Mondayt Jun 19, 1961

Monday, June 9, 1961

Father Is A Great Hunter

An Outsider Would .Cheer Us On

To an interested #>n-resident of Pitt County, laborers were available for their particular line of

Saturdays bond election would hold' great signifi- manufacture or processing. We could no^give them >5iuru ^---- ^ needed. You. m effect, are now abla to

cance.

It requires no great imaifirfatiori to picture this say Tell us what you need and . we will provide, spectator composing a letter addressed to all Pitt *T have often thought Eastern Carolina must Countians. Nor does it call for special insight to set\ (offer a.greatet promise of employment opportunity d^own here some of the thoughts this letter-writer ,to its young people or they will go elsewhere. In would convey. " terms of employment, our small businesses and in-

For instance, he would first undoubtedly say: dustries. our farms and related enterprises, have all

Congratulations to all of you for the very reached a sort of saturation point. VVe need more in-trong support'given a bond issue -which will bring dustries and businesses to keep our young pe^pjo

an industrial training school to your area.

" The^verj^ one-sided margin of approval demonstrates how strongly you feel about the future of your county and that you are willing to pay no small price to insure that future holds a bright promise.** Our imaginary letter-writer conceivably might go further, in saying, ^

*T wish now such an industrial training school was available for my county, but there had to be a limit on the number and we awoke too late to realization of the importance such a facility would hold.

_____necessity of industrial training in predo-

minaTely"agriculturai areas his beSW shown time and

home; for if they leave us we have no future. The future is theirs, not ours. ,

This industrial training school you re going to have adds one more facet to the good things Pitt County can claim. The college, a major teacher-producing institution and growing in a. variety bf fields in education and service; that School of Nursing, plus a modern hospital and related health services cftmbine to give you claim to title o^ Medi<^al Center of Eastern North Carolina; andAhis new school you will have gives you a distinct edg toward leadership in industrial development.**

Ourmythical correspondent might go on and on

again when our indusfry-hunters approached pros- this vein (he is a very enthusiastic sort of person), pects. Always they woulld ask how many skilled annrrrocf npnnte in Pitts seven neigh-

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By LYNN NISBET election The bond act pasaed the other day authomes the Govemt* to call an election aometime during the yar 1961 on the question of whether all or any part of the $47.500,000 in cap* ital improvemMit bonds should be issued. The date of the election is left to the Govemy, but It is provided that in event oth-r bo^ are proposed they may be voted upon at the same time. Tbert has arisen question whether the bond election would be considered a general" or a special election. If it is a general election then all the consU-tutitmal amendments submitted by the General Assembly will have to be voted upon. There is technical

clectKm to be held this fall and the one on constitutional amendments held in 1956. Then the election was called for a day certain by legislative act and was designated a general election

Itis recalled that a great deal of work on constitutional revision went down the drain in 1934, because of court ruling that the prohibition election in 1933 was_ the first general election" after the General Assembly had submitted the amendments, and that failure to vote upon them then meant they could not be voted upon at the regular election in

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The language of the 1961 bond act leaves the exact status of the election in doubt. The situation can be cured by a legislative act fixing the date and designating it a regular election or a special election, as might be desired. Otherwise an advisory opinion by the Supreme Court may be sought to determine whether the amendments must be submitted this fall.

srcIALO more interest is the probability that a special session of the Legislature might be called this fall tc act on matching federal aid funds for roads and schools, and for consideration of a report by the oommlssion to study senatorial redlstrlcting.

The most interesting prospect In event a special session is held ^ Is possibility of reopening the matter of congressional redis-tricting. The constitutional pro-viaion for a special session is -found in the executive, rather tHan the legislative, article and reads: The Governor shall have power on extraordinary occasions, and by and with the s4vice of the Council of State, to convene the General Assembly in extra session by his proclamation, stating therein the purpose of purposes for which they are thus convened."

Once to saasion, however, the Legislature is not limited by the executive statement of purposes, and may consider any matter it wishes. Historic record Is that^ nearly every extra sesdoa has goi|0 far beyond the stated purposes, often hardly considering them at all. Outstanding exception is the 1956 extra session when by agreement among members action was restricted exclusively to school matters.

Governor Sanford has indicat-., ed positive displeasure at failure of the regular session to deal adequately with senatorial districts. He apparently is not highly pleased with the congressional districts worked out, but is willing to accept it. Reaction of the people and the press has been much stronger against the congressional districts than the senatorial. Discrepancy in sizes of the district and the obvious gerrymandering have been subjected to both terios criticism and ridiculeand ridicule is a very powerful weapon.

STUDYThe bill which was enacted has such crazy-quilt splotches as Davidson and Nash counties in one district. Idncoln and Lee counties in another, and population differentials ranging from 277.000 to 487,000- This bill was introduced in the Senate on a Wednesday, briefly considered by a committee on Thursday, and passed in the Senate on Friday. Its progress through the House was somewhat more leisurely and during its two weeks there several public hearings^ were accorded. It is significant that at no time did anybody other than members of the committees have a kind word to say for the bill.

Opponents pleaded with logic for longer study and more careful consideration. Then they begged, almost abjectly kneeling. for mercy by giving time for review and attempt at working out some better arrangement. They quickly voted down requests that the matter go over to a special session.

If the furor back home continues as It has raged for the past week, and as legislators are subjected to realization of what they have done to the concept of equitable representation, sentiment for review of the act may grow stronger. And a special session, for whatever purpose called, would be free to repeal the districting actor any otherand start over.

It makes sense to consider senatorial and ^congressional districting together, because the purpose 01 both is to afford fair and equitable representation to all the. people.

skilled and even suggest that people in Pitts seven neighboring counties will more than ever want to share in the-good things our citizens have provided or brought into this county*

But his letter would not be cq^mplete without a closing salute to those who led the way into making Saturdays bond election possible. We will in

clude those thoughts because they echo our own, and properly belong in any summation of Saturdays story.

My admiration for the quality of leadership

displayed in bringing about your new training school should be evident in this letter. You can be justly proud of the men who ser\-e you in the General Assembly, your Commissioners, school boards, towm beards, the many businesses associations and other organizations wlio worked to make it all possible.

I Took forward to seeing their work and your good judgment and foresight bear early fruit.

Very sincerely, ? ? ? ?

We couldnt decipher the signature of our imaginary well-wisher, but it is nonessential. His views and The Reflectors are so strikingly similar that

there must be an alter ego in the plot.

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By RALPH ROBEY

New Frontier legislation continues to have rather rough going in the Congress. Up to this time there has been no real defeat of a-Kennedy proposal, but he has had to give ground in order to get some of his ideas passed, and there is much reason to believe that this will continue true.

The increase in minimum wages was the best example of compromise. It finally passed but was far short of what the Administration wanted, and to get even this much it was necessary to use ruthless political pressures. As many persons have pointed out, tbis measure, althogh>-tagged as an anti-recession move, will increase unemployment.

In contrast, the Aid to Depressed Areas bill went tlirough without difficulty in the form requested. The same was true in the extension of unemployment aid and dependent children aid. But that Is all of the New , 'Frontier legislation that has been passed by the Congress. The remainder of the program is still being debated by one house or the other, and in some instancies even the hearings have not been completed.

Aid to Education has pa.ssed the Senate, and it is expected that the House will pass a much less generous bill.

The omnibus Housing bill has been debated and passed by the Senate, and has been reported to the House. How much trouble the measure' will run into in the House i.s still an open question, but It Is to be hoped that significant changes will be made in that body.

Social Security changes have passed the House, and the Seala is .still holding hearings and win not gel to debate for some time.

A Feed Grains bill and extension of the Sugar Act have passed both Houses, but the over-all farm program is bogged dowu in hearings in both sides of the Congre.ss.

Highway Financing has passM the House, but ha.s not yet been taken up by the Senate. Wat''r Pollution al.so has pas.sed the House and has been reported to the Senate,

The Mutual Security measure, which would increase the amount for the coming year and au h ize direct borrowing from iie U.S. Trca.sury for the next five years. i.s the subject of heaitnps by the Senate and so far has

not been considered by the House.

Tax revision hearings on President Kennedys program havei. been held by the House Ways and Means Committee, but no bill has been reported out and it is believed that nothing even resembling the Adminiatration plans will be agreed to by the committee.

This is not the entire New Frontier program, of course, but it is enough to show that the Congress obviously is in no hurry. and it is of interest to speculate on why this is true. 'Three points are worthy of mention:

First, recovery definitely is under way. Even the Administration now admits this, _

Second, while this Senate is no more conservative than the last, the House is appreciably more opposed to so-called liberal moves. It is true that parfy discipline in the House leaves much to be desired, among both the Republicans and the Democrats, but there still is enough conservative thinking to prevent too -much really wild legislation getting passed.

Third, we already have a federal deficit of about $2 billion facing us for the fiscal year ending next June 30, and probably at least twice that for the following year. Even for believers in dficits as a mean* of curing a recession, these should be sufficient.

But it wiU be many weeks before this Congress adjourns, and those who oppose the New Frontier proposals must not let up in continuing to make their views known.

1961, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

the United States, as a going concern, worth?

Governments employ primitive methods of accountancy with the result that we are in the red when actually we are in the black or vice versa. The Treast riry of the United States could not file a statement of assets which would be accepted by the Securities and Exchange Commission or the New York Stock Exchange, or any bank.

Representative Charles E. Bennett of Florida has introduced a Bill (H.R. 902) in the House of Representatives which would require tiie government of the United States to employ correct accounting methods. The

present Secretary of the Treasury cannot use the plea of ignorance. Douglas Dillon is a banker, the son of a banker and well-trained. He must know that the government of the United States 1 cannot produce an accurate or even an honest balance sheet one that the Internal Revenue Service would accept from a citizen. /

Congressman Bennetty Bill Ls a first step in the direction of preparing a proper balance sheet. Its preamble reads:

To establish an immediate program to aid in reducing the public debt by providing that certain receipts from the sale of capital assets of the Government shall be used for such purpose.

Other Editors Saying Despite Foreign Aic,

(Henderson Dispatch)

Opinions In Brief

In the central place of your heart there Ls a recording chamber; so long as it receives nic.'^sages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynici.sm. thenand only then are you grown old.

Its well enough that Adlai Stevenson visit South American capitals asta good will ambassador for the United States, provided he does not promise to give away everything the United conferences with heads of stgte in the Latin Amer-can republics-^so-calledshould clear the atmosphere, assuming that he sizes up the situation adequately and without pressure when he returns for fabulous handouts to friend and foe alike. And the United Etates does have some enemies south of the Equator, believe it or not.

Two years ago when a devastating earthquake struck a large portion of caiile, American millions in high figures was poured into that country freely and without strings in an effort to relieve sufferers and to assist in rehabilitation. Yet when Stevenson arrived in Santiago, the capital, he was greeted with an outburst of insults and actual violence, and the demand that he go back home. The fact that Stevenson was not harmeed personally or in danger of his life, as Vice-President Nixon was three years ago When he went to South America, is beside the point. Nor can the rioting be passed off by attributing it to communists. It was there just the same.

In Moscow the other day, Khrushchev danced and joked with President Sukarno of Indonesia on the latters visit to the iountainhead of communism. Inference there was that the two leaders were * buddies in viewpoint and objective. That, too, on the part of a government chief

from Southeast Asia whose regime has received^ some three -to four hundred millions bf American foreign aid funds.

What then, is the moral of these incidents on opposite sides of the world among people of a common mind and purpose? Is it not that our money is going down the drain in so far as is concerned the intent behind the generosity so lavishly manifested? Americans may never know what Stevenson has promised the South Americans until the gates of the Treasury are flung wide to them and the cash begins to roll out.

Except in a few instances, the tide of communism in Europe and the Middle East has not been halted. Startling gains have been made by the Moscow bloc in many directions. But our sub-^ stance continues to be offered, accepted and squandered, with the ultimate admonition to Go home, Yankee. There is persistence in a policy of sending more good money after bad. Our own resources ajjd reserves are dwindling, but government officials. including the President, continue to demand even larger sums than ever before to continue the process.

Regardless of our liberality we are making few, if any fast friends. No one knows for sure whether .even Fiance and Britain, despite sweet words of har-mony, would stick by us if the chips were down, even after the billions they have received to bolster their post-war economy. In a back-to-the-wall showdown would we be able financially even to defend ourselves? Its a iood question. r r

Actually the bookkeeping system used by the Treasury includes no capital assets. If the United States sells a building, it does not dispose of a capital asset; it sells its property like a housewife sells old clothes to a junkman. She puts the money in her pocket and spends it. But she has made no record of a capital sale or of a profit or loss.

Representative Bennetts BUI reads:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. that in orderto establish an immediate program to aid in reducing the public debt, all receipts covered into the Treasury for deposit in the general fund and resulting from (after the date of

the en^ment of this Act) of any property of the Federal Government which Is considered a capital asset under proper accounting procedure shall be deposited into a special account which shall be estabUshed on the books of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time utilize the money in such special account^ for the payment at maturity or the redemption or purchase before maturity of obligations of the United States which are included in the public debt of the United States. All obligations of the United States paid, redeemed, or, purchased with money out of such special account shall be canceled and retired and shall not be reissued. All money deposited in the special account is hereby appropriated and shall be available for expenditure for the purpose of the Act.

The essence of this Bill is proper accounting procedure. As it stands today, the United States maintains that it carries a debt of $289,000.000,000 against which it has no assets except the goodwill of the government as a going concern. .

Proper accounting would probably establish that the United States has a secured indebtedness. parts of which could be wiped off without lessening the value of the dollar. Our government is enormously rich in assets. In 1959, the United States owned 1,837,762,560 acres of public domain. The Federal (jovern-ment owns 369.995 buildings which are valued at $17,523,984,-000.' This valuation is an estimate, as no accounting survey has ever been made.

Public bookkeeping' gewrally is shamefully kept. For instance, the City of New York is now going through a disgraceful scandal over its school property.

(Gonttoued (m Pago 9)

BABSON PARK. Maai .Pirat let me say that farm prices affect everyone, nc^ simply the farmer. They affect every consumer who reads this column. Wa all have to eat; and indirectly we pr what the farmer gets for his crops. ,

PRESIDENT KENNEDYS REPORT TO THE NATION As I have time to reflect upon President Kennedys rjcent ra-dlo-TV report on his m#tlng with Mr. Khrushchev, it boils down this, Mr. Khrushchev does not want war and is willing to cooperate on negotiations for disarmament, but he feels that Communism will gradu^y sweep over the world and will win without war. Of course. President Kennedy in a manful manner said We will not allow this " There it ended in a. peace-

^'After he talked with MacmU-lan in London, they concluded that the only way to stop this Communist glacier" would be by providlr^ the backward nations with something better than Khrushchev could offer. Furthermore, to be effective, we must not only do it as free nations. but do it first, with the United States carrying the bwden of the load.

WHAT THE BACKWARD NATIONS NEED President Kennedy refers to the need for education, new Industries, more healthful living conditions, and food; but this is looking ahead ten or more years. The people in these poor countries which Communism ptons to take over, one by one, cannot wait for food. Therefore, tho fight between Communism and freedom will depend largely upon which side wiU first supply these poor people with food and the ability to immediately raise crops.

In short, it seems that this cold

fill

war wuJdo fought by farm products rather than by missiles, submarines, or men. It further seems that Congress will heartily back this new program. Most Congressmen are glad to help the farmers, and all Congressmen know that ^ American mothers would rather be taxed more than send their sons to fight in guerrilla warfare.

FARM PRICES AND PROSPERITY

A study of economic history shows that general prosperity (including stock prices) is basically determined by the condition of the farmers. The farmers prosperity is usually detei^ mined by the price which they receive for their crops, provided the weather is normal. This means that a greater mand for farm products should mean higher prices and greater prosperity for all.

Farm prosperity benefits the railroads, the harvester companies, and a host of other industries. Prom the time the farmer plows his ground until he reap* his crops, he is spending money. The.. higher the prices he receives, the more the farmer spends to the benefit of all concerned. Even the weather is not the factor it used to be, due to the use of improved seeds and methods of cultivation.

FARM PROBLEM TAKES A NEW TURN ,

Up to the present time, the discussions in Congress as to how best to aid the farmer have been very controversial. The Congressmen from the Ontral West have fought for greater appropriations for the farmer; while the Congressmen from the East, the section which pays most of the taxes, have fought for some more realistic plan than President Kennedy has heretofore proposed. Now, if the President carries out his program to help these poor nations, the farm problem wiU become a natkmal affair and be classified under Defense.

Therefore, let me summarize: (1) President Kennedy has been told by Khrushchev that Communism will win by helping the poor nations and by using guerrilla warfare when necessary. (2) The tounediate help which the poor nations need is food and the ability to grow crops on their own soil. (8) This means that the tide which Is to be the most successful will be the one which acts first. Mr. Khrushchev as a dictator can act quickly, whe Presid^t Kennedy will be handicapped by committees, politics, and Coa* (Continued on page live)

A Shortage Of Skilled Personnel

Whrii a wife tells her bus- jt>ad she has given him the best years of her life, he is rightfully roncerned about the future,-^ Fret.no (Califri Bee.

By EARL L. PpUGLASS JUDGE.MENT DAY

The Bible teaches that eventually there will be a Day of Judgement. At that time, the nations of the world will be gathered together a multitude so great that no man can number them. Then will the good be separated from the evil. Then will Gods records and works be made to triumph.

Yet much as we may believe In an ultimate Day of Judgement we never really live our lives as we should until we realize that every day is a Judgement Day for us. There^ must be a r final totalling up ofthe accounts / of our lives ..after death, but , ((Burely there have to be teiis of thousands of accountings before

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that time. Is our life going forward in the right direction? Do we have an Ideal or ideals worth seeking after? Have we been faithful to our trusts, both great and small? Are we living just for what we can get out of life, or are we living to Its full and putting back more than we take out? Are we forgiving or are we hostile and vengeful? Are we jealous and envious?

Or to look^ on tlje positive sideare we giving arty care to the cultivation of our spiritual life? Are we giving our children a fair deal' in this regard? Are we aiming for High ends which have about them cosmic and pernal significance?

'he Day of Judgement? It is he^ right now-

By ELMER ROESSNER

Despite the threat of chronic unemployment in many areas in the United State.s. a shortage of skilled personnel is building, according to the researches of Robert Kaye, a New Yqrk employment consultant.

i?I# -you employ one person or 1.000, youare heading into stringency period, he declared The coming shortage of personnel Is developing in big and little jobs that require good aptitudes, education, skills and experience.

Relatively few will be filled from the large numbers of unemployed who are dramatized in headlines. Many oD^ these are unemployable under todays demanding specifications.

The hardvcore of the unemployed consists of the unskilled, the semi-skilled and those unqualified for the very jobs that people arc most eager to fill. RAIDING AHEAD There will be more raiding of top employees, warned Mr. Kaye, who is editor of the Employment Agency Newsletter. AU employers are going to lose

some important cogs in their organizationspeople who will be difficult OK impossible to replace.

Ahead is a new kind of competition for qualified workers at every level, fiom top to bottom. Theres a growing personnel rivalry a.s a consequence of new .efforts to build UP staffs. .....

Government plans will intensify this competition for the truly able, he said. Npt only will the government, with instalations throughout the world, syphon off much of the personnel you are looking for, but its thousands of contractors will also be sponging up the best parts of the labor market for exciting new jobsand some still to be created.

Not only technicians will ,4>e lured into new jobs and novel occupations. but every type of office worker, staff and line, will be needed, for the. New Frontier is paved with multiple memos and data-processed surveys without end.

PEACE CORPS EFFECTS

Other observers { have ed that the Peace Corps may

skim off the best of the young people, since it appeals to the imaginative, the creative and the dedicated. Furthermore, it is assumed that the Corps will take only those with top educational backgrounds, in good health and with tested, stable personalities.

Under the pretense of helping to relieve unemployment, the Peace Corps will take those who would be readily employed in business anyhow, leaving for business many unemployables and dull, deficient personalities, pqe employer commented.

Aiiother personnel expert a head hunter, that is, one who seeks out top executives for pirating by other companiessaid that the shortage of top executive talent is worsening. However. this expert said that the fault was largely with hiriiig companies. These are so concerned with employing geniuses with magic touches that they arethttle interested in merely talented experts.

At a recent corporation meeting. the president pounded the table and declared, ."We need

half a dozen $50,000-a-ytar men! Because the profits wer# low, his directors looked at him in shocked askance. Who ^ will work for us for $10,000 a year, the president added quickly, with a slight blush.

IBM DECLARES IT EXPORTS NO JOBS

In this column op May It, The American Management Review was quoted as saying, in an article by John P. Maggard, International Business Machines, with 10 plants in Europe, is now feeding office equipment into the domestic market from overseas factories.

. Not so! declares J. R. Opel, director of communications for tBM. "Production in IBM World Trade Corporation plants abroad is for our overseas markets and we do not import office equipment for sale here. Any implication that this company Is responsible for exporting jobs is completely false. fAs a matter of fact, exports of equipment produced in IBM plants in ths U.S. are responsible for many production job."