PAGE FOURtfiC DAnLT REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Friday, September 9, 1960

Friday, September 9, 1960

Take Me To Your Leader

More Of A Two-Party Battle Seen

While most political observers throughout North Carolina see little rfeal threat that the Republicans will gain control of the state government in November there have been growing signs that Tar Heelia will face more of a two-party battle this year than has been the case in many years.

Taking advantage of the bitter gubernatorial campaign in the Democratic primary, 'GOP gubernatorial candidate Robert Gavin is seeking to capitalize on a conservative position to contrast himself with Democratic nominee Terry Sanford and woo away from Sanford normal Democratic votes. Because of the bitter second primary battle between Sanford and Dr. I. Beverly Lake in the Democratic run-off there is at least a small hard-core of normally Democratic voters who probably will refuse to vote for Sanford under any circumstances. Whether they will vote for Gavin or go fishing remains to be seen.

There is also the fact that Gavin is making a more vigorous bid for election as governor of North Carolina than any of his predecessors in many years. Coupled with the positive program of the Republican national organization to break the solid South from the Democratic ranks this year, North Carolina finds a genuine fall campaign shaping up within its borders.

In considering the factors influencing this political year in North Carolina, one cannot overlook the Democratic platform, parts of which obviously are not to the liking of a good many Democrats in North Carolina and other Southern states. Certainly the Republican platform is no more to their liking; but then as Democrats they didnt expect the GOP platform to give much consideration to Southern views. Whatever arguments are set forth, there is no getting around the

fact that Sen. John Kennedys being a Catholic will influence some voters in North Carolina just as it will in other states.

One general election campaign will not establish the two-party sjfetem in North Carolina on a permanent basis. Between now and November, however, Tar Heels will see more of a two-party fight for votes than they have in this state in many years. If the state is to remain in the Democratic column, a great many rank and file members of the party who have taken for granted the Democratic majority in the state in past years, will have to get out and do some work in behalf of the Democratic nominees.

Following Donna Has Become N. C. Pasttime

Holidays Over jaht Weekends

By LYNN MSBET

HOLIDAYS North Carolina has had four long weekends this year by reason of Memorial Day (May 30) and Independence Day (July 4) falling on Monday. Labor Day is always the first Monday in September. North Carolina observes Easter Monday as a holidayonly state to do so.

The three long weekends occasioned by the nationally observed holidays has revived interest in the plan to set all holidays on Friday or Monday, except perhaps New Years Day and Christmas. There is merit in the idea. It also has many serious faults. Sanctity of the presently observed dates is no sound reason for continuing them.

Unless the calendar is completely overhauledand there is sentiment for thatnot much can be done about again changing New Years Day. The other holiday dates have been arbitrarily set in hirly recent times, except Christmas which has been observed on December 25 for some 15(X) years. In the early part of the Christian era the birth of Jestt was celebrated at various dates between November and May.

George Washington was not born on February 22, but on February U.

Memorial Day was standardized on May 30 because at about that date more flowers are in bloom throughout the whole country than at any other. Confederate States established various memorial days, all in late spring or early summer. Mississippi fixed April 26, Jefferson Davis birthday; North and South Carolina set May 10 and Virginia June 9.

The Declaration of Independence was ratified by Congress on July 2, signed by John Hancock on July 4and by other signatories a during the next two or three years. *

MOVABLE Thanksgiving is the only general holiday, except Labor Day, set for a day of the week instead of a calendar date. For many years Thanksgiving was observed by custom on the last Thursday In November. President Franklin Roosevelt decreed observance on the tl^ Thursday, and Congress later fixed it on the fourth Thursday. There had been formally decreed observance of Thanksgiving at dates aU the way from April to December long before the Pilgrims observed the occasion, misnamed the first Thanksgiving, in July of 1620. It could be observed with equal propriety on Monday or Friday any time after

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Following Hurricane Donnas course has become a sort of Tar Heel pasttime.

Ever since first announcement of the mighty storm, people, with memories of past hurricanes that swept across North Carolina, have been awaiting latest dispatches on Donnas course.

The current lady is the first of the season to really swing into position that raised apprehensions. Shes a killer, with over one hundred known dead in her wake and possibly twice as many people missing.

Meanwhile, we who are yet safe, are now reading some colorful nameplaces in Donnas path. Such as Crooked Island, Ragged Island, Mayaguana Island as well as the Florida Keys.

While millions of North Carolinians are watching, there are as many Floridians who are awaiting word of the big blow.

A hurricane is a dreadful thing, whether it strikes in Florida or in North Carolina.

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major crops are hsu-vestedin October or November. The same reasoning applies to other holidays.

MERIT The long weekend provided by tagging an extra day to the commonly accepted non-working days of Saturday and Sunday would afford what has been termed a vest pocket vacation for workers. It would make possible longer trips, and would not interrupt working time during the rest of the week.

CONGESTIONThe chief disadvantage is that the three-day weekend occasions congestion on highways and accommodation points which does much negate the value of the extra time. It tends to put an unconscionable burden on caterers to travel trade, resulting in less efficient service and dissatisfaction on part of the customers. It must be remembered that a lot of people have to work in order to make it possible for others to play.

Pact is. traffic engineers have long been trying to stagger use of facilities, rather than concentrate them on one or two days or hours.

A few years ago the Federal government office.s in Washington staggered working hours to eliminate the (jongestion the streets. Some began the workday at 8, some at 8:30 and some at 9 oclock. That distributed the traffic load both in morning and evening.

NON-STOP Whether it Ls a one day holiday, a two - day weekend or longer, there are many segments of economic activity which cannot take holiday at all. Communication facilities must be maintained without recess. That means newspapers, telephone, radio; air, bus and rail accomodations; cafes, hotels, motels, gasoline stations and related services; electric and gas companieswithout which none of the other facilities could operate. These service businesses should not be expected to maintain full staffs all the time for Just part time demand.

Basis of the argument in favor of the three-day holiday period is that the workers are entitled to that extra time for recreation. What happens when a car breaks down and the garage repairman is also taking holiday? Or the gas tank runs dry and the filling station is closed on account of the holiday?

Rather than establishing more 3-day weekend holiday periods, it might make sense to distribute the holidays throughout the week.

mis lime, Political Shout

By DON SCHLIENZ

She' Kindergarten Worlc.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Shades but only minor shadesof 1952!

Just about this time eight years ago in the 1952 presidential campaign Republicans had hit on a theme to get them votes and beat the Democrats: It was

Reds in government under the Dfemocratic administration.

Now under the Republican Eisenhower administration two employes of the highly secret National Security AgencyWilliam H. Martin and Bernon F. Mitchellhave defected to Russia and bobbed up in Moscow.

And in the midst of the 1960 presidential campaign the Demo-cratic-nin House Committee on Un-American Activities will begin this month an investigation to find out how the two men got into government under a Republican administration.

The whole problem of rooting

paign began, had been found guilty of perjury.

Even presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower looked upon the Reds in government theme as a legitimate issue, for he said he felt free anytime to denounce the infiltration of subversives into government agencies.

But there Is a difference now.

There has been no steady buildup that could make the country feel very uneasy and suspicious about any widespread infiltration. There hasnt been any talk. There hasnt been any McCarthy laying the foundations.

President Eisenhower, at his news conference on Wednesday, didnt blink at the idea that Communists may be sneaking into the government.

I recognize, he said, that even in government, although

Having missed the experience of kindergarten, its catching up with me these days. . . vicariously, that is. Our five-year-old is embarking on the uncertain seas of education and the experience enriches his parents probably as much as the boy himself.

For instance, before the magid first day in school he was customarily up and disturbing- the household by 6:(X) a.m. Such unreasoning behaviour strains the charity of doting parents; but

now that is all changed.

With the advent of kindergarten it is not he who arises first, it is not he who awakens others, it is he who has to be awakened. All that brain-straln must be tiring.

A neighbor experienced in the ways of young people told us it would be like that; and I scoffed, No more.

After that first day in his new world what did his curious parents hear by way of describing what went on?

Other E(ditors Saying 3ig Ecducation Challenge

I had to do five pages of arithmetic, two pages of spelling and a lot of reading. Whew, but Im tired!

This they do in kindergarten? Well, it turned out to be something hed heard a veteran of the school^k set say, and it sounded iinpressive at the time, so he passed it along.

Later we heard one of his classmates told a parent I sure like our teacher, shes easy on us. , .no homework.

Those eight, nine and ten-year-olds really spread the word on whats to be expected in school.

So were caught up in the giddy world of kindergarten; and this is only the beginning.

subversives out of government - government employment is a pri-

has quieted down in recent years. And, just because it has, this recent, sudden, Mitchell-Martin flareup is unlikely to be anywhere near the size of the issue of 1952.

For two years before the 1952 campaign Sen. Joseph McCarthy had troubled and aroused the nation with his one-man hunt for Communists in government and his sly insinuations against some of the most highly placed

people.

For instance: His references to Secretary of State Dean Acheson as the Red Dean.

In addition to McCarthys efforts, the nation had been shocked by the Hiss case, developed principally by the work of Richard M. Nixon, then a California congressman on the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Alger Hiss, once highly placed in the State Department and one of those who accompanied President Roosevelt to Yalta, had been linked with a Soviet spy ring and, before the 1952 cam-

vilegc and not a right, that the rights of the individual must be respected but'thethis incident, I believe, should be a lesson to all of us that we must never cease our vigilance in the large and small places at any time.

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Any time you think this isnt a tolerant country. Just remember that the men who invented the juke box, installment payments and rocknroll died natural deaths. Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont,

A virus is something originated by a doctor who couldnt spell pneumonia. Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont,

The Public Forum

I regard the right to work as I do the right to life,-liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is the right, the responsibility, and the duty of States to protect this fundamental freedom. sen. Harry F. Byrd <D-Va.)

To the Editor:

A Go Kart track within car shadows of the hospital? Thats all we need. The phenobarbital supply is running low already.

Maybe it would be best to put the kiddie carts to bed with the kiddies. It isnt the constant sputtering roar thats so bad, but that overwhelming silence when they cut out at midnight.

Yours Truly,

Earl Trevathan, Jr., M.D.

According to the Census Bureau, taxes paid to federal, state and local governments reached a record $100 billion last year. The figure for 1958 was $98 billion. Industrial News Review,

The test of democracy today is whether free citizens will voluntarily make the necessary sacrifices to strengthen their nation that totalitarian subjects are ordered to make. Adm. H. G. Rickover, USN.

(Washington Daily News)

It costs a lot of money today to send a boy or a girl to college. Just ask a parent who has a youngster in college, and he or she wrill tell you that the financial burden is heavy.

It is so heavy that thousands upon thousands of well qualified boys and girls today are being denied the opportunity.

It is true that there are many scholarships available for boys and girls. But few of these scholarships are based on actual need. Mostly t^y are for proficiency in schoarship in high school, and the rich man's son as well as the poor mans son has the opportunity to receive one of them.

Here in the Pamlico area where our economical scale is not as high as it is in many places, there must be hundreds of boys and girls who would like to go to college and better prepare themselves for future life, but who find it imposible because their parents are just not able to bear the financial costs.

There was a time when a boy or a girl wanted a college education so much that the idea of working ones way through held great promise and even glamor. Many of us who desired a college education followed that line.

Today it might be true that boys and girls are not anxious enough for college educations if washing dishes is part of the deal. But after a, there are Just so many dishes to wash, and we do find students engaging in such work today in college. So the idea has not fallen complete victim to progress as some would have us believe.

But beyond that, there are smart boys amd girls who cannot attend college even with part time work. There is bound to be a certain amount of m<mey available for any boy or girl to matriculate in college today. One simply finds it almost impossible to earn enough money and attend school at the same time.

What are we going to do about the problem of educating boys and girls whose parents are not financially able to help them? Are we to continue to tell them we are sorry, but there is nothing we can do, Surely there must be a better answer than that. Surely there must be a better way to meet an educational challenge than that.

It has long been our contention that the average boy or girl coming from a relatively poor family will study harder, make better grades, and take his future more seriously than will the boy or the girl who has every cent needed provided by the parents.

The child living in a home where money is scarce is no less precious to the mother and father than the child living in luxury. Parents are willing to makes sacrifices so that their children can be better educated. But there is a limit to sacrifices.

Somehow todays educators and todays government leaders need to pay a little more attention to a rich potential field of leadership. Our future depends upon our ability to meet our problems and find happy solutions. And we need to be as well prepared as we know how to be.

We have an educational challenge that we feel we are not meeting adequately.

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

So-Nikita Khrushchev is coming here again to make 1 speech before toe General As sembly of toe United Nations With him may come all tlx heads of satellite countries, ir eluding bewhiskered Pidel Ca* tro. They will all make speeo-es. They will be in attendanxr during an American Pre-^ dential campaign. It will be ( Communist circus held du. ing toe most crucial period a

the I960 Presidential campal^

The summer months have included an extra attraction in the form of a couple of ice cream and milk-shake purveying trucks that cruise the streets.

Infrequently the writer has had occasion to drive past the college in late evening hours and note one of these trucks catering to lines of students distracted from studies or other passing fancy.

Those glimpses indicated no small taste for ice cream among the student body. The contrast between that scene and memories of my college days is considerable.

The Inn was (in ye olden days) situate just across the street from toe campus; I resided then in a hall for students virtually next door to this home base for sizzling steaks, blueplate specials, magazine racks, soda fountain and juke box. This natural HQ for Joe College also dispensed beer; a commodity noted for slaking thirst and inspiring conviviality among congenial folk.

Even the most scholarly will dawdle and lose precious time watching the frothy foam and contemplate the rising bubbles in his golden brew. Too, there is an accompanying inclination to talk "of shoes and ships and sealing wax, etc..

Ice cream is different. It is much more efficient; and also healthful.

One eats ice cream before it melts, requiring moderate haste. The eater cannot become too deeply engrossed In problems of the world, for ice cream requires attention during its brief existence in cup, plate or cone. Once consumed, the consumer is immediately free to return to his pursuit of knowledge.

I suspect the world will be better for ice cream.

It Is surely planned to be a version.

Protocol does not require any American except our Ambassador to the United Nations to recognize their presence. The President is 'not required to recognize the presence in tha United States of Khrushchev or his dependents. Neither do Messrs. Nixon and Kennedy need to pay any attention to Khrushchev. Khrushchev and his aides are going to the United Nations which should have a hotel on its grounds whera they might stay. Certainly after the outrageously inhospitable treatment meted out to our President at Paris and his rejection as an invited guest to Russia, no hotel is required to show the slightest hospitality to this boorish ex-peasant; no restaurant need receive him; no police need escort him.

There Is no way to keep him out of the United Nations. Thia country agreed to let that body have a spot on toe East River and the Rockefellers paid for the land. So we are stuck with it. But that does not mean that we need to disturb ourselves over who comes to or goes from the United Nations. They can come on their own steam and leave on their own steam. There is no reason why any agency of the United States should take cognizance of their arrival or their departure.

Any person who acted as rudely to the President of toe United States as Nikita Khrushchev did has no place on American soil. The plot of land which the United Nations inhabits is not American soil as long as the United Nations is there. That much we have to admit, and according to the treaty, anyone who has business with the United Nations is free to come and go. But that does not mean that such a person is entitled to a police escort or that the streets of New Y(H-k have to have trafftc diverted or that the citizens be interfered with in any way.

Our President had been invited to visit Russia as a guest of the Russian people and government. This inrttation was withdrawn with outrageous boorishness and even brutality. Common decency should impel Americans to treat Khrushchev on this visit with a minimum of respect, with the barest requirement of mannerliness. For him, there ought to be no receptions, no parties, no acknowledgement of his presence.

This is not retaliation. It is respect for the office of the President of the United States and for whoever occupies that office. Khrushchev had his fun at Paris and now he wants us to say that boys will be boys and to forget all about it. But that cannot be possible in a decent society. The unmannerliness of Khrushchev, his vulgarity, his use of untranslatable words and phrases in his references to our country and our President are intolerable. Vlshinsky, at any rate, insulted us in the language of a gentlemen, but Khrushchev Is no gentleman. And there can be no reason, diplomatic or political, why we need to show tolerance for such a brutish creature.

There will, of course, be those who will say that they must entertain Khrushchev to get a contract for this or that or perhaps to be able to sell motion pictures or to make a deal of some kind. For such, we need not concern ourselves. Their souls function by I.B-M. machines and their minds have been corrupted by reading too many balance sheets. Nor need

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Anti-New Deal Attitude On Tax

Strength For Today

By EARL I.. DOUGLAS.S ALWAYS THE KINGDOM

Jesius was always talking about the kingdom. Sometimes he called it the kingdom of heaven and at other times the kingdom of God.

What did he mean by the kingdom of God (or of heaven, lor both mean the i>ame thing? By the kingdom of God. Jesus meant the rule of Godthe rule of God in the heart of individuals and in the affairs of the race. We have kingdoms and nations scattered over the earth and these kingdoms and nations are ruled by manmade laws. But above this governmental body there is a spiritual order that has a government of its owm. The kingdom of the earth and the kingdom of heaven need not be in conflict one with the other and may not jmrfssarlly differ r.vienliallv one from the other. Rut in the kingdom of God or heaven (he will of God comes first. Sin i.^ ail outlaw. Selfishnr^ js de.'-pi.scd and rejected. Love reigns supreme.

Jcsul' claimed that he came to establish this kingdom among

men. It did not necessarily mean the overthrow of political kingdoms. It meant their infusion with a new spirit. The kingdom, or rule of God, is also meant to operate in the heart of every individual. The final consuma-tion of the kingdom will come when Christ returns to make the kingdoms of the world his own.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as It is in heaven.

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By ELMER ROESSNER The University of Michigan maintains one of the largest propaganda mills in the country. Its news service pours out hundreds of words a week quoting professors and others on affairs of the nation. Mast of the statements are strongly New Dail50 strongly that unless the Institution changes its name to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt University, history will be done a disservice.

It is striking, therefore, that it has put out a stonr that is sharply critical of the Roose-veltian application of taxes as a great leveler. This release is based on a 50-page book, A Program for Federal Tax Revision, By Harvey E. Brazcr, Ph. D., and published by the Michigan Institute of Publican Administration iat.$1.50K In general, Mr. Brazcr contends. federal taxes should be levied equally on all types of personal income. In addition, individuals should be allowed to average their incomes over prr-locLt of at least five years, so that those with steady and sharply fluctuating incomes should be treated slmilaiiy. Those off-stage noises you hear are the bodle.'; of New Dealers rotating in their graves.

Dr. Brazer suggsts the following types of income, now exempt, should be subject to Federal Income taxes:

1. Insurance proceeds, to the extent they exceed premium payment:

2. Gifts and inheritances, except for specified amounts within the Immediate family;

3. Interest on state and local government bonds:

4. Capital gains and losses.

The following tax deductions

should be eliminated or sub-stantialy reduced:

1. Charitable contributions, except those exceeding tWro per cent of income:

2. Interest payments, unless clearly a business expense;

3. State and local taxes;

4. Medical expenses, except those exceeding three per cent of Income;

5. Casualty and theft losses, except those exceeding three per cent of Income.

In addition. Dr. Brazcr proposes the.se changes;

1. Ehminate double exemptions now allowed some taxpayers. their spouses, and the blind;

2. Subject dividend and interest payments to tax wiihhold-ins.

3. Eliminatt entertainment

expenses as a business deduction and limit depreciation and depletion allowances;

4. Require married couples and their children to file Joint leturns without income-splitting but permit reasonable allowances for expenses of working wives:

5. Integrate individual and corporate income taxes for those receiving dividend payments:

6. Repeal estate and gift tax-,es. ainoe these gratuitous transfers wU be subject to the same 'taxes as other personal income ;

7. Eliminate excise taxes on alcohol, tobaoco, and other products, retaining only taxes

on gasoline used to finance highway construction.

Overalll Dr. Brazer estimates, the proposed revisloi^. would yield a net revenue gain of $3 billion. On the other hand, the repeal of estate, gift and excise taxes would result in a revenue loss of $5.5 billion or $10.5 billion if alcohol and tobacco taxes were eliminated.

Enactment of the entire program would rc.sult in a total tax revenue loss of $a billion. This could be recouped by an acro.ss-thc-board increase of 4 per cent in present personal m-

come tax rates or by a broad based 3*4 or 4 per cent in present personal income tax rates or by a broad based 3*4 or 4 per cent sales or spending tax.

The mojor objective of these changes would be to make the federal tax program more rational, Taxing each famy or individual according to a basic income criterion, Dr. Brazer notes.

This boy Brazer will bear watching. His efforts to put common sense into the Federal tax system can only get him into trouble. He may wind up as a Republican candidate for vice president some day.

MORE BUBBLES TO CONTROL FISH

East Coast bathing resorts are experimenting with hoses that put up screens of bubbles to keep sharks away. But bubble curtains have ali*eady been in use in Maine to herd sardines into nets.

For some rea.son, fish hesitate to cross walls of bubbles. Sharks wont cross them even for the ftiost tempting bait. And when used Maine fLsher-mcn u.se them to herd sardines and other fish into nets. The finny schools plunge into the neU.