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Thursday, January 26, J961

Thursday, January 26, 1961

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Implications In' Caribbean Story

The saga of the Santa Maria, the Portuguese liner hijacked in the Caribbean, carries implications not to be overlooked.

One of these would be that searchers might still be fruitlessly searching had not the ships radio been

The futility of the whole operation.

Ther^e is no place for the seized ship to find sanc-tuarv-. The gang, having come out into the open, has no place to hide.

further, the whole concept of attacking Portu-

beatntng messages of resnssurance to families *01 pass- yaPg yovemment by hijacking a ship in the far-away engers, and publicity-seeking pronouncements to the Caribbean appears so farfetched as to defy bmg w orld at large. The Santa Marias location was largely seriously taken.

determined by its garrulous radio.

A number of planes and surface craft w'ere assigned to the hunt, but the vastness of the ocean is only realized when trying to locate one ship in a suspected area of many thousands of square miles.

Suppose instead of a 20-knot cruise ship, the subject was a 35-knot aircraft carrier lurking off an enemy shoreline in radio silence.

Suppose it were a subrparinc, or a pack of them, lurking in the depths of the area rather than on the iurfaeo, inking and -then 4i^ppAring. ....

If it seemed difficult to locate the Santa Maria, finding a carrier or a submarine would be even more 10. Consider'too, how many times that carrier or sub could strife before pressures of the hunt forced it to leave the scene r

The thought lends weight to the Navys liking for big, fast carriers.

Other aspects of the story:

' Whereas the Santa Marias take-over was obviously well-planned, the lack of foresight as to the most probable outcome (as against the desired insults) casts a shadow of reasonable doubt on capabilities and prospects of Portugals revolutionaries.

We could understand the operation if it were a simple act of piracy in water^with a history of such dark deeds. But as a political gesture it rings hollow.

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ORGANIZATIONThe Democratic party in North Carolina la perfecting an organlaaiion which will co-ordinate ictlvitiea from the precinct up to the national committee, year-in and year-out, election years and oth* ,rs. It isn'i exactly a new idea.

' but it 5 e&sentiaiiy a new program-

Dr- Wallace Hyde went on the Job a few weeka ago aa the first fulltime execuUve aecretary of the North Carolina State Democratic Committee, Many people have thought for ycara that auch a position ought to be establiah-d. Eznergeociea incident to the Inauguration of a new Governor and a Democratic Prealdent " have occupied most of hi* time aince he took over the taak of building a workable Democratic party organizatioii in North Carolina.

Coming up is the annual Jef-feraon-Jackson dinner, which Vl require a lot of attention to details. Technically this aifair is the responsibility of the national committee, rather than the state organization. Because in the past there has been very little liaison between the national committee and the atatc and local or-fanizations, major burden has rested on the state group.

Date for the annual dinner and name of the principal speak-r are presently under consideration. and announcements may be forthcomini in a few days. One thing seems certsin at this time. There will be closer cooperation and less conflict between state and national groups than has prevailed in some past Jef-ferson-Jackson dinners. That is one. and in some respects a ery minor, Instance of party's ide cooperation. It might be symbolic of a different kind of Democratic solidarity.

UJilTEDDr. Hyde has mapped out a program that csils for hini to spend some time within the next lew weeks In national Democratic headquarter at

dlnatlng and directing all activities toward a unified effort In behalf of the Democratic partj--. This is the first time that any

To close readers of newspapers it must sometimes appear a running feud exists between the press and the post office department.

Reporters never fail to uncover instances of wedding invitations aiTiving years late, Christmas cards reaching their destination in July, birth announcements being delivered years after the event, mail intended for just across towm taking two days to make it . . . we could go on, but you get the

picture.

Theyre all dutifully reported in high good humor, and editors are prone to exclaim Thats another good one!, and make it a point to find space in their crowded pages so the public can share if too.

As against all this, newspaper people shudder

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such centrmlized or ccHsrdinttUig each time a postal official re-raises the old proposal HENRY HOWARD authority has been tvaUtble to to hi^e their mailing rates; and in between those

jolts some^times wonder what happened to a letter expected on a certain day-^ or are told the mail they know has been sent hasnt shown up yet.

But back to the long-delayed-mail-delivery theme:

Editors and reporters are not^'wholly insensitive to the dedicated spirit of most postal workers and the ^

truly magnificent manner in which the whole cumber- thrsecondflo'orTf7hV Ren^^ some machinery is operated, building. Once in a while the be-

Thi, is called to mind by a story filed by a

Tennessee reporter . . . and in turn carried by Anyway, we picked up a re-

the worldwide news service of the Associated Press jwrt rceny from East Caro-

. . when an airmail letter posted in Ireland was colleges Maria d. Orahm

delivered to the addressee slightly less than 24 hours ioghnd was

later. ~ , account of the clubes anti-

Speculation was that the missive made perfect theprMfd

connections along its route. Rai election.

We suspect the great majority of newspapers re- As you can see. that places

channel individual and group energy toward one objective Which is another way of saying that this is the first time there has been any real effort to organize the forces of the Democratic party into a coherent unified agency.

For half a century the Idea has prevailed that North Carolina Is safely Democratic, that because papa was a Democrat little Johnnie and Susie also would vote the Democratic ticket. It isnt that way any more. Little Johnnie and Susie are asking why they ought to be Democrats. And up to now- nobody has bothered to tell them.

Meantime, missionaries of the Republican party bave been giving them reasons at least arguments about why the# should not Just blindly follow the paternal path. Some of the arguments have been effective.

PLANSMany of the North Carolina votes for Republican candidates for Governor and President last November were cast by older disgruntled former Democrats. A lot of them were put in by first voters To combat that trend. Wallace Hyde with full concurrence of Governor Sanford and State Chairman Bert Bennetthas plans for tightening the Democratic party organization. These plans include meetings with county chairmen of the party, as well as with the national committee; more or le.ss informal meetings around the breakfast or luncheon table of county chairmen with Governor Sanford and the state chairman, and assurance that appointments or recommendations for appointment will be cleared through the chairman of the county in which the proposed appointee re.sldes.

That doesn't mean that Gov-

Wherein Univac Is Loser

Care to listen to a bit of old news?

It pops up occasionally around

.within the clubs membership-complete with prizes, too, for the members who could predict most accurately the outcome of the presidential race.

Two winners were provided for. One would win by virtue of foreseeing best the election's out come, electoral vote-wise- The other would be declared w'lnner by submitting the closest popular vote percentage figure.

In the elttbe ^tory, tha two winners have been recorded. Prof. John Reynolds, with a 50-7 per cent prediction, was closest to President Kennedys victory margin. Alice Lee Edwards hit the 303 electoral vote count right on the nose.

We heard the historical tale

ceiving that story, also insured there would be room -nrws^back^in^^

somewhere in their tight pages to carry it. (Fair play, nearly three months ago! vou know.) boiled down to a contest

Less spectacular, but more important to us at . - * * -. p,

home, was the postal service we witnessed during the (jf '")OT r C" itOFQ Christmas, rush. We privately think holiday mail service is improving with the years.

iOwmakers Are Not So Talkative

-On Time Of New Terms

Washington, seeking information ernor Sanford will let the local

how best to cTelate actlviUcs ef the North Carolina Democratic party into the national program.

Then he expects to visit all of the county Democratic chairmen in this state, seeking how best to correlate their aclivites with the state program, and how to get the county cnairman to bring Into fuller cooperation all the precinct chairmen in his county.

He hopes also to work with Young Democratic Clubs, and all the auxiliary off-shoots of Democratic women, and what have you, to the end of co-or-

chairmen make his appoint-menLs. or even allow' them to veto his choices. It does mean that the local leader# will be advised. before they read the newspaper stones, about who has been named to what position. It is Important for a county chairman to know, even when he cannot control, such appointments.

It looks like the Sanford-Ben-nett-Hyde regime is putting the Democratic party organization back into the prestige If form*, erly enjoyed as the dominant factor In control of State gov-ernment.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - Those plumbers of history, newsmen with an ear for leaks, have their work cut out for them in the Kennedy administration.

President Kennedy, starting his first full week in the White House, seems to have laid down a policy of hush-mouth.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk was noted for not talking much when he worked in the State Department some years ago.

Rusk came away from the White House Monday, after talking with Kennedy, with the news the Kennedy administration wants quiet diplomacy.

Then there were the Democratic congressional leaders who perhaps for the first time had practically nothing to say.

When they came away from talking with Kennedy Tuesday, they may have been mumbling to themselves but they werent even doing that to reporters.

Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson confided to reporters a piece of Information which didn't send them racing for the telephones. He said the talk with Kennedy Involved problems facing the nation.

It seemed only yesterday that President Eisenhower^s congres-aioi^kaders could hardly wait .^ to leave him before making statements.

This didnt mean they revealed much but, compared with the Democrats Tuesday, they looked like a bunch of chatterboxes.,

If this clam-up is going to be ' Kennedy policy, it means reporters will have to work harder finding people who will leak news to them without being quoted.

Since Kennedy rtans on having regular news conferences, perhaps he haj decided that, 1

administration does any talking, hell do it.

This may explain the unen-Ughtening explanation by Kennedys press secretary, Pierre Salinger, when asked how come the quietude.

VWe are not tightening information. Salinger said, were trying to coordinate It.

There was a particular reason for hoping Rusk would open up.

Over the weekend Soviet Premier Khrushchev had called In the American ambassador In Moscow. Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr., and talked with him for hours.

But Rusk brushed aside would-be questioners with a statement: The value of the diplomatic channel depends on Its privacy. He wouldnt say what Khrushchev had talked about.

REMEMBER THOSE YOU LOVED WITH A MEMORIAL GIFT - - ,T0 THE

(Henderson Dispatch)

In the ferment, of suggestions already heard and which may still be heard In the current session of Congress will be numerous proposals for changes in the Constitution. Some of them may have merit: others could be merely the brainchild of some lawmaker who has a pet hobby to exploit.

President Eisenhower said In his final news conference that he thought -the new President should take office eighty days before the new Congress assembles, That could not be done without changing the date for convening, and possibly even the time for the national election.

Election day is on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. That of itself is less than eighty days before Congress meets. If the interim suggested were established, the election would have to be held earlier or Congress would have to assemble later than it does now.

Until the days of Franklin D-Roosevelt, the new President was Inaugurated on the fourth of March, except when that date fell on Sunday. The late Senator Norris of Nebraska was the author of an amendment which changed inauguration day to January 20. Why January 20 we may never know.- Since it was to be changed, as it should have been to narrow the gap between election and induction, why January 20? Why not some date in early December? That would avoid much of the terrible wea-* Friday

when President Kennedy took the oath.

How the arrangement proposed by Eisenhower would be effected would pose Its problems. Early January is satisfactory

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for Congress to convene. But a December date for the new President would have its advantages. It might be beneficial for him to assume his duties ahead of the legislative branch, but eighty days is a considerable spread.

It is argued that the new chief executive should have time to present his own budget. But eighty days would hardly be sufficient for that, since even now departments and budgetary authorities work on their proposals all the fall, and then come up with a pattern for spending that usually is revamped rather sharply by Congress before enacted into law some months later.

President Elsenhower submitted a budget, which was precariously balanced on paper, and in a manner not likely to stand up under the battering of foes in Congress. That, of course, is not unusual. But it docs Indicate the fallacy of assuming that a President elected the first week in November could prepare an acceptable budget between that "date and the time he took office. It couldnt be done even if he were Inducted the day after he were elected, and with Congress assembling two months later.

It is Impossible to write into the Constitution for permanence a date for the Inauguration, and to assume that weather conditions will be favorable on that date. Perhaps when scientists leam how to predict weather conditions a year or two In advance something more- tangible could be determined!-A December date wcMld conCUct Christmas. So there you are. Obstacles are encountered no matter what alternative may be considered. Maybe, after all. Congress should just let well enough alone.

this week.

In the report we received, several comments caused certain misgivings regarding the jcport-er of the proceedings. Objectivity in moderate amounts was well-blended with several edito-rialisms that made us blink . . . and then grin wryly.

The reporter says: It has

been called to our attention that Univac the fantabulous mechanical brain) predicted a Kennedy win but by a larger margin.

With the ECC mathematics department, who needs Univac?

A reasonable question?

Oh! We almost forgot about the prizes for Prof. Reynolds and Miss Edwards.

The token trophies were presented the respective winners at a regular meeting of the club last week, on Tuesday evening The annual awards dinner, or something like that.

Our reporter informed us the winners were honored at the clubs sessioh in the colleges library.

He (or She) used the post script method to remind us that excellence goes not unrewarded-

Included in the report:

P. S. The winners received a stuffed wize owl. (boy owl and girl owl)

Opinions IpBrier

Communism uses poverty, illiteracy and illness to conquer nations, as in Cuba, to establish a base for new aggressions. Reduce poverty, illiteracy and illness and you reduce opportunities for communism to spread and overwhelm us. But we must nijyer lose sight of the fact that the ultimate goal is a free world. Corvallis (Ore.) Oazette-Times.

If you, as a parent, have been concerned with what your children were going to do with our large national debt, stop worrying. They are simply going to pass it on to your grandchildren.Waterville (Kansas) Telegraph,

Having been in the senate limg enough to know the intricacies and vagaries of the lawmaking processes, the new president knows what rocks to look under and what to use as # proper wedge. a proper wedge.Easley (B.C.)

The year 1961 is developing into another year of crises. Havent they all been?Britt (Iowa) News-Tribune.

Policy

Sketch

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT

Features

Copyright. 1961, King

Syndicate, Inc. .

In Kls Inaugural Address* President Kennedy laid down his policy. Kennedy said:

Let every nation know, whe- . ther it wish us well or ill. that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship., support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty.

This much we pledge and more."

Then he restated the Monroe Doctrine in his own words:

To our sister republics south of our Bbrdf, we iJffer ft speciat pledge to convert our good words into good deedsin a new alliance for progressto assist free men and free govemmenis in casting off the chains of poverty. But this peaceful resolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that .we shall Join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this hemisphere Intends to remain the master of its own house."

in many respects this statement is as strong. If not stronger, than the original Monroe Doctrine. In fact, Kennedy issued a threatclearly a threat to those nations who would make themselves our adversary."

"Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer'*not a pledge but a request; that both side# begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark power# of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental seU-destruction.

"We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt that they will never be employed."

If these statements are put together, they become a guiding policy, namely, that the United State# has no program of appeasement but does have a program of the defense of liberty and territorial Independence, for all peoples, particularly for those of the Americas.

The United States seeks peace and is willing to negotiate for peace, but it will not negotiate from fear. He said:

"So let us begin anew remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always ' subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Khrushchev understands precisely. what an this means. He will excerpt these paragraphs as they are excerpted here; l^wlll tear the thought out of the verbiage ftnd recognize that he 1# dealing with a tough hombre, who does not speak soft or act soft. All this will be clear to the Russian. He is warned that good manners are "not a s\en of weakness, but their lack can engender disgust. If Khrushchev believes that Kennedy is a slv^y and that be can hurl a shoe at him, he is mistaken.

On the other hand, President Kennedy must recognize that Soviet Russia cannot relinquLh its main objective which is to reduce the entire world to an acceptance of Marxist sociology and economics. Whereas Khrushchev masks his intentions behind such generous phrases as competitive co-existence, Mao Tze-tung is more honest and frank. Mao, a* an orthodox Communist, desires a war upon the United States immediately.

In the recent great conference in Moscow, Maos insistence upon war was voted down, but every statement out of Peking establishes his moral rejection of the Kremlin decision. Mao ha# a famine to look after; otherwise he would not have retreated.

President Kennedy in his Inaugural says he will not make Harry Trumans mistake about "good, old Joe." He said: "Sincerity is always subject to proof." Also. Kennedy Is in no hurry:

"All this will not be finished in the first IIX) days. Nor will It be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Ad-minigkstion. nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet..

. purely, t|ie course toward un-** derstanding did not begin with this Inaugural Address. It began when Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill rescued (Continued on Page 6)

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By ELMER ROESSNER Television commercials have

Strength For Today

' organizers whose romatic prowess at an earlier time had earned him' the sobriquet

populj^ed Brandy. ThU nwk^.^ associaUon drily

has been registered for cigar -r , .

reties, a cleaning compound and

By EARL L. DOUGLASS SAINTS

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling wrote some telling line# about whimpering. Here they are:

"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you. . . .

If you can wait and not be tried by waiting.

Or being lied about, dont deal in He#.

Or being hated, dont give way to hating. . .

Those of us who can remember Kipling recall the tremendous impression he made by -.hiCw-wellichoMsp words,, and .hi# stinging phrases. Sometimes he was like a refreshing breeze. More often he was like a lash Pew men have viewed life more

retlUUcally than did he.

The quotation given above on how a true man conduct# himself In the face of opposition and Injustice needs to be pondered by every gcneraUon. No parade, no airs, ho selfishness, no rudeness. no irritation, always kindnesshere is a program for

sainthood.

Ah. but you say. I am not a saint and never could be one.

The reason you say that is because saints have largely been relegated to stained glass

windows. The word aalnt"

means a person who is set apart in the world. We can all be saints, and we should aspire to poihiog ieas than, tbq highest mark of Christian manhood or womanhood.

All Christian believers were in the beginning called "saints."

polishing cloth and popcorn, the U. S. Trademark Association reports in its annual review of I960.

Once again, it reported, there was the usual mass and mess of litigation over trademark rights. A brewing firm using the slogan. "Where theres life, theres Bud, won injunctions against two Insecticide companies that started to advertise, Where theres life, theres bugs. liKe magasine did not Join this fray.

Wolfles Restaurant in Miami succeeded in getting a court order against a Brooklyn restaurant that tried to use the same name. "The court, in requiring the defendant to adopt a dlffrent liamp.* paid eftnt attention to the claim that the name* had been adopted by the defendant to honor one of its

observed.

TWO PUMP ROOMS Chicagos famous Pump Room was unable to prevent a Los Angeles bar from continuing to use the name. The Los Angeles tavern had adopted the name in 1945, before the Chicago spot had become famous. The tavern was forbidden to use the name more than four miles beyond ita original location and the Chicago re.tauiant was forbidden to use the name in the enclave.

The Patent Office refused to grant a nnmoer of trademarks because it ruled they led to confusion with exlaUng marks.

Herft ace some of those rejected, with the rejected mark named first in each cas, followed in parentheali by the I mark in which it was ruled in

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Minute for macaroni (Minute tapioca, rice and dehydrated potatoes).

Woodmaster table aawa (DrUl-master drills).

Hollymatic heaters and ranges (Hollymatlc hamburger mouid-tnachnes.'

PRO-TEN baking compound, PRO. PRO - 75 and PRO - 80 wheat flour and gum gluten).

Lav - Tabs deterg^t tablet (Lava soap).

Koral detergent (Coral detergent).

Mr. Guy shirts and clothing (Sir Guy mens sport shirts).

Serranov vodka (Smirnoff vodka and kummel).

Sky Jet toy baUoon# (Skl-Hi rubber balls.

Love 'That Dove

Love detergent (Dove bar^

detergent).*

Levlon piece goods (Revlon cosmetics).

However, the Patent Office held these marks did not conflict:

Baco Brothers whiskey and

CluriMiUa . anothere . .

. brandy.

Swissair Jackets and coat# and Swissair air transoort.

Kayo candles and K candies.

Singer workmens protective clothes and Singer sewing xnachlnes.

r' Bojral Palm Shirts, slacks and underwear, and Palm Beach fabrics, and clothing.

Yale University sued to prevent the use of the name "Yale Motor Inn for a motel 25 miles away. The courts ruled that there was no conflict because the public knows the difference between an educational institution and s motel.

WARNS OF RISE IN JAPANESE TRANSISTORS The Battery Information Committee of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association report# that last year 42 per cent of the transistor radio batteries sold last year wer# Japanaw-made, and that the Japanese shar^ of the UJS. market will rise to 55 per cent this year.

. JThis-. it A8J4 may. adversJy-a-. feet the domestic dry battery capacity, vital to American defense.

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