Thursday, December 21, 1961

Their Late Father

Lioophole That Must Be Remedied

At their first opportunity lawmakers of North Carolina should close the loophole in the Powell Bill that appears to allow real estate developers to participate in Powell Bill funds to help pay for street construction in their developments.

The situation is pointed up "vividly in the case of Boling Springs Lakes in Brunswick County, which'had no residents according to the 1960 census, and yet received this year more money from Powell Bill funds than any municipality in Pitt County with the exception of Greenville. Boiling Springs Lakes was incorporated earlier this year by an act of the legislature, and as an incorporated town was eligible for participation in the Powell Bill: funds.

The fact that it had no permanent residents at least so far as the census was concerneddid not prevent its sharing in the funds which are distributed among municipalities of the state on the basis of population and the miles of streets not op'the states highway system. Its population of zero afforded it no increment from the fund, but its reported 37.28 miles of streets made it eligible for $16,892.28 in Powell Bill funds.*

By way of comparison, Farmville with a population of 3,997 and 18.61 miles of streets received only $16,122.92 in Powell Bill funds this year while Ayden, with 3,108 people and 16.45 miles of streets received $13,433.71, almost $3,000 less than Boiling Spring

Lakes. Grifton, which had a reported population of 1,816 and 6.95 miles of streets received $6,643.23 or $10,200. less than Boiling gpring Lakes.

Chadwick Acres in Onslow County, which showed only five residents, received $1,500.38 in Powell Bill funds, only $170 less tfian Grimesland with 326 people, and $1,200 mor^han Falkland with 140 population.

According tliie law under which the Powell Bill funds are distribZ^ among the municipalities, half the total amount of money is distributed on a population basis, and the other half on the basis of the miles of non-highway system streets the municipality has. This year each municipality received $1,924 for each of its residents according to the 1960 census. It also received an allocation of $453.119 for each mile of streets.

In theory at least, an incorporated town without any people is eligible to participate in the distribution of the funds. An incorporated town with people but no streets probably would be eligible to participate also. *

It appears tg us that the legislature should give its attention to the provisions of this law in order that such glaring inequities as those which h^ve recently come to light can be eliminated. The purpose of the bill initially, after all, was to provide municipalities with funds from state taxes on gasoline to help them with their .street repair and improvement programs. We seriously question whether the law as now writte^ is not being abused in some cases.

TrQVel Business, bounties Are Acting

nterest Growing To Meet School Needs

By LYNN NISBET

SELLING TRAVEL - Interest in travel as a business, as a vital part of the national and state eoonomy. has Increased tremendously within the past few years. A. recent survey disclosed that travel Is the third largest industry in North Carolina. On national level It Is almost as important. The United States government just this yeAT established a travel office as a major division in the Department of Commerce, the primary duty of which is to en-, courage foreigners to visit the United States.

North Carolina has had a travel bureau in the C&D Department for more than 20 years, and has recently Increased appropriations for it affording a ' larger staff and more advertising. Nearly every state has a similar activity. Also there are numerous associations and councils, such as the Travel Council of North Carolina, dedicated to the Job of increasing travel by home folks and outsiders alike. AU of these agencies, government and private enterprise, are competing with each other for the travel dollar in world trade. And qavel itself must compete with all other Items and activities for its share of the total dollar spending.

To that end traveling salesmen are being dispatched to all parts of the world to sell the attractions of the particular area which they represent. The experiences of these salesmen along with the general tightening of competition, have proven that old ideas of travel promo-, tlon are no longer- effective. The present day salesman must have a specific product that he can Identify and offer for sale much the same way an automobile dealer offers a new car -or a realtor offers a house and lot. _

SPECIFICS A man who had promoted world-wide tours for many years was discussing these points the other day. He didnt say It quite this bluntly, but what be said was essentially this: Nobody is coming to the United Stages or to North Carolina just because we want them to come. And they will not be attracted by a general appeal of magnificent scenery, historic shrines and recreational facilities. The salesman must break this invitation dowfl to specifics,' just as the auto salesman explains the features of one car at a time or the haberdasher fits a suit or hat to the needs of his customer.

That means the salesman not only must know his product but must believe in it enough to put sincerity into his presenta

tion. And that in turn means there must be a lot of ground work and home work done before the salesman sets out on his mission. In proce.ss of organization now is a mission to Europe next spring to sell North Carolona to prospective travelers. The primary appeal will be made to travel agents whc will be invited to come and ... see for themselves what we have so they can sell it to their customers. But the agent must be given some special Inducement other than Just the general come over and see us sometime. For that reason the State travel bureau is making up a number of "packages lists of attractions and facilities in specihc areas, with estimate of cost for each package. The emissaries on the travel mission will be irmed with this factual material and prepared to answer questions from Interested parties about items not fully covered in the prospectus.

CANADIANS Henry Belk has suggested that In addition to the selling trip to Europe there should be a mtsslon into Canada to Invite the citizens of that cold country to come and enjoy the delightful winters in Eastern Carolina. He is thinking more about vacaUoners, or maybe permanent residents, than of the ordinary tourist. Eastern North Carolina can offer wonderful Inducement to this type visitor, where it doesnt have too much to offer the casual overnight tourist.

North Carolina is just about half as far from the Canadian centers of population as is Florida, and in many ways the Canadians would feel more at home here. Here again specific Items should be packaged for salt* in addition to the gen-erauties such as mild climate without excess humidity, placid rivers, accessible fl.shlng grounds, etc. Spell out some things like availability of sites for trailer parks, estimated cost of board and lodging In small townsand be prepared to deliver the accommodations if the people put travel into their regular budgets, which means they must know before starting on the trip approximately what they will get and what it will' tost.

It is evident from the foregoing that the major preliminary step In planning any travel promotion Is an inventory of facilities. You must know what you have to sell before you can sell It. And not until North Carolinians are willing to sit down and give serious thought to inventories and to planning a selling campaign can any missionary effort prove very profitable.

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One-by-one county bond issues for school construction acro.ss the state indicate that Tar Heels are willing to come forward at the local level to meet the needs of- mqre classrooms brought about by an increasing number of students.

In a referendum held Tuesday in Charlotte citizens voted almost two-to-one in favor of issuing bonds totaling $8.4'million for school construction. Officials of the con.solidated Board of Education for Charlotte and Mecklenburg County had said the bonds will finance the school building needs of the city and county through 1965.

On the basis of school bond elections held in various parts of the state recently, it appears that the same attitude which voters of the state exhibited in defeating .state-wdde bond proposals does not exist when it comes to the matter of local bonds to meet local school need.s. It likewise appears that in many counties of the state both school officials and individual citizens are willing to meet pressing school needs through local means rather than delaying further to wait and see whether any aid for school construction will be forthcoming from either the state or federal giwernment.

Such an attitude is the be.st assurance that any community can give that its youngsters wdll* have adequate school facilities to meet the needs brought about by increasing enrollment.

Consistency Is Not So

By PATRICIA MOORE

This Christmas

Season

Christ means the annolnt-ed one and the mas part of Christmajs meanjs festival of, so that Chriztmas Is the festival of the nativity of Christ, observed by the western world on Dec-25 of each year.

But it wasnt always like that. There Is an Old Christmas, oo curring on Jan. 6, when it was generally believed that the baptism of Christ took place.

Christmas, such a widely celebrated occasion today, was considered by the great Augustine

as of lesser authority and later origin than the holy days of Easter, Ascension and Whitsuntide.

One source of information says that when efforts were first made to fix the first day of Advent, dates of May 20, April 20 and April 21 were advanced. Oriental Christmas held that the birth and baptism of Christ took place on Jan. 6. Bishop of Rome Julian I (337-362 AD) advocated Dec. 25 as the hirthdate of Christ. It is said the Eastern Church eventually accepted this

Other E(ditors Saying. .. Example To Haunt World

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - The 'world's statesmen, by Ralph Waldo Emersons reasoning, all have large minds. He said consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by statesmen among ottasra.

Under this definition, a.s their United Nations record shows, there is nothing little about pres- cnt-day statesmen. For some their only consistency is their inconsistency. A few examples prove it for them.

Wfien the North Korean Communists invaded South Korea in 19.70 the United States, Britain, France and practically everyone else. Including India, voted for action against the invaders.

Russia, which got its signals mixed, was absent at the time but came back strong by announcing it would not try tq get North Korea to call off the Invasion because the Soviets were against butting into others affairs.

But, when, the United Statwr blockaded North Korea, Russia called this aggression, even though the United Nations had voted for action. And Egypt voted against helping South Korea. It said this was all just a West-East rumpus..

India, which went along on condemning North Korea, which is far away from the land of Prime Minister Nehru, voted against condemning Red China, which is a next-door neighbor, when it attacked the . N. forces.

Tilings got a little mixed up a few years later.

In 1956when Brltish-Prench-Lsraell forces decided to invade Egyptthe land of the pharaohs, which wouldnt condemn the Red invasion of North Korea, went running to the United Nations for help against her own Invaders.

In this case, for a change,

the United States and Russia joined up against Britain and Prance. But in the Security Council Britain and France, which had condemned North Korea for invading South Korea, now vetoed a resolution agalnust themselves for doing the same thing to Egypt.

India also had something to say in the General Aa.sembly. Although refusing to be unpleasant to Red China for going into Korea. India joined the United States and Russia in calling on France and Britain to quit Egypt.

On this one the United States had a ^ttle trouble deciding what it ought to do. At firit it considered not voting at all.

But. whlik all this was going on in 1956. and at the very same time, Russia, outraged at Britain and Prance for attacking Egypt, invaded Hungary and crushc4 the Hungarian revolt against the Communist bosses.

The Securtty C()uncllwhlcti included the United States. Britain and Prance, besides Russia was for condemning the

Rus.sian attack on Hungary. But the Russians vetoed that.

It was different In the General Assembly.

There the United States and a host of other countries- along with Britain and France, then under fire for what they had done to Egypt teamed up overwhelmingly to condemn Russia on Hungary.

All Russia could do in this case, since there is no veto in the assembly, was vote no. But Egypt, which wanted U. N. action against Britain and France, wouldnt vote yes or no on Russia. It just abstained So (Jid Nehrus India.

Then the United States got Its neck caught in a door when it backed the rebel invasion of Fidel Castros Cuba. Russia demanded this country be condemned. The United Nations wouldnt go for that but Nehru criticized the United States by calling its action Intervention.

Next in the history of inconsistency came Nehru himself when Indian this week attacked and overran Portuguese Goa.

Once more Britain and France teamed up in the Security Council to pass a resolution calling on India to get out of Goa. But Russia vetoed that.

And Egypt, which had hollered bloody murder when it was attacked, not only joined Russia in voting against a rebuke to India but demanded that Portugal give up Goa.

If all this makes you dizzy, just think how the statesmen must feel.

Opinions In Briei

Its the indispensable man who takes the long vacations. Anderson (S.C.) Independent.

"What the young people want and dream of over the next hundred years will ahape our history.Carl Sandburg.

(Greensboro Daily News)

Indias invasion of Goa, involving the highly sanctimonious Pandit Nehru, has Ironic, and sadly tragic, overtones which the world cannot ignore.

In the past Prime Minister Nehru has been the first world - leader to condemn the use of aggression by one power against another, even in a righteous cau.se. He praised the United States when it Intervened against its long-time allies. Great Britain and France, in the Egyptian crisis of 1956. He opposed the Soviet rape of Hungary. He supported the joint . N. action against Russia and Red China in the invasion of ^ South Korea. He backed U. S. action in the Congo.

Now Mr. Nehru has launched a military action of his own perhaps in a righteous cause but certainly in violation of the United Natii/hs charter and all that organiz^ion stands for. \

The question Irnmedlately rises; WHl the emerging neutralist nationssuch as India and Indonesia consider It proper to use aggression in their own back yard and oppose it elsewhere? Will they champion the use of force against Western colonialism but ignore Soviet ~ colonial-' ism in Eastern Europe?

Naturally the Soviet Union has come to the assistance of Mr. Nehru. By violating the charter of the United Nations, the Indian prime minister is assisting those Marxist forces which hope to capitalize on turmoil and discord. As long as Nehrus action suits the ptiTPOS^ of the Kremlin. there will be full support from that quarter. The position will change, however,' as the Indian prime minister may learn to his sorrow, when the ruthless forces of Red China begin an Invasion on the northern border. Then Indian will know what It means to be victim rather than aggressor.

Tonight we are witnessing the first act of the drama which ~ will end in its death. said U. S.'' Ambassador Adlal Stevenson. He

spoke of the United Nations. He compared It to the old League of Nations, when that organizations faure to halt Italys aggression in Ethiopia rang its death knell.

If the United Nations cannot uphold the mandate against aggression anywhere in the world, it has started down the path to destruction. Eleven years ago President Trumans quick action in South Korea saved the United Nations. In the Suez crisis of 1956 President Eisenhowers determination to hold back the aggressive aims of its old allies Britain and Franceeven at great expense to th alliance supported the U. N.s principle and served as an example to the world.

In the case of'Goa even though Indias claim to the ' r-ritory has much to be said .jr it Prime Minister Nehru hs set an example which could tragically rise up to haunt him and all those nations which seek to establish a peaceful world community.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUCrLASA .

GROWTH THROUGH GOD

The eleventh chapter of Isaiah gives us a picture of the coming of 'Christs kingdom. It tells of the branch that shall grow out of the root of Jesse, of 'that being who shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears, but with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth.

Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf, and the young Hon, and ~ falling together; and a little chd shall lead them.

We are at times not only sur

prised but utterly astonished at the ways of the Lord.' He sent a King and a Savior into the world. Why did not the heavens glow and the earth tremble and men everywhere fall down in adoraUon and awe? The answer to that question is locked up in the wisdom of God. All we know is that the coming of the Saviour did not take place in that way. A child to whom nobody but a few shepherds paid any attention, was bom to a humble woman in a stable and a whole new life began for the world. An incomparable ligbt shed out cpon its pathways.

Childhood does not represent wesdcness but the promise of growth. This little child brings to us the promise of a growth which shall continue through -this life and into the glorious eternity of God.

as the birthdate, while the Western Church accepted ultimately Jan. 6 as the date of baptism.

And then came a step which seems to justify, or at least give a basis of, the materialistic and merrjTtiaking aspect of Christmas. When finally the Dec. 25 birthdate of Christ was generally accepted, countries which had celebrated the passing of the shortest day of the year (mid-December) substituted Christmas this included heathens. Revelry crept into Christmas almost from the first. And the purity of Christmas was sullied almost from the first, our source of Information says.

Christ '

Was bom In winter When snow hid warmth and when

The evergreens reached out their arms In love.

Twas then

That cows and sheep.

Just as cold as He.

Left beds of straw and stables, too For Him.

Shepherds

came and brought

Their flocks; theyd heard that

God

Had sent His Son. They came to worship

Him. - i --

Then

It was that wise men Travelled, guided by The star, with- gifts to lay before '

His feet.

The night

Was clear, the air Was, pure. Heavwi smiled Down on tranquil EarthCame Christmas.

'Dr. Sun jnkec.

To US.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT Copyright, 1961, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

I do not know who Professor Stanley Spector is but he signs himself Associate Professor,.. Par Eastern Affaira.-Washington University, St. Louis. Missouri. I would be willing to bt dollars to doughnuts that the professor never knew Dr. Sun Yat-sen and that his letter to the St. Louis Post Dispatch is distant from the realities.

Now to state my own bona ftdes. When I arrived In Shanghai In 1919. my first job was on the Kuomintang newspaper which was nominally owned by Dr. Sun. It became customary for me to visit Dr. Sun most afternoons at about 4 p. m. I proofread the English of some of his books; I would bring visitors from the United States and other countries to see him and to discuss matters with him. For Instance, when Thomas Lament of j; P. Morgan came to China to deal with questions of the Consortium, I set/up his appointments with Sun Yat-sen and was present at all of them.

Associate Professor Spector writes:

The stamp which countless American children lick each day pays tribute to a man guilty of the following crimes against stability' and conservatism, to say the very least:

1. He did knowingly accept money, aid and advisers from agents of the Communist International.

There is much history related to this which the professor apparently does not know and the documentation for which js in my possession:

Dr. Sun asked me to discuss with Major Arthur Bassett, then attached to the 25th Infantry, and Colonel Drysdale, then our military attache, the ptxsslbility of establishing a West Point for the Kuomintang armies. Had this proposal gone through. Dr. Suns forces would have beed American directed. He also discussed this, matter with Roy Anderson, one of the most knowledgeable Americans in China. The American government turned the proposal down. Dr. Sun then thought that he might make some connection with General Ludendorff who was then at the head of the German officer veterans. Later some of these German officer veterans did come to China.

I was in Dr.* Suns house In Shanghai when an invitation came to him to visit Soviet Rus-

iia. The telegram came from ienln and while it might have been sent via Siberia and North China, the Russians preferred to send it via England so that the governments of the Western countries would know that Lenin was moving in on Sun.

Ultimately the Russians sent Adolf Joffe to Shanghai to confer with Sun and as a result Michael Borodin and General Bleucher-Galens came to Shanghai to assist Dr. Sunin his revolutionary movement.

Dr. Sun never became a Communist. He thought that Marxism was primitive and would not help China. It was to offset the assumption that because Sun dealt with the Russians, he had become a Marxist that he expressed his interest in a book written by Dr. Maurice Williams. a Brooklyn dentist. I believe, on the social rather than economic Interpretation of history. Dr. Williams became one of the sages of Kuomintang philosophy.

Dr. Sun never went to Russia. Chiang . Kal-shck did go there and although he spoke no Russian, came back to China as an expert on Russian military education. Eugene Chen, a West Indian Chinese, British educated, who was a friend of my first wife and was at my wedding, went to Russia and when the Kuomintang government was set up, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Dr. Sun died on March 12, 1925 before his revolutionary movement got under way. It was expected that Hu Han-ming or Wang Ching-wei would take over. Borodin preferred Chiang Kai-shek.

To say that Sun was subsidized by the Russians is to display ignorance v of what happened* The final agreement was consummated between Borodin and Chiang Kai-shek. The Chinese paid for everything they got from Russia. Mostof the arms and munitions came from dumps of American supplies left behind in Siberia by the American forcea after World War I. To pay for these arms, munitions and medical supplies, which the Russians did not really own, a gasoline (Continued on Page 7)

:0 States Tipping Off The Feds

Theres a paper up in the western part of the State which declares with each edition: It might rain and It might not.* The High Point Enterprise.

Well, whos to say that monkey business tant important these days?Greensboro Dally News.

Developing a new drug Is a long and costly process. 'The price tag can run into the millions. Ona pharmaceutical company, for Instance, has Invested 17,500.000 In cancer research .since 1939. In 1959 alone it In-veste<i\i5QO.OOO for that purpose while N^tal sales of its five antl-ckncer drugs amounted to less than a third as much. Industrial News Review. :

By ELMER ROESSNER

Tfie sUtes are playing stool pigeon on their citizens, judging from a new study by Commerce Clearing House. These states have, entered into agreement with the Federal government to tip off the Feds when a state citizen fumbles his return, skips town, or Is caught in an evasion. In return the Feds give slmilsr information on state residents.

The agreements to exchange Information Is comprehensive. Under certain circumstances, a state can inspect the supposedly confidential return of resident taxpayers.

The ten stool-pigeon states are Calliomia. Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota. Montana, North Carolina. Ohio, Utah and Wisconsin. Several other states hsve tnformation exchange arrangements.

CANTOR IS HELD ' ^

NOT A PARSON

Section 107 of the Internal Revenue Code says that in the case of a minister of the gospel, gross income does not include the value ofhis home furnished him as part of his compensation.

But in the case of a cantor at a Jewish community center, the portion of his compensation consisting of a rental allowance to provide him with a home Is not deductible in calculating Income tax. A key point: a parson is ordained; a cantor need not be, hence is not a minister of the gospel. (Rev. Rul. 61-203.)

They can be kept locked In the cab until they pay.

In Midwest America. Mln-neapolis-Honeywell has devised a system that floods a school with electronic waves and sounds an alarm when an Intruder touches a wire or enters a room.

iental and Cantonese promotion, featuring foods hlbachis, dolls and dishes from those areas. The store was given an Oriental trim, and some employees were dressed in Oriental costumes. Most of the Items were sold out before the end of the evwit.

MODERN SCIENCE COMBATS, THE THUG, THE VANDAL

In West Germany, Mercedes-Benz has devised a stickup-proof tab; theres s Duliet-proof partition between the driver and. the passenger; the cab doors are locked and controllei) by the driver, and passengers pay by dropping money through a slot-

NO MOONLIGHT EXEMPTION. TAX COURT RULES

As every working man knows by this time, he getsup to a llOO-a-week tax exempuon oc sick pay. But if the man moonlights and has two joba. doea. he get a llOO-a-week exemption on each?.

No, says the U.S. Tax Court; the limit is $190 a week. (Graves 37 TC No. 171.)'

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FOREIGN FOODS SWELL MIAMI STORE TRAFRC A Miami supermarket advertised a iour-dajr Occidental, Or-

SAYS DREAMS SLOW DOWN SALE OF READY HOUSING

Talk about dream houses of the future is causing a slowdown in the purchase of new homes, according to Leo J. Pan-tas, Yale & Towne vice president.

PtsclnaUon with the much-heralded. easy-to-maintain. carefree, home of the future seems to have made Americans dissatisfied with present houses to. such an extent lhat more and more of thm^lrt seeking the convenience of apartment living. ha said-