PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C

Tuetilay, S*ptml>r 6, I960

Tuesday, September 6, 1960

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Needed, Available, Recommended

But Dear, I Can Explain

Members of the board of trustees of Pitt Memorial Hospital will make the final decision on whether to institute at the local hospital a program that would permit the handling of psychiatric patients for short periods of time.

The recommendation that such a program be instituted at Pitt Memorial has been made by Dr. Charles K. Bush, chief inspector of the Central Inspection Board of the American Psychiatrist Association after an investigation of the psychiatric in-patient needs of the Pitt County area.

Dr. Bush's recommendation has now been approved by the medical staff at Pitt Memorial which is made up of some 28 physicians.

The fact that the hospital staff has approved the recommendation is evidence of their recognition of the need for such serAice at Pitt Memorial if adequate medical care is to be provided for the people of this county. As Dr. Fred Irons, chief of the hospitals medical staff commented recently, There are a number of patients who are admitted for various reasons who do need psychiatric care. With this program, the care could be provided.

Pitt Countys Mental Health Clinic, under the direction of Dr. Phillip G. Nelson, is providing outpatient treatment for many people in the Pitt County area. According to the material gathered in the investigation by Dr. Bush, there is a very pressing need for an acute treatment facility in the Greenville area. When the current building program at the county's hospital is completed, there will be adequate space for providing for in-patient psychiatric treatment on a limited basis. Obviously the local physicians who

make up the hospital staff feel that such treatment is essential to the well-being of the people of the county.

Pitt County will have at its hospital the space to provide in-patient psychiatric treatment on a temporary basis. The county also has an excellent psychiatrist in the person of Dr. Nelson who is already at work in the county as director of the Mental Health Clinic. The need for such a facility has been pointed out by Dr. Bush's recommendation and attested to by local physicians who have approved the recommendation.

The matter of whether or not to admit psychiatric patients to Pitt Memorial for short periods of time, it seems to us, is one in which the medical considerations are of paramount importance. By its approval of the recommendation that such care be provided by the hospital, the medical staff has given its support to the proposal.

,Although the board of trustees of the hospital has the final authority to say whether such treatment will be provided at the hospital, we are confident in this as in other medical matters pertaining to the hospital they will rely heavily on the judgment of the medical staff.

In view of the need of this area for some inpatient psychiatric treatment at Pitt Memorial, in view of the fact that a trained psychiatrist already is located her , and in view of the fact that the hospital's medical staff has given its approval to the recommendation, we trust that Pitt Memorial will be able to provide this important additional medical service that is needed for Pitt County.

Career Of A Southern

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Tax Rates And Services Given

By LYNN NI^ET

crry government The

Ci^ of Raleigh enclosed with lax bills for the current year a statement of sources of revenue and uses to which the money was alloted for its 1960-61 budget of $5.823,495. While every municipality has its own peculiar problems it seems reasonable to assume that basic sources of income and requirements tor service be fairly common among K(wth Carolina cities and towns, all of which operate under the same general State laws.

First thing to remember in considering tax rates and services is that municipal government is the closest unit to the pe(HDle. and its services are more direct and tangible. State services are intangible and State tax levies are indirect and intangible (that word should not be construed to apply only to the statutory levy on intangibles, which the State collects and remits to local units).

State services are mainly in the area of education, h^th and welfare, with ccnsiderabl attention to law .enforcement, courts and highways. State revenue derives from franchise, income and sales taxes, no pr(H)erty tax. Many of services rendered by county government also are intangible health, welfare and law enforcementwith substantial part of the county revenue devoted to education.

Municipalities share in all these intangible services, often matching State and county al-locatiMis for health, welfare and some phases of ccmrt operations. Distrinctive services rendered by town and city government in areas of water and sewer facilities, fire protection, intensified police surveillance, street paving, garage collection, etc., require major part of municipal revenue.

TYPICAL Use of Raleigh as a typical example among North Carolina municipalities might be questioned. There arc only four or ftve cities bigger, and there are nearly 400 smaller. Purthermore, the heavy concentration of non-tax property which requires fire and garbage service is greater in Raleigh than in any other city. Since we have figures for Raleigh and do not have trem for other municipalities, we are using them as representative of general conditions.

The official statement shows that of the nearly six million dollars revenue anticipated during the next fiscal year, 43,6 per cent will be derived from ad vakwem taxes of property. Next biggest source of revenue is 21 per cent from water-sewer fees.

It is noted that while water use affords 21 per cent of total revenue, administration of the water system requires 22.8 per cent of all expenditures. Third major source of revenue is State-county refunds, presumably Powell funds for streets, rebates from intangible, beer and franchise taxes collected by the State, amounting to 13.3 per cent.

EXPENDITURES Biggest item in the expenditure list is the 22.8 per cent for water department administration, which is more than water receipts. Next comes 14.4 per cent for police and traffic control, followed by 11.15 per cent for the fire department. 9.1 per cent for garbage collection and 5.85 per cent for street maintenance and lighting. General administration, including legal services, accounting, courts, etc, takes 8.18 per cent of the total.

The rest of the moneyapproximately one-thirdgoes for pajmients to retirement funds, which might properly be broken down as costs (rf the various divisions, debt service, planning, etc. The composite statements of State and local governments are not quite fair in their treatment of pajnments to the retirement funds.

The Raleigh city budget lists $358,470 for employee retirement, general Insurance and audits,most of which was actually additional compensaticm for employees. The 1959 General Assembly appropriated from the geSeral fimd a total of $16,282,-984 for retirement and pensions, most of which meant increased pay for school teachers and other employees, which was not reflected in the budget appropriation items for salaries.

PUBLIC The use made of tax collected money is public business. It is interesting to note In advance publicity about the upcoming meeting of the League of Municipalities at (Hiarlotte October 9-11 that one of the main items on the program is discussion of the problem of keeping taxpayers InfMnied about public business. That discussion probably wU develop reasons for the people knowing how their money is being spent, as the Raleigh information teet outlines. but also the reasons leading to decisions for specific allocations to the exclusion of other claims.

Protests raised against secret sessions of legislative bodies, from the smallest municipality up to the Federal Congress, are based on the needand the right for the people to know the reasons as well as to be given final decisions of the money-allocating groups.

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The death of former governor Earl Long of Louisiana brings to an end the career of one of the almost extinct breed of Southern political czars who succeeded in building for themselves political kingdoms in the bailwicks of which they controlled party machinery.

Brother of the late Huey Long, perhaps the most famous political chieftain the South ever produced, Earl Long succeeded to power in the Long dynasty and managed to hold considerable political power in spite of the fact the once-invincible Louisiana organization that Huey built was crumbling around him.

Death came just 10 days after he won perhaps the most significant political campaign in his life as he won the Democratic nomination for the House of Representatives from Louisianas Eighth District. His victory came on the heels of a long series of bitter political fights datingiback to last summer when he was hustled off to two mental hospitals untier the authorization of his wife and Sen. Russell Long, his nephew.

The grip Earl Long seemed to hold upon a huge portion of the voters of Louisiana almost defies explanation. Without question his fiery career, his power in Louisiana and his comeback after his political career appeared ended, will make his name recalled with that of his brother Huey, Georgias Eugene Talmadge, Mississippis Theodore Bilbo, and others among his breed of Southern politicians.

In the final year of his life, at least, that seemed to be the goal he sought.

By PATRICIA" MOORE

Snake Plant Decoration

An old friend from another town W8L5 discu&sing society news recently, telling about the last time the society editor called!

The tory goes like this. The society editor called for the info on a big bridge party. After the hostess described the tables, the prizes, the guests and all obvious little details, the society editor pressed for details on the main table arrangement, which had been described as a lovely rambling plant.

Well, a plant is a plant, and a lovely green plant was the decoration, the hostess insisted. Well, what kind of plant, the society editor insisted?

The hostess thought and thought, racking her brain for the name of that plant. She decided, finally, the main decwa-tion on the main table of bridge had been an unusually large

snake plant.

A snake plant?

(Its prettier than it sounds, of course.)

But it was the last time the society edlUr called the hostess.

We have a snake plant and had difficulty remembering which was the snake plant and which was something else until we heard that story. Forever live the snake plant!

Leaving matter, well proceed to minds. Weve noticed a curious coincidence lately among acquaintances and books, on the subject of the mind over matter, etc.

Some of it may be hodgepodge, and some may leave you a little chilled.

There is a book which says ywi can exercise mind over matter, such as in the matter

of warts. To make the wart go away, you rub a finger over it each day and think it will go away.* A local postal employe, Jake Dixon has a reputation for removing warts thus: he uses the hand bit.

We arent advocating anything pro or con, as we dont profess to be too educated in the specialized field of medi-icinc. Also, we havent any warts to -^be removed.

Absentees Due Common Golc.

Grain Storage Waste

The common cold continues to be the largest single factor contributing to the 11.7 days per school year the average North Carolina student is absent from school, according to a study by Schering Corporation, a pharmaceutical company.

Using statistics of past absences from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and the National Education Association, the study reveals that North Carolina ranks 3rd from the top in number of days missed per pupil.' The best attendance record for last school year was set by the new state of Hawaii, with an average of only 10.5 days missed. Nebraska was second best with an average of 11.2. The national average of school absences was 20.1.

Figures just released by the U.S. Office of Education set the 1960-61 elementary and high school enrollment at 44,670,000. This is an increase of 1,700,000 over the past year and marks the 16th consecutive year of increased enrollment. Based on these figures, total school days lost throughout the country for all reasons will hit an all-time high of 898 million days.

Medical surveys indicate that children of elementary school age have five times as many colds as do adults.

The first onslaught of oolds strikes the schools almost as soon as children re-assemble for the new year. One contributing factor to this, according to research scientists, is that spread of colds like other virus-caused infections is accelerated by the mixing of populations. In fixed

stable groupsjk^h are not exposed to stflingers cold-like infections tend to die out, and do not reappear until there is contact outside the group.

The best defense against the common cold is prevention. Warm clothing should be worn, and good diets planned. Whenever possible avoid contact with a person suffering from a cold.

Medicines, of course, are important. A recent survey by a drug Industry publication revealed that only one out of eight home medicine cabinets is fully equipped with products needed in common tjrpes of health situations arising in the home, such as the cold. The list of 11 basic supplies recommended includes: gargle, antihist

amine. cotton swabs, stomach settler, laxative, cough syrup, eye drops, decongestant, fever thermometer, bandages and an analgesic.

Following is a list of states and the average number of school days missed by their elementary and high school population:

Ala., 17.5: Alaska. 27.3; Ariz,, 26 1; Ark., 17.7; Calif., 23.2; Colo., 16.6; Conn.. 17.9; Del., 17.5; Fla., 29.0; Ga., 22.0; Hawaii, 10.5: Ida.. 16.0; 111., 29.0: Ind.. 20.8; Iowa, 19.1; Kan., 20.9; Ky., 18.8; La.. 19.7: Me., 20.1; Md., 15.9: Ma.ss 17.7; Mich., 14.0; Minn, 14.8; Miss., 28.5; Mo., 26.7;

Mont., 16.3; Neb., 11.2; Nev., 27.8; N. H., 15.8; N. J.. 16.1; N. Mex., 28 4; N. Y. 25.3; N. C., 11.7; N. D., 16.1: Ohio, 16.3; Okla., 16.7; Ore., 23.0; Pa., 17.3;

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(Rocky Mount Telegram)

A special agriculture sub-C(Mnmittee has issued a sharply-worded rep(M*t charging inexcusable waste and lax attention to conflicts of interest in the government* vast grain storage program. The report was signed by four Democrats and two Republicans, and climaxed a year-long probe by the subcommittee headed by Sen Stuart Symington of Missouri.

In addition to slapping the Department of Agriculture for its activities, the group offered several recommendations designed to improve the situation and effect a considerable savings for the taxpayer.

It recommended the use of a renegotiation clause - in grain storage contracts to insure the recapture of any excessive profits. It urged the development of cost studies by the department before it signs future storage contracts with some 11,000 commercial warehouses and grain elevators. It asked revision of the past uniform contracts to reflect geographic differentials in the cost of storage and handling.

Sen. Milton Young, one of the rwo Republicans to sign the report. filed a separate view stating that the multi-billion-collar stocks of farm suppUes were not the cause but the by-product of the failure to make im

provements in the overall farm program. And he sharply criticized the reductiwi in farm price supports as a prime cause for the buildup in these surpluses.

Young also questioned many of the findings in the report. Sen. John Cooper, the other Republican. noted that the huge farm surpluses resulted from efforts during World War U and the Korean War to greatly expand farm production. Both agreed that the most important conclusion is the need for improving our farm programs.

The report noted trat the Agriculture Department began a study of grain storage costs after the subcommittee Inquiry began and this study resulted in a 19 per cent reduction in storage rates in July. Taxpayers will save about $100 million as a result of this , reduc-ton. The repwt observed that similar savings could have been made earlier.

One of the shortcomings of huge government operations is the lack of recognizing the need for economizing. Merely be^ cause the government realizes tremendous receipts in taxes

each year does not give government officialdom the right to spend tax money indiscrim

inately. After all, there is a limit even to the seemingly

boundless treasury of the U.S.

Also noticeable of late is the practice among those in the television world tp make the newspaper press appear hard, calloused and completely unaware that anything in the way of justice and compassion exi^ on earth.

Which, of course, has been noticed by US, all of us, and is not appreciated. A newsman is the first to care about the wajrward youth with no good home life, or the little girl bitten by a rabid dog.

While we are at it, the television world does a good job of provoking the wrath of the persecuted Indians In programs, the gaudy acting world on programs, the blaze scientist, the plain housewife and dumb cops. Guess its better not to be left out in the cold world alone. If thats any consolation.

Opinions

3rief

North Carolina with no little pride clainrs to be the Souths most progressive state. Yet among the 11 states of the old Confederacy, North Carolina ranks a lowly seventh in per capita Income.Durham Herald.

'TTie maximum federal individual income tax bracket is 91 per centa figure which comes about as close to total confiscation of earnings as even the mildest radical could ask. And a great many people undoubtedly believe that a very large share of the cost of government Is borne by the highly paid men In this and the other top brackets. 'That belief is sheer illusion. High-bracket taxes make up a hardly discernible part of the governments tax income. Industrial News Review.

1 nreats

3ut No War Yet

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1960, King Featom Syndicate, lac.

Nikita Khrushchev likea to talk. He delivers speeches and talks to all and sundry. He is not the man of mystery that Stalin was or tie remote philosopher that Lenin was. I heard Lenin speak on several oceas-ions; he was not an orator: nothing like Trob^ who oould make the rafters ring. BLhrosh-ohev is a bit of a clown. He knows how to make an audience laugh. He can stick the knife in deep and tl^n pour salt Into the wound.

Th^e is a recixd of more than 40 occasicms on which Khrushchev threatened nuclear destructi(i of some countries or of the whole world. Among the recipients of these threats have been Denmark, France. West Germany. Greece, Iceland, Iran, Italy, Japan, and Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Sweden, Tur* key, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has also threatened to use rockets against the United States if we protect ourselves in Cuba.

Meanwhile he conducts a running argument with Mao Tze- tung that he does not need war at all; that the capitalist countries will collapse from their inner degeneraticm and waste; that aU that the Communist countries need do is to sit back and wait; that the next stage In civilization is Communism as Indicated by Marx and ttiat it cannot be otherwise. Mao Tze-tung desires that the force of the Communist and Socialist states be mobilized now in a war with the capitalist states.

Maos argument is that imperialism has collapsed. The empires of Great Britain, Prance, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Italy have disappeared: that Asia and Africa have been liberated. Nevertheless. the greatest of all imperialistic countries, the United States, survive*. Whereas the United States does not practice colonialism, it does use economic imperialism to dominate all the Western countries and interferes with the Marxist Revolution. Therefore the United States must be destroyed by war and pronto.

Khrushchev regards Mao Tze-tungs ideas as horsefeathers because he advocates a theory of competitive co-existence by CO - existence by which he means that Soviet Russia and its satellites and the United States and the Western powers will be unfriendly and friendly intermittently, competing for control, and that whichever will win will win. Khrushchevs expectation is that Communism must inevitable be victorious in this competitive contest.

Mao Tze-tung wants Ruasia to fight the war. Mao can, of course, provide manpower if it be needed. Long ago. he aaid that China could lose about half its population for the Cause. Nevertheless, the next war, as the last two general war, will be won in factories and by means of communications; in this respect, Soviet Ruasia is superior to Red China and therefore it is up to Soviet Russia. Khrushchev comes of Russian peasant stock, from a people who calculate closely. Whereas Khrushchev in hi* oratory threatens country after coitB^ with destruction, he knows fuU well that if he starts anjrthing, the entire Soviet Unlven! State will go up in smc^e and that that would be the end of the great Marxist experiment.

He will therefore not let Mao get him Involved in war at this moment. Threatsyes; war no. If Mao wants war, let him do his own fighting. So Khrushchev is withdrawing his experts and advisers from Red China. They are retiwidng to Soviet Russia by the tnairdoad. This does not mean war between Red China and Soviet Russia. It does mean that Mao Tze-tung is unwilling to pursue Khrushchev's policy of competitive co-existenc# which means an avoidance of a fighting war whUe living under the constant threat of war.

The test of strenrth within the Communist world win appear In the atelUtes. Mao Tze-tung is undoubtedly seeking to win as many of the MteOttes (Continued <m page five)

Story Happens In Every State

Strength For Today

By KARL L. DOUGLASS THE REAL STUFF What is wisdom?

Some people would say that wisdom is knowledge Some might even .say that it is the acquisition of certain true and useful facts. Others would say that it is a definite technical skill supported by theories regarding the significance and use of that skill-All such approaches to the subject of wisdom are helpful. Wisdom is all thisbut It is a lot more. Wisdom is not just facts; wisdom involves the meaning of facts also. One might be able to cram into his head all available facts concerning one or more subjects yet not be w'lse. Such a person might be nothing more than a walking encyclopedia.

Wisdom is not only a knowledge of facts but. as we have al

ready said. It Is a knowledge of the meaning of these facts. But it is something more. It Involves the ability to use these facts. The use may not be that the world calls practical. A man may be wise in every particular yet not make as much money each year as his trash man.

Wise /nen have been exceptional In the stream of human history. They are scarce today. Probably they always win be scarce. And they so often turn up w'here we least expect them. Sometimes a man with many academic degrees is both stupid and tiresome, whereas some discerning old women or some middle aged clerk checking figures really has the stuff.

Watch out for wisdom, and when you fee it bow down In reverenca before it.

By ELMER ROESSNER The town councilmen of Hoo-ville were delighted when the Acey Deucy realty company told them it was taking over Si Lardners potato farm and making it Ihto a housing development.

The developers ashed for very little: connection with the tows sewers, links to the towm sewers and a few changes in zoning laws.

Councilman Linehan nudged Councilman Healey and said. These sharpers from the city dont know what they are heading into. Three hundred houses at $2O,0UO each will add $6,000,-000 to the assessment rolls. The additional taxes will mean that all officials can have pay raises, and there will be plenty left over for the police and firemen. We can get a new fire engine, a squad car and a new wing on the school building.* Ah, yes! Ah, Linehan!

THE POPULATIONAND TAX EXPLOSION The townsfolk welcomed the new addition. They accepted the new' street namesBabbling Brook Road, Shady Lane, Sunshine Avenue, Morning Dew

Streetalthough Uiey thought them silly. They waived requirements for .sidewalks and curbs, they waived restrictions on swimming pools, they waved the Star Spangled Banner. People were coming to share their tax burden I

But they were also coming to share their tax benefits.

People moving into the new development had two or three times as many youngsters as the older residents. They required a great amount of new schools and they Insisted on stately buildings, with lots of tile, special lighting, swimming pools and stadia. They also wanted the best in teachers.

Looking ahead a few years, the councilman could see that Hooville would need a new high school and, perhaps, a Juvenile delinquency bureau.

The newcomers also required additi<mal police and fire protection. The new development required street lights, street cleaning, garbage removal and sewer maintenance. Per-family use of water was high and Hooville had to develop new sources of supply. ("They must wash their babies every

hour! snorted Councilman Linehan.)

There were lots of other added expenses; street repairs, traffic lights, community health services and so on.

City expenses rose faster than taxes on the development did. This brought on a rise in the tax rate, '

TJown merchants prospered for a while. Then outsiders built a shopping center across the highway from the development and the merchants sold less than ever.

Goaded by merchants and older taxpayers, the council increased asses.snients on newer structures and granted reductions in assessments on older ones on the general theory that considerable obsolescence had occurred. Then it put a heavy annual tax on swimming pools and levied a rental charge on all sewers less than ten years old.

So at the next election the people in the development mustered 600 votes and elected

their own councilmen, who are now busy building still more

schools, more parks and a fine new city hall adjoining the

shopping center.

The preceding story is tnie; only the names htv* been changed to protect the suckers. It has happened not once but many times in almost every state. Details vary from place to place, but the basics are the same.

SHORT AND CURIOUS BITS OF BUSINESS

Connecticut is warning drivers that the Hollywood style sunglasses, with extra wide frames, are virtual blinder* for auto drivers. . .India is trying to double its cashew nut production by 1966. The current crop is 65,(X)0 tons. . .Jack Stevens, of Montgomery. Ala., was declared champion syrup *op-per in a contest held there. He consumed 65 biscuits sopped with syrup. . .The Hillman Minx people have calculated their car costs 7 cents a pound, cheaper than sirloin. . .David Klrschcnbaum, president of a world - wide moving organization. estimates that which ever party wins the election, 10.000 families will move to and from Washington, at a cost of $3,000,-000.