PAM rOUKTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE. N. C

Thursday, May 14, 1959

More Red Ink? Up To. Taxpayers

For this nation to continue increasing its national debt during a period when the economy is reaching new heights is unthinkable.

This is a period in which the United States should begin to operate within its income if it is ever to do so. It is a period in w'hich this country should begin to pare its national debt rather than allowing it to grow year by year.

Time after time in recent years Congress has been called upon to rai.se the legal limit of the national debt. Each time it has done so, and each time federal government spending has risen beyond federal revenues to require another increase in the debt limit.

The time when thi.s course should be changed is long overdue. The United States, if it desires to do so, is now in a position to operate on a balanced government budget. It is also in a position to begin reducing its debt rather than increasing it.

The question is, are the people and their elective representatve in Washington willing to lake the step?

Members of Congress and the* administration are extremely sensitive to the desires of the people of the nation. If the people demand that Uncle Sam begin to live.within his income and pay off some of what he owes, our elective representatives in Washington

Vote Prospects On Constitution

By I.YNN NWBKT

CONSTITUTION Chancrs sem much b#?tter now than a few weeks ago that the pfoplr* w ill ha VP opportunity vou? on II complplcly ispw ConistltuUon for thp Slatp of North Caroliim this fall. Currrtit odda arc aijghtly bptfpr than that tbp Gfii-

rral Afpinbly will aubmll a new trxt hy favorable vote of 72 Ke-prcfipntatlvra and tio Heiiatora thp nccpwiary Uupp flftha of Uip total mpmbprahip of pach braiudi Almost cpttalnly, If that favorable voU* \s obtabiPd a ape-cjftl KPiipral plpftion will be callpd in time for ratiflcaUou be-foip the IfMW) primary

ThP nrw tpxt will codify and fonaolidale provision* in Uip prc arnt K) year old docunipnt and Will clarify aotnc i*b/4curc and otipolptp pluHXPfi It i Pijiniby cpftalii that the text Mibimlicd will bear little rp^pniblancc to original propoaalx on the two niowt Important item acrm* torlal apportionment and court reform,

Th Joint commltlpff baa voted down a propoxpd incrpiihp In Scnafp nipmbcrahlp with five or alx ppoplp aulborlzpd to form (hp dUtricU and allot rp-prraPiitatlon Tliat nipana ttip prcAPiit ayafpm of 50 Hcnatora pHotted by the Clpnprftl Asacmh* Iv to dlatricUs which the L-pgUla-turp pftiablbihpd will cnntlnup.

TbPi'p apppara at Ibta Umb no cbaticp at all that proposals for appointment of infprlor court judges trccordpr and JP cmnta) by Suprcmp or Superior (ourt judgea will be approved, IbPie is good pifwppct for conatituMon-al tmlformlly of Inferior courbs aa tp JurlsrilcUon, fee and other dmlnlatratlve features

There haa been evidence of reaentment on part of aponsors of the ConsUluUonal (Bryant> Ommlaaion plan that no member of that body was named on the ubcommlttei conalderlng the judicial section, and that Sen. Spencer Hell, chairman of the Bar Aasoctallon Committee, had too much Influence on the amall froup. While the report of the subcommittee haa aome elements of both recommenriatlona, ft letna heavily to the Bell concept,

CONTROVERSIAL The must fontroveralal phaeea of the new text as It la likely come out of committee are the aec tlons which tend to apell out In the constitution certain provisions which have been practiced without challenge under Implied grants of power. The commission ha.a greejfl to restore the requirements for a general and uni form aystem of public achoola (w'hlch waa omitted from its original text), The text tenlatlvcly approved by the Joint committee. however, retaln.a the provision that the elected Slate Superintendent of Public Lull ruc

tion shall he the chief admbils-trntlve officer of the board (the appointed State Board of Educa-UoiM inst,ead of the administrative head of the public school system.

CONFLICT The Jurisdictional conflict between the commercial flaberleji division of the De-partrnerd of Conservation and Development and the Wildlife lie sources CommlKslon, which has been going on with varying degrees of Intensity since the sep. aratlon of functions was uiho-ri/,ed 12 years ago, Is likely to he further Intertsifkd by the motor boat regulation powers which a pending hill would confer upon the Wildlife Hgfiicy. No conflict of lutereat appears, but there \n further duplication in motor re* glslrallon involving the Motor Ve-lilcle.s Depnrlment

'Ihe Motor Velileles Dt'parl-nient license powered buid vehicles, the c.ommerctal fisheries division in (&D Ucenses powered water vesseUi engaged In flahlng for profit, and th(B Wildlife Resoulcea CummMlou will license powered pleasure and ariort watn craft. The Motor Vehicles angle cornea In by reason for necessity for that agency to llcetwe the trailer which carries the boat to the watrr cflge. Queation of double laxHtiou, rather than confUrt of authority, la Involved here.

The motor boat hill would exempt from Wildlife registra* tion any boat Ilcensefl for rom-merchU fishing or used on Hlate owned lakes. (A;D would make ieguhitlons governing this cla.is of craft, hut Wlldltfe W'ould have huge responstbllHy for en* foreing them

ANUIFNT (IHUIKiFl Echoes of Ihe controversy of the PHO's which led to divoree of eontrol over Inland fishing and field game from CAD and r-stahllsh-ment of the New Wildlife Rf-aoiirces Cnrmuisaion were heard in dlscuaalun of the motor boat bill at w public hearing this week

Wildlife (Ud not want reapon-slbillty for enforcing the proposed law if CAD was to have anything to aay about regula tlons or get any part of the registration fees. Wildlife ap(kea-men objected to the provisions exempUng any motor boats fiom II control. If It waa to he re-aponslble for controlling any of them,

There wa aome aentlmenl ex-piT.ssed for setting up an entirely new Htate agency to handle the mol or boat problem Opinion seemed to be that would make a four part duplicating effort In-lead of the present three pronged syateni

Everybody who appeared before the committee favored motor boat regulation, but hardly any two agreed on apeclflc lerma of the act.

will ee that such a pattarn in eatablwhed in national policies.

If, on the other hand, the people of the United States continue to demand that Uncle Sam spend an extra billion next year for this, another several millions for that, and at the same time hold to their position that taxes must not be increased, we may be sure that the end of each fiscal year will show .new red figures. We may be sure that the nation will pluriffe deeper in debt, obligating the future earnings of this and other generations.

The earning power of this nation has now reached the place where Uncle Sam can live confortably on his income, provided the necessary items for the nation's defenses and also for securing the nation's economy without deficit spending each year. With revenues provided by the present tax structure, Uncle Sam can do this and also have funds left over for beginning a reasonable program of retiring the national debt.

This can only be done, however, if the people demand that the government return to a policy of living within its income.

Though W'e are prone to blame elected officials in Wa.shington for allowing the federal government to live beyond its means, the blame must, in the final analysis, rest upon the shoulders of the peoplethe taxpayersof the nation.

What they^ demand, their elected representatives will see that they get. If the people w^ant a balanced budget and repayment of the national debt, they can have it. If they want deficit financing in order to provide this or that unneces.nary item in the federal budget, they will get that too.

It is time the people of the nation reconsider their role in achieving a balanced federal budget and ad-ju.t their demands upon Uncle Sam accordingly.

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Isn't Needed In N. c No Music In The Paiks

North i'arolina lias no need for legalizing gambling in the iorrn of pari mutual betting on dog races, horse races, slot machines or what-have-you.

'I'he hill introduced in the House Monday night to permit county electicuis on legalizing racing and lieliing is not in the best iiiiere.st of North Carolina and its fieople. It should not be written info law by the Cieneral Assembly.

Dog tracks which operated at .Morehead City and Moyock several years ago pumfied a good bit of money intf> the coffers o'f the counties in which the tracks were located. At the sami? lime, the legalized betting proved a drain on the economic statu.s of individual Itlzens who sent their money to the dogs at the bet* ting windows.

However the presence of the tracks and legalized helting in the .state posed a threat of some of th tuitions racketeering .syndicates getting a foothold in North CaroliTiH not mly in individual communities where the tracks were located, but in local as well a.M state government. It is a situation which must not be tolerated if we are to have good government. Certainly North Carolina should not place itself or its individual communities in a fiosition where racketeer-itig interest.s might make inroads into government.

'i'he stale has had legalized racing and betting in recent years and it has been afforded the opportunity to witness the results of such operations first hand. It has also had the op{)orlunity to view' the experience of other states in w hich similar activities are permitted.

It should be evident to the people of North Carolina and hy and large we believe it isthat the beat interests of the state and its people are served liy prohibiting this sort of activity.

We trust the legislators will see fit to keep North iurolina free from legalizi'd betting as proposed in the new dog track bill introduced in the General Assembly.

Geneva Parle'ys See Poor Start

Ooing-to-tbe-park on a Sunday afternoon 1 to some people as traditionally American an apple pie. hamburger rwith everything) and the Little Red School-houae.

At varied pha.sca in my youth and later ycar.x a park somehow found a niche. Looking back, memory recalls no park of yest

eryear wa* complete without a bandstand. It might be a simple frame affair or an elaborate hell couched in scenic beauty.

More, the bandstands were actually used . , . sometimes of a Sunday afternoon, sometimes of a Sunday evening. They stood idle, naturally. 99 per cent of the time; but when echoing to the

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B.v JAMK.S IVIAKLOW

WASHINGTON (APs The Soviets with help from the West, which let lUclf get tiuiglrd In childlike tabletilk me turning the foreign ministers mcctuig into the kind of spectacle pfe-dieted by Premier Nikita Khrushchev,

The minister* he said, would get bogged In detalla He wanted firal a ummll meeting of the heavyweight After they had reached agreement, he aaUl. the niinlater could get together to .stew over the details.

Khni.shchrv finally coiusentrd to a Big Four foreign mtnistei* conference United Stales, Soviet Union, Billaln, France because the West Insisted The meeting was to open Monday. So wliat happened?

BefoiT Ihe mlnlsters could even hold Ihetr first se.Hslon they, got anal ted in an argumcnt -over the kind of table to luse which for all practical and realistic purposes was strictly kid stuff.

It hardly added. In the eyes of the worUi, to the dignity and jsenousne.ss of the meeting.

'Ilie West, allied with We.<t (eiinany, rciu.srs to rtcognlr.e the Icgttunacv of the Fa.st Oer-man tommum.st government, which is a Soviet satellite But the USSR wants exactly Hus kind of We.vteiu recognition ft>r Ihe Fast Germans.

While all this wa,s being hashed over, the Soviet' Andiel tiromvko got the conference further coniu.sed He demanded both We.st| and Fa.it Germany t>e allowed to take part In the Bit Four conference as full partid-pauts.

This i,s exactly what the West rildirt want for Fa.si Germanv. that Is for fear that Wesleru perii\i.v.ion for Fa.st Gernuruv to sU lu n.s a full parHcu>nnl might 1)0 interpreted as We.stern recog-lution i(U' Last Germanv.

lo ttvoul such an luleiprciu-

Mon. the West had been, willing for the two Germany to alt in the conference room but with the understanding they would be merely consultants who couldn't l>eak unless asked a queation.

A compromise was worked out.

The tW'O Oermanys couldnt b full participants, but Instead of having to wait to speak until

spoken to. both could ask permission to be heard on any

subject.

So the first brief meetlng of Ihe Big Four wa held and finished.

Then Gromyko messed things up for the second meeting. This time he demanded that tha Soviet satellites, Poland and

Uxechoslovakla be allowed to take part as full participants.

The West objected. So the second meeting, Tuesday, broke up. It, too. was brief

None of Gromyko's demands -that the two Oerman.vs. plus Poland and Caechoslovakla taka full part In the Big Four conference .should have caiused any 8urprl.se

La.st March.when (he Soviet Union agreed to a Big Four meeting. II demanded the full participation for the two Oermanys and Poland and Urechoslovakla.

The reason ttrom.vko was able to snarl up the meeting now with thus demand for those cmin-tric.s was that the Big Four fnicign mini.iters hadn't worked out details before thev met. They are tangled in the details now.

But (hr wav Gromyko handled all ihls can be interpreted as a form of Soviet eontempt for Ihe w hole Idea of a foreign ministers meeting.

He could have made all hts dt'uuimis at one lime on t+ie first day. instead, he stretched them out, dcl.vylng by that much any effort hy the Big Four to gel down to the bn.vin\v> which brought them to Geneva, the duv-cns.MotT ot Germanj.

(Wilson Times)

Now there Is no organization that appreciates the work of the foremen and their departments more than the newspapers and The Wilson Daily Times. We know their objective Is fire pire-ventlon every day In the week and fire fighting when necessary,.

But we cannot go along with the request now before the legislature to tax'all fire and lightning Insurance premiums in this state one per cent.

First, for the publics information. the firemen are municipal employes, paid from city government tax and revenue funds They* have the same protection that every other city employe Is given. They pay PICA or the government lax to provide a pension at age 65. This la paid by the members of fire departments as it Is paid by every other employe in the nation, and the sum the employe pays is matched by the employer.

Then the firemen are covered by the .same peiLston plans that cover the other municipal em-tiloyca. Therefore the bill requests an additional pension fund over and above that to be Tecelved by the other municipal employe.. This fund is to come from a tax of one per cent on all fire Insurance .sold, whether the one purcha.slng the iivsurance does or does not receive fire fighting protection.

This tax would be paid by rural people as well as city folks. The rural premium payers receive Ullle or no protection in the majority of cases. Already there is a tax of one and a half per cent on each premium dollar to provide a firemens relief fund.

The approach this year is different from the one made in the last legislature. The bill was passed then but was declared unconstitutional because It was discriminatory. In other words the Supreme court, In effect said

you could not tax one group to provide special benefits for another.

This time the approach circumvents the objections, or at least the three bills before the legislature try to do Just this. The first bill imposes the tax, the second creates the firemens pension fund and the third asks the appropriation.s committee for $470.000 to set up the pension fund.

The tax of one per cent would go into the general fund. The general fund under another bill would appropriate the money for the pension fund.

It Is the first time ihe appropriations committee has been asked to appropriate money for a municipal group. For these are not state employes.

If the bill becomes law, and we have been told that there is a powerful lobby working for It, then all other municipal employes should try to find a means of getting a pension over and above the regular government sponsored employe-employer pension now in effect and the many pension plans the employers carry. Everyone would like to look forward to more money at retirement. But taxing special groups, as those who carry fire Insurance, I not the way to provide the money.

All property is not protected by fire departments. And firemen do not Just fight fires on Insured property. They protect all property within their Jurisdiction.

We recognize the money involved to each fire iivsurance policy holder will be small. But the principle Is^ not. This seta up a special tax for a specified group of municipal employes. ThLs group, the firemen, do an exceptional job.

Therefore U would be fairer for them to get any additional privileges and funds from those for whom they work, the municipal government. Certainly not from a tax on all fire Insurance premiums.

harmony of brass, reed and percussion Instruments, they were counted a major asset to the communitys simple pleasures.

Best-remembered, is the bandstand in the park of a Florida city. It was built on an artificial island in ^ lake which itself formed the center of the park. There were benches fronting the bandfihell, and on a Sunday evening when a concert was scheduled one might count the listeners by the hundreds. Following t$e. bands numbers, Vople sitting in nearby parked cars would Join the applause with a honking of horns.

The simplicity of an evening spent listening to such a concert seems today far-fetched; but in those days people did, and found enjoyment.

There was a small municipal band, sponsored by the recreation department; the high school band: and a band sponsored by one of the towns newspapers. Some of the musicians belonged to all three bands, which suggests theirs was at least partly a latwr of love.

During the time of year when balmy evening breezes wafted across the little lake, a big moon cast its silvery reflections across the water, park lights showed the way between rows of benches . you could count on a big turnout.

A musician might stumble dur-)g an intricate solo part, or the band might find rough going in a difficuU passage, but the audience was both appreciative and encouraging.

I dont know whatever happened to that particular bit of the simple life. You'd think that once having found a good thing,

people might have hung on to it. But one seldom hears of active bandstands anymore, unless Its In one of the big cities.

Surely theres no shortage of amateur, semi-professional and even professional musicians to be found tin any sizeable community; who would be open to the suggestion of Joining a band to play for the public.

Yes. some work on ttte part of musicians would be involved; but musicians dont become musicians unless they find some personal satisfaction out of performing.

Of course one can always shrug it off with the protest that people just dont go to a park to hear a band any more. And you could

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) One way to tell a persons age is by his aUitude towmrd cocktail parties.

If he looks forward to cocktail parties and feels each one is exciting and different, he is very, very young.

But the more he attends the more all seem alike. The modern cocktail party, like the modern bull fight which in a way it resembles has its own ceremony and ritual. But in time cocktail parties become as hard to teU apart as mothballs.

The only difference between ones first cocktail party and ones thousand and first are the date and a feeUng of gathering numbness.

But that feeling of numbness is Important, It is the hallmark of the successful cocktail party.

Everything -about the cocktail party is formalized and more predictable than the weather. The food, the drink, the guests even the conversation follow an Inexorable and changeless pattern.

There is always a tray of those gnat-bite-sized sandwidhes made of new wallboard and old library paste. There is always a pot of caviar. This is supposed to make you feel like youre enjoying an orgy at the court of Catherine the Great. But the stuff usually tastes as If It had been made the'night before by the hostess out of fish oil and leftover pellets from her sons air rifle. I

The drinks at cocktail party fall into two classes. If the host is cheap, they are weak and watery. If the host is really trying to impress somebody, the drinks are so loaded one has the feeling he has just accepted a double-barreled shotgun aimed at his head.

The guests at a cocktail party seem so normal and human when they first come into the room. Just a bit reserved perhaps. But an hour later all the shy Dr, Jekylls have magically turned into leering, pawing Dr. Hydes.

The sedate businessman suddenly wants to prove he can still drink a martini while standing on his head on the sofa, a feat he learned in college. The prim housewife all at once* begins to act like she was the daughter of a marriage between Dracula and Mata Hari.

And everyone who had so little to say on wnval now becomes a person with a message of salvation for all mankind. They put their foreheads together and begin shouting at the top of their lungs. This isnt conversation, It is baboon babble.

Psychiatrists are divided on why people throw cocktail parties. One school holds it is merely an easy way to pay off social debts en masse. The other school holds that It is an unconscious and sadistic attempt by the host to exact social revenge on people he secretly detests.

Probably both schools of thought are right.

The problem remains as to why a husband ever goes to a cocktail party. The answ'er here is very clear.

He goes because somebody mailed his wife the invitation-And the modern -wife will drag her husband to anything shes Invited to including, probably, a blood transfusion. Anything to get out of the bouse.

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point to mosQbltoes, rain and sundry other objectionable hazards. So the whole thing probably isnt worth the effort. Besides, people tend to glorify their fonder memories far beyond reality.

The East Carolina College band gave a concert (Indoors) Just the other evening) and the Rose High School band will give a concert Friday evening (indoors) . . . which partly gave rise to the thought that open air concerts were not entirely a remote pos-ibUity.

If Sunday evening band programs in the park were enjoyable to people of a few years back, they Just might find popular reception again. To m*|, the Idea U intriguing.

.S. Now Exnortina Some Jobs

Bv FLMER KOES-SNER

The United Stai* U exporting psri of Its topsoll, In the form of farm products distributed abroad.

It is exporting Its money, in the form of loans, to foreign nation..

It Is shipping its gold abroad to meet balance-of payment snd other transactions. A total of $2 3 billion went In 14 months.

It is shippings it production facilities abroad In the form of plants nd factories set up in foreign countries

Now It L about to export Jolvi

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Not much has been said .about it The exporters might get into trouble at home.

In recent months, the matter lias come up lu a guarded American maniifactiu-ers facing ilsup wave co.sls, have been asking thLS que.i.tionr

Wo are paving much higher iate.s than foreign nmnufaciur-rr. For some skill', we are pay

ing $4 an hour while Dutch manufacturers are paying four guilders an hour. If we moved our plant lo Amsterdam, would the savings In labor be more than the cost of freight and duty to send products back here?*'

It cant be determined how many companies have exported Jobs In the past, hut there is reason to- expect that more will do It. especially If wage cost* here keep rising.

BEING DONE NOW?

No American steel compsny. a.x far as is known, has set up a plant in a low-wage foreign economy and shipping steel products back to the USA. at les than donifsUc production casts.

But many foreign steel companies have laid down steel here at less than American pnces, and, with the opening of the St, Law-lence Waterway, foreign .idlers are offering to deliver steel si inland point under domestic prices

Th'eVe are unverified susplcloivs that some Americ-an steel com-pante.s h%e interests In foreign compaiijic. If that is true

and it may be only a rumor it would amount to exporting the Jobs of U.S. steelworkers to foreign labor market.

TE.MPTING IN FARM FIELD

Wilbur J. Brons reports In tha New York Journal of Commerea that rising prices are causing U.S. farm machinery manufacturers to take a close look at the probable size of the domestic market for Ughtwelght tractor. and as.soclated Item* Imported from their own plants abroad. If they do, they will be taking jobs away from U.S. tractor workmen and giving them to mechanica t foreign lands.

He continued: International Harvester Co. for example, reports 1 'surpruintly good demand in the Southeast and elsewhere for a light diesel powered tractor made by Its British subsidiary He add that a British tractor, duty-paid and landed. cot $2 fl02 compared w ith comparable American equipment costina I3.5U0.

In smaller way. American en-terpiise* have exported jobs. Thoie who have bought compo

nent in Germany, Japan and elsewhere instead of making them in the U.S. have shipped Jobs overseas. Partner in the Southwest who imported Mexican labor at lower wages than Americans would work for arc. In effect, exporting Jobs to Mexico.

Theres no one villain in this act of shipping Jobs overseas while so many American are unemployed. Manufacturers share some blame. The government which tacitly encourages it is also responsible. And so are the workmen who price then service ftr above competitive labor abroad.

ITS THE OTHER 40 PER CENT WHO RAlfE THE DICKENS

The old gag about men gotng to conventions for a good Ume is being untied by the Manager Hotel chain. It points out that U offera lower rate for wives and chUdren. and that airlines offer special family deals. As a consequence, it reports. 0 per cent of the men attending convention* today take along wives, and many bring along children.