Thursday, November 16, 1961

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Relax, Jack

Clue To Gradual Defense Build-Up

Theres a tip-off to the gradual increase of Army manpower strengjth in the call for drafting 345 doctors.

To a great extent, the buildup of military man-pov^er has been carried out in a non-sensational manner. A few large units have been federalized and a considerable number of small ones; but J)^yond the passing flurry of interest this generated, we would surmise there is little awareness of just how far. tl^e United sutes has gone (and is going) in improving its defense posture.

Aside from calling Reservist and National Guard unit* to the colors, all services may be expected to be seeing an above-normal number of enlistments for peacetime ; and the processes of Selective Service, combined with delaying discharges of important personnel, all combine to an impressive rate of steady growth.

Tuesdays announcement brings to 1,025 doctors called into uniform by the Defense Department since the tirst of the year.

And if we are to assume the military .bases its medical manpower needs.on % ratio to its other manpower, then we must likewise assume that growth rate has been considerable.

Months ago it was made abundantly deaf that the United States would undertake to increase its conventional forces; and best estimates at that time were that aside from an immediate small-scale mobilizing of certain units, the pro)^am would be low-keyed.

The argument for this approach was obvious: the

on lo rm t. Governorship

By LYNN MSBET

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR It appear* more likely every day that an attempt will be made to get a court decLsion on the question of whether the office of Lieutenant Governor can be fUled before 1965. The office ha* been vacant since the death of Ctoyd Phllpott ome two month* ago. and Attorney General Wade Bruton ha* ruled that there i* no authority In the con-titution for filling It before the regular election In 1964, for the term beginning January 1, 1965.

A number of lawyers and experienced politician* do not concur in thl* opinion, holding that there is conaUtutkmai prova-lon for a mid-term election. And aome of thoae who agree the ruling 1* proper, still want an election. The strategy being considered by those who want the office filled is to tender to the State board of elections the appropriate filing fee as a candidate for the office. It is expected that the elections board will decline the fee. on the ground the office Is not open for election. Next step would be to get a mandamus order from a court of competent Jurisdiction requiring the elections board to accept the fee and conduct an election.

If no Judge can be found to is-lue the mandamus, the attempt )D part of the potential candl-jatc to file will faU. If the or-ler is Issued, the matter probably will go as quickly as possible to the Supreme Court for final adJudicaUon. It will require some fast work, and perhaps cutting some Judicial red tape, but a decision can be had before the books close for fiimg notice of candidacy in mui-March of next year.

PRESIDENTThe most obvious, though perhaps not the most Inportant, function of the Lieutenant Governor Is to preside over the Senate. There Is provision for election of a President of the Senate in event the Lieutenant Governor cannot eerve, but there is serious question about some of hLs prerogatives other than as the presiding officer to maintain order.

The Lieutenant Governor as President of the Senate cannot participate in debate, and cannot vote except to break a tie. The President elected from the tenate membership Ls entitled to a vote as a senator and to represent his district in debate. But he cannot vote a.s a Senator and then break a tie by voting as President. Which raises the question of why the President

elected by the Senators must be one of their own number. Why not permit election of a non-member who would more nearly correspond to the Lieutenant Governor?

NAMESConstitutional statutory and political provisions are not Interesting until given the personal touch. Somebody will have to bring the test case. That somebody appears very likely to be C. V. enkel of Iredell, runner-up In the primary for Lieutenant Governor in 1960. Several others are waiting on the sidelines to get Into the game if the lists are opened. Dave McConnell of Mecklenburg who ran third In 1960 has not abandoned the Idea, Robert Morgan of Cleveland Is willing. Steve Dolley of Gaston is almost a sure candidate if the election Is authorized.

It is rather generally conceded that the Lieutenant Governor elected to fill out the Phllpott term, If one is elected, should come from the western part of the state. The Lieutenant Governor for the full term beginning In 1965 Is conceded to the east.

CANDIDATES-Application of the same rule to a senate-elected president Is challenged by Sen. Lunsford Crew of Halifax. He was recognized a probable candidate for Lieutenant Governor before the death of Phllpott. Then he Immediately announced bis intention also to seek the senate presidency next session. Sen. Clarence Stone of Rockingham county is aLso a candidate, paramountlng the idea that the office in 1963 belongs to the wc.st.

Be.side.s Crew of Halifax, at Ica.st two other incumbent Senators 5ige avowed candidates for Lieutenant Governor in 1964. l*hey are Sen. John Jordan of NVake and Seri. Tom White of I^noir. Senator White toyed with the idea of running for Lieutenant Governor in 1960, but gave it up becau.se he decided the office should go we.st that year. For the same rea.son he decided to be drawn Into a race for President of the Senate next pe.s.Hlon, believing that a we.t-erner having been elected for four years as Lieutenant G iv-crnor and President of the Senate the office should remain in the west for that period.

So it looks now like the next President of the Senate, whether elected by the senators or by all the people will he from the west, and that the Lieutenant Governor In 1964 will come from the east.

immediate activation of some organizations made it clear that the United States took a serious view of world conditions f and at the same time, the relatively few numbers of men involved *was not a war-scare move, triggering panic and general pobilization in other paiTs of the world.

Too, the gradual process permitted a more orxlgr-ly absorption of manpower into the complex of our military establishment.

But the fact that this countrys military buildup is progressing, that it is being accomplished without bombast and repercussions, and that while a big stick is being fashioned there is no undue flexing of muscles or threatening gestures . . .' all indicate the seriousness with which mobilization is viewed, and the great feeling of responsibility in high places.

Not One Of Old-Time Stalwarts Was Heard

The docile acceptance- of denunciation, in the 22nd Soviet communist party conference, continues to bemuse observers on the outside.

There was only one voice of dissent, and that by a spokesman for Red Chinawho didnt bother to stay around to argue his points.

Not one of the old-time party stalwarts under attack at the meeting made a public defense. This alone should be a tip-off as to the ruthless nature of Communism and- of the men who hold the reins of

power. --

The best known, in Western eyes, of the Old Guard who came under attack at the Moscow party congress'was V. M. Molotov.

During the years immediately following World War II, Molotov became widely known for his ability to say nyet. There was even some speculation that because he w'as so great athorn in the side of the Free World that he might even.be Stalins successor. In short, he was regarded as a mighty, important cog in the Kremlins machinations.

But with the rise of Nikita Khrushchev, Molotov was humiliated and assigned to relatively minor duties.

In recenTweeks he has been again verbally flayed, called home, seemingly fated .to become a faceless member of Russias multitudes.

If there has been any defense, against the denunciation of Khrushchev, it has not been revealed. Outwardly there has been no protest, no hint of struggle against the monolithic regime.

The resignation, the ready compliance ... all suggest Khrushchevs power in the Kremlin ia unchallenged.

isenhower Anc. Truman Alike?

By ALVIN TAYLOR

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Syiicfiute. In.

Notes Found On A Cuff

Nephew John Taylor, seven, acquired a lone goldfish the other day.

He studied the creature gliding around in the fish bowl all by himself and finally decided on a name. The new pet would be known as Jack.

But what if the gold fish should turn out to be a girl?

Thats easy, according to John. Then shell be Jackie.

That boys going to be president someday.

Reflector Staffer Stuart Savage

and Fireman Alton Vincent were studying the blinking light atop the micro-wave tower at the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph building recently.

You might have noticed that the red light isnt turned off during the day. It blinks 24-hours a day.

Well Stuart and Alton counted the thing and found it blinks 14 times each 30 seconds. This means it blinks 28 times a min ute. That gives 1.680 blinks an hour, 60,320 each 24 hours and a krand total of 22,016,800 every year.

No. they didnt say how many kilowatt hours this represents.

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WASHINGTON (AP) Former President Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Elsenhower, although they might not like to think so. have looked like look-alikes facing in opposite directions in the first year after each left office.

Each, as he walked out of the White House, got a hunting license to pot-shot his successor. They fired merrily, or indignantly, or disparagingly, as the mood seized them, which was pretty often.

But there were other parallels that may tend to get the public accustomed to what* to expect from ex-presidents in the future.

Neither, when he gave up the presidency, was happy about the last election resulLs. In 19.52 Truman backed Adlai E. Stevenson who lost to Eisenhower, In i960 Elsenhower backed Richard M. Nixon who lost to John F. Kennedy.

While Truman and Eisenhower were tied at having more unbalanced budgets while they were in office, they never could get together on the budget subject.

In 19.53, after getting adjusted to civilian life again. Truman banged away at Elsenhowers administration for what Truman called its dangerous phi-lasophy that balancing the budget is the most sacred objective of government.

In 1961 Elsenhower, although his $12-biUlon deficit in 1959 was the biggest in peacetime history, said the failure of President Kennedys administration to balance the budget would affect the nations future strength against communism.

Truman in 1953 complained that the Republicans under Elsenhower were going down the middle of the road moving backwards. Elsenhower in 1961 said, The confusion I sense Ip the Kennedy admlnlstraion is like a tornado on a spring day.

Both men, in their first year out of office, couldnt stay out of active politics. Truman had

better luck than Elsenhower.

In 1953 Truman, after first letting it be known he wouldnt. Jumped into the New York may-orality race to back Robert P. Wagner Jr., who won and thereafter kept on winning.

In 1961 Elsenhower went to New York to back Republican Louis J. Lefkowitz against Wagner who was running again. Wagner won once more. Eisen-how also went into New Jerseys gubernatorial race to support Republican James P. Mitchell against Democrat Richard J. Hughes. Kennedy and Truman campaigned for Hughes, who won.

But while both men had plenty^ of fault to find with w'hat their successors were doing at home, both stopped it at the waters edge,

Truman in 1953 called for firm support for Elsenhower during the Korean War negotiations. In 1%1 Eisenhower said Republicans stand as Americans first, not partisans, behind Kennedy In foreign affairs.

In his first year out of office Truman gave Interviews. So did Eisenhower.

Truman wrote a series of five articles on What It Is Like to Become an Ordinary Citizen. Elsenhower has chinned about that with newsmen and has given a series TV interviews on the pifllrems of his presidency.

Both men were unlike President Hoover who remained silent on political issues for two years after leaving office. But what Hoover had to say in politics after that can hardly be said to have influenced events mych.

It seems certain that if President Roosevelt had lived to retire he wouldnt have been any more quiet than Truman or Eisenhower.

But neither Truman nor Ei.sen-hower, for all their talk, can be said to have influenced voters, minds much when they themselves werent running.

This, however, is not likely to discourage either of them from trying.

Other Editors. Saying... ;-iguring Bond Costs

(Greesnboro Daily News)

Much has been said and written since North Carolinas ill-fated referendum about what approval of the 10 issues, or any appreciable segment, would have cost the taxpayers of the state. There is no doubt that spending was an issue. Other factors entered into the total defeat, but Tar Heel voters, on the heels of record legislative appropriations, said in no uncertain terms that they were in no mood for additional funds from the public till.

In all the post-mortems, however. some comment should be forthcoming on what the bonds defeator at least some of the proposed Issues will actually cost North Carolina. While the figures cannot be cited and intangibles are largely involved, conclusions can be drawn in fact and in reason.

No one can say how many Tar Heel boys and girls will be denied the opportunity and the right of going to college through defeat of funds for community colleges and expanded facilities at all state-supported institutions of higher education, topped by the pressing needs of the Consolidated University of North Carolina. Jobs are becoming Increasingly difficult to find for the uneducated. Higher education and research are also tied In closely with national defense and security in the age of atomic energy, and missiles.

Statistics are available to show how much more money a person with a college or even high school education earns during a normal life span than the individual who does not go to college or drops out of high school. The hundreds, probably running well into the thousands, of youths who cannot be admitted to college because of lack* of dormitory space and other facilities would have earned millions

of dollars, much of which would presumably have gone into higher living standards, purchasing power which assurecl a strengthened economy, and taxes to finance the new and additional public services whch a growing state must have.

The same approach should be made to mental institutions. One may forget the humane aspect and consider only the financial aspect. How much does it mean in dollars and cents to treat and dismiss a mental patient and get him or her back into normal living and gainful employment? Rehabilitation Is the key word for dealing with both the mentally ill and the mentally deficient. And large part of the bonds sought by the State Hospitals Board of Control would have gone into this saving work.

Similarly the state correctional institutions were victimized at the polls. These are the schools to ' which North Carolinas Juvenile delinquents are sent. Here is the challenge to train them In some skill, to rehabilitate them and to convert them into law-abiding, taxpaying citizen . Otherwise a shockingly large number of these delinquents go on to greater crime, to fill our prisons and to become not merely a social problem but a social menace. Rehabilitation of even a. small percentage of these boys and girls would pay for the Investment made on the training schools over and over again.

North Carolinians are going to have to do some sound second-thinking. And when they do they are going to realize that the cost of not passing the bond issue, especially as It affected the three categories commented upon in the preceding paragraphs, is likely to prove much greater than passage, with resultant sinking funds and Interest payments, would have been.

Some minor changes are cropping up as traffic aids on Greenvilles streets. At Five Points entering Evans, a sign has been erected in the traffic island reading Keep Left. Lets hope drivers will heed it. Despite a yellow line motorists coming from Dickinson have been prone to cut across to the right lane.

This created problems for traffic headed through Five Points on Evans.

On Dickinson at the intersection of Hooker Road, Just beyond the Norfolk and Southern underpass. the city has painted lines designating three lanes. Now there are two through traffic lanes and a left turn lane for traffic turning off Dickinson on to Hooker Road.

Its the little things that count, even when it comes to dealing with more and more automobiles.

Opinions In Brie:

The growth of the United States resulted from private enterprise and from the profit earned through trade and commerce. But as William McDonnell, chairman of the First National Bank of St. Louis, says, In some quarters making a profit is looked at as a' kin to piracy.Industrial News Review.

The neutron bomb is designed to destroy people but not property. But then, who would pay the property taxes? Decatur (Fla.) Herald.

The obligation falls first on the political parties. If good men' arent offered, they cant be chosen. The Charlotte News.

GIVE

THE UNITED WAY

Not One To Be "solatec.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

copyright. 1961, King Features' Syndicate, Inc.

Unlike a monarch, who holds office by birth, the President of -the United States has to spend his first term politicking for the second. It is a wholesome of-fort because it keeps him close to the people. He cannot separate himself from thoae who chose him and will choose or not (^oose him again. He cannot hope to hear only praise. He cannot expect that his visitors will bow from the waist and amen him through a conversation.

In a word, no matter how hard his staff may try to screen him from thoee who alwayx know what is right and wrong, the President must from time 4o time paUcntly listen to the ideas of others. As trying and time-wasting as this may seem, it is wholesome because the man in the White House (Jares not isolate himself from trends of public opinion.

As long as this attitude toward the office of the President continues, we are likely to remain a wholesome republic. Naturally, everybody want* to tell President Kennedy what to do and how to do it. Perhaps, it is an instinctive reaction to his lack of grey hair. Perhaps it is his smile that encourages frankness. But he 1* never Ukely to become an isolated personage, alone, friendless, as has been the fate of so many Presidents.

Some Presidents have become paralyzed by the Presidency. The White House can become the palace of a monarch and the office of the President can be a trap for a personality who walks on eggs, as the Chinese us edto describe some Mandarins. The Irish Mafia, in President Kennedys office, does not look like Mandarins, nor .does the President, sitting in his rocker, give the appearance of one who believes that he has a mandate from Heaven to rule over the weak and tremulous. The White House is more cheerful than it used to be although 'it has In no manner lost its gracious formality.

President Roosevelt gave the impression of knowing that he was superior to other men. President Hoover seemed to be shocked that he, a simple man, should have been chosen for so great a position. President Kennedy remains Jack Kennedy who has a job to do and expects to see that it is done. He He grows less partisan because the task of the era requires a national not a partisan President. This Is risky in our country for a politician but it does make for a closer unity In the face of the enemy. The principal positions in the Cabinet are held by Republicans and non-partisans because he obviously seeks an administration of talent, depending upon himself and his brother, Robert, to do the politicking.

How this will work out over the yesirs. it is difficult to say because ambitious men usually like to project themselves in the hope that they may be the successor to the incumbent. Nevertheless, at this moment it can be said that this* is not a political Cabinet.

The President Is unusual In that he Is a philosophic historian, literate, deeply grounct-ed In the traditions of his office, profoundly nationalistic without objecting to nationalism in others. It is possible to grasp his program but I should imagine that it Is not easy to move him from a determined course. He accepts criticism politely but not without anger if he senses injustice.

Everybody wants to ,tell the President of the United States how to run his office aqd all citizens have a right to do it-As a matter of fact, only the President can know all the factors ki a given situation; unfortunately, he cannot tell what he knows and in our kind of society, the public Is irritated when it is uninformed.

Roosevelt had the gift of leadership and with little talent built himself into a generally beloved personality. What this country requires most at this moment In its history is potent moral leadership. We need to restore a sense of patriotism. In a work, our President must lead the people, not read polls to discover where at a moment the public wants him to go. We need a man of the stature of Lincoln who, In the midst of war, could say with malice to-(Continued on Page 6)

Strength For Today Fallout Shelter Business Boom

By EARL L. DOUGLASS HANDICAPS

A few days ago In a public place I saw a man who had a great handicap. He appeared to be cheerful. The woman who accompanied him. presumably his wife, appeared to be cheerful also. They lived with a mlll-slone about -theu- necks, yet it appeared not to make them unhappy.

At the same time you and I know many fortunate people who weep, dnvel, rage, and beat Uieir breasL-over nothing at all. They have no haadl* caps. They have only the slightest little burdens Ui bear, yet you can hear them shrieking to the end of the block or the end of the town.

Battlefield heroa are magnificent. The government rightly pins medals on the breasts of such men. But the even greater be^oes are meo and women who

drag themselves through life with a fearful handicap, yet who are able, apparently, to rise above it.

Living with a handicap is an art. That is a poor word to use In this connection, It is a triumph. Rising above handicaps con.Htitute.s one o the most majestic achlcvmrnts humanity can make.

A girl I know under thirty years of age, chained to a wheelchair for life, keeps writing books one after another and having them published. A woman who has spent more than ten years In bed with tuberculosis writes fine, poetry.

Let us sneak out quietly and find a shrine where we can confeu our sins and weaknesses before the Lord.

We may have greater* handicaps than the manifestly handicapped-our worst handicap being that We may not recognize our pitiful state.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The fall-out shelter Industry is becoming bigger every day.

While it is not yet up there with Steel, construction, autos and weapons, it is expanding at an enormous rate.

There are two expanding forces at work:

1. The determination of the Kennedy Administration to make shelter consciousness part of the American way of iife.

2. The recognition of business that its survival, too. depends on a survival program.

The Harvard Business Review, UghUng Its torch from that of its currently most dlstlnsuished alumnus, shouts in red headlines in Its November-Decem-ber issue: "Business cah ,aave 70,000.000 lives.

KEY TO SURVIVAL

The editon point out that It may seem surprising to many businessmen that ordinary buildings already aUndtng in every American town may hold the

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key .to.survival of such a sizable portion of the population. It points out that the architectural styles of the past 80 years favored heavy walls, sturdy cellars and strong roofs. In using these styles industry inadvertently provided America with the basic structures for survival.

The editors then urge Industry to convert this protected space into shelters that will keep their employees alive.

Meanwhile, more and more busineasea are getting into the shelter field. Almost all of the home awimming pool companies have establlahed subsidiaries to offer backyard shelters. One is offering shelter that can be converted Into a pool or vice versa.

BUTTON FOR PROFITS Malcolm Po be?, editor dis-eqsses bllKx"!* through fear in the November L5 Issue ol Forbes magazine and lists busi-naasc* that many benefit: con

struction, steel, cement, waterproofing, lumber, plastics, the manufacture of containers, generating equipment, plumbing, shelving, refrigerators, stoves, beds and so on.

All of these and a host of others will conceivably increase construction and sales If the panic button is pressed hard enough, the magazine says.

At the same time. Prentice-Hall reports that the government search for places where millions might survive a nuclear attack has been speeded. The ' use of eleatronic computera to automate part of the survey may save as much as two months l;mc. That meatif the government will be In the market sooner that expected for food and medicine. ventilating equlixnent and sanitary facilities,. it statea.

Using the results of this electronic figuring, the govern-' ment will know how much food and medicine It must buy tp stock shelters, and what* kind

of equipment it needs to modify existing areas*

Prentice-Hall also points out that seven states have granted tax exemption on fall-out shelters. namely; Alabama, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. It is probable that companies offering shelters and equipment will concentrate In these states.

It appears then that business has a responsibility to utilize Its own facilities to Increase protection; to do as much as it can to increase the supply of protective items and. if possible, make profits while it aurvlve.

For a reprint of the Harvard Business Review article, send $l to the magazine at Soldiers Field, Boston 63. Mass.

Another useful leaflet, Fact Sheet on Personnel Survival Programs. Is free for sendlna a self-addressed . envelope to Collateral Communications. H'J