PACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, M C

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Thursday, February 23,

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Problems^ Fj5t Ind ustrial Centers

Many industrial centers of the nation apparently lymany jobs in the aircraft industry, and a similar are facing long-range unempPo>ment problems that situi^tion applies in a numbt^r of other industries as-will not be altogether solved even with a significant sociated with the national defense effort business, upturn. ' . In addition to these factors, the bumper crop of

In this respect, their problem is oot unlike that post-war babies are now becoming adult citizens and whicHThas been faced in a number of agricultral <^ntering the ^ool ^t-people seeking employment areas of the nation where farm employment has de- This further complicates the employment picture in dined with mechanization and "displaced farm work- some industrial areas that have been caught not only ers have been forced to seek other means of making in 'the recession, but likewise in the change taking a living. place in the industrial complex.

Automation in industry has reduced to some ex-r While economists say the number of production

tent the number of jobs available, but of greater sig- jobs will not increase to keep pace with the growth nificance it has made possible considerable increase in of people needing employ

rment, they likewise are pre-production without the necessity of a corresponding dieting an increase in service'jobs throughout the na-increase in the number of employes. Changes in the tion.

nations economy^for example the decline in the use It is becoming obvious, it seems to us, that many

of coalhas eliminated a number ot jobs in specific people now unemployed will not be able to return industries that will not re-open even if another eco- to their old jobs even though the economy moves nomic boom. * steadily upward. They are going to have to find new

The shift in national defense policies from air- jobs of oth,er kinds, even if it means they will have craft to missiles has eliminatedperhaps permanent- to learn new skills or,new applications of the skills

they have used |qr years.

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STATE GASOLINE-SlAte employee drivers of central motor pool cars have been suriMlsed a number of^ times lately at aheence of Esso credit cards from the glove compartments. For many years nearly all State rasoline was bought from Esso sutiona and employees got the habit of topping at the Esso tign.

The big contract for bulk deliveries of gasoline has been with Esso for many years, with very few temporary breaks. There were provisions even then for quickie purchases on credit cards from other companies, in event a State car ran .ihort and no Esso station was at hand.

The contract for bulk delivei^ les to school bus tanks, highway commission. highway patrol, forestry and wildlife services, and slmar large users, is still with Esso. Late last year Esso and Amoco canceled their roadside credit card ser\1ce to the StAte.

Nearly all the. other major companies except Gulf offer the service, along with a two percent discount from regulap- re

years ago established the policy of having State cars get their gasoline from highway patrol and other bulk storage points as an economy measure. There, i a saving of maybe'two or three cents on every gallon as compared with the private roadside filling station. On the millions of gallons used that runs up to a sizeable amount. Unfortunately it is not all savings. There ts the matter of lost time and mileage getting to the bulk tank, the record keeping time required of State employees, plus the fact that often the man handling the pump is worth more on his regular job.

When all the factors- are taken into account, the P&C folks think there is substantial saving in using State-purchased bulk gasoline rather than a few gallons at a time from retail private stations, and there is presently no indication that the policy W1 be changed.*

PROBLEMt-Iii response to a question at his latest news conference Governor Terry Sanford said the main problem with respect to secondary roads in North Carolina Is-that there just

In agricultural sections of the nation such as Eastern North Carolina, many people have been forced from the farms in the past decade. Many have moved into the cities and towns of their immediate areas and have found jobs of various kinds. Others have moved to other sections of the nation where there appeared to be better opportunities for nonfarm employment. Still others have.found it necessary to move from one temporarx- job to another until they were able to find permanent employment . . . often far removed from the farm employment they were accustomed to.

Although unemployment in many industrial areas of the nation is looked upon as a result of the so-called recession, at least a part of the unemployment problem is attributable to a more basic change that is taking place in American industry. Effective remedies will have to reach the root of the problem rather than just deal with the more obvious and PATRICIA MOORE

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By GEOROE E. SOKOLSKY Copi^'ht. IWiTKlng Features' Syndicate. Inc.

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Hopeful Outlook For Court Reform Action

The Outlook Is Unhappy

There is an optimistic outlook in these early days

We read that it is time for TV producers to slice programs, switch them around and make changes, supposedly for the better, for the coming sea-

we, all of us. had more to say about what programs we could watch and when.

of the 1961 General Assembly that court reform *on. And also, that soon there

legislation will be enacted this year to improve the quiz prograi^

antiquated system of lower courts the state now has. Jrtunately?.'^^

Whether this optimism will grow or wane when

tail price So the driver who plough money available to

picks up a at the pool wiU needed job-

not find an El&so or Amoco or Gulf credit card in the pocket he may find two or three others like Crown. Pure, Phillips 6o. Shell. Sinclair et cetera. The smart driver is learning to check before he leaves town to find which stations he can patronize on the tripif he has to buy ffas at retail.

Purchase and contract folks discourage the purchase of gasolina to this manner, except in case* of real emergency. They Inaist that State cars fill up at highway patrol or other bulk storage points. The discount on bulk deliveries is much moro than the two percent aUowed on little purchases.

TAXES ~ Other big users of gasoline delivered to storage tanka In bulk get a discount from regular retail price, but all privata users, whatever the quantity, muat pay the gallonage tax7 cents to the State and 4 centa to the Federal government The State does not pay the Federal tax. on any pur-chasea, but except for school buses and other vehicles owned by the operated exclusively for

Lait week at a Wilmington meeting where beach erosion was under discussion Col. Harry Brown, chief of the Water Re-souixes Commission, and a recognized-aufhority on the subject, said there are no senous engineering problems involved in protecting the outer banks and the beaches. The only real problem is one of money. In both instances the money they are talking about is big money, multi-million dollars of it.

Equitable solution of the problem of where the money should come from is bothersome. It Is complicated by the legalistic device of matching funds- The Federal government will put up major part of the cost of a highwayif the State will match funds on some sort of prorata basis. Maybe the State folks dont need the road, but the lure of Federal money leads them to Join the project. The State will run a super-highway through a city If the municipality will pay a certain part of the cost. Maybe the road isnt worth much to the city, but It cant af-

They figure that some of the the legislators get down to serious committee consid- storm over the quiz show rig-

eration of proposals that are being offered remains has died down enough to

bring new quiz programs to the

to be seen. screen. That is fine If you like

In 1959, early in the,session, there appeared a to watch quiz programs, all the strong sentiment for court reform legislation recom- time, hoping somebody from

mended by a special study group. The sweeping pro- JVom^^SiinoirwUi win^a^S posals of the study group had been carefully outlined, coat and a Florida beach cot-and an elaborate program was undertaken to explain tage. , \

the program to the people of the state. Public sent- Is

ment seemed to favor most of them. But in the legisla- it already is, and they move ti\:e in-fighting the proposals were killed and North favorite programs to less con-

Carolina was stuck for at least two more years with so nice if little

Speaking of watching. It was a very short time ago that we were in the Grifton Town Office watching. We were observing a pickup truck across the street that had stakes to which were attached something like yellow and black striped taib (like cat' except bigger) waving in the air. There was a sign that said something about we buy fur, any kind, otter and mink. What we saw was not otter or mink (we hope).

While we were still observing, entranced, the police chief ended the trance by telling us those were coon tails. A long way from mink, wed say.

After the World Day of Prayer service last week, we noticed an automobile parked in the

drlve-way at the municipal periling lot near Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church. It wasnt at a parking place, you see, because there werent any left.

A lite note had been left on the windshield saying occimant gone to church service, well, there wasnt any ticket.

Never doubt the resourcefulness of.a lady.

Strength For Today

its unweildy conglomeration of lower courts.

The need for court reform in North Carolina is A

acute today just as it was two years ago. Public scnti- (s^til0r JLCllIOrS OClVlliy>

ment appears to be heavily in favor of the legislature

taking some positive steps during the current session io

to bring about reforms that will improve the system [ iiS Zj0L1o of lower courts throughout North Carolina. And in

the legislature there are strong -proponents of court reform just as there wei^ two years ago.

In contract to the J959 sessions, legislators this year should see that positive steps are taken to reorganize the system of lower courts throughout the state. They should not allow the proposals for to bog down completely and be killed off as was the case two years ago.

(Burlington Daily Times-Nows)

More interest in being shown, and there even are ^some demands within Congress, for the Nike Zeus anti-missile missHe to go into immediate production.

Local Western Electric officials who have charge of the Zeus project for the Army dont have a production order, of course, and they dont know for

tho public achools, all State ag- ford to lose the State money encies pay the 7 cents North* Projects to halt beach erasiqn

OaroUna road tax.

(Check on this point has not been complete, but this is believed to be the only instance in which one segment of State government pays taxes specifically . levied for the support of another departments activities. There has been a lot said about diver-akm of highway funds to other purpoees. This Is one case of ubetamlal diversion of general fund money to the highway-account.)

ECONOMY The division of jmrehase and contract several

usually call for joint Federal, State, local government and private participation. Many coastal communities and private property owners protest the matching idea. They contend the project is for the all over common good, and the whole public should foot the bill. The rest of that overall public thlnles that individuals who gain substantial monetary benefit should pay larger share of the total cost. So the basic need for money involves the discussion of who should put up the money.

North Carolina needs to improve its system of . v

lower courts, and it is the obligation of those who reslamh" ^nd^^producUon

are members of the General Assembly to provide the means .by which our courts will be improved.

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By J.\MES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) In the midst of honoring George Washington yesterday, and wishing everyone could be like him, it might be well to remember that man's doubts about man were just as real in his time as they are now.

If today there is chaos in Laos, massacre in the Congo, and a riot in the United Nations, this country was in such a developing me.s5 174 years ago Washington thought America faced anarchy unless it found some way to control Itself.

The Constitution which the Founding Fathers manufactured in convention in Philadelphia in 1787 is a monument to mans mLsglvlngs about mans good judgment and intentions.

Even at the beginning of tho PhUadelphia meeting Washington, presiding over It, saw tho big states try to work in a gimmick that would let them dominate the smaller states.

There was struggle over that at the very moment those early Americana were trying to find ' a way to avoid struggw. In the end this, like so much that went into the document, was finally solved In compromise.

The result was an trrango-ment which did not base Its hope for the future on man's wisdom, generosity, unselfishness or noble purpose. It Just assumed men would be trying to inch ia on one anbther for. untold geiipiations.

' So It laid down rule# which spelled out wliat the three branches of goveriiinent and Ui-dividuals could and couldnt do and how, far they could go and couldnt. But even the Founding Fathers them.selves were fallible.

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_ Washington, after two terms as president, surely had no illusions about mankind. His Farewell Address is a catalogue of warnings on how the nation and its citizens should conduct themselves.

James Madison had no illusions. either, about mans end-

which have gone into the weapon, ano the tests which have been conducted, have been impressive and have gained much support from high authority.

The comment of last year by Rep. Carl. T. Durham is well remembered at this point. At the time Congress was in debate on whether Zeus would be placed on a lower priority, with the Bomarc missile being given top attention. Rep. Durham, in the debates, said that jie would never support the Zeus, though two of Western Electrics plants were in his district, if it were not the best line of missile defense available to the nation. Bomarc at the time had not been tested.

Congress switched what appeared to be a dangerous blow to 25eus and placed Bomarc on

with a defense against missiles in a missile age is causing much concern from advocates.

Out local Western Electric plant, as others in the state, would not be lost to us if the Zeus were dismissed from the nations defense program. There would be other work to be done after a period of adjustment. We cannot overlook the economic interest which we have, however, through the decision which is to be made.

But w'e feel sure that there would be no real gain for us if we got a contract for a weapon that was not what the na-

' By EARL L. DOUGLASS' WHAT IS EDUCATION?

The home is humanitys most important school. Parents ars humanitys most influential teachers. The education of childhood and youth is humanitys important enterprise.

How should we go about educating the immature? by combining information and training in such a way that maturity results. For we are put in the world to grow, and that growing process is the most impor-txnt thing with which we ever have to deal. We may fill the minds of our children and young people with facts and at the end of their educational careers they may be as Ignorant as naked savages. What we have to ask ourselves constantly, as we strive to give our children an education, is whether or not cur efforts are producing growth and maturity or whether these efforts are simply enabling us to conform to accepted social patterns, give the kids a headful of facts, enable them to get a diploma.

report by April 1 on tax havens, on whether undue amounts of American capital may be flowing to industrialized nations. Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury, is to get the facts to-, gether with the object of developing legislation. It is to be hoped that he hoes not limit his Investigations to Treasury officials, as they have not been able to do very much about this subject during the 40 years that It has been a problem.

Any study of tax havens must begin with hot money. By definition, this is currency which came to its owner illegally and which he dares not disclose. His principal task is to make hot money legitimate: otherwise he Is stuck with a currency that he cannot use. Hot money is actually cash and is moved as cash.

The first big block of hot . money was Prohibition money the coin that went to bootleggers. hi-Jackers, the importers of forbidden liquor, the bankers who provided the money for this purpose and the gangsters who" gave' them protection. Nobody knows for sure what this amounts to, but the figure most often used is that the residue is about $2,500,000.000, Most of this money first found its way from various American cities to the Canadian bootlegging centers and from there to Europe whera it was legitimatized and put into industry and commerce throughout the world, including the United States. No tgxes were ever paid on these earnings.

The second largest block of hot money is dope. This has to be financed because the sums involved are enormous. The principal export center is Italy, ^ although considerable dope' comes from the Middle East and Red China. It is generaUy said that Lucky Luciano is the king of this business throughout the world, although he, living in exile, denies this overlord-ship. All transactions are in cash and therefore no taxes are paid. The United States maintains an inadequately financed agency to meet this situation under Uie direction of Harry J. Anslinger, who has done more ttian is to be expected on the slender support he has. This dope money should be taxed but it is not-easy to find the owners. However, If a tax of 200 per cent were put on caught heroin or marijuana or opium, It would be very helpful. The peddling or financing of dope should be made a capital offense.

The third largest block of hot money is cuirency obtained by a variety of methods. Including under-the-table payments to politicians. Such money is physical--ly taken to placee like Switzerland or Panama or Hongkong and is banked there either under numbered or fictitious accounts. The money is then managed from abroad and may never actually be returned to the owner in this country. American shares may be purchased in London or Amsterdam or other cities and sold on a rise, the accretion never being taxed. Dividends would, of course, be taxed. The money is also used for investment in foreign enterprises or in American - owned enterprises abroad. It thus becomes denationalized and pays no taxes to the United States-The sums involved in these

I. j j tij- operations are not known. In the

tlon needed. We would ^ rac- _ wisdom growing- business world the low estimate

less struggle with man. He useil'' the lower priority list. Research

the word faction to describe it.

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of Interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community, Madison said.

There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of factions: the one, by removing its causes: the othu*, by controlling its efforts.

The Constitution was meant to be the controller. It isnt any more perfect than man, but it has worked, because it is based on a realistic view of the nature of man, extremely well.

But we etlU * have factions, more numerous and powerful than in Washingtons time, at home, and abroad. Its because of factional disputes, on a world scale now. that this country is In its present deadly strufffle.

A thousand yesre from now, when the world mey look a little different, if its still here, the present conflicts, if compared with the struggle going on then,* may seem very smpll, a Httla factlonel difference of opinion.

and development continued on Zeit.

There stil are some questions about the effectiveness of Zeus, but there seems little question but that it is the most effective potential we have at present, and there is none other in sight. To delay In providing the nation

ing an uncertain economy, and that would be dangerous.

There are those In high authority who now are joining Westerns feeling of confidence. Statements of support have come from Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia, chairman of the Senates Armed Forces Committee. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, the Armys Lt. Gen. Arthur Trudeau, and a growing number of Congressmen and civilian scientists.

Therefore, our Immediate interests in economics affecting our own area moves Into a wider category. We, in turn, can rightfully ask.' without our personal association, whether the government is acting wisely in not heeding the warnings and moving with speed toward Zeus production. With the missile potential of our potential enemlea, its hard to believe we have a well-rounded millUry program unless we can shoot back.

in the grade school? Is his is $50,000,000.000.

Judgement improving In high Actually, the tax la^'permits school, preparatory school? Is American enterprise to re-his college curriculum and his tain its earnings abroad and thus

college environment getting him avoid taxation In the United

oriented directed toward states. The Treasury seeks to

lifes problems. Is his professional training making him just a professional man, or a sensitive, informed, imaginative, covirageous member of society, a leader of its principal projects?

What is education? Here is a question continually to be pondered If we would grow and help our children to grow.

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Civilization can be measured by the degree of helplessness when the electricity goes off. Carlsbad Current-Argus.

correct this by requiring American paren* companies to supply information concerning foreign subsidiaries, but this is not the largest factor in the situation. What Ik needed is information about those Americans who have numbered accounts in Switzerland and other countries and to make such dollars taxable.

There can be no excuse for the lack of knowledge on these subjects except that too many big names are always involved. There is plenty of free discussion and free action on these subjects and nobody seems particularly worried about them or afraid of government action.

All tax havens Involve tax (Contmued on page five)

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rhe Civil War Boom Has Begun

By ELMER ROESSNER The ClvU War boom, long predicted here, is starUng in earnest.

Products and projects involv-

of the day, military caps, squirrel guns, military buttons and goodness knows what else are pouring Into the shops-The publishing Industry, too, is making money on what is

ing miUions of dollars are com- ,ometlme referred to in the

of the development

ing out stage.

Hundreds of commemorative events will be held at historic sites over the next four years-Many of these will take on aspecU of fairs, rich in pageantry, attracting millions of people In the aggregate.

There will be countless tours to hisioric places in addition. Bus, plane and railroad lines as agencies have

trade as Mr. Cattons War. In addition to books by Bruce Catton, there art volumea by aoorea of others, wall maps, newspaper featurea dneluding a new hlljgrlous oomlc atrip), souvenir booklets, poetcardi and countless other Items. In the end, Jefferson Dtvls may out-acore Davey Crockett on American popularity P(^ls.

Madison Avenue ia getting into the centennial and there will be Civil War themes and Civil

well its tiavel

By that time Uie earth we live ^ long .been pianuing excurstons. ----- . - ^ v*. ui lie

On may b in intense interplan- Tiie commemoratfve events War type in ad, ClvU Ww etary dispute with other men. or and the tours will result in huge merclals on the ilr, and (jther

maybe monsters, on other spending in many localltlaa:

worlds. they will Insure good baslness CONFEDERATE MONEY

Even the short time lapse-be- for hotels, motels, restaurants ACCEPTABLE

tw/jefl jyiifihlngcpns ^ enterprises catering Typical of these plans is a

of freedom were mor- ours .hows ivow near*sigmea e^ To

Civil War map, an eagle with Union and Confederate flags, and a book of sales snggestlons, one of which is that dealers accept from $5 to $15 In Confederate money toward payment for appliances. Hotpoint is also offering dealers Civil War hats, balloons, extra flags, old-fashioned aunbonnets and ClvU War tiesMt looks as if Hotpoint is trying to steal the war from Mr. Catton.

The centennial will also boost business for many other.s: stamp and coin dealers, lecture bureaus and lecturer*, actors, costume companlps. television producers and countless other:

The total boom In business, however, will not equal the cost of the.war itself^ gs once stated here. Federal expenditure during the four war years w'ere about $3 billion; the Souths expenditures were leas, probably under $2 billion. The oost in

SEE? IT PAYS TO HAVE AN EDUCATION

For Inventing the word cheeribeeribeer, Mrs. Rose W. Klapp, a Jersey City. N.J., fourth-grade schoolteacher, has been awarded a*sports car- Hers was the winning entry in a contest for the best one-word description of joys of drinking one brand (Carliburg) of beer.

UNITED STATES LAGGING IN STANDARDIZATION There may be trouble for American exporters in the years ahead because of lack of United States interest to international - standarlllzttian. The United siatas has representation on oBly 60 of lou commlttess in the International Standards Association. Declared Arnold Scott of the National Buread, of Standi rds:

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taring together the^ bricks of liberty within, the Constitution they ajrreed to* let slaves be unported lor I another 20 years. ^ -

en the wLseat of lis Can be because at times we, tend to see no - further than the cootempor-XConttoued on pagd gy * '

AND SOUVEMRS-The flood of souvenirs ts already rising. Reproductions of X^dfljhderit money, newspapers

Geatestnial -sale. -Jay > priVAl^j>xgfler|iy 1 incalculable, Hotpdlnt. ItWill send dealers t with losing the moi^.

We are too amug in our feeling that our technology and In-

41-plece display package including Civil War posters. Civil War window decdratlons, baimera, a

Private losses may have doubled the-toUl cost, not counting the book value of the freed slaves.

flugtry lead tht wjrld - th*t our way Is best, that we do

not need dards.'

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