PAGE FOURTHE DAILY HEFLECrrOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

VYednetday, September 28, 1960

Wednesday, September 28, 1960

The Funnel

Only Good Can Gome From Debates

In our judgment the opening round of the Great Debate lived up to its promise.

As time drew nearer for the face-to-facc meeting of Vice President Nixon and Senator Kenator we confess feeling some doubts ... a suspicion that in setting rules for the debate there would be a weakening of. its spontaneity and value.

Such was not the case.

The candidates were thoroughly prepared and able to rove freely through diverse fields as farm

Disaster Plan Provides Power

(iiuest writer loday I>lck Byrd, Assistant Publicity Director, Carolina Power & Light Company)

LIGHTS BACK ON Lockwood Phillips, pitifflfiher of the Carteret Ncws-Timejs in More-head City, ia one of several editors who praised oiir company for the speed with which electric service was restored after Donni.

After viewing the destruction In Morehead and nearby Beaufort and Atlantic Beach. Phillips was resigned to a two-day delay in getting the paper on the street. (No one but a newspaperman can appreciate this dismal feeling.) He was pleasantly surprised to find power back on Monday night and the linotypes clacking away.

"How do you do it? he asked. The answer lies in a CP&L disaster plan utilizing all of the companys 2.200 employees, from the "big boss* down to the lineman. When disaster strikes, each employee slips into a pre-assigned emergency role. The coordination born of long years experience never ceases to amaze me, and to the outsider it must be especially im-pre.sslve.

Tracing the power restoration to the grass roots, praise comes to rest at the feet of the linemen, servicemen, radiomen and engineers, many of whom stayed on their feel for a straight 24 hours. They earned the ball and made the touchdown, but they had a smooth - working team behind them

ACHING CORNS Traveling through Eastern North Carolina In Donnas wake. I couldnt help wondering what folk.s used t. do about big blows like this Nowadays we know hurricanes from the time theyre born until they blow themselves out.

I suppo.^e before the days of modern communications. Tar Heels depended upon the bum knee or aching corns for bad weather forecast. Or perhaps they consulted the Ladies Birthday Almanac.

This man was resigned to his fate. "When I meet Saint Peter. Ill most likely have a pencil in one hand and the phone in the other, and Ill probably say, Just a minute. Pete, while I make another call-'

And with a sigh, he returned to the "big board

OUTLOOK IMPORTANT I visited Florence, S-C. the other day to attend the State 4-H Electric Congress which CP&L co-sponsors in the two Carolinas. The speaker described an optimist as one who rises each morning, looks out the window and remarks, "Good morning. Lord The pessimist looks out an groans, "Good Lord, morning!

THOSE WHO STICK Dr. Harris Purks, who has .served the State well as chairman of the State Board of Higher Education, tells this story of the quandary in which educators often find themselves.

A fellow college graduate went west and in true Horatio Alger fashion soon amassed a Te.spectable fortune. He later invited Dr. Purks to come into the business as a partner. Dr. Purks declined. His reasonhe was contracted to teach school for $2.700 per year.

Time passed. Recently Dr. Purks had an opportunity to visit the man again and to tour his plant near Dallas. Texas. They sat far into the night talking over old times. Each asked the other, "Who did right? The indusinalist argued that Dr. Purks chose the right course. He was molding minds, getting a personal satisfaction from his work, doing something worth while. All Ive done is make money, he complained.

The temptation to leave the field of education for greener pastures is a perennial one for educators. Many succumb to it. We owe a real debt to thc^e like Dr. Purks who stick.

JUST A MINUTE, PETE This subject reminds me of a comment by a stock broker friend here in Raleigh: "We work ourselves to death making money, and when we get it were itually mi.serable.

SUBURBANITES-North Carolina is becoming a state of suburbanites. Our community of Garner is a satellite suburb of the Capital City

We have our problems, described by a neighborhood psychologist a 5 "subui'banitls, Chief symptomlack of cohesivenessin short, no roots or, at best, veiy shallow roots in the community.

Many suburbanites have no church homes; neighbors are just faces to them. They dont have the sense of belonging that comes only with time.

Our PTA is launching what we think is a pioneer project this year to help solve this problem. Its to be a grass roots application of . lessons learned through the National White House Conference on Youth. The program will bring experts before parents to discuss matters like recreation, school needs, juvenile delinquency and moral problems and family-community lies. Parents will also have bull sessions of then own.

rU not be surprised to find other topics appearing in these dicu.s.slona, conversation pieces like streets, sewer, water, dog-conlrol, taxesand of course, politics.

Happy traits of the suburbanite are his dependent thinking, his relative youth, alertness and ambition, his willingness to become an ally in any project to help himself and his family. He has only to be contacted and cultivated.

This is a field ripe for the political parties. Being newcomers, many suburbanites are not registered to vote; most have broken regional political ties and have no hesitancy about crossing party lines. Virtually all will listen to arguments with an open mind.

I think it would be amiss not to mention the fact that our community of subuibanite became so aroused that it turned out 85 per cent of the qualified voters in a municipal election last year.

Party leaders take note! Getting these suburbanites registered and voting could very well be the dcdlng factor in the upcoming November election.

TRAVEL LYNN I say a hearty amen to Lynn Nisbet for his earnest promotion of the states travel industry, now the third-place money maker for Tar Heels. The Travel Council of North Carolina, which Lynn heads so ably this year. Is concerned not only with getting out-of-staters to stop and visit, but is trying to dispel the terrible nonchalance of too many natives about the travel attractions of their own state.

Lynn expresses gratitude for ihe growing travel interest among Tar Heel editors, whom he desjcribes as the very salt of the earth of "Variety Vaca-tlonland."

problems, education aid, budget balancing and the

like. . j u 4. j-

There were no distractions caused by a studio

audience or contrived backdrops; the vieweiis attention was wholly on the two men, their words, their facial expressions, their own rapt interest in the topics at hand. In this instance the television industry did itself proud.

Neither Richard Nixon nor John Kennedy contributed anything new in the way of campaign material Monday night. It had all been stated before. Their audience benefitted by hearing their position.4 re-stated and re-argued within the limits of the brief hour.

The atmosphere was businesslike, quite formal and most polite. Neither man permitted a flash of annoyance nor touch of humor.

bcca.sional glimp.ses of the Vice President, while Senator Kennedy was speaking, seemed to show him in a thoughtful, sombre mood. And when the camera focused on the listening Senator, his alert attention was contagious.

We doubt that many minds were changed by this public debate. We thinc, too, that Kixon supporters believe their man showed to better advantage . . . and Kennedy supporters believe their man benefitted most.

As one Watched, the big point w^as being driven home: Here were two men playing for the greatest stakes of all. the presidency and leadership of the free world. A misstep here, a thoughtless comment, an ill-timed gestureand a brilliant political career might come to an end.

This close-up comparative view of two able men contending for the highest office in the land can only benefit America.

The Reflector feels confident such debates arouse a sharpening interest, in the men and the issues, among the voting public.

We look forward to future such meetings.

Agriculture, Too, Can Benefit From Tours

t On reading yesterdays account of thirty-five N.C. businessmen touring the West on an industrial development study, we ivere struck anew by the potential value of such trips..

The Tar Heel group was awed by the scope and variety of California agriculture but, as the story .said, they also observed potential bets the West may be missing.

This was primarily a study of industrial develop-meiit, but it raises the question as to why not extending such tours to agriculture.

Just suppose the N. C. Dept, of Agriculture made it possible for ten annual agriculture study groups to inspect the practices and farming conditions of other segments of the country.

By seeing first-hand the farm problems and ac-comi-'anying solutions in other sections of America, Tar Heel farmers wou!d gain a better perspective of their own operations. Not only Avould they find supporting evidence for points in which tney were right but they might also tunl up a crop of new ideas, new standards, new inspiration.

It never hurts to see how the otlier fellow faces up to problems similar to your own. The value of such inspection tours is recognized by individuals in varied business fields, government and the professions.

Oil the surface there seems no reason why Tar Heel farmers should not similarly benefit.

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By PATRICIA MOORE

Not Keyed To The Sports

We are advised that we are falling down In our column writingnothing about hunting, fishing and such stuff.

Well, gee whiz, what do you expect? A walking, thinking, shooting, picture - looker * alter, music listener, book reader, card player, casual observer, writer, critic, newspaper bug, typewriter ribbon and fish hook? We could efaborate further. For your benefit we will not.

However, we might pas* a few comments on about the one and only football game here Saturday night. East Carolina played Guilford, remember.

Two couples attended, together. The men shoved the wom

en off to one side so they could converse about football in understandable language. The alomen were left to observe for themselves.

Then, along about half time, one woman looked at the other. No, not then. Maybe shed find out. The other woman looked at the first woman. No, not then. Maybe shed find out.

That went on for a time, il-nally, timidly, who are the Ea.st Carolina College players playing? And. I dont know; I thought maybe you might know.

And someone asks why we dont write more about the life of the great outdoors? We love

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WASHINGTON (AP) The big TV debate between the presidential candidatesVice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedydidnt add much new in the way of ideas but it served at least two useful purposes.

1. It gave the whole country a chance to see the two men side by side and compare themas each argued his claim to the White Houseon various grounds of personal appeal and ability to handle themselves, at least in debate,

2. It gave the whole country a chance to hear their main arguments, since what they said Monday night pretty much summed up what theyve been saying since the campaign began.

So far. except for the areas visited by them, voters have had to judge them and their arguments by what the voters read in the newspapers or saw in occasional but separate appearances by them on TV.

The rea.son people in other countries may not see much difference between the candidates came out clearly enough when Nixon agreed the differences between him and Kennedy were not in goals but in the means of achieving them.

To American.^, however, thase means60 far as any differences can be distinguishedare the important points in the campaign.

What each man said Monday night and has been saying boils down to this: "I can do it better.

There^ is nevertheless a rather basic difference in the two j mens approach to the goals they point to-Kennedy would have more government participation in the national life in the years ahead, explaining: I dont believe in big government but in effective governmental action.

For example, he advocates government aid to boost teachers salaries and he would set up a medlcal-care-for-the-aged program operated uner the Social Security system.

Nixon is against putting medical care under Social Security and he doesnt want the government helping out on teachers salaries on the grounds that it eventually would lead to governmental interference in education.

Thus there isas Americans look on the role of government in every day lifea fundamental difference in the philosphy of the candidates in solving present problems.

This differencealthough cluttered up with a lot of debate statistics which voters couldnt very well judge, since they dont have the statisticswas made clear by the two men a.s they attacked each others arguments This was probably the best service the debate offered to ^Continued on page five)

(WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS)

Ls it po.ssible that at this time Richard Nixon is building up his campaign to the point he knows so well and engages in so efficientlythat of charging John F, Kennedy with giving aid and comfort to communism?

Mr. Nixon recently called upon Mr. Kennedy to stop talking about American weakne.sses and attacking American foreign policies while Nikita Khru.shchev and other hostile political leaders are attending the United Nations .session.

Mr. Kennedy has refu.sed to accept Mr. Nixons advice. As a result, .some political leaders in this country are of the opinion that this refu.sal on the part of Mr. Kennedy has given Mr. Nixon the provocation he seeks In order to pursue the type of campaign he waged so .successfully in California for the House of Repre.sentatlves and the United States Senate.

Again.st Jerry Voorhis and Helen Gehagen Douglas. Mr. Nixon played the communist angle for all it wa.s worth. He. we must say. was very succes.sful In convincing a la-ge number of California voters that Mr. Voor-hl.s and Mrs. Douglas were giving aid and comfort to communism if not actually allied with the communist movement in this nation.

Of course, Mr, Ni.xon say.s he has grown up since that time. He says that he realize.s that Mr. Kennedy is not a communLst and that he Is a dedicated American. But he said these thing,s a while back and before the recent ad-r monlshment not to dwell upon .American weaknesses. Now, in the eye.a of many people. Mr. Nixon might re.sort to his old tactica and begin labeling Mr.

Railroad Mergers Not All Cake

Kennedy a man who might be looking at communism with a conaortlng eye.

Certainly, those who have read about the Nixon campaigns in California put nothing in politics out of his reach. The two California campaigns we mentioned above were among the dirtiest and most nauseating political battles ever staged by any candidate in America for any public office.

If we are to speak frankly, this newspaper sincerely believes that today both Mr. Nixon and Mr. Kennedy are strongly anticommunist. Neither would lead America down the road to communism. Both are men who believe in the American way of life.

If Russia today doesnt know American political and economic weaknesses, then Mr. Kennedy or any other aspirant for public office is going to help the cause of communism by calling attention to our weaknesses. Probably the Russian government knows far more about our problems, our weaknesses, and our strong points than does the average American. Mr. Kennedy certainly is not divulging security .secrets when he tells the American people we need to be able to talk peace from a position of strength. And when he tells Americans how to strengthen our position, then we cannot believe that he is telling Ru.ssla anything she doe,snt already know.

If Mr. Nixon Is going to label Mr. Kennedy with the "aid and comfort to communism charge, It most likely will come within the la.st month of the campaign. And If we are to judge by previous Nixon campaign, It might well come.

to be outdoors, but.

Besides, this year, women are taking up politics in the place of other sports. It is the great game.

Women for Nixon like him because of his funny nose.

Women for Kennedy like him because hes so appealing.

Women against Nixon hate his funny nose. And women against Kennedy are jealous of his pretty wife!

The business of "Pats clothes versus Jackies clothes really clears up the question of whether the American people vote for personalities or overissues. You might call their tastes in clothes an issue, how much they pay and who designed what, but personalities make the clothes look one way or the other. Which lady of the White House do you prefer? Which man nU xou juja-Xqx: to get the clothes horse in the White House whom you prefer?

Man, what we need is another Great Debate to decide this.

Thats strictly cube, man, cube.

Opinions 'h Brief

"We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run Into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and In our comforts, in our labors and in our amusements. Thomas Jefferson.

"In all the discusson of the problems of the aging, there is seldom a suggestion that this great reservoir of man power may some day be needed. Dallas Morning News.

"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.John Galsworthy.

Are The Solons

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

While the election of the Presl-' dent is very important, it la never the whole story. In our form of government, the center of power is in the Congress, in both Houses, and the election of Senators and Representatives Is equally vital to the welfare of the nation. Only too often, they are passed over In the excitement of the Presidential campaign, particularly In these days when television makes the debate more exciting, than it really is. .

During both Eisenhower Ad-mtnlstraUons. the Congress wu usually Democratic which made for delay and confusion. Were it not lor the statesmanship of Senator Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic Leader in the Senate and now candidate for Vice President, and Speaker Sam Rayburn, the business of the country would have been at a standstill. For it is Congress that appropriates the money for government operations and which determines fundamental government policy. The administrative agencies of government also make policy by day-by-day procedures, but it is Congress which can undo anything that an administrative agency does or can even abolish the agency, agency.

On the whole, the Congress of the United States is a superior body of men who represent every section of the country and every phase of American life. There is still a predominance of lawyers, but there are also businessmen. labor union men, professors in universities, farmers, almost every kind of person. It is a cross-section of American life and truly representative.

The tendency in recent years in both parties has been to elect to the Senate and the House of Representatives candidates who are neither conservatives nor radicals. Among the conservatives who remain in the Congress, Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire is up for re-election this year. Senator Bridges 1 the leader of the Republicans in the Senate. He has been in the Senate 24 years and has served on some of its most Important committees. His influence upon his Republican colleagues has been enormous, particularly since the death of Senator Robert A. Taft to whose position he succeeded.

It is very important for Ute conservative elements in the country that Senator Bridges be re- , elected this year. So few men of his experience and quality remain In the upper house. *

He may, for the first timf in his career, encounter some difficulty should Senator John Kennedy carry New Hampshire as he well may. Senator Bridges is popular in his state and the assumption is that he will be re-elected.

Another Republican whose re-election to the Senate Ls regarded as essential to the continuity of the Republican leader- ship is Senator Karl E. Mundt of South Dakota. Senator Mundt In both the House of Representatives and the Senate ha.s been supporting sound legislation and has served on some of the most important committees of Congress. It was while Karl Mundt was temporarily presiding over the House Committee, on Un-American Activities that that Richard Nixon, then a novice In Congress, found his opportunity to uncover the activities of Alger Hiss. Mundt played an enormous role in uncovering Communist Infiltration in government, a condition which is now exposing itself again.

It is interesting that both Senators Bridges and Mundt started their careers as teachers.

Among the Democrats, conservatives will favor Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas v.ho has been a member of the Senate Committee on Government Operations. He has been a firm supporter of the Hoover Commission recommendations. As presiding officer of the principal Investigations into subversion and Into labor union practices, he has been outstandingly judicial as well as judicious.

I mention only these three because were I a voter in their states, I would vot^ for these men. They have had long service, know how our particular and peculiar government func-(Contlnued on page five)

Strenath For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WITHIN THAT LOVING PlRPOSE

We speak often of a persons having experienced an untimely death. Yet think about it for a moment and ask youiself It there ta really auch a thing as untimely death.

It seems fernble when a young child ia taken away, or a promising young man. or a husband at the time when family ueetG; him mo.sl Tla* mollici who do--, and Irave.*! 9 growing family t auset ihe hearts of all u> tremole and blecJ But Ls there such a ihing as untimely death? Not if we believe Hist all life is in the Ii.ukL of tliat Cualor w)iu 111 t made it God s hands art ;.o large and God's heart is so full

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of love that death comes within the circle of his being and there it us atx'iorbpd and reconciled. It IS reconciled to our bioken hope.s. It IS reconciled to our outraged sense of- Justice. It is reconciled finally to our pain and sorrow

When death comes wilhm our circle let us try to remind out-selve* that God is still in charge of his universe. After deathto an even greater extent than now

our loved ones are living with-iiig the circle ol Glides love. Let u nut fear for them rii course we Will giieve Our heui" would be of .stone if we did not grieve, Bui let u.v have hope, for a God uf love ha.% made all tlumis a*liul within his loviiu t>ui-du ail tilings cunluiuc to

exist.

By ELMER KOKSSNER Maybe the top toppled the wrong way.

For half a century marriages, romances or even illiTations between railroads were looked upon as omineus. The railroads were the monsters of our fathers younger days. They gave birth to such phrases as AU the traffic will bear. and "The public be damned.

Any merger plan was. ipso facto, a plot to rqb the public.

The baste objection to mergers was that mergers niight reduce competition and competitioa was the almost imaginary device that protected business and the public from utter exploitation.

ftui u.s Vi-ar.s rolled on. real rimi>et ilion aro'e, Tmckers, and planes skunmed off the creaiiutf'ii bu.ine men peopleincluding thus culuniJt began to say that mergers of raliro-jd.s. in the public in-

t'ic;d and that th*' goveruinent, uisleail ol ducoutagiug them.

should encourage fiscal romances.

PUBLIC ATTITUDE CHANGES.

Most people accepted this idea and in recent years there have been mergers and rumors of mergers as never before.

But perhaps the wTong kind of mergers were encouraged.

Two railroads, joining, might eliminate a small amount of cuplicate Uackage and services, There would be an Immediate surplus of officers, but instead of linng any, the general practtct has been to keep ail on the payroll, without repite-ing those w'ho retired or died.

Competition would be unchanged. The short, off - rail traffic shipments would .still be .<,hunted to the radroad.s, aiul lung dtstance paasengei s would Slick tgi, plane*

THE BETTER SOLUTION

Perhap.s what we should have been agitating for all tliesp .vears w* not mcrgcis belwctu railroads, but meigers between

railroads, truckllnes, busses and planes. *

rinstead of merging the Pennsylvania and the Centralwhich still may happenit may have been better for the national economy to encourage a merger of each railroa'ti with truck lines, bus lines and airlines within the area served by each.

Then a single iranspurtation organization could route both freight and passengers by the most economical means. Passengers could be picked up by bus kt one pomt and taken to railroad station at another and chugged to an airport (or taken b.y bus directly to an air* port), flown to the airport nearest their destination, and then moved by rail or lu.s lor evt*u tavi or rental car) to, destination.

Just as the express companies have given the public door-to-door parrel servicf^so could merged au -rail rviee.v

give the public door-to-door

passenger service.

Each merged unit would be competing against each other in the same territory. This competition would be much more realistic than competition between two slcks.railroads. two lush truck lines,*or two subsi* dized aiilines, as has been the case in the past.

It would be competition in which ingenuity played a more Important part than influence with the Interstate Commerce Commission or state regulatory bodies. It would be competition that would develop strong, adaptable transportation tys-tems as part of the national defense.

Today, to get from an address in Hampton Bays, L.L, to Hammond. Ind.. a traveler must negotiate wUh a taxi service, a railroad, a limousine service, an airline, another Umouilne service, a bus or Intenyban linp and another taxi service. Kvrii th' Hussian.** couldnt be more clumsy about IM