. PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Tuesday, Norember 1, IMO

.Tuesday, November 1, 1960

A Tossup

Discounting All The Past Weeks?

To one standing on the sidelines of this eventful national election year it seems incredible that the election may be won or lost in the final week of campaign. Yet Vice President Nixon voiced such an opinion yesterday.

Does al^that has gone before mean nothing? Has the struggle between the Democrats and Republicans, Sen. Kennedy and Vice President Nixon meant little until now ? Have not the voters of the nation weighed carefully the issues, the assertions, the points of disagreement and the outlook for the nation under each candidate during the past w'eeks of the campaign?

The last days of any political campaign are al-w^ays important to the outcome of an election, but to eay that a campaigncertainly one of national magnitudeis won or lost in the final week appears to greatly over-simplify and discount all that has gone

major candidates during this final week of the cam

paign.

It is important that these undecided** voters make their decision based on the issues developed over the months in this campaign rather than on one particular point that happens to come to the fore during this final week.

As on many other occasions during this political campaign, w'e now find ourselves in complete disagreement with the Vice President's assertion that the campaign will be won or lost in this final week. The vast majority of the voters, we feel, are genuinely interested in the issues that have been debated. They have given careful consideration to points made in the past. Because of their sincere interest in the future of the nation, they will not determine their vote in the election by last-minute snap decisions.

before.

Throughout the nation there probably are still hundreds of thousands of voters who have not come to a final determination of how^ they wdll cast their ballots a w^eek from today. On the other hand, it is our guess that the vast majority of those Who will go to the polls next Tuesday already have made up their minds. If they are genuinely interested in the future of the nation and the welfare of its people, they have carefully follow^ed the campaign since its beginning months ago. They are familiar with the issues which have been debated, they are familiar with the stands taken by each of the candidates. It is highly doubtful that in the final week of the campaign new issues will be injected and important new points will be made.

The undecided voters w^ho make up their minds between now and next Tuesday will most likely do so on the basis of what has been said in the past months; not because of what is said or done by either of the

Forced Into Alliance Incredible To Many

imDortance Of

A Travel Dollar

(The followlni: open liier ad-tfrcsaed to Governor Hodges by. Dr. Lewis C. Copeland ^ the. UMvmdtjr of Tennessee, gives, a food illastration of how the. travel dollar is distributed. It.

naed as a fuest dama to-.

Dear Sir:

I am planning a trip to the Southern Pines Area of North Carolina this week-end. Since you have traveled and fished in so many parts of North Carolina, you can understand the pleasure wlU. which we look forward to such tripe. In fact, a trip to toe Mountains, .Piedmont, or Coastal Begions of North Carolina is <me of the things about which my two boys dream.

Since I am an economist and somewhat money-minded, some thougtd has been given to toe ccst of this trip. I represent toe average tourist party and expect to stay two ^ys In your State. On our trips to North Carolina we usually travel in parties of two persons. We expect to spend $22-00 a day. To some this figure may seem insignificant, but through the year it will be added to the spending of ten million other parties. Last year 23 million persons visited North Carolina, and their expenditures amounted to $234 million.

This money is paid to and ctreulates among a wide range ef business firms. The amount I spend will be paid directly to some of toe 18,000 North Carolina merchants at the service of travelers. But this is only the first stage in the circulation of the aver8e tourist bill. These merchants will put the $22.00 tack into circulatiOD ainong a much wider group including trading firms, factories and' farms which supply the goods an:' services required by the travel-serving business.

Por example, the largest share ot my expenses, $8.10, must be pal*, out for wages and salaries, employee benefits, dividends and personal income among some of the 72,000 people employed in the travel-serving business. In 1959 tourists contributed $63 mil-Ikn* to toe income of North Carolina.

About one-third, or $7.15, of the expenditures will be paid to wholesale firms, factories, and farms for the cost of the food and other goods consumed. This of course will set in motion industrial activities that will generate payrolls in other industries. Property owners, insurance companies, and banks will receive a share for rents and interest. Construction companies.

building material dealers, and skilled tradesmen will be paid for maintaining the facilities, and some money will be set aside to cover depreciation. Advertising a^ncies, laundries, linen supply services, furniture and textile manufacturers will be paid for their goods and services. The power and telephone companies and other public utilities wUl also receive a share.

This list seems to be rather lengthy, but after all $22 00 does t.ke one a long way in Norfti Carolina, and tourist expenditures do circulate far and wide. Checks have already been made out to cover my expenses on this trip. The checks are made payable directly to the people to whom the money wUl eventual!: go.

You will note that one of these checks Is for James S. Currie, Commissioner of Revenue of North Carolina. His pe-partanent collects $1.19 from the average tourist party visiting the State. This does not include Federal taxes nor the 70 cents that will eventually be paid out to the towns, cities, and counties for local business and property taxes. Last year tourist visitors paid taxes of $12,540,000 to the State of North Carolina. When one considers how many services the State of North Carolina renders the travelers, these taxes are paid without complaint.

I was particularly elated to receive the fascinating and beautiful booklet. Lets go Ftehiaig anl Hunting in North Carolina. The picture of you and Hal Lyman in your fishing gear, taken by Hugh Morton was impressive. It symbolizes to me how. in your efforts to promote the travel trade and to make tourists welcome to the State, you arc receiving the hearty cooperation of the North Carolina Travel Council, the dozens of trade and voluntary groups, and scores of citizens throughout the State who give willingly of their time and efforts for the benefit of istate-wide interests. But. of course, this cooperation between busl-ress and industry, \leamed men and professional groups, and slate and local organizations has been characteristic of society an^' government in North Carolina for more than 200 years. The historian is impressed with the contribution that such wholesome cooperation between citizens and government has made to the progress of North Caro-lina.

Yours very truly.

Lewis C. Copeland

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French, German and American soldiers living, training and studying together?

It seems far-fetched on the surface, but the idea meets a practical need.

German army uftits training on French soil?

After the enmity of two World Wars this again is something old-timers would never believe could come to pass; but it has, and again, practical reasons are involved.

We've all got a common enemy now, so we must forget that we were once enemies, says a 20-year-old American GI. (He, by virtue of his years, has little enmity to forget; but the thinking is right.)

The irony of once such bitter foes as France and Germany uniting in a common cause is not lost on older heads. Bitterness such as theirs ws rooted in a rivalry that saw generations of their finest young manhood sacrificed in wars against one another.

The American citizen-soldier was somewhat apart from that bitterness and tradition of enmity. It is easier for him to accept the tearing down of such barriers.

Now they are all engaged in a common cause of finding a new unity, albeit they were forced into the alliance by Hrcumstances beyond their control.

There have truly been some remarkable re-allign-ings of power in the council of nations.

Tor Our

Moves

By DON SCHLIENZ

Halloween Has Chanaec.

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7he South Wil.

J

ect Presiaent

By THURMAN SENSLNG

For a long time a great many people in the South have been concerned that the region should be considered in the bag politically. They realize such a situation is not good for the South either politically or economicallyand that it should not be allowed to continue indefinitely. At the same time, however, these people have realized that it has not made much difference in most of our presidential elections as to which way the region voted.

Thijs year, however, things would seem to be different. Many careful students of the political scene have come to the conclusion that this year the South will very likely decide who our next President shall be. Their line of reasoning goes something as follows:

For years we in the South have suffered agonizing political frustration. All manner of schemes have been devised to exert our political Influence. Weve had walk-outs at the conventionsthe election of independent electors a third party effort and plana to throw the election into' the House of Representatives, We Southerners began to think that our votes just didnt count

One doesnt have to be an astute political analyst to see that the situation is quite different this year A little study of the public opinion polls and a study of the geographic distribution of the electoral vote should convince any one that we are facing the clasest presidential race^, since 1916. This year the South will come into its own politically! 'The Southern States with 136 electoral votes 25 per cent of the total will probably elect the next President of the United States. The balance of political power hes in the South.

If the South votes solidly for tne Democrat party, Jack Ken-I edj can win the presidency in a breeze by carrying only SIX additional statesi.e.. Mass

achusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and New Jersey. This apparently is Kennedys strategy for he has "turned his back on the South and has assumed a very liberal posture to appeal to the leftwingers of the North. At toe same time, Kennedy is counting on the old pros and the magic of Lyndon Johnson to keep the South in the Democratic column.

So the choice is ourswill we vote for Kennedy or Nixon? Ai we go to toe polls on November 8, every Southerner should face up squarely to the realiza-on that his vote does count and that'in all probability the South will elect the next President.

We must decide which candidate best represents the hopes and the aspirations of the South a region that economically is outgaining the rest of the nation. Our economic progress is dependent on the maintenance of the free enterprise system and the preservation of States Rights. Aside from regional considerations, we will be selecting the new leaderthe new spokesman for the free world. Ours is a grave responsibility.

Voting this year should be no mere formalitynot just a matter of responding to habit pat- terns. We have some soul-searching.to do.

After election day let there be no regrets and no recriminations, we will have had our opportunity to vote for our convictions. Your vote does count, for toe South will elect the next President!

In other words, those who are thinking along this line beUeve this is no year to continue out-worn sentiment and tradition but is a year for clear reasoning and sound concern to guide us in our voting as to what would be best for the nation in the years ahead. This over-all view of the political situation deserves the serious consideration of all Southerners regardless of how they may^be inclined at the present time.

Last nights Moose Lodge Halloween Dance for young people was the first such the writer has witnessed . . . not that Im so young , . . and the conclusion is that Hallowe'en aint what it used to be. To people who have attained a certain number of birthdays this is a good thing.

As for the dance; in clipped British accents one might say jolly good show.

The most conservative estimates of the crowd ran to a shade over 300 guests. Some thought it to run as high as 400. Actually, the number varied through the night as youngsters came and went.

The floor wasnt really crowded until about 9:00 p.m. when I first noticed what has since been described as a phenomenon of teen-age dancing; while the floor was crowded, t least half of those on the floor were standing around just talking, while the other half danced.

There was a lot of talking, Anoxher characteristic of such dances, a holdover from the past, was that a considerable number of boys were slow to realize some initiative is necessary. This shyness, I thought, had gone out of date long ago; but it persists in spite of other signs of self-assuredness. Its a comfort to know boys havent changed altogether.

Most of the young people didn't bother with costumes. A few did, and some of the more imaginative among them were in great distress because they eared being different.

^The dance-sponsoring Moose Cadge said last nights was the most successful of such Halloween affairs, and I have no doubt next years will be bigger and better.

An obvious conclusion of the evening is that the spirit of mischievous and not-so-mis-chievous traditions of Hallow-

eei^ are losing ground.

Past-participants of dark deeds on other October 31sts agreed it was all for the better.

Other Editors Saying ..,

7he Experts Puzzlec.

Strength For Today

(The Shreveport Journal)

Visitors to these shores fre-ouently marvel at the high position women workers attain, the excellent wages paid female employes in factories and offices, and the general acceptance of the woman worker. One-third of the working force today is composed of women, and they hold every position listed in U.S. census job categories but three firefighter, locomotive engineer and locomotive fireman.

Management and personnal cffices no longer shy away from women applicants, whether it be for office positions, assembly Ime operations or professional posts. The line is still drawn rightly by male management on the organizational level which women are permitted to pass, but there is no force in industry today more potent than the fair hand.

Many executives are finding they have been congratulating themselves on a high degree of kierance toward women employes without the slightest hingsignt on how women on the payrol were affecting efficiency, productivity, morale, accidents or any of the other yqrdsticks by which human motivation is judged in business. Belatedly, some attention is being given to consequences of female invasion, with many management eyes being turned in startled disbelief. Ab.senteeism among women employes of 133 New York firms has been found to be twice that ot men, but an insurance company which hires female office workers for a special four-hour

night shift reports a vastly greater degree of efficiency, loyalty and promptness than in the day shift.

Women, though occupying less dangerous jobs than men, account for a high percentage of on-the-job accidents.

Never before have so many unknown temperaments dominat-tK] so much of American industry An evaluation by large employers of the requirements of female workersmany of them greatly different from those of toe malecould result in benefits to all.

The Associated Dailies of the North Carolina Press Association hold a yearly competition for its members.

Prizes in such fields as photography, editorials, news stories, features and sports writing total $1,000.

The story is that in addition to their daily chores, Reflector staffers have .been combing their output of the past year, studying merits and demerits of each individual bit of writing and photography.

Going through the files of twelve preceding months is not to be taken lightly. It's a lot of newspaper, a lot of work.

Competition this year, as in the past, is divided between papers of under-20,000 circulation and those over 20,000. This eases some of the strain for the smaller papers, but wily slightly. The size of a paper is not a true criterion of its writing and service, A large paper has some advantage in the amount of time and niunber of persons It can assign a given project. Too, the more proficiept tend to gravitate toward the bigger establishments.

But in dozens of newsrooms across the state the week has seen a succession of furrowed brows, huddles, earnest consultations, thoughtful perusal of half-forgotten stories and writings.

With a choice of the two or three best efforts in a year of effort, all know full well they have a chance" in the competition.

ABOVE THE AVi.RAGE?

(Savannah Morning News)

If you think you're a good driver says Carolina Highways, official publication of the South Carolina State Highway Department. its easy to discover whe-the- youre right. All you need do is compare yourself with this picture of toe average motorist, prepared after study of national accident and traffic ticket statistics::

The average motorist receives one moving violation ticket every 3.7 years. He has an accident involving a non-fatal injury every 68 years. He would have to drive 16,400,000 miles before having a fatal accident. (An average driver covers 500,000 miles in his lifetime.)

Ht gets a parking ticket every 21 years.He gets a speeding ticket every 15 years.He gets a ticket for being under toe influence of alcohol while driving everj 436 years.Think youre an above-the-average driver?

And, as our city editor Mid. In going over a collection of local entres, at least nobody can complain about the quantity. Which is lor sure.

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A worldly-wise minister was having trouble collecting money from his congregation for a new addition to the church. Yet members kept telling him they were praylngr for the project's success. Donations finaUy went up one Sunday when a slogan appeared on the collection plates; Buy now, pray later, Fort Myers, (Fla.) News Press.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT Cf^yHghL 196$. King Featares. Syndicaie. Inc.

The Castro govemment appar

ently witicpad t)Je, American

embado because of Its enormous purchases of supplies |>re-ceding toe embargo. An example is that between eight and ten chrloads of specialized chemicals used as catalysts in oil refining were purchased in this country and were itoipped to Culm priOT to the embargo. I understand that without these particular chemicals, the seized American oil refineries could not function. It may be that Castros govemment might have purchased these catalysts elsewhere, but I am informed that that would be difficult. The oil plants, I am told, will be <^r-able fOT between nine months and a year now, despite the American embargo which was issued too late. Why did the State Department permit these heavy chemicals to be shipped to Cuba?

The State Department p<dicy toward Cuba is not understandable except toat Its officers ar so fearful of the prospect of a war with Soviet Russia that they are paralyzed. All that Khrushchev needs to do is bang his shoe on a table and the desk-men become petrified. While they were engaged in studying the situation, in making up their minds whether Pldel Castro is or is not a Communist, whether toe United States should or should not protect American life and property in (hiba, that island, 90 miles off the coast of Florida, became a satellite of Soviet Russia, dispossessed not only Americans but Cubans from their businesses and homes and

The judges face a difficult three or four weeks, because the mass of material placed before them represents the fmest work turned out by North Carolina newspaper folk. They can only be impressed by the variety and quality of entries.

established a first-stage Peoples Republic.

While all this was happening, the United States looked on and said not a word and did not thing. Characteristically, the Cu-' lians did not seize (Canadian banks and enterprises, just as Red Ctoina did not seize Hong-king. The reason: It Is always necessary, in the first stages of a Peoples Republic, to have an outlet to the capitalist world. The Canadians arc therefore reaping the benefits of our discomfiture and whereas w# establish an embargo on goods shipped to Ciuba, there is no reason why the Cuban cannot purchase these same American goods in Canada or in Mexico, thereby defeating our purposes. In fact, Chiban deposits once held in the United States, have been removed to Canada and to some European countries, Canada is becoming a sort of Switzerland on the American eooU-nent in this respect.

Senak* J(ton F. Kennedy has bee;i most criticized for his trong statements wito regard to Cuba. In this respect, he has been on toe right side throughout. He has been speaking in toe voice of American history and is much closer to toe igiirit of Theodore Roosevelt than Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is closer to toe nationalistie attitude of the Republican Party than to the internationalism^ of the Elsenhower Administration. Certainly, this country must carry a big stick or we shall become a laughing-stock of the Western wOTld which watches little C^uba mock and twit the great United States toat does not know what to do. A nation that lives in fear of Its lemy will be defeated by that enemy diplomatically as well as militarily, because a nation which FKissesses power and doea not know when to use it becmne.s ridiculous in the eyes of those who fear only power. Already this has becMne. evident In Panama, Venezuela. Mexico and Brazil. The United States poeses-es the power but seems to be like an elephant that fears a mouse.

For some reason, the United States cannot move quickly. On October 26, 1960. it is (rfficiallv announced that we shall defend Guantanamo. Why wait two years to do that? It should have been done at the Instant that Guantanamo was threatened. When the Castro gang threatened to cut off the water of Guantanamo, the United States should have taken possession of that water supply and protected it. Instead, we shipped water to Guantanamo. *TWs sort of attitude If self-defeatii^. The Adnilntttratlon was forced by the excitement over Chjba during a Presidentialcampaifn to toke a few forceful steps ocn-(Contlnued on pi^e fivt)

By EARL L. DOUGLASS FOLLOW YOUR CALLING Do what you really want to

to.

That sounds like strange ad-ric for a clergyman to be giving to his readers. Yet most people have within them a genuine longing, often suppressed, for real accomplishment In some particular direction. And for all except the mentally ill or socially warped, their goal is usually a worthwhile one.

Many people waste their lives or activities which they neither enjoy nor do well. If you want leal happiness and meaningful success, find out where your true ability lies, and pursue that abil-it.v with vigor.

George Borrow, the English r.ovclist who tried various w'ays ol life, including living with the gypsies, once wrote: "0 ye gifted ones, follow your calling, for he we ver various your talents may be, ye can have but one calling; . . . follow resolutely the one straight path before you: it is that of your good angel; let neither obstacles nor temptations induce S'ou to leave it; bound along if you can; if not, on hands and knees follow

It; perish in It, if needful; but ye need not fear that; no one ever died in the true path of his calling before he had attained the pinnacle. Turn into other paths, and for a momentary advantage or. giatification ye have .sold your inheritance, vour immortality.

Sometimes we sell ourselves ai d our destiny so short that if is really pathetic to behold such folly. Do what you really want to do.

Sugar Could Extinguish Castro

By ELMER ROESSNER

Castro may be eventually extinguished under a mountain of sugar

Sugar is the number-one Cuban crop. Before Castro, the United States used to buy more than 300.000,000 tons of sugar, pay-about 14 cents a pound above the world price. It paid the same premium to other Latin-American countries and other foreign sugar producing areas.

This was not purely elemosyn-ary. The premium price shored up the economy of Cuba and still doe.*, the same 'or other sugar - p.oduciiiR n ' x. This made them belter cusli, -s for American autos, appliances and other products. And by keeping up the sugr price, it tended to increase the, price for both domestic cane and beet sugar. It prevented a shelter for sugar producers, guaranteeing profitable prices.

And if the hou.sew'lfe was foj'ced. to subsidize American

sales abroad and income of cane and beet growers at home, it was only because no better income could be devised to do ihcse thinys

RACE FOR SUGAR SALES

When Castro turned Red and the United States cut off sugar purchases, all other sugar-pro-duclni? nations rushed to fill the deficit

Most of the sugar-producing nations have carry-over supplies, And practically all of them are' increasing plantings on the theory that toe greater the surplus they have toe more the United States will bu'/.

At home, the sugar beet growers right now are harvesting the largest crop in history. Estimates indicate that about 2.310,-00' tons of sugar will be turned out in the next few months, SIGNIFU .4NCE

Meanwhile, the Department of Agriculture has removed acreage controls on sugar beets next yoai-. Everybody with good gruw-

ing land will get into toe game, and the next crop may be 2,-500,000 or even 3,000,000 tons. Cane sugar plants will probably also be increased.

So with Jforelgn sugar-produc-inif countries Increasing crops In bids to get a bigger share of premium United States market, and with American farmers throwing fertilizer and everything else theyve got into the production of more sugar, the 1961 crop will probably be the greatest ever produced.

M?ai:while, to save faceand torre IS a face behiftd that beard 'Castro wriU have to encourage high production of sugar in Cuba. This will be necessary if only to keep people employed in the fields and the mills.

*Thc Communlat* art no dopes. They are not likely to buy sugar for more than It Is worth on the world market. Cub* wfll have to accept a low price, or fan to sell total * prodoetio*. And what the Russians ytaift take. Cub* wlR h*)ie to $n other markets. , t

And, with stepped-up prodso-tion in almost every otoer sugar country, and littls if any rise in American purchases, toe Cuban surplus may be wortolesa. And as producUon of sugar rises around the world, it may become a pile that will smother Communism in the Western Hemisphere.

At the moment, Maj. Ernesto Gucvera, head of the National Bank of Cuba, is in Mascow, presumably begging the Soviets to buy Cuba's coming crop, or at least barter goods for it.

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