MCE FOimTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C

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Friday, September 23, 1960

Hard To Kill

No Immediate Results From Talk

Preaident Eisenhower yesterday fired the opening guns of a campaign to sway the thinking of the uncommitted within ranks of the United Nations organization.

The chief spokesman for the other side has his inning today.

While the U. S, position was an impressive presentation designed to increase the status and responsibilities of the international body, we would be foolish in the extreme to think it will change the attitudes and policies of Iron Curtain countries. As the saying goes, there are none so deaf as they who will not hear none so blind as they who will not see.

Nor can we count on reasonableness of the U. S. presentation to overly influence the newcomers or self-Elyled neutralists.

The experienced neutrals have witnessed much of the same thing before. The newcomers can be expected to righteously withhold judgment until after hearing all sides; and their verdict may be influenced more by inflamatory oratory than the calm approach. Too, if the spirit of revolution burns within their breasts a subconscious antipathy to established and

Well-Organizec.

! 3emo CaiTLDaign

By LYNN NISBET ORGANIZATION - The State Democratic campaign is more tightly organized, and headquarter* staffs are working harder, than in many years, That is due to several factors. Most significant is tliat the opposition threat is more serious at both state and national levels. Another is that the connection between state and national party organizations is closer than ever before. The Plan of Organization as revised two years ago for the first time definitely tics the North Carolina Democratic party with the national committee. A third reason is that the personnel is younger and naturally more energetic.

The Republicans, too, are wo. king harder than for many years and for some of the same reasons. The, main difference Is that the Republicans apparently are less co-ordinated, with the state party committee devoting major attention to Nixon and Jonas, while the campaign of Robert Gavin for Governor is to considerable degree independent. Earb' in the campaign Gavin announced that Jesse Page of Charlotte wouldi'be his manager. Page retired from the field the other day and Gavin appointed James Kawicy of High Point, The objective is to elect Robert Gavin by defeating Terry Sanford, The Gavin group is paying very little attention to any other race. The regular State Republican Committee is concentrating on national affairsthe w^hitc House and the Congress, with particular emphasis on re-electing Charles Raper Jonas in the 10th districtand assisting county groups in electing members of the General Assembly. (At this stage It appears much more likely that the regular committee will achieve its objective.? than that the Gavin group wiU succeed. Democrats concede there will be more Republicans in the 1!61 Legislature than in any recent session and that David Clarks chances to win over Jonas in the 10th are barely even.)

CO-ORDINATION-Whlle the Democrats seem to be much better organized throughout the state, there is evidence of lack of full co-ordination of effort amoni the several levelsnational. state and county. The overall program calls for distribution of responsibility for erranging rallies and major speaking engagements. The Kennedy visit, for example, was arranged cooperatively by the national and state organizations. County chairmen were recruited and in most In.stances responded with eager enthusiasm. But they understood they were acting as agents for the state committee.

The series of congteswonal dLstrict rallies, which have been set up much as in the past, except Instead of taking the districts in numerical sequence, the meetings have been set for dates more suited to needs and wishes of the congressional candidates. For example, the first big occasion Is In the third district at Jacksonville on September 29. The last is for the

11th district at Splndale on November 2. Meantime, Kome county chairmen were arranging local rallies on dates that conflicted with these. Republicans have less trouble in this respect, because in more than half the counties there are no active local committees.

MONEYBoth partle.s charge that the other has all the money needed, while its own treasury is in bad shape. Traditionally much more Republican money comes from outside the state, while the Democrats not only finance their own sUte campaign but send a good many dollars to the national organization. Democrats report tough-ei going this year, chiefly be

cause some big regular contributors are disturbed about the alleged affinity between Kennedy and Sanford and organized labor. This will not affect votes, be-

caiu!e there are more working people than boss men. It is

being felt in the cash box.

CONTRACT Experiences in the current campaign to date point up the need for a full

time contact man or field representative for the Democratic party. Such position was authorized several years ago, but state chairmen so far have not made use of It. Chairman Bert Bennett said the other day he expects to have such a man on the job. The advantages are obvious. There is scarcely a week during the time between intensive campaigning in which problems do not arise calling for closer liaison between the state and local committee. The.se include registration for municipal and special elections, rec-ommendatiorus for appoint-menU, filling vacancies in party and governmental offices. Information about duties of the various committees, promotion of Jefferson-Jackson dinners and other interim party gatherings.

Besides filling this recognized need, the field man W'ould maintain continuing contact with financial sources, eliminating necessity for biennial pressure during a few months every twO years, to keep the war chest from running empty.

Politics is big full-time business. National party organizations. both Democratic and Republican, are on the job fifty-two wrecks of every year.s. The Democratic party in North Carolina ought to operate the same way. If the Republicans achieve their goal of a real two-party system in this state, they alH) should maintain permanent organized activities.

It is manifestly impossible for the Democrats to do an adequate job In spasmodic three-months operation every two years, and the Republicans for the comparable period every four years. The dictionary says government and politics are synonymous terms. Statisticians say that about 40 percent of all the earnings dividends and wagesof citizens goe.n to pay for government. Government operates 36.5 day.s a year. Political organizations should do the same.

and orderly patterns may prevail.

Whu^ever the outcome, it will not be outwardly apparent for a long time to come.

The President figuratively touched all bases in his address.

Uisarmaipent, help to new-born African governments, research in outer space, food-for-peace . . all under the guiding role of the United Nations . . were proposed.

Mr. Eisenhower made it clear that an end to rivalries by means of complete cooperation with the UN was Americas hope and goal.

Time and again he said individual points of the American program should be handled through the United Nations, and not by governments working at cross-purposes.

To any and all who remember high hopes of a w'ar-weary world in 1<945, it comprised a re-endorsement and greater elaboration of those dreams attendant upon the birth of the United Nations.

In years to come people may look upon the address by President Eisenhower as the greatest single effort to make the UN live up to those earliest hopes.

To become effective Premier, Khrushchev would have to reverse past and present policies of his government. That w^ould be ^tantamount to admitting the error of his ways.

We don't expect that to happen.

The Most Gaudy And Energetic Of Seasons

The calendar tells us this is autumn.

We look for the traditional falling leaves, but there are few. Our trees still carry their burden of green foliage, though it is darkening.

Sundown comes earlier. And some nights a blanket is welcome ... something summers warmth made im-* plausible for long months that have passed.

Football practice, football games, football scores; World Series fever, crying tow^els and cheerleaders . , . theyre in season now.

The Householders experienced eye tells him his .shrubbery and lawn show all the signs of Fall. And the cautious people are already having their home heating plants checked over by expeils in that field, thus reducing risks in the cold days to come.

Heavy early morning mists are also the order of the day; the crispy clear days of autumn, wdth their invigorating snap in the air, are just around the calendar ... a treat lying in store for us all.

The fall of the year is often referred to as a tired and aging period, which is a poor impression to give of the wrecks and months marking a transition from summers extremes to those of winter. One could do autumn no greater injustice.

This is the season of natures gaudiest colors, the bluest skie.s, the most energetic days.

Its a great time to be out and doing.

World Unready '"orBia Chanaes

Worry On Two

By HENRY HOWARD

?itt Vote Is

^moortont

Prom & discussion on one of Greenvilles downtown sidewalks the other night we picked up a few bits of interesting information.

Several men were standing around discussing the weather, the crop situation, local football prospects, the dove-hunting picture, and, of course, politics.

On the latter topic, we learned from the comments going arond i,hat Pitt County very definitely has political importance and distinction.

The discussion centered, also, of course, around the upcoming

presidential election and most of the commentatcms, like you and me, were wondering who would

win.

Beyond that, they were wondering who would win in North Carolina. There were all kinds of opinions with many of them strikingly contrasting.

Aside from opinions, though, it was mentioned that North Carolina in the presidential tussle of 1956 fell into the Democratic column but only by a majority of 16,000 votes.

Then somebody pointed out Pitt County in the 56 election pro

vided 10.000 votes of that majority. In other words, somebody said, Pitt County pushed the state over for the Democrats. We are important.

Other E(ditors Saying Kennedys N. C Visit

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The world wasnt ready for the new freedoms and the changing mood ol the last half of the 20th Century.

The result is one of the great dilemmas:

The contest between West and East to gain the allegiance of the new and independent nations emerging from colonialism and the older but smaller nations getting impatient with poverty.

Only 15 years ago the United Nations started out with 51 members. Gradually since then, as more nations became independent, the membership climbed.

This week it shot up to 96 with the addition of 13 newly independent African nations and the former British colony of Cyprus.

While batches of them are neutral in the contest between communism and the West.

And in Latin America nations which felt the United States was taking them for granted have begun to assert themselves. They showed this when they wouldnt go all the w'ay with this country in chastising Fidel Castros Cuba.

Nowand its almast as if it had happened suddenlyboth the United States and Rus.sia have to ftnd new ways to attract the newly free people and the discontented ones.

No wonder Premier Nikita Khrushchev came to the United Nations in New York to speak, perform and otherwise offer inducements.

No wonder President Eisenhower arranged to address the General Assembly and offer aid to the emerging new nations of Africa, and al.v) Invited the representative.*! of 18 Latin American countries to lunch in New York.

Nothing better Illustrates the unpreparedness of both this country and Russia to cope with this gigantic problem of winning new friends than the chaos which erupted when the Congo got independence from Belgium this summer.

The Russians tried to horn in with planes, trucks and technicians, hoping for a foothold in Africa, only to be thrown out in a lightning change of the Congolese government.

This country was trying to operate through the United Nations, and so far the world organization has been supported by the U.N. member nations overwhelmingly as the agency for bringing order and stability to the Congo.

But once it is established East and West will be in a struggle to win allegiance.

This whole show at the United Nations now no matter what turn it lakes is a contest between the United States and Russia to influence world opinion, even if nothing comes of it Immediately. And probably nothing much will.

Quote...

Our fondness for collectiv-i.sm and its appurtenant to-getherne.tis serve.s the communist ambition well. For it weak-en.s the sinews of our industrial power and tend. to .soften up the tone of our productive will. It also relieves the communist apparatus of much heavy expense .since we voluntarily destroy ourselves by inches. The comrades have only to urge ns on in the direction we seem to have chosen, that leading to the welfare state.Oregon Voter.

(WasblagtoB Daily News)

Some writers are very positive in their statement Uiat the visit of Senator John F. Kennedy to North Carolina last Saturday was a huge success.

Perhaps they are exactly right. But the final determination cannot be measured at this time. Only when the votes are counted on November can we say with any degree of certainty that his visit was a hygc siKscess.

Those who saw and met him in Greenville are dedicated Demcrata. They came to find what they werf looking for their own party standard-bearer, However, many Democrats came who were perhaps lukewarm to the Kennedy are no longer lukewarm but today stand in the ranks of strong Kennedy supporters.

As we view his visit to Eastern North Carolina from the standpoint of those who went to Greenville, we see not so much a captivating Influence in changing voters from one party to another as we do in giving those Democrats there a real pep talk so that they will work much harder than they might have worked otherwise.

Make no mistake about his appearance. He did infuse fire and enthusiasm among peoples of Eastern North Carolina who are already Deomcrats. And these Democrats went home on Saturday afternoon determined to go out and do battle for the Democratic ticket in November.

A football coach prepares his team for a big game. He might like the practice sessions held prior to the big game, but after all. he cannot measure the real value of the practice sessions until the gtme is played and the final whistle has blown.

Senator Kennedy cannot measure accurately the value of his visit to Eastern North Carolina and to all of North Carolina as well until the game is played. Then the votes are counted on the night of November 8. then well have a measuring rod to make that determination.

Senator Kennedy and many Democratic leaders in North Carolina realize it well that one of the biggest obstacles to face in the November election is indifference. And if on last Saturday he turned indifference into enthusiasm, certainly no one can argue now that his visit has not helped.

Enthusiasm is often times catching. Indifference is also catching, too, and this matter of getting out the vote is ever so important. And from the standpoint of political realism, if we who live here in Eastern North Carolina do not get enthusiastic and get out a big Democratic vote, we surely cannot expect North Carolina to be in the Democratic column on the night of November 8.

The fact that Senator Kennedy came our way, the fact that he spoke to thousands of North Carolinians, the fact that he was bubbling over with appeal, and the fact that he met Tar Heels on our own grounds all combine to make his chances of carrying North Carolina much better.

If we will all realize that North Carolina is a real battleground and that enthusiasm, hard work, and determination have no substitutes, then when those votes arc counted after the election, we can very aptly and very proudly proclaim that Mr. Kennedys visit to North Carolina was the real success we want it to be now.

Junius H. Rose High School football squad opens its home game schedule tonight with a scrap with arch-rival Kinston.

As most folks around bars art aware, the Rose High Phantoms have their best opportunity in recent years to bring to Greenville the crown from the Northeastern Conference.

The local eleven has passed a pair of weekend tests with flying colors and stands ready to add its second straight eonier-ence win tonight.

Coach Bud Phillips has used the outstanding talent available to produce a closely-knit football * machine, as they call them.

It's been a long, long time since the local footballer have brought home top honors. Should that become a reality this year. It would certainly be refreshing.

But a championship is not won on the first or last day of ie season. It is not won on any particular day. Winning teams accomplish their purpose day by day and game by game.

Local interest is always an important part of a high school football squad's success. That success is more meaningful to a town when the wholetown shares R.

Especially this season, when the Phants have an excellent opportunity to bring hwne the bacon. Greenville folks should continue and Intensity their support of the Rose High eleven.

Opinions In Brief

They say the most embarrassing moment in the world is when your bCMW finishes doing something you told him couldnt be done.Lexington Leader.

While he (Vice President Nixon) stands at the front proclaiming charity and tolerance, his supporters are herding the forces of racial, religious and antiunion bigotry by way of the back door. ... He is cunning and he is clever. Harry S. Truman.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, MO, Klag features Syndicate, Inc.^

The religious issue in the campaign has both parties worried and they would like to put an end to it. The Democrat* fear its consequences. So do the Republicans. PoUticaUy, it is one of those Issues wlch proves no

SoLat but leavs* a great deal of ittemess la its wake.

The Republican position is that John Kennedy is not too popular among Roman Catholics but that the religious issue may fMres them all to vote for him. Th# Democrats fear the vice versa of this, namely, that as the campaign advances. Protestants who might have voted for Kennedy, wUl not.

However, there art Important elements In the population who will not be silenced. It can be aid, for Instance, for Daniel Poling that he 1 a man of ain-cerlty and decency. His son was one of the Four Chaplains who went down to a watery grave arm-in-arm. One of those chaplains was a CathoUe; another, a Jew

Men like this do not attack the Papacy out of bigotry ; they are convlnoed that the fears of the 6th century must continue. These are the psychological facts which require understanding. John Kennedy*! approach to the problem has been politically sound, if ecclesiastically uncertain. He courageously attended a Protestant conclave in Houston and told the ministers just what he thought of the religious Issus and what his attttude toward his own church would be were he elected President. They cheered him; but did they cheer his courage, his frankness or his rejection of ecclesiastical control even in matters of faith and morals should he be elected President?

Richard Nixon must do better than he hss done so far if he is to keep Ms lead. In Uie first place, old line Republicans do not undsratand why hs needs all the committees that are announced as supporting and advising him. Many of the namM are not a little atartlinr to Republicans. If Nixon follows the Willkle pattern of bringing a melange of queer people into the Republican Party, some of his mosA ardent supporters will move out as they moved away from Wendell Willkle.

Seetmdly. hs has tius far gone out of his way to extol the Eisenhower Administratlim. But the fact is that some phases of the actions of the Eisenhower Admlnistrati<m are not altogether defensible. What about Cuba? What about the testimony of Ambassadors Gardner and Smith? What about inflation? What about Oie losses to the gold reserve?

Nixon, in his interview with Walter CTonkite, said something about having learned his politics from Eisenhower. This is corny. Nixon In knee pants was a mors able politican Eisenhower, who managed laiWy on his personality and his build-up as a war hero. Surely, Nixon has not forgotten that when Harold Stassen organised a campaign to dump Nixon as Vice President, Harold had White House support, and that the President was slow in dumping Stassen whom be regarded as a great liberal mind. And Nixon cannot forget that his principal political enemy was Sherman Adams who used White House influence to prevent the Vice President from performing when the President was incapacitated. The conduct of both Sherman Adams and James Hagerty still requires explanation for the historical record.

The talk about the changed Richard Nixon is nonsense, Nixon may have matured: he may have grown; he may have had more experience. But what Is meant by changing? The whole thing sounds like Moral Re-Armament going Into politics. It is sentinsental.

Until the candidates get down to Issues and cut out the badinage, they cannot be taken very seriously. Thus far, neither has dealt with a public question of major magnitude and tims is a-wasting. What are they waiting for? Have they an agreement to mark time and talk nonsense until a certain date? If so. why (Continued on page 5)

Taxes Cause Return Of Barter

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS INVISIBLE FORCES

It is good to be reminded, in cur materialksiic age, of the unseen forces and values which surround us.

Suppose someone showed you a large sphere and proposed that you should try standing on it mhile he whliTed It around at the rate of 1000 miles an hour, I^obably you would refuse to have anything to do with such a dangerous pastime.

Yet till*: is jiwt whnt we all <io, living on the ouUside of a larve sphere which whiih rapuls Uuugh space Gravity of course, holds u down so .srgcure-1> that it requires a lot of energy to lift our.selve.^ off even for a .short time. II giHvily w-ie siiddenlv turned oil. we would be hurled off into space

Lke water .pun out of a wa.^h-ing machine.

The force of gravity is only one of the invusible forces which affect our live.s. It would be al-mo.st as disastrous for us to be w hirl^d out of our society as to be whirled off into apace. The lies that bind us to our community, our work, our family, our church, are unseen but important. And inside the.se groups, only the intangible but powerful forces of law. ciustom. and miuaLs make |)o..sible a rnlaliw-h f-.itd and ordfilv exn>iieiice.

The most important things in life are InUiible and intangigle Let us never fool ourselves into believing that we know much of the irat hixly of Iriith, Our know ledge is as a (iiup of ths ocean.

By ELMER ROESSNER Back in the days ol the dep-resiiion, bartering displaced Jiard money transactions in many areas.

There were two phases of bartering.

There was the grim phase. People without any at all traded their shoats and their corn for flour and calico at stores that would barter.

I'here was a gay phase, in which people with perhaps a little money would swap paintings and knit kerchiefs for tickets to shows.

Now. in thess days of prosper* itv, bartei'uig has cdme back. But It has come in a diffrent way and for a different reason. The reason is taxes. When money i? changed for goods, the tax men collect their ounce of fle.sh ami take the blood trm. Hut wl*n goods are exchant* edfor other goods or for laborthe tax men are often at a loss. So, as the poverty of the Thlrtle. caused barter to d)M)l<ice cm rnicy, .so i.s the taxation of the SixlifA making baiter displacs fmanciai deals.

Barter Is how much larger, much grander than it was in de-pre.ssion days. Then a cake might get a woman a seat in 9 show. Today a 1961 car at fleet prices may get a corporation a good sale.sman and little more than his previous earning power.

It is most flagrant at the top.

An executive earning $50,000 a year would be little interested in a new job paying $60,000. After taxes, his increase might not keep him in cognac and vacht sails. So corporations barter:

A new car every jear at 20 per cent under list: paid membership in a country club where he might meet business prospects: a month in summer at the Biarritz office: a month in winter at the Miami Bt'ai'h office: furniture and applianre.s at wholesale prices through the company purchasing department. and uie of the company yacht (for business enleriain-jnent purposes, of course!) for :i() riav.s a year.

I lLTEKING DOWN

That, as the song say's, "is

entertainment. Its also barter on a grand scale, and the way* noted above are only a few of thousands.

Goods instead of money are used below the executive level.

Grub is a common currency. Plant A may get good workers while Plant B muddles along with misfits. The reason may be that the A bus gives better service than the B bus; it may be that the walls of the A plant are more restive than the walls of the B plant but the chances are that the A plant run. a better cafeteria. It may offer a thick slice of ham, two eggs and cnsp potatoes for 49 cents while the B plant is trying to break even With a thin slice Of ham, prescrambled eggs, soggy toast and mashed potatoes for 97 cents.

This tax-e.scaping barter goes on and on. Gut of it may emerge some guides:

1. Never wH or buy when you can swap. You may save taxes

' 2. As far a.s legally po.'^.siblc, pay employees in goods instead of cash. You may save them

and yourself income and Social Security taxes.

3. Use goods and service* as much as possible in bidding for both executive and other employee*.

4. Offer premiums instead of cash as incentives. Sure, premiums are taxed as Inctmie, but the tax is based on the resale value, not list price.

5. Consider low cost housing, low-cost use of rental auto consumer goods at cost, cheap baby-sitting services, and other tax-avoiding gimmicks to attract personnel you want.

The only danger is that some day the Internal Revenue Service may blow the whistle on you.

FINDING APARTMENt SHARERS A BUSIKGESS IN ITSELF

A New' York advertising man has e.<itabll.shed a business to find people who want to share apartments with those of similar tastes and sex. He advertises for congenial persons, pair.? them off and then ftnds i'parlrnenl.s that meet their tastes and income. His fee: 15 days rent of the apartment.