PAGE FOORTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Saturday, Octobar 15, 1960

Saturday, October 15, 1960

Happy To Be On The Political Warpath

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Going Forward By Our Own Efforts

In recent years the -states of North and South Carolina have gained considerable recognition for the progressive manner in which they have sought to enhance their economic development and expansion through their own efforts..

For the most part they have not depended on outside sources to do the job for them. They have the means at their own disposal to make strides toward the goal.

The recent ground-breaking at Parr, S. C. for the first atomic power plant in the Southern section of the nation is another of the important steps taken in this direction. In this case four major companies of the two Carolinas and Virginia have pooled resources to undertake the history-making project.

It will be another two years before the $26 million project is completed. Certainly it wmII not provide power except for a small portion of the area served by Carolina Power and Light Company, Duke Power Company, Virginia Electric and Power Company and South Carolina Electric and Gas Company. It is, however, an important step which will open the doors to the use of atomic energy for production of electricity in this part of the nation.

It offers another example of the desire of the section to push itself to the forefront of economic advancement compared with the rest of the nation. It contri

butes to dispelling the mistaken, but widely held opinion in other parts of the nation, that the Southeast is a backward section, interested only in drifting with the current and taking what progress the seasons offer in agriculture from one year to the next.

We have earlier voiced our praise of these four power companies for undertaking this atomic power project which is so important to the entire Southeastern section. On a sectional basis it is another example of the desire to pull up our area by our own initiative and our own resources. To be sure it is a major undertaking that would 6e impossible without the combined resources of these large companies. Even so, on a smaller scale the same pattern is being followed by individual communities as well as by states in, this section of the nation.

The plant itself will be an important asset to this area when it is completed. But perhaps of equal importance is the fact that the atomic power plant is an example of how the Southeast is pulling itself up by its own boot-straps, surging forward under its own initiative, rather than sitting back and waiting for someone to hand it progress tagged with a made-somewhere-else label.

! history - Making ^Election Comina

The Y oung Businessman Who Serves The Public

By LYNN NISBET . SILENTThe election to be held on November 8, less than ft)ur we^ from now, will culminate an intensive and in many respects unusual political eamiMdah. Sen. Sam Ervin says H win be the most significant lection in North Carolina since 1860. Commentators at national levd are unanimous in belief that it la a highly important and liistonr-maklng event. Political partiea and individual candidate have put forth tmprece-deided ^ort to woo voters to th^ way of thinking. Airwaves and postoffice boxes have been iaxnmed with more election material than ever before.

The advance expectation was that by this stage Uie people would be wtH-ked up into a fren-ty 0 fervor tar one or the other el the candidates and phUoso-Irides. To the contrary there is more than normal complacency and iXHWlar indifference. Sure, there are more Republican and Ntxcm and Gavin insignia displayed in traditional Deroocrat-3 areas than has been the case

go at that. They cant quite bring themselves to that poini, because of the conflicting statements of fact (?) given by opposing candidates.

Ralph McGill, the erudite editor of tile Atlanta Journal, who has traveled with both presidential candidates during the campaign.. has this comment; There is almost certainly a national malaise, a sickness of doubt and concern. But, it is not translated into thought; but into search for a panacea, a formula. And this means the voters, the people, are thinking in terms not of Issues but of a man cither Kennedy or Nixon.

His report on one Nixon meeting had this sentence; There was, in the upraised faces of the crowd, such a pitiful desire to be comforted that one remembered ones own childhood and the fear of dark nights. McGill went on to say that the desperately sought reassurance was not forthcoming.

SHILLING JOBAnother reason for lack of enthusiasm for eith^ candidate is the subcon-

ny tiecticHi since 1928. The scious feeling that there is more

' staff of paid and volunteer workers in Democratic State headquarters, which occupies almost the entire first floor of the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh, is the workingest group of folks imaginable. PYom b^cH*e l*eakfast until long after supper telephones are ringing, ti^pewriters art clicking, and mailing clerks are bundling and sending out literature by the tons.

The cltixens who turn out in large numbers at party rallies, both Democratic and Repub-lioaa, are enthusiastic and zeal-Mis. They applaud and cheer and ahmit ^iconragement to the peafccrs. And yet

Penonal visits your reporter to differmt parts (tf the state and inforomtion received from coots at other points, disclos-es a hiadi degree of apathy on part of the rank and file citi-Mnry.

GONFSED In seeking an 'wa^lanation for this attitude laim reporters discover more Questions than answers. The big Question is whetiier the people who are zu)t talking are silent because they are reluctant to express their allegiance, or because they are uncertain and c<fused about what they themselves believe or want. The fact that 80 many citizens proodly display Kennedy or tnxon or Sanford or Gavin Insignia suggests that those who don't are more uncertain than ashamed. In <kher words, the silent vote which so greatly disturhsptiie politicians may be sUeut 0^ because decision has not bera reached. The undecid-' ed are desperately looking for direction and guidance and lead-arfasip.

8<unetimes tt appears they are eefktng release from necessity of making any decision. They would like to accept what someone else tells them and let it

salesmanship than statesmanship in ihe campaign. That the candidates are being carefully

^ Maybe you never thought of the youngster who delivered your news^iaper today as an enterprising businessman. Well, he is.

He and thousands of youngsters like him all over the nation are young businessmen, in business for themselves, buying new'spapers at wholesale rates and selling them to you and millions of other readers at retail prices. His profit, like that of any other businessman, depends upon how well he looks after his business, the kind of service he renders his customers, and the manner in Which he handles the finances of his business.

Today throughout the nation is being obsen^ed as National Newspaperboy Day. And with good reason.

A large percentage of the approximately 60 million copies of newspapers sold daily in the United States are sold by these young businessmen. They provide the yital link between the gathering and publishing of news and advertising and its distribution to the readers. Without the important service they perform, the dissemination of news to individual readers would be greatly restricted in this nation in which a daily newspaper has become a part of the life of almost family.

Like other businessmen, the newspaperboy has his problems. He has to watch his collections, and be careful of the credit he extends to customers, tie has to be sure the service he renders his customers is up to expectations or else he loses them. Whether the day is sunny and warm or cold and snowy he has to make his deliveries, for he knows his customers are waiting to receive the product he sells. He knows also that he cannot put off his job until tomorrow, for by then

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By PATRICIA MOORE .

Heard It, And More

Somebody wondered if we really did hqar an item on the street about the two men giving a saleswoman a piece of their minds about some curtains that tiiey bought which shrank when washed.

Yes, we heard It and some more, too!

coached to assume positions de-_ j . j. n j .v 1.1

signed to attract votes. That is^he 11 have a new product to sell and the one he has

Heres one we heard, but not on the street, about some birds and a little girl we know. Her nadie is Robin, shes three and not afraid of a living thing. She doesnt act afraid, anyway.

It wasnt long ago that her mother was doing some dusting in the living room when she and Robin heard a few strange noises, then some chirping. All inside the house.

All inside the chimney.

You might have guessed it was

some little birds paying their respects inside the chimney. It was all very cute and enjoyable at the time. Robin ate it up!

That is. until about 11 that night, when she awoke acrewn-ing from her sleep about the birds that were tiring to get her.

It has taken a little time for her to like the living ro<Hii again and not to be afraid the birds are going to swoop down anytime. Okay, psychologists, what is the technical interpretation of this simple dream?

Some florist sure has a sadistic outlook on life. Otherwise, how can this be true?

Over in that wonderful metropolis of Grifton-by-the-stream we saw something raiher delightful in this day and time.

In their new little library, children were hustling back and forth, checking out books, reading and doing homework. We asked Librarian Elizabetii Burney if It was like tiiat every day and it is.

Then theres a rumor about poison ivy going all around different places. A friend in the hospital calledshes been there several weeksand said a doctor surmised her Itching might be poison ivy.

Opinions In Brief

particularly true in North Carolina with the Nixon image. But it has considerable influence on the Kennedy situation because of the religious issue. That issue has abated tremendously during the past few weeks, but it is not dead. Many people still have serious and honest doubts about the extent of influence of the church on Kwmedy and of Nixons affinity with the ideology that has so greatly depreciated the prestige of the United States in world affairs.

Reports on surveys made amwig farmers and labor un-i<m members in the middle west recently show that both groups put foreign relations ahead of the farm program or domestic labor legislation. Foreign poUcy is complex and difficult for the average citizen to evaluate. Because the rank and fUe of citizens do not understand it, they are afraid of it. Another reason for hesitancy in speaking out.

INTERESTED It may be that the silent folks are not so apathetic as surface evidence would indicate. It is possible that the silence may stem from keeaer interest and deeper thinking than usual. In any event the presently silent vote will control the election. All the people who have attended all the political rallies and participated In the various polls represent a small segment of the total voting population. It is inconceivable that this small segment includes all the honest and serious thinkers, because the non-vocative folks constitute so large a majority it is difficult to forecast election results.

today will be obsolete.

Today w^e salute the newspaperboys who deliver The Daily Reflector and the other newspapers throughout the country.

Other Editors Saying...

Home-grown things are usually the best, sSiys a writer. If hes talking about children we agree."Altoona (Pa.) Mirror.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) After S great debates on TV the tacticsor the techniquesof Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen John P. Kennedy begin to show through.

Nixon is a generalizer who makes frequent use of that old-time debating tactic: the big needle. When he thinks he has a good thing going, he won't let go. He gets sentimental and, like a name-dropper, identifies himself with President Eisenhower.

Kennedy, who evidently does his homework, is much mc*e specific and detailed than Nixon. but lets himself lose a lot of time trying to extract the Nixon needle. Recently he became quite a needier himself.

For example: As TV Watchers could see for themselves he had gotten under Nixons skin by an earlier remark calling him trigger-happy.

But Kennedy talks too fast, throwing out facts, names and date.s as if he assumed all the millions of TV viewers w-ere as familiar ivith these things as he himself is. And he seems to lack a dramatic sense.

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Before the campaign ever got i.nder way Nixon told newsmen point of a gun. hed go heavy on generalizations. light on details. He has followed that course. For instance. Thursday night, in s.iead of going into detail on de {ease plans, he said he would make a major speech about it.

Nixon uses the needle various ways; By accusing Kennedy of reversing himself, talking one way now and another before: of wanting to spend too much; of getting facts mixed.

Earlier this week newsmen

with Nixon reported he thought he had hit on an issue In hia dispute with Kennedy over what position the next president should take on Quemoy and Matsu, two small islands close to the Red Chinese coast.

Chlang Kai-shek, an American ally on Formosa, llO miles away from the coast and almost that far from the islands, claims Quemoy and Matsu as his. The Reds also claim them.

This country has a treaty with Chiang to defend Formosa in case of attack. But it is not pledged to defend the offshore islands. The Eisenhower administration has never gone beyond saying the islands would be defendedIf they were considered essential to the defense of Formosa.

Kennedy says the islands are not necessary to Formosas defense and not worth getting into war about. Nixon says they shouldnt be turned over to the Red Chinese.

Why? Because, Nixon says, it Ls a matter of principle not to yield them, that surrendering them ahead of an attack would be appeasement. StUl he hasn't said what hed do if they were attacked. And Kennedy says he wouldnt surrender them at the

(Richmond News Leader)

Our youths now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for older people. Children nowadays are tyrants. They no longer rise when their eldars enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers. Socrates, Fifth Century, BC..

A recent article in the Satur-. da.' Evening Post comes as a breeze in-the storm that hovers anxiously, and with much wringing of learned hands, over the teen-ager. Penned by an erudite young headmaster of an eastern prep school, the Post article nicely answers the old question: Why do teen - agers misbehave? His reply argument punctures a few of the airy balloons sent up from time to time by educationists and sociologists of the let-them-work-it-out-for-themselves school of thought. In effect, Edward Tuck HaU of the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, says the fault lies not in the lad, but in the alleged adult of their mutual society.

Mr. Hall sees the easy manners, curious taste in clothes, haircut, music and nightclubs, and garish vocabulary of some modern youth as a sign of pressures to which most of their parents were not subjected. These boys and girls frankly have a good dead more to put up with than we did.

First, they have us,

Wethe parents and. teachers are Authority, with a capital A., and, in Mr. Halls book, Au

thority has let the teen - ager oowiv- Today the latter is the innocent victim of a social conspiracy, Consider the so-called teen market, the cult of the disc jockey, the incessant throb of 10,000 electric guitars, the skin smooth and deep counselor on problems of the lovelorn and the otherwise shook up. All these combine to build up the teen-agers ego, and to tell him he is a life size customer. Having puffed him up, usually in ratio to the size of the bankroll available to him, society then further confuses its youthful victim by being permissive just when the reverse is called for.

Mr. Hall writes (and here he gets to the root of the problem), Whatever progressive education did that was good (and I am sure that there was something), it left in its wake, a dynasty of confused ^dults, . . . so perplexed as to Just what to insist upon and what to permit, that they deny nothing, thus affirming nothing.

This, of course is the unhappy legacy left by the prsigmatism of William James, late of Harvard University, and the correspondingly balmy educational theories of his disciple, Dr. John Dewey, father of the progre.sslve brat. As Mr. Hall so succinctly notes, we now have a society that in effect tells the teen-ager: Dirty books are not dirty; .swear words are not profane; pornography Is art; promiscuity is liberalism; nihilism Is courage; agnosticism is open-mindedness.

Add to this bubbling cauldron the materialism in a society

There are far more conservatives In the country than many politicians realize, or, will admit. The weakness of the conservatives lies in lack of organization and agresslveness." Wythe-vllle (Va.) Enterprise.

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As a rule of thumb, a million dollars of private investment will do more good than a million dollars of government program.West Point (Miss.) Daily Times Leader.

of Status Seekers, stir well with the current philosophy that the cut of a young mans jib is to be determined by the foot length of hts car, and you get a taste 01 the insidious pressures working at the teen-ager day in and day out. Schoolmasters, Mr. Hali says candidly, pay admiring tribute to the parents who know how to deal with these pressures. And how does one deal with them? Well, suggests the Pennsylvania educator, todays youngster needs peace: first, within himself, second, with his parents and teachers (mainly the former because they are much more important), and third, with his faith.

But, prerequisite to preparing the young lad for his search for himself is the adult adult. Our job Is to set the standards of personal conduct, is the^ not very novel but so very wise advice offered by this Northern educator. To that, we would but add, the sooner the adult reaffirms his own responsibility, the sooner he makes it clear once more that dirty books are dirty, the sooner that young lad wiU be put upon the right road.

By GEORGE E. SCHCOLSKY CopyrifM, liMO, King Feataree Syndicate, Inc.

To Khrushchev, .one glatfiy says, Good-bye, do svidanie. He came; he saw; but be did not conquer. Not a single measure that he proposed passed the General Assembly of the United Nations. He made his stronger stend on the admissiim of Red china to the United Nations. Had he been able to win the lew African countries to hia program. Red China would have been admitted. Khrushchev returns to Moscow empty-handed. This is a serious matter for any politician.

What dearly was bothering Khrushchev was first, that no dramatic explosion occurred to startle the world at the moment of Khrushchevs arrival in New York. There was no Sputiiik; no . man was shot to the moon <mt to Mars. Somebody let Klumh-chev down. Chr perhaps, after the U-2 completed the photographing of Russian installations, there is no further need to try to scare us.

President Eisenhowers conduct bothered Khrushchev no end. So far as the Govoianent of the United States is ccwcem-ed. no one knew that Khrushchev was here. Of course, the New York Chty police protected him excessively but beytmd that there was ndhing. He had not come to the United States; be had come to the United Nations.

The President correctly had nothing to say to the man who wants to bury us. He left that to (yrus Eaton and David Suss-kind. No American official greeted him at any point.

Khrushchev, the head of state, the diplomat had difficulty keeping In the news; Khrushchev, the clown, had no difficulty at all. He spoke from a balcony like Mussolini used to do inv Rome. He took a walk <hi the sidewalk of Park Avenue like Harry Truman, except that Har-ty Truman needs no police escort. He thumped the tables in the United Nations like a small boy in a tantrum, but after a while, nobody noted that except iP disgust. He went (m the Suss-kind program and lied without sense.

Surely, it was a waMed effort. Khrushchev had brought together the heads of xpany states to make a show of his power. It was the largest assemblage of rulers in history. But they made little impression because Khrushchev overwhelmed everybody. He stole the stage. Usually Ndhru of India gets top billing but Nehru was no match ch- Khrushchev in stealing the center of the stage. The whole business was an exercise in futiity.

However, It did disclose one facta tremendousy significant fact. Soviet Russia now seeks to destroy the United Nations and w'l do it by whatever means are available. In this session, Khrushchev failed but he disclosed his hand. Stalin held fast to the doctrine that the small nations amounted to notii-ing. He respected but disliked the United States. He regarded Great Britain as decadent and Germany as no longer significant.

Khrushchev makes a play for the small nations only because in such a body as the United Nations, they have the votes. Apart from that, he is contemptuous of them. Had he succeeded in killing off the United Nations, he would not be forced to submit to the blackmail which both Soviet Russia and the United States may be fwc-ed to accept during the next years. The African countries, in particular, have an enormous advantage in that they have votes to offer to the highest bidder. Had Khrushchev succeeded in killing off the United Nations, the African countries would have no role to play at all. And even such a countiy as India, despite Nehru and Krishna Men-on, would amount to very little in world affairs ami would be forced to turn to either tiie United States for defense against the Communist countries or to Soviet Russia for protection against Red China.

As it 1, Khrushchev will have to explain his failure to his own Presidium and to the Red Chinese with whom he is feuding. Mao Tze-tung suspects Khrushchev of hankering for the aon-soclallstic high standard of liv-(Continued on page she)

If (he goveniment ever attempts to guaran*<e a job to everyone, it will have to control all wage di.sputes, and that will mean compulsory arbitration. Neither unions nor management wants that. Washington (Iowa) Evening Journal.

Banks, Credit Unions Competing

By ELMER ROESSNER Li ^te war for the publics .savmBL theres an intensifying battle developing between banks and credit unions.

There are other battles for savings, of course, involving bot I commercial and savings banks, savings and loan associations, mutual funds, some charitable organizations, government bond sellers, real estate funds, some charitable organizations and those credit unions.

The guy with a saved buck is the most popular man in town. Everybody wants to take care of it for him.

Ang in this compelition to be a big brothei perh:*:, one of the most intense is bi .^' cfo credit unions and banks STORY OF CREDIT UNIONS Credit unions are cooperative societies in which members pool their savings and lend to mem-l)ers needing money. The first were organized in Germany. They appeared In Canada in 1900. and the fu*st charter In the United States was granted by the

New Hampshire legislature in 1909, Now most states charter CUs, as they are called, and since 1934, federal charters have t*een granted.

Uht.il rrrertly, banks liave paid little atteiition to them. Some banks, indeed, have served as .bankers to CUs, even giving, cold steel advice to dream ad-niinLstrators of the unions.

But now CUs have branched out. II has become easier to be a member o the group, getting good interest on deposits and being able to make attractice loans. Just being a member of a union, a FederaJ eijiployee, or a worker in a large corporation qualities many people.

Since 1959, crodit union.; have grown four times as fast as hanks. Reasons are that many of them get free rent, light and facilities, from sponsoring organizations, free labor from officers and other unpaid services. BANKS WANT A SLICE

Credit unions have grown so large that banks are now realizing that they have lost a big

chunk of profitable businees. Many are now bidding to win it back.

The matter came up at the recent meeting of the American Bankers Association. Rogert L. Currant, president of the Pall River (Mass.) National Bank, urged bankers to broaden the scope of the service to combat the rapid growth of rural and urban community credit unions. He did say that it was almost foolhardy to compete with those credit unions similar to religious groups and labor unions, which have a captl potentiality.

The greatest opportunities, he saic. were in offering banking services to employees. There are already more than 100 banks offering on-the-job services, he said.

Employers, he said. wiB cooperate for these reasons,' h Employees will not tiaye to be absent from work to take care of routine banking transac-tion.!.

2. lu-plant banking will en

courage employees to save, and will kep many from borrowing from high-rate lenders.

S. Employers will be relieved of the need of deiding witii requests fter salary advances or company loans.

4. Services ean be considered as another group benefit, without ohUgating the company.

5. The bank helps to maintain a good understaniUng of the program among employees.

Mr. Currant also declared that banks have a good, comparison of their services to tiiose of credit unions.

TEXAS STORY NO. 1,758,992 Where but from Texas could there have come the heartwarming story of the successful entrepreneur who, learning hia young son wanted a chemistry set for Christmas, gave him the du Pont Company? asked David A. Dawson, in an address to the Texas Mid-Continent Gas & Oil Association. Mr. Dawson is a du Pont vice president.