PACE FORTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

TKuday, March 12, 1959

Thursday, March 12, 1950

Present Licensing Laws Are OK

There seems little real reason for the pasaagr of do not<vengage in the more elaborate formn of fishing,

1-1 __ modernand often expensive

either of two bills in the legialalure which would require one group of fishermen to have licenses and exempt another group of sportsmen from requirement that they purchase hunting and fishing licenses.

In the broad scope. North Carolina has a fairly good system of requirements for licensing individuals w ho take fish and game in the state. Passage of either ^ or both of the proposed new bills would, it seem to as, be detrimental rather than helpful to the state.

On the one hand there Is a renewal of the pro-po.sal that the worm bill' be passed. It is legislation which would require residents fishing in their home county with hook and line and natural bait to pur-

loaded dow'n equipment

There i4 no good reason to tax these fishermen

for enjoying this simple recreation which causes no

harm to the state's store of fish.

Neither does there seem to be any logical reason to exempt people over 65 years old from purchasing fishing and hunting licenses if they are going to enjoy the bounty of fish and game the state offers. Most folks over 65 who hunt and fish can afford the few dollars for a license just as weli as their younger counterparts. Furthermore the cost of the license is an almost negligible part of the total cost of the chase fishing licenses, An unsuccessful effort was equipment and supplies used during a year to pursue

made to pass a similar proposal in the last session of the sports.

To Keep It From Boiling Over-

the General Assembly.

On the other hand there is a bill w'hich would Issue free hunting and fishing licenses to any resident of the state 65 years old or older.

While the worm bill would bring in a good bit of revenue for the state, it would at the same time deprive a great many individuals of the imple past*

If persons over 65 were exempt from purchasing hunting and fishing licenses, it would take a big bite out of revenues which operate the states wildlife program, it would mean that higher fees would have to be required from those who purchase licenses if the overall program were not to ?uffer.

North Carolinas present license requirements for

are those who either by choice or economic necessity

Ixtra Session Sentiment Rises

time of sitting by a pond or stream with a cane pole, hunting and fishing are both adequate and equitable,

a hook and a worm. Worm fishermen for the most part all things considered.

The legislature would do well to forget both the worm bill and the proposal that elderly sportsmen be exempt from pajnng a fee for the privilege of shooting game or catching fish.

Great Day For Hawaii And 49 Other States

There is cause for celebration in the other 49 states of the union just as there is in Hiwaii over congres.sional action which will add the 50th to the United States of America.

The long, and often disheartening struggle of Hawaii for statehood has ended. It will now join the other states of the nation on an cfqual basis after alrno.st 5^ years as an incorporated territory of the United States.

The fact that Hawaii will now become a state should be a source of great satisfaction to the people of the other states just as it is sure to be to the 600,000 people of the mid-Pacific island area. Hawaii has long since earned the right to the full

By LYNN NISBET

CONSTITUTION There U Srowmg SenUment thti a pedal extra BPseion ot the Oeneral Assembly should be called for bext fall to consider proposed revisions of the conatltuUon, Feel-Ins rather general that the change proposed by the constitutional commission are too brcmd and far reaching to be bruahed off lightly after casual atudy by a Legislature which has the more Immediate and pressing necessity of raising money for current government services.

Major changes recommended by the constitutional commlsslou are in the area of courts, where different and sometimea conflicting ~ recommendations come from the distinguished committee of the State Bar Association.

Most people agree that it will be very unfortunate for differences over provisions of the judicial system to destroy, or even relegate to comparative unimportance, other modernizing recommendations of the constitutional commission. There is reason for fear that such controversy over one or two sections might Jeopardla* adequate con-alderatlon of the others.

CONVENTION Belief that revision of the constitution should be sole topic for a meeting of representatives of the people was largely responsible for support in 1957 for a convention rather than a study commission to rewrite the document. A special legislative session able to devote two or three weeks undivided Interest to proposed changes would do a much more thorough job than committees meeiing for a few minutes once or twice a week with other matters to divert attention.

The Senate was given warning Tuesday that the bill implement the Constitutional Commission report will fca rough travel as written. Hen, Llnd-aay Warren of Beaufort, member of the commission and co-algner of the hill, rose to a point of personal privilege to atate he could not support the aectlon dealing with leglalatlv# reapportionment. He said H regarded the recommendation as a 'shameful surrender and abdication of a power vested in the General Assembly for more than 1(M) years." He called upon Sen, Claude Currie, introducer of the bill and also a member of the commission, to confer with hts coUeagupR to the end that this dangerous provision" might be itrlcken from the hill.

Warren noted that he had filed a strong dissenting opinion to this point when he signed the commission report. As a member of the constitutional commls-ilon of 193f^whlch had its work negated by a fluke so that it could never he submitted to popular vote, as long time member of Congress and for 14 years comptroller of the Federal General Accounting Office, Lindsay

Warren la recognized as a voice of authority on constltutloiial and llscal matters.

Other members of the Constitutional Commission have openly avowed objection to some points in the full report including Rep, John Kerr of Warren, a former Speaker and in many respects the House counterpart of Sen, Warren as an authoritative voice.

The attitudes of Sen, Warren and Rep. Kerr emphasized the importance of more careful ccui-slderatton of the report than can be given in the hurly-burly atmosphere of a fa.st-movlng regular session. An extra session in September or October still could submit the constitution to popular vote in ample time for it to beconm effective before the 1990 elections and the next administration

COURT REFORM - North Carolina is one of sixteen slates In which legislatures are consid-erhig reorganization of State courts this year. The Public Administration Bulletin published in Chicago quotes the American Judicature Society, as finding that most of the plans call for bringing all courts into a single system, with power in the Btate Supreme Court to make rules and assign Judges.

North Carolina and Iowa have bills based on a four-year study by the Bar Association. Connecticut and New York are reconsidering provisions defeated two years ago, Oregon and California have had Legl.slatlve Interim Committees working on courLs, and Illinois - wlitre a constitutional amendment narrowly fall-ed last fall 1 seeking to put into the atatutes the phases not requiring constitutional change.

Cidorado, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Washington are considering less complete reorganiza-tioti schemes,

BRIEFINGS - North Carolina also had a lot of company In the idea of pre-leglalattvp "briefing" aesaions, Except that In the other states they are called "orientation conferences," The Council of State Governments reports that Oklahoma and Georgia have held auch conferences for several years, Indiana since 19.H and Missouri since l3d. MarylHnd, Wyoming and Hawaii had their first experience with the plan tills year. At most of the orientation conferences not only sub-J*'ct matter of p^opo^fri legl.**-Ifttion, but mechanics of procedure and services available were explained.

The orientation conferencea must have been somewhat more elaborate than the briefings, be-cajise the Council notes that "some of the meetings were partly financed by Ford Foundation grants " In North rarollna the legislators paid their own way and State officials traveled on regular mileage and subsistence allowances.

state By DON SCHLIENZ

ust Sitting & Thinking

Just thinking . . .

What a loose construction we put to the word "security.

Here we have three cold war installations coming into Pitt and

trary to what other people might do, we conveniently pinpoint their precise location* for all the world

privilcgeg of Ktatohood. For too ong- it was denied ttdmi.*iion to the nation on an equal ha,si8 with other ..... *

stitte.H.

For all practical purposes, tho.se matters are now a thing of the pat. Hawaii will assume its position of Mtatehood, the privileges and obligations which go with the jto.Htion.

to know about.

One can almost Imagine a minor official In some unnamed embassy pulling out an atlas of North Carolina and marking three new (and neat) little clr-clei in red ink where the VOA installations will be. He makes some marginal notes in the at-

Other Editors Saying.,

Ortainly it is a great day for Hawaii, and in just O

^or the United States /i i UXpUy6r ri6VOlL f

an real a sense, it is a great day as the last barrier ia ovecome to add the 50th star to the nations flag.

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By JA.MES MARLOW

WASHINGTON AP - De-mocrata and Republicana are on H delicate sce-saw which may affect the 1960 elections as weli as the National economy.

The trouble t.s that both sides are involved Ij economic theories and neither eau predict with certainty the result of their actions.

President ELsenhower is dedicated to the idea of keeping down government spenditig in order to balance the budget, which ran only be done if the governments revenue from various taxes equal or exceeds its expenses.

There's one way, of course, to be sure revenue is bigger than outgo and that is to raise taxes. No one is talking about that with any enthusiasm.

The Democrats argue there Isiil anything nece,ssarlly sacred about balancing a budget at a lime when 4,790,U(Hi peqile are unemployed and, they say, the government must encourage sufficient growth.

A couiile of examples show the split between Democrats and Re-publlcnns on what is needed,

The Deiiua iaUi on the joint eongresaioiial Economic Committee ihi.H week Issued a leport 'with which the Republican member.^ dLsagri'ed

Hut .some of the Denioci*at* didnt see ev('-to-eye on everything and neither did the RepuU* r llcans

"Wlille a balance or even a .MirpliLs In the budget 1* desirable tn time.s of maximum employment." the Democratic majority report .said, "neither the sonnd-ne.ss of our money nor our potential for economic growth and stability In 19.MI and thereafter nece.sHrll,v depeiuLs on balancing a 77 blUnn\ dollar federal budget.

Kl.Mnhower proposed a 77liil-llnivdollar budget. Ho estimated

that If spending could be held to that limit, and if there were aome added revenue like Increased gasoline taxes and postage rates, the government would wind up about 70 million dollars ahead.

The Republicans on the committee denied the DemocnCs had any monopoly on wanting to see the country grow and accu.sed the Democrats of being "cloudy and unclear."

Eisenhower has repeatedly contended that inflation -- or less purchasing power for the dollar is one of the penalties of unbalanced budget spending.

So much for theory, Meanwhile, Democrats and Republicans are split on specifics.

In a surprise move last week Democratic leaders in Congress called for a one-year extension nf the emergency unnnployment com'pensation program voted by Congress la.st year. It is due to end April L.

Tue.sdy House Republican leaders lined up with the President against what they called any lengthy extension of unemployment pay. They st>ecliicaUy hit at extending U a year, but indicated a shorter extension might be con-aitlrred,

It isn't hard to see the political Implications if unemployment continues at its present high level or goes highri.

Then theres the question of national defense Eisenhower asked for what he e.on.siclered enojigh money for this. Democrats are challengtng his position on this and are talking of voting more money for defense.

Mixed up in all this are other problems - - like the amount to be .spent on foreign aid, and so on hut most still in the talking No matter which w'ay, Uie economy fected. Since both sides are dealing in theories, each can only hope it knows whats be.st.

(Wilson Times)

Is there a taxpayers revolt in the m.aking? The Christian Science Monitor la an editorial headed "Second Thoughts on Spending says it Is "too early to report i general taxpayers revolt, but some very Interesting sounds are beginning to be heard.

This is true cn the national, state and local level. In fact since the hospital bond issue wa.x voted down we have learned of bond issues being voted down In other counties. CervSinly the budget In Raleigh is not a spendmg budget, but on the conservative side.

The politic'ans are evidcn^ly putting tlietr car to ths ground. For in general pco, la are fed up with taxes. With the ever rising cost of llvlns:, vt government laklng the bite I does out of the income, there Ls not enough left to make both eiicL! meet.

Lydon Johnson, the Domocra-flc Senate loader, U doin" a*l in his power to convince the electorae that the Dcmocr.its nre not profligate spenders. Sena or Frnxmlre, who que.dlons the one man authority he rays Johnron in exercising, is asking for a balanced budget.

'ihe Republican House h adcr Charles Ha Heel: says he Is receiving great numbrr.*- of letters ujgtng economy. Mr. Racke.felltr who went Into cfJice on a dg outlay budget for New Y'ork state Lv now having his haad called on new taxes to provide the spending program* he advocated.

States are In difficulty finding the necessary funds on which to operate. Michigan cant pa:' Its bills, California has a deficit to make up, so <loes South Carolina and Florida. Pennsylvania has (o raise $200 million in new taxes.

Taxpayers are letting their of-f.cial.x hear from them, '^he Governor of Washington says he is being swamped with mall pro-osllng any tax lncrease,>5. His constltuenU even go as far as to say they do not want more

services from the state.

It Is a good sign, although for the present it is only a sign. Por there are too many who hold to the theory that anything you get from Uncle Sam is free. There are still too many pet projects.

But for the first time in years the public is beginning to realize the reason for the high taxes, government spending. We have seen the ilrst bond issue in W-sca defeated, something we never expected to see.

Are our citizens beginning to realize that inflation ts the greatest danger this nation faces? f.ie they beginning to see that if we cannot pay our way in sood times we have no chance ol surviving In an economic slinip?

The Questioiiing is healthy. And there h enough being done to be fe.'.conrasing. We may be seeing the beginning* of a taxpayers 10volt. A coastnictlve reapprais-fal of vin-t 1 necessary and vitai, is not would do more to biin,.: about .'tabiUty than any other force. Fur if growth has fn come witii Inflation the price K too higli. If tlere is a change in attitude it ts a healthy one.

las and returns it to the shelf.

At his typewriter he bangs out a memorandum and seals the original and three carbons in an envelope for mailing: the other three carbon* are filed in a nearby cabinet.

By telephone he arranges to have recent copies of newspapers published in the general locale of the liew radio stations forwarded him so that pertinent articles may be clipped and saved for future reference.

One could pursue this fantasy Into a host of surmislngs; but to no real purpose.

No, Ive never met a minor official in some unnamed embassy". He probably doesnt even exist. As a matter of fact. Ive never met a minor officla (anywhffre) Who identified himself as such.

or DIRT AND NONSENSE (The Beamnoat Enterprise) The American public has ac-c*rtcd labor unionism as something that is here to stay. However, occasionally something happen.*-, which spreads righteous in-dtgnaUon among the workingmans ft lends.

Take the case of the dirty widow*, w'hich held up departure of a Haven Railroad train for 25..^iinute.^, with nearly i.QOO comiuter.s aboard.

The enghu t r reported that the window of his locomotive needed cIranInK, but he refused to touch It bccau^e to have done so would ha\e violated union nile.v.

So the hundreds of passenger* who longrd for home and loved one^ nursed their mounting blood pressures until a man with the proper tkisslflcaUon could be found to improve tlie engineers vision.

Last night, while sitting through one of my Infrequent bridge lessons, I recalled bow slnlple the game used to seem. Our parents started we boys on Auction (back in the days when Sims and Whitehead were authorities to whom bridge players paid homage(. As a game, it wasnt so very complicated: or. maybe it was Just that we werent so very complicated.

Then Contract came on the scene, and the Culbertsons wrtth

What a Wealth of power for good is exercised In the many communities of America by civic and fraternal organizations! Greenville and the communities of Pitt are no exception: there are dozens of such groups, big and small.

There is undeniably some degree of self-interest involved in-some of them, but they all contribute to community needs. Sometimea money is Involved, but more often its a matter of doing* A little bit of work contributed by many hands really counts.

Something else you may have noticed:

So often, it seems, people who are active In one organization are active in other organizations. They seem to need outlets for an awful lot of energy.

Every year one . . . two or maybe three new organizations are born here. Look at the names of the charter members and moat of them will be recognized as active in other groups. The time and dedicated effort these clubs represent is incalculable: just as is their bettering of community life-

I can remember when being labeled a "joiner was not quite a compliment.

Today its different.

^iCissing

Horses

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By HAL BOTLE

NEW YORK (AP)-In tie old Westerns ttie he-man hero usually wound tq> being txjssed by his faithful pocqr.

Because of m growing feminine Interest in thMe heofbeat sagas, however, horse kitting has died out as a major American art.

To please the ladies in the audience, the story now ends with the hero in a tender clinch with the faithful dance hall hostess and the faithful horse can go eat grass, for all anybody cares.

Kissing preHy actresses seems an ideal Job to the average man. But there are-^^ys when Gene Barry would hat as soon turn this chore over to a stand-in.

For a temperamental actress, he implied, can be worse than a temperamental mustang,

Some of them try to give you that old feminine flimflam,*'

Gene said.

Then its pretty hard to make love to them. But a fellow can always manage. I always ask myself, If their own mother loved them, why cant I? *

Barry, like that real-life Western character, Billy the Kid, was born in New York City. In his first stage role he played Bluebeard in the sixth grade in PubUc School 121 In Brooklyn.

He began his professional career at 16. He sold Jewelry, shoes and ladies wear before making the big time on Broadway.

Since then he has been in a dozen fma, traveled the night club circuit, and appeared on more than 100 television shows before he hit the real pay dirt as Bat Masterson.

His derby hat, tight suit and gold-headed caneit often takes the place of a pistol are now symbols of elegance to the teenagers and middle-aged ladies who idolize him.

He hopes to gd on to directihg and producing. But if the present mania for Westerns should fade and leave him strandedunlikely, since he is a man of many talentshes ready to take up a new career.

Id go in for contracting and building, he said, "I recently built my own house, and I like the field.

Barry r^enUy said his goal was to have **a greater concrn for the more simple and basic things in life.

Then he added with a grin: But firtt you gotta get rich. Then you dont have to worry about dough and can afford to squander your money on the simple, basic things.

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It. All of a sudden bidding (which became a form of communications) and evaluation became a minor science. To be able to exchange necessary information while staying within permissable limits ( no kicking under the table) was all-important.

In time, a new system of evaluation and communication came to the fore. Its founder was a gent named Goren. This old dog In trying to learn new tricks found in the Goren System) though I fear my bridge-playing is going to be too infrequent to apply all this new knowledge.

Anyway, to get closer to the core of my ruminating, a recent magazine article outlined some facets of the world champion Italian teams bidding which goes one step further in communicating between partners. But Its rather complicated.

Given time, it could be that bidding will be simply reduced to each partner showing the other hi* hand and by mutual agreement come to a contract. It would avoid an awful lot of beating around the bush and possible misinterpretation.

By throwing in a few simple knocks on the table and unmistakable throat<;learlngs to convey information during play of the cards, we have a brand new system.

We might as well call It the Schlienz System. Nobody else would claim it.

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Many queslloiux rlhe in peoples nund.s coiicfrning the sit;mflcanrr of life. There i.x probably no qur.'-tion whtcli more often a.ssails us than Uus: "What is life anyway V"

In other words, wliat is that somettung wlthm lUX w tiich causen US to function h.s Ihinu beinr.s, Mud then a quick HCi ul iu. a pio-luuKcd lllne.s.'. aiid this "sonje-Ihing" departs. What i,h it^ No one, of cotn>f>, ran n.swei that question. If w( could wns.u'r that we wotild know as niiicti as God Himself. But this we do know. UHinely, fjnu (iiul Has put life into our bt>diea m order that we may evperieine a seixon of lesiiiiif. Any otlier latrrpietMtiun ot life u tupcilicittl and without

purpo-e Many people live as if liie Were simply an opfwrtunlty i<r them to have a good time. TVir oHurs life is a matter of making money or acquiring pvmrr or living within the nar-! *\v conflne.s of their own In-lere.sts. They have somt o\er-wheln'dnp deslre.s which they biow up tn stu'h prorwrtlons iliat (lese desires become for them life itself.

Fumicr the Idea that life is GihI .s provuMon fur the te.sting of onr souls Life 1# a piigiim-age, We .stumble and falter snd pet haps fall if we try to make it anvthina else H requires cour-liKp fui us to live life succe.vs-fully and to its limits Don'l let life get you down God designs precisely the oppiysite life u* intended to get ua up, and up. and up.

By ELMER ROEH.SNER

Albeit reluctantly, more states and cities are turning toward sales taxes to meet rising government costs.

Reluctantly, because tales Uxes slow ly poison their sources. New A'ork is recogniaing this now. A re in the ciiy sales Ux of from 3 to 4 per cent was proposed to meet the swelling city budget

Opponent* pointed out that the 3 per cent tax has driven huge , totals of business outside the city. Enormous shopping centers have been put together ju.si outstde city Umis. wliere there are no .sales taxe.* Ma.*.t of these have lxeu built on low price, low tax la nd

The city ha.i lost the tax on goodv sold m the.'^e and other rsahli.vhments across city hne.s. it has lost the right to tax the bu.xtnr.Hses tn other ways; it Ix burdened with higher road and traffic casts because so many thousands of familtes drive out of Uie city for ihoppiug.

< rSTO.MS BARRIERS 1MFRAC-. TICAL

The city also imposes a use tax, which applies sales lax rates to goods purchased outside the city by resident*, but to enforce full collection of this tax the city would have to set up hundreds ef miles of customs barriers and the cost* would far exceed all salea tax revenue.

The opponent* further pointed out that raising the rate to 4 per cent would fbt only send more residents out of the city for shopping, but would also sharply but the purchases of the millions of visitor*-,10,00ft a day who vbtil New York for xight-seeing and shopping

In fact. I 4 per cent rate might actually produce less revenue than the present rate.

Meanwhile, Commerce Clearing Hou.se reports that Arizona. Illinois. South Dakota, Utah and Washington are considering rises in sales tax rates, and that Mas.*iachusetts and Nebraska are weiahiftg the adoption of sales taxes. Oregou i* coiutderinga

1 per cent levy on net receipts, Uie equivalent of a sales tax. OTHER SALES LEVIES

All states now levy gasoline faxes and almost all Impoie cigarette taxes, both of which are sales imposts. Eleven states are considering increases in gas taxes and Uie same numbcT are devtimg Increases in cigarette taxes.

One point often overlooked is that sales taxes tend to be inflationary. Since they automatically increase amounts paid for consumer goods, they automaUcally increase the cost of living. And ill many union contracts. Increases in casts of living automati-cally Increase wages. And since higher wages tend to increase prices of aoods. sales taxes give pitce# a complete spin on the spiral of inflation.

Wlien a sales tax does not bring a turn of Inflation, its effects may be bad in another way. Swe consumers* spending ts sharply limited, a sales tnx tends to depre.ss sale* by almost exactly' the amount of the tax. A house

wife with $102 to spend in a 2 per cent sales Ux area can buy onlv $100 of goods. The rest is claimed by taxes. This would cause retailers and the manufacturers to suffer a loss of almost 2 per cent in sales.

The American economy, the richest the world has ever known, is based on the volume manufacture and the rapid eales of consumer goods. It is strange indeed that one of our sharpest taxes should be imposed at the point of salt. Thats like letting It rain into our priming pan. CANNON? CITIES NOW WANT VI.NTAGE l.OCOMOTIVF.S

nny year* ago town* of America sought Civil or Spanlvli War cannon* for decorating public parks.

Now they want old jdeam loco-motivea. Almost all railroads are beaet with requesL-i for ca.stoff* for use a* markers in citv park.* or villas* square* Last year alone the Union Pacific' gave eight (rid locomotives to as many communiuea and in doing u coat $30.000 worqi of scrap. /