communism must be considered. But how is it to be done in a way recognizably different from whats been done in the past? Both sides will have a time trying to make this clear.

3. The parties disagree on whether our defense is good enough. The Democrats say it isnt. Both promise to Increase It. In this field, full of secret Information even politicians cant discuss, how can a voter know whos right?

Like it or not, there will be some religious prejudice for and against the Roman Catholicism of Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic presidential candidate. The best the unblgoted can hope for is that it wont be a decisive factor.

Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Kennedys opposite number on the Republican ticket, says he hopes religion wont be a factor at all.

Then theres the racial problem.

Northern Negroes are not happy to see Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas running for vice president on the Democratic ticket, even though he was the one who steered this centurys only two civil rights laws through congress.

While the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People considers the civil rights records of Kennedy and Nixon ex-cclicnl, it says Johnsons per

formance in this field over the years is unacceptable.

Yet many white Southern Democrats, angircd by the strong civil rights plank in the Democratic platform, will probably persuade themselves to go along with their party just because Johnsoh is on the ticket.

They dont have much choice. The Republicans civil rights promises are pretty nearly as strong as the Democrats.

But this year voters should have a chance unlike any in this countrys presidential election history to make up their minds about the candidates through a close-up look.

Kennedy and Nixon are supposed to have several face-to-face debates on the Issues on TV, This is where voters who are vague on the issues and not prejudiced will have their grand chance to choose on the basis of personality.

This kind of nationwide exposure could ruin cither of the candidates. It doesnt take a long memory to recall the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy soured a lot of people by his performance on TV in the Army hearings of 1954.

Those voters left fuzzy on the issues but who remain unswayed by personality or prejudice probably will have to fall back on their general attitude toward the two parties. This means a belief, often not clear, that the history of this or that party Indicates it is the one to be preferred.

This kind of attitude was knocked crazy in the 1956 elections. when the vqters thought Dwight D. Eisenhower was what the country needed In the White House. While thus electing a Republican president, they made a clear distinction between parties by giving the Democrats control of Congress.

But that was an extraordinary situation, due to the Immensity of Eisenhowers personal popularity. Neither Kennedy nor Nixon has anything like Elsenhowers stature in the pubhc mind.

Other Editors Saying... Area Air Service Case

(Wilson Ttmea)

The Wilson-Oreenville petition before the CAB has had much publicity recently because of Piedmonts petition for temporary service to Goldsboro. And the reports that Wilson and Greenville filed a joint petition opposing an application by Piedmont Air Lines to serve Goldsboro and Seymour Johnson Air Base are not borne out by the facts in the petition.

The petition points out that WUson-Greenville of course would not want to stand in the way of an emergency or unusual military need. The main point in the petition is that all considerations should be given to providing air service. And that the Wilson-Greenville petition is not to be jeopardized because of Piedmonts request to give temporary service to Goldsboro. It should be remembered that the Wllson-GreenvUle petition has been pending for longer than two years now.

To understand and present a fair and unbiased picture the entire petition should be studied. And that is really what the Wil-son-Greenville petition is asking, a study of the entire case.

The petition states this, The cooperative efforts on the part of the cities of Wilson and Greenville to secure airline service is one of the few such Instances to come before the board. Both communities have pltedged themselves to abide by the decision of the carrier selected to provide the service as to the airport to be used until a centrally located airport can be constructed.

Not To Prejudice Case

The main point in the petition

filed by Wilson and Greenville is that the present request for a temporary permit to serve Goldsboro by Piedmont should not prejudice the cause of the long standing Wilson-Greenville application. And good and sufficient reasons based on logic equally as sound for military consideration Is set forth in the brief.

It should be remembered that the U. S.' Information agency has selected the Pitt county area for the new Voice of America facility. Then Wilson has been designated as the location site of State government in the event of a civil defense emergency.

As the brief points out Wil-fion-Greenville have taken the position in the hearing and on brief to the examiner in the Piedmont investigation that they do not oppose service to Goldsboro by Piedmont unless it becomes necessary for the board to choose as between Goldsboro and Wilson-Greenville. Thla is on permanent service.

And permanent service is what should he granted. Senator Jordan brought this out when he asked in a news dispatch dated July 21 that the Civil Aeronautics board speed up its decision on the Piedmont Local Service case.

This is the crux of the matter, the decision as to air service. When the CAB decides Wilson and Greenville will work to put over the area service, regardless of where it is located.

And the Associated Press story today shows that a decision is in the making on permanent air service.

Now, since we are delving into the creative and artistic subjects, we might mention the exhibition currently showing at the N.C. Museum of Art in Raleigh, on Modem French Artfrom Monet to Picasso,

Since the Greenville Art Center has closed for the month of August, those addicted to art might find this exhibiUon of great Interest. Some of the artists included are Matisse, Renoic, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and Gauguin, as well as Picasso and Monet.

The exhibition is the renowned Maurice Werthelm Collection. It will remain through September 4a comprehensive loan exhibition composed largely of the work of impressionist and post-impressionist masters.

And if we've been too dry this time, this seems like a good opportunity for a cool dip in the nearest swimming pool.

Ooinions

!'n Brief

Its strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dls-hcmest.Greenville Piedmont.

Add up all the delegates claimed by the candidates and you get a total vote reminiscent of the time back home on election night when all the cemeteries came alive.Miami Herald.

The aw'kward age for parents is when the kids are old enough to appreciate everyones ignorance bdt their own.* Wall Street Journal.

An old-timer is one who had tired blood back before TV made it popular. Donalson (Ga.) News,

Kentucky is going to keep fooling around building these super highways until we lose our reputation for having the fastest horses, prettiest women and worst roads in the country.Lexington (Ky.) Leader.

People with drinking problems can be helped only if they want to help themselves. The same Is true in other fields, Lubbock (Tex.) West Texas Citizen,

Tueaday, Auguat 2, I960

Barry

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1960, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

What happened to Senator Barry Goldwater at the Republican Convention wUl have a profound effect upon the Republican Party and upon certain segmenta of the Democratic Party who are very unhappy. Goldwater asserted the principles of conservatism. He waa uscom-promiaing. He constantly used the term, We conservatives He dared to be himself without demagoguery, without scU-seek-ing, without demanding.

Nevertheless, it was clear that he had aroused Uie entire Convention to belief and to respect. Barry Goldwater emerged from the Republican Convention as, next to Richard Nixon, the principal leader of the party. His influence in Congress will be enormous. He has given the conservatives of both parties a new hope that one day soon they may find a spiritual and political home.

Goldwater might have stood before the Convention, as Lyndon Johnson and Adlai Stevenson did before their Convention, to be counted, to see what his strength was. He chose not to do that because what do numbers count when one seeks hearts and minds? His speech asking his followers to give their votes to Richard Nixon was one of the highlights of the Convention. It was a lecture more than a political speech. It was a lecture on the give and take of democratic organization; it was a lecture on the responsibilities of citizenship. So powerful were his words that the delegates sat spellbound and even such a cynic as Edward R. Murrow was moved to mark the phenomenon of a sincere man among politicians.

Who is this Barry Goldwater? He Is a U.S. Senator from the small state of Arizona. He is a department store owner, as was his father and grandfather before him. He was a Jet flyer and is a brigadier general in the Air F^rce Hfeerve. He is, lii effect, the ^small city, small businessman American who loves his country as he knows it and would like to keep it that way. He Is progressive, as every merchant must be to stay in business, but he does not sacrifice quality for the ephemera of fashion. He is unafraid because he left his fears behind him in the dead of night as he flew in experimental jets. His ancestors were unafraid as they crossed the desert to peddle their wares in new territory.

The curiosity of the rich sons and grandsons of the East, particularly of New York and Washington. is that although they cling to their inherited wealth, they suffer a feeling of sin for possessing It. I once knew James Eads Howe, the king of the hobos, who inherited a million dollars but refused to accept the inheritance because Jesus never possessed a million dollars. Some people called Howe a nut, but he was an utterly sincere man who lived as he believed the truth required him to live. What he had not earned, he did not take.

The Park Avenue Liberals, scions of wealthy parents and grandparents, regard the methods of those who accumulated their fortunes as very evil, indeed. But they like to keep ths fortunes. Nevertheless, they would so change this country that those who are laboring today can under no circumstances accumulate wealth as their ancestors did. For them, the times have changed, but their assets are still enormous and remain their own. It is a curious phenomenon which some psychologist or sociologist may study but when one has to deal with it politically, it becomes very difficult.

Barry Goldwater is not ashamed of his ancestors and what they did to help build America. To him, they were good, hardworking men and women, who kept store and did not cheat. They accumulated some wealth and were respect in their small community. They lived quietly and did not squander their means. He honors them and Is not cynical about the country where such opportunities existed and should always exist. He prefers to free this country from economic and social fallacies so that men and women may always take advantage of such opportunities without fear of government intervention in the private lives of decent people.

It is this, in American life, that Barry Goldwater wishes to preserve unspoiled by Park (Continued on page 5)*

"mDact Of Drift To Suburbia

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS TRIUMPH

Death is regarded by many people a.s a calamity.

Very often it is. To have lived through a number of decades and to have come to the end without having developed any strength of character or any religious fidelity IS a calamity indeed Some people leave this earthly scene conscious that they have added not to the sum total of the worlds happiness but to the .sum total of its mlsriy. For .such, death Is indeed a calamity.

But death is a trmmph for many people. Maude Ealltngion Booth diea some years ago. and the message of faith ahich she loft and which wa> read at her iiini ial .c vico con'tituic.s a triumph that even thoie of mu.t

distinguished station might covet. From her earliest youth Mrs. Booth had been a religious and social welfare worker. She died at the age of 82. having poured out the whole of her adult life for the good of other people, and particularly for those who had sunk so low on the social scale that an unfeeling world paid little attfntion to them. During the last few years of my earthy life, she wrote, death lost for me all its sadness and dread and shadow, I look forward to it, 35 a .shining porlnl into the new w'oriU of eternity. Then she added this word for her only eon: Let your tears shine with the rainlK>w hrighiness of Joy what 1 would have you share with me. Keep the faith.

Here indeed is triumph.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Piecemeal Census figures are proving what everybody knew: that there has been a'great drift to the suburbs. And they are also proving that this drift is far greater than most people realized ,

As figures are released for one metropolitan area after another, the pattern becomes stronger: urban areas are holding even or declining in population: suburban developments are bursting with people. A modest corollary: the farm population is dechning.

Sure, this means a bigger market for charcoal broilers and .swimming pools. Sure, this meaiLs millloiLs more lawns needing crab-fra,s3 killer.s.

But the significance Is much wider, much broader. Its tidal.

Whoever you are, whatever you sell, you cannot ignore the potenluils of thus changf. Oh, you can ignore Ihciii if you wi&h,

but then .you are likely to wind up as a Dun & Bradstreet statistic.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This suburbanward drift has already had great impact on business. Shopping centers have multiplied: department store

branches have proliferated almost as much as the crabgrass itself. c.

Many of the trends of tlie 1960s have already begun; most of them art reeogmzabl. But it ii important to realize that they Will continue and that their effects wUl be greater in the months and years ahead.

Here are .some of the trends which are alre.idy apparent, but which will become stronger in the period ahead:

Mare eportf elothei; Ten years ago, everybody had a scattering ol outdoor wear for their occasional country appearance.^. Ten years from now everybody

may have a aacattering of clothes (like ancient "Sunday suits) they save for special occasions.

Changes In fooda: A decade ago, suburban stores carried only the meat-and-potato essentials. If you wanted caviar or bamboo shoots, you had to come to town. Today, many metropolitan stores carry only meat-and-potato items. If you want hearts of palm, you must head to peripheral shopping centers,

MORE PARTY FOODS

Entertaining is gradually dl-vldiAf lato two parts. There is corporate entertaining in the cities, usually victualed by caterers. hotels and restaurants; there Is family entertaining in the suburbs with everything ranging from grilled hot dogs to smorgasbord.

Gardening and landscaping, once an industry manned by a few dedicated fools, has now become big business and wluie U.

S Lawns will never rival .8. Steel, its prospects may be greener. (Joke.)

There will be more of many other things: outdoor toys; more editions of Roberts Rules of Order for Clubwomen: more teachers; more door-to-door salesmen; more home-owner swindles; moi-e outdoor cosmetics; more fuel sales (single suburban houses requiie more than urban apartments); more sales of electricity; more television programs aimed at typical suburban familiet; more proeelytint drivee (the ev-angeUtfkl religions love young converts); more laundry eer vices; more call* foe young, low-fee doctors; more schools, more taxes.

There will be lots more mores. Thtrt will be a lot of lessee, too. Take a pencil and paper and figure them out. Hope that .your own bu.siiic&s docs not show up on your list.