FACE FOUR

0 tTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N, C

Wednwday, 3Iay 6, 1959

Biggest Issue Is Measures Value

y ' North Carolinian for the moat part did not aend \a carrying out a good highway program for North 1cgilators to Raleigh to vote for or against a measure Carolina it concerned,

taiifid pro-adminiatralion or anti^dminUtration. arrue whether the proposal ia pro or anti.

Tar Heel voters sent their legislators to Raleigh administration is not the paramount issue involved and. to enact laws and chart the direction of state govern members of the House should not allow that considera-ment in the best interest of North Carolina as a whole, tion to become a paramount iasue in debating the bill.

When the House takes up the proposed highway So far as the legislators are concerned, their vote reorganization bill this week, the proposal should be on the bill should be determined solely on the basis considered on its merit* and on it* meritt alone. It of whether the reorganization i* in the beet interest should not be decided on the basis of whether it is tagged pro-administration or anti-administration legislation.

The bill, introduced by Rep. Waiter Jones of Farmville, proposed the State Highway Commission he changed from the seven-man body authorized by the 1957 General Assembly .back to a 14-man board with one member coming from each of the highway divions of the slate.

Obviously, there is a demand from the rum roots level to bring the Highway Commission back into closed contact with the people of the state. The cloe contact which formerly existed w'as obliterated when the seven-man commission was formed. Many people in many areas throughout the state have felt that under the present system the people of the state have little if any voice in the highway program.

While the new proposal would not remove the state-wide highway viewpoint which was sought in the 1957 re-organization, it would provide the people of the state with more ready access to members of the State Highwal^ Commission.

The proposed reorganization offers a number of sdvantages over the present commission organization, and at the same time it has no serious liabilities so far

Cant Rely On Added Revenues

Mail Odor

By LVNN NISBKT

DOUBLE - EDO ED State grnpral iunri rfcelpU through April Juatlfy increasing prevloua eatimatea In the amount of $,-.5tK),f)00 for the current hiennMni ending June W, and fif million for the period for which

the preaent General A/iaernbly la matctng approprlationa.

Thla Increaae in proapeetlve revenue leaOg Gfivernor^IJodgrsi and leglaiatlve leadera to hope for eaaed tenalon around leglaiatlve halla and perhapa speed adjourn-ment. It can cut two waya. however, becauae agencies which have been aeeklng larger appro-prialiona also feel Justified lit Increaalng preaaure U get mote money,

The KI57 General Aa^enibly ea-llrnated rerclpt# for the year ending June ;), at 1247

milllort. Pieaent eallmaie la $252 5 iniUlon. The '57 legiaJative lli^tn w4 considerably higher than the budget conimlaalon eaiimatea Iha previous NoveiTiter.

The Advlaory Budget CotnmU-alon during preparation of the 1P59-1 eailniated there would tie coUected for the general fund from 'normal" ourca about $520 million Thla did not Include the windfall of $27 5 million expected to he obtained from tax withholding during ttie final 12 or IH montha. Experlencea alnpe November have been aurh aa to lead hiidgeiera In feel Justified In upping the estimate to $550 million, filil not coinUlng llie wliilfall. When that l added to both efiUmatefi the Novernlier budget eatlmatefi of available money to apend go to $547 5 inll* lion and current efitlnuitea to more than $505 million.

There are fieveral "glmmlckfi" In thla bualncfi* of efitimatlng reverme ao far In advance, and there Ui Inevitable confiifiion be tween eatlmatea arid appropria-tlona for the current bletuihmi and for the one beginning next July 1,

HAZARDOUS World roiull-iona over which no agency in North Carolina haa any conlro and alitmat no influence can change ao rapidly aa to make I* monlhfi efitlmate look foollah. One per cent variance from accura cy la pretty good, and one per cent of half a billion dollara la five million,

Governor Hodgei noted that the $2 tnllllon inrreaae in nontax revenue thta year CHine largely from higher Inlereai ratea on State Inveatmenfa If the Federal governnienl ralaea or lowera the Inlereai iat i lal Item will be changed aerordtng-ly Hither prices fiom meifiiao dlae mean more aniea tax re

cetpU, higher wagea mean more Individual income taxea, A drop In either or In any other phaae of the economy meana ieaa revenue.

Con/ufiion aiao ailaea from frequent referencea to budget etl-matea and leglaiatlve ellmaies Actually, all the eaumalea used by the General Aaaembly are baaed on budget recommendations which In turn are founded on experience recorda and pro-Jectlona of the revenue department It la Important to remember that these are efitlmate and projections hinged on deilcate balance where a very alight variance can mean i^everal million of dollara one way or the other tinder a 1057 law the flrsi 15 rnllllon above eatlrnated receipt for the current biennium must go to retire State bonds After tliat public achool pcraonnel will gel Increased pay of I ou per cent up to a total of $l.2lo,(Mki. fbcfitut estimate would give llie bond reducUon and about one-third the ferachcr rale, Governor Hodgea aaid he hopes the full amount will be availahie for (eachera, but he warned that a allp in economy and colIecUons for the next two inunttia could prevent any raise INCENTIVE The contingent debt reduction and pay lalse apliUcfi only to thla year, and does not Involve the e.stlmated IncrefiRf over prior exilmafefi of $Ht million for the next biennium. The Governor satil he exijecls to continue plugging for a $10 million Incentive fund" to mulch local money for achool betterment. bul declined to aay he wtiiild ak that part of the anticipated $10 million be earmarked for that purpofie,

He pointed out at the aame time that the biiilgel billa take Into account a $27 5 mllJloa windfall from tax withholding, and If lliat plan is not adopted there will liave to be aorne $12 million new tax money found in addition to the $1S million to balance the budget.

There are atune leglalatora who Inatat that continuing upward trend In economy will JuMlify ell-ndnatlng the withholding plan and atlll be on aolUl ground Oth era favor ualng the evSUmnted $in million for regular puroofiea. leaving the incentive fund project on contingent basis. And a few take a gloomy view of the whole fiiluaflon anil want to hold fixed and contingent aiproprla-tlon.s to lowTfit possible level. That U why the good new In the laieat revenue report and eii-matea may have almost as mucii Influence toward prolonging the sesfibui as shortening It

of the people of North Carolina.

The Daily Reflector feel* it is.

Pressure Relaxes For Hold-The-Line Crowd

The 116 miUion upward revision in ftate revenue estimate for the coming biennium has taken a great deal of pressure off the hold-the-line advocates in the legislature.

It ha* cleared the way for 1egilators to give the green light to a number of needed appropriation not included in original budget recommendation* ^without winding up with any red figures. It also eaes the legislative tension whieh ha* been mounting in anticipation of a bitter struggle between the hold-the-liners and other* who felt that essential need* of the state had not been met by the original recommendations.

Among the most preing of these need* which were not met in the original budget recommendations were thoe pertaining to schools and institutions of the state. With the additional $16 millions in revenues now in sight for the next biennium, the legislature should give further consideration to bringing appri>-priations more in line with the requests that these needs be met.

The additional 116 million, to be sure, is not enough to fill all the budget refjuests which have been

received by the legislature over and above recommen- _ -r-r-ivTrv

(lations of the governor and the Advisory Budget Com- By DON SCHLIENZ miMsion. F.ven so, thi* additional windfall of revenues should place the legislature in a position to increase appropriations sufficiently to assure that more of the essential needs of the state will be met during the corning biennium.

11 i- aio important that this additional money KrlWnTthhSii.nd rote S

Will enable the state to increase its appropriations tobacco m America has been without increasing the existing tax burden upon the Pfepsfeii by The Tobacco Inpeople of North Carolina, On top of that, the hike in revenue estimates al.no j)oints to a continued upward luin in .North Carolina's economy during the next two year.4 which should be good news for all the peo)Ie of the |,ate.

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By JAMES MAKI.OW

WASHING'! ON AP The two itln men out of the history bookfi w ho vlalteil Washington llilfi week Hrry 3. Truman and Sir Wlnfiton Churchill had In good meaaure what any leader of history needa a a minimum; courage, vision, and determination.

.Some never had much more than ttiflt Othera had something extra flamboyance, or extravagance, or daring, or rerkleas-nefifi. or crtifdly. or cunning, or patience or great coriipasalon.

Both Truman and Churchill had an extra aomethlng - call 11 an attlfude which set the tone of their leaderahip In auch a way that It symbotized the fiplrit of their countrymen at a time (f great trouble

Churchill, who worked under ntore terrible handlcapa, will siiifly hold the larger place In hLslory. Hut Truman, responding to the h'aa glUiering requlre-mcnta of Ida time, shaped and ctiangeil the world, too,

Churchill, by his ma.stery of Britain' greatest pride, its language, arllculated for the maa.v es of hit cotintrymeu tlieir re-actloufi to terror and barbarlam.

He did more than that. H Itecame thilr rallying point.

The nobility of his phra.slng *0 plain and understandable that all could Identify themaelve* with him gave Brltona a sen of historic mUalou.

If any man In hlatory can be said to have carried hl people to victory with him on Uie aheer fitrength of hi indoinllable and Incorruptible spirit, It wu Churchill.

Truman tind tone of a <liifcrent kind, but only in details. Leas iollnrful. Thai w'as Rure. Lesa articulate, too. But hUi attitude wa. the same.

He wa. never able by the magic of hi. language for he lacked the knowledge, Uie feeling and the mastery of Churchill in that field to lift hU people to height. that exceeded thftr own imagintng.

But then, of course, Truman never had to Hi problem, were diHerent and he did not have to arouae his country from ha fihatteied ruins, to confront ha crises,

Neverthelea.v, many mlUhms of hlA fellow Americans were able

In one way or another to identl-fy thernaelves with him.

He was a plain, unpretentious man, self-made, self-confident, with a quick temper, a quick response to danger, and a profound sense of the Importance of remaining free,

with this natural and well-un-derfitood foundation, what Truman symbolized when danger from the Soviet Union came was America's own historic ^ conception of Itself. A strong land which wtshe. no ill will to anyone, will endure pressure but only up to a point, is willing to fight for what It believe. Is right, and confidently believes in the ability of human t>elngs to achieve a good life if given a chance.

There was a measure of self-Inlereat In this countrys wlll-Ingne., under Truman's leadership, to pump billions of dollara In economic aid Into Western Europe. It helped slop the onrush of communism.

But there were also sympathy and concern for both the welfare and the freedom of the Wc.st Europeans. They were given another chance, at American expense. to achieve a good life.

When Stalin began his first postwar preaaure on Greece and Turkey. Truman- unhesitatingly reversed the whole historic course of America's peacetime Isolationism by rushing aid to the Greeks and Turks.

Thla action was more than an historic reversal of America a foreign policy. Through It Truman acknowledged and accepted for the United Btatea the res* ponsiblllty thrust upon It by the second World War. The Immediate effect was to slop communism In southern Europe.

When next Stalin tried his luck with the Berlin blockade, he was thwarted again with the bold and Imaginative Berlin alrUft,

in all theae things, which required American aacrlflces. Truman had the aupport of hla country. When Stalin for the last Itmc In hla life tested American wUllnguess to go to any Icnglha to atop him, and let the Korean War begin. Truman answered in-atantly by taking the United State. tnto w-aj.

Communism was stopped cold. 11 was the last time the Reiia tried direct aegre.simi.

It's a gem.

At one time or anotner. Just about every Industry, field of bualne.ss, governmental agency, lobbying group and promoters come up with a brochure. Some are good, some are Indifferent. The Tobacco Institute came up with a really good one.

Illustrations include photographs, a chart, reproduction! of paintings and old engravings. Some pictures come from the New York Public Library, the Arenta Collection, the Bettmann Archive, the Free-Lance Photographers Guild , . . and sUnilar other good aourcea.

The text is a delightfully alm-ple, colorful and wide-ranging etory of the ancient weed. It la

neither too long nor too short. The ediUn-s encompassed precisely what they wanted to say in exscUy the right number of words to avoid an atmosphere of pedagoguery or of casual coverage.

Of course, all the details of the tobacco story couldn't be told in five thousand pages: but how many people are going to read .5,000 pages? The amazing thing is that so much can be compressed Into so little space.

James P. Richards, president and executive director of the Institute writes in a brief foreward that

"Hold a leaf of tobacco In your hand and you hold Important Americana. Tobacco cannot be separated from the record of agricultural growth in our country, of our nations economy and of the social customs of our people." Those sentences summa-

Public Jrorum

To the Editor:

The nearest approach ever

madr to world government and world law has been that made by tyrants and despots who have left death and destruction behind them as they themselves have vanished from the earth.

It has been aptly said that, whenever you find a man who deliberately writes himself cosmopolitan, you may be sure that he Is not a patriot. At least no muliipUcation of him would make a nation. How could build a State with men who have no local attachment, no anchorage men who are incapable of appreciating those burning words of Scott, when he said:

Breathes there a man with soul so dead,

never to himself hath said, I

\,ii Is my own, my native land,

As home his footsteps he hath turned

From wanderings on a foreign strand?

If auch there breathes, go mark him ell;

For him no minstrel raptures

.swell.

High though hi title, proud hi. name.

Boundless hi wealth as wl.h could claim;

Despite that tiUe, power, and pelf,

He, being concentrated all In self,

Living, shall forfeit fair renown.

And doubly dying, shall go

down

To the dust from whence he sprung.

Unwept, unhonored, and unsung."

Whatever limitations might be attached to a world government and world law to begin with, you may be sure It would get out of hand In a very short time, and the voice of Americans would be completely drowned out by the overwhelming voices of those of different political ideologies w'ho have only respected our Nation for what they could get out 61 us. Once let them get us where they would* be in the majority In such a world government and our representatives, if allowed any representatives at all, would be laughed to .shame, and relegated to the ranks of fool. too Insignificant to be even listened to.

For America to forfeit her independent sovreignty to such world government, auch world law, would be the beginning of the end of human liberty upon the earth. While I love the souls of those of other nations, and wish them well; still, I want to live under safer, better laws than their dictators, tyrants, and despots hive ever made, or ever even helped to make I shall, therefore, strive to do my bit to keep AMERICA from being swallowed up by a world state that would inevitably be dominated by such dictators, tyrants, and despots.

W.T.C, Briggs

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"One of the trends In newspaper work that is regarded with growing fear is the tendency of government official. to deny the public Information, This goes from the township to the national level. Newspapers, radio and TV stations are fighting this with everything at their command. The most flagrant cases art in Washington where bureaucrats decide what the American people are entitled to know. Newspapers have no quarrel with suppression of news concerning national safety. But this Is carried far into other fields. There Is only one basis on which to go. The public is entitled to every fact about every governmental operation, outside of national safety. Marion (Iowa) Sentinel.

rlze the whole pitch.

That isnt a-North Carolina story? it involves all the tobacco-producing areas, such as Maryland, Virginia, both Carolinas, Georgia. Florida. Kentucky Tennessee. Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Missouri and Alabama. Connectl^^, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania. Ohio, Wisconsin and Minnesota areas are not forgotten.

Whether one approves or disapproves of tobacco, the fact remains it has played a big role in the development of America from the time of the early colonies to the present. Tobacco made secure Englnad's uncertain foothold in North America and built up a pattern of tAde. Tobacco helped finance the American Revolution and has since become a major source of revenue for many governments.

One is reminded that prior to establishment of the Income tax In 1913, for many years the second largest return to the Internal Revenue Bureau came from the Impost on manufactured tobacco and related taxes. Over $2 ..5 billion is now coUected annually from tobacco taxes.

But all this is the statistical side. The brochure does not neglect the romance.

Inasmuch as this is a tobaccoconscious part of the land, it occurred to me that a great many people would be interested in this venture of the Tobacco Institute.

Copies are being distributed without charge by The Tobacco Institute, Inc., 910 Seventeenth St.. N.W., Washington 6, D.C.

You might be able to get one.

Quick?

By HAL BOTLE

NEW YORK (AP) As if oior world werent already topsyturvy enough, now along come* a Frenchman who says the English can see the point of a joke quicker than Americans.

"The English have a very good sense of humor. said Robert Dhery, star, author and director 0 the hit Broadway revue, "La Plume de ma Tante."

"They love gags. Its funny, because they seem so straitlaced and serious.

"They can see a gag coming. They laugh quicker, louder and shorter than here. They give a sharp laugh, then quit, and you have to have another gag ready.

"The Americans laugh slower and longer.

Dhery also has found a difference between French and American audiences,

"I like it here because the audience comes to the theater ready to laugh and enjoy itself,* he said. "In France they go to see whether you can make them laugh. There is a difference."

Dhery, the slender mobilefaced son of a Chabli* miller, has been in some 20 films. He is also one of the busiest revue directors in Paris.

"Few revues In Paris last as long as six months," he said. "And people there book their tickets only a few days ahead at most.

"Here a man and his wife may buy their tickets as much as four months ahead. Then on the night of the show their scats are empty. When I see this it makes me mad. I can only suppose they have died in the meanwhile.

One American theatrical custom which both Dhery and Collette, his blonde wife and costar, find an utter abomination is the matinee.

"Collette has 17 costume changes. On matinee days she has to change her clothes 34 times. If she did nothing but this, she would be tired, he said.

Asked what impressed them most about America, Collette said, the smoky city streets; and Dhery said, Sunday newspapers. "They are so heavy. We have nothing like them in England or France, he said.

The Dherys have found Manhattan a cultural wonderland.

I cannot understand your buffet parties. said Dhery. "They are so crowded there is no place to sit down.

I went to one buffet party where there 200 or 300 guests.

I glanced into w bathroom, and there was a young lady enjoying her meal all by herself. It was the only place she could find to sit down.

Opinions In Brief

"Problem of automobile pn ducers Is to design a car that is a thing of beauty and Joy for 12 months.Miami Herald.

"A .small town is a place where everybody knows most of your business, and the nosey set is always trying to find out the 'est of it.Sparta (Ga.) Ish-maellte.

"Communism, in one century, has gained sway over more people than Christianity in twenty centuries. With .socialism, its younger brother in short pants. Communism is mopping up the world. Can we stop it? Nobody else can and we can only If we get our own snowball rolling, pushed by dedicated men who believe In freedom, have the integrity to stand up for It, the intelligence to recognize the enemy in Its disguised forms, and the moral faith by which alone freedom can aurvlve. Hartford (Wise.) Times-Press.

"In a free eoclety, the .state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers Jjjiatk'e among men. who conduct their own affairs,Walter Llppmaa*

New Lottery To Top U.S. Dollars

Strength For Today

By earl L. IMII (L.4.SS

AcrrVK TO THE l.,\ST

Nodung t, hiuder on one's morale than the feeling that hla caieer ha. ronie lo an end Peo^ pie who retire are frequently unhappy They conclude that they are on the ahelf now and that there U nothing to do about It A. a mailer of fact, no one .hmihl ever con.tder his career cloMd uiitU tie Ilea upon his ih-aih bed Noone .should ever Kl\e up all ttcUvlty aiul settle down iq lake thing eaay. There 1 KisU work In the world for the old men to do a. well as for the young Hecentlv my tirntlon was called lo two elderly men who ha\e had dtUnguthel careois

between the decade e\enty and eighty, One had l>een a quite dia-dingui.shed man hrit alwav* a bit of an invalid Early in hu .even-ties he adopted some new health rules and I. Bouig stronger at eighty than he v^aa at fifty, The other man changed hla mode of life slightly, found hy phvairal checkup that he needed a'Itttle medication, and then, when he thonght hla career wa. over, plunged Into new actlvttv and la now regarded by all who know him a. a m.tn of real dlj^unction. We ahould work as long as we live, even If we live lo thr mld-elghtte.s or to ninety. Age I. not lieil up excUiaively with the calendar as we someumea tM'lleve It to be. It la aUo a matter of cotiUuuln* pui'puse. >

By ELMER R0E33NER

Another Irish lottery in extending operation. to the United Stales. Its promoters hope it wUl pump as much money out of this country as does the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes.

It has this advantage over the hospital aweepa. Instead of prvit-es based on three horse races a year, it will pay prizes weekly on games of the county loccer teams

The lottery Is the Gael Linn, With headquarters m Grafton St. Dublin. It a started in !9.y and IS now opertUng m 32 countries, moat of which are more tolerant of a bit of gamble than the United States is, officially.

Unlike the hospital sweep, there are no private profits la Gael I,Inn. All gains are- being used lo promote Irish bii.slnexs Hnd cultural enterprLses.

IRI.SII gdlEME*

It Is working on eleven schrmes now and by

".schemes the Irish mean projects

Ihrse tacluUe Uta asiabUsU-

ment of a vegetable and fish quickfreczlng project in the Connemara Gacltacht,, a pay-a*-you-catth boat sales plan for flahcr-men. a lobster and crayfish export biwiness. a fishery project In South Donegal, fortnightly Irl.sh movie shorts, a series of conunercial phonograph recordings, two weekb* radio program. of Irish song and music, a 32-county scholarship plan, support of an Irish Language Teaching Institute, concerts and singing compftilions In OaeUc. a eekly Gaelic folk dance in Dublin. and television, of whteJh the lucky Irish have none now. HOW WINNER* WIN Unlike the Brttlsh football pool, players in the Oael-Llnn need know nothing about soccer or the teams. Such knowledge is useless There, are 52 county teams, playing almost every week Results of 14 games each week determine lottery winners.

TickcU are 25 cents a week, and $1 tickets fdr four week. are the smallest units sold. Each ticket hears the numbers of cer-Uuii teams and team ate **-

signed different numbers each week For example. 14 might b the number of the Gals'sy team one .week and the Donegal team the next.

The top prize each week Is $45.000 giving each ticket-holder the possibility rare, *Us true to win $24,000 f(M- his dollar. SEVEN PRIZES

The first prize goes to the holder of the ticket whose numbers correspond with the six teams making the highest scores. There are ilo prizes for the six lowest, the five highest and the one lowest, the five lowest and the one highest, the foitr highest and two lowest, the four lowest and the two highest, and the three lowest and three highest.

There will be two or more sets of ptTKis, to make .sure there are winners In both the United States and Ireland.

The Importation of tlckets^nto the United States, and UiC circulation of tickets through the mall, L contrary to Federal law But the Irth Ho.spital Sweetxfilakes gel its tickets in and throughout the country so freelj thai the Cael-Lmn promoi-

ers expect little trouble.

The first pool In which American-owned tickets figure will be for the week of June 7.

So you can expect to see more Irish soccer results appear in the Irish weeklies and, perhaps. In other papers here. And you can expect the'young fellow in the shipping room, a stenographer in the next office, and a stranger in a bar to aay to you, "How about It, pal? Want a ticket in the Irish soccer pool? news you MAY USE IN BUSINE.SS MANAGEMENT

A guide to the franchising of sms 11 businesses has been published by PiltoPubticatlons. 43 W. .3rd St., New York 1. at $3 ,. A pocketsize booklet of data on fibers and texUles L fi*e from Avisco. 1*17 Pennsylvania Blvd. Philadelphia J . . . The 1959 edition of the European Travel Commission. guide to motoring III Europe has been dia-tnbilled to travel agents to give away . . . A leaflet, on "Industrial Floor Resurfacing Com-l>ounda. is free for a.king the Small Business AdmipistraUoo* WaUungtoa Zi H3AL

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