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rTHE DAILY KCFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Monday, September 12, 1960

Khrushy Is Coming

More To Gain On Port Cargo Front

It would be most helpful to North Carolinas port development if the state could entice passenger liners to frequent our ports on something like a regular '-schedule.

From a practical standpoint, how^ever, could North Carolina better sen^e the development of its ; ports and the economic development of the state as a whole by continuing to concentrate on the cargo business rather than the passenger business?

A considerable outlay of capital funds is required for the state to provide adequate facilities for handling passenger liners at the ports of Wilmington and , Morehead City. Even if these facilities were provided, ; there w^ould be the problem of enticing passenger lin- ers to use the facilities and enticing those using ocean liner passenger service to choose Morehead City and Wilmington for their arrival and departure points.

The liners would use the facilitiesif we had themonly if the traffic in terms of passengers were , sufficient to make our ports practical from their stand-point. Undoubtedly it would take considerable time and effort on the part of the State Ports Authority to build any reasonable degree of passenger traffic through these ports.

TheBig Spending !?^leas Coming Up

By LYNN NISBET

BUDGETING-The Advisory Budget Commission is about half way through the public hearings on requirements for capital improvements and expanded services of the States ramified agencies, departments and institutiCHis. Half way through as to time, that Is. but not as to money. This week the public schools and all the educational institutions will present their claims for some 65-70 percent of all tax moneys collected by the State of North Carolina from its citizens.

Other big spending agencies highways, hospitals and welfare made their pitches last week. The needs outlined for the next biennium ran substantially above expenditures for the current period for opwa-tions. A reporter asked Governor Hodges at his weekly news conference if he thought these figures were unreasonable. He said he did not think so, but he

has no idea that all of the re

quested funds will be recommended or appropriated. The Governor let slip a little comment which he might not have made if hed had time to

think about it. *ln a growing State and a growing bureau-crary, he said, costs are bound to go up.** The in

quiring reporter did not develop the relative effect of State growth and bureaucratic growth on spending.

OFFICE SPACE More specific plans than had been publicized before for a new highway building outside the congested Capitol Square area were unveiled at the budget hearing. The Highway Commission would like to seD** Its two and a half million dollar office building just east of the Capitol to the General Services Division and build a more adequate highway headquarters between Meredith College and the State Fairgroundson the S-1 belt-line around Sleigh now under cwistruction. George Cherry, head erf the General Services Division, said this deal would *take care <rf" needs for his agency for several years.

PLANNING In iwresenting the highway budget Commission Chairman Mel Broughton de-15-year-i^n puWisbed last month. He thought it would save the State a lot of money by having a long-range masterplan for highways. He was followed by tury pdod.

W. F. Babcock, director of highways, who made a pitch for the new headquarters office buildingbecause the present building is inadequate. Old timers recall that when the two and a half million dollar highway building was built about ten years ago the event was hailed as achievement of facilities thoroughly planned to serve for the next quarter century. It is already out-dated, within a lot less than a half the quarter centum period.

The main reason for Its present inadequacy is that the planning section of the highway commission is using about 80 per

cent of the available space, the current administration activities about 20 per cent. And the planners need more room.

WOMEN When Governor was just back from the regional Democratic pow-wow in Atlanta and he was bursting with pride at the role North Carolina women played there. On numerous occasions he has blamed the women for electing Eisenhower two times as President. Among the top attractions at the Atlanta convocation were Mrs. Gladys Tillett and Mrs. Doris Cromartle of North Carolina. Mrs. Tilletts presentation of the philosophy of the Democratic concept and Mrs. Cromarties outline of how women voters can be organized and mobilized to get Democratic votes on the record on November 8 were highlights of the meeting.

The Governor by implication rather than direct quote, suggested that if the women in the other States will do as well as our Tarheel girls the Democratic national ticket will be safe.

TRAINING Attention now being given to industrial and technical training of boys and girls, in addition to the regular public school program, often causes confusion. Many high schools have vocational courses in agriculture and home economics, and some have additional industrial arts. Then there are a dozen of more industrial education centers operated by the State Department of Public Instruction in cooperation with local school units. There is the textile vocational school at Belmont, and industrial institute at Gastonia and an agricultural institute at Raleigh conducted by State CoDege.

There is the apprenticeship program supervised by the Department of Labor and for some timeit may be out now a separate program for veterans.

Members of the Advisory Budget Commission understarai-ably had some difficulty in segregating the functions of these various programs when the several departments presented their particular phases of them. The distinction between on-the-job training, organized by the Department of Labors apprenticeship council, but paid for by the employer of the Indentured apprentice; and the required auxiliary classroom work provided in the high schools or industrial education centers, in which tuition is free; and the technical or agricultural institutes in which there are tuition charges somew'hat comparable to college ratesthis distinction is difficult for the average man to comprehend. The educational technicians seem to understand it, and show a bit of impatience when budgetcers and the public cant follow' the distinctive features of each operation.

The conclusion seems inescapable that tlu'ough the.se various agencies the State of North Carolina offers opportunity for any worthwhile boy or girl to get an education.

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Would not a similar amount of additional time, effort and money spent on developing additional cargo for oiir ports be more beneficial to North Carolina as a whole,?

In view of the need for additional facilities at the two ports to handle more cargo ships and more cargo, would it not be wise for the time being for North Carolina to continue its effort to build the two ports as cargo rather than passenger ports?

North Carolina has an impoiiant economic potential in developing its two deepwater ports to their fullest extent. They can become major points for goods and products moving into and out of North Carolina and a number of other states. In order to achieve this goal, however, North Carolinas ports have to compete with other larger and longer-established ports both to the north and to the south of us.

For the time being, at least, North Carolina appears to have more to gain by developing its port facilities at Wilmington and Morehead City into top notch freight points, rather than dividing its attention between developing both cargo and passenger service for these ports.

On A Fee Basis, SBI Service Might Be Cut

It may help the state budget minutely to charge counties of the state ^for services of the State Bureau of Investigation, but the money saved by the state in such a manner would be expensive indeed in terms of deteroriating coordination in law enforcement on a state-wide basis.

The suggestion that the state charge counties for SBI services was made at a hearing of the Advisory Budget Commission last week. Whether it will receive serious attention by the Commission or the legislature remains to be seen. In the interest of continuing to improve the law enforcement and crime prevention programs on a statewide basis, however, the suggestion should be rejected.

It is true that the State Bureau of Investigation assists the individual counties in the investigation of crimes of a purely local nature on many occasions. It is also true that often what appears to be a purely local case in one county is linked with crimes in other counties. By working closely with local law enforcement agencies throughout the state, the SBI brings about a degree of coordination in overall law enforcement efforts that otherwise would be impossible.

If the counties were charged for the services of the SBI on a flat fee, a per day or per case basis, it is probable that the state agency would not be called in nearly as often by local law enforcement agencies. The state would suffer because a deterioration of the present degree of coordination in lav/ enforcement efforts would result. The individual counties and cities would suffer because they would not have ready access to the specialized men the SBI has in various fields of law enforcement work.

The State Bureau of Investigation, in cooperation with local law enforcement agencies throughout the state, has been a major factor in preventing the spread of racketeering and organized crime in North Carolina. Because of the close relationship between the state and local departments information from all over the state is gathered and interchanged, affording an effective organization both for preventing and solving crimes.

For the state to charge its counties for services of the SBI would, in our opinion, serve to disrupt the effectiveness of overall law enforcement work in the state. It would not be in the best interest of the state or the State Bureau of Investigation, and it would not be in the best interest of the local governments or their citizens.

Minimum Wage Bill And Jack

By RALPH ROBEY

Everyone knows that the basic reason for the session of Congress after the national conventions was political. None the less, there was some legislation that was regarded as imperative. One bill put in this category was minimum wages. But the session had adjourned without being able to get agreement on this subject.

The House had passed its bill before the recess. This provided for increasing minimum wages from $1.00 to $1.15 and extending coverage by about 1,-4'JO.OOO. There was disagreement with both the increa.se and the exten4ed coverage, but the Administration was willing to accept this bill. This acceptance was based upon various .studies w'hich had been made by the Department of Labor showing than an increase to $1.1") would not cause too much disturbance, and that is the test which controls the advice given tc President Eisenhow^er.

Tiie Senate bill was much" more extreme in all particulars. It proposed the minimum should be $1.25. that coverage be increased by four million (originally it was five million, ljut Senator Kennedy agreed to an amendment eliminating one million), and that the test of whether a company should come under the act would be determined by the dollar volume of Its sales, not whether it was engaged in interstate corrmcrcc.

The leader of the opposition to this Kennedy bill was Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona-On the day he made his major presentation he held the floor for over four hours, and all of hus dlscuA.'ion was relevant He maintained* that such an increase would throw' half a million pcrsoas out of work, that in ortfcr for labor to keep current wage differentials as between jobs there would have to be an increase all up the line, and he expressed ^ravc doubts as to whether the bill was constitutional as a result of using volume of sales as the test of cov-

SeptembMr 11, lf0

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By GEORGE SOKOLSKY,

Dirty Campaign Far 60

Copyright, 1960, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

Labor Day, having come and gone, the Presidential campaign of 1960 is on in earnest. Such added attractions as Henry Cabot Lodge and Governor Nelson Rockefeller eating bagels and lox at Grossingers will give way to the main business at hand which is the great debate between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy. Lodge and Rockefeller are reputed to have also eaten kosher egg-roUs, a concoction which would break the heart of a Peking chef.

As has become usual in re

cent elections, the managers of both candidates have signed pledges to conduct a clean campaign. The aforesaid managers have been duly photographed with Charles P. Taft, brother of the late and lamented Robert A. Taft. That ritual being over with, the campaign w'ill proceed as expected. It is likely to be one of the dirtiest in political history.

It is bound to be a dirty campaign unless some debatable issues appear. Up to now, no such issues have appeared. Neither Nixon nor Kennedy has projected a great thought. If,

Other Editors Saying Party Oath Is Good Thing

erage.

, In spite of the arguments of Senator Goldwater the bill passed the Senate by a substantial majority and was sent to a joint conference with representatives of the House. Here Senator Kennedy offered to make still more concessions but he would not give up his proposal for determining the basis of coverage. The House conferees refused to change the concept of Interstate Commerce, and in consequence no agreement could be reached. Senator Kennedy insisted that without this change there was no point in having a minimum wage bill this year that anything else would fall to be progress and that he would prefer to wait until the next Congress.

Since bills do not carry over from on^ Congress to another it will be necessary to start from scratch to bring up minimum wage legislation again. And since the next Congress may be either more or less liberal than* the present one it is impos.sible to foreca.st what may haopcn. Eut one fact Is clear; Senator Kennedy has suifei'd a mrjor defeat, and it is no* likelv that he can make political capital out of it. This is because the basic issue Is one of changing the constitutional concent of Interstate commerce, and most persons can not be convinced that such a change is desirable or In the public interest.

The whole idea of the convention recess of the Congress was an c.-ror. It was supposed to be emart politics because it was believed th?t impo*iant campaign issues co ld be developedeither by pa ing desirable leg^l.ition and going to the countrv with it as a record or. in ca'.c there was a veto, use that to show that the Republicans are not concerned about the welfare of the public. That it has not worked out that way is so obvious that the only discussion now Ls on how much damage the ..pecial .sr'sion ha.s done to Senators Kennedy and Johnson.

(The Raleigh Times)

The Charlotte News has raised its hands in holy horror because there is a North Carolina law which requires that a person who switches his registration from one political party to another must swear that be will support the nominees of his new party.

The oath law has been on the books for many years, but apparently The News has just heard about it. ^he hearing brought these editorial shrieks:

Whatever its genesis or purpose (the oath may or may not be a conscious abuse of the Democratic monopoly in North Carolina) the oath is an unconscionable violation of the secret ballot. It is also an impertinence against the judgment of adult citizens, among whom only the most violent partisans are dead certain at the opening of a campaign how they mean to vote.

When a voter must, in order to change his party, betray to Election Board officials even by presumption that he will be voting for Republicans or Democrats, his ballot is a wide-open secret.

The sound of the disciplinary whip cracking is all too loud in this rule. After all, democratic political parties, unlike cells, are designed to lend a semblance of order to the political process. They are not intended to enlist mere robots and bind them to kneejerk responses fit only for Dr. Pavlovs famous dogs.

The News heard about this oath when Mecklenburg Republicans got all upset because they wanted to talk people who are now registered Democratic into switching to Republican. The people wouldnt switch when they found they had to

swear that they would support Republican nominees.

The registered Democrats question, no doubt, are those.^ who want to vote Republican on the national ticket, but Democratic' for the state and local tickets. For that reason, they didnt want to take that oath.

The oath is a good thing. If a man wants deliberately to switch his party affiliation, he should be more than willing to swear that he will support the nominees of his new party. If he doesnt W'ant to support those nominees, he should not switch his party affiliation.

Why should a man be permitted to jump back and forth between political parties every time he is nettled by a political gnat? The busines.s of being a member of a political party should be a serious one to the voter, and it should be treated seriously. Promiscuous switching of party affiliation surely Isnt giving it that serious consideration.

There is one other very practical and compelling reason The News either overlooked or didnt kndw about. We have some very, very hot Democratic primaries in this state, both state-wide and in local races. Only registered Democrats can participate in a Democratic primary. If party switching could make considerable primary hay by having registered Republicans switch over just for primary day.

The basic rea.son Is that to have good government in our country, there must be strong political parties.

To have strong parties, there must be strong party discipline. This oath makes for such discipline.

therefore, there Is nothing to say or the candidates do not w'ish to say anything worth while, the campaign is whittled down to an ad hominem discussion. The Democrats say, Tricky Dick and refer to how Nixon defeated Jerry Voorhis and Helen Gahagan Douglas methods which invoke praise in others who like a candidate to fight for his job. And the Republicans do not quarrel with the Pope but question the reUa-bity of Pop. By Pop, they mean Joe Kennedy, a very shrewd businessman who has accumulated several hundred million dollars and many public honors without any unusual scandal.

The Liberals say that Nixon is anti-Semitic because he called Melvyn Douglas, Hesselberg, which was his name at birth: the Republicans spread the tale that Kennedy is anti-Semitic because his father. Pop, as he W'ill be referred to in this campaign, once said something favorable about Hitler. The An-Defamation League gets into the row by giving both of the candidates a clean bill of health, a bekscher which means that they are both kosher, which may or may not influence the voters.

Meanwhile, both candidates are very much concerned about Texas. That state is likely to go Republican in the 1960 election. One reason that Lyndon Johnson was nominated for the Vice Presidency was that the Southern states were definitely in a state of revolt at the Democratic Convention. It seemed wise and even necessary to nominate someone who could (Continued on page five)

By ROGER BABSON

ON Tfflfi ATLANTIC OCEAN. ~-As I travel about the world I am concluding that wt, the people of the United StatM. pay the highest taxec of any nation with a responsilrfe government. We know -the direct tax bill which we get from our cities and towns, based on real estate assessments, and the direct tax bills which we get firom our counties, states and FMeral Government; but we fail to recognize the Indirect taxes we are paying. No other country which I annually visit has such indirect taxes.

WHAT ARE THE INDIRECT TAXES?

When I have a meal costing a $100 or more In many states there is a tax added to the bill. All of our states have gasoline taxes ranging from 1 cents to 8 cents a gallon, in addition to the federal tex. When we travel on a turnpike, or over certain bridges, the toll Is another form of taxation. Some cities and states also have sales taxes which are adxted to the cost of our daUy purclutses. You ihay think that the gov- .. ernment pays you your* Social Security, but really you have been taxed for this for many years. Then there are the liquor and cigarette taxeg, and the taxes you pay when you send a telegram, make certain lAone calls, and buy transportation tickets. There are many others, too, which I could mention.

The greatest unseen tax which every consumer in the United States pays is the cor- , poration profits tax. This applies to all corporations. It means that up to 52 per cent of the profits of all corporations must be paid to the federal government in taxes. Those of you who receive semi-annual reports from corporations in which you hold stock know what they pay in income taxes. These taxes, howevw, are added to the price of the goods which the corporations sell. Hence, when you buy anything from your local stores (except food, drugs, and a few other necessities) you rebate to the producers 52 per cent. This Includes refrigerators, cooking stoves, television seta, radios, as well as almost all ttie furniture for your house. You pay this through the increased price tag which absorbs the 88 per cent.

TAXA'nON

GIVES EMPLOYMENT

Strange to say, these taxes

we pay give emplojmaent to peo-le. With less taxation there could be more unemployment. Hence, this taxation employment is a sort of ring around the rosy, or is like # monkey trying to climb a wheel la his cage. It is almost like a man trying to cure himself of drinking by taking more drinks! With some nations of Europe the taxation system has ultimately resulted in socialism, revolution, or communism.

With each of the presidential candidates trying to outdo the other in promises, I don't know what the end will be. I continue to be glad that I am an American citizen. There Is no other part of the w(M*ld where I would rather live than hi the United States. We pay for both our misfortunes and our comforts by higher taxes, tnd yet these taxes are a shot in the arm to prolong our present prosperity.

(Continued on page five)

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ALMOST

As the Apostle Paul stood before King Agrippa and reasoned about the things of God and the ministry of Christ, Agrippa, who was a moral compromiser and a man of worldly tastes, shook his head and declared unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. And Paul said, I would to God that not only thou but also all that hear me this day were both almost, and altogether such as I am, accept these bonds.

We can imagine that Paul the prisoner raised his manacled hands above his head as he uttered these words.* We are quite sure Agrippa never became a Christian. But he must often have thought of this wonderful

man Paul who had bten brought to trial before him. Almost he persuaded me, we can hear Agrippa saying. Almoail Almost!

Almost is the most tragic word in the Christian yooabu-lary. To be almost a CtRistian and yet not a Christian ia (xne-thing to be so regretted as to constitute tragedy. Children raised in pious homes often boast in their mature years about the piety of their parents, yet they do not have this pietiy. They speak with enthusiasm of those parents who could overoome so many difficulties because of their religious faith, yet twse woridy children do not have this faith.

Almost a Christian It was tragic for Agrippa. but it is a thousand times more so for us after two thousand yeam of Christian ecpeiience.

Competition For Credit Dollars

By ELMER ROESSNER

Your credit dollar is taking on r'\v ?nificance in the bu.sines.s V o: ld ti.ese day.-. Almost any tonsuinei-good- producer you can name wants a larger share of It

Campeling are suppliers of sMcii var.ed goods and .services rs au.omobiles. pleasuie boats, snail aircrafi, mobile homes, Ineith-ciub memberships, hotel aecommcdations, restaurant njeals, Florida vacations. European tou.'s. Also vitally interested in th'* use you make of your credit are the nations colleges who.sc students in growing numbers are financing the ac-o'sit.on of learning on the In-f allm''nt plan. -

Sbai'eiriir coi . 'lion for the comt'*ner's crc'i Ilar will be one o the dom pau facts of busaies.s life in the liKiOs. .says a new study by the economics department of C.I.T. Financial Corporation

C I T., the nation.s largest Independent finance company, reports the study shows that the stage for this competitive struggle was set in the I950's,

when the postwar economy, as measured in terms of gross national product rose from $258 billion in 1949 to $182 billion In 1959.

Its now well past $500 billion.) MORE INCOME, MORE DEBTS

In that decade, the study points 0 , dispasable personal income c American consumers (what tiisy had iefi after taxes i. climbed from $!90 billion annually to S337^billion. Voigme of consumer insiallment ccdit outstaod-ing ro.sc from $11.6 billion to $39.5 billion- (Its over $40 billion .now.

The rise in pioduction, employment, incomes and consumer credit durinc the '9.50.s brought into being a mass market for many goods formerly regarded as luxuries, according to the stud'* (i.e.; The number of bac':ya(d swimming pools Incrca cd from 2.500 in 1950 10 171.0U ai the end of .591.

Millions of landlubbers became amateur yachtsmen as spending on recreational boating exploded from $6().0()0,()00 in 1949 to $2 5 billion la.st year. In the suburbs the two-car garage became almost as commonplace as the

picture window, as the multicar families rose from 2,000,000 to 6,950,000. Total passenger-car registrations increased from 36,-000.000 to 59.500,000.

The hard core of this new mass market is the young mid-dle-income family to whom ^in-stallment buying comes naturally. the study states. The phenomenal rise in living standards in the past ten years was possible only because families in this middle-income group were willing and able to buy 'on time. THE .SHAPE. OF 'THE SIXTIES '

How will this market shape up In the lyso.^? Heres how it looks to C-I.T.s economics depart-I'-'iil:

In sheer numbers it wU be b'.gger, since the marriage rate will soon resume its upward climb.

Individually and collectively, it will be riclier. Authoritative projections indicate that by 1970 average family income, now pegged at $6,500 will rise to $9,-70(1 and the number of American families WM iocom

$7,500 will double, rtxchiiiff t total of 25,000,000.

It will be a discrimlaating marketpossibly a fickle melt will be confronted with a glittering array o< gadgelt, oom-forts, and new producta tNurely out of the research atage today.

It wiU be a eredit-mlnded market. The famillee C(npoeing it will expand ihMr use of credit to match the increase In their incomes and their deeire for the better things of lift.

OLD PROMOTER WUBEf HE WERE. ONE. OF. TKI8E YOUNG FAMILIES The Old Promoter peered over our shoulders as we etmlled the C.I.T. STUDY.

Wish I were one of those young mlddle-incomt families willing to enjoy all those new comforts on the Installment plan, he said. When the bill collector comes, they can just tell him to jump in the new backyard swimming pool. Or tell him to take it back. I think Ill ju.st settle for a eigar. On credit, of course.*

Of eoume.f.