PAGE POURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE. N. C

Friday, November 11, 1960

JViday, November 11, 1660

Whafs This?

Foundation For N. C. Republicans

It takes more than one election to build a com* petitive two-party system \n a state such as North Carolina which has been heavily one-sided for many years.

Results of Tuesdays general election in the Tar Heel state, however, showed that significant gains were made by Republicans in spite of the fact that their candidates for the most part were defeated by Democrats.

Unofficial returns from around the state show the Republican gubernatorial candidate was defeated by Democrat Terry Sanford by well over 100,000 votes. While this is a wide margin even considering the number of votes cast in North Carolina, it is not nearly as large as the margin of 385,000 votes by which Gov. Hodges \vas elected four years ago. Gavins total vote of more than half million in Tuesdays balloting was coiisiderably higher than any other GOP gubernatorial candidate has been able to muster in the past quarter centurj".

According to unofficial tabulations across the gtatein some counties incomplete^the Republican gubernatorial nominee this year carried 30 of the states 100 counties, more than twice as many as went to the GOP gubernatorial nominee four years ago. To project the matter further, the Republican presidential nominee won a majority of the votes in more than 40 of the states 100 countiesapproximately the game number as four years ago in spite of the fact

ijiodges Years Will Loom Large

By LYNN NISBET (First of two arUclei)

HODGESLuther Hodges has served longer as Governor of North Carolina than any man ever elected to that office by the Legislature or the people. His record is exceeded only by three executives appointed by the Crown of England prior to the Revolution. Gabriel Johns-loo served 18 years from 1734 to 1752: Arthur Dobbs for 11 years from 1754 to 1765, and William Tryon for six years and three months, 1765-1771.

Nearest approach to Hodges tenure among elected executives was the administration of Thom* as J. Jarvis, who became Governor February 5, 1879, when Governor Zeb Vance resigned to fl to the U. S. Senate, and served until January 21, 1885 about three weeks less than six years.

Hodges su(M:eeded to the gov-tmorship upon tl death of Governor William Umstead on November 7. 1954, but did not take the oath of office until November 9, after the Umstead funeral. He was elected for a full four years in 1956. Although his term has about two months to go, he has already served over six years.

What manner of Governor has he been? Perspective of history win be required to answer that question. There can be no doubt that his administration will loom large in the historic record of North Carolina. Length of ten-niw and the fact that he was GovenKur during three regular am! one extra sessions of the Ooneral Assembly gives historie significance, lliis is a minor point c(npared with the impact of his personality.

A detailed review of the Hod-fes regime would require many newspaper columns. No such at-tmpt will be made here. Rather S(Hne effort, admittedly and utterly Inadequate, will be made %> paint some broad outline strokes against the background i the historic period.

SUPERLATIVES Besides Serving longest, he has traveled fsrthest and by more means of tnnsp(tation, within the state and throughout the nation and the world, than any other North Carolina Governor. He has made more speeches at more places ami <m more different subjects than any other North Carolinian. He has efiected more drastic changes in the organizational structure of North Carolina State government than any other chief executive, alUiough some of these changes were effected with less fanfare than has accompanied previous reorganization policies. It is also true that some changes he advocated were not acceptable to the General Assembly. And some were achieved Indirectly by exercise of appointive authority for many administrative officers and through Intangible influence in others.

PARADOXICAL State government .has been more centralized under Hodges than ever before. At the same time North Carolina has been brought more fully into the family of state* and cooperation with other states has been accelerated. One of the major complaints heard against him is that he has devoted too much time and energy to national affairs. Even these accusers agree that he has given freely of himself to State service, without i*egard to personal comfort or convenience.

It is doubted that any public official ever gave so much of himself to civic public service as has Luther Hodges. Possible exception might be William Umstead, who through two 3^ars of serious physical illness showed the same dedication to duty as the soldier who goes into battle without thought of his own safety. It is believed that history will record that Hodges gave more of himself to his concept of duty than most public officials. The fact that many people did not agree with his ideas does not detract from appreciation of his devotion to them.

ACCXDMPLISHMENTS Com-Ing to the high office in the middle of an administration which another man had been elected to head, Hodges was handicapped in putting his own ideas into ef feet. He inherited from Umstead the prepared budget for the 1955-57 biennium. Also he felt obligation to retain many of the Umstead administrative appointees. Nonetheless, he made his influence felt in the 1955 Legislature and achieved several objectives tending to centralize control of State government in the executive office. He put more emphasis on the program initiated by Umstead to promote industrial development, and his leadership in that field has kept North Carolina in front ranks among the states.

An outstanding accomplishment was equalization of the tax burden through adjustment in the corporate income tax formula and broadening the base of the general sales tax. He first opposed and then sponsored the plan of withholding individual income tax payments comparable to the Federal program.

Another paradoxical development was his sponsorship of centralized State control of governmental functions, and Insistence that local governments should assume larger share of responsibility for education, welfare. health and other social services. He carried th same idea into the field of industry promotion. Result is & livelier concept on part of community leadership for their part, in total state progress. Due largely to his influence local communities feel closer to the State and the State is more conscious of its relationship with other part* of the nation.

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that the matfirin of the Democratic candidate was con-iSiderably more than four years ago.

Another indication of progress made by Republicans in North Carolina in this election year is the increase of the number of Republicans in the forthcoming General Assembly. There will be 16, more than three times as many as served in the last legislature.

Even in Pitt, the strongest Democratic county in the state, the GOP guberaatorial candidate got three times as many votes as his partys nominee four years ago, and Vice President Nixon topped Eisenhowers 1956 vote by almost 1,000,

Whether this progress will be solidified and built upon by North Carolina Republicans in the years ahead remains to be seen. The personalities and programs of the candidates on both a state and national basis may have had more than the normal amount of influence on GOP gains in North Carolina. Even so there are definite indications of a stronger overall Republican party in North Carolina today than was the case at the outset of the 1960 General election cam-paign. ^

Several observations may be made on the basis of these developments:

1. The Democratic party of the state will be under greater pressure to provide the best possible government, the best qualified candidates and officials, and the best possible programs for the state if it is to stave off the growing threat of a Republican party in North Carolina..

2. The Eastern section of the state, which was the important key to the Democratic victory this year, should in the future have a relatively larger voice in the partys affairs in the state by virture of the vOtal position it occupies in the states changing political complexion.

3. The Republican party in North Carolina made itself felt on a state-wide ba?is much more this year than in any election year in recent history.

As we said at the outset, one election does not build a two-party system in a state such as North Carolina; but the 1960 election showed clearly the foundation is present upon which to build a Republican party of strong potential in North Carolina. .

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By DON SCHLIENZ

Promises That He Must Face

Curbs, Gutters Coming

By J.AMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON <AP)-President - elect John F. Kennedy made enough campaign promises and pledge*for better living in Americato keep him busy for his four White House years.

The theme of thi* campaign. he said, is going to be action."

Hi* actionsand his frustrationsbegin as soon as he takes office and has to deal with a Congress where, although his Democrats retained control of it. there is a built-in stumbling block to some of his liberal Idea*.

This i* the old coalition of conservatives: most Republicans and the Southern Democrats. They can block, blast and baffle the man in the White House.

A president can operate in one of three ways In dealing with Ctongress: forcefuDy, like Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt; belligerently, like Truman: or cautiously like Harding and Eisenhower.

Thisc who know Kennedy expect 'him to be forceful. But his squeaky victory over Vice President Richard M. Nixon has deprived him before he starts of that awe professional politicians have for a heavy winner.

Confronting Kennedy Immediately will be two domestic problems involving money:

1. The country has had an economic downturn. He must try to avoid a recession.

2. Kennedy has never come up with a cost estimate for the programs he proposes. Nixon said It would be $15 billion. Kennedy .hooted at that-But soon after he takes office he will have to send his list of expenseshis budgetto Congress.

He has said he would not ask a tax Increase. But he also promised to keep the budget balanced spending no more than is taken in through taxes except in times of national emergency or severe recession.

How then, in view of his broad and far-reaching promises, would he do the balancing? He suggested various fields in which he thinks expenses might be cut. And he is going to look for loopholes that can be plugged up.

Still, most voters probably

never heard of one-tenth or even one-fiftieth of the pledges and promises he made because they were contained so many times in prepared speeches which, although he stood behind them, he threw away in order to talk to crowds about something which occurred to him at the moment.

But they cut across great fields of American life at home. He said: I believe the times demand invention, innovation, imagination and decision."

What follows here is related only to his ideas on doing things at home and is separate from his proposals on national defense and foreign policy, both of which require "-money and plenty of it.

Heres a look at them;

High in his consciousness are the nations natural resources, from trees to water power.

He promised action on: A comprehensive plan for raany-purpose river development: restoration of American leadership in nuclear power development: a stronger fight against water pollution; Intensified research on sucb development programs as weather control and conversion of salt water into fresh; expansion of forest management and access road development.

His proposals on health, education and aids to older people should keep him and Congress in a whirl for four years: p

A medical care for the aged program paid through Social Security, higher iy for teachers through federal aid; federal grants for renovating older hospitals; long term grants for increased medical research; stepped up efforts in rehabilitating the handicapped: increased Social Security payments; improved employment opportunities for older workers; a massive construction program for schools and colleges.

Then theres the field of civil rights, the most Inflammatory the members of Congress ever try to handle.

Here arc some of the things Kennedy said on this:

The Democratic party intends to use the full legal and moral authority of the federal governmentincluding in partl-cuWr the presidency itselfto (Continued on page five)

Our street is becoming Involved in a curbing-and-guttering project.

A petition was duly circulated, duly signed. . .and, I presume , . . -duBr submitted. Because shortly thereafter there was some stake-driving and measuring up and down the street.

This was followed by a bill, which indicates progress.

A neighbor and I were talking it over last evening and reflecting on how nice it would be. Both of us have put in time with a shovel, deepening a drainage ditch between street and

yard: and after a few good rains it usually had to be done all over again.

Curbs and gutters wiU take all that exercise away from us, Too. It will mean better drainage of our lots.

I rather hope no time is lost by the city, so those stakes can come out. One was placed rather close to my driveway and on entering and leaving I am very much aware of that stake. It is my greatest concern when backing out; and I begin looking for It from halfway down the block when approaching the

Other Editors Saying Oeterrent At Holy Loch

^ublic Forum

It Is reasonably certain that the Daily Reflector would hardly write a praiseworthy editorial of its own Editor.

For that reason the Board of Directors of the United Fund of Pitt County passed a unanimous resolution that an editorial be written in the Dally Reflector in appreciation of the services of David J. Whlchard III to the United Fund Program.

While many have contributed much in service and time to the United Fund Program this fall, the outstanding service of its General Campaign Manager, David J. Whlchard III, deserve public recognition and appreciation.

For the pa%t several months he has give unceasingly and untiringly, most of his time to this project. This is an example of personal sacrifice for civic good that must be constantly emulated if our community is to obtain the objectives It deserves and needs.

As General Manager of the I960 United Fund Campaign hEs direction ha* been Intelligent and able. In addition hbi sincerity of purpose, his enthusiasm for its objectives, and his example of time and effort were major contributions to the suc

cess of this campaign.

At the time this is written the degree of .success of the campaign is unknown because of reports yet to be completed. Regardless of the final results this can be considered one of the most successful campaigns conducted in our country. It has reversed the trend of the previous failures of the United Fund In the past two years, It has made more people, those who worked and those who contributed, more conscious of their, responsibllities-The participating agencies owe the General Chairman, and through him all who worked for the United Fund, a debt of gratitude. Those who contributed, similarly, should be grateful for the organized opportunity to participate in such a worthwhile purpose.

Reeardle.ss of w'hether or not David J, Whichard III receives the public acknowledgement and appreciation which he properly deserves, he can always have the deep self satisfaction of a good job. well done, for the interests of his community.

Pitt County United Fund J T Little J. H. Waldrop B. B. Sugg, jr.

(Richmond News-Leader)

A new piece of hitherto inconspicuous teal estate has been added to the general geographic knowledge of the world. It is Holy Loch, a small inlet off the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. It is here that the British government would provide sheltered anchorage" for the American Polaris carrying submarine.

British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan anticipated his critics in his announcwnent last week of the mutual security arrangement between his government and ours.. He told Parliament,. this new' arrangement will not add to the risks to which we are all inevitably * exposed in this nuclear age." To have refused these facilities, he' said, would not have been in the spirit of the Western Alliance, and refusaU would not have given us more power or security. Even in the narrow view of self-interest, the British leader told his people, I believe that the more we are involved with the whole great complex of the modem deterrent. the more effective our voice becomes in its worldwide control."

Mr. Macmillans cogency failed to silence his enemies. Thirty-two Laborit^ in Parliament quickly signed -a motion protesting that Britain would have no adequate control over the submarine and the Polaris missile. The Laborites and others of the Liberal left also complained that the supply base would ,invite nuclear attack upon the Firth of Clyde.

Both arguments are specious. As Mr. Macmillan emphasized repeatedly, the agreement contemplates the fullest possible previous consultation before a Polaris missile would be fli%d. No more could be asked. It is manifestly absurd to suppose that nuclear war, in the dreadful event that It comes, would wait upon the calling of some

joint committee. Civilization was not meant to be reduced to rubble while the minutes of the last meeting ar read.

Neither can It reasonably be argued that the Soviet enemy, in such a contingency, would waste its wrath upon the empty pens of Holy Loch. The base doubtless furnishes for the East some additional provocation." but it also provides for the West an important deterrent. The one factor must be weighed against the other.

This thought occurs to us, however, that once the Polaris supply facility is established at .Holy Loch, the next adrninlstra-tion might consider abandonment of the existing Thor and Jupiter bases in Great Britain. These fixed bases are indeed both a serious .provocation and a likely target. If the Polaris proves to be the immensely superior weapon that It is thought to be, the more vulnerable land-based missiles ccmld well be given up as a concession both to the apprehensions of the British and the pocketbooks of Americans.

It Is an eerie business to speculate upon the tactical uses of these holacaustic weapons. The heart and mind balk at the thought of seeing them fired. Yet in the same breath, a sure instinct for survival reminds us that a capacity for counterattack is the best of all deterrent* against surprise. The Polarisarmed nuclear sultoarlne fits pre-eminently into inls defensive concept.

On this line of reasoning, as the Scottish newspaper The Scotsman commented lastweek, objection to the Holy Loch base amounts to objection to the Wests strategy of deterrence. If one is to object to the Polaris, said the paper, one really has no stopping point short of complete pacifism. And the latter, we would add again, means no stopping point short of surrender itself.

"An adult Is a person who has stopped growii^ at both ends and Is now growing in the m i d d 1 c." Cleveland (Ga.) Courier.

"Maybe it means something and maybe it doesnt, but you dont see children going around pulling out snapshots of their grandparents, Farm Journal.

"If drivers slowed down before stopping, it would take the sting out of head-on and rear-end cirill.sions." Memphis Commercial Appeal.

homestead.

If that stake becomes a landmark, a habit, the city is just going to have to leave it where it is when the street wcwk is done.

I see where another Tarzan movie is coming to town, and for youngsters of today and tomorrow I say Long May He Live.

Edgar Rice Burroghs was no polished writer, but when Tarzan came on the scene he (Burroughs) was at least prolific. So the Apeman has thrilled the young and Imaginative for decades in books nd in films.

There may not be *o many boys today who come In contact with the Burroughs books; one doesnt see them around In anything like the numbers that prevailed 20 years (and more) ago.

The movie-makers average a new Tarzan film about every four years, though I understand not long ago there were two such In simultaneous production. But even movie land has a problem with a hero that wont grow old over the decades.

For a figment of imagination. Tarzan has had lasting qualities; but his old friends may well wonder if todays admirers are familiar wtth the first story which set off so many sequels, movie scripts and comic strips.

Oddly enough, there have been no successful imitators.

In retrospect. It seems Tarzan is as much a part of growing up as climbing trees, wading in ditches, skipping stones over the water, playing tag aud toasting marshmallows.

Opinions "n Brief

"Its a pity a boy isnt as smart at 58 as he thinks he is at 18." Crawfordville (Ga.) Advocate-Democrat.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright. 1960, Klxm Features Byn^eate, foo-

AB over the country, municl-palities are faced by demands for increased pay for muntolpal employee, parttoularly those essential to life and order, {tolice-men, firemen, sanitation (Mn-

ployees And teachers. The problem is a serious one because prices rise rapidly; ti^e Is a shortage of personnel in all these fields, particularly as the population ts increasing; and local taxes are about reaching the limit.

This is not something for

politicians and oi^rtunists to

handle. It requires profound and careful ana^sis. with particular emphasis on cutting extravagance. waste and graft out of municipal expenditures where they are well entrenched by

tradition. The cut must be made of the unnecessary in order to have enough money for essentials.

For Instance, the New York City Police Department has a personnel of about 27,000. This means that a maximum of 9.000 police are available at any one time, unless there is an emergency. The actual number ts less because men are away on vacation or . are sick or are absent for other reasons. Also a number of this personnel Is tied down to administrative positions. Putting the figure somewhere between 7,000 and 8,000 on actual service at a given moment, is this sufficient for a population of 8.000.000. policing about 319 square miles Including 6,045 miles of streets and more than 34,000 acres of parks?

Obviously there are too few police to do U1 effective Job and they are inadequately paid from the standpoint of the going rate for pay in this large city, as large as some countries. But the budget for this police department is 208,000,000 and as ,][qng as the city budget contains waste and extravagance, which must be dug out by some expert,

impartial body, there is not sufficient money to have an adequate police department and to pay the police properly and decently^

I cite New York only because

I know this city best, but the

situation is universal and undoubtedly has much to do with the rise in crime, particularly Juvenile crime. It is startling to note that in 1940, Federal,

state and local government employees of all categcnries cost $565,000,000 which increased to $2,533.000,000 by 1957 and is larger today. Municipal employees rose fi*om 2,532,000 in 1929 to 5.409,000 in 1967. in 1902, 50.-000,000 was spent on police; in 1957. the cost was $1,623,000,000.

Municipal sendees are the most important function of government after the defense of the country. They concern order, health, sanitation and education. They concern the intimate affairs of each family. Most municipal expenditures are not postponable, altiiough some are wasteful and carelessly managed.

It is basically wrong if municipal employees have to moonlight to maintain their standard of Uving. Their wages should be currently standard, with incentives to be honest and to risk their lives if necessary. An underpaid police force is a risk for a large municipality because the temptation to graft is very great under any circumstances; it becomes oppressive when the men are underpaid. Teachers are usually patient because they accepted wtM'k in an underpaid profession. Nevertheless, they, too. reach a point of dissatisfaction. particularly as such Jobs as secretaries, tenographera. and laboratory* siudAto"ta are more rewarding. The theory that the teachers are paid a years salary for nine months of actual vfork is nonsense.

There will be those mraetieal men who ask, where is the money to come from? The more Important question la. where is the personnel to come from? The availability of men and women .for teaching, for police work, and fm* other municipal functions Is decreasing.

It is much like the medleal professi(m. A young man, to be a doctor, needs between eight and ten years to get started. He takes a pre-med oourae at college; he goes to medical school; he interns In a bosidtal; he becomes a resident; he then goes into his specialty. He is still not earning a Uvlxig but he is about 30 years of age. If he (Continued on Page )

Strange Things Are Happening

By ELMER ROESSNER Tliere are more things in business, too, Horatio, than ^*e dreamt of In your philosophy. Such as:

Oklahoma University is designing a new town of Mannford, Okla., the old one is about to be wiped out by a new dam, and resident* have asked the university to lay out a new town near by ... A cigarette company insists that no one be shown sraok-U'.g a pipe or cigar on its TV shows . . A Mill & Factory survey of 220 companies shows that only 4 per cent of handica worker* produce less than others.

Irrland almost doubled beef exports in the first half of this year.

When butler was selling at 61.4 cents a pound in the United States, it wa*. 78.7 In Prance, but only 46.2 cents in Denmark. . . . The Air Force no longer calls postponed flight aborted"; now

they are canceled." . . . Furniture manufacturers at the fall market ih Chicago said they expected much better business than expected. Parse that! . . . Boycott Cuban rum If yoi wish; Puerto Rico promises to make up the difference even if it makes the Island rich.

PROSPECTS FOR MORE SALES

Variety Store Merchandiser estimates that the 11 top variety chains will tnbrease November sales more than 7 per cent over a year ago ... A machine that dispenses appetizing odors, such as that of coffee, In appropriate sections of supermarkets is being tested in New York . . . For the man who has everything else. Max Hess, Allentown, Pa. merchant, is offering a 24-karat gold tie with a built-in gold clasp for only a quarterof a C-note, that is.

The French League Aguinst Alcoholism reports that Income tax collectors ore the heaviest drinkers.

The world is producing Its biggest pepper crop this year . . . A Census survey shows that 3 of every 100 families want to buy a new car and 4 of every 100 wants a used one. Automotive News asks, If survey teams can find seven car prospects in every random sample of 100 people, who cant auto salesmen? . . , Trampoline establishments are popping up. Maybe thats where you can make your next mlUlon.

NEW IDEA IN HOUSING

Granny flats" are being built In two English towns. They are apartments attached to houses for renting to oldsters with the understanding the landlords will provide some services and help in emergencies . . . Under certain clrcum-stances, it is more profitable to given property wanted by the government than to accept a condemnation award, Prentlce-Hall says, A gift may result in a >tax deduction, while

an award may bt abject to capital gains taxes.

Blue mold has eat tlie West German tobacco crop more

half.-

The current world eoiUm crop is hitting a new blgti for the third successive jtmt . , . The world soybean crop hi second only to the 1958 crop , . . If you want to get into the current gold speculation. Just talk to your lutnker or broker. TTwy can tell you how to buy gol<t bars in Montreal, gold certificates in Toronto, or chunks of gold in Lond(m, coins in Geneva. Legal, too.

MORE DEBUNKING OF RECESSION TALK More notes on the pfiMent fantastic recession": Department store sales in the four weeks ended October 29 were 1 per cent above the same 1959 period, according to the Federal Reserve.

Cash-ins of savinga in October were the lowest la tw years.