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Friday, December 9, 1960TI4E daily reflector, GREENVILLE. N. C

Sam! No!

Old Safety Issues Raised Again

The Department of Motor Vehicles has put itself on the spot by renewing the 1961 legislative consideration key proposals that already have been turned down by the slates General Asvsembly.

Blood tests for people arrested on driving drunk charges, tightening up of the p(int system under which operators licenses of habitual traffic law violators may be revoked, and renewal of mechanical inspection laws 'are all mailers that previously have been given legislative consideration. They arc also proposals which previously have been turned down by the legislature.

Obviously the Department of Motor vehicles feels that these three programs are essential to better highway safety in North Carolina. Otherwise, the department would pot renew its request for legislative action on the items. It Avould place emphasis on other matters pertaining to highway safety for legislative consideration.

The very fact that the department which is charged with the responsibility for safer high\vays of the

State Revenue Ricture Is Gooc.

By LYNN NISBET

REVENUE-The State revenue picture cwitinues to improve. Even without collections through the withholding plan, income taxes yielded almost 50 per cent more in November than for the iM'cvious November. Nearly every general fund schedule showed increases, both for the ingle months and for the five month* 0 the fiscal year. More ignificant than the doUar increase is the fact receipts have exceeded eetimaies made during the past General Assembly.

For the first time in many months gasoline tax collections were substantiaUy more than for the same month last year. HowV ever, for the five months perioq since July 1 highway revenu has fallen below legislative p-timate*.

It is important to remember in analj^ng tax collections/that receipts of one month r^ect business done one to three ths before. Income taxes Ewfd in November were based on income derived prior to that time, some of it as much as a year before. Sales taxes paid into the State treasury in November consisted of taxes paid by retail customers in September and October, or earlier. Sales taxes paid into the State treasury in ing November and December November consisted of taxes paid by customers In stores dur-In?* November and December will not be reflected on revenue department repwts until January, February and March.

The gasoline tax is more difficult to pin down to time of consumption. These taxes are paid by tiie wholesale distributors at the time the gasoline is released from the big storage tanks. The mot wist may not actually pay the service station op-eraU- until weeks later. This procedure Justifies the hope that the fine weather this fall, encouraging travel and gasoline usage, may result in greater yild from the gallonage tax to be reported during the next few months.

CONFUSED The inauguration of a new Governor a month before the convening of the General Assembly continues to jre-ent problems. It is now proposed. apparently with consent of majority of the legislators, that the nominating caucus for officers (especially in the House) be held on the night before the inauguratitm. That is the date already set for the inaugural ball.

Traditionally the caucuses have been held on the night before the Uegislature convened, and the inauguration was scheduled for the day after the As-embly convened. Legislators could make one trip to Raleigh for the caucus, the formal convening, the ball, and the inaugurationand there was no conflict among the events. Also the legislators cotild collect travel

expenses for the trip

The proposal to hold the nominating caucus a month before convening date and on the same night as the ball, means that members will have to pay then-own way for what is actually a part of their official duties. They also will have to pay for bringing along their w'ives or lady friends. That has been the custom in the past. The difference in the proposed plan Is that the women folks will want their men to get ready for the dance, while the men of necessity will be tied up with the legislative caucus. Every business mans wife can understand the difficulties inherent in such a situation.

(One delightful prospect fight be a legislative hall full of men w-earing tux or tails, and the women members in full evening dresses and curtailment of moninating speeches for the several candidates for the elective positions.)

INTERESTING - There are very interesting potentials, other than the conflict betw-een public duty and social obligations on part of legislators, involved in this split program, This will be the first time in memory, if not in all state history. when a new Governor will go into office before the General Assembly convenes. That is in contrast with the Federal plan, under which the Congress convenes more than two weeks before the President takes office.

For the perior between January 5. when Governor Sanford is scheduled to be inducted into office, until February 8, when the General Assembly will convene, the Governor of North Carolina will have more nearly dictatorial power than any chief executive In history for putting into effect his own ideas.

There are other matters of small importance in themselves, but illustrative of the problems involved in the divided program. Traditionally the new Governors inaugural address is regarded as an important state paper. Always heretofore ii has been made to a Joint ^ssion of the General Assembly. This time there will be no General Assembly in session, and question arises whether the Inaugural address W1 be a state paper ar just another speech to a group of iM-ivate citizens. If it is Just another speech, should the taxpayers be required to pay for iM*inting and distributing it, as has been the iwactice in the past? Should it go into the public record as an official document, or just as observations made by the Governor,? Are the . members of the inaugural committee named by the upcoming presiding officers In the Legislature acting as members of the General; Assembly or as - private citizens acting as personal representatives?

state has reiterated its proposalseven in the face of prior negative legislative actiongives a neW note of urgency to the proposals. It re-emphasizes the fact that the departinent feels these three programs provide an important key to improving highway safety in the state.

Since repeal of the previous mechanical inspection law for motor vehicles, each session of the General Assembly has**declined a request to enact alternate legislation. Each proposal for handling mechanical inspection of motor vehicles has been rejected because of the opinion that it would be ineffective, or because 0 the opinion that it would be impractical to administer. Even with the department putting'its full force behind renewing some sort of mechanical inspection law% it is extremely doubtful that a new law will be accepted next year.^ Memories of the program that w^as tried and rejected are still too fresh in the minds of too many people of the state.

The other two major points of the department's proposalsblood test for alcohol and tightening up the point systemdo not fall into the same category. In other states and also in some areas of North Carolina, there has been a growing acceptance of the idea that"'some sort of test should be administered those charged with drunken driving. There is the growing feeling that there should be .iome better way for a jury to determine whether a person was intoxicated or not than merely hearing conflicting testimony from arre.sting officers and from the accused. While the blood-test method is not considered altogether foolproof, it does provide another means of helping to e.stablish the facts in such a case.

In spite of the fact that a similar proposal has been previously re.iected by the legislature, the merits of the proposal justify more, careful legislative consideration.

The same may be said for the proposal to .rtrengthen the point system that applies to habitual traffic law^ violators. The principle of the law has re-cei ed legislative approval. If the law' is to accomplish the purpo.se for w'hich it was intended, it needs .strengthening. And the 1961 legislature should give serious consideration to the proposal that the law be strengthened.

Ferry Service Decision Being Left To Others

By rejecting its committees recommendation that the state take over operation of the Atlantic-Ocracoke ferry, the State Highway Commission has delayed temporarilyand perhaps indefinitelythe resumption of auto ferry service between the points.

Also by il.'i action, the Highw'ay Commission may have uasseci up for the state an opportunity to purchase the ferry the Taylor brothers built especially for the ruji between Ocracoke and the mainland.

The ferry provided an important and long needed link between a part of the outer banks of the state and the mainland and opened a large segment of the state to a large potential tourist traffic. Without the operation of the ferry from Ocracoke, this potential economic development of a section that sorely needs to boost its economy will be nipped in the bud.

It is to be hoped that further consideration will be given this matter either by the administration or the legislature in spite of the Highway Commissions action. It is a facility that is needed in that coastal area of North Carolina and one w'hich could pay the state huge dividends in years to come.

Even though the Highway Commission apparently did not have the foresight to recognize this fact, perhaps the administration or the legislature will, and we trust they wdll act accordingly before the ferry is

taken from North Carolina and sold elsewhere.

Dangerous Year Before Kennedy

Bv HENRY HOWARD

So We Took Baby Along

On those occasions when we decide to t*ke a night out or just a couple of houis off to go to a movie or something we are always, since April 26, last, faced w'ith the problem of bringing in a baby sitter-Such occasions arise not too infrequently and we always, through yesterday, come up with

some solution to the baby sitter problem that practically everybody has to face at one time or another.

In searching out these persons in mind, we generally keep one thought foremost. We wantto find a careful and responsible sitter. And weve had pretty good luck.

Other Editors Saying .. Hodges On Kennedy Tean

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The first year of the Kennedy administration, by present indications. may be the most tense and dangerous of the whole 15 of the cld war.

The reason for this speculation is that the Chinese Communists give the impression that they are itching for fireworks. This can be dangerous for their Soviet allies as well as for the United States.

Observers in Moscow relay a belief that Premier Khrushchev still is in the world Communist saddle but that he is riding a nervous bronco These observers express the opinion that the Soviet premier paid a price to Red Chinas leaders In return for public Chmese acknowledgement that the Kremlin sUll runs the world movements affairs

The manife.*;to signed by 81 leaders of Communist parties after their Moscow conference shows that the main Communist efforts will be along lines like these:

1. In expectation of an American economic Jolt with whiplash effects elscw'here, the main propaganda attack will tenter on the United States, The hope is to isolate tiie United States and render it ineffective in countering Red drives elsewhere in the world

2, Plans to expand communisms sway will center primarily in the underdeveloped lands. Latin America will occupy an increasingly important place in the drive The maiii-fe^ito indicate.*! pressure will be steppe<l up in all uncommitted and underdeveloped area.*;, w'hene\ei and where\er opportunities exist for a Communist advance

The Red Chinese seem to

have argued at Moscow that be-cau.se of Kremlin caution, com* niunism already ha.s niUsed good opportunities and that tins shoul.l not happen again, no

matter what the peril

The notion of peaceful transition to a Red seb.nre of

p'.HVfi adviMaicU b.\ Khru slicliev, has failed, ilu* Chinese seen to argue, and Uius one of

the basic tenets of the new Khrushchev theory becomes invalid.

To back their argument, the Chinese point to the fizzle of Communist hopes in the Middle East. The Communists failed to grab oil-rich Iraq after its 1958 revolution because Khrushchev cautiously held them off, fearing a consequent major explosion. There were failures in what is now the United Arab Republic, before fear of Red strength caused Syria to unite with Egypt.

The Chinese continue: There will be other failures in Africa and Latin America If world Comifiunists persist in following the cautious Khrushchev line. And this seems to be why the Chinese want a review of Soviet foreign aid programs.

Peiping says there is no sense in giving significant help to a government like Nehrus in India or Nassers in Egypt if such aid serves to strengthen the position of essentially bourgeoisand thus basically capitalist governments. Aid should be given, says Peiping. only where it can bring quick returns; For example, to revolirtlonary regime.s like that of Cuba, Until situations like the Cuban can be brought about, aid on any significant scale should be withheld, the Chinese insist.

The signs are that Khrushchev gave ground in this debate. If that turns out to be so. this decades early years wiU be extremely dangerous.

Quote.

"The msn wjth the hoe at one time was conaidertd the coun-ierpart of the farmer. Today ha ran .scarcely pass for a gardener. Few' and simple tools used to be enough fin farming, and spme would be made right on te farm or at the local blacksmiths. Today. Investment in farm machinery amounts to ot>uu( ten per ul the

physical astUi on larms. Antigo iWis.) Daily Journal

(Henderson Dispatch)

Appointment of Governor Hodges as secretary of commerce and as a member of the Kennedy team might be interpreted in several directions. It could be regarded as an evidence Uiat the new President w ill piu-sue a policy of reasonable moderation, at least so far as domestic affairs are concerned. Or it could mean that Hodges has slipped a bit farther to the left of center in conformity with promises so often heard during the campaign. The Governor has been represented as considering himself a moderate in terms of politics or of the national economy.

Hodges was one of the most active supporters of Kennedy during the campaign. He was at the beck and call of the Democratic candidate for any service he was capable of giving, which was considerable. His influence paid off in business connections and with acquaintances in the industrial arena.

Prom another standpoint, the North Carolina Governors appointment is a recognition of the status and importance of the South in the national government. Across the years there have been a number of cabinet members from this section of the country, but far fewer, even geographically or as to population, than from other regions. North Cai'olina in particular has had comparatively few men in the cabinet of any President. The last one before Hodges was Josephus Daniels as secretary of the navy under Woodrow Wilson

The Governor had been mentioned for the commerce post even before the election, and the gossip was intensified following the Kennedy victory. It was made official last Saturday.

Hodges will take to the Commerce Department the same calibre of vigor, aggressiveness and ability which made him so outstanding as chief executive of this State, In his six years as Governor he attained to a high peak of respect.' prestige and influence among leaders of the sovereign States of the

Union. He towered well above most other State executives in many activities. His leadership, salesmanship and initiative were recognized throughout the country. ^

He come* to the Department of Commerce at a critical hour. American trade and commerce with the rest of the world is being challenged by many na tions which have been rehabilitated and put on their feet by the generosity of this government. The imbalance in this field, as reflected in the continuing flight of gold from reserves here, and decline of the dollar as the recognized standard of values in the world, are problems that must be confronted. Present trends must be reversed in favw of the domestic economy if more serious deterioration Is to be avoided. The new seen ary will be a key figure in this undertaking.

Tlie president-elect could not have found anywhere in the country a man better qualified to deal with these increasingly serious problems. He will add lustre to the Kennedy team, whatever its composition He could become a balancing influence for stability and realistic approach in recovering losses thte country has suffered in recent years.

Nwth Carolina is honored in the Hodges selection for the Commerce post. It means that he is being recognized in the highest circles for his abity and fitness for respon^biiity of major proportions, even as he is already so esteemed among his own people here.

North Carolinians who know the Governor and arc familiar witli his calm but energetic method of grappling with governmental affairs are confident that he will quickly become wie of the outstanding figures in the new administration. If all of the Kennedy appointments are as wise and appropriate as the naming of Governor Hodges as secretary of commerce, the country can take courage as it move.* Into the decade of the sixties.

Frida Yf Decetnbar 9- 1960

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Still there are those things you can i*ealize suddenly when youre trying your very best to be at your responsible best.

One of these things we experienced last night. As usual, we were considering where would be the best spot to deposit our youngster. And as usual, he sat there in the middle of the living room rug cooing and waving his arms in an obvious display of unconcern.

Also as usual, we gave little or no thought to where he, himself, might like to go. How could we know whether or not he had very definite feelings about where he wanted to go?

We discussed who wed get to baby sit for the couple of hours wed be gone to one of those Industrial League basketball games. Suddenly the better half wanted to know why we couldnt just take him along with us.

Upon her suggestion, we all agreed, and left for the basketball game. It was sort of a novel idea, I thought, to carry him with us.

Whatever misgivings we might have had about allowing the seven-month-old to attend the ball game vanished completely as soon as we arrived.

The little tyke let us know right away he was already a staunch basketball fan. (I think the main attractions for him were the multi-colored uniforms and the fast and furious action.)

He sat on Mommys knee and shouted (in his own way) at the racing basketball players throughout the evening. For the duration he never Ured. He crowed and called as loudly as anybody else.

On the way home we realized maybe we should begin to prepare ouraelves for those times just around the comer when where he wants to go and what he wants to do wl be much more important than getting a good baby sitter.

Looking ahead to next week and then doing the old about-face to check the records

Remember King Edward vn? It was 24 years ago Sunday, on Dec. 11, 1936, that Edward relinquished his English throne to marry Wallis Simpson..

Just 19 years ago Sunday, Dec. 11, 1941, Germany and Italy reared the ugly Axis head and declared war on the United States.

An important, or at least significant. anniversary is coming up Monday. It marks the 160 year since Washington, D.C. became our nation's capital (Dec. 12. 1800).

We might add that tlie Jewish Feast of Lights begins at sundown Tuesday and Thursday is B1 of Rights Day.

But Speaking of Rights,'* lets get a little closer to home (Contmuen page 8)

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By GEORGE E. SOLOSKY Copyright, 1960, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

In the United States, the excessively emotional Negro, question now divides itself into three parts:

1. The United Nations includes a large number of Negro or partially Ne%ro countries as members, all having been forfally recognized by the United States as sovereign states. The delegates from such countries, Pi*es-idents. Prime Ministers, Ministers of Foreign Affairs, etc., are usually men of education with degrees from important universities. When they come to the United States, they expect to be treated in accordance with their status at home and their International position. They are so treated In Moscow, London, Paris, etc.

Furthermore, as a matter of practical politics, as long as we are members of the United Nations, engaged in the Cold War, the United State* needs these countries as allies. Soviet Russia has already made progress in Ghana and Guinea but not In Uberla or Nigeria. It can be costly for the United States, in many respects, to loee Africa to the Soviet Universal State.

When a restaurant headwaiter In New York makes a distinction between a dipUwiat and an ordinary Negro, when he asks where a person comes from who has a dark skin, preferring a Dominican or a C^gdian to an Alabaman or a Harlem Negro, he makes a fool of himself because how are such distinctioris to be made? What is the test? Is the headwaiter capable of making an anthropological or an ethnologlcai test?

The cost of such distinctions in terms of votes In the United Nations or in terms of diplomatic and commercial relatl<Mis between this country and African or Latin American states where Negro or mixed populations iH-evaU can be very damaging, particularly in these days when those who a few years ago were students are now important officials.

2. In the 1930s, an enormoua movement of American Negroes from South to North took place. The result of this movement is that in some large Northern states. Negroes hold the balance of political power or come close to it.

In New York aty. Negroes and their allies hold the balance of political power: no one op-poeed by Negroes as unfriendly, can be elected to any public office. This, ie true to lessM*, or greater degree in many other cities.

This means, in political terms, that what the frish accomplish-, ed in the large Northwn cities in the 1886s and tl^ Italians presently, is today becoming the role of the Negro in these places. Some politicians are htmestly without racial consciousness or prejudice; others are liars and hypocrites, playing litUe oppcH*-tunistic games. Whichever may be the attitude, all politicians in these Northern states must rater to the N^o vote and to Negro influence,

For instance, the Negroes in the Noarth and outside the United States look upon Senator Ful-bright as the Senator from Little ^ Rock who did not stand up as at' Liberal when the segregation problem became crftical in his state. They regard him as a segregationist, as a reactkwiary in Arkansas and a Liberal in Washington. He will make no progress in Africa and the iwe-mature appointment of Soapy Williams to be Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs will not help PullMlght if he is appointed Secretary of State. In New Ywk State, this becomes very Important In 1962 when Oov. emor Nelson Rockefeller will run again for governor with the object of a build-up for the Presidential nomination. The appointment of one who is regarded as anti-Negro as SecreUry of State, as is rumored at the momimt' of writing these notes, could affect the state vote in 1962 and the 1964 Presidential campaign. Such is Negro politics in the North.

3. The segregation problem in the Souuth theref(e ceases to be a local problem. It is both national and international. It affects our position in the Cold War. It can lead to (hu* defeat in the United Nation*. It could, in fact, result In isolation. The whites are in a minority. They have held sway for only a Jiw centuries and the revolt against

(Contlnned Oa Page l|

Wage Scales And Flow Of Gold.

By ELMER R0ES8NER

American wage scales aie In a large part responsible for the outflow of gold from the United States,

Because of high American wages, Japanese, German, British and other foreign manufacturers have been able to sell products in American markets cheapei than American manufacturers could, even after tariffs.

Japanese sewing machines al-mast drove American manufacturers to the wall, until, the Japanese agreed to limit exports. Many of them sold below the amount it would cost Amarlcan manufacturers to produce them. The basic reason 1* t-he great difference in wage.s.

Even today, many American electronics manufacturers aie buying Japanese transistors because they can import them cheaper than they can make them with doine.Mic labor GOLD. AS WELL AS JOBS, EXPORTED

Many American manufacturers are Importing other components because they can be delivered in Detroit, Chicago or Los Angeles cheaper than they can be made with American labor, Even the government buys items abroad when the differential getwcen foreign and domestic prices is significantand it Is almost alw'ays considerable because foreign labor works at Cheaper rates than Americans will. Purlliermore, Americans insist on fringe benefits, restrictive practices snd overtime rales, often compounded.

Runaway movia production also axports jobs and inorea^s the drain on American gold. More American movies are being made abroad largely l>o-cause foreign labor is so much cheaper than the Hollywood kind.

The combination of unions and atars, with their sky-high demands, are driving production abroad,* dlrcctoi Michael Curtiz was quoted as saying in Variety. Nov. 30. He is in Italy

directing Francis of Assisi In that town-

SOME TOO GREEDY

Its a shame to watch whats happening, he .said. There is no reason for it except that some of us are just too greedy . . . The Italian crew . . . works fast and doesnt ai'gue about who does what . . . Nobody can run a business properly under conditions that prevail today in Hollywood. Your stais are asking these fantastic salaries and union demands bear no relation whatever to final revenue.

The sliuaUofls noted above as has been pointed out in this column beforeconstitute an 'export of jobs Jobs of American electronic workers have been rxfMvrted to Japan; Jolis of movie ftftgelmnds huve been exported to Italy

But what Is often overlooked Is that the export of jobs often Involves the export of dollars.

The money paid for .sewing nuiclunes, tranM.stois^, nidiustnai parts and for other components.

and the dollars paid to l^oro-pean actresses and movie' production peopt will eventimJly pass to government and central banka in foreign countries, "'and these banks can turn tiuti.aaou-ey in for American gold . CLUES TO INFOEMATIOIf USEFUL TO BUMNESSMI^ Management Bookshelf.v, 4 booklet listing 'Its 1960-61 pwW ideations for businessmen. Is tp for asking the American m4ii-agement Association, 1515 Broadway, New York 3$ . , . Fraud on the Widows Share, by William D. Mccdonald. deahng with husbands efforts to shortchange tiifir widows, ha* been published by Michigan University Law School; 477 pages, at $1S . . . Tlie Small Bu.*^lnes* Administration has inaugurated a new'' service to make it easier for small manufacturing concerns to wt cuiTcnt information on government-supported technical rp.*:(arch and development work. For detail*, contact the nearest SBA office.