PACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

rhurtdayf April 27,' 1961

Thursday, April 27, 1961

As The-Spotlight Shifts

They Almost Set Back The Clock

SignUk-ance to be found in the sudden collapse They could not have looked into the future with

of revolt in Algeria will not be overlooked by weather- honest apprais^. . j ^ u

vanes of French political life nor by the world at large. President DeGaulle recognized from the begin-An acid t^ of President Charles DeGaulles ning he had to coax his countrj men into accepting the chment of Algeria for the Algerians has been idea of an independent Algeria and to rely on close

preachment

met, and the doctrine survived.

There may be other tests, but logic dictatesand vour Frenchman boasts none other is so logical future tests will come to naught as long as DeGaulle is at the helm. And it may well be his lessons will leave an imprint on his successors.

The remarkable thing about the DeGaulle triumph is that only three years ago Frenchmen looked on Algeria as simply a part of France. Now there is an obvious majority who recognize that claim is at best an illusion.

economic and cultural ties, forged over the years, as a basis for close and harmonious'relations.

The foolhardiness of his militant dissidents almost set the^clock back three years.

Cuba Is Poor Grounds For Judging The CIA

_____ Americans are reading,and hearing a lot about

If there is bewilderment in the outside world at shortcomings of the Central Intelligence Agency these the futile gesture of four retired generals in sparking days.

the revolution, one can at least call it honest bewilder- That agency is on the griddle tor what many sus-

ment. pect to have been miscalculations and a fumbling of

To brand their action folly is to put the case Cuban invasion,

mildlv. * * Memories are also being refreshed as to the

Success, for them, would have. necessitated an famous U-2 Incident; a case which dominated the overthrow of the government in i^etropolitan France, headlines of only slightly less than a year ago.

There was no alternative. To accomplish that might U-2 story; we suspect that while many

well have called for a suicidal civil war, an invasion appalled by the timing of that particular

of France and the destruction of all that has been ac- fjjght, more distress was felt at having been caught, complished toward bringing their homeland out of pjjgyg he no time-outs in w^atching an implacable post-World War II chaos. fog.

Suppose, for a moment, the mutineers accomplish

ed their purpose. What then?

If the whole energies of France, after seven years of fighting and pacifying in Algeria had failed, how could they imagine success?

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By LYNN NISBET

TAR HEEL TRAVELERS The First event on the current trtvel promotkm tour of the Cape Fear, SandblUa and Old Salem pointa, was featured by presenutlon of Tar Heel Traveler certificatea to aome two dozen out of state gueaia. Pre-aentatloD was made at the Cape Pear Country Club dtimer at Wilmington Sunday night by Lynn Niabet, ieaident of the Travel Council of North Carolina.

Thia is the second occasion for awarding the certificatea, the first being for participation In the Ohio Valley Travel Show last month.

The certificates are printed on cards 10x5 inches. At the topa Is a printed replica of the Great Ber^ lh State of North Carolina between the words Variety Vtcatlonland. and in the lower lef* comer is impressed the seal of the Travel Council on a gold sticker with red ad blue ribbons The certificates are signed by the Governor of North Caro^ lina and the president of the Travel Council.

The text reads: For zeal in developing greater enjoyment from travel in North Carolina, the State of North Carolina and the Travel Council of North Carolina. Incorporated, commission (here the name la lettered in) TAR HEEL TRAVELER . (and Just below that line are half a. dozen footprints with tar on the heels) with the rank and pri\^egca of Ambassador Extra-i ordinary from the Variety Vacationland State or wherever this Tar Heel Traveler may henceforth travel or reside.

Recipient of the certllicatea at Wilmington included; out

ei state the following fueats:

Martin Auslander. travel counselor Automobile Club oi New ' York; Chester Babylon, travel-, counselor AutomobUe dub of Maryland: Robert Baldwin,

travel counsultant. New Jersey ' Automobile Club; Fredwrick Buck, senior travel counselor AuUmaobile Club of Rochester, N. Y.; Cecil A. Duke, manager touring bureau, California State Automobile Association; Miss Elolse Eubank, assistant manager, travel bureau. Tidewater Automobile Association, Norfolk: Michael Frome, travel writer, Alexandria, Va.; Walter Hubbard, managing editor American

Motorist, AAA, Wsshington. and Mrs. Louise Hubbard, newspaper and magazine writer, Washington; Jack Johnson, travel consultant. New Jersey Automobile dub; Miss Jane S. Lade, travel consultant. N. Y. State Automobile- Association, Albany; James Lenehan, Massachusetts Division, American Automobile Association: Mrs. June D. Lett, Ashland County Automobile Club. Ashland. Ohio; Lawrence Mar-kowski, travel counselor Auto-mobe Club of New York; Albert E. Power, field reporter. American Automobile Association. Washington; Don Powers. The Cleveland Automobile Cliib, develand, Ohio; Mrs. Alma Price, East Tennessee Automo-Wle dub, Knoxville; W. O. Robinson, the At^mobte dub of Hartford, Hartford. Conn.t Mrs. Marble Weaver, Bluefleld Automobile dub, Bluefleld. W. Va.; Louis A. Weber. Cincinnati AutomobUe dub. Cincinnati. Ohio; Water N. White, the AutomobUe dub of Philadelphia; Edward E.

And in the case-of the Cuban invasion, only a very few people are in a position to know all the facts of CIA participation, thinking and advising.

We suspect, as does most of the world, the intelligence agency was up to its ears in the sad story.

But how much of the blame they should rightfully bear in the failure, is impossible to evaluate. There were many heads and many hands in the undertaking.

This is not to suggest critics of the CIA are pointing fingers without reason. Failure is something not to be condoned. But something good many come out p i:iT?\iPV WnWAPn of the fiasco: a shaking of any complacency in our riK W Atxu

so-important intelligence service, the imposing of fresh determination to avoid future errors, and a self-critical analysis . . . with remedial measures . . . that will result in a better CIA.

The attention of Americans is only focused on Central Intelligence when there is reason to think the agency has committed a boo-boo. It (ioesnt happen often, and when the story is aired its a big one.

We never know how often success crowns their efforts, we never know how many times they have pulled off a major feat in their field. Yet, we presume CIA is functioning 24 hours daily, seven days,a wek.

What we dont know makes judgment impossible.

?irst Birthday Plunge

Paceless Voices

On U.S. Policy

At first, he just sat there. Right smack in the middle of the table.

Oh he was interested, alright It was a Inund new thing for him and it was obvious he didnt quite know what to make of it aU.

With a iittic prompting he leaned closer to the single burning candle and gazed Into the little flame. Still, he had not uttered a sound. His usual frequent and boisterous outbursts were conspicuously missing.

As he gradually adjusted himself to his new surroundings, he became braver by degrees. First

two handfuls of his first birth-clny csiRg*

He had no way of knowing he was one year old. Only his parents had been planning this party for several days. In fact, he would never have missed his first birthday party if his first anniversary had been overlooked.

Actually, we had no intentions of forgetting the little tykes first birthday. Even if we had wanted to. we couldnt have done it.

And we had a big time. We were tickled to death to watch our year-old son plunge into that devils food cake with white

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP)So many key men in the Kennedy admln-Wolfe, Savazmah Club, Sa- ,.istration got under the cloak of

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North Carolinians in the group and also receiving certificates included: Miss Evelyn Covington and Charles ReUy of Raleigh; John EQiott. Wayne Emery, Ralph Greene, John Lewis. Ed Pickard, Dick Pitts and LeGette Blythe of Charlotte.

Governor Sanford, C&D Director Skipper Bowles, Hugh Morton. Charlie Parker and ptherz who ordinarily would have joined to the kick-off party for the tour were tied up with the CM) board meeting at Sanford. The Governor sent a telegram welcoming the visitors to the state.

The group apent Monday and Tuesday in the VFUmlngton area, visiting the Govrar planUtions. and historic sites and the industrial plants. Wednesday morning the party took off for Fort Bragg and thence into the Plnehurtt-Souihem Pines oom-mucdty. Later they will visit Old Salem and other places in the Piedmont.

The tour is sponsored mainly by the Carolina Motor Club at Charlotte, with the State Department of Conservation and Development, the Travel Council of North Carolina, and the Winston-Salem Automobile Club cooperating.

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anonymity these past few days it lotted like a tent.

But It makes you punchy when an authoritative source, who won't let his name be used, is contradicted by a high official who cant be named.

It started late last week when reporters began asking why the Cuban invasion failed so miserably.

They talked to one of the most important men around Kennedy But he didnt want to be identified. So an authoritative source was quoted as saying:

1. Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon encouraged President Kennedy to go ahead with plans for the invasion.

2. United States Intelligence was faulty in its reports on how much armament Fidel Castro had and the likelihood of a hoped-for Cuban uprising.

Pretty soon Andrew Hatcher, Kennedys assistant press secretary, issued a statement which denied part, but not all, of what the authoritative source had said.

Hatcher denied Kennedy and Elsenhower had discussed the Invasion before the inauguration. But he didnt deny U S. intelligence fell on its face.

On Monday a top-ranking official. who said be couldn't be identified by name, told newspaper editors: U.S. intelligence was away ofL4^c beam on Cuba

He said: ^

1. The Chiban underground and U.S. intelligence miscalculated tbe amount of arms Castro had and the degree of support Cubans would give the invasion.

2. U S. intelligence was caught short when the French generals revolted In Algeria.

This U. S. IntelUgence. of course, meant the Central Intelligence Agency, which is Americas organization for overseas spying. Allen W. Dulles heads the agency.

On Tuesday, talking to the

same group of editors, another high official in the Kennedy administration. refusing to let his name be used, said:

1. The CIA correctly and accurately reported Castros military power and the temper of the Cuban people before the invasion began.

2. The CIA also knew about the discontent of French generals in Algeria but not about the decision to revolt because that apparently was decided on suddenly. ,

This same high official later told reporters it was understood that the initial <?uban invasion, if to be successful, had to be sustained a while before the Cuban people could be expected to respond with an uprising.

Since it wasnt sustained and collapsed in a hurry, this anonymous official was asked who was to blame for not sustaining it.

The official wouldnt say, although It would seem he was hitting at the Navy, whose chief of operations is Adm. Arlelgh Burke.

President Kennedy has appointed Dulles and Burke to assist Gen. Maxwell Taylor and Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy In examining Americas Intelligence activities and the problems of guerrilla warfare.

Also on Monday stories appeared saying Nixon believes or feels or thinks various things about the Cuban invasion although the stories did not say he was doing the talking.

It didnt take much imagination to conclude that for some reason Nixon didnt want to be quoted on what he said but wanted his views presented as something he believes or feels or thinks.*'

To make matters more confusing Interior Secretary Stewart Udall got mixed up in the Cuban situation. He had to be chastised gently by the White House

In a Sunday TV Interview UdaU said the plan for the Cuban invasion had been conceived during the Eisenhower administration and Kennedy car-(Contmued on page *

be began turning his head from icing.

one objefet to anolhef. Next he ' Affd pruiige into it he did. His waved his little hands and arms mother, of course, had bathed

and dressed him to perfection for the occasion.

Apparently he had little regard for her efforts, because it was

softly, almost carefully.

But within minutes, he joined the fun. He suddenly reached out both hands and retrieved

Other Editors Saying High School ^thletics

only minutes after he finally joined the party that be was virtually covered with his first birthday cake.

Of course his clothes were covered. But, on top of that, he had cake and icing all over his face, in his hair and even in his eyes. Funny thing is he never whimpered once.

Usually a strong advocate of unlimited freedom to roam the house at will, he was quite content to sit in the middle of the kitchen table and dabble in his cake.

After his first attack on the cake, he sat very still beside it and, using his right index finger, he carried tidbits of the white icing from cake to mouth.

Like we said befcwre, he would never have missed such a party had it not occurred. He would have been completely undisturbed if his parents had forgotten his first birthday.

But he had a ball at this one after he got warmed up good. And one sure bet is that from here on hell help us make sure we never do forget one.

(Henderson Dispatch)

The question of how much emphasis to place on varsity athletics in North Carolinas high schools is being raised nearly every time top school officials hold a general meeting. Conclusive answers have not been found, but at this stage there appears widespread agreement that some cutbacks are in order

Latest action is a decision to discontinue statewide football playoffs for class 3-A. of which Henderson is a member, and lower conferences. District and regional play will be continued, there will be four regional champions.

Explanation of the move has a lot of logic: to cut the season shorter and prevent any school from playing more than twelve games, including the regular season. Superintendents, principals and many coaches seem to feel that from the start of football practice in mid-August until t championship game around the first O December is too long for a boy to participate in a sport so strenuous and time-consuming as football.

A chance of thinking can put new value on conference, district and regional honors, mak-king the latter mean just as much to the individual player as a state championship now means. After all, college teams do not participate in playoffs other than bowl games, which have no real championship meaning.

Reduced football activity follows a number of discussions as to what can be done in basketball to keep students from being out late at night during the week. Earlier starting times have helped, and some schools

have tried playing more of their games on Saturday nights, but definite lines have not been

drawn.

The whole priAlem dates back to the sports boom years immediately after World War II. There had been something of a eports famine during the war, but when this country began its return to a more normal way of life, interest in sports grew

faster than every before. In the period of a few years, high

school athletics grew Into big business, from which it has slowly tapered off in recent years-

For a while some educators found their schools virtually being controlled by the sports program a case of the tail wagging the dog.

Athletics plays a vital role at every school and there should

be no thought of cutting out or taking the lustre off any sports. But the trend toward putting sports back into proper balance with an all-round school program merits support. Sports competition helps develop better citizens in most cases, but a teenaged athlete should not have to keep his nose to a physical grindstone so long that he docs not have ample time left for other activities.

Education and sports have gone hand-in-hand for a long time and they can still be the best of companions when the proper amount of each is administered. The point for athletes to remember is that re-* auction of the ovcivall program doesnt mean any individual should ever fall to do his (or her) best in practice and in competition. Quality must be kept high even if quantity is reduced.

Strength Today

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS GRATITUDE

Who thanks quickly, thanks twice an old saying tells us.* It is a true one. There is nothing like sincere gratitude, warmly and promptly expressed, to lift the spirit of a generous giver and make him feel douljly repaid for what he has given.

Real gratitude is more than formal courtesy. It is more than a smile on the face and a thank you on the lips. Real gratitude comes from the heart and from the mind from the heart, because only a person who knows the feelings of love and kindness himself can appreciate those feelings behind anothers gift or good deed; and from the mind, because the gratitude of the truly grateful person arises partly from a comprehension of the act of another and what it means. The expression of real gratitude draws out the grateful man. It expands him, makes him even, at it were, with the giver of the gift for which he is grateful, and thus enriches the giver by making his gift that much more valuable.

Ingratitude does Just the reverse. The silence of the ungrateful man comes from repressed feelings and an unimaginative mind. By being ungrateful, one reduces his own responsiveness and ability of understanding. and he is a smaller person by just that much.

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver and a cheerful thanker, too.

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Income axes?

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright. 1961. King Features . Syndicate. Inc.

Now it Is the National Committee for Economic Freedom that comes along with a proposal to abolish the Income Tax. This has to do with the proposed 23rd Amendment which has passed the Legislatures of Wyoming, Texas, Nevada and Louisiana. This proposed Amendment reads:

Section 1. The Government of the United States shall not engage in any business, professional, commercial or industrial enteri*ise except as specified in the Constitution.

Section 2. The constitution or laws of any state, or the laws of the United States shall not be sul)ject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment.

Section 3. The activities of the United States Government V'hlch violate the intent and purposes of this amendment shall, within a period of three years from the date of the raUfication of this amendment, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected shall be sold.

Section 4. Three years after the ratification of this amendment the sixteenth article of amendments to the Constitution if the United States shall stand, repealed and thereafter Congress shaU not levy taxes on personal income, estates, and-or gifts.* Unfortunately Section 1 ia utterly impossible if wc are ever to defend this country. The manufacture of the atom and hydrogen bombs or the atomic submarine involves our government in considerable business interprise. If we are forced to go into Cuba alone these costs will be greater.

Those who favor this Amendment say:

The Proposed 23rd Amendment. would force the sale of - the land and facilities of federal corporate activities back to the American people from whom they were taken, and thus cut the National Debt more than $65.000.000,000. .

This program ignores the fact that we are engaged in war with Soviet Russia and that it is necessary to have allies, to have bases abroad, to purchase land in this country. It Is difficult to understand the mathematics of their proposal In view of President Kennedys state* ment that the United States will not abandon Cuba to Communism. That statement involvei the United States in costly expenditures and in continued mi^ itary preparations.

The Income Tax is not a wise tax in a capitalist country and it is collected with brutality in this country. Also, there is obvious waste in the cost oL Government. Let us say, without . figuring too closely, that the waste is as high as $10,000,000,-000. which ia twice the amount estimated by the Hoover Commission. We still have to find about $80,000,000,000, to meet essential expenditures, about $40,000.000.000 of which goes tO war and defense.

Surely those who favor abolishing the Income Tax do not propose to make us defenseless and turn us over to the kindly ministrations of Khrushchev or Castro. True, the Income Tax takes a great deal of our income, but these devils will take all of .our capital.

That being so, their problem obviously Is not so much to abolish the Income Tax as to propose another form of taxar tin that might be more equable and just. Certainly, one thing that .can be done is to make it a felony to move funds abroad with the object of avoiding or evading, choose your own term, taxes. It should also be law that funds deposited abroad to evade or avoid taxes are not inheritable by Americans and may be totally confiscated if brought back in any form. This might help a bit and put some crooks where they belong.

But that still would not solve the problem. There would nevertheless have to be taxes for the manufacture of rockets and missiles and submarines, to say nothing of other purposes. If we are not to have the Income Tax, we might use a Transactions Tax. but the amount needed would be about the same.

As our economy stands today duties and excises will not bring In enough to take care of an $80.000,000,000 budget or even a $70,000,000,000 dollar budget.

(Continued on page

Public Forum Retail Sales Turning Upward

To the Editor:

I read with increasing interest the letters, ,ada and editorials on the Urban Renewal program vs. Neighborhood Conservation and the varied opinions of the American Medical Association on the subjects. However, I find one very basic and important item missing in these discussions; where and how do you find a decent place to live Id Greenville?

FelSuHY 61B nils year 1 wrote to twelve (12) organlza-ttoQs in tMs City that should be interested lo the above subject and asked tbe following two questions: (1) Is there any opportunity to buy or build under a VA Loan or under any other plan that would allow a steady wage earner to get a home with little or DO down-payment? <2) la there now under construction, or planned for future construction, any rental housing priced between seventy-five and one

hundred dollars per month? .

I received written reply from three (3) of the concerns and telephone calls from two (2) others. Tbe sum toial of all answers was, SNO.

Now the injection of the ism's into this pr(ram and the duel of name-calling and pei> sonallties may well serve its .purpose and win for one faction or the other, the election. But. what about the real issue? Where and how do you find a decent house to call a Homef Unless there Is some genuine Interest In the one real issue, that of Home-ism, Im afraid this whole mess is just another tempest-ln-a-teapot and tbe voters and the guy looking for a roof over his head will still be in the same placewith-out I For h better Greenville and a house to call a Home, I remain

Yours truly,

GEORGE W. EVANS 2606 Sunset Aveous

By ELMER ROESSNER

Retail sales are gradually turning higher, but the process so far is slow.

February sales were at a slightly higher rate than January sales: March sales rose about 1 per cent, and sales so far in April have been going ahead, although the early Easter makes exact comparisons difficult.

Total retail sales in March were $17.9 blUion. After adjustment for seasonal variations and trading day diferences, the total was about 1 per cent above that In February, but still I per cent under March. 1960. And the February sales were 1 per cent above those In January, on an adjusted basis, and 1 per cent, under February, 1960.

TREND IS UP

The Federal Reserve index ol department store sales gives a quicker, though narrower, figure than the Department of Commerce figures for all lines.

These show a total 2 per cent

gain in department store sales so far this year. This net gain was roistered despite the technical decline during the first half of April, when post-Easter figures this year were compared with pre-Easter figures in 1960.

This is Indeed encouraging. If current figures are as good or better than figures in the same period in 1960, when there was a bit of a boom, were all right. Jack.

DURABLES DOWN

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ures for March Indicate salea of $17.9 billion compared with $17.4 bilUon in March, 1960. These

showed a decline in sales of

durable goods, but a greater rise in sales in non-durablee.

Durables, by the way. are

things that last a little; nondurables are Items that are

eaten, drunk or worn right away-A suit that lasts 10 years is a

nondurable, but an auto that

wears out In two is a durable, cuch i)|>our civUisattoD.

Here is a comparison of March sales, in millions, of the major groups;

Pood group ..

Eating Se drinking

places .......

General mdse ...

Apparel .........

Pumiture,

appliances .....

Lumber, building,

farm, etc......

Automotive .....

Oas SVC. stattoBS Drug and proprietary

As has happened often in the recent past, Americans Npent less for autos, but more for gas

and oil. And the food bill on-tlnued to rise. Drugs rose, perhaps because of aspirin and diet drinks.

The revised figures for February showed some curious results compared with a year ago A sut) gh>up womens apparel,

1961

1960

$4,713

$4,356

1,261

1,218

1.873

1,691

1,201

956

765

803

1,071

1,022

3.174

3.587

1,414

1,981

626

803

accessory and specialty stores was up 20 per cent, furriers were up 8 per cent, stationery stores were down 19 per cent, and camera and photographic supply stores were down 24 per cent.

Sales of typewriter stores were down 29 per cent, while sales of b(x^ stores were up 22 per cent. This may mean that Amaricans are giving up ideas of writing their own books and are bmrlng those of professional authora. 8TRANGE AND GUBIOUS HAPPENINGS IN BUSINESS

R. O. Statum of Fort Worth discovered that his new Ignition key fits his front door .... Clothiere have agreed to concentrate on four models of mens fall auits: American-Intemation-al. Ivy All American and British

Influence.....The Federal

government now levies taxes on 800 products, transactions and services, according to Commerce Clearing House. The 801st victim is. of Gourae, YOU. ^

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