TACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C.

WednesdRy. Noirinber 9, I60

Wednesday, November 9, 1960

'Mr. Democrat of I960

K Massive Voice Shaping

This we had to get off our chest.

The lines of voters at the polling places yesterday put a new bounce in our step. It was as inspiring as a rainbow after a summer shower; as heart-filling as Old Glory floating in the sunshine. This was what makes our wheels go round.

Speechmakers, writers, officials and voters . . . all have urged voters to vote. Sometimes they caused a ripple, but yesterday they found themselves caught up in a tidal wave of balloting all over the country. It was magnificent.

Perhaps you too felt that warmth of companionship as you stood in line and looked at harried poll-holders, the patient people before and behind you. And you were all a part of a massive voice, heard all over the nation, bent on naming a new President , . shaping destiny.

In the end, you had to make up your mind; didnt you? Some people tried to tell you how you had to vote; but that was not right and you knew it. How you voted was up to your own conscience; and once you knew how it had to be, that was how you voted.

And yesterday evening, press associations began compiling and tabulating the returns as they were reported. It was a complicated and confusing process. Bit by bit the world (and you) learned how successfully two great men had carried their cases before the people

For hour after hour, the scattered voting results were compiled and fitted into the pattern of victory. It hung in doubt for a long time. Everybody waited for the key states to give their final accounting

Maybe some people think they voted for the *loser but they really didnt. The American people were the real winners in any such monumental show-ing of interest in their country and a future which not only involves their own welfare, but the very security of millions outside our owm borders. It was the spirit of Democracy giving voice over the land.

But that voice would be meaningless if our people did not unite in pride and thanksgiving behind their new President and pray that Gods blessings be upon him, his work and all America.

It may be years before we can judge the wisdom

Campaign That Was Different

By LY.VN NISBET

REFLECTIONS - Thi5 is being written before the ballots cast in the election have been counted. The observations are not colored by election results, which are in doubt. It is quite likely that delayed counting in some quarters and demand for recount in others may leave the final result in doubt for some time. While the end result has not been determined, the campaigning is all over and can be reviewed objectively.

It has been an unusual campaign, both at national and state levels. Discussion of the national activities will be left to others. Consideration here is given to doings within North Carolina, with which your reporter had some persona] contact. Almost everything about the campaign has been different from traditional political practices.

Go back to the beginning of the pirimaiy nominating process. Pour candidates filed for the Democratic nwnination for Governor, and only one and he somewhat reluctantly filed for the Republican nomination. Up to that point it was the usual procedure. Then the difference* began to appear.

Amojg the Democratic candidates ferry Sanford was accepted as the representative of the liberal wing, the ideology of which had been championed in the iMLst by Dick Fountain, Ralph McDonald, Kerr Scott, Prank Graham. John Larkins and Malcolm Seawell represented the more conservative element, personified in the leader-hip of Max Gardner, Blucher Ehringhaus, Clyde Hoey and William Umstead, The fourth entrant, Beverly Lake, didnt be-tong to either group.

ANOMOLOS In some re-apects he was ultra-conservative. Insisting upon going back to policies of decades pa.st; In rther* he was ultra-liberal, calling for open rebellion against platform decliu-ations of the Democratic party. Both the regulars Larkins and Seawell, were badly defeated In the first primary. The run-off between Sanford and Lake, featured by some of the bitterest campaign

ing in years, resulted in Sanfords nomination.

Then Sanford jumped the gun on most recognized state leaders and endorsed Kennedy for the presidential nomination at Los Angeles. Many of his original supporters resented that, and there developed some strength for a write-in campaign for Lake, Lake disavowed and discouraged the movement, and it never got off the ground. Neither was It ever completely abandoned

The religious issue which was significant in the presidential race lapped over to some degree in the state contests. The disaffection in Democratic ranks encouraged Robert Gavin, the Republican nominee for Governor, to make a real campaign. There sprang up over the state numerous hybrid groups of Citizens for Gavin, Democrats for Gavin and similar names. These groups carried larger part of the load of the Gavin campaign than did the regular Republican organization. Ail of this brought about for the first time in 32 years a real threat to the Democratic slate ticket.

Further to confuse the situation, the new Democratic party organization put very few of the old true and tried warhorses to work. ' The campaign was handled by young and generally inexperienced workers who carried over the primary tactics and methods.

PERSONALITIES Gavin waged his campaign throughout on Uie personal basis, de-empha-sizlng the Republican .party. To greater degree than usual in Democratic campaigning the name of Terry Sanford was emphasized above the Democratic party. Radio and teevee spots and newspaper advertisements invited votes for Terry Sanford for Governor. Bumper stickers and other paraphernalia stressed Kennedy - Johnson, Nixon-Lodge, Sanford or Gavin much more than party affiliation. Subtle effect of this was to aid the Republicans hybrid groups, which waged their efforts on the slogan to vote for the man instead of the party.

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of our votes in this election. It may take yeara to see the full effects. But, more than any time in the mem-* ory of most of us, we have that feeling that what we marked on yesterdays ballot was really important.

Sometimes Progress Calls tor Sacrifice

The beaty of a city is a matter of concern to conscientious officials, for they realize that an attractive appearance enhances the prestige of a community just as adequate streets, sidewalks and other vital facilities.

Most citizens of a community share this feeling, for it is natural for people to want to live in surroundings that offer the necessities of modern-day city life and at the same time afford a pleasant picture to the eye.

It is only to be expected, therefore, that there arises time and again the conflict between preserving native beautyparticularly trees that have been growing for yearsand affording adequate streets, sidewalks and other facilities that a growing community must have.

Normally when a choice has to be made between widening a street to handle increased automotive traffic and preserving beautiful old trees, officials charged with the re.sponsibilHy for city government choose to sacrifice the trees in order to provide adequate streets. Al similar situation occurs when the choice must be made between saving the trees and providing sidewalks so kids will not have to walk in the streets on their way to schools. Concern for the safety of the children usually overrides consideration of the beauty that may be sacrificed by removing trees.

Certainly this is as it should be, for there are no people who would conscientiously propose jeopardizing the safety of adults or children of the community merely for the sake of retaining trees here and there. On the other hand, we do not feel our city officials order trees removed along thoroughfares unless it becomes necessary to the safety of the citizenry of the community.

So long as Greenville continues to grow, it wdll require better streets, sidewalks and other facilities to provide for the needs of its people. In some instances, it will be necessary to sacrifice trees in order to provide the.se facilities'. Where it is possible to plant new trees where old ones have to be removed for the sake of progress, consideration should be given to such an approach in the interest of preserving *the natural beauty of the community insofar, as possible.

Key Issue Was On Leadershio

(Photo by Stuart Savage)

,8y HENRY HOWARD

Dragged For A While

By JAiMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (APiThe voters problem in this presidential election was much the same as in the elections since 1940: Choosing between men rather than ideas, picking a leader rather than a way of life.

Except for 1948, the major dilemma facing the country in all the elections of the past 20 years, Including this one, was in foreign affairs.

There are some domestic differences between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy.

For instance; Kennedy favors federal help for teachers pay, and Nixon doesnt: Kennedy favors a medical-care-for-the-aged program linked to Social Security, and Nixon has a different plan.

Besides such obvious, much-discussed differences, probably few voters today could recall many others, if any.

But all understand the greatest menace to the country is not internal but external the threat of world communism and the greatest problem over the next four years will be coping with it.

Since Nixon and Kennedy are in full agreement on the need for bucking communism, although perhaps differing on some details, they reduced the choice between them in voters minds to this one question: Which could handle it better?

The whole campaigndespite everything else mixed up in it revolved around that question. The candidates themselves made it their primary issue.

In the 1936 presidential race, when Franklin D. Roosevelt ran against Alfred Landon. the United States was still in isolation. World War II wa* still out of sight, and foreign problems were not the major issue.

That year it was a choice between going on with Roase-velts New Deal, which had been an American social revolution, or turning the clock back with the Republicans headed by Landon.

It was different by 1940 when Republican Wendell L. Willkie ran against a third term for Roosevelt. The New Deal, for all

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practical purposes, had run its course two years before.

The passage of the wage-hour law with its 40-hour week in 1938 was the ist big piece of New Deal legislation. By 1940 foreign affairs completely overshadowed anything else-

By the time of the presidential election that year the Nazis had started World War II and overrun Western Europe: this country had begun its defense program: had started its first

peacetime draft; had come out of its ancient isolation by backing Britain and giving her -antique destroyers; and had be come jittery about Japan.

Willkie joined Roosevelt backing the draft and aid for Britain. The only real question left for the voters was: Which could be trusted to lead better in the onrushing, dangerous years?

By 1944, with the country at war, no domestic problem could remotely match the question of the conduct of the war. All Gov. 'Thomas E. wey could offer was the idea he could do it better. The voters didnt think so.

When Dewey ran again, this time against Harry Truman in 1948, communism had emerged as a new danger- but this country still had the monopoly on the atomic bomb. There was not yet profound worry about Russia.

The uproar in the 1948 election was mostly domestic: inflation, the performance of what Truman called the Republican 80th "do-nothing Congress and his own achievements, or lack of them, in running the government at home.

But Dewey was no would-be wrecker of the New Deal. There was no profound difference between Truman and Dewey on the course of American life. So again it w^as a question of which man the voters had more confidence in.

There never seemed much doubt in 1952with the country at war in Koreathat Dwight D. Elsenhow'er, the war hero, would win over Adlai E. Stevenson when the Korean War was the biggest Issue,

When the two men met agaio tCculinued on page fivet

And it was election time again. And, at the Reflector, it was election party time again.

During the final hours before the polls closed and the vote count would begin coming in. the newspapers staff scurried around setting things straight for the big night.

Shortly before 6:30 p.m., closing time for the polls, the Reflector office stood ready for what was ure to be a rapid barrage of phone calls reporting results in Pitt Countys 25 precincts.

Before 7:30 there were two phone calls with precinct totals on the presidential voting. These w'ere recorded, posted on the outdoor election scoreboard, and fed into the mechanical mar

vel for tabulation.

(It may be timely added here that the aforementioned mechanical marvel is a computing device, furnished by Carlton Taylor and the Burroughs Corp., that adorns the Reflector office on election nights. In addition to decoration, the mechanical marvel goggles up all the figures that come into the office and computes them Into proper totals.)

But as 7:30 rolled around, activity began to drag. The near frenzy, built up during the long campaign and the short day, acquired by most participants and onlookers was apparently in for apparently in for a let-down. Everybody sat around waiting for the phone to ring again.

Other E(ditors Saying .,, Out-Moded Laws

(Washington Daily News)

There are many laws on the books today In many states of the United States which are certainly out-moded and which are not enforced even though they have never been repealed.

For instance, today in the slate of Virginia it is against the law to have a bathtub in a house. The law has never been repealed, but common sense tells us that it cannot be enforced and that no attempt whatsoever is made to enforce it.

Recently P.D, Midgette, State senator, and Dick Lupton, Hyde county legislator, appeared before the Wildlife Resources commission to ask that the 4i00 oclock hunting deadline in Hyde county not be enforced. They told the commission that a bill to repeal the law would be introduced at the next session of the State legislature. And since both men favor repeal of such a law, and since it is a purely local law, it surely will pass the General assembly.

But the Wildlife Resources commission says it must enforce the law until that law is repealed. We realize that there are people who say "a law is a law and whether we like it or not, it should be enforced. But sometimes a law becomes a liability to the economic position of any locality, and when that happens, common sense ought to prevail.

The 4:00 oclock hunting deadline in Hyde county is a liability to that county right now. In recent years goose and duck hunting have become more and more a part of the economic

progress of Hyde county. And in recent years fewer and fewer geese and ducks have been bagged there.

Hunting is a big thing for Hyde county. And anyone w'ho doubts that fact might take a trip down the re ^during the hunting season. To keep a law on the books and enforce it in the face of the fact that it is almost certain that the law will be repealed at the first opportunity seems t.0 be a case where common sense is not prevailing.

We agree completely with both Mr. Midgette and Mr. Lupton and the people of Hyde county in their efforts to protect them-.selves in the face of a law which is hurting badly.

Hyde county would lose considerable revenue once hunters stopped coming there in the hunting season.

We are not sure of the facts in regard to this law, but we are told that right here in North Carolina today it is against the law to hitch more than one horse to a hitching post. The law, we are told, has never been repealed. But none of us has heard*of anyone being tried in court for a violation.

In our opinion the 4:00 oclock hunting deadline in Hyde county belongs in the same category as the bathtubs in Virginia and the hitching posts in North Carolina. It is an out-moded law, one which is hurting Hyde county, and one which common sense tells us ought not be enforced in light of present circumstances.

We feel that the Wildlife Resources commission would do well to reconsider its position.

Politics makes strange bedfellows but they soon get accustomed to the same bunk. Carlsbad Current-Argus.

It is time to stop reacting to our adversarys moves, and to start acting like the bold, hopeful, inventive people that we were born to be, ready to build and begin anew, ready to make a reality of man's oldest dream, world peace.~Senator John Kennedy.

Then, suddenly, it broke wide open. The returns from Pitt were rolling in; state-wide returns from Pitt were rolling in; state-wide returns were steadily pouring in over the AP teletype; and a portable television set was reporting the nationwide votes running into the millions.

Maybe things werent exactly normal, but everything was falling into the expected pattern and everybody was happy.

One of the characteristic features of election parties at the Reflector is the voice of J H. Rose booming over the public address system.

Though there was no record throng in the cold street below, the announcer was undaunted, he announced Pitt County returns as they came in as well as state and national returns and apparent trends.

The major television networks had called on the services of electronic brain computers to discern the trends In voting to predict the presidential winner. And from time to time, predictions of that nature was being announced on TV.

Rose came up with a Itjcal prediction over the PA system.

He reported the Burroughs machine had predicted Pitt County would fall into the Democratic column in both the gubernatorial and presidential races.

This, in itself, was quite a chore. But consider the circumstances. . .

At the time of this prediction, returns had been reported from only 22 of the countys 25 precincts!

Some prediction.

Opinions n Brief

Khrushchev advises Americans not to cooke Castro, But its the other way around-it Is Castro who sticks in our craw. Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press,

Eaton

Knows

It All?

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT Copyright. I960 KiM Features Syndicate. Inc.

Cyrus EaUffi, who has designated himself as the greatest authority on all subjects, recenUy commented on the American press. He spoke in Ottawa, Canada, in connection with the Bo-waters Awards fw Journallam. Cyrus Eat( prefers the Canadian press to the American, because he likes its objectivity. Nevertheless the entire Canadian press docs not have the reptff-torlal coverage In the world of one New York newspaper, "The New York Times, nor ^are iu reporters equally trained. That is a mattrt* of circulation and money, as well as ability and experience. Objectivity if difficult to achieve for any hpman being because it requires not only knowledge but maturity and

wisdom. ^ '

Eaton, who seems to dislike

the United States where he earned his money and to adore Soviet Russia which fgve him a troika of horses, has tills to

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**... Journalism in the United States, I fear, has faUen to a comparatively low estate in its foreign coverage. Bhnd and unreasoning fear and hatred of Communism, on the part of press, public, and politician alike, have led to Inadequate reporting of conditions and events in the socialistic countries, and to slanted editorial comment, as well. *

This is literally untrue. The United States has. since 1917, the news and conditions of Soviet Russia, more fully and more objectively than any newspaper in Soviet Russia has covered the United States or, for that matter, Soviet Russia. Censorship controls every word in the Russian press. Our correspondents have come out of that country with a wealth of material which they managed to give their readers without the benefit of censorship. They had to leave Russia to do it.

Cyrus Eaton can neither read nor speak Russian or Polish. His ability to observe is therefore narrow. He can only know what his limited vision shows him or what an Interpreter tells him. Yet he has the Impudence to say:

. . .what I observed In the socialistic nations simply does not match most of what I have been reading about them in the American press."

Were Cyrus Eaton a scholar or a worker, no one would pay the slightest attention to his Irresponsible statements. He happens to be a rich man who speculated in iron, steel and railroads and won. Therefore undue attention is paid to his unsut> stantlated remarks.

Suddenly this man who knows nothing about China beyond perhaps the flavor of chop suey denounces the free American press as a tool of the State Department because it does not permit American cwrespondents to visit Red China. He says nothing about an effort to arrange for American c<M*respondents to visit Red China which Red China rejected. He says nothing about the brutality of Red China in the Korean War. He does Soviet Russias and Red Chinas propaganda in this country and being a rich man, he is unpaid and therefore does not have to register as a foreign agent.

He said:

'The American press has, with a few rare exceptions, displayed Itself as (at its inflammatory and sensational worst in its coverage of the Fifteenth General Assembly of the United Nations. Distortion and misrepresentation have reached new peaks in the reporting, cartoons and editorials accorded the presence In New York of the Communist leaders who have been a small part of the largest gathering of heads of government In history.

Eaton is referring to the vicious attempt of Khrushchev to hold a Summit Conference of his own devising n New York. This was when Khrushchev pounded tables, took off his shoe in public, generally acted as a hooligan to the embarrassment of the entire world, Cyrus Eaton liked that. It amused him. He ojoy-ed the insults hurled at the country of his citizenship. He was running a foreign policy til on hU own. Not the President, not the Secretary of State, not tho (Continued on page five)

Fantastic Sort Of 'Recession

Strength For Today

By EARL L. UOUGLA.SS THE FLTURE FOR THE RACE

She wa.<5 sitting at the bar sipping an old fashioned as we went into the re.staurant. When we emerged she was .slill at the bar, now laughing raucously and wise-cracking with the bartender.

She is a figre becoming 11 too familiar in these recent days. Sha is a barfly. It was dreadful In the old daysand still is to see a man who has become so completely enslaved by his appetites tiiiit he must have a continual allowance of liquor to keep life in what he considers a atlsfactory state But the female barfly is an eVen more pathetic and revolting creature.

The so callfd emancipation of womanhood led many Women to try to imitate men in their vices

as well a.s in their achievements. Fifty years ago the woman who drank hard liquor wa.s almost nonexUtent. Alcoholi.sm is still more prevalant aniong men than among women, but the increase of this evil among drinking w'o-men is a terrifying reminder of what the future may hold for the nation. A drunken father can ruin a home, but a drunken mother can keep a home from coming into existence This is a much more serious problem than most people believe. If we think that it will all work out with the passing of time we are rightbut it will not wCHrk out the way we want it. We cannot make evU customs bring forth wholesome life. Good doe.' not grow out of evil nor evil out of g(x;d Modern society may be facing unhappy davs.

By ELMER RLESSNER

The net income of 764 leading corporations in the third quarter of this year was $2,014,000,-000, the First National City Bank of New York reports in its November newsletter.

That was 12 per cent less than the income for the second quarter: $2.298,000.000.

That would seem to lend color lo the talk about the 1960 slump, wouldn't it?

It surely doesuntil you look at the net income for the third quarter of 1959. It was $1,861,-600,000. A little cateulation will show that the net income for the third quarter of this year w'as actually 8 per cent above a year ago.

Again: This Ls one of the most fantastic recessions we have ever had, one of those that is possible only in America.

It is true that the third quarter did not show as much rle as must of us W'ould have liked. It is probably true that, when the October figures are in, they

will show sme declines. However, it will probably show some rises. And the average level will probably be found higher than the level a year a;io.

That leaves to questions;

1. How much of the recession talk echoed political thunderation?

2. Now' that the campaign is over, will the Alice-in*Wonder-land fade away like the Cheshire cat?

For answers, watch the routine statistics from Washington and the stock market quotations from New York for the next few weks.

A he First National City Bank figures, how-avei*, do show an unevenness in the economy. They show that the net Income of the 7W finas In the first nine mon-tlis of 1960 was $9,079,800,000, Which W'as 2 per cent less than the ^9,250,600,000 In the first nine months of 1959 PMUI.S, SLUMP IN IIEVEK.SE

This cunipuunda the fantasia of the current recession. The

figures show that net income was declining during the boom in the first half of the year, and that it improved during the so-called recession in the third quarter.

The bank figures show that, in the first nine months of this year, the biggest gains over the same period In 1959, were made by a group of 23 mining and quarrying companies, up 13 per ce'ut. Lesser gains were reported by 35 food and beverage cor-, porations, 10 tobacco products companies, 33 drug, soap and cosmetics companies, 29 petroleum companies, 30 cement, glass, and stone companies. 36 trade corporations, 22 service and amusement companies, 60 electric power and ga.s conipan-ie.s and 3 telephone and telegraph companies.

The largest losses were suffered by 18 transportation (Hjuip-ment corporations not connected w'lth the auto Industry, dow'n 76 per cent. These lo(ses resulted from deficits in Uie second quarter: the 18 firms snapped back In the third quarter, ex

ceeding comparable 1959 earnings, Fifty railroads showed a 24 i>er cent decline in the third I960 quarter; 35 textile and apparel companies showed a 21 per cent bruise, anc^ all other groups showed smaller declines from net In the third 1959 quarter.

GUIDE TO HURRICANE DEDUmON.S AVAILABLE

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WOULD YOU WALK .A MILE FOR ONE?

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