Friday, August 12, 1960

Bank Cannot Function On Such Flops

The Bloodmobile has again visited Greenville and the result ... a resounding flop.

People stayed away in droves.

Now one could, with little difficulty, point to contributing causes: the heat, a relatively brief time since the last visit. Dollar Day activities, urgent needs on the farm, continuing vacations, etc.

But excuses are not enough.

What is . . . and was . . . needed, an adequate supply of donors, simply didnt show up. (We have it on good authority that a large number of pledged donors

failed to appear.)

A blood bank cannot function unless there are depositors. When they dont show' up there can be no withdrawals, no matter how urgent the immediate need.

We have a considerable number of people who contribute at least four times each year. That s fine . . . any community would be proud of such selfless concern for the needs of their family and fellow man. But what should be done is the reaching of the many thousands who have never passed through the line.

Oh they wouldnt want mine,, is a frequent explanation. Another, I need my blood worse than they do.

The fact is, most people would be pleasantly surprised at the results of the preliminary examination

Diligent Plowing before Big Crop

By LYNN NISBET

IN THE GRASS To para* phraae one of Sydney Laniers delightful dialect poems about the Baptifitea being mightily Id the* grass, the Democrats of North Carolina are now mightily in the grass- The simile of course is to cultivated fields where grass is the chief asset.

If the Democrats in North Carolina have a good crop of votes in November, theyve got a lot of hoeing and plowing to do- That Wi#' made quite evident at the campaign Uck-off here this week.

Of course there was harmony and unity of spirit among the thousand or so Democrats who attraded the meeting. If they hadnt been singleminded straight ticket partisans they wouldnt have been here- The significant point it that they represented a very small percentage of the aiH>roximate ^.000 Democratic votes necessary to carry the natkmal and state tkdcets to victory next November. The emphasis placed by all the speakers on the necessity for closing ranks, supporting the full ticket from top to bottom, et cetera, was testimony, perhaps inconscious and not intended, to the fact that disaffection and disunity exists.

SCHIZOPHRENIAThe Democratic party in North Carolina has been !<* some years a victim of schisophreniaa highbrow word for split personality. lack of co(H^ation of faculties and interests. Result has been effort to separate state and national loyalties, and to accept a situation in which Demacris ecmld vote the national Republican tidcet without loss of prestige in state Democratic circles.

Contributions to state campaign funds have been accepted with the qualification that no part ot this money shall be used In behalf of the national ticket.

UNIFIED Prior to action of the executive committee in March of 1958. which was after the last presidential election, the Democratic Party Plan of Organization in Nortii Carolina did not recognize the national party organization. Although it had been the custom ior years for North Carolina Democrats to send delegates to the national nominating and platform-wri-ti conventions, tiiere was no provision in party rulea for the pnetct.

Before the 1936 election citizens f N(lh Carolina had no opportunity to vote for candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. The names ef presidential electors were printed' oa the ballots, and technically each d^tor was a free agent to vote for whomsoever he pleased for President. A 1933 act. applicable for the first time In 1936, provided for printing Uie nsmes of presidential candidates on the ballot, with further provisioQ that a vote for these candidates would constitute a vote for the electors

nominated by the same party to which the presidential candidates belonged.

That was one of the first statutory recognitions of a national Democratic or Republican party. The 1958 amendments to the Plan of Organization was the first time the state party formally affiliated itself with the national Democratic party.

There has been through the decades a conscious but unofficial unity. Prom reconstruction days, perhaps earlier, the appeal has been to support the candidates from president to constable. For as long as your reporter can remember there have been persons who made so secret of voting State Democratic and national Republican ballots. This group has been growing for the past 20 years. In 1956 there were about a quarter of a million of them.

LOGIC Admittedly there was logic in the reasoning by which the split vote was justified. If the north Carolina Democratic party as a corporate entity declined to recognize or affiliate with the national organization. it was inconsistent for party leaders to insist upon recognition and support by individual voters.

That situation has been changed. and the split-vote folks no longer have logical Justification. The Plan of Organization as revised in 1958 provided for naming delegates to the national convention, for a meeting of the delegates to nominate members of the natlonaii committee, and otherwise cement the organic relationship of state and national party groups. The long time common law cohabitation has been legalized by formal marriage. Stated another way. the nominees of the national convention at Los Angeles were bom in wedlock with the state convention at Raleigh, and are as legal members of the Democratic family as any candidates nomiated in North Carolina primaries. That was not true in 1956 and prior election years-Result is there is no logical basis for si^t votes and far more justification for appeals to support the whole family ticket from President to constable. The miM-al obUgation resting upon participants In party conventions and primaries to stand together In November is greater than ever.

In emphasizing this appeal the new management of the Democratic party in North Carolina Is taking a calculated risk. There Is recognized danger that the straight-ticket idea might result in some folks who think they cannot stomach the Democratic national candidates, going all the way and voting the state Republican ticket. That possibility is some of the grass that must be contended with as the Democrats cultivate the voters crop for November harvesting.

they get prior to having a vein tapped. If the check-up does disclose a condition that requires medical attention, its to the individuara benefit that it be identified so remedial action can be taken. If the volunteer condition is found satisfactory, that too is good to know; and on passing through the examining procesa it is an eye-opener to leam of how many things can be wrong with you, that are not.

In times past we have heard fears voiced the Regional Blood Center would drop Greenville and Pitt County as contributory sources and as beneficiaries. After Thursdays visit we are probably going to hear the same warning, this time more seriously given.

There are scores of families in Pitt County who. in one year after withdrawal of the blood bank, would personally feel its absence.

Is there anyone who is inclined to gamble it could not, and would not, be their own family?

No Complaints Yet On Unenviable Job

Well concede there have been occassions in the past when Congress correctly saw further ahead than the military leadership in matters of appropriations and defense spending. As against this, the military have also a record of farsightedness that at times out^ shown the legislative attitude.

Be that as it may, there is now being discussed a considerable amount of money that has been appropriated for defense, and unused by the Administration. The total amount shifts from time to time; a month ago it was a billion dollars, now it is a m^e more than half that sum.

Question: Should Congress dictate the specific use of such withheld funds, or should that decision be left to upper echelons of the brass hats?

Of utmost importance is the how of such spending.

Briefly, one of the great juggling acts of all times in military matters is underway: attempting to adopt and functionalize weapons systems of the future, and at the same time maintain in balanced proportions ade quate defensive and striking power in their more familiar terms.

By PATRICIA MOORE

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There arc more women men in the United States.

Au i And there are more women

It tiss bcGil s&ici tnflt inilitsry men went to W8.r voters th&D men in the United

with the equipment and thinking of the preceding con- states, we are told. In fact, flict. Todays Defense Department is trying to change

this. tional Association of Manufactur

ers, says in an introduction by Mary B. Brown that in the last several elections, women cast 50 percent or more of the total vote.

This year, it has been predicted that womens votes will

thingexcept, well give odds of ten to one that if a woman runs, three-fourths of the women would be the loudest in voting against her.

With this in mind, we are not inclined to be overly critical of funds withheld to be subsequently applied where and as needed when breakthroughs occur or as necessity dictates.

On the other hand, if military preparedness were _____ __________ _____ _

allowed to sag simply for the sake of balancing the exceed the mens by about two

budget or on grounds of false economy, the public would really have something to worry about. *

The money in question is being spent ... we can only assume, judiciously so. Our inclination is to believe the Chiefs of Staff are as concerned about national security as anyone else in these United States

and in view of their responsibilities, perhaps more so. -mi. *

^ We dont envy them their burden, nor wish to r

distract their attention on the job before them. As of Vw/LilCTi J-jV.AiLWxO . *

this date there seems no ground for complaint over the work they have been doing.

voting age thia November.

My, that makea the women powerful.

Makes one wonder why the women havent all banded together to elect a woman aome-

And speaking of women, we are reminded of Dollar Day. We arent advertising, since the day is past.

Well bet more men took advantage of Dollar Day than ever before. That old addage of womens being bargain hunters ia pure myth. When most plain old sales dont turn a hair on a mans head, this time they were seen secreting packages into cars and office buildings,

We had reports that (and this is the truth, straight from the horses mouth) one man went into a very crowded department store . and immediately was

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Richard M. Nixons presidential campaign is following a coolly deliberate line he worked out for himself months ago.

It can be summed up like this: He's going to play up Nixon, not the Republican party.

As long ago as last April, acquaintance meaning people he talked to-aid he would try to run as an individual If he got the Republican nixnination.

He got it. So what did he do? A number of newsmen who made the trip to Hawaii with him last week, watching him campaign and talking with him, reported:

The Republicans who trooped along with him wherever he went paraded the Republican banner. Not Nixon.

He himself didnt talk about being a Republican. He will try to sell himself rather than the Republican brand of government or even the Eisenhower brand.

Incidentally, thats just how R-epublican Nels<m A. Rockefeller won the governorship of New York in 1958. He didnt tie himself very tightly to the Eisenhower label.

Last April those who talked with him said Nixon figured he couldnt win on the Republican vote alone because Democrats outnumber Republicans and that this was what he felt waa necessary:

For his margin of victory hed have to dip Into that 20 per cent or so of voters who are called neither Democrats nor Republicans but independents.

The Hawaiian-trip newsmen reported his thinking on this:

1. While the winning votes must come from the independents. only a handful of them are thinking votens who study the man and the Issues and cast their ballots on the basis of In

tellectual convictions.

2. The great majority are people who seldom vote and who have no deep convictions or continuing interest in government.

8. This majority Is cgeneraJly influenced by the candidate who talks last and loudest.

4. 'This is why President Truman beat New Yorks Oov. Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 elections.

All this Is based on the assumption on Nixims part that the majority of voterswho dont vote a straight party ticket, no matter what the issues or the candidatedont weigh the issues but make up their mind on loud talk.

If Nixon is wrong, he may wind up like Dewey.

At least two of the Hawaiian-trip newsmen Indicated Nixons style is to over-simplify the issues because he thinks this race will resolve Into a personality duel.

But at the same time these newsmen repwted Nixon doesnt think he can match Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee In glamour or as a natural smller.

How, then, could he outmatch Kennedy m personality?

One way would be to continue drawing contrasts between his own humble beginnings and the wealthy background of Kennedy, between the poor boy who made good and the young man who struck it rich the day he was born.

It will be interesting to watch how often Nixon tries that technique.

All the high hopes, plans and techniques of both candidates may go up in smoke when they meet face to face in TV debates since the voters millions of themwill be able to judge both men on the spot on both Issues and personality.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Throughout the broad pattern of the cold war can be noted a thread of new toughness on the part of the Western alliance toward the Soviet Union. This new firmness, viewed with apprehension by the perennial fainthearts, appears to be paying off. It is a response to recent hardening of the Kremlins line. And it isnt what the Kremlin expected at all. For the Kremlin bluster was based on Western restraint.

To bring the picture into perspective it is necessary to go back to the beginning. Until

last May there was hope that a

long-range process of East-West negotiation bad begun which would end in a settlement of the cold war. Then

came the U2 incident and Ni

kita Khrushchevs behavior at the Paris summit.

But even then Khrushchev did not at first seem to have abandoned his poUcy of detente. He seemed merely to have delayed its execution. He shelved the Berlin issue, for xaraple. But in mid-June the Soviet premier either changed his mind or lost control of Soviet foreign policy.

In rapid succession came the Communistrinspired riots in Japan which led to loss of face by the U.S.; a Soviet walkout on the 10-nation disarmament talks. In Geneva; the Soviet stuck on the American RB47 reconnaissance - plane over the Barents Sea; the Cuban emer-gence as a Communist satellite; and the Congo crisis.

Khrushchev had the effront

ery to tell the U.S. to keep hands off Cuba; he claimed the right to send the Red army to the Congo. Previously Western poUcy had been to let Khrushchev simmer down after the summit, keeping open all doors and giving him maximum incentive to get back on the detente trail. But he seemed determined to exploit Western restraint.

The turning point came when. President Eisenhower on July 19, after a high-level conference, decided to stand up to Moscow. The next day Henry Cabot Lodge told the UN Security Council the U\S. would do whatever necessary to prevent Soviet entiy into the Congo. It was a clear threat to risk war if Moscow pressed further. The U.S. in short would not be intimidated and proved it in the UN debate on the RB47 case.

It may be too soon to assess the Impact of this new intensification of the East-West hostility. But Western firmness seems to be paying off. The Soviet threat in the Congo evaporated. Russia failed to gain UN condemnation of the RB47 program, which is continuing. Soviet threats have brought support to the U.S. from Tunisia. Ceylon, Ecuador, Argentina and other nations.

Risking war on an atomic scale is not a policy which comes naturally to Western democracies. Now, however, when Khrushchev brandishes his rockets, American rockets are being waved back, and so far observers think the effect has been healthy.

swoUowed up in the mob. The mob scared him so. that he shrinked from his original destinationthe materials counter.

While looking frantically for some escape hatch (cant you see him cornered like a mouse, girls) he spotted some garden tools. Remember that this is taking place In a department store.

He reached for a hoe and a rake ana forcefully told a saleslady TU take these. 'Then, armed with the rake-in front on one side, and the hoc on the other side, he marched forward to the front of the store and out the door.

He. felt quite pround of himself for getttog out that way. And, imagine, he escaped the real brunt of the battle. He never even reached the second floor.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS INSPIRATION AND PERSPIRATION The Greek historian Plutarch once wrote, No man ever wetted clay and then left it. as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. Plutarch had learned what some people never truly leam that if we want something worthwhile out of life, we must work for it.

Preachers and teachers seem to be fond of recommending thought and meditation, and not saying very- much about work. Good thinking is a wonderful thing. It guides all our efforts, and without it we are not likely to get far. But let us not" exalt thought alone to the point that we never reach action.

Hard work is a magic key that unlocks many doors. The lack of it has spoiled many a promising enterprise. More people have ruined tiieir lives through laziness than through ignorance. More undertakings have failed from lack of industry than from lack of intelligence. But material success is not the real measure of what work Is worth. The personal benefits of vigorous and energetic effort in a good cause include self-respect, a deep sense of satisfaction, and a straightened and disciplined character.

An old teacher of mine used to say that genius was ten per cent inspiration and ninety per cent perspiration. We can well believe that he was about right. Inspiration is a divine reality which flashes upon mind and heart and leads us to achievement, buk work is the handling of the Job he has given us to do.

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By GEORGS K- SOKOLfKY MW, King FeWoret Syndleato Inc.

Ctontistency la thought and action is rare and to politicians not too important. For instanc.e Governor Meyner of New Jersey and Governor Rockefeller of New York do not believe in the kind of states rights that Governor Faubus of Arkansas believes in. Governor Faubus holds that with regard to all matters' which are not literally and verabally delegated to the Federal Government by the Constitution, the Federal <3ov-emment should mind Its own business. The Governors of New York and New Jersey would hold that the 14th and 15th Amendments forbid the designation of any American citizen as lesser than any other American citizen, but when it comes to the constitutional provision that the states shaU make no compacts without the consent of Congress, they raise the issue of states rights jsst as the Governor of Arkan-saw raises the same issue with regard to the management of the schools of his state.

This is no new issue In American history and over It the only civil war in our history waa fought. The war did not settle the basic quarrel over federalism because mens noinda were diverted to the question of slavery. What the war did settle was that no state could secede from the Union and that the Congress of the United States could pass social legislation. It^ also settled the matter os states making compacts among themselves. The Confederacy was suCh a compact and when the Confederacy waa defeated, that settled the question of compacts and treaties between states without the consent of Congress.

On the other hand, the daily business of the United States is such that states havd to engage in joint enterprises. The Port of New York Authority is such an enterprise. There are many such enterprises in the United States. In some instances, such as the TV A. the Federal Government organizes its own management body. The forms vary, but in every instance that requires a Joint operation in more than one state, the consent of Congress must be obtained. And the operation Is forever subject to Congressional scrutiny, because what Congress grants, it can revoke.

This issue is so imporUnt that in the Port of New York Authoritys controversy with the House Judiciary Committee, appeal has now tbeen made by both sides to the Governors of all the states and to each member of the House of Represenlatives. Undoubtedly, before it is over the question will go to the courts because at stake are two Congressional rights: the right to amend or revoke a consent to a compact between states and the right of the Congress to investigate the operations of public bodies existing by Congressional consent. The Congress will not^give up either of these rights.

If states may enter into a compact for a good purpose. It is for this reason that the Constitution specifically forbade such compacts without the consent of Congress. At Issue is this: if Congress has once

granted consrat to a compact, is the consent eternal and unalterable or may. Congress from time to time investigate the compact to discover whether it is still in the Interest of the United States and whether it is performing the task for which the compact was permitted by Congress, or is producing an excess of power.

It does not matter that toe cwnpact serves a good cause or that toose who supervise the compact are reputable men. Today men are reputable; tomorrow others take their places who serve their own purposes. It is a fallacy to aase a Judgment on the virtue of men; It Is essential that the law be correct and that toe law be obeyed.

In the present Port of New York Authority controversy, the virtue of the individuals Is not questioned; what is questioned is the right of a, Congressional committee to inquire into the activities of a public body which exists by a compact between two states and a (Continued on page five)

'Gold' Nations Have Restrictions

By ELMER ROESSNER Americans cant redeem their

paper money for gold. They can'

Opinions In Brie:

Thrift Is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest part of his earnings; to spend wisely and well; to save, not hoard. Arthur Chamberlain.

until it

survival.'

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become* a matter of ' Dahlonega <Ga.)

The American school sy.stem Is supposed to encourage Individuality. but we doubt college will tolerate little Idiosyncrasle.s such as .sleeping until lO a.m.. diT.s.sing like a retired hobo and avoiding the indignity of work

A filling station attendant told the owner: Boss, your doctor is here with a fiat tire.* Good, said the owner. Diagnose the trouble as puncture wounds resulting In a prolapsed perimeter. Prescribe plastic surgery followed by complete treatment w'ith inflatu.s wlndus. Then charge him accordingly. Lamar (Mo.) Democrat.

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't hold gold coins except as collectors.

However, In no other country is there a true gold standard in that Its citizens can freely exercise ownership of gold or freely redeem currency for gold, according to Monetary Notes, by Walter E. Spahr. published monthly by the Economists National Committee on .Monetary Policy. Dr. Spahr. probably the outstanding advocate of a return to the American gold atandard. reported on. a survey of International monetary authorities.

In some other countries citizens have a limited right to exchange currency for gold, and to exercise limited powers of ownership, his bulletin pointed out.

In Switzerland, which perhaps cornea closer than any other nation to a gold standard, it is provided In a Federal law of December 23. 1953, that-

The NationaJ Bank Is obligated,

except under Article 22, to convert its notes at par at its own choice into Swiss gold bars at the legal mlnt-parity. Dr. Spahr wrote. Article 2, provides that in time of war or of disrupted monetary conditions, the Federal Council may suspend convertibility. But even more important are the words, at its own choice, which means that the National Bank can choose not to redeem currency any time it wishes.

In other countries, such as Syria, Prance. Greece. Mexico. Chile and Bolivia, governments have sold coins to the public at varying prices, and in Saudi Arabia and some other countries, gold coins still serve as a means of domestic payment.

By Jay Reid, Information Officer of the International Monetary Fund, reported, We are not aware of any country that, at the present time, ia required by law to redeem its own currency with gold or gold coins: nor are we aware of any country that in practice redeems iU own currency with

gold at a fixed price. There may still be statutory requirements for Redemption in some countries, e g. of notes of central banks, but those requirements have been suspended by proclamation or executive order.

NO FULL OWNERSHIP PERMITTED

Dr. Spahr's survey of ownership restrictions brought this conclusion; Apparently in every country in which citizens own gold there are some restrictions.

Gold can be bought and sold freely In West Germany, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland. But West Germany imposes a prohibitive tax on exports; Austria requires government permission for export, and in all four countries export can be prohibited by govemmenial decree. Free gold export is permitted only residents outside

the sterling area by Great Britain.

Americans can buy gold coins or bars abroad, but they cannot keep possession o them IX they

bring them into the country. However, they can own it and keep It on deposit in many countries. Many now have gold bars in vaults in Canadian banka.

NO STICKY TAX ON CROQUET WICKETS There is good news tpday for croquet players. A new Internal Revenue Ruling (60-250) holds that while the manufacturers tax on sporting goods applies to croquet balls and mallets. it does not apply to other items in croquet sets.

PUBLIC PHONES IN HOLLOW POLES A new space-savlnf public telephone device is appeartog la Japan. It consists of a hollow steel pole. 12 feet high and feet in diameter. When a foot pedal at the base la pressed, a window pops open, disclosing a dial phone. Theres not much privacy, but neither Is there in Nippon, where most of them are on small stands in front of stores.