PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Saturday, Noveml>er 19, 1966

Saturday, November 19, 1960

No Federal Financing Of Campaigns

It is a measure of the seriousness which rising political campaign costs are taken that occasional proposals of federal financing are heard.

There seems every prospect that cmpaign costs will continue to rise with each major election year.

We remember reading of a committee that began tabulating costs of the 1956 campaign and threw up its hands when the total topped $35 millions.

The 1960 campaign costs will be higher than those of four years ago, we are confident, because the candidates and their spokesmen and supporters were all most active in the closely contested race. Our guess would be something well over $50 million worth of political spending could be accounted for and no one could even begin to estimate the unaccounted-for sums spent to influence voters.

Too, in computing campaign costs theres a question of where to begin.

After Labor Day? or with the national conventions? or should we include sums spent by individual candidates in the primary campaigns? This year both parties were seething with activity immediately after the close of their conventions.

Both major political parties have repeatedly indicated their concern over rising campaign costs but offered no solutions. The money they need is contributed by some individuals, organizations, and in some instances by local political units. There is always the

Strona Man Of

Administration incredible Slowness

By LYNN NISBET

PHILPOTTThere are indications that H. Cloyd Philpott, Lexington business man turned to politics, may emerge as the strong man of the upcoming State administration. While he received fewer votes in the recent general election than Luther Hodges received for Lieutenant Governor in 1952, he is the first candidate for the No. 2 spot on the State ticket to receive more votes than did the candidate for Governor. Hodges 1952 vote of 783.792 was nearly 13.000 below that polled by William Umstead for Governor. Philpotts 765,519 was more than 30,000 above that cast for Terry Sanford for Governor.

Records have not been checked prior to 1940, but since then the total vote for Lieutenant Governor has fallen from 8,000 to 22,000 below the Governor. Unusual conditions prevailing in this years election, especially the fact that for the first time in half a century the Republican candidate for Governor waged a vigorous campon and before the election claimed he would win, tended to reduce the vote margin for all Democratic candidates. Final tabulation of the ballots cast on November 8 indicates that more than usual number of voters who crossed the line for President and Governor either marked the whole ticket for the Republicans or failed to go back and pick out Democrats for Individual marking. This undoubtedly cost the Democratic candidates for Lieutenant Governor; idl positions on the Council of State and tte Attorney General some votes they ordinarily would have received.

There are factors other than the high popular vote given the Lieutenant Governor which lead to the conclusion he may become more than usually Influential in the administration.

SIMMONSTake the case of Eugene Simmons, reading clerk In the 19 Senate. Simmons managed the primary campaign of Addison Hewlett for United States Senator, and openly supported C.V. Henkel for Lieutenant Governor. He had not been much in the public eye since the first primary, had not ^ attended a meeting of the Board of Conservation and Development of which he is a member, and was not active in the general election campaign. In view of that, plus Information obtained from several of his close personal and political friends,

your reporter wrote a few days ago that he would not seek re-election as reading clerk in the 1961 Senate.

A letter from Cloyd Philpott, who win be constitutionally the ex-officio president of the Senate, expressed surprise at the statement. He advises that weeks ago he wrote Simmons suggesting that regardless of how he voted in the primary, it would please the Senate pres-ident-nominate (and now elected) to have Simmons back as reading clerk and that Simmons had answered he would like to come back.

The post of reading clerk, like that of president pro tern, principal clerk and sergeant-at-arms, is filled by election of the Senate, not by appointment of the presiding officer. But because the President of the Senate has authority to appoint committees and fiU many clerical positions, there has never been a Ume when the membership did not go along with his choice for the elective posts.

Sochances are better than 100 to one that Gene Simmons will be on the job again as reading clerk in the Senate. There may be contests for this and other positions on both sides of the captol, but long odds are that except for changes in offices of President of the Senate and Speaker of the House, the basic organization of the General Assembly will be the same as for the 1959 session.

WELDINGThis attitude of welding together divergent factions within the Democratic party for continuity of governmental operations is traditional in North Carolina. It is entirely different from the exercise of discipline with respect to defection to other parties on part of Democrats who hold official position in the party organization.

Theoretically, the offices of President and Governor, membership in the Congress and the General Assembly, and -uther positions within the total govem-isan. The President, the Governor, the legislators at national and state levels, represent all the people.

TTiere have been times when political parties, and factions within parties, seemed to think that their election to office justified taking over control for the special benefit of their particular cliques.

The attitude manifested by Cloyd Philpott tends to strengthen the concept of democratic government.

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In Counting The Vote

Perhaps it has happened in other years, but it seems to us incredible that in this modern electronic age it should take almost two weeks to count the votes of a state and which of the national candidates is to receive a states electroal votes.

The national election was held almost two weeks ago and the following day it was confirmed that the Democratic nominee had won the presidential election. It was just a couple of days ago, however, that the count was finally determined in California, and for all we know there may still be a few precincts in that state in which vote totals are not yet complete.

An extremely close race this year may have drawn more than the usual amount of attention to the slow returns coming in from some states. Even if the election had been a landslide, it hardly seems reasonable that such a long time should be required to get the final tally from California.

Californias 32 electoral votes might have been the deciding factor in the election under different circumstances. Had that been the case, we might not know for sure even now who had been elected the next President of the United States.

It takes time to count ballotseven absentee ballotsbut the long count that has taken place in Cali-

Distorted View

D Given Ivan

By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press News Analyst

If the Soviet man-in-the street tries, on the basis of what he has been told officially, to figure out what happened in the U. S. election, he is going to be a mighty bewildered citizen.

Throughout the campaign Ivans newspapers told him Sen. John P. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon were Tweedledee and Tweedledum. The American voter, he read, had no choice at all. Both candidates, said the Communist press, served exactly the same interests and had the same predatory imperialist aims.

Even when it was over, a typical official press comment was that it is imponible to see without a magnifying glass any marked difference between the Republican leader, Nixon and the Democrat leader, Kennedy.

But then Ivan also was told that the election was a repudiation of the Republican party. For Ivan, there was no expla- , nation of how the American voters could repudiate a policy if there was no difference in policies.

Nor did hLs press attempt to explain to him why an American electorate could repudiate a political party while a Soviet electorate could never hope to do so.

Millions of Americans, Moscow radio told its home audiences, have given their reply to the arms race, to military provocation and to the aggravation of the cold war which was the foundation of the Eisen

hower administration policy.

The election, continued the broadcaster, expressed the peoples profound disapproval of the political course of the U.S. government.

Puzzled Ivan nay have wondered:

How come Americans get to express profound disapproval of their government? Ck>uld Ivan do likewise? And if both Democrats and Republicans represent big monopoly capital, how can the American people repudiate an arms race by electing one or the other?

If both parties are, as the press has told Ivan, incurably imperialist, how can CtMnrade Khrushchev expect President Kennedy will represent the people any more than President Eisenhower did?

Wasnt President Eisenhower once described by Comrade Khrushchev as a man of peace? And when President Eisenhower succeeded President Truman, who until then had been the main devil in the Soviet press, didnt Ivan read that the Americans elected a Republican as a repudiation of the Democrats and of warmongering and arms-racing?

If an imperialist president is such a menacing dictator, op-l>ressing the American people, how come they can remove him?

Ivan tends to shrug his shoulders. defeated by his puzzlement. Thos< Russiatas who do otherwise just get more be-(Continued on page six)

Strength For To(day

By EARL L. DOUGLASS Think Before You Criticize A group of people have been appearing throughout history who might be called off beats, They seem to be at variance with much of the thought of their generation, yet they end up doing a service for which subsequent generations render thanks. These people are not, today, to be confused with beat-atrange ai of uasettled,. bitter, lawless Individuis who seem to want to do nothing but stamp upon prevailing custom.

The off beats are different. To be sure, they usually disagree strenuously with their contemporaries. They are invariably considered queer. Often they are hated Sometimes they are persecuted, even to the death.

Socrates was an "off beat. So was Galileo. So was Colum

bus, So was Emanuel Swedenborg, So were Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh.

There are people in the world who see what their contemporaries fail to see and hear things to which their fellows are deaf. Most of the people who see and hear what others do not are in the insane asylums, and should be. But there arc others who really see and hear new and greatet trtith

Let us not start to yell for the straight Jacket and the padded cell every time somebody advances an absolutely new and apparently absurd idea. Some of these absurd ideas have turned the course of history. Now that we are looking up into space, these off beats may prove to be persons of hitherto unsuspected significance.

Speaking Of Old Age Retirement

suspicion that views of large contributors influence parties and candidates.

' Federal financing would not completely answer this last complaint for there would be gre^t difficulty in insuring no other money entered the campaign.

Then you have the question of how much money for each party ,,. varying in size ... varying in durability . . . and in some instances of varying desireabili-ty.

Federal control Of the campaign pocketbook is not even an easy way out qf the financial problem.

Occasionally we hear /an appeal for everyone to send us a dollar/ with thk^hope that millions of dollar bills will swim upstream\to national party head

quarters. This hope has n^ver b^motely realized. The alternative, and we hesitate to mention it

when fund-raising drives are so Often with us, seems for individual county party Organizations to sponsor intensive once-every-four-^ears solicitations of a dollar from every known par^y voter in their area. A small share of which would b retained for local needs, another share to state headquarters and the lions share for national party use.' This, combined with the customary fund-raising dinners and quilting bees should meet the need.

But again there are handicaps, which include potential lack of cooperation and earnest effort by the local units and citizens therein, the absence of control over vast sums involved, the probability that regardless of how much money was raised the campaigners could always spend more.

There seems no fully .satisfactory answer; least of all, that involving a federal financing of political campaigning.

By HENRY HOWARD

Confusing One-Way St.

Sometime* the innocent can cause as much hullubaloo as the malicious violator.

fomia this year should not be repeated in another na-l

tional election year. That state should find some means in the next four years to speed.up its tally of ballots after election day.

As a good example, we might point out a particular one-way street in town. The segment of the street used in the example is only one short block long. But we have seen numerous violations of the correct directions sovereigntyboth innocent and intentional. ,

We likely used the adjective innocent rather loosely here, but the poor folks that weve seen cruising up the wrong way have appeared to be genuinely embarrassed at their violation.

For intentional violators, we have no words of explanation or sympathy/ The sneaky expressions (m their faces are quite enough by themselves to explain the situation.

But the result of traveling up a one-way street the wrong way generally is pretty much the same, whether the violator is malicious or not.

The example we mentioned extends only one block westward from the local Junior High School (E. Fourth St.) to Co-tanche St. (Or. to be consistent with the one-way dlrectiou, we should say the street extends (me block eastward from Co-tanche St. to the Junior High Scho(d-)

At any rate, drivers approaching the Do Not Enter end of the block are faced with no de

cision whatsoever that is if they read the signs in time. Theres only one way to go and thats to the right up Reade St.

The malicious violators are fully aware of the situation. They are also fully aware of the distance they must travel from the point in question to the other end of the (me block aforementioned. Its Umee times as far to go around. Hence, the intentional vlolatw continues unlawfully up the one way street with his sneaky expression hoping he doesnt encounter two cars aln-east heading east. If and when that happens, somethings gotta give.*

We might add weve been on the scene when such a situation arose. As a matter o{ fact, we were riding in one of the cars that just happened to be abreast." Fortunately, there was no actual contact. Also fortunately. It was a cold day. and nobody could hear what every-body else was sajring. Some ears coulda been burning.

What happens, as you well know, is exactly what happens when you place two funnels spout to spout and begin to pour from both endssomething's gotta stop, quick.

We think this particular violator was one of the Innocent variety. We judge by the'look of anger and astonishment on his face as he saw two cars converging upon him side by side.

Opinions

Brief

Public Forum

To the Editors,

In our day and Ume it is unfortunate that the every day, normal, and routine happening tends to become submerged and the most attention is given to the unusual. sensaUonal. and the loudest voice. We hear this comment from time to Ume and we wonder if it is valid. Relating this to our youth, our first reaction is that publicity regarding the good deeds is not adequately mentioned in our newspapers. Further inspection will show that scattered throughout any one newspaper numerous articles tell the stories of our youth. We do, though, tend to give the emphasis to the minority whenever the unusual occurs.

This is simply an expression of faith in our youth. Surely, no one can deny the fact that the greatest majority of them are law abiding citizens. We should continue to pat them on the back for their accomplishments, counsel with them on matters of importance what they feel as being important as WeU as what we, the parents, feel as important, and share

their sorrows as our own.

More than ever, we realize that the hope of the world is an educated child reared with an appreciaUon for the necessity of an educaUon, love for

our country and its traditions, and a love for God.

I would offer to adults one

thought. Let us stop, pause, re-examine our beliefs. We need to speak out more for patriotism or love for America. We need to instill in our children, and once again in ourselves, such a feeling that when our

National Anthem is played or when we gaze upon Old Glory, particularly, if being flown abroad, a cold chill will run

down our backs and our hearts will beat faster. Such an experience, inevitably, brings us to the conclusion that only God can be thanked for our magnificent nation. Mere man could not have built our country without the permission or help, of God.

So, as we salute our youth we must salute our adults, for they are the ones who have taught our youth.

J. Grimes

Ambition Is the child of industry and must exercise Its Inherent talents or perish in the shoreless sea of mediocrity; or in the vast, waterless dunes of frustration." Matador (Tex.) Tribune.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY^ Copyright. 1960, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

It is true that as the course of events moves, men grow wiser; they correct their eirors of thought and decisicm. On the other hand, when the errors were of so serious a nature as to imperil their country, it is soundest to avoid trusting such persons not to be doctrinaire in their attitudes. Dr. PhllUp Jessup of Columbia University was at one time a vigorous activist in the Institute ctf Pacific Relations. chairman of its American Council, chairman of its international. council and of its research committee. Now it is proposed that the same Philip Jessv:^ be chosen as the American member of the International Court before whom questions may cMne concerning which Dr. Jessups positi(m must remain in doubt.

Maybe he was innocent, but he caused the trouble.

You may be inclined* to believe were trying to make a point for the Internaticmal League tor the Abolition of Confusing One-Way Streets.

Dont get the wrong idea, even the ILACOWS agree one-way streets have a place in our world today. The confusing oneway street is what the League is so violently against.

(Actually, the ILACOWS are probably on the way ouL Most of the organizationss membership has been switching over to a newer league with more modern and practical ideas the Intmiational League for the Abolition of Confusion Resulting at Intersections

When iwwri Neflect to Read Plainly-Written Signs.)

Were with the ILACROWSIW-DNRPWjS,^^ ^

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have government without newspapers or newspaper without government, I should not hesitate for a moment, to inrefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them. Thomas Jefferson.

We withdraw our wrath from the man who admits he is Justly punished.Aristotle.

Nothing J(rfts a married man more than for his wife to spring one of his old love letters on him.Altoona (Kan.) Tribune.

The heart is where the mcmey is. Which is another way of saying that if our laws required you to pay your taxes before you vote the quality of U.S. citirn-ship might improve.Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel. ,

Events move so fast that Its something like the old saw of the early automobile days; It takes three to see itone to say here it comes, one to say here it is, and one to say there It goes. Columbia (S.C.) State.

The Institute, during the years when Dr. Jeseup waa most atcttve in wm under the domination of E.C. Carter and Fl^erick Vanderbilt Field, the latter an open Communist.

The record ekow tMt Jesgpp had a very Impdsfam voice In the H(9t Springs Conference of the I.P.R. in January 1945. This Conference was a -prelude to the San Francisco Coniereiice the allied nati(Mis to organhM the United Nations. Recommendations as to who should be delegates to the I-PJl. meeting came from Philip Jessup and Lauchlin Cuirie, tbe lattmr at that time being stationed in the White House. The McCarran Committee reports that:

. . .Of the approximately 30 recommendattons by Jessup. 10 were identUted by .witnesses as being associated with the Communist organiattlon. . ^

The McCarran^. OMnmitte# states: .

The material shows how the leaders of the IPR ahd their advisers LattimtM-e, Carter, Currie, Hiss. Vincent, Jessup. Field, and Pairbank c<mducted their (derations during the war. Through their Influence in the White House, by reports from Foreign Service officers in the field, and ttiroagh ttie Missiop of the Vice President (Henry Wallace) to China, they sought to bring pressure to bear to undermine the Chinese Government. and to exalt the ^tus of the Cihinese Communist Party first ^to that of a recognized force, and then to that of a member cf a coalition government.

The B^cCarran _rep<fft also states: i ? ,kjl. 1

During this period Mr. Philip C. Jessup expressed to Admiral Cooke opposition to United Staty aid JfM.^e Nationalist G^iriimjnF/^neral Chennault testified that' he urged Jessup not to release tbo white paper as It would undermine the Nationalist Government. The white paper was nevertheless released.

Jessup acknowledged before the F(^ign Relatl(His (Committee that he edited the white paper, which was released July 30, 1949. . .

RegartUng Jessups eai^er, the McCarrui Committee states:

. Jessup had had extensive exprlence in the Institute of Pacific Relattons, but there* is evidence that up to the time when iM became active in the Institute he had In no way specialized ^In Far Eastern policy. . .

Also is to be noted:

The committee finds that the OeU^t)^ 1949 conference held in the State Department, and presided over by Fhil^ C. Jessig), is a clear instance In which persons associated with the Insti-tue of Pacific Relations became conspicuously Influential in shaping American foreign policy. In the opinion of the eom> mlttee. tiie selection of personnel, the events at tbe conference and the subsequent developments established clearly the influence of individuals associated with the IPR sought to exert on the foreign p<^y of the United States.

. . .On November 29, 1949, Philip C. Jessup told Admiral Cooke that we were going to furnish no more munitions to Nationalist C%ina. On January 5. 1950, three month# after the conference, President Truman announced that the United State had no intention of provldlnf military aid to the NationallsU on Formosa and that Pormost (Continued on page six)

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rax Reform Program Is

By ELMER ROESSNER The Internal Revenue Code is loaded with inequities, and many of the tax differentials tend to become preferentials, declared Congressman Thomas B. Curtis (R., Mo.).

Mr. Cuj-tls has developed a tax reform program which he said he would, push in the 87th Congress. While he is a member of the Republican minority of the House Ways and Means Committee and of the Joint Economic Committee, he is confident that he can gain the support of the Democratic majority for many of his proposals.

T hsve * (sK-mveraging- bill which would put individuals on the same basis as corporatioas. so that they can use economic cycles to measure their gains and losses Instead of the earths trip around the sun, he said. Such a proposal has long been urged. It would benefH actors, authors, lawyers and others whose income fluctuate. QUESTIONS DIFFERENTIALS i have several.bills devised

to review tax differentials in our tax code, he added. A differential can becorrte a preferen-tial if it does not accurately reflect the economic differences intended to be measured, he said.

We have differentials for oil and mineral industries, for savings and loan associations, mutual banks, cooperatives, life Insurance companies and others.

"Very few of them have been reviewed since they were Introduced into the tax code Instead of reviewing them to see if they are realistic, the tendency under the pressure of high rates is to extend the differential to other economic area.s alleged to be analagous.

Several of my bllLs have to do with the removal of the Federal regulatory hand. One o the easiest ways for the Federal government to regulate the economy is through manipulation of the tax laws. This is particularly true when the differential between the various tax rates is so great. In my Judgment, the

government should not use taxation for regulation. The reason for my convl(;!tioc lies primarily in the fact Uiiat the use of taxa-tlnif ts so subOe and easy that the people and. indeed, the peoples legislative representatives, scarcely know, when such regulation 18 being imposed. This destroys government, of, by and for the people.

An important change should be the allowance of a tax credit for scientific and technological investment. I have introduced legislation which would stimulate greater basic research on the part of the private segment of owv' 'oonomy and thereby place less responsibility on the Federal goiernmenl for such endeavor*. I am convinced that greater results can be achieved in basid r^earch by free enterprise than M government enterprise.

I have introduced a bill tp permit tax deductions for contributions to medical research-I am keenly interested In a bill to permit tax credits lor amounts

spent for hightr fdocatlon, and personal deductions for th American famlUea who are host to foreign exchange students.

"I am aupportiM leglslatten which'Would give further creation f(fr, extraordinary transportation costs for handicapped people to and from work, andfor the cost of care for a taxpayers children while his wife is physically or mentally Incapable of caring for them.

"I have sponsored and will continue to work for legislation to permit states to liberalize their benefit programs to blind citizens beyond the present llml-tfttton Cfet (w ttve k)ciai Security law. These increased benefits are designed to assist in the rehabilitation of these people and their return to productive life

Cengrceaman Curtis had one wbrrf bf advice to all Americans: If you want action on tax reform. let your own Congressman know it- This Is a good time because. flushed with victory, they are aware of the importance of pieaging their supporters.

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