PAGE POUnTHE DAILY REFLECTTUK, UKILC.K/ILLE, N. C.

Tuetday, April 19, 1960

Tuesday, April 19, 1960

Why Should You Worry?

Capital Outlays Really Essential

One has only to look over the list of permanent improvements to be made in Greenville under the proposed $559,500 city bond issue to come to the ^conclusion that the proposed capital outlay program is essential to the continued welfare and progress of Greenville.

Most citizens probably are not anxious for the city to increase its bonded indebtedness, but the present bonded debt of the city is well within reason. Even adding the proposed half million to the bonded indebtedness of the city would allow the outstanding bonds of the City of Greenville to remain well within the range considered sound by municipalities throughout the state.

It is true that taxpayers of the city would have to defray the cost of the new bonds over a period of years, but without the improvements, the net cost to taxpayers likely would be greater than the cost of retiring the proposed bonds.

Almost half the total of the proposed bond issue is designated for street paving throughout the city in order to alleviate the excessive cost of keeping dirt streets in Greenville in reasonable condition. This is a cost that bears heavy in the citys budget year after year, and it is a cost which can be eliminated only if most of the dirt streets are paved. Furthermore, the amount of money the city could save from its street maintenance budget year after year would more than retire the bonds which would be issued for the street paving program.

The net result should be a considerable long range savings to local taxpayers if the city can pave

^i^esponsibility

Also Is Involved.

By LYNN NISBET

HOME RULE Every election year there develops a lot of talk about home rule for local governments In North Carolina. Something of the same kind of thing goes on all the time in connection with the clamor for State rights as contrasted with Federal control. The home rule argumenta sound good, until the inescapable fact is added that authority and privilege involve responsibility.

Lately there has been in this state a good deal of talk about the necessity for local governments to assume a larger share of the cost of education and welfare. The idea goes even further. Governor Hodges told the CA{D board at its recent meeUng that communities must take on a larger part of the burden of community planning and Industry hunting.

Several of the larger cities have their own planning commissions and engineers. The community planning division w'as set up In C&D three years ago to help towns and less than 25,000 plan for orderly growth. The Federal government puts up about hall the money (or prt-liminary planning, the State a much smaller portion and the community making up the balance. It Is often necessary to continue the work beyond the point where Federal aid is obtainable. That 1s where Federal aid is obtainable. That is where the communities are expected to come in and take ovcreither individually or what is more practical in many Instances, by joint participation of several town#.

The theory -Is that since the small communities cannot provide planning services like the larger cities, the State owes an obligation to aid them in obtaining the services. However, there is no obligation on part of the State to pay the whole billfor which tax money collected from the cities would be used.

CO-OPERATION There is growing tendency for small communities to co-operate In promotional projects. The area development associations offer fine examples of volunteer co(H9era-tlon. One of the main items in the program proposed by David McConnell, candidates might go together in a district tax levy to provide (or induntrial promotion. These tax districts would be along similar lines to the library and public health districts which have proven satisfactory in numerous places.

One of the principal redutre-ments for modem industry is good air service. Here again communities which cannot afford individual airfields can get together on central facilities, or

failing the advantages of a big

airport and through liner services, they can organize air taxi systems to feed into the central ports.

APPRECIATION The in-dustry-hunters say it is Just as important for home communities to show appreciation for industry already established there as to bring in new business. This, too, is largely a local responsibility. Governor Hodges has written the chairman of every board of county commissioners in the state urging locally sponsored industry appreciation'* programs. The zest for new industry, even to the point of using tax money collected from established business to bring in competition has sometimes offended the old businessmen who have been around all the time. The industry appreciation days are designed to show them they are loved as 'much u tiie newcomers.

HOME FOLKS - The wide publteity given to industry hunting forays to New York, Chicago and Western Europe has distracted attention from the very remarkable development of new business and expansion of established plants by home folks. The record shows that additions and expansion of already going business provided more Jobs than the entirely new Installations during recent months.

After careful consideration of all the factors involved, including the probability of setting a dangerous precedent, the CAsD board approved a long term lease of 130 acres of Bladen Lakes Forest lands to the Baxnes brothers for a blueberry project. The Barnes boys expect to spend a good many thousands of dollars draining and preparing the land, presently unproductive, and promise a new locally sponsored industry worth $100,000 a year. One of the most effective arguments offered in favor of the project was presented by Max Watson, Forest City and Spin-dale Industrialist and member of the CltD board. He quipped: If this proposition had been submitted by a group from New Jersey, yod fellows would have jumped to approved It. Why hesitate because our own home folks are wilUng to back It?"

The long term lease rath* than outright sale of the land is in keeping with policy adopted several year* ago by the State Board of Education with respect to marginal lands then controlled by the board and now handled by the Department of Administration. The lease have recapture clauses and mineral ex^ptlons which protect the interests of the State, while permitting proftt-maklng utilization of the land.

most of its existing dirt streets and thus realize a sizeable reduction in its annual street maintenance budget.

Another major item in the proposed bond issue is earmarked for construction of a fire department substation in the eastern section of the city. It is a project the city will have to undertake immediately if its fire insurance classification is to remain as it is. Unless the additional substation, properly equipped, is provided, local citizens will find their fire insurance rates increased.

Here again, the $65,000 expenditure for the substation would be considerably less costly to local residents than would the total of the increase in fire insurance premiums.

Another $75,000 in the proposed bond issue is designated for sidewalk construction in the vicinity of schools throughout the city. In the interest of the safety of the many hundreds of children who walk to school in the city day after day, the expenditure is a must. Without these sidewalks the city is unnecessari-y ly exposing its youngsters to traffic hazards whicly might result in injuries or loss of fife. /

A similar amount proposed for widening Eim Street from Tenth to the 264 bypass is essential to the adequate traffic flow through a part of the city. Without the improvement the traffic flow in that as well as other areas of the city will continue inadequate because of the existing bottleneck on a heavily traveled thoroughfare.

The $15,000 proposed for heating and air conditioning facilities at Sheppard Memorial Library and the $45,000 for construction of a new Carver Library will provide important assets for the city. Carver Library is gro.ssly inadequate to meet the demands upon it. If it is to fill the purpose it should, it must have adequate facilities, and certainly it is the citys responsibility to provide these facilities.

Together, the above mentioned items account for $500,000 of the proposed bond issue. The remaining $59,500 is earmarked primarily for repairs to existing city buildings, a garage and equipment for the street department, and needed items which have not been included in the annual capital outlay budgets.

An item-by-itcm review of the bond issue proposal shows the outlays are urgently needed by the city, and in the long rum they will not pose an unduly heavy burden on local taxpayers. In the two or three months before the matter if finally decided in a referendum, local citizens should give careful consideration to the proposals, and to the city needs which can be provided for through the bond issue.

Sad Commentary On Big Citys Troubles

A sad commentary on big city life was included in an advisory issued by the New York Police Department to womens groups of the city.

It urged women to avoid shortcuts home at night, to keep doors locked, report anyone loitering around schools or playgrounds, and gave instructions on what to do if they became victims in a robbery, burglary or attack.

The advisory probably will be helpful in New Yorks fight against crime, but it is a sad commentary indeed when a police department anywhere finds it necessary to issue such a statement. It reflects not on the police department, but on the city itself.

A community in which women are not safe on the streets or in their homes after dark has a great deal of improving to do whether it is a village or the largest and suppo.sedly the most progressive city in the world.

Reading the advisory of the New York police gives us another reason for being glad we live in a small Southern community.

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By ALVIN TAYLOR

"maroved Route To Coast

We took a trip to Atlantic Beach during this summer-like weekend and saw signs of highway activity which should make the trip from Greenville even *afer and faster in years to come.

First there was evidence of considerable earth moving south of Vanceboro where work on the long awaited U. S. 17 bypass apparently has started.

Then at Havelock where the present four-lane boulevard ends, detour signs have been erected directing traffic around bridge construction there. The

plan i? to extend the four lane drive for some distance beyond Havelock.

We understand . 8. 70 is eventually slated for dual laning all the way into Morchead.

So gradually what was once a treacherous drive Is becoming a pleasant one-day trip for Pitt Countians.

Every beachgoer remembers the torturous drive Irom New Bern on beyond Havelock only a few years ago before the modern four-lane limited access road was completed. Now that 17 mile stretch Is the easiest part of the

Other Editors Saying... Hints And Indications

By JAMES MARLOW

WAdHINGTON (API Frenchmen call him Big Charlie. He thinks big. too, but not always along the sanu lines as his allies. Since he is also stubborn, he can be a problem for them and they for him.

80, when French President Charles de Gaulle comes here Friday for a solid weekend of talks with President Eisenhower, neither is likely to have his mind changed about anything. But, since they are old friends, they ,hould get along.

Because he is 6-foot-4, De Oaulle has been able to look down on people. But his air of pride, grandeur, silence and aloofness aie to some extent deliberately created.

He has explained that such an air gives him the prestige and authority he feels are needed his special role as the leader of a new and Just - as-great-as ever France,

He is the prime example of a man who can start out without a dime and W'lnd up being president. When he escaped to England during the Nazi occupation of Prance in World War 11, his country was flat on its back.

He had no army but by his vision and his faith in the future of France he made himself both the symbol of his country undaunted and a rallying point for French freedom.

In his pride In a France of the futurewhich often looked like arrogance he annoyed President Roosevelt. There was even the suspicion that what he aspired to was a dictatorship.

But when he returned to a liberated France, the power he held only briefly he abandoned to the politicians who he seems to despise. But it was long enough to show that he believed in a democratic government and that he was much to the left of any American president, before or since, in his social and economic tmnking."

He came out of retirement to save Prance from a new chaos of his own making. It is as head of a France he revitalized tliat he comes heis now lo see

Eisenhower before they meet May 16 at the summit in Paris i,th Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

What docs he want at the summit? What do he and Eisenhower have to talk about? It is not clear.

Last week his foreign minister agreed with the American, British and West German foreign ministers that the West will take a firm stand against the division of Germany and Khrushchevs push to get them out of West Berlin.

Britain and this country to get agreement with Khrushchev on East-West control of weapons, shipped to underdeveloped countries in Asia and Africa.

Also he seems to want the Soviet Union and the West to coordinate their Ideas on economic aid to backward peoples. The United States has been cold to both proposals.

De Gaulle, who tries to take a long view of history, may be right in his ideas about cooperation with the Soviet Union on weapons and aid. In the end this country may be glad to make such a deal.

Two examples show the extreme determination of De

Gaulle in refusing to let France lose its identity or to depend on the mercy or iriendshlp of anyone:

1. His resistance against letting French military forces be integrated with their allies in

NATO. He tells Frenchmen that the task of defending France belongs first to Frenchmen.

2. Although the United States ..nd the Soviet Union were years ahead in nuclear development he pushed and is pushing French development.

It Ls easy to see how he

could envision the time when the two big nuclear powers, the nited States and the Soviet Union, might decide to divide the world between them.

It can hardly be done so long as France becomes a third nuclear force This, in DeGaulle.s mind, could make Prance the baJancmg power in the acrid.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The political rumor mill, which always does its greatest grinding during presidential campaign, is working overtime these days. Among the major hints and indications of recent origin are these items: President Eisenhower will get into the act in a big way by actively aiding Vice-President Richard Nixon: New Yorks Gov. Nelson Rockefeller is preparing to make a big convention bid, and a major move is shaping up to pull uncommitted Democratic state leaders into the camp of Sen. John Kennedy.

As for the strong intervention in Nixons behalf expected by the President, it Is said that El.senhower is genuinely worried that Nixon is being handicapped because he is not getting as much publicity as the Democratic presidential candidates. Nixons popularity as registered by recent polls has slumped. and the President is aald to believe the reason is that the Vice Presidents name has not been featured in the news enough.

Two moves arc supposedly being planned to erase this Nixon disadvantage. One is that the President will find some early important assignments for Nixon, and perhaps will bring him into the spotlight In connection with Eisenhowers trips to the summit, to the Soviet Union and Japan. The other is that Nixon will step up his personal activities in May and June with a grand schedule of personal 'appearances in major cities.

Elsewhere on the Republican scene, there are Indications that Govl Rockefeller has definite plans for taking the GOP presidential nomination, despite his

sudden withdrawal as an official candidate last winter. Rockefeller at the time of his withdrawal was snubbed by Republican state leaders in his own New York. However, in recent speeches and interviews, he has made comments that make it plain he is working for and would heed a convention draft.

Add this to an expected tour of speaking engagements, and it appears evident that Rockefeller cannot yet be counted out He is said to be planning major addresses on highly controversial subjects which arc now being evaded by the administration.

On the Democratic side there is every indication that Kennedy is gaining strength with political leaders and popularity with voters- Had he won a great victory in the Wisconsin primary, it is certain that leaders of several big states would have come over to his side immediately. Even with his debatable triumph, Kennedy apparently has gained much and stands to gain even more.

Democratic sentiment seems to be swinging in Kennedys favor, and his recent gains could be the groundwork on which a band-wagon movement might soon be started.

At any rate, Nixon appeari to be headed for a bigger fight than was expected earlier, and this is causing some concern among his supporters, even the President. Moves to boost the vice President with a grand publicity campaign can now be expected, for he must fight not only the undercover Rockefeller effort, bu; must also begin putting down a solid foundation on which to base his battle against the Democratic nominee.

trip.

And for Pitt Cmmtians there are unhappy recoUeclion* of rough driving on N. C. 43 from Greenville to Vanceboro two or three year* ago.

That stretch of road was made difficult because an asphalt strip had been added along the old narrow concrete portion of the roadway.

Re-surfacing of N. C. 43 took care of that problem.

With those improvements, even now the trip to the beach is not too bad. Vanceboro Is a bottleneck for both beach traffic and regular north-south bound vehicles, of course. But this will soon be eliminated when present plans are carried out

There is one other project needed to make a trip-"to-Atlantic Beach a leisurely drive.

That would be improvement of road conditions leading onto Bogue Island. The bridge across the sound is modern but already woefully Inadequate. It has been suggested that another bridge should be built further up the island.

Then theres the problem of handling all the traffic once it gets on the island.

All-in-all, however, going to Atlantic Beach is nothing like the fight It once was. And modern highway construction ha* meant the difference.

Opinions In Brief

Soapy Williams and Walter Reuther have made big promises. Now the people of Michigan are seeing some of the holes In them. Chattanooga News-Free Press,

The Teamster* earned the 56 congressmen whom they have named for defeat' in their monthly publication. In the present temper of the country this is good campaign material for the lawmakers on the Teamsters purge list. It should win a lot of votes fornot against them 'The Miami Herald.

Money doesn't bring happiness. The man with five million dollars is no happier than the man with four million.Cochran (Oa.) Journal.

If w'e could first know where we are and Ivhither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. Abraham Lincoln.

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY COPYRIGHT, 1160, KING FEATURES SUNDICATE, INC.

A phenomenon of American business is the expansion of the expense account as an additional form Of salary, Just as the stock option is an additional form of salary. These are fringe benefits for management. Just as the workers require fringe benefits In addition to wages-As competent management is hard to find, corporationa have found it necessary to make attractive offers of expense accounts and stock options.

The reason for (his the uh' coiLscionable income tax which deprives the more competent of the nation of the fruits ot their talents. Every prudent man, with some regard for his family, seeks to set up an estate for his wife and children, and as our obligations to all parts of the world are such that the American has to be taxed, even to provide birth contfoF literature, this Is difficult without a gimmick. So the Income tax has become the mother of gimmicks.

Now the Treasury comes along and announces that it is going to- perform mayhem on the expense account. The substance of the new arrangement Is:

Internal Revenue Agents will be instructed to ascertain whether the employer is obtaining acceptable and satisfactory accounting for expenses from its officers and employees. If the Internal "Revenue Service Agent finds that the method used and the information submitted is not in accordance with acceptable business and accounting standards the expenses may be disallowed as a deduction by the emrioyer and the personal return* of the employees will be examined unless they have included in their gross income the amount of the expenses for which they have been reimbursed.

That means no more swindle sheets; no more expenses that cannot be absolutely associated with the business in hand; no more yachts, or rent paid for additional home*, or no more company payments for private parties. Half the swank restaurants in New York will have to shut down, for they thrive on the expense account. Businessmen. particularly those seeking big orders, have discovered that it is d$Mffi^eeous to give a prospective customer an amazing meal lo a chic restaurant. with pretty women, wives or othlfW||e. to keep the company interesting. After ail, business usually exists to make sales of one kind or another and If that is the way sales are best made, what harm is done if a few dollars are spent to make a buyer feel good?

Apparently, the Treasury does not want the buyers to feel good. In fact, the buyers might find It more cheefrul to buy Italian or German or Japanese goods. They will do it.

Government bureaucrats are usually not familiar with sales practices. If they believe that business is only done from 9 to 5. they disclose their proletarian ignoranee. Business is done whenever and wherever it is convenient. Sometimes it is done at a ball-game. Sometimes it is done over a cocktail. Sometimes it is done at a theater party. Sure, Jake is a good fellow. Ill give him a breakevery salesman knows what that means.

But to the bureaucrat, with an I.B.M. mind, it can mean nothing, except that the salesman is working overtime and should get time-and-a-half pay and that the buyer goes in for payola aod should earoosed. If these uxvderpal(2" ttihirons of bureaucracy keep It up, we shall soon have no business at all. because nowhere else in the world are such policies pursued and no one needs to buy from those who sell with so little wit.

So the expense account is to be monitored beyond common sense and all company accountants have been notified that if a fellow is caught without accountants have been notified that if a fellow is caught with out suitable dress for sai occasion -vhich Is important for his business, if he charges the outfit to his company as a (Continued on page five)

TiDoff Of Moderate Demands

By ELMER ROESSNER

The insistent demands of labor leaders for extension of Social Security to provide health and medical benefits for pensioners is a tipoff that labors demands on industry will be moderate this year.

For survival, labor leaders must brin| back bacon lor members.

Strenuous efforts to bring back sidemeat in the form of broader Social Security benefits is a tacit confession that there is little hope of any tenderloin in the form of lai'ge and widespread wage lifts.

There are three reasons why labor leadership is ip no position to make a wage push this year:

1, Few labor agreements expire this year. Stel and auto peace is assured by long contracts; coal has ceased to be a pivotal wage factor. The railroad operating unions, while firm, show a willingness to arbitrate disputes. Thei'e art a few trouble

spots: negotiations with aircraft manufacturers. General Electric and Westlnghouse may cause some trouble. But gains in these areas would not be broad enough to influence thous-' and* of smaller contractsas the steel strike settlement did.

LESS LOOT TO DIVIDE

2. While thv economy is going ahead, it is iflcreasing at much lesser rates than was expected. Labor leaders who thought a limitless boom this year would make corporations willing to settle for fat Increases are now going over their figures, with the help of their economist*. There is going to be less pork pie to divide than was expected earlier.

3. The fact that high wages are pricing the United States out of world markets is penetrating labor thinkingdespite insistence that high wages are doing no such thing.

The U.S is losing a significant part of It.*: d f'oly because

it Is buyi "Tc abroad than

a is sellln and. r*ord-

less of explanations to the contrary, we are sell^g > less abroad because our prices must be high to iy American scales. LEADERSHIP AWARENESS

The United States is now engaged in a hoop-la campaign to sell more goods abroad; it is promoting exhibitions, encouraging exporters, and considering tariff reprisals for countries that are not buying our wares freely.

This campaign may have minor success but it will not restore the balance of trade. American autos cannot compete with European autos in Europe because the wage cost in an American-made car Is so much more than the wage factor in a European car. And, wor.se, American autos are at a disadvantage in Africa, Asia, Latin America and other open markets for the same reason.

And upward push In wages in autos and all other export industries would simply mean more money for fewer workers because any rise In end prices would mean less aud le&s Lreign

sales.

Labor leaders have been told this by their economists. They know that higher wages will mean fewer jobs in the export sector.

But the leadefship will seek more fringe benefits especially small new benefits which can be enlarged when opportunity offers. And it will seek more governmental bacon for the dues-payers.

STATIONERY IMPROVES; PLUMBING SUPPLIES OFF

The revised Commerce Department figures on February retail sales show that the total was 6 per cent above the total ,for February, 1959, But, when adjusted for trading day varia^ tions, the gain was only 3 per cent.

That shows what can happen when there are 28 days in February one year and 29 in another. The biggest gain was by stationery stores, up 22 per cent over a year earlier; the biggest loss by heating and plumbing equipment dealers, dowa 24 per cent.