PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

TueMl#y, Marcli 3, 105

Task Is Easier With No Backseat Drivers

Tuesday, March 3, 1959

All Should Share In Meeting Costs

Though the General Assembly Is just getting into priatione for teachers and state employes salaries, in-its financial problems, it is far enough along to indi- stitutions, state agencies, commissions and others, cate to all North Carolinians that if we are to have the Certainly no group which is now carrying its fair

services that are being requested, were going to have ghare of the tax load should be singled out for an addi-

to have new taxes also. tional tax burden if other taxpayers of the state are

Gov. Hodges and the Advisory Budget Commission to escape higher taxes. Appropriations should be made presented the Assembly with a budget that was mathe- on the basis of merit, keeping In mind the best interests matically balanced, but obviously economically un- of all the people of North Carolina, sound. From the standpoint of expenditures and from jf ential services required for the state during

the standpoint of revenues, the proposal will be appre- the coming biennium also require new taxes, every cf-ciably altered by the General Aasembly. fort should be made to spread the new tax burden

It would be foolish indeed for North Carolina to as equitably as possible over all the people of the

use a $27 million withholding tax windfall with which state, to balance its operational budget.

B it when it comes to the point of fixing a budget for the state, it seems that everyone wants his pet project, agency, institution or what-have-you to get all the money it wants. At the same time, if there is any new taxing to be done, he wants that to rest upon the shoulders of the other fellow. ^ mu # xi. i, .

From the standpoint of the state as a whole, this leadership

help-me-and.let-the-other-fellow-foot-the-bill philo.o-

phy i, neither ,ound nor applicable. It the eervlcea l^.fr. l!dd .?1h reapone.bility or for-

required for the atate ae a whole are going to take *" S/aw * l.l ,h- T *

more money than the state hsa been collecting in taxee,

then the citizens of the state as a whole must foot iwajority Leader ^n Lyndon Johnson has asserted the bill for these new taxes. nadon will stand behind the President in the Ber-

Many new tax proposal, already have been ad- q" '*>airman of the

vanced. In addition to the withholding tax. there are <^'f""Wee, ha* utioned

members of his committee not to force the President

into a negotiating straitjacket in connection with the Berlin crisis.

While Democratic leadership has been highly critical at times of the foreign policy decisions of the Kiserihovyer administration, this bipartsian support for the Pr*sident in the Berlin crisis will certainly make this difficult administration task easier. By presenting a united front behind the President, the hand of the United States will be strengthened in any negotia-tion.s with the Soviet Union and also in preliminary arrangements with other Western nations before an Kast-West meeting,

7he Democratic leadership is entirely right in insisting that ledership in meeting this crisis be left to the administration. For both Congress and the administration to try to assume the leadership in the foreign policy which will be followed with respect to the Berlin crisis could only lead to crossed wires and dia-!foi

Dont Confuse Her With Goldilocks

EW iSASA6M>0RTO BRAZIL?

WHO BEAT OUTIM

proposals to increase sales taxes, eliminate sales tax exemptions and various other alteratlions to the laws governing this big revenue producer. There are the proposals for tobacco tax, and taxes on soft drinks to mention a few. Each of these proposals has support; and each has determined opposition.

The same is true of proposals for increased appro-

See Impatience At Grass Roots

roded

By ALVIN TAYLOR

ay I.YNN NISBET

DECISIONLeglnlatora returning from a weekend with their conatltutentu back home report evidence of impatience at lack of Indicated direction on part of the General Aaaembly. Thera la rather general agreement that thla week will aee orne Important decisions made and perhapa a broad declaration of policy.

The big question demanding answer is whether the lieglsla-ture win go along In the main with recommendations of the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission, or open up the Eppropriatlon* and revenue bills for material changes. There was some offside talk among the Senators last week about a atraw vote or showing of hands. Sentiment lor such a test is stronger now.

Result of the vote would afford good basis for predicting duration of the sesglon. If majority of the members agree to accept the executive budget Items without material change the fellows can count on going home around June 1. If there Is majority strength for larger appropriations requiring additional faxes the going-home date might be anywhere between mid-June and early August.

Some Indication of what the test vote might show may be seen In the fact that auggestlons for It have come almost entirely from antl-admlnlstratlonlsU tin the sense that they do not accept as biblical authority the

number object to using the doubled-up payment period (not In any sense double tax i to balance the pending biennial budget.

At least two members of the Advisory Budget Commission have said they do not like that Ideabut like it better than a tax on cigarettes or family foods.

FRILLB Governor Hodges told his latest news conference be did not think there Is any fftt** In the official budget proposals. There are a number of leglslatora who wonder If there may be come 'fiills If not fat Implied In allocations. Questions are tndng asked, for Instance, about amount of public school money being spent fur Incidental Items such as athletics and bands, apecltl bus trips, etc. No doubt has been voiced aliout the Instrlnslc value of these adjuncts. The question Is whether too much money is being "diverted to ihejie purposes from cla,woom instruction. One oldtlmcr said he Is sure the

So We Had Some Snow

Nobody can figure County weather I

out Pitt

aatefouH reglta.

.f. the wi..n If, ,uppod to be cl,r

Deritratc leadership in the Senate, the administra- it rains, when it's supposed to

tion should take a decisive and positive approach to rain, what happens? it snows, the Berlin crii* There i* much to be done at home xh.t ... the ylerd.y and abroad if the crisis is to be effectively met. And when the early morning rain there is little time left. The President and the admin- turned to now around midmorn-istraiion cannot afford to drajf heels any longer.

"It wont atick." muttered those who have absolute faith in the weatherman.

ta Takes A Gevious Pathway

But the fine flakes became lar-gcir and larger. Finally huge flakes werift floating to earth arger thkn most observers ever remember aeelrfg.

By JAMER M.RRLOW

WASHINoroN (AP/ There is a simpler view tha.u some of the gueases on why Premier Nikita Khrushchev gave British

Since this altuatlOG could kad to war. the Western 31g Three proposed to seek a peaceful solution by talking. 3ut their idea of who taiks and Khrush-

people of North Carolina are able Prime Minister Mactnillan a rude, chevs idea le .,ot the same.

and willing to pay fur Rilequafe schools. Hr has some doubt that adequate" Implies to sums of the ancillary activities.

FUSE - The fuse that may set off a minor explosion to start the break may be a Senate bill chiefly sponsored by Ren. John Jordon of Wake and expected In a few days. Advance publicity has referred to this measure as a ".lUbstltuU* budget bill." Jordan does not accept that designation,

words and figures In the budget although his proposal does pro-

book) while objections to the vide a number of Increased sp-

hind-showlng have come chief-ly from hold-the-llne advocates, who fear that even a small

break In the dyke might bring a dlaastrous flood.

STEAM SHOVEL Even thoss who seek just small Increases In certain appropriations concede that any changa might well become a ateam ahovel rather than a hand tj*owel operation. Thera ia less prospect than In aaveral aesslons psat for mliMM- compromise. If the budget dyke is busted tlie crack Is more likely to be $40 million wide than 140 thousand.

If the first main decision re-ults In opening up the hills, Important secondary decisions must be msrie as to where to get the money. Question as to source of additional money also Involves the Item of the $27.5 million "windfall In the proposed withholding plan. Many legislators do not like the principle of withholding, and s laiger

proprlatlons and aeta out In the text the anticipated sources of revenue. ^

Previously Introduced bills catling for more pay for teachers or new tax levies have been less comprehensive and afford less real test of totiil sentiment.

The Wednesday trip to Charlotte. while counting as a legls-Istlve dsy with formal sessions recorded la tlie journals of Hou.se and Seale still mesns a clay lost for cuminlltee work. That means only two meetings this week of the Joint money committees where the real tests of strength will develop, incidental question may arUe about House atul Hentle members vot-lag separately, although that Is not regarded as Important It is significant that while opinion prevails that the .Hensle I much more favornhle to the Governor's program than the Uou.se, the first real threat to that program originates In the Henate.

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fat brushoff when he went to Moscow to discuss the Berlin crtsui.

The guesses range from thinking Khrushchev was making one more effort to Intimidate the West by saying he was Impatient with Macmillan for not bringing solid solutions with him to Moscow,

The simpler view Is that the reallatic Khrushchev thinks strictly In terms of power and who has the mtiscle. He has shown he understands what power means by getting rid of all his rivals In the U.S.8 R. until now he stands supreme.

In thhs world the two moat powerful forces are the Soviet Union and the United atat(s. They dominate, Compared with them every other nation Is a seeond-ratp force, according to this view.

The two leaders of the two doinlnant powers are Khrushchev find President Kisenhower. Tlierefore, any talks except directly between Khrushchev and Kl.senhower are a gumbeating wa.ste of time.

If this view Is accepfed. then that would explain why Khrushchev treated MarmUaii hke a messenger boy, tllsndssed the Idea of a foreign ministers meet Ing as time w asting, and aimed at what he has .sought more limn a year; a summit meeting with Klsenhowei',

Hi* meeting with Macmillan was in a way a kind of Junior summit. He showed what he thought of Macmillans Importance by the wav he treated the British prime minister, who w,*. his guest.

Khrushchev has given the United atate.s, Britain and France un-(11 May 37 to get their troops out of Berlin, If they don't, ne has threatened to let the Fast Gorman Comnund.sl.s block anv supphe.s (he Big Three attempt to end their Berlin irootm.

The Big Thi*ee following wba has become a kind of reflex action any timt trouble arises sugger.ied .rat Heir three foreign ministers get together with the Soviet foreign minister to talk things over. Such foreign ministers meetings In the past, as Khrushchev later emphasized, can be time-consuming. They can be and often have been, unproductive.

Before the Soviets could give an official answer to the proposal about foreign ministers, Macmillan decided to go to Moscow, see Khrushchev, and try to lay the groundwork for peaceful solutions.

But. since the Big Three were not yet wtlllng to go beyond the idea of a ministers' meeting, Macmillan couldn't carry with him to Moscow any proposals that went further than that.

Khrushchev during a recess In his converaaUons with Macmillan made a farce of the talks by delivering,. In a manner that seemed completely contemptuous of the prime minister, a speech on the very subject they Were dlscussini: Berlin,

He warned that Western efforts to push military supplies through to West Berlin after May 27 could mean war; he mocked the idea of a foreign ministers meeting; and said only the heads of government have sufficient power to negotiate on the German problem.

Then Sunday. Just before Macmillan set out for home, British souce.s said he was coming back determined to urge the United States and France Into s summit meeting with Khrushchev. Macmillan long has favored such a meeting, but the official Allied stand has been for adequate advance preparation So Khrushchev moved one step cUvier to wlmt he lias wanted all alona a meeting with Elsenhower.

And soon the ground began turning white as the late winter snov/ s ack! Soon the entire city was covered with a blanket of white and even the streets were becoming slushy.

So the snow that wasnt supposed to come was here.

Late in the morning the As-foclated Press reported that a

surprise snow had slipped in on the eastern section of the state but snowfall had ceased most places at midmorning. A look out the window confirmed that Greenville wasnt one of them. The snow was still falling here even at one oclock.

However, Pitt County must give in to the weatherman in time, so the snow began tapering off after lunch. It gradually turned to rain, then the precipitation dUappeai'ed altogether.

By late afternoon the sun was making an attempt to peek out from behind Us blanket of clouds on the western horizon. The snow which had blanketed Pitt County during the morning was fast disappearing before above freezing temperatures. It looked as if the weather would do little to affect the local way of life at least for yesterday.

a comparatively mild morning when Pitt Countians awoke on the rainy day. The thermometer stood at 40 degrees.

The temperature gradually dropped however, and by noon it stood only one degree above freezing UfS. That was unusual in that normally a warming trend can be noted during the day in contrast to colder nights.

There was another thing which made the day unusual. Several people noticed thunder and lightu-ing. Lightning is always associated with summer rain storms but it Is never thought of as accompanying a snow storm. Apparently the quick change in temperatures brought on the lightning conditions-

There wpre reports of lightning during the early part of the morning and also around noon.

There were a couple of peculiarities connected with yesterdays snow storm. First it was

Other Eiditors Saying... License Suspension Plan

(Rocky Mouat Telegram)

Another step is about to be taken In the Interest of highway safety. Four states have agreed on a new uniform road safety measure designed to crack down on convicted speeders. Before long a drive# may get arrested in Connecticut, or New Jersey or Delaware and lose his license in Pennsylvania, or vice the several versas. Motor vehicle directors of these four states agreed on a compact aimed at speeders. New York is expected to Join when the directors meet again next month.

Connecticut Is putting the system Into effect immediately. Delaware Is changing its laws to conform to those of New Jersey. Gov. David Lawrence of Pennsylvania will ask the legislature for changes, although the vehicle code already allows licenses to be lifted for offenses in other states, Action by these states could lead to great national enforcement conformity.

Reciprocal suspension of licenses has been a matter of dls-cusslon~-and practiceamong states for some 30 years. Pennsylvania had an effective system under the Earle admlnLstraUon back In the early 30a. Political expediency, however, dictated the dilution of the system In subsequent regimes.

That states governors should

go over to lenient road-law enforcement for political reasons could be ironic, Connecticut's Gov. Abraham Rlblcoff attributes a good part of his popularity to the strict enforcement system he instituted In 1956. In 1958 Ribicoff was re-elected by a record plurality.

New Jerseys new crackdown, modeled on that of Connecticut, was Instituted Jan. 1. The Connecticut program helped to cut traffic deaths from 324 In 1955 to 251 In 1956. New Jersey appears to be getting similar results. Deaths In January in that state were only 47, the lowest January toll In eight years.

The cheering fact is that as a nation we are getting more careful on the roads, even if not rapidly enough. Traffic deaths in 1958 were 5 per cent under the toll in 1957. The 1958 mileage death ratedeaths per 100 million vehicle mUes--dlppd to a new low of 5.6 That's as against the rate o 6.0 the previous rear. About half the states are in full or partial conformity v'Uh the Uniform Vehicle Code, a model traffic law. In requiring revocation after final conv iction for any of six major driving offenses. The crackdowi states in e.qect follow a :ie.v slogan; "Pnve carefully the license you a. may be your own."

Opinions In Brief

"Without doubt, the NAACP w'as begun in a sincere attempt to Improve the status of the Negro race and to promote harmony between the races. But ,M)mewherc along the path it appears to have lost direction, to have acquired some Influences which are directing It, not for the good of any race, but to the detriment of the country." Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel.

By Our Wealth

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) Curbstone comments of a Pavement

Plato:

Man has one talent that separates him from the other animals the art o making himseli miserable.

He is the only animal that will turn his back on joy and make himself deliberately unhappy.

He is the only animal that invents his own troubles, manufactures unnecessary woes, and makes an industry out of feeling sorry for himself.

He is the only animal for whom too much is never enough.

Man survives the earthquake and the tornado, then lets himself be gnawed to death by mental gnats.

Times erodes man less than he frets himself away.

One of the things he yearns for mot prosperity is the thing he seems least able to fitald. It rots his endurance and mildews his bravery. There Is considerable truth to the saying, "There is nothing yellower than a million dollars.

Certainly prosperity, more than conscience, makes cowards of us all today. No nation in history has known a greater, deeper, mor widespread prosperity than the i^merican nation has now.

But prosperity has made us petulant rather than content, uneasy rather than confident. Instead of confirming us in our strength, it has tended to make us more fearful of anothers power, we doubt ourselves in ways we shouldnt. We seem, sometimes, less sure of ourselves than when times were harder.

The curse of prosperity isnt that we cant take it with us when we go. It is that prosperity doesnt seem to make up happy here, while we have it.

As a people we feel a bit betrayed and cheated because of an amazing discovery: "Money isnt everything, We always said aloud we knew this, but in our hearts we secretly felt that if we just had enough money we would have just about eversrthing w needed.

We can pull a handle and see an icebox full of more food than we can eat. We can push a button and change the indoor climate from cold to warm. We can turn a knob and hear the finest (and worst!) music, and watch the worlds high^t paid entertainers.

But it is not enough. Something is missing.

What do we miss? What is the meaning we have lost? How can we regain it? We set out to build a paradise and instead fashioned a prison, bar by bar.

How can we get out?

Perhaps it would help If we all went out, one by one, into a hillside orchard, sat for a whole day under an apple tree in bloom, and thought the problem of life all through again.

SAFE DRIVING TIP

If President Eisenhower wants to half inflation, he will have to call for strong government action. He will have to take Issue iiirectly with American business and unton lead^s even to the point of threatening wage and price controls . . . To get the American people to discipline themselves In a fight on Inflation calls for extraordinary leadership." Quincy (Mass.) Patriot Ledger.

*Ti It verent for men who itay J.; . t(twn late after work to avoid ihe waftic, the streets would b, more crowded and the di..:ac< courts emptier.Jack-^ouvtlle Tlmes-Unlon.

think the danger of inflation is greatly crtaggerated . . , rara-. *' t'-.oUeri tp because It 1 ;he only i-.-U' Ih- Republicans Lave ,^en. Paul Dougla.s D-IU.)

Ruth hour driving roquirtt txfro potifnct ot wtii os skill.

Ruth hour crowds, boord-Ing and unlooding, forct but drivsrs to use Itapfrog toc-tlcs in many c it 1st. Rssu It ing turnouts, soys tho Chicogo Motor Club, caust ioms omong posts igsr cor traffic moving in tho eontor lonos.

Tho motorist focod with 0 quick doc is ton olthor may yliW grocofully to tho but or crowd into tho noxt iono ond ottompt to maintain WS poco. This crowding could causo on cceidont. Good drivort ovoid taking odvon-togo 0# othor motorists.

Strength For Today

Out-Of-State Business Taxes

By KARL L, IHIUGLABB A TIIOl SAND A DAY

Rerenlly a boy won prize ni SliMK) for winning a nation, wide foulf.sl to name a no'ket, He decided to spend U all In one dsy and li 1* interestins to note Ih# way he went aboiii it Flr.sl. hoedlng the warning of the banker who cashed hus check, ho pul $62 .50 away for Income tax "Whal'a Income tax'" he had a.sked the inuiker, and he waa protnplb Informed

rheii he bougirt a ga.^ollne powered model airplane and add* ed seve'ral lealnre.H to iris elec-lilc tiHlir set up, Next he acquired a toy radio, a wind up toy rarer, a aporta car luMru* inent prnel. a spate helmet, and some model plane and car klls

Thoo, going to hi* church, ht

gave the pastor tSOOO, Next he bought two television sets, one , for hi* parents and another for hu giandmofher. He slopped In it a bicycle chop and bought a shining new .steed. Then a big doll for a girl in the hospital. Then more model atrplane kHs. a record player and a toy cannon At home he wrote out two checks, one to hw thirteen year-old sister for $15 00. and one to hts younger brother for $^ 00. Then tie rintshed up the $1000 with a ctteck fur a $100 avlngs bund and money pre.smui to hla mother for presents (vr the reat of the family and a pi-eaent to hts class at actuHtl.

A young phllanlropiit! How do you think he measured up? rer^ionally. I think he did pretty- well But he V*s a typical American ynung.ater he spcut II all and .spent U fast.

By ELMF.R R0K88NER

The United States Supreme Courts decision In the Northwestern and Stockham Valves cases last week ralse.s a serie.s of questions - - and poaaibUities, The decisions hold that a state may tax an out-oi%state corporation on a portion of its net income calculated to have come from activities within that atjrte. even though thoae aetlvltiea "are exclusively in furtherance of Interstate commerce"

Any court decision U aubjecl to two questions U it legally. correct? Is H latr? '

111 these cases, there la a trung presumption of cut rect in-terpretatluo of Uie law and the

rltys opinion.

F.AIRNESvS DISCUSSED However, the fairness of the findings are open to wider doubts.

In one way, Ihe decision Is fair In that It will apply brakes u> considerable state tax evasion by many corporations.

Almost every lawyer knows of Instances In which corporations. plantUng to do much of their buslneas in one state, will Incorporate in another to avoid the first states taxe.s, or to baak under a benign state supervision.

The Delawaie situatlaii is well know, lairge numbers ol big com-pauiea are iiwurpotated In' that stale, yet do no more than malntein a file In a lawyer's of-

ConsUtutlon Stune will argue that flee and hold annual meeUngs It chips away at the ConsUtuilon- there

al protection of Interstate commerce; in fact. Justices Charles Evans Whittaker. Potter Stewart and Fehx Frankfurter slrong-b dissented Irom the majo-

Other states frequently call at tention to* thctr ' aenrlr corptr-aUon laws and taxes to Induce companie.^ to Incorporate under their lawa.

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The decision Is also fair in that It makes tt possible for sUtea to charge out-of-state cor-poiikms for the a^rvltes it geUs. A Delaware compny operating in Minnesota expects poUce protection for Its property there, the use of local courts to gain Jua-llcc. state action to prevent un-fxir competition and many other services.

It Is only Just that it pay its share for these services

On the other hand, there is grave dsnger that tax-hungry state..^, which nu aua all. will attempt tv wouge out-of-.tate companies. A tpudenev in that direction was previously reported here.

Because an out-oLstate corporation influences few-if any vot-er>. U becomes fair game.

The law approved by the Supreme Court providos a tax on

net income calculated to have come from acUvities within i le state Imposing the tax. But politics being what it is. the graft not unknown at sUte levels, it is p(slble that local companies wil. tare better than fair.

NKW YORK AN EX.A.MPLE New York State, for example, gives New York State residents more deductiona irom its state income vax than it grants to New Jcij^y and Connecticut reaidenU working within its borders. In this pattern, it may find wayi to tax companies based in other suue.s and doing business in New York at tougher rate* than H lev let on local corporations

by

which atatea. using the power to lax, could make verv difficult for out-of.*tate companies to compete with local rmpanle* There is a twickeiful ot 0 r.rr conseqi^nces of the new mhm ome win bg diaoissed bert Ue morrow.