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WAGE FOUR

HPTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLL N. C

Tuesday, November 8, 1960

Government By The People

Now That The Clamor Has Ceased

Today, in a manner of speaking, the wheels topped.

Frantic campaign schedules may haunt candidates* dreams but they are over with and done. Racing Mimeographs have ceased their function of churning

reams of statements, speeches and publicity. The andidates, having done everything they could to present their cases before the public, can afford to rest on their oars.

They exerted near super-human effort over a long campaign and everything to be said has been said, everything that could be done has been done. They can look back with the conviction that losing cause cannot be attributed to any lack of personal effort.

At this point we too can look back.

Pollsters and opinion samplers who provided a heavy diet of pre-election meaty speculation now stand ready to analyze significance of the greatest poll of alland the only one that really counts. They left behind them some safety hatches in a heavy proportion of undecided voters, so that no matter how the results go the pollsters will be iii business next time around.

In some states (particularly in North Carolina) there was an effort to promote a real two-party system. The goal was worthwhile and one we are sure would augment public interest in good government as well as possibly bring new faces to the fore in political life.

The sincerity of these past months efforts and their real value will be reflected not in todays voting outcome but in the future work to organize and con-

Steady Type Of Board Member

By LYNN NISBET

FAITHFUL One of the most faithful and consistently regular . attendants at meetings of the

State Banking Commission is Don Elias of Asheville. The banking commission is made up of eleven members, with the State Treasurer (Edwin Gill) ex-omcio chairman, and the At-t<MTicy General (Wade Bruton) an cx-officio member. The other

. nine members are appointed by . the Governor and they represent

different phaws of banking and public interests. It is appropriate and customary that when any matter affecting the special Interests of any member's bank is under consideration, that member will excuse himself from the meeting pending the

. discussion.

In recent months there has hardly been a meeting that some project for a branch bank has not come up affecting the institution represented by some member. So the goings out and comings in of board members has been almost like the sub-

stuons at a football game.

. But one board member has not budged from his seat.

Don Elias. Asheville newspaper and radio - television , executive, has remained at the table to press the question of whether the proposed new bank or branch would operate on par clearance basis or would charge exchange for collection of checks

on other banks. If they promised to operate at par, be would most often vote for the new bank or branch; if not. he turned thumbs down on the project, regardless of other merits.

Efforts sponsored by Elias in recent sessions of the General Assembly to make par clearance mandatory have failed, largely because legislators believed that economic pressure would achieve the objective without legislation. It looks like that is happening. The trend is definitely toward big banks absorbing little local banking units and converting them into branches rather than Independent banks. And the big banks operate at par.

UNION - What is the difference, or the distinction, between the associations of State employees, the professional societies and the chartered labor unions? That question came up In a discussion the other day and nobody in the group could five an adequate answer.

The North Carolina Education Association (NCEAi has 30-odd thousand members including classroom teachers and school aupcrvisory personnel. The N. C. Teachers Association embraces nearly ten thousand colored members of the teaching profession. Then there is the N-C.

Employees Association with some 15,000 members, and the N.C. Highway and Prison Employees Association with almost as many members.

Then there are the State Bar; Inc., and the medical society which have statutory authority for licensing and policing members of these professions. None of these organizations is like a labor union, although each affords facilities for cooperative endeavor and negotiation for improving working conditions.

The State employees associations have no provisions for discipling members. They cannot call strikes, or require membership in order to hold a job.

Some 20 years ago effort was made to enroll municipal and State employees in District 50. the catch-all branch of John L. Lewis! United Mine Workers, North Carolina public employees were not interested in joining a regular union, but chose instead to develop their own cooperative organizations. And the plan ha worked very well to the advantage of the employees.

RESCUE There have been many occasions when the pre.ss was called upon to rescue politicians from embrarrassing situations. The tables turned the other night.

The chartered bus bringing back the Council of State and other Democratic leaders who had attended the 11th district rally at Spindale stopped at the Blue Mist eating place between Asheboro and Ramscur about midnight Wednesday. The politicians found a group of some two dozen members of the. senior journalism class at Chapel Hill and several of their professors stranded there. Enroute home from the annual party given by the Charlotte newspapers the journalism school bus broke down at that point

A quick head count indicated the political bus had room for the journalism party and a request which had been filed for another bus to come from Raleigh and pick up the youthful newsmen was canceled. The politicians played host to the students for the ride to Raleigh. The association was helpful to both groups. The embryo newspaper boys and girls found that politicians do not all have horns and spiked tails, and the politicians discovered that reporters actually are eager to get facts on which to base their stories.

One Yankee Republican gal student enlivened the party by stating she felt sure that Kennedy would be in the White House next year because -she thought Nixon would Invite him for a visit.

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soldate and build for campaigns to come. A political party's substance is more than a passing protest or advocacy; it must have a continuity, a core of working leadership and a body of followers.

Our national elections are important to 180 million Americans, but an even ,grreater number of non-Americans are also watching and waiting. The outcome will be debated abroad in other capitals, at quiet meetings and street-corner exchanges. Their concern will not match our own, for the course of American foreign policy and alliances are reasonably fixed in principle. Still, there will be attempts to read significance in candidates statements and party platforms.

Now the political guns are stilled. Only the will of the people remains to be determined. Sometime late toni<,Tt or in Wednesdays early hours we shall know the victors and the vanquished.

Those who must assume the burdens of leadership also face responsibilities that can be borne only with the help of God, and it would be well now, before we are caught up in tomorrows excitement to ask the Almightys blessing. A prayerful supplication that our land, our people, our leaders will cling to the path of righteousness and be deserving of His benediction is most certainly in order.

The years ahead are dangerous years. We shall need something more than human fallibility.

Reinarkable Example Of Farsighted Planning

Sooner or later the office work of the city of Greenville was bound to grow to the place that all the office space in the city hall was required for city business.

The only amazing thing is that the point was not reached before now.

. When the new city hall was constructed some 20 years ago city offices moved into new quarters with plenty of room to spare. There was considerably more office space in the building that city functions required, and 80 office space was rented for non-city business.

It its meeting this month, the City Council decided that after 20 years the time has come when all of the space in the city hall is required for city business. Tenants in the building have been served notice that they will have to find new quarters by January. According to the Council, it w^as either remove the tenants from the city hall, or rent space outside the city hall to house some city offices. (Certainly the decision made by the Council is the only wdse one open to it.

In spite of the fact the city hall will be devoted entirely to city business after the first of the year, it will probably be several more years before the office space in the city hall becomes inadequate to house city functions.

It is a tribute to the long-range planning of more than two decades ago that the city hall has proved more than adequate for housing the city's business offices this long. The experience should be used as a guide at some future date when Greenville facesas it surely willthe problem of erecting another building or buildings to provide office space for the official business of the city.

Candidates Rely On Imaressions

By PATRICIA MOORE

The Changes In Offing

Its here. In fact, by now its about three-fourths over. We ought to be able to come up with something bright about election day. But, bright or not, election day is election day.

By sundown voters all over the country will have cast their ballots for the presidency and vice presidency. By tomorrow sometime everyone will know whether Jackie or Pat. will be the first lady of this land. And new hair styles, new clothes styles and a fresh approach to entertaining will immediately be broached by various and sundry magazines.

We speak not without some authority and knowledge, for we are a woman. Remember when Mamie became the first lady? It wasnt altogether Ike that mtade all the headlines. It was Mamie and her bangs, and bangs were the vogue for; that year.

Then there have been the stories about which presidents and first ladies have been the easiest for the White House butlers, ladies in waiting- ser

vants, etc- to get along with and naturally since Ike and Mamie were there, they were the easiest to get along with. Of course the butlers, etc., all said the Eisenhowers were tactful, considerate and well organized- So much for that.

Then the type meals served, a formal or an informal method of serving, and which room to use for which tea: all have found a time and place, and a change, with each change of administration and new publicity.

Menus have been advertised as the way Ike and Irfamie serve them.

And after one set of people gets in, what do you suppose the new hobby will be? For Roosevelt it was trips to Georgia, for Truman it was numerous cruises. . .if you recall. For Ike there has been that infallible golf.

We can tell already, that for Kennedy, should he get In the White House, it will be memorizing facts and figures at an

Other Editors Saying. Automations Problems

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - This was not the most Intellectual presidential campaign. The candidates gave it a mystical twist with their reliance or impressions through personal appearances.

They made presence a big thing. No wonder mobs tried to touch them.

Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy could have thoroughly informed the electorate on the issues and where they stoodby a series of prepared speech^ which went into details-

Instead, their kind of campaign left little room for eloquence or dissertations. While it was physically the toughest ever undertaken, it gave them maximum chance for meeting voters in the flesh.

By jet and car it took them to all corners of the nation to appeal in person to people In shopping centers, airports, busy streets and as.sembly halls. But their biggest chance to make an impression was by way of televisin.

Thetr views came out in bits and pieces as they raced around like a pair of district aldermen, much of the time in banalitle.s and bromides. Even their TV debates were off the cuff.

This made it easyfor thase voters who lacked the time, the knowledge or the inclination to reach a cool conclusion by pulling the pieces togetherto rely on impressions in choosing between the candidates.

Did this one look more earnest than the other? More sin

cere? Calmer und* pressure? More the leader? More to be trusted?

Actually Kennedys prepared speeches, in which he did express his position on many issues, far outnumbered anything Nixon attempted. But Kennedy almost always tossed the formal speeches aside, saying what occurred to him at the price or moment. .

This made him and Nixon even. The vice president had told newsmen before the campaign he would talk mostly in generalities, skipping the details.

While each mans great reliance on the Impression he thought he could create meant a great reservoir of self-reliance each in his own way carried a crutch.

This was Kennedys: At

a time when there are more registered Democrats than Republicans he kept himself linked closely with his own Democratic party, using its long record to bolster his own appeal.

Nixon, knowing his Republicans are outnumbered and that he couldnt win without some Democratic and independent votes, chose to play down his Republican affiliation. He told voters to choose between men rather than parties.

But his crutch was President Eisenhower, He leaned on him enormously. He worked overtime mentioning the highly popular Elsenhower and his relations with him.

In the end he got Eisenhower .to campaign for him,

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(Rocky McHint Telegram)

When the advantages of industrial automation are fully understood, it is difficult to deny that the new technique represents a genuine boost for the nations productive capacity. At the same time, it would be foolhardy not to recognize the handicaps faced by organized labor because of the increased use of automation. In short, it means somebody is going to be out of a job when a machine takes bis duties-

Fortunately, means are being found to compensate for this. Both management and labtw have studied the problem and in some cases a solution has been found to compensate the loss of work by union members. In this respect the American economy is fortunate because it would be difficult to sell automation on a large scale If it meant, at the same time, unemployment on a large scale.

Last week two important unions and groups of employers worked out significant agreements that recognize the financial stake workers have in their jobs. The contracts signed are not at all similar and they are in different industries and operate in different ways under entirely different circumstances. But their one point of similarity ir a guarantee that an employe who loses work will be compensated for his loss.

On the West Coast the employers Pacific Maritime As

sociation and the lntemati(Hial Longshoremens and Warehousemens Union climaxed three years of discussions with an agreement to establish a $29 million automation fund to pay longshoremen for the hardships they might suffer through a gradual replacement of men with machines.

In return, the union agrees to eliminate all featherbedding practices and barriers to efficient and economic dock operations OT 25 years. In addition, the Sailors Union now wants a similar fund for unlicensed seamen and the Teamsters plan to go after such a fund early next year.

The second case happened In New York, where the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and groups of employers launched an industrywide severance pay agreement that will pay benefits to wwkers left jobless when an employer doses down. Both the dock automation plan and the garment industry plan are extensions of existing but limited programs.

Harry Bridges of the longshoremen, pretty well sums up the prospects of the new approach to automation. He describes the plan as the only contract of its kind in any industry that recognizes a worker has a personal stake in the savings of automation not the profits, but the .savings^brought about by new devices developed irough capital investments.

Nothing is more annoying than to find everyone already knows the secret you have promised to keep to jraurself. Mattoon (Dl.) Journal Gazette.

One of the most foolish things* a person can do is borrow trouble. If he doesnt have enough of his own its because he aint trying.-Atlanta Journal.

Unfailing sign of autumn is the way the old hunting dog jumps in the car the minute somebody opens the door. Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union.

A mother is torn between the fear that some designing young woman will carry off her son and that no designing young man will do the same for her daughter. Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont.

astounding rate of speed as well as the comfortable sport of sailing.

Nixon? His hobby, or extracurricular interest? It might be public speaking. Or politics-Or maybe he doesnt have an interest which qualifies for the traditional presidential hobby.

It certainly isnt In us to make a prediction about this election with the unknowns in control of the matter, as some of our pollsters claim.

But well wish you, our candidates. best of luck.

And if you get this newspaper and you havent voted, youve got Just a little time left if you hurry.

Opinions In Brief

"The best substitute for experience is youthful enthusiasm or maybe its the other way around. Pike County (Ga ) Journal.

Tuesday, November 8, 1960

We Gan

Always

Abstain'

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKV

Ckipright, 1960, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Voting is a right inherent in our system of government in the basic conceit of the right of choice. We, the American people, have the inherent polit-. teal i^ht of selecting those who govern us. We go to the polls to vote for specific officials who are nominated for us by polit* Imd parties.

But no one can require or force an American to vote. He may not be. coerced to go to the polling places. Whatever he does, whether he votes or he does not vote, is a matter of choice. He roust not be impressed into voting. No social pressure may employed to drive him to vot*i.

The American Heritage P<Hin-dation Is drumming up interest in vong and has asked clergymen of all faiths to celebrate an American Heritage Sabbath. This is nonsense and is designed to give the American Heritage Foundation undue advertising. An American has s much right to abstain from voting as he has to vote-'John C. Cornelius, who is president of this body, says: '

The observance of Americaa Heritage Sabbath and Sunday is particularly fitting because th heart of our heritage is a religious and moral conceptthe supreme worth of the individual person created in the image and - likeness of God. We behevc that each person counts and that he possesses certain inviolable rights that no state can take away. ^

Election Day, in this country, never occurs on a Saturday or a Sunday. It takes place on the first Tuesday atfter the first Monday in Novemberthis year on November 8. A citizen may, if he chooses, go to the polls. If he chooses, he may go to the golf course or a motion picture theater. He may abstain from voting because be has no one to vote J(H*.

There Isa standing Seventh Avenue joke (the garment district in New York):

Who you gonna vote for?

This year, I cant make up my mind,

So what will you do?

Im only glad I dont have to vote for both of them.

The right to vote, like all constitutional privileges, is to be used with discretion. The citizen should ponder a mans record, For Instance, when a person says to me that she will vote for John Kennedy because he Is better looking than Richard Nixon, I feel that she ought to be deprived of the right to vote. This is no beauty contest. If it were, why not select some han<j-some actor for President no matter how dopey he may be? Similarly,,, when I am told that the shades of Hltl^ establishing racial, religious, denominational exclusion, none of which have anything to do with the qualiii-cations for the Presidency.

. If one has no better reas<m tar voting than that a candidate has a good voice on television, it needs to be remembered that Abraham Lincoln had a squeaky voice and that Enrico Caruso had the most brilliant VQico that any man ever possessed. Would Caruso have made a superior President to Lincoln?

The Republicans, since Herbert Hoover, have only been able to have Dwight D. Eisenhower elected and he had never been affiliated with the Republican Party until he ran for President. They had nominated Alf Landon, Wendell Wilkie and Thomas E. Dewey, and many Republicans abstained frtun voting for them. Had all those who voted for Republican candidates for Governor and United States Senator also voted for Willkie or Dewey, they might have been elected.

Some believe that Dewey is a brilliant political strategist, but, on the national scene, he has always met with defeat. However, he was one of the maneuv-erers who eliminated Senator Robert A. Taft and brought Elsenhower to the fore. Whether this is a worthy achievement will be decided in the present election because the real question at Issue is the Eisenhower Administrationwhether it is worthy of continuation. Senator Kennedy claims that toe United States did not move during toe Elsenhower Administra, tion. Whereas this is not a dem-

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A Tax Saueeze At Worst Point

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLXss NATURE KNOWS BEST

Yesterday we looked upon the picture of a pleasant and able man married to a homely, disagreeable woman. Yet when the woman died her husband soon died of a broken heart. Our conclusion was that love is indeed mysterious.

It is interesting, is it not. to see the people who get together in marriage. After performing toe marriage service for quite a few hundred couples I am prepared to say that in the case of nxany of them I could not see how the marriage could have come about. What did this beautiful girl of scintillating personality see in this homely, crude man? What did this handsome chap se In this plain-looking, shy person whom he took to be his forever? After

thirty years I gave up trying ^to speculate. The Bible calls marriage a mystery and a mystery it certainly is.

One conclusion I did come to. however, was that beautiful women and handsome men are seldom happy. Usually they are spoiled. With that strict compensation inherent in the order of things, the handsome and beautiful frequently do not have hap-pines.s when married to each other.

Handsome men usually marry plain-looking women and beautiful women usually marry men of ordinary appearance. But of course it should be so, else after a few generations of beauty married to beauty and homeliness to homellne.ss the race would be equally divided between demigods and moosteia.

By ELMER ROESSNER

State sales tax collections were $4 3 billion in the year eud-et June 30, 1960, Commerce Clearing House reports.

This was a rise of 16 per cent over the previous year. At thatj* rate, the tola will be 5 Hoillion ii the current liscal year.

Sales taxes are now the major source of revenue of 30 of th- 50 states, and they amount to nearly 25 per cent of all state tax collections.

This is a sorry situation. Dou-biy so.

It has long been contended in this column that the sales tax i one of toe worst possible taxes,

TAKE AT WRONG POINT

Obviously, states and other governmental bodies need money. They can levy at any point in the stream of the economy. They can levy when money flows into businesses, such as they do with various gross business income taxes. They can levy when business pays out

money in wages and dividends, as they do with income taxes. They can levy on money not spent, such as taxes on inheritance.*! or by taxes in the form of inflation Or they can levy on the money spent, as they do with sales taxes.

11 taxesand each of those taxesserve as strictures on the ilow of the economy. Things slow down at the point of each le

We are a mercantile country. Our prosperilv rl!e*i and falls with retail sales, with buying for inventory. We have never had a boom while consumers reduced their buying: consumer buying in many recent periods have checked threatening recessions

Therefore, applying the tax squeeze at the point of sale Is applying it at the very worst place. Since taxes ,restrict, sales taxes restrict the very thing we reed most for prosperity.

Sales taxe.s can reduce merchants profits and throw men out of work; they can swell sav

ings at the time that savings should flow into the market place.

A SECOND DANGER

The double danger lies In the fact that there is always the danger^ of a recession, no matter how hard we plan, no matter whom you vote for tomorrow.

If there should be a slide in business, demands on. states would increase immediately. It would be imperative to create more jobs, to provide food for the hungry, to shore up weak businesses and to launch broad programs. There would not be time for the Federal-government to act.

But where* states depend on sales taxes. Just at 'the time they needed more revenue, their sources of revenue would fail off simply because people cut buying when recessions threaten.

Tha* could be critical.

States would frantically scram-^ble for new source.s of revenue, A project to&t should have been

undertaken years ago. And, In the end, they would have to surrender a few more of toeir rights to toe PedeiaJ govern* ment In return for money* which has happened too many times in the past.

So in the future, lets tax windfall profits, false eyelashes, rock n roll music, people who dont listen at operas, press agents, gamblers winni^, people who brag they know ,toa mayor, hamburger made from Australian buffalo, commercials longer than 90 seconds, blue lipstick, oversize handbags, people who dial' wrong numbers and unresponsive salespersonsr^

But lets not tax sales!

CIGARETTE SALES HEADING TO NEW HIGH Whos afraid of hacking coughs, gout, lumbago or creeping dandruff?

Cigarette sales during tChs first eight months were 4.8 per cent higher than In the tame 1959 period and indicate a new annual high of 475 blllloa sigizw