fAGC FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Friday, December 30, 1960

Friday, December 80, 1960

Cant Take It With You

Ground Is Broken For A New Era

Official groundbreaking ceremonies for the new legislative building in Raleigh mark the ending of an era and the beginning of a new era for the General Assembly of North Carolina.

For years the legislative body of the state has met biennially in the 120-year-old capito! in quarters that were grossly inadequate. It will be the same situation again in February when the legislature gathers in its old quarters for the 1961 session.

With ground broken for the new building, however, it is not improbably that the new quarters for the General Assembly will be ready for use by the time the 1963 session convenes.

The decision to build a new' legislative building for the state met with long and sometimes bitter discussion before final approval was given. In spite of the fact that the issue was resolved months ago, there are stili a considerable number of people who are opposed to the states spending some |4.5 million on the structure for such a purpose.

It may be true that the new legislative building will not result in better legislation for North Carolina after the General Assembly moves into the new structure. It is likew'ise true that the legislators who go to Raleigh every two years to represent the people of the state will not work any harder in the new, adequate quarters than they have in the inadequate quarters which have been afforded them.

Even so, most citizens of North Carolina, we be-

Transition Wil. Be Very Easy

By LYNN NISBET

NEW YEAR Artists depict th turning of the years by painting a decrepit old man with a long beard, a skimpy robe and

a scythe, slowly walking off the stage; and an almost naked baby with a silly smile on his cherubic face, slowly walking on the stage behind the old man.

The literati, especially the poets, portray the event in terms of throwing away an old book, filled with unpleasant data, and opening up a new one with unblemished pages, upon which can be written a clean^ new story.

Both images are wrong-

The year 1960 is not slinking out as a weak old man, without friends or hope, seeking only the spurious comfort of forgetfulness. Rather leaves the scene as a doughty warrior, scarred by some defeats but proud of many victories, flinging over his shoulder a challenge to his successor to "do better if you can.

And the Year 1961 is not coming on as a helpless puling infant. He comes rather as a virile young man. proud of his courage and his strength, accepting the challenge of his predecessor w^ eager confidence.

B would be nice in some respects, tragic in others, if the poetic concept of throwing away all records and starting anew on a blank page were true. It just cant be done- Sure, there are things in the past we would like to forget but more that we love to remember. We would like to purge the record, not destroy it_

TRANSFEROnly in a minor sense will midnight Saturday mark an end and a beginning. Old calendars will be taken down from the wall and off the desk, and new ones put in their places. These calendars will show in big print the name and dates of January, 1961. Most of them also will show in smaller print the name and dates of December, 1960, The pages of the calendars and ai^intment books will not be clean. The first job is to carry forward the record of obligations made last year.

Business ledgers also will have at the top of each account the carry-over unpaid items, incoming and outgoing, testifying to the continuity of activities, to the fact that In human experience there can be no absolute end nor completely new beginning.

The coming of a new year is occasslon for Joyous celebration.

The year 1961 will be welcomed with ringing bells and tooting horns, shouting and singing, only because the welcomers have faith in his ability to do the job facing him. It would be depressing to think that the problems confronting this old world had to be handled by a simpering baby. Or even by a strong young man who would cast aside the benefit of experiences recorded by his predecessors.

ANALOGY There is close analogy between the turning of the years and the changing of administrations at Raleigh and Washington, Since November 8 Terry Sanford and John Kennedy have devoted full attention to matters to come up after they take office next month. They have picked their key assistants and laid foundations for their official conduct. These assistants also have been diligently working on plans for the proper discharge of their obligations.

The People of North Carolina and of the United States greet their new chief executives much as they greet the Year 1961, And they say goodbye to 1960 In the same spirit they bid farewell to Luther Hodges and Dwight Eisenhower as Governor and President.

They are not welcoming a helpless infant to take the place of a decrepit and defeated old man. as the artists would have you believe. Nor are they ignoring the record of achievement made by all the men who have built this state and nation.

When the bells ring and the whistles blow at midnight Saturday; when the bands play and the guns boom their salutes in Raleigh on January 5 and in Washington on January 20; and when people all over the world sing and pray, they wl not be celebrating an end or a completely new beginning. They will be saying farewell to strong men who are moving out of the arena which Uiey have dominated for years, and hailing strong young men whose faith In America justifies the confidence of the people in tbelr ability to carry on. An important thing to remember is that to very large degree it will be carrying-on not an entirely new beginning.

In like maimer the New Year 1961 comes in as a strong young man. accepting ttie challenge flung by the strong old man 1960 who is moving out of action but not but of memory. So when we aay "Happy New Year we say tt with confidence and faith and k>y*

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lieve, recognized the need for new legklative quarters. The deckion to construct a new legislative building and at the same time retain the captol that has stood for more than 100 years likewise reflected the will of the majority of the citizens of North Carolina.

Now that ground has been broken for the structure, state officials should see that construction work Is carried out as rapidly as reasonably possible in order that the new building will be ready for use by 1963. It will fill a long standing need for North Carolina.' And it is a need which should be filled without any further unnecessary delay.

Reversal Of Decision Is To Be Commended

North Carolinas Highway Commission made a wise decision in reversing its previous stand in order to give approval to state ownership and operation of the ferry between Atlantic and Ocracoke.

The ferry will provide an important lirtk between the northern portion of the states famous outer banks and the mainland to the south. As shown this summer during the brief period in which the ferry was operated under private ownership, the link opens the area to a greatly increased volume to tourist traffic. In doing so, it provides a new source of income and a new economic potential for a portion of North Carolina that for years has been largely isolated and without adequate economic opportunities.

In its action, the Highway Commission likewise gave the green light to a change in policy which would permit the state to charge tolls on ferries connecting remote spots which also have highway links with the mainland. This, we believe, is a reasonable move at least for the present. In the future if the Atlantic-Ocracoke ferry operations justify it, original toll charges may be reduced or eventually eliminated entirely.

The Commissions decision to purchase the ferry and operate it will prove a boon to the coastal area of the state. In terms of economic development, the state will be repaid many times over the years for the cost of acquiring and operating the ferry that will give the northern section of the outer banks a new link with the mainland.

In spite of the fact that the Highway Commission rejected earlier this month a proposal that it purchase and operate the ferry, it is to be commended for its reconsideration of the matter and for reversing its earlier decision.

Very Aware O:: Public Relations

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By ALVIN TAYLOR

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect John F. Kennedy shows all the signs of being highly conscious of public relations and, perhaps, public reaction.

Whether this will affect his presidency by deterring him from some step which may create adverse public reaction remains to be seen.

One example of his awareness of public relations, iwirUcularly in timing and maximum publicity, is the way he announced his top appointments.

Another is his willingness to have his news conferences broadcast by television and radio while hes holding them.

I Heres another: A woman reporter asked him a question and identified herself and her organization.

Instantly he told her a story carried by her publication was inaccurate and he would have to look into it before dealing with her furtiier.

Heres another: At the time his new son was bom he was walking through the corridor of the hospital when he spotted a reporter from a national maga-zloe. He offered congratulations 00 a story it had carried.

So hes either personally keei>-tng abreast of whats being written or hes made it his business to be kept well-informed and up to date by his aides.

This is in contrast to President Elsenhower wto once publicly said be did not do a lot of newspaper reading.

There is also a contrast between the two men In the way they publicly bandied their cabinet appointments.

Eisenhower, after winning the 1952 election, announced the selection of his nine-man cabinet two and three members at a time.

This meant that In a relatively few days the complete cabinet selection had been reported in the press. And Eisenhower acted fast.

He made his first announcement by Nov. 20, 1952 and was finished by Dec. 1.

Kennedy took his time. His associates let it be known he was seeking the best advice he could find before reaching decisions.

He didnt announce his first cabinet appointment Connect

icuts Gov. Abraham A. Ribi-coff as secretary of health, education and welfare until Dec. 1.

Then day after dayalthough there were some lapses between dayshe ticked off this cabinet.

Hed come out of his Georgetown home here, stand in the freezing cold with his lastest appointee, name him, make a statement praising him and explaining his selection. And the new man would make a statement. He announced some of his appointments while he was at Palm Beach, Fla.

News photographers and television cameras duly recorded all this, day after day. And Kennedy, now at Palm Beach, is still making appointments on the sub-cabinet and lower levels.

But because of the way he handled all this, each appointment by being the only one on a given day got the maximum publicity in the press and on TV and radio.

It would seem reasonable to think Kennedy deliberately chose to do it this way because it is unlikely he was actually reaching decisions on a day by day basis.

For example; The Kennedy inner circle told reporters at least 10 days before Arthur J. Goldberg was announced as new secretary of labor that the decision on Goldberg had already been settled.

It Is noteworthy that Kennedy hasnt stirred up any very strong reactions, from liberals or conservatives, by his cabinet choices who can probably best be described as a group of liberal-conservatives.

Kennedy's cabinet may be a complete reflection of his own views and have no connection with any concern of hJs about public opinion or reaction.

But it is at least the kind of cabinet which gives himas he soon starts on his presidency a minimum of handicaps in the form of strong opposition.

Kennedys vice president Lyndon B. Johnson, who was leader of the Democrats in the Senate, made a career of following a middle ground and was extremely sensitive to what was said and written about him.

If Kennedy follows the same road this may turn out to be a middle ground administration.

Your columnist has a fine haul of gifts this week after Christmas.

There are a couple of shirts, socks, pajamas, bedroom slippers, a robe and an indoor-outdoor thermometer among other things.

Theyre all excellent gifts of which Im very proud. But somehow I find myself sneaking off to visit my nephews. Theyre very young, you see, and Santa brought them lots of toys.

Theres still some child left in the tired old heart of your columnist and I cant resist these intricate battery-powered play things of the modern day kids world.

Ronald and Donald, the twins, for instance, are the proud possessors of a couple of toy racers. These things dont wind up as such toys did in my day. They run on tracks and are powered

by two six-volt dry cell batteries. Each car is controlled by a separate switch which sendi them whizzing around the figure 8 track.

Occasionally the kids insist on playing with the racers themselves. so their old uncle moves over to the pin ball nlachine. This, to, is an improvement over the models I remember. As the ball hjj^ the bumpers a bell rings, a lightt flashes and a scoring device registers and it's all powered by flashlight batteries.

Then there's the model parking building which is just like the ones found in cities. This one has three decks with an elevator to lift the cars. There is no tiresome hand cranking, however. The elevator is powered by battery.

Its been said that if the toy designers had been turned loose on the nations rocket program,

we would have had a man in space long ago.

I beUeve that. In fact If this had been done, Martian kids would have their own pin ball machines by now and moon dwellers would know what an earthly parking garage looiui like.

So its the end of the year again and that means it is time to buy license plates for 1961. The tags go on sale next week at Home and Auto Supply. They must be displayed by Feb. 15.

Thousands of motorists wlU fork over $10 to $15 during the next month and a half f<Mr the privilege of operating ieir vehicles on the state highways.

Dont forget to purchase the city tags at the same time, m Oreenville these cost $1. Other incorporated towns in the county also require their citizens to purchase such tags.

Other Editors Saying .. Regulating Regulators

Opinions In Brief

(The Roeky Mount Telegram)

Indications are that federal regulatory agencies are .due for a brisk shakeup when Presidentelect John Kennedy assumes office next month. A report turned over to him by James M. Landis, former Harvard law school dean and former member or chairman of several of the agencies involved, has strongly recommended a massive overhaul and reorganization.

Specifically the report cites outside pressure, political appointees and a lack of concern by former President Harry Truman and President Eisenhower. Kennedys reaction ot the report was favorable, and therefore some action can be expected along the lines set forth by the report

At least one Republican agrees with Landis on the need for an overhaul job on the regulatory agencies. The difference, however, was In placing the responsibility for such a shakeup. The Republican, Rep. John Bennett of Michigan, felt the job belongs to Congress, and not the President as Landis suggested, and perhaps as Kennedy feels.

The report points, as an example, to the awarding of overseas airline routes. "Lobbying in its worst sense has been prevalent since 1948 around mystery-shrouded approaches to the White House. It further says that in this field thi'e has been In the last two administrations a notable lack of presidential restraint In avoiding outside Influences.

Landis pictured the * agencies as ridden by outside pressures, as too cozy with those whom they are supposed to regulate.

as snarled in delays and slipping In caliber of personnel. He called for a series of reorganizations to be mde by the new president under reorganization authority similar to tiiat which he said Congress bad granted to Eisenhower and Truman.

'Bennett, however, said whatever reforms are needed ought to be legislated by Congress-One of the most important things is keeping these agencies independent. But it is obvious, if Landis report is to be believed, that little hidependence has been enjoyed by these agencies during the past 15 years.

Bennett believes the delays in agency decisions could be re-movwi by having individual commissioners write decisions, with proper staff help, and this in turn would do away with what he called much of the backstage efforts to influence decisions.

In the White House itself, Landis would do away with presidential assistants dealing with . matters of concern to the regulatory agencies. Instead he would have an office drect^ under the President to supervise the agencies.

If Landis is trying to concentrate more power in the hands of the President he may find bitter opposition when Congress reconvenes. No group is more jealous of its prerogatives or power than the American legislative body. Whatever has to be (lone to clean up the red tape and Influence now rampsmt In these agencies should be done. In the final analysis It is pro ably a task to be shouldered by Congress and the executive branch working together.

"A clerk in an Iowa state liquor store was fired for watering the vodka, surely a modest effort to discredit the Communist system.Decatur (111,) Herald.

**Flabbines8 doesnt afflict the younger generation only. Nor is it just a matter of muscle. If his elders are really bent on toughening up Junior, 'they might begin by emptying his head of the notion that he doesnt have to worry, someime will look out for him.Wall Street Journal.

Unskilled workers are suffering most from the employment sag. Nearly eleven out of 100 unskilled workers are prraently out of work. Next In line in joblessness ars ^semi-skilled workers. Skilled people, professional personnel and those with craft skills, arent having much trouble gaining and keeping jobs.The Tulsa World.

A shakeup of the Defense Depuiment that would save eight billion dollars s year has been recommended. A plan like that doesnt have much chance in Washington. Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press.

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

So on December 19, the Electoral College met in each state and elected John F. Kennedy, President of the United States. Before that the aforesaid John Kennedy had appointed his Cabinet although he was not yet President. However, he waited a day or two, perhaps out of courtesy, to resign as United States Senator from Massachusetts. Well, now he is actually President even if you did not know about it before.

The farce was carried through with customary ceremony although it hardly mattered and nobody cared. The Electoral College is an obsolete institution.

I wondered what might have happened in this tight election if some electors chose to switch their votes. It is doubtful whether they could do that in many states. For instance, where I live their names did not even appear on the ballot. I might have been cantfuikerous and demanded my right to vote for electors in &c-cordance with the Constitution , but I feared that someone would send for a psychiatrist and having a particular dislike for that breed of cats, I thought that I had better keep quiet and not ask for electors. Besides what difference do they make?

The Electoral College is an obsolete institiition which has no reason for existence but which can only be abolished by a Ch-stitutional Amendment. Its purpose was to establish a state-controlled siu'ecning body which woid safeguard the Presidency from the rabble. Some, tiiese days, say that it also had the purpose of giving minority parties a voice, but this is clearly incorrect because when the Con- -stitution was written there were no political parties and there were really none during the first Administration of George Washington. John Adams who subsequently was descril^ as a Federalist was Washingtons Vice President, and Thomas Jefferson who later was called a Democratlo Republican was his Secretary of State. No political party is mentioned in the Constitution and no iH'ovision for political parties was cv(sr made in it. The Federal Government does not control elections and such bodies as the Republican and Democratic National C<Hnmittees are not recognized by any Acts of Congress as functioning bodies.

The Corrupt Practices Acts have nothing to do with political parties but with elected public officials who do what everybody does and get caught.

All this being so, the Electoral College has nothing to do with minority parties nor have we gone in for proportional representation, a system that came close to ruining France. As a matter of fact, the minority parties appear on ballots under vap rious state laws, just as the majority parties do. It could be legally possible for one state' to permit a minority party, let us say, the Prohibitionists or the Vegetarians, to appear on the ballot and for another state to reject such parties. This is a state matter.

Television is making many changes In our lives, some beneficial, some very harmful. The National Convention, as a televised institution, will to

take so much time and the speakers already are no longer wasting hours on rubbish because on television they sound so ridiculous. But the essential fact of the televised convention and the televised campaign is that it makes the election national in Character. A candidate can no longer say one thing in Wisconsin and another in Texas because both publics hear what he says in each place. Also, candidates have to gear themselves to a television \oice, a television stance, a televidon personality.

It must be remembered that Richard Nixon started as two to one over Kennedy but after the first debate, the campaign was practically over. When I am told that I have yet to hear what tricks the Kennedy people played on Nixon, it leaves me cold because Nixon should have had a Hollywood director who guarded against tricks. Television Is of the theater; it is produced by theatrical personnel. Nixon could not speak to a nationid audience as well as John Kennedy could.

The national election for the President, by a popular vote, is Inevitable and will become sharper as this generation discovert what the Electoral College is a partySppolnted group of contributors and local politicians (Continued on page 5>

Odd Items In World Of Business

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS RESOLUTENESS. NOT RESOLUTIONS

There is always much joking about New Years resolutions and the rapidity with which they arc broken.

Two things need to be said about this matter. The first is that we nev^ need to wait for any special day when good resolutions are being considered. The time to make them is right at the moment that their need becomes apparent. The length of their duration stiould not even be considered at all.

The second thing to be said is that as a matter of fact, the best resolutions arc never consciously made, not even whisper

ed to our deepest understanding. For improvement of ones conduct and the deepening of ones faith is something that goes on continuously if It goes on at all. And it Is a quite unconscioua process. Somehow or other many of the things we aim for are never reached and some of the things most influential In our lives grow up unnoticed. We do not need so much to make good resolutions as to be genuinely resolute and steadfast in the way we live our lives all the time.

We do not stop, ponder, and become better. The natural process is Improvement as we go along.

Not resolutions but resoluteness and this without any let up.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Business Is funny. Well, no, It isnt. But there are many strange and odd things in business. For instance:

One premium company is offering a Piper plane for trading stamps, in very large numbers, natch . . . For 15 cents sent to the G.P.O., Washington 25, D.C., you can get a booklet on "Your Community Can Profit from Tourist Business. . . If you live In Umiat, Alaska, dont bother.

Cambodlant most be worried. Cigarette production Is running twice as much as last year.

Fringe benefits per worker are now $1.100 a year, compared with $424 in 1950, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce calculates . . . Weekly costs of sending out all laundry averaged $12.44 in an Obio State University test . . . Replacing all electric lamps at calculated inter

vals is cheaper than replacing lamps only when they conk, Monsanto has discovered.

MORE ZIP ADDED TO FOODS

American appetites must be jaded: the Spice Trade Association reports consumption at a rate of 173,000,000 pounds a year, the highest in history . . New antibiotics may lable planto to resist fungus diseases ... A survey Indicates that 32 per cent of all adults go dancing regularly.

For the first time in history. Northern Ireland Is shipping hams to the U.S.

Space problems have resulted in designs for more than 15,000 filters, reports Norman Burnell, New York engineer . . . The odds against .someone else having your exact prescription for glasses is more than 3,000,000 to 1. reports Liberty Optical Co . . . Pai'ade magazine finds that 62.8

per cent of all American housewives want to be called housewives. Most of the others wanted to be called "home makers or "home managers. None, "the old lady.

HE MAY BE SOMEBODYS NEPHEW

A new government leaflet on "Keep Overhead Costs in Line, says nothing about firing a relative . . . "Managerial Performance Standards is a significant new book published by the American Management Association, 1515 Broadway, New York 36, at $5.25 . . . One of the greatest problems for retailers Is that many people buy gifts from junky stores and put them in boxes from swanky establishments. The recipients then bring them back to the swanky places to demand exchanges, credit or even cash.

Demand for humorous calend-. dars for 1961 is high, reports a

maker.

Acid-modified wheat flour imparts strength to paper, the .S. Department of Agriculture found . . . Magnetic devices no bigger than pinheads help automatic control of steel rolling mills, reports "Steelways. ... A new company plans to export horse-meat from Ireland, after a new law goes into effect prohibiting the export of horses more than seven years old.

COWS JUMP OVER THE OCEAN AT YOUR EXPENSE

You have no idea what your tax payments are used for. For instance, at your expense the U.S. Ah* Force recently flew 20 Jersey cows from Boise, Idaho, to Japan. They were the gift of U.S. Jersey breeders to the Japanese people, and will be used to form a demonstration berd at the Kea'fu Experiment Station in Yamanashl Prefecture. s

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