PAGE rOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

V*hrtmry

Wednesday, February 25, 1950

Needed; Full Staff Of Officers

Since when did it become headline-huntlijg for Not only would it be dkasterous for the nation, it well elected representatives of the people to demand that could prove disasterous for the President himself, the Ship of sute be iUffed by a full complement of jf the American Ship of Sute fa not to founder officers? ^ in the rough seas of international problems, it must

A White House staff member has charged that have an active, capable Secretary of State as its execu-Democrats are doing nothing more than headne-hunt- tive officer as well as a President to perform the duties ing calling for the resignation of Secretary of State of Captain, Without both, the Ship of StaU it in im-John Foster Dulles now undergoing treatment for can- minent peril.

If calling these facts to the attention of the admin-From the viewpoint of a member of the Republi- istration and the people is ^ headline-hunting, then can White House ttaff, such demands from Democrat the veteran newsmen in the White House have sudden-may be considered merely a way of seeking headlines, ly placed a new interpreUtion on the meaning of this But from the standpoint of the people of this nation, aged Journalistic term, it would hardly seem the case.

International affairs is one of the most important T Tnj-l j-m-nr rm A

phases of government operations in the United States XjLOGI^GS v^ClIl ^^OUUt in this day and time. The Secretary of State, who is

responsible for the foreign policy and International SU^^fiStOTlS

When You Sit Down With Them

relations of the country, is probably second in iinport--ance only to the President so far as administrative officials are concerned.

It should not seem strange, therefore, for the people of this nation to want in that position a man who is physically able to discharge the exacting duties which the post demands. Neither is it hesdline-hunting for responsible officialsor private citizensto voice such demand.^ in the current crisis.

What they arc hunting is not headlines, but some indication that the President realizes the crisis this nation faces with its Secretary of State unable to carry out his important duties. And certainly such demands do not reflect on the ability of Secretary Dulles.

The plain truth isas the artmlnlstration has said forthrightlythat Secretary Dulles cannot now perform the duties of his post and there is no way of elude not only spending state money,but also ways of knowing when or if he will ever be able to resume getting sufficient state revenue to meet the expendi-the heavy load he has carried. ture.

By no mean, ehould the Prendent be expected to Already there have been a number of Informal iMume the burden* of Secretary of State In addition ,ugp-e,tlon, concerning the balancing of the budget

Gov. Hodges indicated in a new.s conference earlier this week he would/ welcome budget suggestion. if they were better than those profioacd by him and the Advisory Budget Commission.

We dont know that the governor will welcome some of the budget suggestions which will be forthcoming from the legislature, and we seriously doubt that he will think many of them are better than the ones proposed by himself and the Advisory Budget Commission.

Be that as it may, we are confident there ^ill be plenty of suggestions concerning the proposed state budget before the General Assembly writes its budget bills for the next biennium. The suggestions will in

to the heavy responsibilities of the Presidency.

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By LYNN NLSBKT

CONFIRMATION - Reports htv# born ourrrnt for weski that alUtotish hr signed the budget report and endorsed It almoAt in entirety In his budget message. Oovernor Hodges was not entirely happy about Sfime o the recommendations. He is sud to have wanted to go further in

Sroviding State services than the udget bUl contemplated,

H# parUaliy confirmed that Impreaslon at hui weekly newa conference. He Inalsled that there is no "fat" in the recommended budget, and indicated he would resist efforts to reduce efforts to glelHe projectsIncliKllng the proposed leglslative building In response to diicct question about his atutude toward some of the higher pay and new tax bills Introduced, he said be had no bill other than the budget measure, but if the li'gialators see fit to provide more money it is their business. Hs will not clianiplon any specific minimum wage act, but feels that a 75 cent limit have a b*Hter chance."

Oovernois generally have been more liberal than the budget commtssion. It is recalled that both Oov#mor Scott and Um-stead recommended and baUIed for larfer approprlaUons than the master bUl proposed.

The Oovernor vtgorously de-feftded the budget plan to balance the accounts by use of non-recur-rtng revenue, with special reference to tl>e windfall in the withholding scheme, To support that posiUon lie dlstrlhuted a list allowing appropriations as compared with e'stlmated current revenue for tlie fwist six biennial periods. In every case the eetimales proved short and there was a cash balance In the general fund at end of the period,

OROWINO -- The 11-year com pariaon served to put in a amall package the etory of North Carolinas growth. Total general fund approprtations for governmental ojierations In 1947-4 amounted to S30e,l4S,ft6S, an exc4Wis over estimated revenue <f lao million, Tlie lO-V-r. appro-priailons amounted to |5l8.n32,fi*>3, more than $.*12 million over estimated revenue.

Appropriations wit of the general fund recommended for the next biennium, now under consideration by the General As-aembiy, amount to 561,17S9, That means it takes slmost three times as much money to operate State government iwrvlces now

as was required 12 years aio. And most analysts concede that the "burden" on taxpayers no greater now than it was In the late 4fls,

North Carolina is a growing State, both in resp'ct to needs and in capacity to provide for them. Through the years Hie men charged witli responslbllUy for balancing the budget have tended to iindcr-e-iUmate the rale of growth in both areas.

It is axiomatic llial men get elected to high office by promising a lot. Despite fictitious con-ftervatlve labela, every Oovernor from Gardner through Hodges has been more liberal and opUmtsUc than hi* advisers on tht budget commission. That condition has afforded to North Carolina the check and balance which many otlwr states ot>-taln Ihiougli close nmigin hi partisan affiliation. Liberal chief executives, conservative budget commUslons, and middle of tlie road legislatures during the past 39-odd years have prfidured Ptate government that is basically sound in both fiscal and service policies,

KICK BACK The General AMembly has tome 95,000 less new money to worry about than H expected. The State last week got a kickback of 95,120 iHi from the National Park Service, The final cwit of building and furnishing ttM minerals miweum at Gillespie Gap on the Riiie Ridge Parkway was that much less than tlie aiiocatlon made by the gtate fur the purpose.

The muKeum idea was conceived by ilie minerals division of Uie Department of Conservation and Development for the displaying samples of the hundreds of mineral to be found In North Csrollna. Tlie Park fku-vtce agreed to cooperate, The Federal government furnished the land snd the design for the building and largely maintains the mueeum. The State pul up 975,000. The attractive native alone building with Its mmlern dtsplav cabinets and information renter was dtHiicatiHl in June of 1955.

tt week Sum Weems, superintendent of Uie parkway, wrote that all the equipment has lieen Installed, all bills paid and returned to Uve general fund of North Carolina a check in the amount of 95,120 99 tiovernor Hodges acknowledged tlie check snd commented thst "it I very unusual to get anything back "

which Gov. Hodges uccomplighed by propoHinj? spend- ^

ing windfall withholding tax funds for operating ex- By ALVIN TAYLOR penses, IJkewise there havg been numerous statements concerning proposed appropriation from teachers, state employes, state agence, institutions and others who would alter the recommendationg of the governor and the budget commmslon.

The suggestions will become more numerous as Practically everybody is fa- are busy preparing 4,400 to 4.500

budget hearings get underway and the legislature gets grand old wsy of pw day. And they serve

.. ..r C.. Jit 4- 1 saybig an evening farewell in the food cafeteria style until ail

farther along the road of finaiizirg appropriations and America: "Won't you stay for

revenue measures. And unle-ss there i.s an abrupt de- supper?" parture from past legislative sessions, the final iiudget And. of course, practically wdll include many alD'ration of the recommendations hearing it, reali^

made by the governor and the Advisory Budget Commission.

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?roxmire Anc.

A Heavyweight

By JAMKS MARLOW WASHINGTON lAP) Sen.

William Proxmire, WLscorisln Democrat who reportedly does 50 pushups a day to keep hi condition and wfio once won a boxing championship at Yale, ha* taken on a political heavyweight: Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas, In the Henatc, some take the altitude that everybody loves L.viulori and Lyndon loves everybody. The tall Texan .ris the leader of the ihnate Democrats, and trie* to shepherd them around like a bl|, happy family.

So when ProxmUe. 4:1, laced into Johnson, 51. Monday It was like hearing a Ueuienant tell the general he was getting too btg for his biKcliea His complaint In effect was that Jolmson handlea the Senate Democrats unrtemocrattcallv. Proxmire said Johnson runs the partys program In the genate without couMiltlng the other Democrats "The typical Democratic aena-tor has lllerally nothing to do with determining the legisla-live program and policies of ihLs parly in the Senate." he said.

Proxmire, who won the Senate seat of Uie late Sen, Joaeph Mc-ParUiy In 19.57 and then won reeleclton to a full six year term last year, demanded that the <M Democratic senators he called together for a conference or caucus before major party decisions

He said he thought that if

Johiuion had regular meetings with his fellow Democrats U would Improve the leadership. None of this is likely to improve the popularity of Proxmire

for two reasons:

1. He has started a family

fight among Democrats much to the Republicans' delight,

2. Johnson, who sees to it that he does a lot of favors for his fellow Democrats, has a lot loviil supporters among them.

And Johnson, a very senitive and egotistical man, Is hardly likely to enjoy getting his hair mussed. He was ill In Texas Monday but he didn't lack for friends to ciiampion hun against the Proxmire assault.

For Uistance: Sen. Richard Neuberger, Oregon Deiwicrat, told Proxmire a man "should whistle the same tune all the lime " He said Proxmire not only had received favor from Johiwon in the past hut had "probatily buttered up the majority leader more than any other senator.

Proxmire. who considers himself a liberal, acknowledged having aid many nice thing* about John.sun. Neuberger also cotisld-er.s himself a lilHTal.

ApparenUy the whole Demo-cfaflc chain of command in the Senate has been irrilatlng Proxmire. He was an Army lieutenant In World War II and, in length of Senate service, is still a lieutenant compared, with the power that goe>; to oldtlmer.s.

Senate plums that Ls. committee chalrman.shlpa - are handed out not on the basis of ability but on length of service

Thev go to those senators who manage to get re elected often enough to ouUaat all ihoae ahead of them on a committee. They then get the chairmanship auiomaticaUy.

ing that the host or hostess is not prepared for a supper guest, replies, "No, thank you."

its custom add although, when you think about it. it might seem silly to ask smneone to stay for supper when you don't really mean it. that's Just the way things arc done.

Theres at least one man in Greenville who can ask visitors to stay for supper and be sincere. In fact he could ask them to s:ay for any meal and be sure there would be plenty on hand to feed them if they accepted.

That would be Paul Julian who is director of dietary service at East Carolina College. His crews

the students and faculty members who wish, have eaten at each of the three meals every day.

Three cafeteriaa are served from the giant kitchen In the center of the dining ball and another, recently completed, will be opened at the beginning of the spring quarter.

The great kitchen is a aelf-contalned thing, complete with Its own bakery and a couple of men who do nothing more than prepare salads for the hungry hord*.

Staple supplies are in huge quantities in the big basement of the building. Numbers of cooks are busy all day at the array of steam and electric cooking devices in the center of the kitchen.

8o there is no reason why.

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I Other Editors Saying... No Need To Accept Risk

if Paul Julian wanted to ask someone to stay for supper, he couklnt do so.

The point of all this Is, your columnist paid a visit to the college cafeteria the other day to do an article on the recent addition to the building.

Julian showed me over the enUre building pointing out the extensive chai^^ which have been made during the 12 years be has been on the Job.

When the tour ended and I was preparing to leave, It was 6 oclock which Is about serving time.

"Won't you stay and have soma supper, Julian asked politely. Behind him push carts loaded down with food for the evening meal were being moved into the cafeterias. The salad men were busy mixing their specialties. Golden fried chicken was sias-zling in the electric fryers. Mouth watering pies were being moved out of the bakery.

What did your slow thinking columoLst reply?

"No, thank you."

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Avden, with Us wide atreets, miles and miles of paving, a new sewage disposil plant, and mrwlrrn sewage svstem nearing completion. l.i beginning to lake on a forward look, and Is one of the most heauUlul mall town's In eastern North Carolina. 'I he New Year will bring about inanv changes, and lots of progres. The oreHntf.ation of The Ayilen Golf and Country Club Is Hii overdue coiurUislon iMth a golfer's dream coming true The, Kdward.s Pharmacy has already begun remodeling their big new modern drug atore, The work on this protect la progressing rapidly and when completed will he our of the fine.st in the Coimlv. The National Bank has had growing pains for sometime and le now planning to enlarge and modernife lu building and fa-cllltlea fo better aervi Us ever Increa.sinK number of customers for fheiiwcomplete banking neeri.s

L VV. Pur,ser. owner and operator of the Pur.ser store, opened here about two vears ago In the remodeled .Sauls bmhltng. \s now miHlerul/lng Iun faciluie.s ntul will have a moUnn drug sltue. with a complete pie*cripUun depart-tueiit. ami a regl.stered druggist to Itetler xerve tib* mnnv cu.sto-meislhelr metlicat. needs. - *

Thruugh the yeiu's. 1 Imve noted with murh Interest and ron-ci rn ffie many projects sponsored by the varlou Civic Cluhs and service organiLzaUons lu our town.

They should be commended for the fine work they had dona in the past, and should Strive to do even more In the future. The surface baui hardly been scratched of Uie things that should be. and can be done. We hvf moat every kind* of club already, so why not a voluntary plant a tree club, with every Interested person charter member wUh no payment of due.s? Plant a dogwood, a/nlea. maple or oak, from Ittfle acorns big tree* grow', it will be tntere.sUng to plant a tree, and watch it grow, just as you watch your chlldr^ii grow. To do thing*. It lake* determination. cooperation, and action With a united effort you will soon svo the natural beauty In this plant R re protect Planning together is progre.s.s. working together i.s uccess The Javceea should he highly commended for the fine work they have done In the pa.st. and are now doing In bring to Avden, April mil. it* firai Farmers Day Fe#Uvl, From all Indira-Uons It will be a big *uccc'ss, As an older rlflxen, I have an ever Increa.sing pi ;de in , the jtroaih and mirturr of our town and I onimonity With nntng bh'iHl addtng .treiiviii to our o-jpuUtfiDn eiilurlty. 1 appeal to niv Mluw-tounsnieu fur a ItW per cent cooperative effort In a contlniud forward look, as herein suggested, fur an ever l>ei*er A.vdm

R. O Jackson Aj den

(Hcnderaoa Dispaieh)

Of course the State budget will be a risk, a.s the four men who rule the General A*semblyg powerful money committee* unanimously agree. Budgets are always in a measure a guess. But there is a reasonably sure mean* of avoiding the serious challenge of spending schedules, namely, to appropriate no more than there IS every reasonable certainty that revenues will provide for. ir* a* simple as that.

It is omethlng ot a mystery that governments think they must have what they want instead of holding their spending In line with what they have. That's what individuals have to do. They support government, and have every right to expect public affatra shall not be conducted on any ba.sls different from their own private economy.

No budget ahould be approved without some semblance df a margin above authorized appropriations, which would act as a cushion for contingenciea not anticipated.

There is no justification for deficit financing, however, except passlbly for essential capital improvements, and even those could be curtailed from figures that have been lubmltted.

So much for the Legislature. Now as to Congre.ss and the Federal budget The chairman of the Hoiise Way* and Means Committee, which originates all tax nveasures on Capitol HIU. has turned thumb* down on Presb dent Eisenhowers request for

Uon fuel. He will please what may be a vast majority of citizens if he sticks to that resolve. Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, of the comnvtttee, says he sees no chance for a tax increase, nor for tax reductions either.

It Is just as important that the proposed gasoline increase of a cent and a half a gallon be denied. with whatever slackening may be necessary in the Interstate highway program, as It is for that program to be carried forward with such an ificrease. No emergency exists that would Justify the recommended higher levy on consumer*. The highway program ought to be kept on a pay-as-you-go basis, but that should he accomplished by spending within the revenue In prospect.

Even if Uie cent and a half In-crea.ie were granted now. what a.ssurance is there that the President win not be back a year hence asking for still more to keep abreast of what some of the bureaucrats want to do?

The State budget U predicted upon the theory that good times will continue In th# next biennium. But one thing certain is that if they do not the people will be leas able to pay higher taxes than they are now. And the burden is already heavy enough. There 1s no need to accept a rUk in^elter the state or the Federal budgeU, and that will not happen if a realistic view la taken by lawmakers of the ability and wUlingneas of the public to underwrite, by law and compulsion, whatever government

Newcomers to Greenville swear there are more civic club* per square inch here than in any other municipality.

But no one will deny that these clubs do more to build up community pride and enthusiasm than any other thing. So there are no real gripes when another one forms.

Two more are in the process of organizing and both have meetings tonight for diaeussion of plans.

Forming of a Toastmasters Club is underway and a meeting will be In Room 123 of Austin Building beginning at 7:30.

The club will offer background training In public speaking and aUow members to develop ability to think and talk on their feet.

Across town at the Silo Restaurant a number of persons interested in forming an OpUmist Club will meet at 7 o'clock to work on plans for organizing.

The Optimist dub has boys wixrk as Its projects.

Its motto is "Friend of the Boy".

Both of the clubs would be welcome additions to the community. They should have much to offer.

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Remember when the expression 'shoot the moon wa.s just an expression." Lexington Leader.

higher taxes on gaaolin* and avia- official* may wish to have

"Pro.iperity is that short period between the final In.stall-ment and the next purchase." EJawson County (Ga.) New%

Hecht

Hates

Ideas

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK fAPl "I hat* people who wake up in the morning and know what theyll think and say ail day." said Ben Hecht.

Hecht, who will be 65 this Saturday, has spent a prodigiously creative lifetime lighting firecrackers under the hypocrlsiea and foibles of his time.

Ben looks, like an aging Kew-pie doll, or a raffish Buddha. Hts blue eye* twinkle as he verbally skewers mankinds eternal follies. He stiil has the air of a small boy playing a secret prank on everybody.

"I never achieved a real goal in life." he uid cheerfully, "not even a haircut.

"My chief goal was to remain 18, never to grow up or grow old.

I missed that goal"

But this onetime Chicago newspaper reporter has managed to turn out 65 movie*, 25 books, 20 plays, 250 short stories and at least 300 magazine articles.

A oBfe-man fiction factory. Ben has two books on the presses now.

Ben. using a pencil and a lap board, writes every day and turns out about 5,000 words a week, as he ha# nearly every week for more than 40 years.

Here is Hecht in his own words:

"I hate idleness It gives me suicidal moods snd I hate ideas. Ideas turn mi into monsters and causes turn them into scoundrels. If you siphon ideas out of their heads, people are more human.

"Id like to see pt^Kics abolished. Politics is as bad for the spirit as war is for tbs body.

"I like spirited people who dislike bosses. I've always figured that whoever hired me was my immediate enemy. That made me a fortune in Hollywood. The harder you hated a boss out there the more he paid you.

"Everybodys a kibitzer. There Is too much conformity. People are afraid to be individuals.

"The future of the human race, if it has one, should be good. Some -emendou# leader will have to appear, hut 1 dont see him anywhere.

"He may have to be a religious leader. It takes religion to relate a human being to himself, to Ck>d, and to life.

"But the only religion Ill join is one which asks me to love myself and love my neighbor. That relifidon has gone sour, but it is the only one that can save the world,

"Who is God? God is a human being, as far as I can see. We have forgotten that man has divinity in Him."

Strength !-or Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

WHAT REALLY COUNTS?

At a committee meeting which 1 attended some time ago, a member suggested a new project for us. It was a good one. Most of those present expressed their approval.

Then we discussed putting this plan into operation. Like m(t new schemes. It needed a good deal of time and effort and a little money to get started. Who was going to supply the time, effor, and money? Who, Indeed? The member# who had supported the project so eagerly in theory were silent now about the practice. And that was the end of the new plan.

Generally speaking, people do what they believe in. Or to put it another way, those things which are really important to people arc the things to which they devote their time, strength, and means. They may say that otner things are important; but what they do is more revealing than what they aay.

The man who claims, "I dont really care about golf, but play* eagerly and often is not quite truthful. The woman who says, "I don't really care about clothes," but spends a great deal of money on them does, whether she knows It or not, care about clothes.

What about yourself? What is really important to you? Wher* do you Invest most of your time, energy, and money?'"For wher* your treasure is, there wiU your heart be also.*

; Apparently No Limit To Taxes

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By ELMER R0E.H.NKR

I.S there a limit to tax rates?

American famiUeS surrender one-ihird of their incomes in taxes. British families lose more: from one half to ^wo-thlrds. Is there a point at which free men quit. St which Ihey refuse to work more than enough to survive?

Probtbly not.

An interesting bit of evidence has been developed by Prof. George F Break, of the University of California A* recounted by Walter W. HeUer in a recsBt issue of Chtllenge," published by New Yoi k GniversUy, Profe.'v-soi Hieuk .selected the most ti.v sejiAiilve giuup in the chilliest tix climate he could find; solicitor* and acconutanta In Great ilrjtain, wha;e practice.* bring them trt cotulmiou.s contact with tax problems and wh<wie marginal tax rate are far above those In the rtnlied States " These Bn iish load-bearer* carry 'about tvncf B Ux rate* Americans

pay, often up to 60 per cent of Income,

NONBALKING TAX DONKEYS

Professor Break was concerned with "dlslncentlve." thase being the taxes that duvcourage extra effort because the government spoons up most of the gravy

The progressive Income tax system has been criticized because it progres.slvely reduce* the net award per unit for any given amount of work and the amount of tax the individual pay# has no direct effect on the amount of aerviee he geta fvom the. government.

It la ctiriou* to note the late Franklin D Rooaeyelt was hugely respoiistble for locking the "Ume-anU-a half for overtime" concept and the higher progressive* Income tsx rates into the American economy.

The first embodies the idea that the nnvre t per.<von produces, the higher hu rate of return should be. The second pro vides

that the more one produces, the less hus return can be.

BACK TO BREAK

Professor Break, on a ba.'^ls of .106 inierview s. found that 20 per cent reported "an Imnairment of Incentives" due to vtxauan In other word*, that many were working less, or turning down new buslneas. because the government would take so much of the added income.

However, be found that more than 30 per cent evidewed the opposite effect They kept working harder and harder to get a little bit ahead of the governments levy.

The net effect, he reported, as "not large enough to be of great economic or socialogical algnift-canee "

He concluded From the present evidence, we muvt conclude that confrary to the frequently repeated Injunctions of so many financial coirmentaior.'v, jtolld-tude for the state of work Incen-tlves does not under current c6n*

dmona juAfy aignificant reduo-tions in th# roks of progressiva Income taxation.-"Indeed, it would appear that. In the United States at lea.tt. income tax rates could be raised considaraWy. eapecially in the middle and upper-middle Income range*, without lowering unduly the aggregate aupply of labor."

There will be mora evidence and comment on this sltuatlon-hert tomorrow WOMAN WANTS BACULM CLEANER FOR RUGS Mrs L. J. Cummings, a rial-dent of Bogota. Colomblt. hu written to the Lewyt Corp tai New York asking it to make an hvsect attachment far bacuum cleaners.

n would consiat of a amall butterfly net. with a,light, to be attached to the end of the hoae This fould whL-ik pvsects to eternity without apotung the kralls. There are almost no -window acreena in Bogota. Uwyt decLa-ed her idea.