Monday, February 20, 1961

Monday, February 20, 1961

Flat On His Face

Forging Ahead To A New Horizon

In what is becoming an era of New Days for the tax revenues.^Tuition and fees paid by thosc^ attend-tate and New Frontiers for the nation. East Carolina ing the ECC branch at Lejeune will be sufficient to College has forged ahead to a* New Horizon in higher cover the cosCof operating the branch. ^

educ'ation in North Carolina with the announcement Under the proposed program, persons may com-that a branch of the institution will be established at plete the first two years of college work, and credits

earned may be transferred^to any recognized college in the nation. Some of the stiidenta who begin their

Camp Lejeune.

The project, work at the ECC branch at Lejeune certainly will

time, received approval of the State Board of Higher universites in

Education last rnday. i. j other states where they will earn degrees. Many of

It will represent another n higher educa- who* enroll at the ECC branch, however, wilF

tion in North Carolina, for no other college m the state certainly transfer credits earned there to ECC and has previously established such a branch operation. colleges and universities in North Carolina.

In other sections of the nation, colleges have used the p^j. years now ast Carolina College has

method effectively to offer college w'ork to offered a broad range of extension courses at Lejeune

pie than otherwise could have been reached. In the o^j^gj. places throughout the state. Enrollment

case of East Carolinas new branch at Camp Lejeune, such courses has included r^re than 2,500 students

the college will be offering a greater service to the ^ single year. Thus, East Carolina for several years

state by making college training available to many extended its educational facilities far beyond the

more people. . ^ . i.,* campua in Greenville.

Of further significance is the fact that this new establishment of the branch of Lejeune

venture by East Carolina* College will be <^med out ^j^g college has forged ahead with another step that on a self-supporting basis which means the cost pi great significance to'higher education in

operating the branch will not be financed out of sUte ^j^g g^^^g ^.n enable East Carolina to render even

greater service than is now the case and it will like-

Fast Start, But Gains In Doubt

Bv LYNN MSBET

PROGRESS Desrite the much publicized fast start o the 1%1 General .Assembly there iS serious doubt in minds o many observers whether it is any farther along with its work than previous sessions have been at end 0 the iirst full week.

The budget report prepared by former Governor Luther Hodges and the Advisory Budget Com-missiMi which served with him was presented the second day of the session, along with a budget message from Governor Terr>- Sanford. That broke all records for early presentation of these matters to the lawmakers.

On the third day of the session Lieut. Gov Cloyd Philpott announced the full slate of scnat committees another all-time record for speedy action. Speaker Joe Hunt announced House committees on appropriations and finance, but no others. Most of the other assignments came late in the second week w'hich la about normal timing for them.

Meanwhile some highly important legislation was introduced, including procedure for congressional and senatorial redis-tricting, and two or three versions of small loan agency regulatory bills. The early introduction didn't speed action very much, because the- House com-mltiee had not been appointed and the Senate committees manifested reluctance to face up to' the problem

The money committees have been meeting in the mornuigs instead in the afternoons as has been the custom, and have been subjected to general briefing of tTie revenue picture Very little attention has been given to specific Items,

BRAGGING Most members agree tha. early appomtment of the big money committees served to speed up work, but there is widespread doubt that the progress' has been as much as the leaders would like to claim. One veteran of many sessions observed that the big boys arc spending so much time bragging about progress they havent had a chance to make their boasts come true.

An example of dilly - dallying on the redistncting matter is found in the handling of a senate bill. On the opening day of the session a bill was Introduced (SB-4) stating it was the-ense of the Senate that an appr<H>riate committee should be appointed to tjagin immediate study of the Froblem of revamping senatorial districts and, apportioning seats in the House The bill was referred to a committee which had rot then been appointed. It was appointed next day and had a meeting on the following Tuesday. gave the bill authorizing its appointment a favorable report and adjourned. The

Senate on Thursday enacted the bill into law, which means the conmiLttee is legal but it has not started its wcH-k.

SMALL LOANS The antici-patea floor fight over the bill proposing a 90-day moratorium in the licensing of small loan agencies failed to develop in the Senate. Sen. Jennings King of Scotland, who had threatened to object to the bill, said he decided it was not important enough to nght over. He feels sure that the final action of the General Assembly will be to giratly strengthen the small loan laws and reduce the monopolistic hold that established firms have in the business. King said the btB which was offered in the House last week by Rep. Irwin Belk and known as the banking commission bill should be entitled an act to license money lenders to rob the poor people of North Carolina "

56 PER CENT The Scoand Senator noted that the bill permits the loan agency to charge S22 on the first $100 loaned, to be paid in advance. That means the borrower will sign a note for $100, but will get only $78. If he pays that back on equal monthly installments it will be the equivalent of having the use of S39 for a full year - on which he has paid $22 interest and charges, or a little better that 56 per cent. That. King insists. is pretty high rent for the use of money.

Spokesmen for the loan agencies contend that the much greater than usual risk involved in their type of loans, and the amount of bookkeeping required to keep track of them, justifies the charges.

ISSUEThe two main points at issue in the small loan legislation seem to be the schedule of charges and the degree of monopoly which might be accorded established or new agencies. The two phases sort of offset each other. If there is no restriction on either charges or number of agencies'permitted, competition will take care of the situati<Mi. If there is to be limited operation, constituting a virtual monopoly, then the charge.s .should be very closely regulated - with perhaps some - assigned risk loans after the manner of the assigned risk automobile insurance policies.

The schedule of charges and the monopolistic, phase are also Involved in the maximum amount to be considered as coming within the purview of 9 small loan The banking commission bill goes up to $900. Some folks would like to make it $1500, and others think that $300 should be the limit for a small loan. There Is considerable sentiment for a $500 mark.

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wise put college training within reach of many who otherwise' would not have the advantage of college training.

Officials-of East Carolina College are to be commended for taking this bold new step in higher education in North Carolina, and the State Board of Higher Education is likewise, to be commended for having the foresight to give its approval to this new venture.

Although the new ECC branch at Lejeune will not be a pilot" operation as such, it may w'ell set a pattern for further development of this new phase of higher edcation that will help North Carolinas colleges to cope with the period^of increased college enrollment in the years immedfately ahead.

Clark Leave Record Of Forceful Leadership

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By GEORGE SOKOLSKY

Discioline

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Copyright, 1961, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Francis Robinson of the Metropolitan Opera repeated a sentence of Amelila Galli-Corci: "You cant play with the same toys all your life,

I thought of this when I read

In retiring from the post of Pitt County Denio-cratic Chairman after 17 years, .John G. Clark, Sr. has left behind-bim-^ record_i energetic and forceful leadership in the Democratic party in this county.

During the period of years in which he has stood at the helm of the Democratic party in this county,

the partys voting strength in Pitt has increased almost ..............

50 per cent. This record stands as proof of his organi- a letter'from* a student in El zational ability used in behalf of the party in this Paso. Texas in which he took county, and also as a tribute to his ability to bring ""f.

unity within the party in general elections after jor'at New Mexico state uni-bitter battles in the party primaries that have been versity which is co-educational waged in Pitt during the years he has been Demo- and smoking is permitted in cratic Chairman.

John Clark, during his long tenure as Pitts Democratic chairman, served the party well and certainly gave to Jhat important post boundless energy and political ability that stood the party in good stead under his leadership.

Measures To

Correct Deficit

most all of the classes.

The students^wear, for the most part, dungarees or wash pants and sport shirts, the women skirts and blouses.

My argument is this; what is wrong with smoking or wear-.ing hooligan type clothes? If a persons private morals allow him to experience the pleasures of marriage without the responsibilities, then why censor him?

This young generation is the first to grow up with the threat of complete thermo-nuclear destruction imminent. . .

Therefor I only wish to point out to you that a generation judges another by the criteria

it has set up. This is wrong, every generation is facing new problems, it must react differently from the last generation.

This raises many questions of the temporariness of propriety. It used to be that the President of the United States did not go a-visiting because if he called on one, how could he decline to call on another. But today, we have a new generation President who steps out to a movie show, visits a friend, sets up a bar in the White House. Is it right or wrong? Surely my young friend from El ^so would say: Whats the difference.

Only old fogies go by protocol. If the President wants to receive President De Gaulle in dungar-rees and a sweat shirt, let him. Thank God. we dont have a President who is a stuffed shirt.'

The question that stumps me is;

If a persons private morals allow him to experience the pleasures of marriage without the responsibilities, then why censor him?

The excuse for such a view is that this generation is the

first to grow up under the Influence of the atom bomb. Therefore, there are to be no moral

itspect, no decorum. Are we to turn this country over to hooligans? ___

Of course, this is not a new point of view. Actually, many thought and acted that way in the generation of the flatters, A1 Capone, hi-jacking and spiked beer. For a while anything went, but we got over that perhaps not too soon. It was the period when so-called society merged with gangsters and produced cafe society; it was a period when big businessmen found it profitable to associate with racketeers and when Murder, Inc. came into existence as a third pany to labor disputes, being employed by both labor unions and industrialists.

By RALPH ROBEY

It was imperative that President Kennedy take action with a view of correcting the deficit in our international balance of payments. This was necessary because, while we still have enough gold* to meet the demands that may be made upon us. neither we nor any other nation can withstand Indefinitely the pressure of such a relatively large International deficit.

The Eisenhower Administration. it will be recalled, took various steps for the purpase of getting the deficit reduced to manageable size, but the problem .still remained. Among these steps by ELlsenhower were the encouragement of exports, getting foreign nations to reduce their restrictions on imports from us. asking that other nations help us carry the load of giving necessary aid to developing countries, ordering that In so far as possible more of the piuhhases for foreign aid be made In the United States, instructing the military to make a reduction in the number of family dependents abroad, and eliminating the right of our citizens to hold gold in a foreign nation.

With one exception President Kennedy Is continuing this program. This one exception is the curtailment of military family dependents abroad. That item had aroused substantial criticism. ' and it has been replaced by an order by the Secretary of Defense that all foreign military personnel and their families each year spend $80 per person less. That may work but certainly It will be hard to enforce.

Also of particular interest Is the recommendation that the Congress go back to the provision that an American may bring In only $100 of goods duty free. The present figure Is $500. According to President Kennedy, our tourists and travelers abroad spend about $2 billion a year.

and foreign travelers to this nation spend only half that much.

Other significant recommendations were:

Amend the Federal Reserve Act to permit commercial banks to pay a higher rate of interest on time and savings deposits of foreign central banks or monetary authorities than they are permitted to pay for such funds from domestic depositors.

Have the Treasury, under tlie Second Liberty Bond Act, issue securities bearing special rates for subscription and holding exclusively by foreign governments or monetary authorities.

Extend the policy of government guarantees to American exporters to the point where they are equal to that granted by foreign governments to exporters to this and other nations.

Enact legislation, the details of which w'ill bt sent to the Congress in the near future, to eliminate the ability of American investors and companies to take advantage of so-called tax havens. These tax havens are countries which have either no tax on investments made there or else a' tax rate which is extremely low.

Now there also was another side to the program. It was specifically pledged that:

The price of gold. $35 an ounce, would not be changed. This means no devaluation of the dollar.

Exchange controls over trade and finance will not be invoked. In other words we shall continue to have free convertibility into foreign currencies.

Foreign aid will be continued, and other nations will be encouraged to carry a larger portion of the total.

Our foreign military forces will be maintained, but to the extent possible their procuiement will be made in the United States.

Other Editors Saying... Bill Reaches Hopper

The question that this student of the New Mexico Slate University raises is not the issue. We are not dealing with the pleasures ol marriage without the responsibilities, for there can be no marriages without responsibility. The Issue is that an economics major at an American university should not have discovered that responsibility is an essential factor in life and that one who is irresponsible is literally mad. Are we to say that, disciplineself-discipline most of 11is to disappear irom our society?

(Burlington Times-News)

Failure of the General Assembly of North Carolina to reapportion House membership ac-. cording to Constitutional Law based on percentage population shifts indicated each decade by the Federal census report, is a challenge up again in Raleigh this year.

There appears bright prospect of favorable action on a bill introduced by Rep. Ed Kemp, of Guilford, chairman of the House committee which will deal with legislative reapportionment. He does not believe much opposition will develop seeking to forestall the present A.sscmbly from discharging an obligation its predecessors, ignoring duty playing politics, failed to respect.

Reapportionment takes one House seat each away from Pitt, Johnson. Buncombe and Cabarrus and gives them to Mecklenburg. Alamance, Onslow and Cumberland. - The number of House members when this duty is honored will remain the same, at 170.

State Senator Lindsay Warren of Beaufort County and Ed Kemp in the House sent twin bills forward in Senate and House providing reapportionment automatically each decade, eliminating special legislation on the subject and preventing violation of the law through failure to comply with it.

Senator Warren, veteran of the

United States Congress, former comptroller of the United States, long influential in Democratic party affairs, is the principal sponsor of this proposed automatic system. Rep. Kemp approved the idea and immediately accepted responsibility for'the companion bill in the House.

Before an automatic reapportionment plan can be made effective, however, the question would have to go before the people of the state as a proposed amendment to the Constitution of North Carolina.

Senator Warren has stated, however, that he has no idea of promoting his plan until the Kemp bill now in the House may settle the matter until after the next Federal census.

Meanwhile, the Amendment could be ordered during the current Assembly and tested at the polls next general election. Passage will mean it becomes a fixture, obligating the Speaker of the House to announce whatever changes indicated within 60 days after the Assembly meets.

This proposal will simplify this system, and more. It will remove the possibility of members of General Assemblies in the future who might be tempted. as in the past, to ignore one of their principle obligations to understand, respect, and abide by Constitutional authority and directive.

William Benson discusses this question, from another standpoint, in a stirring article in The Saturday Evening Post is which he says:

The most shameful part of the situation is that colleges supposed to provide guidance for the futur^ are shortchanging youngsters and their parents who foot the bills. . .A liberal-arts curriculum in a good school cuts superficiality to the bone and requires concentrated doses of English, mathematics, the natural sciences, history, psychology, economics and the humanities. Sure, its tough, but tough subjects that tax a students capacities develop the mental discipline anl reasoning powers that can be projected to areas beyond a mans immediate experience.

But it is not only mental discipline but moral discipline that is essential. And moral discipline includes manners and the out-w'ard display of manners which is propriety of dress. Although styles in dress, do change, A dirty face and dirty hands and unkempt nails the exterior trade mark of a Beatnik can never be justified even by the fanciful assumption that frowziness is a mark of dissent. A boy can be angry with or without a beard.

Muman

Nature

By ROGBR BABSON >,.BSON PARK. Masg^ am writing this column to further emphasize that Presidents do not make or unmake conditions: but that conditions make or unmake Presidents. This will be tested in 1964, and perhaps at the next Congressional Election in 1%2.

INSURANCE AGAINST

depressions I ,The Democrats are counting upon the various stabilizing measures which have been passed by Congress since 1930 and even before the Depression from which Mr. Hoover unjustly suffered. Let me enumerate ten of these tonics.

1. Social Security, which provides billions of dollars annually to millions of people in pension and dependency payments. This should be a real stabilizer and prevent certain unemployment which would otherwise surely occur.

2 Unemployment Insurance.

Presently about 45.000.000 workers are entitled, in an emer* gency, to unemployment checks from their states. Added to this, most states give old-age relief to especially needy persons. This latter will be pressed by President Kennedys proposed old-age aid legislation.

3. Farm Price Supports, for which several billion dollars are distributed annually to the farmers of the nation. This money will largely filter through to farm labor which otherwise would be reduced. Hence, this should help as an employment stabilizer.

4. Insuring Bank Deposits. Shortly after Mr. Roosevelt took over the Presidency In 1933, uearly every bank was temporarily closed to prevent more bank failures and alleviate the financial panic then developing. The country was shocked. This resulted in legislation to insure

up to $10,000 anl to provide more careful supervision of banks. This restored confidence and helped stabilize employment.

5. Mortgage Loans were formerly written for five or ten years at a rate of around 6 per cent. Now legislation permits them to be written for 20 years or more at an average rate of 44 per cent. This surely is a stimulant to building and real estate, and hence to employment.

6. The Securities & Exchange Commission was established to eliminate bucket shops and to give investors confidence to buy good securities. Probably the Mutual Funds, which have had such a tremendous growth during the past few years, were, greatly stimulated by the SEC. This helped employment by resulting in the incorporation of new companies,

7.-Govermnent Spending- was greatly expanded and the money mostly comes back to the people after the' government receives taxes from the contractors. This has been the greatest stimulant of employment. Although I pray for peace, I shudder to think what will happen when this shot-in-the-arm no longer exists.

8. Checking Wall Street Speculation. Speculation under controlled conditions is a g(JOd thing. It enables an investor to have a market available to buy or sell stoclK. But before 1929, very little margin was required so that almost every stenographer and elevator operator was buying stocks. Starting at 55 per cent in 1936, margin require-' menta have subsequently been (iropped to as low as 40 per cent and raised as high as 100 per cent: and now 70 per cent. These under the Federal Reserve System, stabilized Wall Street and again gave it a good name.

9. Labor Unions were encouraged by Franklin Roosevelt. They prevented' wageworkers from becoming panicky and management from unnecessarily cutting wages. Although certain labor leaders now go too far. these unions stabilized wages, from which the country then benefited.

10. Inflation This may become most potent of all; but it needs no description here. HUMAN NATURE MAKES AND

UNMAKES PRESIDENTS AND NATIONS

When I am In Florida, I look out on acres of orange groves which are being sprayed to kill worms which destroy the fruit. I once asked the foreman in charge how many times he sprayed. He replied: Now we must spray three times each season, because the worms and flies get Immune to the old sprayt, (Continued on Page 6)

Petty

Pilfering Is Big Business

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS ARE YOU FULLY CONSCIOUS?

A friend who works in a small office with a gee space-heater complains that In cold weather be is anesthetized without even realizing it. As he explains it, the atmosphere in the room slowly comes to have more fume.s and les.s oxygen, and he eU5 groggier and groggier: but 'this take.< -phiee-"Hft .graduaUv that before he know.a that he is Uruvurd, he i*. loo diiiuve*! to know it. Only when some errand like lunch draws him outdoors does the blast of fre.sh air.shock him into comprehending how nearly uncbhseious be hu become.

My friend's, experience is a common onei and it 1 nof^ limited to those who work in

offices with space heaters. It is very easy to become morally or spiritually drugged, too. We can go on living in a low moral atmosphere for so long that we become quite accustomed to it and do hot even re<^ognlze it as a low one. We can gradually accept as normal conduct things which would have shocked or dLsgtisted us a few years before AiMl-ihe-samt-pro!e.yi may take place In our .spiritual atmosphere, too

What we all need, at regular intervals, is a good breath of mural and spiritual fresh air to bring us back to ourselves We

should brealhr it- ift clM*reh-evri y Sunday^ We shbW hrethe IF in

prayer ovcry day And wc f^hould choose friends who live tn this Irtish Uiioephei4. tij>tf,

By ELMER ROESKNER Petty pilfering, to dash off a paradox, is big today. Owners of many businesses complain they are being pushed to the edge of bankruptcy more by em-$30.000 in pilfersge.

Pilferage has become such big business that services Resigned to combat pilferage have also become big business. There are 'scores of companies that, for a fee, will send analysts, operatives and accountants into your company to find out how you are being robbed from within.. Rates are uuially rra.sOnablc: for $2().-0(M1 you can fiifit Qot how to .stop $;10,0(M) In pltlfrage But the must Interesting, even amusing, ktnd of pilferage Is the uperatlun of a bu.slness within a busine.'^.s,

IT- UDiUwW ThFi[tica that he may be tip.m* ing a cuckoo busme.s.s may seem ndicMilou.s' to a businssmau. .Nfvertlieiess. it can |pe true.

A Californian set up a television sales and repair shop. Profits were less than expected. Investigation showed that one repairman was bringing work Into the shop, repairing it on paid time with his employers parts, and billing customers himself.

An Eastern publisher was outsmarted by two employees. They tjiougljt a bo(ijc he rejected had more possibilities than l?e knew They published it. advertising It for mall order sales, using the publishers own address for their mall. They may have been using his pastage meter, too.

-A rear-estate, dealer advertised heavily to bring' in pros pects. One of his sale.amen specialized in showing prospects three or four houses that did not fit their requlremeints. then ionk. the prospects to a house ''trT'wWii he excDislvr

sales- contract. He got rich whUe his buss got poor.

A shoe manufactuiing com

pany eventually noticed losses In inventory. An employee was found to have opened his own discount store, selling shoes below wholesale price.

An accountancy firm discovered that It was losing profitable accounts to employees, who handled the business at reduced rates outside of business hours The operator of a candy aiiB cigarette stand was puzzled by the drop tn income. His clerk was buying candy and cigarettes wholesale, selling them and pocketing tlie profits. iThe clerk was a dope; he could have mada-much more taking bets and selling sweep.sjakeA tickets ) - So what business areVyou in? And what business is inVours?

ODD-SHAPED BiTR-

live entertainers as mainlandert . . iNewest merger brewing is that of National Distillers and Chemical Corp. and the Bridgeport Brass Co. Products of the combine would include whiskey and other chemicals, brass and aluminum products. . PepsiCola Co., has bought rights to Makln Whoopee, is revlalng it Into The Pepsi Song. and plans to spend $84,000,000 promoting it. , .In 19M, the United States imported > 25,173.000

pounds of strawberries, mostly from Mexico, and exported 19,-832,000 pounds, mostly to Canada.

AN EARLY STORY FOR WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY

Mrs. Vicki Wood, 42, a stock car racer, is a 5-foot. 3-lnch grandmother. So when Dean Martin, Diytona Beach Dodge

IN BUSINESS JIGSXW *

_The PiWTle Associatkm - dealer, sells 4ier race xsiW.

ol Actors and . Technicians used autoa. he truthfully says.

(PR A AT) is demanding that the This car has been driven only

inland's hotels hue as many na- by a nice little grandmother.