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Tuemf, Jmnumrr 27, 19B9

Tuesday, January 27, 1959

One Should Coll It Quite Obvious.

A survey showinf toll bridges would not be finan- state not only would get better resulta, but would like-cially sound across the Alligator River linking Tyrrell wise have greater continuity from one survey to another

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and Dare Counties and another across the Cape Fear at Wilmington didn't surprise many people in Easteni North Carolina.

Most people had come to the same conclusion before the State Highway Commission paid a consulting engineering firm of New York 4Ci-odd thousand dollars for the survey.

Results of the surved should point up two things vividly to the State Highway Commlseion. o

1. Tar Heels aren't sold os the Idea of state-owned toll bridges ... or for that matter toll bridges regardless of who owns them.

2. It is possible over a period of years to squander a considerable amount of the state's money for outside surveys which only confirm what natives of the state already know about a given situation.

With these things in mind, the Highway Commission should concentrate on means of affording the

on a particular matter. At the same time it would have just as good, if not better. Information on which to base its long range development plans.

In a few rare instances, it may be worth $40,000 or so to Nmth Carolina for an outsider to tell the state what its people already knows. In the case of these two bridge surveys, the new informstion received hardly justifies the cost to the taxpayers of North Carolina.

Consolation For The Colicky Baby Victims

Dr. Merman F. Meyer of Northwestern Univewl* ty Medical School has a theory which should be interbridges end other structures needed throughout the sting, if not downright comforting, to red-eyed par-state without spending more time and money worrying nts of small children.

The good doctor, a pediatrician, says, in effect, that it's good for the infant of the home to have colic, it could mean greatness in the young'un's adult years.

A connection between infantile colic and adult aggressiveness it a nebulous thing for most parents of colicky children. To them, colie is an immediate, esr-splitting, torture'by-association, sympsthy-provoking, here-and-now reality.

Dr. Meyer says, however, that leg-drawing, afm-wsving, mlik-spittfng and multi-declbeled-screaming are simply Imanlfestatlona of the infants resentment against the restrictions imposed on his immaturity. Moreover, he claims, the very symptoms which disturb him in babyhood will be virtuea in adult life.

The doctor explains it this way: in elementary school, the once colicky baby is aggressive, a leader, non-sensitive; in high school, he runs everything; as an adult, the type rushes from one success to another. What was once a little, firstclass brat becomes happy and well adjusted, the kind of person who f enjoys life to the hilt, has social and financial stability, and who rarely finds It necessary to seek the comfort of a psychiatrist's couch.

Dr. Meyer's theory isnt exactly new. There has been, for some time, a feeling among some pediatrician's that colic Isnt caused by an infant's allergy to cow's milk, but by family instability. Colic, the idea says, is a way to escape frustrations, leading, of course, to earlier head-Hftfng, sitting up and walking than the sluggish, nice baby types realize.

about t>Us as a possible manner of financing the cost. North Carolinians know high|^ay8 and their necessary structures cost a great deal of money, but they have shown in the past they are willing to pay the cost to have a good highway aystem.

The bridges across the Cape Fear and across the Alligator which the Commission has temporarily shelved should not remain on the shelf indefinitely. The structures are needed in Eastern North Carolina, and they should be provided is soon as possible.

As for the surveys by outside firms, the Highway Commission and other state agencies should bear In mind that North Carolina should be capable of making a good many surveys such as those which have been farmed to out-of-state concerns in recent years. By using its own facilities for making such surveys, the

Variations Pose Some SusDicion

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The Household Of Goc.

By LYNN NISBET LIABILITY - The wide vart-snee in amounfca paid for damage and injury reauHlnf from aiitomobUs accldenls Ssi led to atifseailM) Hist perhapi a uniform acbeduk ahould be estsblished for Insurance UabtUty. It is oommon knowledge that setUemente vary widely in different areas, < pecltUy in easee where the amount depends upon a Jurv verdict. An experienced lawyer aid the other day that a caae that is worth" IS.OOO In a rural mountain county would etally be worth" $25,000 or more In any of the large Piedmont countlea, since the law requires every automobile owner to have an Insurance policy as a requisite for obtaining a Itcenae plate for hia car, by reverse ImpltcaUon aomt company ts requtred to provide th# Insurance coverafe. That is somewhat analc^ous to the altuatioa with reapect to persona covered under the workmen'a compensation act, where employ-era are required to carry insurance to protect thetr workers in case of injury on the job,

The Rtste Induatria! Commia-alon, which admlnlatera ths workmen*! compensation act. has established a fairly uniform schedule of hospital, medical and aureical fees that tends to prevent eaorbltant charges and thus tfiskta possible a reasonably uniform scale of total payments. Appeals from commission awarda to the courts are frequent, and often auceeasful. However, the general uniformity from county to county is maintained. It is hlshly Improbabie that similar Injury would be valued at" IIMK) in one county and |5,(XXi In another - which often happens In the unregulated jury awarda for motor aocidents.

COST One other field in which insurance is required by law is unemployment. That la a joint Federal-State operation administered by the Employment Security Commission Payments into the fund by emptoyeri vary according to experience recorc of the employing firm, anj amounts paid to the unemployri are determined by the regulatory agency under the tiatutea.

All insurance premium rates must be approved by the Commissioner of Insurance. Usually the premium rate is designed to make sure enough premium money has been paid in to enable the carrier to pay elalms, operaUng expenses and reasonable profit. In cases where payment of

claims la supervised by government, as in workmen's compensation and unemployment, rate-fixing is not too difficult. With respect to Ufe insurance there isnt much problem, because ths rates are based on actuarial mortality statistics.

In the broad areaa of genera! acetdsnt, health snd property damage Insurance, including fire and stomi, where Uie buying of Insjirance is entirely optional and claim payments are not supervised, frequent coniroverslea arise as to what constitutes reasonable premium rate.

The law requlrlnf every automobile owner to purchase insurance, but providing no govern-meni supervision over the payment of claUns, puts the pubtle UablUty insurance phase, for both property damage and personal Injury, In a sort of no mans land, with legal mandats on one side, no control on the other. Inevitsble result, accen-tualtd by higher mechanical repair charges and large verdicts for injury, is increased premium coat.

WIDE OPEN Whether a home owner Insures his house igslnst fire or storm, or a cltlaen btiys accident or health or life insurance, ia entirely up to him. Any person or corporation employing as many as four peopla must pay the employment aeour-ity tax, and any person or firm employing as msny as five must comply with workmen compensstlmi atatutes. In these cases both the rate of premium paid and the clatms allowed arc aubject to iovarnmant control.

Any peraon who owna and automobile must buy insuranoe or t a bond In order to obteln a Icense plate for hta car, but there ia no eosirol over the amount he or his inaurance company might hava to pay as result of any accident, Of course there is a maximum limit of in-iuranee company liability, but a judgment in excess of thst amount would Ue against the motorist.

The point here is that is unemployment and workmen compensBlion insurance requirement for eovarage ts matched with regulation of benefit payments, In automobUe pubitc liabtiUy Insurance there la mandate on one end, wide open space on the other. Unlesa and until some limit can be established on the other end, there eeen\s smiU hope for anything except increased premium rates on required liabiUty Insurance

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tThrough tiie remainder this week, this space will utilised bf members of the United Christian Youth Movement.)

The whole idea is interesting. Well have to try to remember it next time one of the little ones we know gives a blood*curdling cry, spews his milk on four walls and a ceiling, and refuses to be comforted.

We might fven quit calling the pediatrician for words of advice on handling the situation, and warn business friends that competition is on the way.

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By JAMES MABLOW

WASHINGTON (AP> The Republican National Committee. still aching from the Demcrata* shattering victory last November, met last week in Dea Molnaa to figure out how to win in ilMO. It was a aoul-ttarching gtt-togfihar.

Before U was over dlssaUsfac-tton with the leadership President Eisenhower has given the party came to the surface and drew loud applause. Eisenhower-advised the eommltiee to work hard and was told to do more himself. But the committee tlso warmly applauded a resolution approving the "wise and able leadership" of Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon The members discussed where the party stood, what H atood for. where H waa gotng and why.

The result: e plan for getting more people to aak more people to vote Republican wai approved, but the eommitiee never got around to atstlng why It thought people ahould vote for the perty. It auihorixed the naming of a committee to draw up long imnte goali.

n. Barry Gold water of AH* iona hid hla own idea. He ia chiirman of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee and a longtime crlUe of Elsenhower idminlatriUon polioiea. He thought tt all right to approve a plan for ringing doorbella.

But he aald: The most Important Ineredlent is mtaaing. Where does the party atand? Whit are its principies?" He said more than a million Republicana failed to vote last year becawie they didnt know what the pat ty prtnciplei, tf any, were,

He did aufgeat the party quit copying the New Deal.

But it waa Rep. Richard M. Slmpaons slap at Eisenhower that got tho most applause and headlines.

Except around campaign tlmo very two years Elsenhower has been one of the most nonpolltlcal of all prosldenCs. Between eiec-tiona he tries to get along with everyone, including Democrats.

Just before an election he gets extremely buay, campalgna, and denouncea Democrats. He started late in the 1958 campaign, too. On Nov. S, the day after the election, he had a news conference,

Asked whit his role in the 1980 lectlimi would be, he aald: My role for the next two years is to do exactly my very best to carry on the responaibtlittes and duties of the prealdency. I am not even thinking about that cltcUon at this time."

This was to strange coatraat with the advice he sent the committee last week:

*I deeply regret that aome people look upon our party as a kind of hibernating elephant who wakes with a mighty trumpet blast at election time and then rests calmly until the next election time.

Political activity must be a matter of uniwmitting effort. It muit go on 385 days a year. .

This waa too much for Simpson. a Pennsylvanian who Is chairman of the congreaaional campaign committee and whose job is to try to get Republicans elected to the House.

He called upon the Whitt House "to five ua some of that unremitting poltUoal planned effort on behalf of tho Republican party and to state the long-range pui'pose of the Republican party, to give us a ataiement of princlplea for which wo can Und. . .

By LOIS TUNNELL

What is a household? A household Is a group of pe<H9le who hve under the same roof and who work together for one purpose. What then is God's household? Does the church constitute a part of it? Yea. it does. But perhaps it la necessary to explain what the word church means. Church Is not just a local parish, or a building. The church is the Body of which Jesus Chrift is tho Head and aU baptised people are the members. Therefore, the church does not peiiain to any single dentxni-naUon,

Dr. Weatherhead brings out tho following idea in bis book, This Is The Victory". Tho church can be seen stretching its hands outward and touching all communions of Christians whatever their denominational label. In all lands, on all ahorea, under

aU akiet. It can be seen stretcb-Ing its hands forward to hand on the torch to those who come after, until perhaps, they cover the earth. It can be seen stretching its hands backward, its hands touching those of the generations before us, and so back and back until the last man slips his hand Into tl!e hand of Christ.

But most Importantly, the handa vrt is joined together and grows

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of these tiny with those who have gone into tt unseen, Init also with angels and archangels and all the company of heaven who worship Cod with Unveiled faces in Eternal Beauty, for the church ia eternal.

Perhaps, now that I know the church constitutes a part of the household of God, and is made up of humans of all denominations. 1 can ask myself: Am I, a Christian of Gods church, Gods household also? Yet, 1 am. God builds a foundation for all of us using Christ as the ctHmer stone, and It is up to ua to build the rest of our lives around him, God makes, or started out making. His home in each one of us. Its up to us to treat

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into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built Into it for a dwelling place of God in the Sprit" (Epheaiana 2:19-22.)

0 Christ dwelling within me. give me knowledge, knowledge of thyself in relation to my living, day by day. Give me they Spirit of eternal Ufa to live now, on earth, in the elements, in the world. Feed my mii^ with tiy living bread; quench my thirst for thee with living water from the well of life." Amen.

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The 1958 session of Congress lasted 138 dajrs. Congress spent at the rate of $417,000 a mln-utie, working 34 hours a day." > Chattanooga News-Free Press,

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Senator B. Everett Jordans critioism of the Social Security set-up and his demand for changes in the system to assist beneficiaries will strike a responsive chord in the minds of many who are covered by this program. How far he will get in Congress with his ideas remains to be seen, but to do what he is recommending is only justice toward those who depend upon these payments for much of their livelihood.

What the senator wants done Is to permit Social Security benefi* claries to earn a larger amount than It now permissible without jeopardizing monthly payments. Under the law as it applies at present, no matter how much or how little the individual receives, he cannot earn more than $100 per month In outside income. If the purpose of old age and retirement benefits is to provide lor those who share, it is missing its mark by a long way,

A person who retires at the age of 85 Is eligible to receive a maximum of $118 per month in social security payments. That, plus the $100 from outside earnings, is only $218 per month, a total allowance which ia entirely too small.

A few years ago. Representative Harold Cooley agiuted in Congress for an outside allowance to beneficiaries of as much as $3.000 a year, which would be $350 per month aside from

Social Security. That Is by no means excessive, and would be a reasonable figtire to be permitted in any revision of the law.

There are thousands, perhaps milUona, of people who are quite able to earn substantial amounts of Income after passing the age of 85, They ought to be permitted to do so without jeopardising their government Income.

Actually, there should be no restrictions at all. The individual who has paid the maximum in tax! under Social Security from its inception should be entitled to receive the limit in benefits whether he continues to work or not. After all, he has paid the price exacted by the government. The protection bought is rightfully his, no matter what his status, and he should be en-titUtd to it even though he continues active in a gainful occupation.

Senator Jordan is moving In the right direction in demanding changes in Uie present law. This predominantly liberal Congress might conveivably go along, although the yearning of the government few every last Shylock pound of flesh probably strikca them as forcefully at t^e who are more conservaUve. But millions will echo the convictions expressed by the North Carolina aolon and will hope that Congress might concelvaMy go along, tice Involved and grant the relief proposed.

The ideals ana objectives of Scouting have remained unchanged since the movements birth. But changes have been made in organitatiin methods and operating techniques in order to meet the needs of the time. At the moment, tf Scouting Is to be brought to more of the boys who want It, there must be more trained leaders and more facilities including campe. Meeting this challente ahould be regarded as a pleasure and a prlviledge." Industrial Newa Review.

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Him In such a manner that He will stay. So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners. but you are fellow citizens with the taints and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles anl prophets. Christ Jesus himself teing the chief cornerstone. in whom the whole struct-

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By HAL BOYLE new YORK AP> - Things a columnist might sevo' know if he didnt open his mail;

Doeion, like their patients, often put off being oeton too. A Burvtf ahowcd one oeU oI four physidaiis with hypertension wait* ed two years seeking

treatment, and 14 per cent with peptic ulcer postixmed treatment for five years or more.

Did you know a mink coat made of female skins is suppoaed to be preferable to one made of male skins? It is reportedly finer-haired imd lighter in weight.

Beau Brummell, famous 19th century British dandy, is s<xne-times credited wiM being the first man in modem history to take a dally bath. But. alas for cteanliness later in life be be* came dirty and slovenly, and died a senile muiper.

Taking a bath, incidentally, is still something of a problem in some parts of the United States. Three million American hmnes still lack running water.

As men get scarcer, the girls are giving them less and less chance to get away. The aver^ age engagement period 30 years ago was a year or more. Now it's from five to seven months.

Do you share the popular misconception that most actors are aisties? They arent. Many are cx-athlete and most keep in top physical condition.

Do you like to lie on the rug while watching televiaion? WelL cut it out: you may get sick. Some statistician has figured out a 9-by-12-foot rug collects three pounds of dirt in a year and nesU 11.914.000.000 germs.

For people who dont like air condition, a trip to the moon offers a fine escape. The temperature there ranges fnnn 215 degrees above zero by day to 240 degrees below zero at night.

If you've ever wondered why there are so few vine-covered cottages around WaU Stireet. Manhattans famous financial district, here's your answer: Land there Is conservatively valued at $15,000,000 an acre. And seats on the New York Stock Exchange have ranged In price from a high of $625,000 in 1929 to $17,000 in 1942.

To get money quickly from a banker tell him y<m want it to put on a second bathroom in your home. This is one of the projects for which it is now easiest to get a bank loan.

It was George Bernard Shaw who observed, "The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."

Remember when nearly every city man dreamed retiring to the country and making an independent living cdf five acres? Its more d! a nightmare today. The cost of farm land has risen 50 per cent since 1950 and in some areas it has tripled in the last 15 years.

While in Hollywood, eays Lisa Kirk, she overheard a lO-year-old boy tell hia girl friend: I really love you. When we grow up, 1 want you to be my first wifel"

News note: "Wcni faint and cry and live longer for It." But putting up with it sure kills off us men.

No wotider a baby grows at its highest rate during the first year of life. Heres what it eats on the average: 765 cans of baby food, 337 cans of evaporated milk, 22 pounds of sugar and tyrpuB, 30 cans of juices plus all the crackers It doesnt throw on the floor.

Can you name the biggest college town in America? Rs New York which now has 238,000 college students.

It wu Edmund Burke who observed: "All that ia necessary for the forces of evil to win in the wm-ld is for enough good men to do nothing."

Opinions In Brief

"There ts apeculaUoo m Washington oter the possibility of bringing about m r^lgnmcnt of the two political parties into liberal and conservative groupe. Oae report eays this might happen more rapidly than ia gi-erally believed likely. Both parties now contain high elected officials who have virtually nothing in common." Induatrlal News Review.

were the newest and best in 1920; yet many atruffgle along With bams and sheds that were built ih 1900 or earlier. It will be cheaper to tear down some oi those old structures and start anew than to remodel. I look for a spurt toward mcxre efficient farm wwrk buildings; estimates indicate that 50% to of them are obsolete." Wheeler MoMUlen, of Farm Journal.

"The pitchfork, scoop shovel and bushel basket are giving way in the bam to automatic devices. The barn itself has to change, too. Almoet no farmer would think now of using the types of field machinery that

"Sherman Adams' book is eag-srly awaited by reader* who will turn first to "V" in the index to see If vicuna is listed, Columbia (S. C.) SUta.

Strength For Today Inflation Deflates Sales Mark

Bf EARL L. IKH'ra.ASS ALARMING SITUATION

The divorce stiuaUon in the United States is becoming appalling. The rate of divorce in the United States is three ilmea ax great today as tt wax in the year 1900. There are one-fourth aa many divorces in our co\intry evtry j'ear aa there are marrtatex

A* we view this slluiunn his torically', we may a#U alarmed. As every past eivUt-xallon haa begun to decay and dtsintegi-alt. its divorce rate has incieaxed. Recently pur alien-firwsrtsiflia B"icTaroT'iix ivei) iUU who had been graduated from a aecunUary schuul within Ihe past decade. Eleven of the glrlx are now divorced, Ihix Is extreme, but the extreme examples throughout the country are axlounding.

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Viewed soclaUy and morallv, the effect of divorce upon children ia dtsconcertinf to behold. Problem children who become problem adults are in a majority of cases children of broken homes, Juvenile delinquency ts almost always axxoclated with a broken home.

Jesus Chrlal during Hla ministry spoke with great franknsxs bout the matter of divorce He lived In an age and arnqngut a people for whom divorce was commonplace Some of the great rabbla of His day were vei^ liberal regarding divorce.

.Atcm.aud. txr... plU'tl. Head the fwllowlni New Testament paasagex and aet what conclusions you arrive at witii reference to divorce under the ChrlxUan ayxtem: Matthew 8-31-33. Matthew pt; Mark 10 U-ia: Luke 18.18; 1 Corudhlana' 7;IU-15.

Bv El.MFR ROESSNRR Total retail tales In December were $3i.l billion, bringing the total for the year to $^.S billion. the Department of Commerce reports.

This makea good predictions in this column that alea would exceed $10 bUUon Ip a atngle month for the ftrat time In December and that total aalea for the .vear woild aet a new high. They were $200 billion in 1957.

Theae figurea indicate the American atandard ol liviag rose in iftM.

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Americana actually enjoyed lesi goods and aervictt In t%5S than they did in 1957.

Inflation confused the picture, mm FIGl RKS MISLEAD The percentage increase in the dollar amount of xaies in IMS w as 0 015, less than two tenths

Prices rose more than that. Price dais for the entire year 1958 have not yet been compiled. However, moat eeonomists estimate the inertasf around 2 to 3 per cent.

The conaumer price index rose from 121 8 in November, 1957, to 123.9 in November. !&. or alight-ly under 2 per cent.

If price* went up 2 per cent in 1951, eenaumara would have had to pay $204 billion to get the tame amount ef goods and etrvlces they got for $200 billion In 1957. They apent leas than -tho iim fifwre eeg^.-4hey -

g(H leas titan a year earlier, OTHER riGlKES MISLR.aD Laat week the Departiuent of Commerce announced that total personal income last year was $353.4 biUioo which, on the surface. loxdted like the bigheti year in history.

But when the inflationary rise in prlcea is considered. Americans actually made lesa than a year earlier.

In 1957, total personal income was $347.9 billion. With prices 2 per cent higher in 1958, we would have had to tarn $3S4A billion to stay in the same place.

On the surface, the Commerce figures look as If we were getting richer. Actually, we grew poorer by half a billion dollars or mors.

There are other distcrtiont. The Northern Trust Co. of Chi-cagw Md-Wi-tl*'Janwary krtterr"-' Aa 1958 ended aggregate economic activity, as measured by the gross national product tUNP) was risiog to a new record high la doUir terms PreUmlnary eu-matwi place the ONP for the fourth quarter at a aeasoially of 1 per cent.

adjusted annual rate aUghtly above 1450 billion, exceeding the

Srevious peak rate of $446 bll-00 in the third quarter of 1957.

"After allowlag for a 2 to 1 per cent rise In prices, however, the aggregate physical volume of ouq>ut of goods and aervlces was still somewhat below the 1957 peak.

For the year (1858) the ONP Will approximate $437 htihon. a decline of leu than 1 per from 1448 biUioQ In i7. Alter eUtm-ance for price changu, the real 1G.NF hL1934..itas .AbouL. JJl per. cent leu than in 1957."

So that'a what inflation does for you. It tnakea you look as If you art making mocw laeiiey. spending more and tnrRUig eul almoet the same amcoat.ef goode when, in truth, yett are aUdlng backwards.