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PAGE POURfHB DAttY REFLEerOR. GRCENVIIXE, N, C

Wednesday, June 7, 1961

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The Popular Americano

Citing The Worst Eventualities

Last week it was tentatively decided the battle- have a lamentable trait o testing doorknobs, chains, ship USS North Carolina would have a crew of ten levers, gears and yes, even the armor plating, when enshrined at Wilmington. . They will wander off into dark recesses and climb

rtiihe theMrrg warshi]

In wartime

rarship carried a crew of atop turrets and into some of the most improbable

something over 2,000 men and offi^rs; but that fig- places aboard ship. Locks and signs and chains intend-ure is thrown in as a measure of cmparison and to ed to bar visitors from specific areas will need guards

demonstrate,that as crews go, the contemplated staff if only to see they are not removed by souvenir is something more than Skeletonized. hunters.

The tentative decision we fear will prove woe- Anything that can be broken, is going to be brok-

fully inadequate. en. Anything that can be wrenched off, is going to be

^ If :the North Carolina is open to visitors a mere wrenched off. " ,

eight hours each day, seven days a week, its crew , Each day will see litter Mrewn over the decks, will of necessity put in a full days w^ork serving mere- paint scraped with initials and names, woodwork ly as guides and guards during visiting hours. Escort- carved, bits bf sandwiches, apple cores, orange peeling the presumed hundreds who will tour the ship ings, broken balloons and heaven-knows-what-all left each day, will be a fulltime job. ^ in unlikely places. Just removing discarded chewing

And theres another roleeither politely or in- gum is something we bet hasnt figured in future plans, advertently overlooked.- That of simply standing And the boat slip in which the battlewagon will

watch. . be presumably moored is another potential problem.

Taking human nature at its worst, lets paurj[ Signs may be expected to read Please Dont Throw for a moment to cite the worst possible eventualities Trash In The Water; and readers will not see the which may confront the guards of the North Carolina. Dont.

Small children, big children and childish adults

Piedmont Hds

A crew of only ten?

The North Carolina will need more than that number to protect it from its excited visitors; ^and the maintenance and cleaning-up work will call.for another special detail. ~ * -------

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By LTNN NI8BET

OTINO RATIONThe argu-ow congressional redis-trlctlng have been ponctuated with recrixnlnations exchanged betireen eastern and ni>atate Democrats: Although there Is a small element of fact in the accusations. they are for the most part unfair and very unkind.

The easKemers demand special oosideratkm for that they have through the years turned In consistent Democratic majorities, while the up>state counties have strayed into Repul^ican columns with respect to the national ticket.

The Piedmcmt residents coun-to* with the charge that easterners fail In their duty, for that they do not vote arbthlng like the same ratio of population as do the central and western counties.

Both statements are true, but both are unfair in the light of all the facts. Certainly the eastern counties have given heavy Democratic majorities against relatively insignificant Republican strength. But the record will show that middle and western counties of comparable population have contributed about as many votes to the Dnoc ratio candidates as did the eastern counties, although at the same time giving more %'otes to the Republicans. County majorities were less or reversed, but tha value of upstate votes in the total compilation is equal to that of the eastern votes.

The four Ing counties of Forsyth. Gaston. Guilford and Mecklenburg gave substantial majorities to the Republican can<BdaU for President list year. But without the approximate 100.000 votes In those counties for Kennedy, all the vot4ss of the east would have been wasted.

POPX7LATTON The record fully supports the claims of the up^state counties that they turn out a much larger percentage of the total p(HMilaUon on election day. Theuw are circumstances which, although they do not destroy factual validity of the claim, tend to deprive It of virtue. The same circumstances tend to alleviate the odium which upstaters put upon the east for that the population decrease which occasioned loas of a seat In the Congress oocur-red mostly in the east.

For some years the Negro pop-nlaUon in North Carolina hss r^xresented aboi:^ 90 percent of the total. Your reporter hss not seen a racial breakdown on the 1960 count It probably will be not more than 27 percent Negro. Except for a few metropolitan Industrial centers the Negro population has been concentrated In the tt^Micoo belt of the middle east. Several counties in that area have from 50 peroiNit to 65 percent of the total population of the colored race. Very

few counties west of Durham have had more than 10 percent and many of them much less.

R Is something that N(Mth Carolina cannot boast about, but It Is recognized fact, that Ute per-

M Negroes qualified to _ American TV screens, vote by being enrolled on pre

One Custoni That We Might Adopt In U. S.

Theres a custom in another part of the world that has been repeatedly called to our attention with appearances of Premier Nikita Khrushchev on the

That would be the custom of reciprocal applausewe can think of no more apt name. It involves the honored individual (or group), on receiv- p 'RFIM'RV RnWAPTI ing a generous hand from an assemblage to applaud nUiiNXvI XlUW AlvU them too.

The gesture has an appealing side, denoting as it does, a measure of mutual admiration and appre elation; but more than that, the applause reverses the

accepted practice of receiving and giving nothing in Just before press time yester-return. The warmtlwthis generates is multiplied. rather frantically

Initial reaction on seeing Mr. Khrushchev applaud ^sror*rSte applauders appeared at first a case of approving the East Carolina CoUege base-out of the area, which occ^ion- good judgment of his audience in applauding him. squad in Sioux City.

But since the custom has become more and more ^ t>y now, the Buc*

familiar to us it has become increasingly appreciated. brdS*he*tlS[%e"t Nearest thing to the Russian custom that we can in the eight-team nationai tour-offhand recall, would be the prizefighters clasping ^y-

of hands over his head in a gesture of acknowledge- hke we said, at press

cinct registration books is much less than the percentage of white clUzens. That is true all over the state. In Industrial cities where Negro population represents 15 percent to 20 percent of the total. the voting strength is generally around 5 percent to 7 percent. and more often than not is concentrated in two or three precincts. In the rural east the Negro population is diffused all over the county.

Displacement of Negro man-

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ed the decrease In total population, and almost certainly will bring increase In ratio of voting strength to population in the eastern counties. The same factor might reduce the voting ratio in Industrial centers.

PROJECTION Economists, politicians and sociologists take the same basic facts and make entirely different projections. as to future development. There is general agreement among them that mechanization of farming operations and the spread of industrial development into the heretofore wholly agrarian east requires readjustment of traditional ideas.

Apparently the ecmiomists add sociologists see this trend more clearly than do the politicians. But an interesting thought is that the politicians who Insist upon maintaining as much as possible of the status quo in the congressional districting problem may be looking ahead with clearer vision than some of those who "demand change Just for its own sake, and on basis of past developments.

Certainly since 1950 the population growth has been concentrated in the middle third of the state. Eastern and far western counties, have lost population. That poses the question of possible saturation in the Piedmont. and future growth diffused 'throughout the wide open spaces in the east and the mountains. Since congressional district lines established now will remain Intact until after 1970, there may be justification for smaller population districts at the extreme ends of the state.

It would seem appropriate for the architects of redlstrlctlng plans to take these matters Into consideration, along with the population and voting statistics of the past decade. Even If it were possible to correct them, the correction of past and present inequities is not so important as establishment of equltahlt repres>tation for the future.

ment. Entertainers are prone to bowpoliticians and S'thaf*^^^^^

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candidates may wave one or both arms; which can uncover any clues as to what signify almost anything. aolng on out there, we did

Were more than half-inclined to think that some- /..n

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day an applauded American will turn and emulate

the Russian custom with applause for his audience.

certainly be confusing. In fact, varying hours in different belts can be so confusing that we never could even decide what time the Bucs were to take the field.

Our sports staffer in Soux City wired us the first in a series of reports on the tourney. In it, he said the first ECC game would begin at II a.m., Central Standard Time.

Our thought, then, was that 11 a.m. out thereone belt west of uswould be one hour later here, or 112 noon. But, what if Sioux City were far enough north to be on Daylight Saving Time? That would cause another hour of

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1961, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

No more kindly person exists upon this planet than Big Jim, better known to the lesser folk as James A. Parley, who was, among his sins, responsible for making Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States. In recent years, Big Jim has been selling Coca-Cola outside of the United States and has been making speeches all over the place. He is usually applauded enthusiastically even if he rises only to take a bow.

Rarely angry about things. Bik Jim enjoys his way of life, continues to make friends, continues to travel and is never lonely. Unlike Herbert Hoover, Jim Parley remains a partisan. Hoover has become a general American without too much regard to political parties and he speaks as kindly of Harry Truman and John Kennedy as he does of his erstwhile Republican colleagues. Jim Parley remains a Democrat; sui9(n^ his party and do-splses mugwumps who slide hither and yon wherever the provender is best.

80, James Parley went down to San Antonio. Texas, and told an audience:

But neither the Greeks nor the Pranks nor ourselves ever before faced the mortal challenge which confronts us today in world Communism. Tens of millions of graves and thousands of concentration camps prove conclusively that the Communists place less value on the human spirit than did Attila ths Hun. Space rockets and spinning satellites prove that our enemy intends to b<HTow every technical advance of Western clvill-fluctuation in the time of day. zation to destroy the spiritual

In the rush of going to press values which produced these

and the confusion of trying to self - same material advances,

decide what time the ECC game Worse still, not being bound by

was to get underway, we report- ^ur humanitarian and spiritual ed, I believe, the Pirates would valueswith unparalleled cun-

take the field at 10 a.m. (?).

To be frank. Im still not sure what time that ball game started.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - As President Kennedys White House term lengthened, this question repeatedly was being asked around Washington: When la he going to make his first nationwide TV talk?

He already had used three of the four main ways open to a president for getting his ideas across to the people; televised news conferences, messages to Congress and television Speeches at special events.

It was assumed that Kennedy, acutely aware of a presidents need for broad public support, would make a TV broadcast sooner or later.

It also was assumed that, because Kennedy Is an extremely shrewd political tactician, he would mskke the broadcast when he was in the best position for it.

He was in a very good position for It Tuesday, perhaps better than at any time since he became president.

He was fresh back from his meetings with President Charles de Gaulle, Premier Khrushchev and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The country is still Interested enough to want to know what good, if any, came from the conferences.

So, while attempting to answer this, Kennedy also got his own foreign policy ideas across on the big issues. i He can do this now without being on the defensiveas he would have been, for Instance, if he took to TV to explain his advance approval of the disastrous

Cuban invasionor without irritating any particular part of the American society.

Former President Dwight D. Elsenhower, in his first term, took to TV earlier than Kennedy. He made a nationwide TV-radio broadcast on May 19, 1953, to explain why people couldnt

expect an income tax cut right away.

This must have carried some element of disappointment for a lot of people at the time. So Eisenhowers talk. In a sense, was an effort to persuade the public to grin and bear It.

There can hardly be much disappointment in Kennedys talk iSiCsday about his conferences abroad, particularly with De Gaulle and Khrushchev since no one expected any big solutions or little ones, either.

Kennedy wasnt expected to say anything new on foreign policy. Since taking office his policystanding stiff against the Russianshas been essentially the same as that of Presidents Eisenhower and Truman.

So, in talking to a nation which knows the broad outline of American policy and supports it. Kennedy was asking for continuance of the same support for the same policy given his predecessors.

Kennedy actually is repeating what Eisenhower did after his first meeting with Khrushchev in July 1955. He came right back and made a TV repwt to the nation.

But he made a mistake which Kennedy, benefiting by his predecessors experience, did not repeat. Elsenhower raised hopes that things might be better as a result of the meeting.

He said there was a realization that negotiations could now be conducted without propaganda and threat and invective. Within a few months Amertcan-Russlan relations went down hiU fast.

Eisenhower must have regretted his .optimism five years later when Khrushchev, who had been rattling his rockets for some time, broke up the second summit with propaganda and invective because of the U.S. spy- * plane shot down over Russia.

(Washington Daily News)

It is true that many people who do not now pay much taxes will have to pay them if the food tax is passed. This is the group least able to pay, but in matters of taxes, it is generally an accepted idiom that the same people usually pay the taxes regardless of the rate.

Insofar as the money to the state is COTicerned. it makes little difference whether the three present sales tax now used Is increased to four or whether the food tax is instituted along with other. selected exemptions. The same people will be the beneficiaries of the use to which the taxes are put.

There is much sentiment both pro and con regarding a tax on food. Those who say that this Is the only way to collect taxes out of a certain element of the population do have a good argument. But to say that the element which benefits most out of the proposals to spend the money Is the poorer element is not exactly tnie. All elements benefit. The rich mans son goe to public schools even though the father is able to pay fr private schooling. The poor mans son also goes to public schools. Both children benefit In probably the same way and to the same degree.

It can be said generally speaking that the rich man will buy more luxuries than will the poor man. He buys more because he can afford to do so. Then If the sales tax rate Is Increased to four percent from Its present base of three percent, to that extent the rich man w'ill be taking on an added tax burden that the poor mam cannot afford.

There is no way to shift the

tax load so that everyone In North Carolina pays exactly according to his ability to pay. This legislature is faced with the task of raising many millions of extra dollars so that our educational processes can be strengthened. It no longer is a matter of to do or not to do. It is only a matter now of where to place the tax load.

The arguments on the food tax versus the four percent tax finds Governor Sanford aligned squarely behind the food tax proponents. And as of this writing, it would seem more than an even bet that well maintain the three percent -tax rate on sales In North Carolina while removing exemptions on food and several other items.

The point we are driving toward right here, as it appears to us. is this. Whether the food tax plan passes or whether the legislature enacts a four per- cent sales tax, the average North Carolinian will be paying about the same amoung of taxes. There will not be enough difference either way for him to recognize the difference.

Removing the fdbd and other exemptions will tend to spread out the load a little more. Upping the sales tax to four per cent tends to keep a smaller group numerically paying the taxes.

Within a few days the matter is likely to be decided. North Carolinians will not feel the Impact until July 1. Then when they go to the store, either way, food tax or a four percent tax, the consumer will begin to feel the added pinch. Then in the months ahead, well begin to know Just how much the people want to pay for quality education.

On the same subjectr-natlonal baseball tournaments:

It is entirely possible that Tar Heel college baseball squads may wrap up the Intercollegiate baseball crown in undisputed fashion.

In addition to the Pirates endeavors to win the NAIA affair (and theyre off to a good start). Duke University is an entry in the JfCAA tourney.

If both should be successful in their respective (juests of college baseball, they would ^tn Wilmhgtn Jutr College the national Junior college champ in the winners circle.

East Carolina was faced with a tough assignment at 7. p.m. today. After subduing their first tourney foe, the Pirates were to face Sam Houston State, the tournaments top-seeded team.

One of Houstons pitchers threw the first no-hltter in the five-year-old tourneys history at an Ohio college Tuesday.

If the Bucs can defeat Houston, theyll be In the drivers scat out there.

Opinions In Brief

But why do business with Castro? Americans too many times have found out that you cant do business with a kidnapper by paying his demanded ransom. Mecklenburg (N.C.) Times.

*nrh biggest gain in employ-

nlngthe Communist enemy has used the symbols of faith, hope and charity to subvert and destroy those values in the human heart itself.

This is the atrongest language I have ever heard Jamea Farley use. Then be said;

Let US not pay tribute to the enemys aeal; that is only half the story of his success. The other half we have contributed through our folly, our childliko Ineptitude and our outright appeasement.

These are important two sentences for the President to bear in mind during his visit with Khrushchve in Vienna. For after all, it is as easy to give away as to be taken. Who is to say that Franklin D. Roosevelt was taken by Stalin at Teheran: yet today we know that the losses of the United States at that Con-M^nce were enormous and the fact that n(Mie of them were incorporated In a treaty does not make the loss less. In fact. Par-' ley denounce policies and attitudes for which Democrats were mcH-e responsible than Republicans although both sides pursued the same course. He sajs further:

It was the Incredible the<M*y of the leaders of the West that our great strength frightened the Communists. To accommodate the supposed fears of the enemy, we disbanded our forces; demobilized our armies; dismounted our air arm; mothballed our fleet. The Communists at once expanded into the power vacuum we had left. Country after country fell before their unopposed forces.

Coming from James Farley, this attack upon the policies of General Marshall and Secretary of State Dean Acheson policies is startling. It can only mean that in 1961 what seemed to be right in qie 40s has prpved it-

ment of all has been chalked up T

ill the naoDv ocmnatlon ot PTOng and that some men m me nappy occupaUon of recognizing error

no matter where it originate.

working for the government. This occupation is engaging 65% more people today than It did thirteen years ago.Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer.

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It Is true that John Poster Dulles attempted to undo the errors of his predecessor but he could not have succeeded because they were established fait accompli. The Russians had taken advantage of every opportunity and using the Teheran agreements as a base proceeded to commit their outrages legitimately even though inhumanly. It is the legitimacy that must now be brought Into question and that can only be done by the publl-intlttuei'

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Alcoholism 'Cure' Challengec.

By ELMER ROESSNER CANT CURE MENTAL With the whole nation search- . DISTURBANCES

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS FACE NEW TRUTH There are people in the world who might be called offbeats. This is a musical term, but it is also being applied today to people who step out of line, who Insist on thinkinff for themselvea, who see things which others do not see and hear things which others do not hear. The offbeats are the people who make great discoveries.

The prophets of Israel were offbeats. Socrates was an offbeat. So were Columbus and' Galileo. The Puritans were offbeats. Practically all the great inventors were men who step-pe(^ outside limits which orthodox science had erected and insisted on finding reality beyond such limits. Usua% they were

criticized. Sometimes they were persecuted. But the offbeats have been people who have led us Into new ways of thinking. They have made the great scientific dlscoveriea. Pasteur was an offbeat. The scientific world roared with laughter over the fact that he attributed certain diseases to the presence of minute substances which he called germs. This was Indeed a big laugh.

The open mind does not accept every new thing, but the open mind examines evcry^new thing. Sometimes the most fantastic ideas turn out to be new and valuable discoveries. Einstein questioned some of the findings of Sir Lsaac Newton, and Einstein will stand with Aristotle and a few others of the world's greatest thinkers.

ing for a cure for alcoholism, it seems a shame that the Federal Trade Commission concluded that Soberin will not reform the drunkards. In fact, it has filed a cpmplalnt against one Maurice Van Dyne, trading as Soberin Aids Co., Brooklyn.

The FTC challenges his claims that persons taking his potion for five days will be cuTd of alcoholism. It also accuses him of falsely advertising that Soberin and the technique for its use is a new scientific discovery; thst It overcomes the desire for liquor, and that it ivlU cure alcohol addiction so com-

It cannot be claimed that an alcoholic will be cured after using Soberin for five days because there are many causes of alcoholism, some of which are psychiatric and cannot be treated by the use of the conditioned reflex or aversion technique, the FTU charges. Using the product is not an easy way to overcome the desire for liquor, and since its use contemplates nausea and vomiting, this would

treatments. Two of my friends went to one such resort. The treatment, apparently ipecac and vitamins, continued f(nr three.weeks. At the end of the course, patients were assured they could not stand a drink for two years, after which they should return for a one-week refresher course. Both men stayed dry for tWo years. faUed to return and again began putting their feet on the third rail. Since then both have sobered; one because he found out what he was running away from, the

interfere with onea business or f.. w

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Brfere with ones business or social life.

As a matter of fact, the FTC says . Soberin is nothing more than an emetic with syrup of Ipecac as its principal ingredient. The.medical profession, the FTC says, has long mixed Ipecao in alcoholic beverages, causing the alcoholic to become sb sick he never wants to taste alcohol ipecacagain.

s(x;ial life.

Since there are some causes of alcoholic addiction which cannot be cured by Soberin, it cannot be said that the product will cure so completely that addiction will no longer Interfere with ones business or social Ufe.F That last sentence would seem to imply that there may be causes of alcoholic addiction that can be cured by Soberin. LONG KNOWN The ipecac kicker hss long been used to bust out idcobolics. There are several sanitariums that have used it In connection vitli vitamin therapy and other

Enough of this small talk. There is a poaiibllity that the Van Dyne case can become a classic.

Suppose, for instance, that Van Dyne brings 100 boocers before the FTC and demands a test of Soberin. He could ask that the hundred be put in government hospitals and. under test condi-ti(H)s, be plied with Soberin ao-oording to the directions on the bottle.

Then, after five days, the hundred could be brought before a full bank ol Federal Tradt

Commissioners. Television cam* er^en, news photographers, Drew Pearson, Ray Tucker, radio oommentators, Tass correspondents, the press association representatives, the Capitol press corps and 1 would be on hand.

Then each of the alcoholics would be presented with a two-ounc glass of his favorite tipple on a silver tray, on which there was also one of those airplane comfort bags.

And If any of the hundred drank his (trlnk with, relish and without consequences, the PTC would bat Maurice groggy with cease and desist orders. In fact. If the case Is settled any other way, it will be a sorry day for Justice, Van Dyne, the PTC and the great American television audience.

SEES RETAIL SALES RISE OVER REST OF THE YEAR Retail sales for the raat of 1961 will show an Increase of at least 4 percent over 1960, predicts A.W. Zelomek, praaldent of the International Statistical Bureau and business professor at the University Virginia graduate school