PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N- C

Tuesday, May 19, 1959

Tuesday, May 19, 1959

Thereby Hangs A Tale

Once On That Road, No Getting Off

That some'aort of withholding system for state income tax %vill be adopted by the 1959 General Assembly is pretty much a foregone conclusion now.

The question is, how much will the proposed plan endorsed by the House Finance Committee be altered by the Senate and on the floors of both houses before it is written into law?

It is obvious that the $27 million windfall the plan would provide the state in the next biennium is hy far the strongest point in its favor so far as legislators are concerned. It would mean that no new tax structures would be necessary for the coming two years, and that the legislators will have sufficient funds to meet the states needs without opening up the question of new taxes.

While the pogsibility that the plan may be rejected is remote, there certainly should be some m^di-fieations of the present proposal before it is written into law. Though the withholding system may bring in the state more revenue from income taxes than the present .system, it i.s likely that as presently written the additional revenue aftc^r the first year will hardly meet the cost of administering the plan. After the state gets and spcnd.s the multi-million dollar windfall in 1960, it may wfdl find the plan is more costly than its present supporter.s will admit.

It should also be realized that once the withholding sy.stem goes into operation,, the slate will have little choice but to continue the plan. It will not be able to go back to the present system unless it is prepared to go for a year without collecting income taxes in order to revert from the withholding system to the pay-in-April plan.

Hearing Set On Advertisina Bil.

Once the windfall is spent, we doubt the state will ever be able to go a year without collecting income taxes.

With these things in mind, it is imperative that the legislators consider the withholding proposal in minute detail. It is not enough to say, It will give us what we need to baiance the budget for the biennium', and let the matter drop with that. The legislators must look considerably beyond the $27 million windfall the withholding system will provide in 1960.

Once North Carolina adopts the withholding system for collecting personal income taxes, it will not be able to turn back.

The legislators must make sure the law, In detail as well as in principal, will be the kind of legislation that will be workable, practical, and stand the test of time.

The Logical Save Water

Way To Resources

By LYNN NISBKT ADVERTISINO - House Judi clary II committee has scheduled a public hearing for next Thurs* day morning. May 21, on the bill Introduced by Reps. Sneed High of Cumberland and Harry Horton of Chatham prohibiting newspapers and magaxlne adverts-Ing of alcoholic beverages. To somewhat less degree it would re.strlct billboard, radio and television advertising.

Majority of the newspapers published In North Carolina, even In counties and cities where sale.s of alcoholic beverages is legal do not accept such advert-Lslng, At the same time many of these papers oppose legislative action outlawing the advertising of a product which the l,eglsla-ture has said may be legally sold.

Postal laws are strict against some types of advertising and the printing of pornographic or salacious material. There are ^both Slate and Federal statutes "regulating certain types of ad-vcrllslng. Congressional acts give a premium in interstate highway allocations to Stale which ban or control billboard advertising beyond the limits of the right of way. While these restrictive measures have been opposed by segments of the advertising media they have been generally accepted as appropriate exercise of police power. [

Members of the I^eglslature are nue.stlonlng whether these prece-deids Justify outright ban against any advertising of a legal product, especially alnee provisions of the bill are discriminatory as Ireiween instate aid out-of-state publications and among adver-' tislng media within the state. Legislators are concerned more atwut the prcedent such a law might aet than about the Imme-dlnte moral or economic impuct PORTS D. Leon Williams, executive director of the N.C. Ports Authority, says the shortage of warehouse space at Wilmington and Morehead docks hasn't yet reached the point of turning buslne.ss away "but we want to do something before we do reach that point"

At the present time the Authority is trying to get reinstated a $i,3(H).(HK) reque.sl for capital Improvements Included in the budget but ommltted from the recommended column.

Williams alKuinds with optimism over the continued growth of the two stale ports and the service they can render,

"Much credit," he says, "goes to our agriculture and inland Industry which has Increased its use of the two deep water termt nals Attractive freight rates and easy access to the posts 1ms also been a factor In tncreaaed trade."

The Increased use of the ports is especially noted In mbacco with 104,(H)0 hogsheads of this commodity handled in liir>8. Total gain of exports In I95B over 1957 was per cent, While North Carolina's exports rose, a decline was noted in the rest of the nation,

Other benefits; Exports. It Is estimated, represents full time employment for 12,000 workers In eight principal Industries In the state, plus Increased earnings to farmers and agricultural workens

Brisk port tcade, Williams says, has also added 118 million of direct Income to the state In the last two years. This represents 50 per cent more than the $12 million spent or being spent on capital Improvements.

items exported through the two deep water terminals, In addition to tobacco, Include grain, textile products, scrap Iron, native lumber and machinery, wood pulp and hardwoods and finished furniture products.

At the same time, Williams pointed out, the entire state Is profiting by such commodity Imports as steel products, petroleum, Inedible oils, plywood, burlap and seed potaUM*. Mahogany IrtUKirts find their way directly to furniture factories In the state and wire fencing Imports from (iermany, Belgium, Japan and Italy directly to North Carolina arniers.

With this growth, the Ports Director Is quick to point out that the hope la to continue expansion nf the docks by Increasing bu.^iinesH gradually "This way." he saya, "we can still offer inspection of goods which helps save money for our eustoiijer*."

AUAIN8T EXAMINATIONS Mrs, Lillian Cover of Cherokee wants It clearly understood shell have no truck with basing teacher pay riilsea on examination scores.

She Isn't sure whether one of her former teacher would have rated high on such an examination and doe.snt care. She remembers mainly that this teacher was a teacher to top them all.

"She taught the first, second and third grades, probably 60 chll-dcd 111 the little red school house on the hill," she recalls, "I waa In tlie first grade."

The benches were hard, the days long and the only way they lived through It was through g teacher who "knew and loved children," Mrs. Cover said.

She recalls tliat when .she grew tired, the teacher would spot It "call me to her side, let me stand In her chah' back of her. take Iter hair down and comb it. She hud long braids that would touch the floor,"

Pa.H.sage hy the House of a hill to create a Department of Water Kesources moves North Carolina a step closer to havinK one central policy-making group to protect one of its moat valuable natural resources . . , water.

It i.s something North Carolina has long needed.

And without such a department furnished with sufficient powers to carry on its work, the state might well find one of its most valuable natural resources of today completely worthles.s in the years ahead.

Only in recent years has North Carolina exhibited any significant interest protecting the future of its water resources. Only in recent years has the state suddenly stopped taking for granted its vast water supplies. It ha.s now come to realize that its vast water resources can be ruined like those of some other states. It has come to realize that our rivers and streams can no longer be used as public dumping p or'iTT Tii^XTr/

grounds one generation and remain as.sets to another, tiy U\JN oCxILIJINZi

In groping for an answer to the problem in the past few years, several state departments and agen cies have been given varying degrce.s of control over our water resources. They have also been charged

with varyintr decree of rcHponaihility for necing that ^ near-redhead

our water resources are properly developed and used, who labors in the papers com-and that at the same time they are properly protected posing room has a new love, from ruin. **** bght up and his voice

While the hodge-podge of control that now exist ?aTtg"aMt''a*dftTak and

among the several agencie.s i.s better than no control racing jalopy,

at all, it has fallen far short of giving NoHh Caro- The term "jalopy" doesnt real-liiia the kind of cohtrol it should have over its water ly 9t the cars involved, but Ive resources. The new propo.sal, far more comprehen.sive and far more logical, appears a far better answer to * the problem.

North Carolina has great wealth in its rivers, streams and underground water supplies. To realize (he potential of the.se water resources, they mu.st be

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: Dirt Track Has An Allure

He has two cousins who are teamed up in the pasttime, and the association has our boy aglow . . . "and all that Jazz", as he would .say.

Theres a rather ancient Chevy developed and used. In the process, however, it is involved, with a 1953-model mot-essential that they not be ruined. With this re.sponsi- lenders, no seats texcept

l.ility plHcod In ihe hHn<l of ono gcncy. the state oto" id

can develop a much more effective water develop- inflammable material removed.

meat and conservation program.

More Vigorous Tolicies By Ike

and it has over-sized tires on the back wheels. Counting the

crash helmet and roll bar, John figures the Investment represents about $100 and the labors of love: but you can tell there must have been a profitable margin of enjoyment to boot.

There is a quarter-mile dirt track on the other side of Tar-boro which attracts maybe 25 similarly cut down cars on a Sunday afternoon. Another track has been recently opened near Ormondsville; so the sport seems to have an element of growth.

The tracks have rules, prizes and safety and emerency features which lend an extra appeal.

Because of track limitations, racers operate in second gear . . . getting up to 60 mph. in the process . . . and I guess the noise and strain would compare

with 150 miles an hour in the bigger leagues.

Theres a lot of other distractions around for people to get wrapped up in. with less to be said for them than the dirt track hobby. And tinkering with an old car is pure fascination, if you ask the fascinated.

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By JAMK.S MARLOW

WASHINGTON (API - Prr.it-deiit Elenhow'pr has nrvrr hern so much on his own In the presidency as he Is now, on problems at home and abroad.

With the departure of the two men upon whom he relied imt completely Sherman Adam and John Foster Dulles he has had to depend more on himself,

Tlie result has been more vigor and aggresslvenesik In dealing with domestic LiBue.i and foreign affairs,

Adams, who quit under unhappy circumstances last September. was more than Jiwt Ei-senhoweri top White Uou.He aide.

He was a combination buffer, filter, work-remover and very tough chief of staff.

No President ever relied more absolutely on hU secretary of state than EUsenhower did on Dulles until cancer forced Dulles* leslgnallon last month Although the President Is the one ulllmafelv re.sponslhle for American foreign iHiltcy. there was not much doubt It was Dul-le.s who made the policy With the rxcrptU)n of the former secrelHiy of the treasury, George Humphrey, no other man was ever credited with as much Intluenee on tlUsenhower as Adams and Dulles Humphrev. who quit In mld-19.57, reportedly sliU has Et.sen-howers very attenttve ear on matters eeononUe, financial and budgetary Bui he Ls no longer a day to day adviser.

Elsenhowers Increa.sed aggre.s-slvenes. shows clearly In his relationship with Congress.

For most of his White House years exepl arouml eleeUon time Elsenhower leaned over buekward to avoid contlict with Congre.ss Giu* of the outstanding examples w a.s In 19.57 That year he. Humidjrey, and the budget dlUH'tor had worketl months on the national budget, supi)O.H(Hlly to keep expected ex peiuses to Hie lowest iios.stlde tig lire

Elsenhower even said his hud get was as light as he could make II, But Humphrey startled the counfjy by saying It could

be cut. 111 no time at all Elsenhower wa.s urging Congress to cut it any place U could find a soft spot.

This year Its different. Elsenhower has fought Congress, and fought U hard, in a completely opposite direction.

Anxious now that the budget he balanced that is. that spending doesnt exceed income lie has repeatedly slugged the Democratlc-run Congress for any suggestion he has asked too little and that spending be boosted.

This by Itself Illustrates an odd spectacle.

Any President who is not going to run against supposedly loses Influence during his last White House years not only In Congress but tn his party generally. And, because of the constitutional two-term limit, Elsenhower cant run again.

But his Influence with his own Republican Party has not noticeably diminished at all. Perhai this is one of the reasons: Elsenhower. In two piTsidcuUal flections, ha.s shown himself so infinitely better liked than his party, which has lost Congress three times In a row. that the Republicans there dont dart cross or forsake him.

Actually, the party has no leadership hut Elsenhower's anyway. So it's no surprise they tiall along with him If there l.H any suiprlse. It's In the way the Democrat liave acted.'

They were extremely careful not to rough him up and by so doing antagonize the voters In Ills first term, They were Ju.st as careful In hts next two years. But tlien eanie the 19.> congre.sloiial elections.

The Democrats won so over-whelmnigly thev .seemed in good position particularly bi*cause of the supiHKsedly w'aning Influence of a last lerm President to do a.i they please and ride over him roughshod,

Tliey mnde souud of doing Hut with Ills budget this year until tie fought hack. Now they're playing cauttoiuH, espeelally since he ha.s the power lo veto them, aiul maylw' make it stick, any tunc thev croxs him.

i'tie result liax been a v'rv con.Hei vrtltve,pel formalice In Coii-wte.H., which Is the way Euscn-hower wauls it.

(Henderson Dispiiich)

What happens at the foreign ministers conference in Geneva, and later at a summit meet If one is to be held, will depend upon the altitude Khrushchev Ukes in both Instances. Gromyko is hts mouthpiece Just now, while the head man will make the decisions later In the summer. In each case, Khrushchev will be negotiating from strength and flexing his muscles in confidence over the nuclear strength he possesses.

The Russian dictator knows far more about what the United States has In the way of defense capability than all but a comparatively few Americans. Assurances come from officials in the top echelons here, but ever and anon Uiese outgivings are questioned by others. The result is that the people as a whole. If they think at all, are confused and hence are ignorant of the true facts.

Of one thing there can be certainty, namelv, that It will be dangerous to underestimate Russian potentials. Khru.shchev may guzzle his vodka, but he Ls both informed and capable. He weighs every move he makes, and likes to hurl his boasts in a manner Intended to strike fear In the free world.

One of the greatest handicaps of the Western powers ts that they are them.selves not entirely of a single mind. Conscious of its own weakness, Britain is inclined to make concessions, Adenauer and DeGauIle would be firmer, but with the care always not to go loo

far in Jibing at the bear. There is, too, a sizable element in this country that would Incline toward appeasement, in the full knowledge, If informed at all. and if they can recall the past, that such a retreat In the end spells disaster.

Conferences at Geneva at thjf present time and later in the .summer may constitute for the United States a rendezvous with ^destiny. It could be, of course, "^Ihat the evU day can be pbstpon-ed. But it cannot be averted permanently, If the United States Is weak, there is good reason for speculation as to what has being done with the forty-odd been and Is being done with the forty-odd billions of dollars appropriated annually for defen.se. Why hasnt this colossal outlay made us strong, and why are we behind the Soviets, as many fear, and which may be true?

Americans generally are willing to leave such things to responsible officials In the hope and confidence that they will take us secure. But there are many who wonder If actually we are. Perhaps we cah strike back in devastating manner if attacked, but whatever destruction might result could not compensate for what had already been done here at home.

Khrushchev Is probably as confident as one could be that he will outmaneuver the United States and its allies In the meetings of minds. He could be right in that Americans Jittery at these negotiations and manipulations progress.

rt has been oft said the Henderson strike violence was getting a lot of attention outside North Carolina; but how much, was left largely to the Imagination.

Some evidence along that line turned up yesterday with a few old newspapers that reached my desk.

The Rogers Daily News (of Rogers, Arkansas) for April 24 played up the strike airife as the second biggest story on its front page with an account of a night of gunfire.

And The Sarasota Journal (Sarasota, Fla.) frontpaged the violence with a 2-colqmn headline on both the April 23 and April 27 Issues.

Those were Just a couple of available instances. Quite revealing.

So when reporters and commentators remark that the Henderson violence Is a widespread story, they arent exaggerating a bit.

The return of Uie 17-year-k>cust Li something else making recent news. A first-hand report on thetr arrival is available.

Clarice Galloway tells me her weekend travels took her along Highway 258, up by the Roanoke River, and the locusts were whooping it up. And I read that (Continued on Page 6)

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) The problem of letting go is very hard.

It is hardest, of course, on the individual who reaches a corporate retirement age and still wants to keep on working, usually for the same corporation.

The main loyalty of his life outside his family has been tied to his Job. He often feels he has been able to adjust better to the changing demands of his Job t.han to those at home. Sometimes, as he is needed less at home when the children are on their own, he feels the need to be bigger at hia office.

Then, usually at 65, the office doesn't need him any more.

What is done to cushion a faith-ftil employe against the stunning fact that he is no longer a corporate .necessity?

Pew corporations today do more than give him -a corporate farewell. The trend, however, is in the other way.

One example is a preretirement program established five years ^ ago by Mutual of New York, one of Americas largest insurance companies. They set up a course among their employes oa how to stop work, how to let go. The idea was put into effect by Vice President George Wil-gus, personnel executive. He felt that although a survey showed two thirds of major U. S, companies do something to help employes on the edge of retirement. most of them dont cushion the blow enough.

His solution?

A year before retirement an employe is taught how te retire. He can take a day a week off from his job. He can attend on company time six to seven monthly classes on how to face up to the problems of re-tii'ement.

The clas.ses Include discussion on where to live, how to handle financial responsibilities, health problems, the development of hobbies, the prospect of taking other jobs.

"These people can and want to be useful to themselves and to society, said Wilgus. "All they need is a little steering before they leave their jobs.

"The human cry now Ls: it is terrible to retire people. We try to show them what they can do to be happy."

What are the results?

"The main benefit is that they think in advance on a systematic basis about the problems of retirement, said Wilgus.

Wilgus has to face, of course, the fact that growing numbers of healthy elders arent willlnf to quit voluntarily at 65.

Earlier fliis month Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell addressed the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

"In 1970 there will be 20 million people in this country over 65 years of age," he said.

"At the same time, because our birth rate was very low during the depression years of the 193(te, there will actually be nearly two million fewer 20-to-29 year-olds in our male population in the 1960s than there are now. Now the enlightened employer coaxe.s the old-timers to let go gracefully. If a labor shortage develops, will he have then to coax the oU-timers to say in harness?

The possibility is he may.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS NOT.AS CRUTCHES

Thomas Carlyle more than a century ago wrote a chapter in his Sartor Resartus about the people who are always looking for a piU which they may take and thus be happy, healthy, and prosperou.1. The doughty old Scotsman who annoyed hLi generation no end by pulling their hair and slapping their faces and thinking up new ways for calling them a passcl" of fooLs. had supreme contempt for anyone who would not face life as It is and take the bitter with the sweet, tbt* hard with the easy.

Singularly enough, we have arrived today at a drug age. Its passible to take pills now whch will tranqtiilize, stabilize, and

hypnotize. You swallow th<*m down with a gulp of water and presto, life is doay again, anxiety has disappeared, the world is Just as lovely as anything could possible be beyond the pearly gates.

But tie trouble with these pills Is two-fold. First, in order to get the same results you have to take two tomorrow or next week and on and on until youre taking them in wholesale doses. And the second catch is that every Ume you take them, every me you rely on a pill to do what you ought to do for yourself, you become less a man, less your own master, less a growing purposeful soul.

Pills have their place but as medicine, not as crutches.

'!^est Of Us Carry The Burden

Opinions In Brief

"Womni'i (Hshtonx srr those thing. that go In one yrai siui out the other," Winston

Biilrin JuuinHl.

' Fejitlun bedfilnt pv for work hot done, for servue not prrhunied is a wrong Ingredient la any work sgiTentrat in

any ti-nif or Indu.stiv" Rpi -kaiu' (Wioh i t'hronhle.

"JOiM null Mil ha to l>e s bu-l-or u fould not suivivo, or would n<U iPtntthi fiee H ij, iso v-rviiT and an it, and Jiisti-fie Its exi-sfence In genrral and partirular M'.e hy mnuinlng u . New York Thm*,

Hv ELMER ROE.S.SNER

Nobody pay. any afttention, but W(> keep wrttlug here that the trouble with Hie United States in-conie tax syattun is that it Is luced with Klmnilckx The rich, the smart and those wtio hire tax experts pay ie. The rest of us carry the burtlen. Now if you aie n .lalarletl or wage earning .slob, can you convert your inetllcal expmtscs Into s hiuslne.ss dcrUicUon? Nut without running the rLk of spending thks .summer'.s vacation in Leavenworth. But Lets say you're a partner or a sole proprietor Youre mak-liig good money $2.5.000 per. You aLso have .substantial doctor and rientLst bilLs each year-at Ica.st $1,000 sometimes more. In dditlon. your drug bills run about $200

NOT Mmi DEDUlTlON

True youre entitled lo a medical expeu.se deduction for these nunmtji but. in your cause. It doe.'in't help very much First, none of the.^c drugs count -they doul exceed I per cent of ad

justed gross Income. Then, of the $LUOU of the doctor and dentist charges only $250 (the excess over 3 per cent of adjusted gross income is actually deductible.

Pretty much of a waste. Isnt it?

Here's what to do; Incorporate your pariner.ihlp or proprietorship and elect lo avoid the corporate tax. Then let the cor-poi atlon pick up the tab for all of your medical charges, including drugs under and accident and health plan. Re.suU: the cor

poration geUi a deduction for the full amount paid but the payments aie tax-free to you.

ADDED BENEFITS

With the election to avoid corporate taxes in effect, the cor-poraUon's deduction really becomes yours. H reduces your gross Income Hence, in efec-t, you have converted a limited Itemized dedueUon Into a complete biwlness deduction You can still claim the standard deduction!

On the facts here a $2.5.000 aalaiT and u cuedicai

bilLithe corporation can put $l.2(K) lax free Into an executives pocket at an after tax cost of $576.

Fantastic? Yes. But the la.1t six paragraphs are Uited, almost word for word, from "inior-niation," published by Prentice-Hall, one of the most knowing advisory organizations in the tax field. Thats the advice the fat cala are getUny from high-pricrd tax servicea.

But you? Get rich? Incorporate! Don't pay regular taxes like the rest of the slobs! ANOTHER GIMMICK In The New York Times, this advertisement appeared "Do you yet all the tax-free money you are allowed?

"Do you know how to pay for your retirement ,i>ut of corporate dollars. wBlioui ouiting your lake-home pay pmd without touching your persbnal funds?. . .

"Do you know how to jet your corporation pay your extate taxes- plus your funeral and ad-nilniHrative costs when you die and do U OU of tax-free dollars'' It ran be don*, without loucluiqi a cent of y our personal

income money, withcHit touchinf a ceut of your .savings."

This is advertised by Kenneth E Weeks Associates, also a reputable firm.

It seems that you have a choice of three immediate actions. You can hire a tax advisor, incorporate and shove your tax burden on to u* slobs, or you can clip out this column and mail It to your Congressman. Or you can keep on paying other people a taxes

.SHRIMP.f.OVERS OK .

THE WORLD. REJOICE! '

Speaking of taxes, you may be content to know that some of yours has gone to pay for publication of a 168-page illustrated book on "Morphology of the White Shrimp Penaeus Setiferus Linnaeus 1738.)"

If you dont believe the ELien-hower adminLitration is spending your taxes by printing bodks like this, sead $1 to the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25. D C,, and a-xk for "Catalog No. I 49.27.J45." Thl.N, for mot taxpayers, could be en autobiography.