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Greater Use For Existing Bodies

one*time assignments, there probably would be greater continuity in the findings of thee study projects, and in the long run considerably less time and money wasted in such studies.

It is wdl, we think, for tbe governor to ask particular groups from tome to time to look into the operation of various phases of state govemment^^It is also important, however, that the governor, insofar as practical, call on existing bodies to carry out these studies rather than creating time after time new study groups to be added to the long list of study groups and commissions that the state already has.

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Gov. Sanford^lj^anning what we consider the proper approach for a stdy of the utilities laws of the state and the operations of the Utilities Commission by asking existing state groups to look into these matters.

At his news conference this week Gov. Sanford -aaid he may ask the Commission on Reorganization of State Government to study the structure and operation of the Utilities Commission. Earlier he had said he may ask the General Statutes Commission to study the state laws relating to the companies which are g^emed by the Utilities Commission. \

In the past in North Carolina there has been too great a tendency on the part of chief executives to _ - . ^ j

name special groups to handle special study assign- ^ QQGrQl ^OUrtS t QCGCL * inents of this sort. In many instances n^w commissions and bodies were, named for special studies when there already existed one or more such groups which could look into the matter just as well.

This latest announcement by Gov. Sanford suggests that he may be in favor of using existing study groups for special inquiries into matters of interest to 'the state rather than cluttering the auxiliary organization of the states government with new study groups and commissions. This, in our opinion, would be a wise course for the governor to follow.

North Carolina already has many such groups on paper, at leastthat can be called by the gover.nor to make special studies and inquiries into any phase of the states operations which he feels needs special attention. If the existing study groups were utilized to a greater extent, there would be no necessity for the naming of new study bodies. If the existing groups were used instead of creating new groups for pecial,

Tightening Up On Appointees

By LYNN NISBET SCREENING Former Governor Lutber Hodges^ Incurrffd the lU will, or at lesust failed to get airport, dfmany Democratic party leadera for hla Indifference to party affiliation of men and women he appointed to office. That waa particularly true during the first half of his re-glme. A conience of coun-ty Democratic chairmen held in Raleigh was publicly critical of the Governor for by-passing local leaders for counsel and ad-, vice' on appointments, and for naming a,number of outright or part-time Republicans to good State jobs. The grass roots leaders Insisted they ought to have been consulted about appointees from thdr communities.

When Governor Sanford came into office he drastically changed that policy. There is complain now that he is screening aM?li-cants too ckely. Also that he Is doing his own screening, or that his personal organization is' doing iti rather than relying upon the local party leaders. Democratic party workers have generally gone along with the Jacksonian theo^ that to the victors bilong the spoils. That means not only that government jobs should flTd to Democrats but they kbould go to the adherents of tbe successful faction or group Id the party.

The men who have fUled the Governor's of^:e have generally shared that flew. But they have heavy responsibility for getting the most efftolent and suitable person to do the Job. as well as to reward a faithful pcull-san. Those who do not have that responsibility often become im-padent at the Governors failure to fire and replace appointees.

ORGANIZATION Governor Banlord is an organization man. He told a news conference the other day that only through political action can the schools of any district, state, region or nation be improved. He explained that be did not mean there should be a machine that would (tomlnate or control popular actkm, or that the organization should be an established political party. The term ImpUcs some person or group reoogni^ SS leader and wlUing to accept responsibility. Recognition of leadership also implies willingness to follow. A wise man

once quipped that there is more need for intelligent foUowship than for able leadership.

It is an open secret that the Democratic party organization in North Carolina had declined In potency and prestige during the Hodges administration. A glance at the voting record in the past six congressional elections and two elections of. a Governor wl prove that point.

The Plan of Organization, originally adopted m 1918, has never been materially changed. Revisions irom year to year have been made to take care of woman suffrage, YDC and other ihcidentals. But the basic Plan is still what it was 40-odd years ago. That Plan seems to have gone out of the way to maintain distinction between the St^te Democratic party on the one hand, the coiuity organizations on another, and the national Democratic cwnmlttee on a third. The State organization recognized local units in campaign fund raising time, and the national committee in presidential election years.

TIGHTENING One of the first things Terry Sandford did after his nomination for Governor l^t year was to move to strengthen the party organisxition at all levels. The executive committee approved his nominees for official positions in the party, and they immediately got on the Job. Within two or three months after he- wals named state chairman Bert Bennett appointed Wallace Hyde as full time executive secretary of the committee. That position had been authorized six or eight years ago but former chairmen did not fill . Dr. Hyde went to work immediately reviving Interest in communities, in precinct activities and in localized political rallies. A major undertaking was promotion of the $25 plate fund raising < dinner in AslMville scheduled for October 28. This will be the first time a statewise affair of this caliber has been held in the mountains, and it is expected to bglld party morale there.

Perhaps the most valuaWe contribution of the full time executive secretarys post has been to make the voters conscious that there is a Democratic party all the tlmenot just every two years during the election campaigns.

By A Familiar Problem

The huge backlog of cases faced By the three new federal district judges in North Carolina suggests that the federal courts, like the state superior court in many counties, could use some streamlining to keep up with its increasing work load.

Appointment of three new federal district judges in the state, authorized this year by Congress, will afford each of the federal districts two judges. This in itself should enable the tourts to reduce the backlog of cases as well as putting the district courts in a better position to keep up with the new cases on its docket.

Just this month the Judicial Conference of the United States advised the U.S. district judges that they should consider as "judicial emergencies" pending cases that are three years old or older. And particularly in the Eastern district court, there is a huge backlog of these cases. The number of civil cases three years old or older in this distffbt totals 157 in addition to 21 land condemnation cass in the same category. Each of the other two districts in the state has 17 such cases which are three years old or older.

Including these older cases, the federal courts of the three districts in North Carolina have a total of more than 700 cases on their dockets, mor than half, of this number in the Eastern District.

With the three new judges, the federal district courts of the state should be able to reduce considerably the number ^of cases awaiting trial, but care should be taken to see that the babklog does not con-tinue to grow, particularly with itegard to |;he older cases on the docket. .

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ULAN BATOR, Mongolia (AP) Mongolians, from top Communist officials to the lowliest yak herdsmen, exhibit seemingly genuine surprise when their independence is questioned. They respond that their nation of 937,-000 people and 23 million sheep, goats, camels and yaks is completely sovereign.

Rivalry between Red China and the Soviet Union over which is to be the dominant influence possibly allows Mongofta some Independence it would not otherwise enjoy. Both China and the Soviet Union, in order to avert an open tug of war over Mongolia, try to observe the niceties of dealing with an independent state. Partly as a result -of this, Mongolia appears free to draft domestic policies of ils own, though well within the framework of Marxist-Leninist doctrine,

Mongolia, once a world power, in the 12th Century spawned conqueror Genghis Khan and rled an empire stretching from . Shanghai to the Danube River. Mongolia now covers 606,000 square miles, an area not quite three times the size of Prance. It is a landlocked nation 2,000 miles from Moscow and the most remote, hard-to-get^to land in the Red empire. Communism came in 1921 when Soviet troops, pursuing fleeing White Russian army nits, helped local revolutionaries form a Red-style state.

With Its vast pasture lands, the country continues to rely on live-stock-raising as the mainstay of its economy. But Mongolia, where winter temperatures synwtlmes dive to 50 degrees below zerq) no^ boa.sts some of the trappings of an industrial state, thanks to aid from Red China and the Soviet Union,

Mongolia follows a ,course of unswerving loyalty to Communist ideology, perhaps in part as a price to restrain the Chinese or Soviets from seizing oqt-right*ontrol. As for which of the tk'o big powers plays'-a larger role here, Mongolia clearly favors tlie U. S. S. R. as a closer

Some recent developments however, do suggest growing national sovereignty. Mongolia has opened diplomatic relations with nine states outside the Communist bloc In the past five yeais, bringing to 21 the number of

nations with which It carries on diplomatic dealings. No U. S. Western allynor even neutral SwitzerlandIs on the list yet.

Mongolia technicians and supervisors are replacing Soviet experts as fast as Mongolians can be trained, thus giving the country, more control over its own affairs.

Mongolian officials insist thieir Communist system is slightly different from the Soviet or Cki-' nese way. Its noted, for example, that collectivization of ag riciilture here has meant livestock, and not land as In the Soviet Union and China, with the Inevitable result that different administrative setups have evolved in Mongolia.

Despite penetration of Communist economic organization into almost all phases of rural and town life, there is an apparent attempt to preserve a distinct Mongolian identity. Relatively few Soviets or other nationalities have settled among the Mongolians.

But Mongolia clearly has re>-fttively little freedom of action in important foreign policy issues. Premier Tsedenbal, Moscow-trained and married to the daughter of a former mayor of Moscow, needs no direct wire to the Kremlin to antici-pat the official line. -

Premier. Tsedenbal Is not above references to American imperialists, but his utterances are usually fairly mild. In general, little anti-U. S. propaganda appears in Mongolian' newspapers, according to a non-Communist analyst who surveys the l^al press.

Theres no trace of Soviet-style over-the-shoulder wariness about being seen with an American. And Mongolians dont act like regimented peopje; very few soldiers or militia are in evidence on the broad avenues of Ulan Bator. But in many ways Mongolian life follows the repressive patterns of other Communist countries.

Religious worship is now illegal in Mongolia. By 1939 almost all the 1,818 temples and 747 Buddhist lamasaries that ex-Ised before the revolution had been shut or converted to mu- seums.

By and large, Mongolians enthusiastically endorse the idea .of opening diplomatic relations with the United States, though some seem piqued the United States has delayed recognition so long.

NEW YQRK fAP)-One of the things wrong with this world is that there are too many signs saying Do it now!

Do what now?

There are some us who would like to change the signs to read Why do it?

The difference between those two signs spells the difference between two great classes of mankindthe bustlers and the procrastinators.

Which are you?

The bustlers, by and large, tend to be self-important people who pride themslves on their ability to save time and get a lot of things done. They regard themselves As practical, order

ly, efficient and very, very businesslike. .

Bustlers keep neat clean desks and are always hurrying from chore to chore and perpetually glancing at their watches to be sure they arent lat to the next appointment.

Bustlers dont like procrastinators. Bustlers complain procrastinators are dreamy idlers who never get anything done. Bustlers say theyd get a lot more things done themselves if if werent for being impeded by shiftless procrastinators.

Fellow prpcrastinators, why do we take all this guff? Why do we let it give us a guilty feeling?

DS^us put the busUer under a microscope for a change. What

Other Editors Saying .,, County CD Lagging

(ROcky Mount Telegram)

There is an element of irony connected with North Carolinas Civil Defense program. Civil Defense Director Edward F. Griffin says that word of an impending enemy attack could be received and relayed in every section of North Carolin within five minutes after the button was pushed at the national warning center. That is fine. The irony lies in the face that too many counties in the state are dragging their feet in providing adequate <^vil Defense preparedness.

What good Is sufficient warning if nothing is being done to protect the people of the counties? And the people certainly are looking to the responsible officials to give them the necessary guidance and protection to cope with a disaster or enemy attack. There .is probably some work being done; for example, some of these counties have appointed a director and have an organization 6n paper, but they dont have 'any Civil Defense training and that Is what counts.

Of the states 100 counties. 56 have published plans of what would be done and by whom in event of an attack. They are prepared as far as Civil Defense plans are concerned. Whether they are prepared for fallout protection is something else. Griffin doubts whether there is a county in North Carolina that is com^etely prepared to offer protection for all of its citizens. Some courses are not even prepared to utilize th fallout pro-1

tection they do have.

An effective county Civil Defense setup should have ample fallout protection, an emergency operating center with full communications to all parts of that county and to the state Chvil Defense office. Now this might sound like a complicated task, but Its something that has to be done in order for Civil Defense to work.

The hv county wide organiza

tion should include as many volunteers as possible. Theres no such thing as being too prepared in the atomic age. This should be stressed in the home preparedness program. Thats where good Chvil Defense participation beginsin the home. The family should maintain an adequate supply of food, medicine and. water for a minimum of two weeks.

Lack of edible food, drinkable water and adequate medical supplies will constitute <me of the major problems for the p<H>ula-tion. Thus, it would be wise for each family to sec to it that enoi^ of these vital essentials are on hand. Such supplies should be zealously guarded and maintained.

Nuclear warfare is not hopeless; It does not mean the end of the world. Most people will survive. 17 degree of fitness with which they emerge from the initial phases of such a war will in a great measure, depend almost entirely on their efforts now. That * point should be remembered. Fallout shelters are no laughing matter. It is insurance for the future survival of our familieB-

do we see?

The bustler makes up about one-tenth of the population and causes up to ndne-tenths of its troubles.

The bustler often is a man who finds action so necessary he hops on a horse and rides off in all directions at once. As the dictionary says, he moves with fussy or noisy activity, usually with more haste than purpose.

The bustler writes' the billions of letters each year that dont need to be written. He makes the quick on-the-spot decisions that really put his firm or country on tl spot.

What does the bustler do with ,11 the time he saves by all hat rush and roar? Why, he spends it rushing and roaring around tryihg to dbrrect the errors he made by not taking enough time to do things right In the first placethat is if they really needed to be done at all.

If is we procrastinaitars who save the bustlers from destroying the earth.

It is the procrastinators, sometimes found feet on desk and sailing paper ^airplanes out the window, whomre really practical. efficient and businesslike in their slow disorderly way.

They may put off doing a lot of things, but usually they^ are things that ought to be pt' offsometimes forever. Jfent'it, better to do a right thing a day late than a wrong thing a week soon?

The motto o the bustler is, "Dont just stand there. Do somethingand do it now.

The motto of the jMxxjrasUna-tor is, Dont Just stand Uiere. Sit down and be comiortable.

Then do the unavoidable after you have avoided doing the unr necessAry.

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Culture rating: One ticket for the State-Carolina football game costs $4.50, while one ticket for the six concerts planned this year by Friends of the college here costs only $5. or about 84 cents per concert. The Raleigh Times.

When the central government shoves aside the States and reduces them to Impotence, in order tp deal directly with municipalities, the structure of orderly government gets undermined.Richmond News Leader.

Civil Defense'Boomlet Is Aheac.

Strength For Today

Bv EARL L. DOUGLASS GOD IS EVERYWHERE ,nie message of the Book of Jonah, one of the great books of the Bible, often been forgotten as pe<H>le have argued as ter whether the whale did or did not swallow Jonah.

The narrative tells us o a man who tried to flee responsi* blllty. Ck)d comn^anded Jonah to go and preach repentance to the wicked city of Nineveh. Like all good Jews. Jonah hated the Nlnevites. When Jonah learned what God wanted him to do, he got aboard a ship and started for Tarshish (8iJn). The rest of the story is well known to every BlbU reader.

The Book of Jonah t(^acheg two lessons- The first is that we can never flee responsibility.

No matter how far or how fast we run. we are never oittside Gods reach. The second lesson taught is that God's Moving purpose takes Wi the wicked Nln--evites as well as people who love *and serve Him. Just as men cannot flee responsibflity and get beyond Gods reach, so men cannot sin themselves into ' a state where God has no further nt^ests in them. .

We can resist God. He permits us 'to do so. But His heart is saddened by our resistance and the responsibility rests upon us to our sorrow. .

Don't try to flee responsibility. Never believe that^ you have sinned yourself beyond the pos-stblllty of God's redemption. We .can^never get beyond tbs love of God* <

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By ELMER ROESSNER It looks as If a civil defense boomlet is ahead.

The Federal government is stepping up efforts to propagandize people to build shelters. A nationally known advisory service (Prentice-Hall) is advising clients, "Make plans now to' get in on the civil defense market and youll have the jimip on your competitors when it really starts burgeoning.

There hasnt been anything like it since Oeritol.

THE U. N. SELL Rising tensions in th United Nations are building fires under this market. It's getting hot.

Both private and putjlic belters require a lot of materials in commerce: concrete, sand, bags, batteries, containers, filters. bunks, bedding, chemicals, lights, tranquilizers, radios, games, reading matter, deodorants. medicines and hundreds of other items.

First beneficiaries of the boomlet will be contractors and their suppliers. We cant have Shelters without the walls, ceilings and other sturdy construction.

After that will come the equipment suppliers and, as noted above, the amount of equipment is vast. While some equipment must be specializedsuch as alr-lMake filtersother Items are already in production. USEFUL ITEMS

Among these are fabricated steel, concrete panels, bricks, metal panels, plywood, reinforced concrete pipe, reinforced concrete, corrugated metal, prefabricated aluminum gnd many other structural materials. And good, old lumber will be highly useful, too.

Otlier Itema will also be required.

Nte: It will profit businessmen to examine present products to see which of thm may be sold on this growing market: whether a slight adap-taitn of a current product wUl make it useful in shelters', or wtether a new advertising campaign will make an ordinary product a prime Item^ for shelters.

The do-it-yourself market will be stimulated because many people cannot afford the cost of

contracting for shelters in occupied homes.

WARNING , "

As with all boomlets, the ready profits will attract the fast-buck* boys. Teams of high-pressure salesmen will roam neighborhoods, using scare techniques to get signatures on contracts for building shelters in basements or backyards. - * '

Among the cheaters, there will be two techniques. One will be to get signatures on contracts and then to sell the contracts to local builders. The other will be to sign up victims and then to build a shelter at a cost to allow a fancy profit.

-Oh, there will be variations: there will be the gentry who scare people into signing contracts and making down payments, and who then depart fairly permanently with that payment. . .

Home owners will be well ad--vised to do business with over the years. And when the new specialists arrive, they should check with local Better Bpsiness Bureaus and read, read, read everything before signing.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright, 1961, King Features l^ndicate, Inci One of the of govern

ment is to recruit able, competent, trained men for governmental purposes. Duriiv a war period. It is essential to Inlng into government the most able men in the oountiry- Yet, We place upon such men restrictions which make it difficult for tiiem to accept govenmMnt petitions.

Some tasks in our very complicated operations require men of enormous experience and tech-n^sal training. Such men are generally found in private indiatry and in the universitks.

Secretary of Defence McNa-mara is such a man. He is now canbroGed In a Oonfreafldonal lnvestk:ation due to the General Walker Case. There can be no question but that Secretary McNamara stumbled in this matter. The questkm has be^ raised as to whether a business training is suitable in government negotiations. The question might also be asked whether ti generals and admirals tiwd are taken out of service Into prtvate enterprise adjust with sufficient speed from the manuHstic red-tape of the military service to the flexibility essential In the market-place.

Secreary of Defense McNama^ ra was asked by Dave Garro-way:

Mr. Secretary, how would you define the managerial ptoi-Icoophy which you bring to the job?

To. this the head of the Pentagon replied:

Thats a question Ive been , askiiqg myTOlf for years--what exactly is tl role of the manager ' in any large organization, private or piklic. And I think * that the role of public manager is very similar to the role of a private manager; In each case the option of following one of two major alternative courses of action. He can either act as a judge or a leader. In the former case, he sits and waits u]> til subordiimtes bring to him problems for solution, or alternatives for choice. In the latter case, he immerses himself in the operation of the business or the governmental activity, examines the problems, the objectives, the alternative courses of action, chooses among them, and leads the organization to their accomplizhment. In the one case its a passive role; in the other case, an active rede.

The answer is not good enough. In business, the limitation upon a chief executive is primsipally his Directors who in most instances are friendly to the Executive wlwan they most likely chose or who were chosen by him. Some of them may be dependent upon the Executive for their jobs, they serving in the dual capacity of members of a Board of Directors and sub-ordiante Executives.

In a public position, the managerial person is dependent upon the good-will of Congress, both Houses and the Ckxmmittees of each that are concerned with his affairs; public opinion as expressed in the press; the support of irremovable subordinates, some of whom are likely, to have a superior standing with the public. When, for instance, the Secretary of Defense censore statements made by senior mUitary officers, some of whom may have had experience far beyond anything that the Secretary has, the question not only of judgement but of good taste arises.

Secretary McNamara justified the censorship of an address by Admiral Burke as follows:

Martin Agronsky of N. B. C. asks: Among the first policy decisions you made. , .Admiral Burke, the Chief of Naval Operations, was asked by you to discard a speech that he made on foreign policy that was very critical of the Russians. Now whats the thinking behind that restraint on the admirals public statment?^ . .

McNamara; Well, its in line, with a very simple and strongly held belief of mine that Its tn-appvropriate for any member of the Defense Department to speak on the subject of foreign policy. . .

That does not by any means reflect the tradition of this ooun-try. Secretary McNamara not only censors these outstanding men but he ^prives the Amalean people of knowledge of their ex- ^ pert opinions. It torces us, a * a peoi^e, to bw jtlependent entirely upon the staff of the State Department, a staff of (Continued on Pago 6)

OLD PROMOTER PUZZLED ^ BY BANK ADVERTISEMENT

OTie (Rd Promoter carried a newspaper clipping when hO came In today. As a newspaperman, maybe you can explain this, he said.

The top panel showed the U-S. C^ltol. A headline read, The Investor is in Politics, and the text sold;

Thousands of government rulings, ' directives, regulations, contracts, contract cancellations, appropriations and, of course, laws, ail have an Impact on (xxTKrate earningsand, naturally. on inveatment values.

How can the indivldml investor keep alert to such events, as they affect him? We doubt that he canyet we find that these are factors*we must use in shaping our Investment decisions. The ad was'signed by the United States Trust Company of New York.

"What do they want mf to do? aSked *the Old Promoter. If the connpany doubts so much, don't their readers doubt too?

' We thanked the old feUow and tucked the clipping under curl-- ous ads In <mr file.

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