PAGE FOURTHE PAil^Y^REFLECTOR, ^GREENVILLE, N. C

Thursdayt March 30, 1961

Thursday, March SO, 1961

Election Measures

^at Empty Feeling Again

WortH Action

The State Board of Elections recommendations to the legislature on matters pertaining to elections in North Carolina should not go unheeded by members of the General Assembly.

The recommendations, we believe, are sound and their Implementation by th legislature would he of benefit to the people of North Carolina.

Voting machines are acutely needed in many areas of the state and a mdve by the state to assist jcounties in purchasing these machines would be a major step toward increasing th^r use. It is true that the legislature two years ago turned down a similar proposal, but that^does not change the fact that the machines are needed and the State government could render an important sendee by helping counties ao quire such machines.

Another proposal, the recommendation that an extra week be added to the standard pre-election registration period, likewise has merit.-If it w'ould in-

Cutting Out AI. IxemDtions

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By NISBET

CONSISTENCY Governor Baniord says that it is not realistic to remove sales tax exemptions from other fields and not remove them purchases by other other governmental units. In fairness to all, it ought to applv to all

For many years it has been ^ general policy that one governmental unit did not collect taxes from another. There have been just enough exceptions to IKOve the rule. If -general policy is to be that government agencies should be treated ^just like private business in taxes, the City of Raleigh wil profit materially, and other cities wiU not fare too badly. If .it is not > realistic to exempt purchases 'V made by the City of Raleigh from the State sales tax. Is it realistic for the City of Raleigh to exempt the multimillion dollars of land and buildings owned by the State from the adva-lorem property tax?

Is it consistent with this' newly announced policy for the City of Raleigh to collect several thousand dollars in taxes on the Insurance Building and collect none from the office buildings around capitol square?

The sute of North Carolina pays no Uxes to the Federal government for any purpose, and pays none to counties, cities and towns in the SUte on property used for government purposes. There l.s an arrangement for paying taxes, or share of profits in lieu of taxes, on revenue producing forest lands owned by the State.

If it IS claimed there are no exemptions in the tax program. said a substantial Raleigh taxpayer the other day. lets cut out all the exemptions Let the cities pay the State sales tax. franchise tax and others and let them collect advalorem tax on all sute owned property

CASUALTIES There have been many sessions of the General Assembly in which no vacancies occurred. The 1961 session, which most observers concede is not nearing its halfway point, already ha.s been fourtwo by death and two by resignation. The elected represe ntative from Henderson, Thomas B. Locaby. resigned the day before the General Assembly convened, and T.R. Randall was named in his place. Later, but before he took the oath of office. Rep. Max Childers of Gaston resigned, and Hoyle Efird was named in his place. Then Rep. Fleetus Gobble of Forsyth died, and Claude Hamrick was named to fill that seat. Just a few days ago Rep. John Phelps of Washington county died. His successor had not been chosen at time this is written. The Monday night session of the House of Representatives was devoted entirly to memorial eulogies for Dr. Phelps.

Prior to 1953 the only way a vacancy could be filled in the General Assembly was through

the process of special election. A consututional amendment adopted m 1952 provided that the Governor might appoint (actually it amounts only to commissioning) a replabement who had been chosen by the executive committee of the political party to which the deceased or resigned member# belonged in the county or district which he represented. Use of that procedure has eliminated the prolonged lack of representation which prevailed under the old system.

In that connection it is noted that the only office in North Carolina which cannot be filled except by popular election is that of representative in the Congress There is provision for replacement by appointment or consitutional process of the United States Senators, the Governor and all other executive officials. Slate and county, and judges of all the courts.

ELECTION LAWS-BiUs are expected to be introduced within a few days effectuating recommendations proposed by the State Board of Elections at its meeting here Monday There were sir recommendations, all but one of which had been proposed before.

The State Board of Elections approves use of voting machines: of looselcaf permanent registration of voters; provision for longer time to get on the books when a new county-wide registration is ordered; reduction of time in which a candidate may call for a second primary; closer restrictions on college student voting; and. a constitutional amendment to reduce the resident requirements in the state from the present one year to 30 days applicable only to votes for presidential electors.

Although it appears innocuous on its face, this is regarded as the most significant of all recommendations. It is No. 1 on the Lst. Us implementation wonld require two registration boofcs, one for general voters and one for presidential voters only. It is very similar to the pending Federal constitutional amendment to permit voting for presidential electors only to residents of the District of Colura-* bia.

From whatever angle they are viewed these proposals tend to break down the control of States over elections and to reduce the boasted sovereignty to the States to the status of auxiliary provinces in the national set up. It is an acceileration of the trend that has been in progress for a hundred yeanseven before the Civil War. There are valid arguments for and against this policy. The people should recognize that the next logical step will be to allow District of Columbia residents full rights of suffrage on local Issues, and to allow 30-day arrivals in North Carolina to participate in all stat and local elections.

crease the number of citizens who register and participate in electionsas the Board of Elections feels it wouldobviously the added cost involved in the addition to the registration period would be money well spent.

Certainly the proposal concerning registration for national elections by persons who have recently moved to the state is logical. As it is now, a pei;son who has not been a resident of North Carolina f^or a year is not eligible to vote. The recommendation by the elections boaj'd is that persons who have been resident of the state for as much as 30 days would be eligible to cast ballots for president and vice president in the general election. The one years residence requirement would still apply in election of officials other than the president and vice president.

Clarification of the eligibility of college students is also a needed revision of the elections laws. In recent years the matter has come up on several occasions and has been a point of confusion as well as some controversy. recommendation of the Board of Elec--tions provides that college students who do not intend to make the place where they are attending school their permanent residence would be considered residents of the county or state of their parents or other relatives for the purpose of voting.

The other two recommendationsone permitting counties to install loose-leaf systems for registration bookstand the other changing the period in which a ,run-off primary may be calledare also logical.

The State Board of Elections, which is responsible for supervision of election procedure throughout the state would not have made the recommendations to the General Assembly unless it thought the changes would enhance the election procedure in the state. We trust the General Assembly will give favorable consideration to the recommendations.

We Want Opinions Of Our Readers, But

The Reflector would like to call its readers attention to the requirement that letters to the editor must be signed by their authors in order to appear in the Public Forum column of this paper.

In recent weeks we have had several letters to the editor which obviously were intended for use in f the Public Forum. We would have been pleased to use them, but for the fact that the per.sons who wrote them failed to sign them. With"n(/name or return addresses on the letters or the envelopes, it was impossible to contact the authors of these letters to explain to them why the letters were not printed.

The Reflector is not only pleased to print letters to the editor in its column, we are most anxious to do so. We feel that this means of expression of individual opinions on timely topics of public interest is worthwhile to our readers and to the community at large.

We encourage our readers to express their opinions through letters to the editor. W.e ask only that the letters be of reasonable length, that they contain no libelous statements, and that they be signed by their authors.

By HENRY HOWARD

s Imoact Is t eii

It look.s like Spring has in fact finally made-the scene.

Although we still peek skeptically outside each morning to see whether that drab and dreary weather is again upon us. there are those certain signs that announce only one occasionthe real debut of Spring.

When the sun shines so warmly and those gentle south breezes play along all over the place, theres an obvious reaction among the folks that's unmistakable. And that reaction is as irrepressible as it is obvious.

When the plant world decides to begin its annual all-out effort to as hurriedly as possible cover winters brown with a green blanket, people have a

way of donning new spirits They trade in their winter personalities and everythings fine

There are numerous signs that F>op up here and there. Autos old and new roll unhurriedly by with the windows down. Bare elbows hang from those windows.

All up and down the street, people stroll along at a leisurely but spirited pace that only, happens in Spring. Everybody seems to feel a little better.

But everybody has a way of pausing for a moment now and then to take a deep breath of the tresh Spring air. Sometimes that air will rejuvenate, other times it brings on that traditional Spring Fever.

.aotiarls Arent Awake To Issue

Other Editors Saying ... Genius,Needs Guidance

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - What do the Laodans themselves think about the power struggle between thase two far-away giants, the United States and Ru.ssia, over their tiny land?

For a lot of them, not much.

Report after report from there tells of great indifference to the civil war between the Russian-backed rebels in the north and the American - supported right-wing government in the squth.

The greatest popular support is for neither side but for Prince Souvanna Phouma. Hes neutral.

To a lot of Laotians, therefore, the United States and Russia must look like a couple of busybodies. Yet the Laotians have to depend on someone. The country earns only a fraction of

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its expenses. /

In 1960 Its exports totaled $1.6

million while its national deficit was $33 million, 20 time.s

its export figui'^Bince 19.54 this country put $3I(rVmilliqn into Laos, most of it forUhe military forces. \

Yet The Associated Press reports even the combatants are devout Buddhists who dont like to kill and have to be coaxed Into fighting by their big-power backers.

The Laotians dont even think as a nation. Many of them are split tribes. One official said to most Laotians the civil war is Jiust another family fight.

Yet Russia wants the Communist-led rebels to win. A Red Laos would be a foothold for a take-over in the rest of Southeast Asia. For that reason the United States is determined to block them.

So the Laotians are caught in the middle.

If there is peace In Laosand if the country is divided, as it probably will be. since the Reds dont usually yield any ground both sides will have to work to ^win support.

Since both the West and communism will propagandize the iple in their area, in due time mivbe the Laotians on both sid^ will learn to get angry enough at each other to fight in earnest.

All this sounds a little reminiscentalthough the cases are not identicalof Indochina, half of which the French lost to communism in 1954.

The French had held all of Viet Nam from back in the 19th century. Being colonial-minded, they didnt train the Vietnamese for independence. Eventually, the Communists in the north revolted.

From 1946 to 19.54 the French fought them. But the French were so dainty they didnt spnd any draftees to Viet Nam. just volunteers.

One tliing was sure: They

werent getting many volunteers from among the Vietnamese who simply wanted the French out. If they volunteered It was usually with the Communist-led rebels in the north.

Naturally the French had to give up the northern half. Now. seven years later, the Commu-nLsts are on the move again, sending their guerrillas Into South Viet Nam.

If Laos is splif. in half the time will probably come when the Reds from the north put the heat on their southern brothers and therell be a crisis of. $$ime kind all over again.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Genius often is pictured as the eccentric behavior of a person devoted to one pursuit, usually scientific, to the exclusion of all others and to the extent that his mental balance seems to hang precariously between sanity and insanity. The truth is genius is not nearly so rare as might be supposed, but is made scarce by parents who. unwittingly or not, prefer not to have their children far excel their clas.smates,

American educator and anthropologist Prof. Annette Rosensticl has estimated there are now 2.5 million children under the age of five in the United States who can become geniuses if their parents do. not stifle their eagerness for knowledge. It is often difficult in pre-;^ool age children to recognize aliatural talent or an above average interest in learning, but the pattern of life is frequently formed at this agebefore the teacher meets the child.

Pre-school years are a time for play, but they are also the ripest period for preparing the child for responsibility, creativity and the long term of formal education ahead. It is a period frequently neglected by parents who feel a childs education does not begin until he goes to school. The first few years of a childs life are very impressionable.

Educators are familiar with the apparently talented child who shows no interest in school-work, or if he does show interest seems to have trouble concentrating on the work at hand. Chances are he is one of the 2 5 million with exceptional abilities who was discouraged from developing his talents before he became of school age.

He may go through school and adult life as well with only a scant fulfillment of his potential and making a mediocre contribution to society.

When the interest has been destroyed, when the desire has been dulled, when the child merely skims the surface of the vast world of learning which open-s before him*in school year, we decry the superficiality of our modern youth. The fault is not theirs, it is ours, parents are admonished by Professor Rosenstiel.

Increasing parental interest in the pre-school development of all children, not merely those of exceptional talents, would greatly enhance,the efficacy of formal education. Considering the short time parents have an opportunity to guide the formative years into channels of mental stimulation, and the increased satisfaction for both parent and child, there could be no more worthwhile effort.

Like we said, signs of Springs true arrival are numerous. All are certain, but one is particularly assuring. . -and most striking.

It came (officially) several days after the calendar announced Sprlhsf had arrived. Nevertheless it came, as It always does.

We ran upon an Air Force lieutenant the other day who heralded the sign of Spring that, he said, means the most. . /-

It so happens that hes a helicopter pilot who has occasions to patrol the area in his hovering craft.

He assured us Spring is really hre. He sounded so certain we wanted to know his reasoning.

Being a Texan, he had to elaborate. Well. he said, Back home when the herd begins to get a little frisky and the grass starts getting real green. Spring aint far behind.

Up here, its been kinda hard for me to find a sure sign. That is until now, said the copter pilot.

He went on to explain that on a recent patrol mission he found himself cruising along at a low level on a course that carried him right over Greenville and East Carolina College.

He said he was tempted to hover for a while when he glanced down and saw the ground carpeted with girls. Hed found East East Carolinas coed sunbathing en masse.

There musta been a million, he exclaimed.

Its Spring alright.

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NECESSITIES OF LIFE (The Miami Herald)

Bucking for a better wagg in a pamphlet headed What Does It Cost to Live? the International A.'isociation of Machinists lists 10 cost items in a city workers weekly budget.

As might be supposed, food comes first. Next is housing. But the third costliest item is in-come taxes, which clip the veage budget $12.72 a week.

Clothing is fartl^r down the list. So the necessities of life are no longer the trinity of food, shelter and clothing. Rather, they are food, shelter and taxes.

Full of folly is the man who supposes that even if the first two hold still, so will the third.

Odd fact the 'population'^ explosion hasnt yet caused any citys Chamber of Commerce to advertise: This Town Is Big Enough. Memphis Press-Scimitar.

"Kennedy tays that Douglas Dillon took the post of secretary of the treasury with no strings attached. Not even purse-strings? Port Myers (Fla.) News-Press.

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Still On

The world is getting to a point where It is a blessing not to be able to get a telescope to focus. Dallas Morning News.

Lawyer Henry Pisher has given up trying to raise dairy cattle. Why? Cost me $30,000 to find you cant get anyone to work, he says. Asheville Citizen.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright. 1961. King Fea|ures Syndicate, Inc. j.

I was recently in conversation with yomi* people d found that war was a very dirty word. This was npt so true In 1913 when university campuses were stirred by the prospects of war. Even then, there were those who believed in the paci-fistic ideals of the Carnegie Peace Foundation and the Collegiate Antl-Mllitarism League. And then came the Ford Peace Ship with its unbelievable absurdities and finally the war to make the world safe for democracy. There was no doubt that the Kaiser would be hung on Times Square and that Woodrow Wilson was the greatest man in history. Young people went to war, singing Over There. and Sousas Marine Corps Bahd of 400 or whatever Instrumentalists stirred the land to patriotism.

Nothing so exciting happened In World War II although the movies tried hard to make war popular and everybody was instructed to hate Hitler. But'our people could not fall in love with Stalin or the coterie of unusual personalities that showed up in the government. It was very difficult to believe that Harry Hopkins was a great statesman. When the United States lost World War II to Soviet Russia after making huge sacrifices in life and wealth, doubt spread as to whether anything really valuable is gained by war.

Then came the Korean War which the United States Icxst to Red China, a country which only a few years before had no reputable military force. The United States lost that war because its military strategy had to conform to United Nations political concepts. Thus Americans were killed in a war in which victory was inpossible b'4 cause the proper place to fight the war was Manchuria and that was a sanctuary for the Red Chinese, From a military staii-point, the Korean War was madness: from a political standpoint, it was a disaster.

So just as many nations became neutral. American young people reviewed the theory of war and the necessity for it. As a'matter of fact, the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations attempted to talk war out of existence and lost every battle. The enemy, the Russians, could not only talk longer and louder, but increasingly other nations became neutral. And when they adopted the policy of positive neutrality, it really meant that they would not oppose Soviet imperialism while accepting American economic and military assistance.

The younger people, who will have to fight in a war, whose careers are being changed by war, whose marriages are being postponed by war. ask the pragmatic question: What will war bring us?

The task of President Kennedy is to answer that question in realistic language, understood not by his generation or his fathers but by the very yogng men and women who these days ask, what did World War II. -the Korean War or the Cold War bring us.

President Kennedy will have to reply that World War II has not been completed, that it may be a One Hundred Years War. that it has already lasted 22 years and has produced only chaos and confusion. He will have to say that the chaos will be deeper and . the confusion wilder as the years proceed because this is not a war for bits of territory or increased power; it is a war for survival and the enemy has made the United ^States Its chief target. Every tactical step in the Cold War fits into the immense strategy of first isolating and then absorbing the United States .In the Soviet Universal State. Who wants to be absorbed?

The soundness of President Kennedys position is that he is willing to risk the political consequences of war rather than to enjoy, the stultifying pacifism of spiritual defeat. President Eisenhower made it a policy to avoid war during his career in office and he succeeded in the narrow sense that shot and shell were not used. But in the broadest sense, he failed because Soviet Russia developed the Cold War into a vicious campaign for American destruction by economic attrition. So sure was Khrushchev that he was correct in his thinking that he humiliated (Continued on page live)

Management Cdn Use Graoevine

Strength For Today

By KARL L. DOUGI.ASS

We Still Have The Chalice

The search for Ci|e Holy, Grail was one, of the great quests some centuries go. Kings raised huge armies to go forth on Crusades designed to wrest the Holy Lnd from the unbeliever, And among these were Idealists who hoped that in these struggles they would encounter the Holy Grail, the chalice from which ChrLst and hw disciplos drank on the la.st night of hLs life.

Vet we still have that chalice in your church $tul mine; wherever the Sacrament is observed

Today marks the anniversary ol the instUiilion of the.Lords Supper The same night on which he was betiaycd. the Lord took bread and wine, and blessing them he distributed them to

hLs companions and bade them eat remembering that the bread was his body and the wine was hi.s blood. Through the centuries untold billions of Christian believers have observed thU Sacrament. The consecrated bread and wine have been food and refreshment for the souls of the faithful.

As we partake of the Sacrament today, let us do it as he commanded us in remem-biance of him The cross i.s a universal pattern to which oii.r lives -iiULst conform If we^are to find true happiness. We are to lemember this as we partake. But above all. we are to remember that at the 'center of our faith us a Person. To him we owe ohr all and give our all.

We bow humbly and reverently and murmur, Yea Lord, ui remembrance of thee.

By ELMER ROESSNER The plant and office giape-vine will always be with us, we seem to recall having said here yesterday.

Management is recognizing this to a greater extent and more managers are usinf it to theU: own ends.

One executive employs a number of devices to make the grapevine work for him. During a union dispute, he wrote a letter to an insurer asking about an insurance policy covering strike los.ses. He privately phoned the insurer and asked the company to ignore the letter. Meanwhile, the report on the grapevine .said the nianagejnent was geliiny le.adv fur U strike and uiuon negutiahuns became much ea.sier *

This executive has written to .suppliers asking for details and prices on new tamper-proof time machines 'The news flows from his typust or the mail room into the grapevine, and' the rash of tirdliless ends.

Other executives frequently discover which employees are feeding fertilizer into the grapevine and devise ways to use them. A clever fellow feeds two ti'ue items to a company librarian: model X IS to be eliminated. a new job is to be created. When these come to pass, the li-braiian is regarded as having a direct line into management. Then, at the crucial time, the executive casually tells the librarian that hes worried about the drop in company profits and the union #4e much more considerate at 'contract talks Thus particular executive plants buds on the grapevine but rarely He never iLses it to the IHiint at which it becomes ob-\iuus:'^e huld.s back until he has an idea that will benefit him or the company greatly.

TWO VINE.S ON TRELLIS On.the other hand; many executives who attempt to utilize the grapevine overdo efforts and defeat tlieni^clvcs;

In one plant, there, arc two grapevines growing side by

side. One is tha management vine. Executives flow a considerable amount of information to certain disseminators, persons known to spread news and gossip among fellow employees. Most of it is true. But on occasion af propaganda item is planted: a' disseminator is told that a 10 per cent layoff is inevitable. *0 that when a 5 per cent cut is announced employees will regard Uas a gain.

Often these management vines become recognized and an employee growth climbs beside it. Management may plant the rumor that a merger U in the making. Employees, after handling letters and propased contracts. may spread the Wurd that the deal cant possibly be consumated,,

Sometimes the management-watered grapevine becomes recognized by employees and this leads to the formation of another grapevine In the same office or plant Thse can lead ^ confusion. One grapevine may have a report, another may have an

other version of the same thing. At the same time a third channelmanagement house organ* or bulletinsmay be carrying a third version.

In the end. the medium that is most accurate will survive in this competition for workers thinking. Grapevines are cultivated only as long as their fruit is aweet.

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IS A RISKY VENTURE

There is also the eniveparg the grapevine in reverse.

A few employers have bugged rest rooms and lounging rooms to hear what employees were saying.

There are two reasons for not adopting this practice:

1. What management hears is often upsetting.

2. Arbitrators and labor board officials frown on the practice, as do unions, and any management proved to have eavesdropped electronically on employee* -resiiccially to comfort station*

Is W for a hard tlma.

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