PAGE FOURTHI DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, W. C

TiMtday, May 30, 1961

Tuesday, May 80, 1961

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How Much Is Your Freedom Worth?

A Blow To Democrats Everywhere

It is a blow to Democrats everywherenot just those in Texas^that the Lone Star state has elected its first Republican to the Senate to occupy the seat formerly held by Vice President Lyndon Johnson

For the Republican Party the victory of John G. Tower, 38-year-old former college professor, represents a major achievement in spite of predictions last fall that Texas would have been in the Republican column in the national election had not Johnson been* on the national -Democratic ticket.

The victory of Tower in the Texas senate race will be a tremendous boost for GOP spirits throughout the country, and particularly for those in other Southern states where the 1960 election saw some unprecedented gains in the number of GOP ballots. It points up the fact that the former feeling that it was almost impossible for a Republican to be elected to the Senate from the South has now been exploded. If the Repub-licans ciin elect a Senator in Texas, one might ask, can they later elect a gqvernor and increase their hold on state offices and seats in Congress? t While the Texas election will in all probabilitv stimulate Republican activity in the South, it should likewise stimulate Democratic activity in these same states. Since the general election in North Carolina

last fall, we have seen a more concerted effort than ever before to solidify and build the strength of the Democratic party. The fact that the Republican party showed considerably more strength in both the national and state campaigns in this state than heretofore had been experienced is certainly one reason for the renewed emphasis on strengthening the Democratic Party.

' While the Republican strength in North Carolina last fall has set Democratic leaders working to. strengthen their part>\it likewise has put new life into the building of the Republican party in this state.

The election of a Republican to the Senate from Texas is another indication that the Solid South in Democratic terms cannot be taken for granted in future years. In states where complacency in Democratic ranks leads to neglect of the party fences, the Republicans can build fences of. their own to channel voters to the polls on election day.

It happened in Texas in spite of the fact that the Vice President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives are from that state, it can certainly happen' in other Southern states.

Strike Memories Will

AsSGinbly Looks Long Haunt Henderson

After Its Own

By LYNN NISBET

PAY RAISES Bins introduced last week by Rep. Tom Woodard of Wilson, chairman of the House appropriationa committee. and virtually assured enactment, would increase' the pay of iHindpal clerks of the House and S^iate from $20 to $30 a day. and of reading clerks and sergeants at arms from $16 to $24 a day. retroactive to beginning of the current legislative session. That means a fifty per cent raise in pay. All other clerical workers and personnel attached to the General Assembly win get raises ranging from 15 per cent to 25 per cent under the Woodard bffl.

These pay raises for legislative employees contrast with provisions in the general appro-prtetioDS bill for approximately 20 per cent pay raise fw school teachw-s and some 3 per cent for the rank and file of SUte agency and departmental employees.

Members of the General Assembly in voting these increases for their own employees were consistent with extra money voted fer themselves. The salary of legislators is fixed in the constitution at $15 per day for a limit of 120 days. The members could not increase their per diem pay. but they are not restricted in voting expenses money for their use. So a few weeks ago they voted to raise the daily expense allowance from the statutory $8 a day to $12 a day also a 50 per cent increase. Although it developed that legislators had been drawing $9 1 day. aeipiie rae $ statmory

limit, because in 1959 the subsistence allowance for other State employees was raised to 19.

Pending legislation would raise that limit, and also would provide special consideration for higher spending by certain favored employees.

CONSTITUTION The North Carolina General Assembly has often manifested disregard for the constitution. Most widely pubUdzed Instance has been failure to appturtion membership in the Legislature. Other less widely publicized Instances have bei <rf perhaps greater signifl-canoe such as enactment of special acts specifically barred by the constitution and raising the expense allowance of members. The amendment adopted several years ago providing for per diem subsistence specifically sets out that **sach allowance shall not exceed those established tor members of the State boards and commissions generally.** In face of the general rate of $9 per day, and the special statutory rate of $8 for members of the Legislature, the legislators this year voted them

selves an expense allowance (rf $12 per day.

Several eminent lawyers have said that if this allocation should be challenged in the courts it probaMy would be thrown out as unconstitutional. From practical viewpoint it is not subject to challenge. Court procedure re-quirdi that any person coming into court must have sufficient interest to afford intervention. Although the aggregate amount Involved Is considerable, there is DO individual or corporate entity with enough at stake to Justify instigating a law suit.

A 50 per cent or more increase in pay of legislative clerks and in subsistence allowance for members adds up to a few thousand dollars. A much smaller percentage increase for some 70,000 State employees including school teachersadds up to millions of dollars And in concept of legislative appropriations it is aggregate amounts rather than individual compensation that controls the voting

For example, increasing the Governors salary 67 per cent added only $10,000 to the appropriation' bin of 1959, while increasing rank and file employee salaries about 5 per cent added some $15 million.

NO RECORD - The time has cwne in this session of the Legislature when voting records In committees and in full floor sessions are important for current news and historic reference. Unfortunately, the policy of the North Carolina General Assembly does not lend Itself to record keeping. Most votes in committee are viva voce or by raised hands. Results ire detemrtned but there is*no record of Who voted how. More often than not votes in the open sessions of the House and Senate are taken by raised hands or by unrecorded voice vote.

It has been noted here before that committee records are lost when the session ends. And except when a roll call vote is taken the legislative Journals do not record anything more than result of the voting.

Within the past ten days your reporter several times has been called upon for iniormation as to how this or that member of the Legislature voted on Important measures. The requested information could not be furnished, because there was no recorded vote. More than 90 per cent of all bills passed are adopted by voice or standing vote, without record of who voted how.

Apparently legislators like some degree of anonymity so they can later claim the position that has proven popular. On the other hand, there is growing sentiment In favor of a recorded vote on every issue.

Although the once-bitter Harriet-Henderson Cotton Mill strike in Henderson will officially end June 1, memories of the strike will haunt union officials, owners of the mills and citizens of North Carolina for many years to come.

For all practical purposes the strike has been over for many months in spite of the fact that a few pickets have remained at the plants. The mills months ago returned to full production, and many of those who did not return to work at the mills have found jobs elsewhere. There are still others among the stokers at Henderson, however, who still have remained out and have not found other employment.

Though the 21/2 year strike was the most costly in the history of the Textile Workers Union of America which has reportedly paid out |1,250,000 in stoke relief to union members in Henderson, this figure does not begin to represent the total cost of the bitter labor dispute.

The loss of work during the period of the stoke must be taken into consideration in counting the overall cost; and soinust the production lost by the mills. Then too there is the cost of local police and other officials in striving to maintain order when tempers mounted in Henderson, the cost of National Guard troops who were called in to maintain law and order when the situation became too much for local officers to cope with. Also in the cost must be considered th^ intangibles of the effect the bitter strike and the accompanying nation-wide publicity has had on further industrial development in North Carolina both in the textile and other industries.

Suffice it to say that North Carolina has never before suffered such a costly labor dispute as that of the Harriet-Henderson Cotton Mill in Henderson. It is to be hoped that with the official end of the stoke, the state will never again be faced with a similar situation in Henderson or anywhere else in North Carolina.

By DON SCHUENZ

Just Couldnt HaDpen?

Progress, Or A Aoad To Ruin?

Theres s story told In the N.C. Firemens Association magazine (May issue) which leaves one with the thought it wouldnt happen to ipe.

But the publication says it did hiU^)en in Forsyth County. . . . and the story is a true one.

In the interest of demonstrating that the implausible is sometimes plausible, and *one never knows, does one ? , the following is a direct re-print from The Hose & Nozzle:

A group of men were standing around in a group at a rural store when a man Joined them and said, Gentlemen. I have a story I would like to tell, and I assure you that this atory will be repeated every time that 1 can get anyone to listen to me.

This afternoon, while returning home from work, I noticed a rescue unit behind us, using his emergency lights, trying to get through the heavy traffic. I was of the opinion, and so stated to the driver, that it was a group that was out for a ride and fisr foinr anyplace that

would necessitate them receiving the right of way. So I told the driver of our car to keep them behind us. This went on for a couple of miles until we entered an open stretch of road where the driver of the rescue unit deemed it safe to pass-

When I reached home I learned that my son, 10 years of age. had fallen into a lake This rescue unit, the group that we deliberately refused to let pass, were en route to the lake to save my son.

Tonight my son is in a local hospital. The doctors tell me that he will completely recover. Not for any assistance that I gave him, but to the men in the rescue unit that give their time, and oftentimes their e. to give aid to persons like me that never appreciates them until tlwy are needed.

(Jentlemen, my prayers are for the guidance and protection of all such organizaons that go that extra mile to nelp their fellowman.

*Thls Is one of thoBr~ime-ln

Other Editors Saying Court Decisions Awaited

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WASHINGTON (AP)Federal spending will hit the $l(X)-billion mark within the next few years. ^ Will this prove a symbol of na-' tional progress or a milestone on the road to fiscal ruin?

The Republican leaders in Congress. Sen. Everett Dlrksen of Illinois and Rep. Charles Hal-leck of Indiana, already are talking about a Jungle of unprecedented spending and loose fiscal policies.'*

They say President Kennedy is headed for a budget of $125 bilUon by 1965-Dlrksen and Halleck sounded off after Kennedy last week unveiled new plans to boost spending for space reecarch, defense, foreign aid, civil defense and Jobs.

According to Budget Bureau estimates, these plans will add about $8(X) million to spending in the 1962 fiscal year which begins July 1.

Kennedy two months ago predicted a fiscal 1962 deficit of $2.8 billion. Now the Treasury Is talking about a deficit approaching $4 billion; some others In the administration say $5 billion or more.

If Congress once again Ignores a presidential plea for higher postal rates, as seems likely, an additional $800 million would be added to the deficit.

Barring higher postal rates, spending In fiscal l962^robably win total at least $86.5 billion as against predicted revenues of about $81.4 blUlon.

Although red Ink spending on such a scale is a dlsUnqt possibility. Kennedy had this to say in making his latest spending proposals:

I am not requesting additional taxes to finance the very

urgent requests 1 am making today for our iwresent tax structure and resources are more than sufficient to support them without a budget deficit if our economy moves ahead.

Kennedy thus pinpointed the problem he will face as spending moves steadily toward $1(W billion a year.

If the economy moves ahead fast enough, $l(W bilBon can buy a lot of progress without adding to the national debt or refueling the engine of Inflation.

If not. the budgetary Jungle which Dlrksen and Halleck talked about may be dense Indeed.

Spending probably wont reach $100 billion a year until fiscaS 1964, which is still two years away.

To produce revenues to match outlays of that magnitude the economy would have to advance to full emplojrment-

This isnt to say that every worker would have to hold a Job. To Kennedys economic advisers, full employment would allow for 4 per cent unemNoyment.

According to unofficial estimates prepared by government experts, if the 4 per cent rate can be achieved in the 1963 calendar year, federal revenues in fiscal 1964 would total about $100 bilUon. The gross national product the value of total U. S. output would amount to approximately $600 bUlicm.

N'oday the unemploymMt rate is Just under 7 per cent and the national product is Just above $500 billion.

If the economy fails to bridge the gap between todays performance and the 1063 goals, Dlrksen and Halleck may be able to do plenty of pointing with alarm in 1964 when Kennedy seeks a second term.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

A . 8. Supreme Court decision awaited with a great deal of interest Is expected soon. It concerns the question of whether a union can spend dues, which it collected .from persons *who were compelled to Join the union by a unlon-shop conteTict, to im*o-mote legislative and political goals opposed by those persons.

The courts decision is awaited. by those who are not union members, as well as by those who belong to various labor organizatlcms. The reason for this is because millions of nonunion members may very well have many political and legislative issues decided for them through funds used for lobbying, issues non-union citizens might oppose, Issues pushed by funds forced from union members not In sympathy with such views.

If the Supreme Court* rules against such ^)ending, the re-percus^ons will be tremendous. Unions as a matter of course support legislation and political educaUon drives, both at the state and national levels, with money taken from members dues. National unions spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year on lobbying alone.

The AFL-CIO, for example, pent $129 million on lobbying In Washington last year. Also in 1960 James Hoffas Teamster crowd spent over $95,000. This is typical of union expenditures to exert iM'essure on politicians at aU leveU.

If the court rules adversely, what will the unions do? Most likely all this high - poyered spending of members dues would have to be refinanced through voluntiry contributions rather than dues money, or-dropped altogether. To drop such activity would be a blow to the unions which have become accustomed to dictating to the national parties, particularly the Democrats, in order to gain their support.

The Supreme Court decision is expected in the case which brwight legal action in the first place the Street and Looper case. It was originally brought In Georgia by several employes of the Southern Railway System. They asked the Georgia courts to outlaw the enforcement of a union-shop contract requiring all employes to Join the union and pay dues within 60 days or lose their Jobs.

The courts in Georgia, right up to the State Supreme Court, backed the railroad employes in their fight against this arbitrary requirement. If the . 8. Supreme Court fails to reverse the decision, it will be a major blow on behalf of workmen who oppose compulsory Joining of unions. It will also be a blow on behalf of those states now supporting rlght-to-work laws. It is hoped, of course, that such laws will be sustained, for the arbitrary powers of unions in deciding the work rules of U.S. citizens are against the principles of our Constitution.

a-milUon stories that incidentally carried a very printed lesson for one man. , . .and maybe it will make some impression on others.

Memorial Day was designated as an occasion to honor our war dead, and the ceremonies vary from region to region. In one way they are all similar in terms of prideful gratitude to those who gave Uieir lives for ideals prayerfully endowed with permanency in 1775.

It has occurred to me as it may have to you that with nearly every family counting a dead veteran in its past, private remembrance tends to include all of those intimately known and now absent.

To some. Memorial Day is also an occasion for making an' extra effort to see one another again after long separations: an extension of the Memorial Day spirit into a realm its originators probably overlooked.

On this late spring day there are .many cemeteri across Oft land which wiU see lonely figures wend their way to family plots. . .to again read inscriptions. . .to remember, and to pray.

The flags are nice. The flowers are nice.

But the memories are fairest of all.

Opinions In Brief

The American public might like to know that the unions at Cape Canaveral have caused 23 work stoppages since 1956 by refusing to work with non-union wrorkcrs, resulting in 9,046 man days lost; they have charged exorbitant overtime and wage scales, and in full have completely fleeced the American taxpayer and his government. In Russia such actions would draw the firing squad or the rest of ones life in Siberia. Sarasota (Fla.) News.

Who does the moet waiting of anyone you know? Wed say it Is the fellow who Is always on time for his appointments. Bartow (Oa.) Herald.

The basic distinction between democracy and republic is in the degree of majority rule. Majority rule is unrestricted in a democracy while It Is restricted In a republic.Johnston (S.C.) Ridge Citizen.

One drawback to improved

transportation is there is no longer any such ttng as a distant relative. Mattoon (lU.) Joumal-Oazette.

Advice Full Of Flaws

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1961, King Features

, Syndicate, Inc. ^

In Its effort to plug the holes In income tax collections, the Internal Revenue Service and President John Kennedy have been receiving some astonisn";-ly rldicillous advice Some of it is difficult to understand sm before he became President of the United States, John Kennedy got around more than a little He knows that a $30 a day expense account will not help sell 'I in big volumes. His own ho 1 in New York is tho C *, where $30 a day will barely get a room, to say nothing about food. In fact, it will' not go far in a less expensive hotel But It is not this matter that I wish to discuss at this moment. It is the proposed ban on Institutional advw'tisig. The Treasury does not wish that this form of advertising should be regarded as a proper business expense. Yet, the same , S. Treasury engages in and promotes its own institutional advertising. Let me cite:

How time turns into dollars when you invest in U.S. Savings Bonds. This is part of a very laixe advertisement, the last lines of which read:

The U.S. Government does not pay for this, advertisement The Treasury Department is grateful to Perpetual Building Asso-ciatlbn and The Advertising Council for patriotic support.* Another reads Uncle Sam tips . his hat to the ladies-for their part in the Savings Bond Program. This is another large advertisement and contains A Message from Our First Lady* advising women to buy bonds.

Again, the last lines read:

The U.S. Government doea not pay for this advertisement.

The Treasury Department is grateful to Perpetual Building Association and The Advertis-injL Council for patriotic sup-port. ' ^

Another large advertisement contains Uie following:

For twenty years Americas newspapers have published Savings Bonds ads at no cost to the Government. The Treasury Dept, is grgteful to The Advertising Council and this newspaper for their patriotic support.** \

The Treasury'^ is willing to take the space for these advertisements for free or to permit a business firm to use it to mention its own name. But the Internal Revenue Service refuses to permit a firm to charge off as a business expense, let us say. an adv^isement warning against inflation or rejecting some concept of management for instance, labor relations.

In a word, the Treasury does not have a general guiding principle about instituticmal advertising. Instead, it has set up

cflsri^ip W m 1C ~

the freasury, will determine what Is permissible suivertislng and what is not permissible advertising. This has nothing whatsoever to do with plugging up holes In income tax collections.

Such holes cm be found in Swlt-zerlsad, Panama. Hmgkong and other places. It can be found to be trig ludes full of green dollars. What the censorship means is that the Treasury permits as a business expense that which pleases the Treasury.

But who in the Treasury is so erudite, so omniscient, so knowledgeable, as to be able to determine for the whole American peoide what ahould and what should not appear in the Press?

What is the name oi this genius? Is he the fellow who decided that giving Castro blackmail money is charity?

The Secretary of the *Trcasury knows how wrong some of the schemes that be is supposed to endorse are. His life as a man <d wealth, as the son of a banker, as a businessman and government riflcial have provided am-tU opportunity to know what it costa to get around in a big city. He knows what it costs to do business from experience. He knows that he cannot manage to do much on $30 a day either in Washington or New York. Why does he not talk up when he is made to be responsible for nonsense?

There 1& something about those who inherit millions which makes them mtagonistic to those who do not inherit millions. A salesmm, working for a living, who is required to cover big cities. to dreas not elegantly but pamably well, who has to take customera out for lunch or dinner or to theater, cannot do It on $30 a day. Either he takes the money out of his own pocket (Contlnaed 00 Page I)

Another Springtime Gyp Aired

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS DAY BY DAY And as ye go. preach. . .** (Matt. 10:7).

It was with this injunction that Jesus sent forth certain of his disciples. They probably little realised that those simple words would ring down across the ages as a command to all Christian believers As we go through life, we are to preach. Thia docs not mean that we are to prepare sermons (save those who are ordained and set aside to do so), or waylay our friends on all occasions and talk religion to them. It does not mean that we ire to make pests of ourselves by continually harping on our chief interest, our religious faith, and telling others about it.

The greatest sermon in the world la not The Sermon On The Mount. The greatest sermon in the world is the Man who delivered this Sermon. Even if you or I are trained to write sermons, we shall never write a sermon as powerful as the sermon which is embodied in our daily attitudes, actions and words. What we are cries out a message so loud that no one can hear what we are trying to say.

Every believing Christian as he goes through life should preach that la, set forth a message of Christian goodness and hope that others may see and lay hold on unto new jtnd better life.

As ye go, preach. . .**

By ELMER ROESSNER

Storiea here about spring-time gyps have brought letters from readers confirming the statement that awlDdlers are thicker than termites this year and Just about as destructive.

A California reader/ writes about her experiences ter buying a building to be relocated on her lot.

On its former location the house was set very low and we stressed that we wanted It relocated the aame way. The contractor relocated it the cheapest way: he buUt the foundation of concrete blocks instead of cement; he bought the smallest cement piers and in making pier posts he simply added scraps of lumber to make it long enough; rather than dig a few Inches, he set the house high. . Now we have a high house, possibly the only one In existence with a hose connection four feet off the ground,.^ Setting the

house high increases costs of lathing and plastering.

Attempts to tell this man what was wanted was useless. He simply began shouting irrelevant things about how many years he had been married. . . After he signed the contract, he began telling us about clients who had asked him how much It would cost them to get him off the Job. One man paid him $125 after the contract was signed but before the Job was started * Now he is threatening to get a lien against the property, while all the neighbors ask, Why is your house so high?*

The reader might talk to the local bureau that licenses contractors. and the might also ask the local bar association to give her the name of aome young lawyer who wants to sharpen his incisors.

At the other edge of the continent. New York AUorncy.Gen-eral Louis J. Lefkowitg has

warned against other spring frauds. He cautioned against operators of the on approval racket. These leave appliances on trial, but the receipt is often a purchase contract.

HOW TO FROTECT SELF

Mr. Lefkowltz offered these rules for housewdves to protect themselves:

Ask to see the credentiaJe of any door-to-door salesman.

Check prices against those of local merchants.

Never sign a contract with blank spaces or one that is not completely clear.

Ask if the sales price Includes installation and delivery- If the answer is yes* have it written into the contract, speci^ring details.

Never sign a.statement that home Improvement work has been qompleted until it actually

is.

Check on the salesman and his company with the Better

Business Bureau or local Chamber of Commerce before making large purchases.

Never sign an on approval* certificate for merchandise left temporarily.

And to case of doubt, phone your local Better Business Bureau, Chamber of Commerce or City or County Attorney Tell the aalesman you are going to make the call. If he cant wait, hea probably a, phony, and if he doesnt wait, hell probably get out of the neighborhood.

FATHER*!^ DAY PROMOTIONS UNDER WAY TOMORROW

Thie year promoters and re-. tallera expeot to sell almost $1 billion worth of giftsefor fathers on Fathers Day. Last year the tot was $900 mUlion.

Most retailers plan to ride the current upturn in sales. Sustained promotional cempeigns will start tomorrow,' with increasing tempo until June 18.