THl DAILY REFLECTOR, GRlENVlLU

Thursday, Juna ft, 1961

Thuriday, Juna 8, 1961

Khrudiy Kept His Shoes On

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Self-Preservation Is Barely Right

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Bv' virtue of two new 5-4 decisions, the Suprema Court has upheld the widely accepted view the Communist Party is tool of a foreign power and merabei'* ship (with cognizance it advocates violent overthrow of the government) is criminal.

It is understandable that rulings of this nature are necessarv from a point of law, and the logic of the points in*question are irrefutable to loyal citizen.

\evertheless, there is a sense of dismay at the margin (5-4) of the vote regarding simple measures to protect our very system of government

The mere thought of terming Communism ^as just another political party in the American system is impossible to accept as reasonable. ^ '

To most Americans, membership in the Communist Partv is regarded as tantamount to being an avowed saboteur, propagandist, agitator and spy with a singleminded approach to uprooting our political, religious, individual and economic freedoms. To us it is incomprehensible that the enemies within be sheltered by the very Constitution they, would destroy.

ooking To Plan

This laymans opinion has been brought about through testimony provided at frequent inquiries, trials and hearings involving conspirators. The distrust and repugnance generated by Communist Party members has no roots in widespread reading of Marx or the defunct ^aily Worker. It is based on seeing communism in action.

4mericans have been told time and again that this country is engaged in a #ar no less deadly than the conflict of 1941-45; despite the general silence of guns on a firing line. o- .

. Our most responsible leadership has said this war wdth Communism is a war to the death, and the foe is perfectly willing and capable of killing and destroying any and all who stand in the way of victory. The acknowledged leader of Communism has told us We will bury you. .

We are accustomed to the splitting of hairs by justices of the Supreme Court on a multitude of issues; but this narrow margin of voting on the basic principle of self-pre3ervation is something else again.

Is the safety of our republic resting precariously on a 5-4 decision?

They Are Determined

Of Organization To Win-But Are We?

B7 LYNN MSBET

DEMOCRATIC PLAN It is entirely probable that a special meeting of, the North Carolina Democratic' Executive Cwnmit-tce will be called for sometime this fall at which the major Item of business will be for members of the committee to vole themselves out of office.

The purpose of the meeting will be to adopt a new Plan of Organization for the party, and the plan to be proposed will materially change the composition of the executive committee. The present has not been eompietely rewritten since 1918. although it has been amended numerous time*. Latest revision wss In 1958. Thi. for the first time, recognition was given to the National Democratic Party and provision made for selecting delegates to the NaiicHial convention. Although each quadrennial state convention held ih presidential election years had been n^ing delegates to help nominate condidates for Presi-itent and Vice President and write the national platform, prior to 1958 thw had been no authority f<^ such action in the Plan of Organization.

The state executive committee has been made up of specified number of representatives from each congressional district, amd the executive committees for ccMigressional. judicial, solic-itorial and Slate senatorial districts have been composed of specified number of members from each county. Practice through the years has been to regard these- committee assignments as sort of honorary recognition of big shot citizens, without too much regard for their loyalty to the Democratic irty, This policy has resulted in having many people in high party positions who did not support the party platform or candidates.

TRUE BLUE Although details of the new plan have not been made public. Information coming out meetings oi the committee headed,by Secretary of State Thad Eure, charged with rewriting the basic "ponstitu-Uon of the party, Is that hereafter all official iMfiitions in the party will be filled only by men and women who give full allegiance to the Democratic party.

The keystone in the new plan Is to give cminty chairmen more recognition in State party councils, and to require of county chairmen more active participation in election campaigns. New proposals also will accord to women and Young Democratic Clubs more actual recognition instead of the casual lip service recognition now given them. ^

In other wwds, and by way of aumming up the proposed changes: All official position in the Democratic party organization, from precinct committee up to th# stata executive committee, will be' filled by true-

blue Democrats: and all active workers in the Democratic party campaigns will be assured of recognition, and will not be embarrassed by seeing mavericks and deserters holding office in the party. This will require Inclusion of disciplinary procedure in the plan of organization.

It has nothing whatever to do with the rights of any individual as a citizen jto vote for whom he irfeases fear any public office. It has to do only with the internal organization of the Democratic party. That orga^tion is being tightened up.

Chances are the central executive committee membership will be reduced from its present 222 votes, most of which are cast by proxy, to a total of perhaps less than 50-with requirement that members can vote only when present in person,

NO PROGRESS The General Assembly has reached the point now in the drive for sine die adjournment where things can haw>en very fast and without much logic in their happening. It is entirely possible that a congressional rcdistrictlng bill can be reported out of committees and enacted into law within the next ten days. If that is done it will be one of the most remarkable Instances of high speed legislation without full consideration in North Carolina history.

At conclusion of the second public hearing accorded the citizens of the stale on this important matter, which second hearing came on the 102nd day of the session, the solution seemed no nearer than it was four months ago and another public hearing was scheduled.

The Senate has passed a congressional districting bill, which is now before the House committee. Sponsoring senators resent the charge that it was hastily" passed in their branch although it was introduced on Wednesday, cleared the committee on Thursday, and passed the full Senate on FTiday. The protesting senators are right in denying haste, so far as their own secret deliberations are concerned. They point out that It took weeks of careful behind scenes manipulation to gain support for their bill. And it was a secret well kept. The public had no knowledge of what was going on, although the bill affected every citizen of North Carolina.

Refusal of the Senate to grant any public hearing, and agreement on part of the House to have hearings only after four months of the ses.sion had passed, has occasioned re.sentment throughout the state. The right of citizens to be heard before legislation affecting them has been enacted has been through the years regarded as Inherent. Denial of that right is re.sented.

If the Communistrbacked rebels in Laos were in trouble there would be a cease-fire today. But while theyre winning in the field no oease-fire is needed.

. That about sums up reaction to recent news out of the backward little Asian kingdom. We would go furtherif the Reds were in trouble and a cease-fire was offered them, they would accept. They would w^elcome conferences in Geneva and keep them going until their armed forces were ready to fight again. They are that determined to win.

We are not ... at least that determination has yet to be made manifest.

Meanwhile, the after-Laos target of Communism has seen a revival of terrorist fighting ip South Viet Nam.

The ground is being laid for future campaigns. Precisely what is the Free World prepared to do? How far will it go? No one really seems to know.

Will U.S. Apply

Some Pressure?

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By JA.MES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy did not answer, in his nationwide TV broadcast, one of the most piercing questions in this countrys whole problem of foreign aid.

It was this: Will the United States i>ut pressure on backward and despotic nations to use American aid for the masses of their people up to the point of refusing any aid at all unless they agree?

Stories of corruption and the rich getting richer and the poor poorer in countries receiving American aid increase. Kenitody himself In his broadcast Tuesday night acknowledged where this leads when he said: -If we are not prepared to assist them (the backward governments) in making a better life for their people, then I believe that the prospect for freedom in those areas are uncertain. We must, I believe, assist them if we are determined to meet the communist invasion."

His broadcast, deliberately pitched in a low and somber key. revealed nothing essentially new about his talks In Paris with President de Gaulle and In Vienna with Premier Khrushchev. The heart of his talk dealt with Khrushchev.

In this he did two things:

1. He made it clear he not only solved nothing with Khrushchev but that communism, counting on the unrest and discontent of the poverty-stricken masses in the backward countries, intends to try to win them over when it can.

In short: the future is no bed of ro.se.s, it will be a stniggle between the West and communism as far into the future as Kenne'dy can see. There are no short cut.s, and there have been no settlements.

2 Kennedy, having put the nation into the mood of realizing the long struggle ahead without any optimism except his per-.sonal belief communLsm wont win. then made a pitch for the continuance of foreign aid.

Every year since 1947, when foreign aid was first propo.sed, there has been some oppo.sition to it. There is now. when Congress l.s bucking down to the task of working on a new foreign aid biU.

Opinions In Brie::

7he Role Of Newspapers

(Savannah Morning News)

The circulation of newspapers In the United States i.s at^ an all-time high59 million daily. This i.s a sign that the country i.s. healthy, too, for a growing new.spaper almost always Indicates a growing community and state.

Mo.st newspaper, readers realize that the American pres.s Is iin integral part of any community, performing a wide variety of service.s in addition to informing and entertaining the public.

Newspaper.s, said Mark Per-ree, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. at a recent convention, promote better government, public health, the welfare of young people and rescue of the dis-tres,sed."

Commenting on the news-papcr'.s role in the community, the Augu.sta Herald recently said: We doiibt * whether any community could pro.*i>er without newspaper support of its Chamber of Commerce, Its'lOoal

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By ALVIN TAYLOR

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By handling it the way he didfirst the explanation of tough days ahead and then his explanation of how foreign aid 1* needed to block Red expansion the ETesident was actually making a pitch for broad public support of aid.

This, for Kennedy, would probably take its most satisfactory form in letters to Congress.

But he didnt Indicate whether such aid will continue to be shoveled out to backward countries whether or not the strongest bulwark against a Red takeover benefits to the masses is insisted upon.

Everywhere around the globe where reactionary regimes hold power and receive American aid but dont really provide for mass benefits this is the reality:

Sooner or later the revolutionary tide sweeping the world will wash them aside. Unless they are willing to share some of their wealth such as distributing some of their land to the poor their end wl be sooner.

Without American aid,, their end will be mubh sooner. They have nowhere else to turn for support except the United States. The Communists would make short work of them if they moved in and took over.

This puts the United States in the position of being able to put the screws on them to start reforms fast. Just how willing the Kennedy administration is to do this remains to be seen.

The President didnt talk about It Tuesday night.

Todays plpedream:

Imagine, if you can, a big beautiful bell tower standings on the hill across from the Junior High School.

Such a tower, similar to the ones at N. C. State College in Raleigh and at UNC in Chapel Hill would dominate the college campus.

Once the domed Austin building is removed the tower would be the tallest structure around and it could probably- be seen all over the college campus as well as throughout Greenvilles business district.

and business areas of the city.

Truly such a structure would be a fine addition to East Carolina Colleges rapidly growing physical facilities. It would be appropriate, too, for the colleges Music Department is becoming well known throughout the south. Thus trained musicians to handle the bells could be available.

one with a kind heart and ample funds to bear the full cost. Any takers?

On a summery evening its golden tones would be heard over the campus as well as through much of the residential

Now the only problem is the money. Of course, it is doubtful that a state appropriation would ever be available for such a project. Nor would individual donations seem to be a feasible way of obtaining the funds.

Alas. It seems that the only way East Carolina will ever have its bell tower is for some

Other E(ditors Saying Blue Laws & Blue Laws

Speaking of East Carolina College, Greenville* new city manager Louis Scheipers, Jr. has found a fringe benefit in moving here.

He said his daughter completed her freshmwi year at* ECC this spring. When school opens next fall, of course, the entire family will be on hand.

Scheipers, by the way, says he has enjoyed a splendid welcome to this city. As your columnist talked to him yesterday Wally Howard, senior vice president of Wachovia Bank dropped in to bid him welcome.

Numerous other persons have gone out of their way to do the same thing, according to Scheipers.

It all goes to show that Greenville is a pretti friendly city after all.

Confidence, like fear, i.s contagious- Our heritage tetfthes us courage and confjdence, the courage of our convictions, confidence that others will recognize their correctness. Rep. Prank T. Bow, Ohio.

Two small children who participated in a groundbreaking ceremony later told some adults W^ dug for a new building but we didn't find It.Thomaston (Ga.) Times.

(Greensboro Daily News)

Blue laws, unsatisfactory as they are, have at least one thing to be said for them. When a society is so afraid of leisure and *60 short of ccHistructive uses' for it, let alone so Indifferent to religious traditions, common sense is to be sought somewhere.

Blue laws are not a happy answer. But if people will madly chase the dollar, the ulcer and hardening arterie^s seven full days a week there may be a case for giving them an portunity by law to rest a day.

But state-wide Sunday blue laws are not the way to go about it, and the measure introduced in Raleigh this week has little to recommend it. Those who constantly decry the centralizing ' of government, needlessly, at all levels might oppose it on that principle alone.

Blue laws, if they are to fit the need -o anyone, should be made in city and county ordinances by people who know the needs and attitudes of a community. That cant be done* from a state capital or from the high bench of the U- S. Supreme Court. What restrictions on Sunday sellling the people of one place find acceptable may not be the same to the people of another. Legislation that bans certain items from Sunday commerce state-wide is for that reason bad medicine.

Its reasonable, on balance, to expect merchants to desist at least one day a week from business as usual. Yet blue laws, always religiously discriminatory. have now become economically discriminatory in many cases. Some of their bans are incredibly contradictory.

The Charlotte News observes: ,In Virginia, . .a clerk may sell camera fUm but not cameras on Sunday.'Tts all right to sell smoked hams but not smoked sausage. In Pennsylvania, one ray buy a recording-of Dylan Thomass poems, but not a book of the same poems. . .

Perhaps the rising agitation over blue laws reflects less the changes in public morality than the changes in the face of the town and city. Today there is the suburban shopping center, easily reached by ranch wagon from the split level, which has begun to boast all-purpose stores that seU everything from aspirin to Cris-Oafts. This naturally irks merchants who close on Sundays, only to see their products merchandised in the 20th century version of the general store-

It is a difficult and complex situation. Kill the old blue laws and you invite commercialism without restraint. Keep them and you discriminate against certain people and between certain economic interests.

Given such complexity, it Isnt necessary to render a final judgment on the blue law, good some ways and ^)ad In others. It is enough to point out that people who are close to a situation, W'ho know the mores of their own communities, who may distinguish between real religious fervor and a fervor for getting a leg up on the competition should be allowed to solve the blue law problem. That means local people.

Any help from state-wide laws or from Supreme Court decisions, it may respectfully be said, merely gets in the way.

Strength -For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS LOVT TRANSFXiRMS ALL

" "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

By GEORGE 1. SOKQLfKT

Oopyiigiit. 1981, Ktog Feature* ftyndieato, Inc.

In tba auirent xotiemsot over Europe and President Kennodys vktts to Paris, Vienna, and London we loee sight of OUba whieb is of equal if not greater importance at tMs moment. It Is astonishing how thoe who accept a doctrine will not give up no matter what the historic evidence iHX>vldc*. This becomes particularly dangerous when great influences' are brought to bear upon pablic opinion to promote a docirlne rather than historic truth. Herbert Matthews T "The New York Times" raised tMs issue when on May S. he told students at the University of Michigan:

. .once Fidel Castro's regime was labeled Cotpmuatistic, for the most part it became almost Impossible for the -American Journalists and editors to go agahist tito ovsrtirhehniag ptiblto opinion, aMhough H was the press that created the hostile pinion nice Frankensteins monster,

In a word. Fidel Castro and his associates were converted to Marxism by the American press! But, were not many of them Marxists before the American press ever heard of their names? Herbert Matthews viewpoint is worth looking at, for if applied to other countries, it could be said that Khrushchev was not a CJommimist until we, accused him of being the head of tbs OommuDist Parly by the Am^^an press, particularly by those who are nastily anti-Com-munist. On tiiis theory, it could be said that ifitier was really not a Nasi but was manufactured htto one by "The New York Times

Matthew*adds a very Interesting moral factor to his pfallas-ophy. In Ms Ann Arbor speech, he admitted that CMba was be-coming more and more dangerous to the United States- But he holds that it did not have to be thatthat Chiba did not have to develop toward soriahst and totalitarian lines. Regarding a Ctommmtist regime as one whose leaders are Oommimists and which stakes orders from the Kremlin, Matthews holds that Cuba was not suchthat is until the American press made it wicked.

But what about aU the Peoples Republics? They started as coalition governments c<italning non - Oommunist elemento. Czechoslovakia was an example of that until Jan Maseryk wa.s either murdered or committed suicide. An effort was made to form such a coahtion Peoples Repitolic in C3tiina during the days when "Vinegar Joe" Stil-well and General George Marshall were active thm,

. In a word, Herbert Matthews adopts a very narrow definition of a CJommunist regime one

that cannot be supported by the history M Communist' growth

Horrible? Not at all. This law laid down by Moses registered one of the greatest advances In morality the world has ever known. Before that commandment was given a man had the right to inflict unlimited revenge for an Injury. If a man knocked Out an eye or a tooth, then that man wfs under obligation to wipe out the offender and as many of his relatives as could be overtaken and punished. Moses laid down the merciful rule of limited revenge. "An eye for an eye," he said, "a tooth for a tooth. Nothing more.

But Jesus went further. "Resist not evil," he said. "If a man smite thee on the one cheek turn to him the other also." "Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go thou with him, twain. Love your enemies. Bless them that curse you. Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you.

What was this man., Jesus saying, and what was he doing? He was uttering truths from the heart of God the God of Love. He was beginning that ministry which was to eventuate In the transformation of the worlds life.

either in Europe or in Asia. Even in Russia, when Lenin took control in the Smolny Institute in Petrograd. he was associated with non-Bolshcvlk elements. Leon Trotzky, for instance, wa.s a Menshevik at the start and he became the second man in command.

Matthew said:

"The American pres.s made the mistake in trying to interpret the Chiban revolution in terms of our Anglo-Saxon, mature, democratic, and capitalistic way of Mfe."

But that precisely is what Herbert Matthews had done, and it is interesting that he is so correct in analyzing the American attitude toward Leninist movements. Americans try to avoid regarding Communists as Communists on the assumption that no one can be quite so wicked. But there are now many Communists in the world and there are Communists in many governments. And one needs only to look at the fact squarely without apology. Certainly, those who are now in charge of Cuba call their government Socialistic, which is the m(wit that Khrushchev says about his.

According to "Editor and Publisher, Matthews ended his speech at Ann Arbor with a statement that;

"The intense emotionalLsm with which the American press covered.the executions following (Jastros triumph has had a lasting adverse impact on American-CSiban relations

Now precisely what emotions (Continued on page five)

Service Sthtions Leveling Off

bu.sine.s.s activities. Scouts, Red Crois, 4-H clubs, United Fund, its schools and churches, veteran services and numerous other activities.

But peihaps the most penetrating appraisal of the newspaper came from a six-.vear-old girl who wrote to an editor in California the following: ''

Newspapers. We need them .so we can know who rek.s and drownds and who shoots somebody. And who wants a house and who dies or gets a baby. It tells If your dog I.s lost. They are good on shelves and to make bond fires.

They also go undei* a baby's plate and to keep dogs off tlilng.s. You can wrap potato peelings in them. You can put one when you defro.st. They tell about .shows and how much things are."

Tlie editor added this PS.; Diana, they are good to swat things with, like/lies and public officials atid Chlngs."

By EI.MER ROESSNER

The bloom may be off the gasoline service station Industry in (he United States. Present prosperity may continue, but in toe months to come there will be fewer new stations,

Unles.s, of course, the industry do.s something about it.

Its a big industry. Service stations have been taking in about $1 r> billion a month this year. They took in abot $18 billion last year.

According to Department of Commerce figures, gas stati(ms have been taking in more than the furniture and appliance stores, more than apparel storels, more than drug stores, more than eating and drinking places (just think, we spend more for gasoline than alcohol > three time.s as much as liquor stores, more than variety stores, and more than department stores. REA.SONS FOR LEVELING OFF . The big reason for a lveling off of service station sales is that foreign Imports and , domestic compacts require A lot

le.ss gasoline than the standard cars. In fact, many of the new compacts require only half the gas needed to push large cars by the same manufacturer through either city or country traffic.

That fict alone would interdict the establishment of new service station, except along new highway, or along highways that are about to carry a considerable increase in traffic. ^

But there ai^e other factors:

Compacts and foreign cars require fewer and cheaper re-paus. Furthermore, repairs on many foreign cars can be made only at agencies familiar with their clockworks.

Improvements in engines, tires and other accessories mean fewer repairs, and many service stations pay the rent with gaso- line sales and garner Take-home profits on repairs and the sales of accessories.

Upholstery and.floor covering needs fewer replacements these days. New motors require fewer oil and anti - freeze changes. Parkways, expressways, free

ways and toll roads mean less braking, hence greater mileage of gasMine, fewer brake-lining leplacements.

"The auto Industry must create higenious designs ahd jnar-ket-enticing pNjducti to meet the threat of reduced sales op-pdrtunities," James W. Partner, vice president of Audits and Surveys Co., warned the chemical Specialties Manufacturer Association in Chicago.

Future cars will require even less maintenance he said. Improved finishes, chemical dips that minimize rust, stainless steel or aluminum instead of chrome trim, and improved lubrication systems that require fewer oil changes are cutting into service sales, he warned.

The fact that lower gas and oil consumption reduces the number of stops at service stations is cutting into opportunities to sell accessories. Mr. Partner pointed out. He added t*

"Gasoline station attendants do not sell They are order takers.) And It l(toks as if therf will be fewer opportunities for

them to take orders,

DOCTORS GET CHANCE TO IMMUNIZE TAX BITE

Five states now provide ways for physicians to^set up tax-deferred group retirement or pension plans. Commerce Clearing. House reports. In addition, similar changes in the law are pending in nine other states.

In Arkansas, Georgia, Minnesota. South Dakota and Tennessee, new laws permit medical groups with as few as two or three members to form associations that five the group the benefits permitted c<Hi>oratlons.

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POP GOES METAPHOR IN WEASEL WRITING

"Stocks bounced in both directions last week as chuhting auir-kets boiled over. sasni a headline in a oapltaliitie newsletter.

"Young debutantes some giddily to do charity w(Mrk daintily holding cocktails in one hanct,. and stuffing envelapes with, hate literature with the other, said the communist Worker, reporting on the aiAivHie* of a right wing group.