PAG FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Monday, October 14, 1960

Monday, October 24, 1960

Something He Loves To Pound On

Safe To Expect Record Pitt Vote

How many votes will Pitt County cast in the national election two weeks from tomorrow?

Looking back over the voting record of Pitt in national elections, at least one conclusion can.^be drawn. The County, while it normally gives the Democraticticket a heavy majority, does not reflect in its number of ballots the potential voting strength it possesses.

The number of Pitt Countians who vote in a national election apparently depends upon the local interest that is generated during the campaign lAt precedes the election.

If these conclusions are justified, it is safe to predict that Pitt County will cast a record number of votes on November 8. Interest is high in the current presidential campaign as well as in the gubernatorial race. For the first time in many years the county is seeing an active campaign in its midst in behalf of the Republican candidates for the.top offices in the state and nation. This has stimulated Republican interest in the county and has likewise stimulated Democratic efforts to get a large turnout of voters on election day.

On November S Pitt County should see between 16,000 and 17,000 people go to the polls to register their preference in the election. Sucb a number of voters would set a new national election record for the county but compared with the 25,000 or so registered voters in Pitt, it would not represent anywhere near full participation in the election of top officials.

In 1940 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought his unprecedented third term in office a total of 10,400 Pitt Countians went to the polls. Four years later the county counted only 9,000 votes in the/national election and in 1948 there was a slight increase to 9,500 votes cast in the general election.

The 1952 campaign between President Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson brought out 13,500 voters in Pitt for the presidential election, and four years agoChallenge That N. C. Cant Win

By Lym Nisbet

PERCENTAGE Governor Bodges has accepted a challenge from Gov. William P. Quinn ot Hawaii tor a vc^g contest Governor Quinn reports that in the first election in the State of Hawaii since it was admitted to the Union 92-9 percent ot the registered voters went to the polls. Presumably, aince this was a first election and a new exp^lence for the citizens, a very high percentage of the tlglble voters registered,

R was estimated fwjr years tgo that about 1,800,000 voter were registered in North Carolina out of a possible 2.300,000 eligible In the population of a litUe over four and a quarter million at that time. The vote for President In 1956 was 1,165,-592. That represented 64.75 pw-cent of the registrati<m, about 50 percent of the potential eligi-bias. Population has increased since 1956 and the most strenuous effort in history to get all potential voters registered has been made this year. Reasonable estimate on total registration would be about 2.200,000. interest is keen in both the eon-test for President and Governor. Considering these factors an tmate of 70 p^nt vote is msonahle. That will bring a re-wrd turnout of close to a million and a half.

Ifa aooepting the challigc Governor Hodges virtiaOly conceded defeat. He said if Hawa voted anywhere near 90 percent. North Carolina would luurdly be in the numing.

Governor Hodges predicts that whatever the vote total may be, and be thinks it will be large, Kesmedy-Jcriinsea and Sanford will get a substantial majority. He told newsmen the other day that his cmly concern is size of the Democratic margin.

employment -- Chambers of commerce and similar boost-or dubs, poetical parties which oro in control of government, and other promotional groups Kke to empha^ the high level of employment as a sign of prosperity. The North Carolina Department of Labor reports that in September there were 1.179.200 employed workers M non-agricultural jobs. This is a record high, exceeding by 12,-100 Uie previous top in September of last year.

But because of lay-offs In eon^ industries and shorter hours In others, the average

earnings of all non-farm workers dropped 86 cents a week in September from the August level of $61.45. Persons who work only part time but are kept on the payroll are reported as employed. Part timers can maintain the high level of number of employees although actual employment may be reduced.

Y.D.C. The Young Democratic clubs were disappointed in the attendance and manifested interest at their state convention here Friday and Saturday. They complained that advance publicity got lost in the mass of live news stories about the appearances of so many nationally fammed speakers on the regular Democratic campaign circuit. Normally the chairman of the Democratic national committee would attract a good audience. Senator - chairman Henry M. Jackson was competing at the UDC banquet in Raleigh with a widely advertised rally featuring Adlai Stevenson at Durham. The youngsters had hoped to have Adlai Stevenson at their legislative breakfast Saturday morning, but had to change that as well as the date for Jackson to fit into the plans of the regular organization.

COMMITTED The lisess and indifferent attitucU of many of the YDC members who at-taided the convention was generally blamed on the lack of contest for the important official positions. When early arrivals tried to persuade somebody else to run for State YDC president, they found the same kind of situation that Nelson Rockefeller ran into when he wanted to go out for the Republican presidential nomination. Enough advance commitments had been made to Sam Johnson of Wake to discourage any other candidate. A comparable situation developed last year when Monroe Redden* Jr. was elected without opposition. Without a contest for president, there isnt a great deal of internal political activity at YDC convention.^. In fact, there sometimes is not much interest then unless the regular party factions and can-ilidates become involved.

That is why some YDC members favOT election of officers for two year terms, the elections to be held in odd-numbered years to ease the impact of races for Governor and President on YDC voting.

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when President Eisenhower sought his second term Pitt County cast 14,400 votes.

The population of Pitt has increase^ in the past four years and the number of registered voters has likewise increased. These factors, together with the growing interest in the campaign this year, should result in a total vote of some 2,000 above the figure recorded four years ago.

As one of the largest counties of the East, Pitt County's vote on November 8 could have a decided influence on the outcome of the election in North Carolina. It is in the best interest of the county, as well as the state and nation, that every registered voter in Pitt make a sincere effort to cast his ballot on election day.

The responsibility of participating in an election is one which rest with each citizen individually. Unless he makes the necessary effort to cast his ballot, his choice between the candidates will not be reflected in the final results of the election.

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Growing Enrollment Needs More Support

- As has been the case in recent years, the official enrollment figures for the fall quarter at East-Carolina ^ College have set new records both with respect to total enrollment and for the number of students in the freshman class.

The official figures show that 4,599 students are enrolled in classes on the East Carolina campus during the current quarter, and that the freshman class this year totals 1,796 men and women. These totals are further proof that East Carolina is continuing to grow in size and in importance to higher education in North Carolina.

Already the college ranks as the third largest state supported institution of higher learning in North Carolina and the fourth largest institution of higher learning in the state. Its rate of growth continues to be somewhat higher than the average for colleges and universities in North Carolina, Indicating it will continue to close the gap that separates it from other larger institutions.

The growing enrollment at East Carolina demands growing support from the state so far as finances for operations and for capital improvements are concerned. It likewise demands growing support from the people of this immediate area who recognize what the presence of East Carolina College means to Pitt County and to Eastern North Carolina as a whole.

ob Reaort And.

By GEORGE SOKOLSKY

Countdown For Decision

hlection imoact

By RALPH ROBEY

Figures on employment and unemployment always are watched closely as an indication of whether the business trend is moving up or down. This year the figures have an added significance because o the election.

Even before the September report was issued. Democratic spokesmen said that too much attention tould not be paid to a possible improvement because it is clear that in many sections of the nation neither business nor emplojnment is what it should be. Republican spokesmen, as was to be expected, took the opposite viewpoint.

Well, the report has now been issued and both sides can find some basis for claiming they were correct. The report gives the' emplo3Tnent and unemployment for the middle of September, since these surveys always are made in the week ending nearest the 15th of the month.

First it should be noted that the civilian labor force has been growing more rapidly than normally expected. During the twelve months ending with this September the increase was 1,600.000. Some 300,000 of this results from the inclusion of Alaska and Haw'aii. Obviously such an increase In the size of the labor force tends to have an effect upon the volume of unemployment, since it means that much larger number of persons must find jobs.

None the less, the number of unemployed declined in September-declined by more than the normal seasonal number. The actual drop was 400,000. Some of the reduction was caused by a continuation of the return of students to school, and some b> the pickup in the automobile industry.

The Democrats claim that this is too large a volume of unem-rloyment. They are correct in this. Granted only a relatively fmall proportion of the total has been out of work for 15 weeks cr more, it still is a greater number looking for vvork than anyone wants to see.

The Republicans, while admitting that the number of un-fmployed is too large, insyst that the situation is getting better. That also is correct, but the rate of improvement is terribly slow. What the Republicans need to point out, but so far have not done, is the extraordinary

growth in the total labor force. When allowance is made for this growth, the decline in unemploy- ment is much m<H^ impressive.

So much for unemployment. What of emplojrment?

Here the picture is both favorable and unfavorable.

The favorable side is that the numb* holding jobs increased by well over a milli(m as compared with twelve months earlier. The unfavorable side is the character and places of the increase.

For example, agricultural employment normally declines in the September report. This time it revealed a handsome increase. The explanation is not that the trend of agricultural employment has changed, but merely that this year the survey week was relatively late and as a result closer to the peak of the harvesting season.

Further, industrial employment as a whole showed an increase as compared with a year earlier, but almost the whole growth was in the primary metal industry, and in September, 1959, we were in the midst of the steel strike. The great increases, in other words, were in non-manufacturing.

The Democrats can and will cite these employment data as proof that the nation is not moving aheadcertainly not moving ahead at the rate it should be. The Republicans admit that we are not growing as rapidly as they would like, but they insist that we have not stopped growing, and they are accurate in this contention. The survey for October has already been made.

It is to be hoped Uiat it can be made public prior to the^ election., v ^

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Tho expert will read Major General John B. Medariss book, Countdown for Decision. with critical attenticm concerning rockets. missiles and such. I am not capable of discussing such matters at all from a technical standpoint. Nevertheless, I found this book interesting and even exciting because it brought sharply to the readers attention the fact that just as we are developing new weapons to meet new conditions, so we need to devele^ new organizations to meet changing situations.

The armed forces exist to make war. Euphemistically and politically we refer to war these days as defense; but whether it is defense or offense, it is war and war is waste. From an economic standpoint therefore

military institutions expect to waste the nations wealth and manpower as thriftily as passible. On the other hand, too much thrift can defeat the very purpose of the military organization. You may recall that our recruits at the beginning of World War II had no rifles. We had perhaps 18 months warning then; we may not have 18 minutes warning the next time.

General Medaris says:

I have tried to emphasize many times in this book how stupid and highly wasteful it is to spent several milllMis of dollars to get up a satellite to do a specific j(^, and then find that because of the failure of one element aboard the satellite the mission cannot be accomplished. . .This so-called redundancy is almost the only way to

Other Editors Saying... A New Independence

(The Shelby Star)

The so-called independent group of voters will be the deciding factor in the coming presidential election.

These independents, who will make up perhaps 40 per cent of the total voting strength are of two distinct groups. They axe party members who refuse to recognize party allegiance beyond the local level and voters who claim no party allegiance.

The former group is becoming larger in the South for many reasons.

In the first place, broad civil service provisions have removed patronage from the hands of local political bosses and the promise of reward for party allegiance can no longer be made by party leaders at county levels.

The posts of iwecinct chairman or party chairman at the county level once were prizes of considerable wcM-th to those who wanted to exert power. Power was to be had in these jote because after every national election, plums were to be distributed all the way down to mail carrier on local routes.

This is no longer true and the hardest job party offfcials have is to recruit volunteers to man county and precinct positions.

In the South, there are. other and even more basic reasons Democrats frequently cross party lines In elections above the local level.

First, to actively participate in iH-imaries and elections at the county level in many southern areas (Including North Carolina), a voter must register as a Democrat. Thus, new citizens from other aras, who were per

haps Republicans in other states, take a very practical view and register as Democrats m order to make their vote count for local offices.

Secondly, southern voters are becoming more and more aware that their Democratic representatives and senators simply do not practice what they preach about party lines.

In Congress, as many times as not, southern Democrats will be allied with Republicans in fighting for or against a particular piece of legislation. This has been particularly true during past years as some northern Democratic leaders mors increasingly toward an ultra-liberal position.

Consider the diversity of views* between such men as Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois and Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi. And can one imagine Sen. Sam Ervin seeing eye to eye with Sen. Hubert Humphrey?

Thus, we must understand that many Southern Democrats feel they have the same right to cross party lines when they feel such a course is consistent with their political philos(H)hy.

Finally, the office of President has risen above the partisanship of the past. True, the President must be a member of a party because that is the nature of our political system. Once elected, however, he moved far beyond the leader of a partisan group.

He must represent all the people of America before the nations of the world. Whether he is a Republican or a Democrat pales to insignificance before the qutetion of how well he can fulfill his role as leader of the tree nations of the world.

assure with relative certainty that the millions of dollars involved in getting the satellite into position will rejult in a u.se-iul instrument for a sufficient time to warrant the cost.

But is this duplication busi-inesslike? General Medaris replies:

. -under the guise of so-called business methods of operation, totally unrealistic systems of control and of evaluation of results are foisted upon the Services, crippling the capacity of the Armed Forced to fight and win any kind of armed conflict that might threaten us. Corporation accounting methods are forced Into a system that cannot cast up a profit - and - loss statement or price its product, except when the chips are down and aU must go to the profit side if we can win, or all becomes a loss if we lose. Accountants and bookkeepers have been multiplied fourfold, replacing leaders, strategists, and tacticians, and not one dime of the taxpayera money has been saved in the process. For every dollar of mistake identified, always too late to correct, ten dollars have been spent in the finding.

The problem raised here is technical, as it must be. Our armed forces cannot be managed as ribbons are sold in a department store. The problems are not the same. The department store sells ribbons to make a profit. If the ribbons do not sell, there is a sale, a mark down and the lass Is absorbed and forgotten. The armed forces must be ready at all times to kill the enemy fast and surely and to avoid being killed by the enemy in turn. There can be no failure, because any failure is total failure. There can be no writing off lasses, because the losses are total losses, never to be recovered. The loss may even amount to the destruction of a nation and the enslavement of its people.

The Defense Department'must be related to the single purpose of winning a war and it must always assume that a war is just around the comer. The State Department exists to keep and make the peace, the Pentagon exists to win a war and for nothing else.

The questlcm then Is not what is traditionally right but what needs to be done to defeat Soviet Russia. Red CSiina and their satellltea quickly, surely, effectively.

General Medariss book is a critique of our methods of handling war. He says:

. . .It should be entirely logical to establish a Joint Ck>m-mand to which should be entrusted the undivided responsibility for directing the major missile and space activities.

(Continued on page five)iUrope And The Future

' By ROGER BABSON

EN ROUTE HOME,My roi thought as 1 c<nplet my six weeks away from tito United States is that ,wc and Great Britain should hoid together as a solid bloc and foundation f<Mr others of the free nations who are willing to put character and courage ahead or propaganda and selfishness.

ATTITUDE OF FRANCE

Certainly deGauUe has dona wonders for France. He, how* ever, appears to be a vny e<ni-ceited man and knows little about economics. If deGauUe should suddenly drop dead, most lntelUgat French pe<mle bdievo that France would revert to chctos. Surdy I would invest no money in Prance. Mrs. Babeon, who spent her time at the hotels and stores, fears that France is pricing herself out <rf bteiness.

Personally, I have not seen much of the Germans since I spent some moE^ tiiere just before World War I. There la no doubt, however, that they are a most industrios people. If the French endeavor is to give a little for as much as possible, certainly the Germans are supplying tbt most goods possible for as little as possible. As a result, great pui> chases bd-h of machinery and of goods are being made in Ger* many by American manufacturers.

WHAT ABOUT ITALY?

Italy is also fcM'ging ahead in exports to the United States and all over the world. TWs especially applies to plajees, for the manufacture of which Milan has very large factories. This includes not (xily solid plastics, which will soon competo with steel in our neF llgl^we^ht automobiles- but also textiles of ail kinds from tableware to dress goods and clothing. B<^ the textile unions and the manutoct-urers of woven products already see the handwriting on the wall!

During my trip I met several buyers for such concerns as Sears, Roebuck, Montgomery Ward, Woolworth, McGrory-Mc-Lellan, and Macys. These concerns are bringing goods from both Europe and Japan in shiploads to sell in the United States and South Americaat low prices and at good profits. When China also breaks into these markets the competition will be very severe. This latter may be worrying Mr. K and be one reason for his tirades!

WHAT ABOUT AMERICAN STOCK MARKET?

From the above, it looks as if the profits of our industrial companies will continue to decline, and be followed by dividend reductkHis. If cothpetition increases, as I expect, it will result in unemplojrment followed by more labor strikes. Employers may not be about to reduce wages but they surely will resist wage Increases and the fringes which are constantly increasing. I now see no reason for a business depression, but certainly this situation does not now encourage another bull market, except possibly in the merchandising and specialty stocks.

Then what is holding our U.S. stock market up? My answer is "European buying. Our gold supply is surely eroding, yet every European with whcwn I have talked believes Uiat the United States is the safest country in which to invest funds. Every German and Italian manufacturer who gets sirplns funds (either from the sale of goods or perhaps from the sale of his entire business to Americans) is sending a portion of those dollars to the U.S. to invest in the Dow-Jones stocks, tndudlDg steels!

CONCLUSION

Such foreign buytog of U.S. stocks could hold the Dow-Jones Industrials up while earnings and possibly dividends decline. But I now hestltate to recommend either the purchase or sale of active stocks for capital gains or tax losses. Of course, we will know much more after November 8th, We then, however, should not judge the true effect of the election by what happens to the stock market during the first 30 days, but should have patience lo wait a few months.

END

P. 8. Reading over my notes, I see that I made no mention of Spain, in which we pent ten days. We like Spain and the Spanish customs. The hotols art good, the prices are reasonable, and the people are contented. Spains .sandy beeehee on the

(Continued on page five)

More Look-Aheads In Business

Strength For 7b(day

Bv EARL L. DOUGLASS WE ALL HAVE ONE

Ralph Waldo Emerson became very iorgetiul in his old age. It embarrassed him greatly that he could not remember peoples .'ames, so he had a technique by which he tried to hide the fact that his mind was losing some of its vigor. He would extend his hand to the person whose name he could not recall rnd as he shook hands with him would say, "Hows the old complaint?

He knew everybody had one. Such a thing as getting through life with no complaint to haunt us is pradiically unknown. In all this vast world there is not a person living today, nor has a

person ever lived, who Is not bearing some burden. We all have a complaint of some kind. For many psoole it is uhysicaJ. Backache is .said to be the most wideiy .irr ' con'^Ii^n amonti mankind. We are, all sorry or ashamed, or per.haps both, for things we have Mid and done. Think what opportunities we have missed! Tbink of the things we said w'hich should have been left unsaid! Complaint, complaint, complaintlife is full of complaint. We all have some complaint gnawing away at us.

So Emerson had something when he used to hail the stranger with the query, "Hoa's the old complaint?"

What's yours?

By'ELMER ROESSNER

Here are more look-aheads in business, based on analysb of developing trends and a smattering of advance information: Cnsiller sugar: The cut-off in purchases of Cuban sugar has w'eakened prices In the world market and further declines arc likely.' However, lower world quotations are not likely to affect domestic prices. Much of the housewives sugar Ls kept high te' i^i JUf; controls.

Low - Cholesterol marge: A corn oil rnargarir.e wi lOut hy-Urorenat 10.1hence a med to be v;ithout cholesterij zaids - it bein' ested in Nsw England, New York and Philadelphia markets. II consumers like U. it will be spread across the country.

Nonwood pins; The wooden bowling pin may be out. Pins with metal core.s and plastic coverings are being tested in two Milwaukee alleys, and if

they get keglcrs approval, they may replace wooden pins. the: higher THE CHEAPER Lower air-freight rates: Con-terer.ces of tnc International Air Transport Association in France .eemed to favor lower alr-Ireight rates, 11 American alr-lifters are In agreement. Available cargo space is rising rapidly, and lower rates are considered the best way to attract more treipht into plane bellies. A new lATA session early in 1961 probably w.ll approve more lavorible rates td shippers.

More weight control: Still another weight-control powdered product is about to burst on the market. Promoters o this one claims an eater can lose a pound every 48 hours, without hunger pangs. Heavy television fadvertislng is planned .Smoke detection surer: A robot plane has been designed to fly over cities, note source of smoke pollution, and radio Infor-matiou to a ground coatrod cen

ter. It can also relay data on temperature, air pressure and humidity in its level of flight. STICKY SUBJECT

Costlier chews: For years, the ,5-cent pack of gum has been the mast stable of Americin products. While other nickel items have jumped to 10,15,20, 25 cents and even higher, gum has stuck (sorry pun) at the jitney level. But now eight-stick packs are being offered at 10 cents In te.st areas and, If the public consents, eight sticks for 10 c^nts may be the new standar/

U '.lion competition: The

sha p rise in the use of dictating machines in offices is attracting a new competitor. IBM may soon have dictating machines in the office dictation field.

Better leather: New processing machines will cut the cast of cleaning cattle hide.s, producing better leather with reduced shipping weights, tha UJS. D-

partment of AgrievUurs says. Thta may lead to slightly lower prices for leather goods.

BRAND X CIGARETTES ABOUT TO BECOME REALITT The smirk was six axe hah-dlea wide when the Old Promoter walked In today. You scoffed when I suggested Brand X products, he said. I told you with all the free advertising Brand X was getting on television, Brand X items wduld sell like waffles.

You may have laughed, hut three New Yorkers are bringing out Brand X cigarettes, advertised as for the man who is satisfied with nothing less th^n second best.* They may carry pictures of vice presidents on each pack. The advertising message: It cost a little more but It promises a little less!

Ah well! For the 44th time weve passed up a suggestion by t'fye Old Promoter to make a miUioa. .