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Issue Kicked Around Long Enough

The lingering question of where the proposed new bridge between Morehead City and Beaufort will located should be resolved by the State Highway Commission in order that construction on the project can be undertaken without further delay.

Announcement this week that a req^uest for a permit to dredge in the area of one of the proposed sites jfor the new bridge brought speculation tiiat the Highway Commission might have resolved the question that has been debated for more than a year now. But, according to Chairman Merrill Evans, a final decision has not been reached. The permit requested by the Commission will not be used unless the commission decides on the site nearest the old bridge for which the permit has been requested.

It was early August 1960 when the old Highway Commission appointed by Gov. Hodges gave its approval to a new bridge site slightly upstream from the present bridge location. Since that time there has been increasing pressure for moving the proposed site some 2,000 yards upstream in order to provide more room for future expansion of the state port at More-

head City. Early this year the old Highway Commission, before it left office, held another hearing ,i)n the matter of changing the site and reaffirmed its I960 decision. Subsecfuently the new Highway Commission appointed by Gov. Sanford voted to have another look into the matter before making a final decision.

The question of where the bridge is going still hangs in the balance. In the meantime a much-needed project has been delayed for almost a year and a half since the initial decision of the location.

The buTden is on the present Highway Commission to resolve^ the question of where the bridge will be located.* It seems to us the new commission has had ample time to study the records on the question compiled by theold commission, and at the same time hve had ample time to makg their own study of the relative merits of the two proposed sites.

The matter has been kicked around long enough in the valley of indecision. It is time for the Highway Commission to make a final decision and get to work building the needed facility.

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rxoyiebbiliy lU Daily Events

Achievements

By LYNN NISBET

MOP-UP When the General Assemldy adjourned it was hailed by the Governor and other State leaders as one of the best, and mot progressive sessions in many yean. It not only had levied the biggest tax biH in State hi^. some $75 million more than the advisory budget commission had recommended, but it had fubmittcd to the people some $61 million in bonds for building at State institutions. Progress was on the march. The Wew Day had come in fact.

Meaatime. Oovemor Sanford and his aisooiates were busy revam^Bf tlM Demoeratte par-*^ ty ofgaaiBatloB la the state. Since Urn deaUi of Max Gardner in 1M7 there had not been a reeognlied leader of the party in state. J M. Broughton in 194S and William mstead in 1954 might have earned that recogiUtton if death had not cut them off. Early in 1961 It looked like Terry Sanford and his Chosen Democratic State Chairman Bert Bennet might be building the organization on sound basis. Certainly they were spending much more money and ventur^ into new methods of operation.

While there was fear in some Quarters that the organization might have too much of the Sanford personal bossism it was hailed as desirable because even at the expense of bossism recognized leadership was essential.

OpiaioQ Mwvailed Uiat the Sanford administration of State government and the Democratic party both were effectively or-nnlzed and either or both could be ipobilized for action on short notice. Then came the bond election of November 7. Result of that election proved that there was no effective or efficient organization of the Sanford regime Or the Democratic party.

ADOPTED The administration SAd the party organization ad(^itsd tlw $61 million bond issue as their baby. In that ca-

Scity they were acting for all e pcofde. But in this instance the people were given the right to express opinionand the peo-

le did not want to adopt these looking back over the events oithe summer and fall it is surprising that nobody realized just how far apart were the pei^e and the admin-Iftratlim. It was an entirely reasonable and logical development.

Governor Sanford had come through two hotly contested prt-marles to obtain the Democratic Bomingtion for Governor. Then he went through the hard-St fought general election campaign in many years. Result was oe wss elected by the smallest percentage majority of any Governor in this centuryjust about .15 percent of the total vote cast in November.

Unlike Governor Hoey and Broughton, who also had come through heated primary campaigns, Governor Sanford ap-pareny made llte effort to

conciliate those who had opposed him.' He struck rather closely with the group of young people who had been associated in his primary campaigns.

The General Assembly was not antagonistic, but neither was it particularly friendly. There was short of a disposition to let Terry do it. This attitude was illustrated by the fact that the Advisory Budget Commission did not offer a tax bill, but left that up to the Governor.

When the Governor presented bis plan of a sales tax on food as the main source of the needed revenue.for quality education it was accepted without enthusiasmbut there wu no very strong fight against it. Even before its enactment, u well as since the Legislature adjourned, the food tax wu commonly known is **Terry'i tax.

ACHIEVEMENT Governor Sanfords relations with the General Assembly were paradoxi-cal. He was not personally very popular, but he came as near getting his program through as any Governor In recent years. Not only the biggest appropriation ever for public schools, but the reorganization of the highway commission, the C&D number of the, faithful.

In making appointments to these positions Governor Sanford ran into trouble from two directions. The heterogenious Character ef his supporters made it Impossible for him to satisfy all of them, and he also was accused of keeping too many holdovers. Every Governor goes through that experience, but with Sanford it seemed a little more marked than usual. Many of his original supporters turned cool. If not completely antagonistic.

In face of that situation, the achievements of the first year of the Sanford administration are noteworthy. Industrial development, which was given impetus by Governors Umsteed and Hodges. moved even fatter this year. Travel was recognized to greater extent that ever before as an Important segment of the economy. While scwne of the claims made for progress in public schools can hardly be supported by experience records, there can be no doubt that the school climate is much better than it has been in a genr eration and educational opportunities have been opened up to boys and girls who had not had as good chance before-

It is appropriate at this stage to make a pr(^ess report, rather than an achievement report. One year, or in fact only part of a year, cannot afford experience upon which to base inventory of accomplishment But-1961 with its forward movements and setbacks, its accepted verdict of trial and error on some things, has ^d a ioundation upon which the State of North

Carolina can build in 1962 and thereafter a governmental and political atructure that will survive.

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The growth of daily newspaper circulation in the 14 Southern States during the past eight years points up the fact that this section of the country has gained rapidly in newspaper readership and has set a pace that has surpassed the national average.

According to figures released by theDepartment of Commerce, daily newspaper circulation in the Southern region increased 1.8 million during the peripd or 18.9 per cent while the national average for daily newspapers showed a circulation increase of 8.1 per cent. In the South the net paid circulation of daily newspapers rose to the point where it equals one newspaper for every 3.72 persons, or roughly one newspaper for every family. "

These figures point up the fact that the residents

of Southern sttes, once looked upon as people who thought only of the past, are keeping up with the happenings in the nation and the world through their increased readership of daily newspapers.

In North Carolina during that period, the growth of daily newspaper circulation was second only to that in Florida as Tar Heel daily newspapers ^dded some 154,000 subscribers to their lists. A check of the circulation records of The Daily Reflector for the period showed that the paid circulation of this newspapT during the period increased by more than 42 per cent.

The figures reflect a growing awareness among the people of the South that they are not an isolated group, but rather a vital and importan4.^art of the nation and its future. They indicate that the people of the Southern cities, small towns and rural areas are keeping up as never before with the events of the day through their daily newspaper reading. They indicate also that the daily newspapers of the region are serving a constantly increasing proportion of the.citizens of the area.

No Surprises In

1962 Plannina .

By PATRICIA MOORE

One Cure: Be A Hermit

Do you have headachea (the head kind)?

, Weve stumbled upon an interesting piece of information which, If you are a headache club member, you have heard something about before, per-fiaps, but therea aome added information, too.

We are told these little monsters are caused by too much concentration on anything for too long a time, including dwelling on an emotional conflict in other words, worry.

Other related causes of headaches might be not changing positions often enough, or remaining so intense that muscles are tense for a time and become strained and protest.

Then comes that dull, steady pain across the forehead or in the back of the neck . . . headache.

Changing positions and relax

ing may help relieve the aad feeling. Or a bath and maasage of the back of the shoulders and neck may be helpful.

Our source of information (American School News) says, of course, serious headaches may be warning of illness.

However, we read that most Americans have about six headaches a year painful enough to seek remedy at the medicine cabinet, in this case, we have deduced that there are a lot of Americans who dont have headaches at all and we make up for the deficit.

Probably one of the best Investments should be in headache pain relievers.

About, 70 per cent of all hcad-acher^re due to tension (mus-de^on traction).

/To continue, the best way to relieve headaches, the tension kind, is to avoid whatever is

Other Editors Saying... Trade Unionism Decline

By JAMES MARLOW

WA8HD0T0N (AP) President Kfnnedys plana for 1962 as outlined to newsmen over the weekend at Palm Beach call for no surprise. and little heat.

Hii views are authoritatively based on discussions he has had with men close to him.

What he Is reported to have said adds up to leadership but of a kind neither sensational nor original. It was that .way lif 1961. He apparently wants it that way.

In foreign affairs he plans a steady plugging away at policies already established and, on domestic problems, a mild and cautious attitude which some may think too mild and overly cautious.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk

once remarked to people around him that he does not want to be judged on the merit of some particular action but, when he is through, on the over-all value of events, past and ahead, seems to have pretty much the same view.

While Premier Khrushchev at 67 is 23 years Kennedys senior, it is the older man who sounds like a romantic, the younger, the one without illusions.

While Khrushchev has predicted the triumph of communism like a man taking pep pills, Kennedy has repeatedly regarded the East-West struggle as long, bleak and rugged.

This showed up again in the Palm Beach reports which said he thinks the balance of power is on the side of the West but perhaps only marginally.

Over the long run. he thinks the West can keep the margin but not so much as to"* have full freedom of action.

Otherwise, what came out of Palm Beach on his thinking

about foreign affairs can be boiled down to this: That this country will follow the Truman-Eis-enhower policy of aiding newly emerged nations, neutrals included, to help them stay free of Moscow. It will keep strong militarily and itand with its allies.

In other words: hell keep on doing In 1962 what he did in 1961.

At home this year, as last, he has to deal with a Congress where, although his own Democrats are in a majority, the prevailing mood is and has been conservative.

His own performance last year, in dealing with Congress, was pretty conservative, too. He did not fight hard enough for his programs to make anyone very mad at home.

His own explanation for this may have been revealed at Palm Beach: that while he considers his administration progressive, his progressive aims are tempered by reality.

This could mean he did not spend time fighting Congress for something he didnt think would be approved or that he did not want to make so many people mad at him on one iaaue that they would gang up to block him on something else.

This, the Palm Beach itorles indicate, will be his policy for 1962 also.

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Americans must make up their minds. They spend more on booze and tobacco than anything else. Their achoola need many things that can be provided only with money. Atlanta Constitution.

(Charleston (W-Va.) Daily MaU)

It is no secret that the union business is not what it used to be. Both absolutely, in tot-al membership, and relatively as a proportion of the growing labor force, the giants of the labor movement are a little less gigantic. Just what is wrong is the subject of an interesting pamphlet, The Decline of the Labor Movement, by Solomon Barkin, research director for the Textile Workers Union of America.

The primary cause of this decline is not the overt hostility of employers, although many employers are less, than friendly. Rather, the major cause of attrition in union membership has been the shrinkage of employment In the organized Industries. Apparently Mr. Barkin is talking about the coal, steel and automobile industries, once the greenest fields for union expansion and now a declining source of membership. In every case automation is most widespread in the Industries where unionism waa most militant and most successful in compelling the acceptance of its demands.

But, of course, this is not all. Mr. Barkin is coolly objective in defining the other sources of the decline in unionism The dwindling of widespread social discontent, The success of management in beating the unions it their own game (wages, hours and working conditions), The scandals which have swept over some segments of the movement (the Hoffas have been less than helpful), etc.

What it amounts to is that the unions, by and large, have overplayed their hand. Mr- Barkin says almost as much when he observes: Many of the current leaders recognize that while

the government can remove impediments, restrain the anti-unionists, and re-afflrm the right and propriety of organization, the basic remedies (for the decline) must be developed within the movement.

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(The Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune)

Hardly had news of the Colorado school bus disaster reached Washington before the Interstate Commerce Commission announced that it was rushing a man from Washington to Investigate. Such tragedies point up the importance of prompt investigations. the communiqui stated piously.

Here is a classic example of bureaucracy in action. The sheriffs office of Weld County, Colo, and the Colorado State Police are busy Investigating the crash. The train was on the track and the track had been there for about 80 years. The road had crossed the track ever since the road was built. The driver had ^crossed the track on the road at approximately the same Ume each morning as long as the driver had been driving.

Certainly the State of Colorado and Weld County ought to be able to determihe whether the train failed to whistle or the bus brakes failed or the driver simply doped off. The atate haa the exclusive police power to punish negligence and to require flashing slgnils or gates If these are deemed necessary. What the emissary from Washington can accomplish at a cost of several hundred dollars to the taxpayers is not clear. We hope he brought his skis, because after he has opied the official findings of ofncers on the spot there is fun to be had in the mountains.

causing the tensimi.

One is supposed to avoid useless worry, since worry makes one tired and tense (with headaches) and seldom solves anything.

Avoidance of headaches can

be facilitated by developing tolerance and by trying to understand people better.

Also, reducing the days work can help rid the headache nuisance. Ah, heres a good suggestion that might get one fired. Over-concentration on a job can lead to a headache.

Take a positive attitude.

While we agree wnth all of this, we might add that we have yet to meet a person who didnt ever worry about somethinQ, and while it does no good you cant get rid of worry.

Simply, we have deduced from all of this that to avoid headache you must avoid tension. This you may do by withdrawing from people and noises of everyday life, and by quitting your Job and becoming a hermit.

Good luck.

Opinions .n Brief

A successful poIiticUn, apparently, is one who can appear to be one thing in Washington and try to be the exact opposite in South Carolina. Oreenvlll# (B.C.) Piedmont.

Some people believe anything you tell them; if you whisper it." Anderson (8.0.) Independent.

The backing and filling of Katangas insurrectionist leader could aptly be called the Tshombe Twist." The Raleigh (N.C.) News and Obeerver.

Not So_^ Simple An Idea

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Carlyle Half of Springfield, HUnoia, has t olution to the political, social and economic problem* of mankind* All the worlds statesmen have not hit on his formula but to him it comes easily. This Is what he says:

Tell me why all civilized nations now members of the United Nations, could not get together, and agree on one universal language, and require this to be taught in all their schools.

In addition to their native language, to enable the rising generation within a few years in all nations to Intelligently converse with one another.

If through the United Nations this could be brought about, along with other things that they do, I believe it would be the most outstanding thing that the world has ever seen.

This to me seems so simple and so important, can you tell me why It is not attempted, and worked out?"

.Years ago a colonel about to' retire from the American Army . in the Philippines came up to Shanghai to propose a solution to all the problems that faced the Chinese, He said that the Chinese had nearly 100 dialecta which kept the Chinese in confusion because they could not talk to each other. Why. he asked, did they not drop Chinese end make English their language? I asked why not drop English and adopt Chinese as . our language? Also, why English and not French or Rus-

*^Tluit only annoyed him. He had undoubtedly spent years thinking out this problem. It never occurred to him that if all the Chinese became dumb and could not speak to each other at all. maybe they would have no problems.

This generation has forgotten Dr. Zamenhof who came from , Warsaw and gave the world Esperanto. He invented a new language. If the 2,000,000,000 human beings on Earth spoke to etch other in Esperanto, they would understand each other better.

But it turned out that the better we understand each other, the less we like each other. It used to be that nobody understood the hundred or so dialects of India, most of them being local corruptions of Sanskrit. But now that the Indians have come to the United Nations and can hear all kinds of languages they not only want to quarrel

with each other but with all the world.

Or look at China which has more languages than any nation on Earth, and for thousands of years the various races of China ^ got along well enough together, having little .wars but none of them amounting to too much, up to the Taiping Rebellion which decimated an enormous part of the people of China. But now the Chinese have attempted to have one language. Kwau Hua, or as the Ignorant foreigners caU it, Mandarin, and they have not only tried to exterminate each other but are fighting everybody in Asia.

It is curious that the better we understand each other, the more we dislike each other, George Bernard Shaw was so prejudiced against women that he regarded them as equal to men. Shaw was cruel, for what man would have his hair dyed each season for no better rea-son thin that a new shade had become fashionable; or what man would paint his finger nails various colors except e savage warrior or an American Indian to indicate a tribal mark? Surely no man since the time of Louis XIV would wear the kinds of heels that are now fashion-

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able among women which Involve the risk of the heel breaking off and hurling the woman forward or making her walk ungracefully as though on stilts.

Far be it from me to bo anti-female. In fact, i am so much pro that my wife often tells me to be my age which strikes me as utterly ridiculous. Why would anyone want to bo his age if he can possibly be younger and gayer? But that is not the point. What we are talking about is that some folks find a simple solution to all problems which brings them great happiness except that the solutions do not work out.

Imagine if all the world spoke German what a guttural would prevail. And even German is divided into dozens of dialects depending upon lisps and low or high pronunciations. I once knew something about quite a few languages but I had a hard Ume convincing a young lady that I really understood her In each.

Strength For Today

,S. Losina In One Big Expor

By EARL L, DOUGLASS NOW IS THE TIME

Remember now thy Creator

in the days of thy youth, while

the evil days come not, nor the

years draw nigh' when thou shalt

say^.! have no pleasure in them ##

Thus begins the last chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes. Many have judged the writer of this book to be a cynic. The truth Is that he was a most admirable realist. He looked life' full In the face. He saw both Its advantages and its disadvantages, He knew there was evil among men that the passing centuries had not eliminated. He was conscious of 'injustice In the world. He saw many things In human life to love and admire and hiany things to criticize and denounce.

But his summing up of the whole matter was an appeal to 1-

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have faith in God the Creator. The author of Ecclesiates believed that there was much vanity, or futility, in life but his conclusion of the whole matter was: Pear God and keep his cpmmandments: for this is the whole duty of man,

The truly religious man is always realistic. He is conscious of the sin and injustice which characterize human life. But he believes in the ppwer and over-arching love of God. No matter how badly his own fortunes go No matter how much he h&8 to take of pain, disappointment, frustration, and the hateful treatment of hateful men. nevertheless his faith remains firm in God.

Reri^ember. he cries. Remember now thy Creator. .

The awd now is important. The future is fraught with un-. certainty.

By ELMER ROESSNER

One of the greatest dangers to the three-day old 1962 boom if that the United States is exporting factories and job*.

It is also exporting It* gold, its allver and-^ln a senseit topsoil. Rarely in history has any nation given so much of itself.

We are exporting factories. To with the idea that we can buy lovea theory any trollop can deflate.

We are ejportlng factories. To be sure, we do not crate an, American factory and put each part in a numbered box, as Wil-'llam Randolph Hearst did when imported jcastlee from Spain to CaJifomla.

But we ekpprt factories when an American corporation, In's lead of establishing a new unit in the United States, sets up a production unit in Germany, Japan, or wherever else, in the

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world it appear* profitable. GOVERNMENT TO BLAME

The corporation is usually not to blame under these circumstances. It is forced into ita action by labor unions and the govemmnt.

If It costs, say .39 cents to make a component in New York, the same component may be made for 3.9 cents in Tokyo (by girls getting $26 a month). And the tax , burden on the Japan factory may be a lot less than the levy on an American factory.

Lets not be nasty to the Nipponese. The same ratios. In varying degrees, occur wherever factories are built.

And taxes on the more handsome profits abroad may be less or may be long postponed.

Some, American corporation* have established subsidiaries or branches abroad to make parts or entire assemblies which are then sent back to the United States, Just how many oomhn-

ies are ^dolng this, to what extent they are Aoing it, and in which country it is being done Is hard to determine from available data. Perhaps this would be an interesting subject for some Congressional committee.

JOBS EXPORTED, TOO

When ,a factory is exported, jobs art I also exported: that is, when an electronics manufacturer sets up a Japahese subsidiary to manufacture* transistors, a number of Americans lose emr ployment opportunittea. a number of Japanese gain them.

This is-v^o true when the United Sta^ allows the easy import of go^ by purely foreign manufacturers. Every Imported car, for instance, repre-senfUs a certain amount of work Americans did not have but which auto workers abroad gained.

Of course, international trade Is a give-and-take business. The United States must Import for

eign goods 11 it expects foreign nations to buy our exports. But the exchange must be kept in some sort of balance. If we buy more than we self, we not only export jobs but we also xport gold,'for the difference must be made up by giving the ownership of gold to foreign nations. IMBALANCE CAN AFFECT BOOM

We have been exporting silver, too, but silver is more of a commodity than a currency baoking. Actuuly, by exptHrng silver we Can regain some of our gold.

If these c:ports of factories and. Jobs become excessive, the Imbalances they cause can take the steam out of our i^onomio machinery.

.We dont,'by the way. actually export topsoil. But the grains and other farm products we give ^ away or sell at bargain prices constitutes a loss to the extent ,that their growth has depleted the SOIL

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