Saturday February ,3, 1962

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Communisms Achilles Heel

Stockpiling Probe Timely And Wise

President Kennedys move for a careful review of 'the governments multi-million stockpiling program offers a potential of saving American taxpayers countless millions in unnecessary federal spend

ing.

By calling a halt to the program until a careful evaluation can be made by a Senate subcommittee, the President has put the spotlight on a program which could have continued to eat away unnecessarily at the annual appropriations by Congress.

It is the kind of action which should be taken by the administration with respect to any program which it has reason to believ has fulfilled its purpose, or one which it feels m'ay be getting out of hand.

Although the President made no charges of wrongdoing in connection with the program of stockpiling strategic materials in case of a national emergency, he did recognize the possibility that the program has now reached the point where it may invite mismanagement and profiteering. He also asserted that in many instances the program has caused the stockpiling of considerably more of many items that the government might be expected to need even in a severe emergncy.

Case Is To Be

hleara iuesday

By LYNN NISBET

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR The question of whether or not a Lieutenant Governor can be elected this year is now before the Supreme Court. It will be argued next Tuesday morning, the first case on the Spring term calendar. Any discussion of the matter must be impartial and without expressed opinion. One phase of the issue has not been publicized very much. That is the fact that if the office Is declared open for election tWs year, it will be the duty of Governor Sanford to appoint someone to fill the position un- . til the electiai results can be certified. Such appointment will be different from any other which the Governor is called upon to make, because he would be individually selecting the person who would succeed him in the top office in event of his death, resignation or other capacity.

Governor Sanford said the other day that he has not given very serious thought to selection of an appointee, although he has been conscious of the fact that if the Supreme Court decides the office is open for clectiixi he will have to face up to the responsibility of making the interim appointment.

No other appointment in the executive legi^tive or judicial branches of government has anything like the same intimate relati<mship with the chief executive. There is possibility of collusion between the appointing ofcer and the appointee that should be guarded against in any future amendments to the constitution.

SLATE There is no objection anumg the citizens of North * Carolina to the idea of having a Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the same political faith and philosophy. In fact, there seems to be rather general approval of the idea that the two top officials should be of like opinion on fundamental matters.

Under our system of free choice in nominating primaries as well as in the general election it is possible to have a Governor and a Lieutenant Governor of widely divergent philosophies. In fact they can be of different political parties.

The original constitution of the United States provided that the man who got the highest number of votes in the electoral college should be President, and the man who got the second highest number should be Vice President. The travesty on good government that developed when Thomas Jefferson was President and Aaron Burr was Vice President led to -the amendment which provided that the voters should select a President and Vice President. The thinking back of the amendment

was that the two officers would hold similar beliefs. Later custom decreed that the candidates for these high offices should be nominated by ix>litical parties on a commpn ticket. It is not possible now to vote for a Democratic President "and a Republican Vice President, but it is possible to vote for a Governor and a Lieutenant Governor of different parties. Some folks think it would be a good idea to run the State officers together, so that the same folks who vote for and elect a Governor would vote for and elect the No. 2 man who would succeed to the office during the term if the No. 1 man should for any reason become incapacitated.

So far as your reporter can find, no state has such slate arangement. Some states. Florida for one, do not have a lieutenant governor. Not many years ago by a series of resignations and deaths South Carolina had three chief executives during one four-y ear term.

All of which proves that the question of whether the existing vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Governor can be filled by appointment and election this year or if it must wait until 1964 has some practical political as well as constitutional and philosophical tangents.

The question naturally arises, why was not a careful look taken at the program earlier before the unnecessary stockpiling had taken place? Why was not there constant revision of the program to assure th^t the stockpiling program was altered from time to time to meet the changing conditions brought about by changing defense needs? Was it a case of lack of proper management, or was it a matter of letting the program follow a predetermined plan long after the plan had become obsolete?

The Senate investigation should provide the answers to these' questions. And at the same time either from the administration or from Congress should come the aiiTwef toanother broader question:

How many other government programs are in a situation similar to that of the stockpiling program?

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Peace Corps Gets To Bedrock Of Problems

, Proof, if it were needed, that the Peace Corps is working on the bedrock problems of backward peoples, lies in its announced quest for more than 1,000 farmers.

These are presumed destined to serve in distant lands where food production remains linked to primitive or inefficient methods.

In our land of agricultural surpluses, it is sometimes difficult to remember that inadequacies of crop production pose some of the biggest handicaps of other countries. It is something in which they most urgently need help . . .and it is a field in which the American farmer has proven himself.

The facts of simple hunger, of poverty and imbalanced diets are often attributed as the roots of apathy, a dullness of thinking and lack of physical stamina that prohibit productivity and even ambition.

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We can imagine' few other segments of the over-all Peace Corps program that can contribute as much as that represented by our skilled farmers working side-by-side with the primitive farmers of other parts of the world . . . teaching by example the secrets of greater efficiency and greater production -from the soil.

The inherent elements of adventure and accomplishment envisioned in this program should capture the imagination of Americas young agricultural experts ... as it does our own.

Achievements In OAS Meetina

By PATRICIA MOORE

Others Refute Doomsday

BANKS There were 718 banking houses operating In North Carolina on December 31, 1961, with total assets of $4.648.929.481. This represented an Increase of 29 places and $306.507.853 in assets over the situation one year before. Major interest centers in the b'anks and branches of State banks chartered and supervised by the State of North Carolina.

The trend which has been un-denvay for some years toward centralization of banking resources by consolidating banking institutions was accelerated last year. There were seven fewer State banks last December than there were in business a year before. At the same time, the number of branch banks increased by 28. That was brought about by absorption of several small banks by larger chains. These transfers also put some State units in the national bank list, and vice versa.

There are several gratifying features about the composite condition report of all banks issued by the banking commission this week. Total resources increased more than $306 million, of which $204 million was in State banks. There was very substantial increase in amount of loans and discounts indicating that more money is at work.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - This country won less than complete victory in Latin America on dealing alth Cuba. But there were some solid achievements.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk was the U. S. spokesman and general at the Uruguay meeting of 21 American Foreign ministers, which this couritry wanted and pushed for.

It showed:

1. Some of the biggest Latin-American nations dont see eye to eye in all details with this country in handling Cuba. Six refu.sed to vote with the United States to expel Fidel Castro from the Organization of American States.

2. Judging from that result, this country either rushed into the meeting too fast, without learning beforehand where those six stood, or it did knew but optimistically went ahead, ignoring what it had learned.

3. The United States, big as it is and much as Latin America needs its economic help, is not the absolute hemisphere boss. Realization of this here and in Latin America may turn out to have been this countrys greatest benefit from the 10-day meeting.

The biggest test of American influence, and the one on which Rusk worked hardest for days, was on the question of throwing Cuba out of the inter-American system.

In the end the United States and 13 other countries just enough to put the resolution over voted to do it.

Cuba. of course, voted against. But Argentina, Bolivia. Brazil. Chile, Ecuador and Mexico refrained from voting. The.se six countries contain three-quarters of Latin Americas 200 million people.

They didnt want to go along with Rusk for various reasons, ranging from the question of whether this was quite the legal way to go about It to pressure from the left-wing elements among their people bac.: home.

But once that particular i.s-sue was out of the way all, with the exception of Cuba, voted:

That communism has no pla^'p in the inter-American .system; to exclude Ca.stro from

the inter - American defense board; block arms shipments to and from Cuba, and organize a vigilance system to prevent Cuba from spreading communism in the Americas.

Out of these resolutions other ^steps will, or should, follow, as Rusk indicated at a news conference he caUed Thursday, two hours after returning home.

It may be unpalatable to some to see the United States, upon which so many Latin-American nations depend for help, balked if only on one point by those beholden.

Yet it Illustrates, as well as anything, the difference between the free association of states in this hemisphere and the Soviet dictatorship which compels compliance from its European satellites.

Before the six Latin-Amer-ican countries are criticized for being less than 100 per cent agreeable to U. S. wishes, it might be remembered that even such a close ally as French President Charles de Gaulle has been an obstinate and often painful partner.

President Kennedy expressed satisfacbon with the outcome. Four members of Congress who accompanied Rusk, two Democrats and two Republicans, called it a marked succe.ss. And Rusk, perhaps optimistically, said the meeting had isolated Castro from the hemisphere,

Cuba called it an American defeat and then shrilly denounced the whole business. What really countsnow that the resolutions have been adoptedis what the 20 republics do to show they mean something.

For the aid and comfort of those who may have suffered some consternation due to a prediction in one part of the world that the end of this earth or some terrible catastrophe is imminent, we have a book source that says the end of the world comes later.

We have it straight from the French astrologer Nostradamus (1503-1566) that the world wl end in the year 7.000, when the Sun will destroy the Earth,

Meanwhile, there are hundreds of thousands of Indians in India mixing brews, lighting sacrifices, jumping into rivers and praying by the thousands by the roadsides. This is going on today, since the period of doom is sometime between 5:35 p.m. and 7:05 a.m., eastern standard time, today through Monday.

You may laugh at it all. Not us. We respect the opinions of others.

However, our horoscope tells us to be gay today.. We take that as an excellent sign. It al

so says this is a good day to tie up loose ends with work bad sign) but goes on to say this will help make a good impression on higher ups (good sign). However, be sure you get out for^fun and relaxation this evening (good sign unless it means eat. drink and be merry for tomorrow you may die).

At any rate, back to Nostradamus, He was a man who through some power not exactly explained some today call is extra sensory perception foretold events In the future. Many have come true, according to our translator.

Of course, Nostradamus wrote In French. Since we are not particularly adept at French, we read Nostradamus out of a book that had both the French and then the English translation. The French words give you the Nostradamus atmosphere, and the English translation gives you prophecies in language you may understand, with notes by the translator.

The verse relating to the end of the world goes like this

(in English):

Twenty years of the reign of the moon having passed.

Seven thousand years another shall hold his monarchy,

When the sun shall resume his days past,

Then Is fulfilled and ends my prophecy.

Though this may alleviate fears of approaching ends of existence, there are other ca-tastrophles forecase by Nostradamus.

The Indians say that the rare alignment of six planets with the sun and moon is a sign of doomsday earthquakes, or floods or general catastrophe. Indian astrologers have warned that in the next three days the earth will be bathed in the blood of thousands of Kings.

Ah. we will prefer to read Nostradamus under the circumstances.

Other Editors Saying... Opinions Maintaining Honesty In Brief

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In all that people can individually do as well for them.ielves, government ought not to interfere. Abraham Lincoln.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

It is proper that Gov. Sanford should take a stem position against influence peddlers and fixers. Those are the terms he used in castigating those who would stoop to such measures in their business dealings with the government of North Carolina. Companies doing business with North Carolina do-not have to go through influence peddlers, the governor has declared.

If a company goes through an influence peddler in an attempt to gain business or curry favor, it will lose its business with this state the day he is caught. Thats what Sanford promised in a speech to the fourth annual Highway Conference. Among those who, listened were highway officials and road contractors.

Although Sanford made no mention of the current probe of state highway sign procurement, he obviously was referring to the case of a highway engineer who was fired for being too closely associated with businessman Kidd Brewer.

The citizens of this state pay into public funds for public roads. And there are not going to be any under-the-table, or back street deals going' on as long as the present administration is in office. Sanford Ls emphatic on that point, and the public must give him his due: he has acted promptly

and vigorously to* uncover the current mess. Many a.stute political observers believe the current episode, and the manner In which Sanford has handled It, has enhanced his prestige.

Nowhere in our system of purchase and contracts or in our low bid system or in our allocation of the taxpayers money Ls there a clause which mentions or implies that somebodys hands should be greased. Any company that thinks it has found an in for getting the states business through a back door, warns the governor, is going to find a little later bars from doing business with this state.

Thats as it should be. Strin-- gent regulations for clamping down should be provided; discouragement of thLs sort of thing should be pushed. The state and the Highway Department have a de.servedly high reputation for honesty and efficiency. This reputation goe.s back over many years and it goes out to all comers of the country. This reputation was built slowly. But many such incidents as the recent case could cast a shadow over the entire system.

Surely it doe.snt de.serve that. But such will be the case unless swift, sure, stringent action is taken to .see that no loopholes, easy deals, comer-cuts are po.ssible in this business-state dealings.

The 1961 figures are in now on book publishing In the U.S. As most book editors had surmized, gazing in awe at the mountains of new volumes submitted for review, it was a record year: 18,600 new

books, of which 14,238 were new titles and 3,822 were new editions of old works.Richmond News Leader.

It will be handy if there are people on the other planets. Some day we may need a coroners jury to decide whether the demise of our civilization was accidental or a double suicide. Hartford Courant.

You have noticed, of course, that silence and horse sense often go together.-An-der.son (S.C. Independent.

The

BLOOVMOBUt

is coming

lide is Against. Unity

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT

Ck}pyrlght. 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Always there *% excitement about producing some kind of a (Xie World and always the resistance to the idea grows more intense. This will go down as the era intensified nationalism, with 104 nations actually members of the United Nations. The fragmeination of mankiiid rather than the im-ion of peoples is the characteristic of the moment. I can recall when half a century ago men like Andrew Carnegie believed that their efforts were bringing on a unified mankind. The Hague Tribunal, the League of Nations and the United Nations came into existence with this end in view.

When I was a boy there was much excitement about the possibility of a single language for all mankind. That too has passed away. Professor Mario ?ei, who knows more about languages than most authorities, writes me:

So far as the question of in-ternatlonal understanding, (whatever that much-belabored word may mean) is concerned. I could not agree with you more. In all my writings, on the subject, I ha,ve been at great pains to point out that the worlds civil wars, from the days of ancient Rome M) modem America. Russia and Spain, are there to indicate that peace and the brotherhood of man do not at all hinge on linguistic comprehension.

The World Language Association has apprently the wisdom of recognizing that while no country is going to give up its own special traditional way of expressing itself, it might be possible to come to an agreement to use some one language for business and politics as Latin was once a univeral , tongue in the West or Aramaic in the East. There was a time when French was the universal tongue of diplomacy but the United Nations can no longer expect French to serve and delegates plug their ears to listen to interpreters in several tongues. There was a time when English was the tongue of trade but today one mu.st use whatever tongue is needed to sell a safety razor or a sewing machine.

Professor Pei, in his letter to me, makes a salient point:

The fact that your son learned French in school did not make a Frenchman out of him. All it did was to permit him to communicate with Frenchmen. . .a single language in official and popular use throughout the world won1 permit him to land in t. e' same way in Saigon, Taiw'an, Leopoldville or Rio de Janeiro, and still be able to communicate with all the people iin would encounter, with yV. e same ease with which he ccm-municates with people in San Francisco. Milwaukee or Boston I whom he docs not necessarily love or feel brotherly towards).

If the question of langua-^e is approached realistically, t obviously has nothing to do with peace. Among m.y me t

belligerent friends are soir.o who speak .several lapgua*' ;

and can curse in each. Thc,r knowledge of language does iv t sweeten their attitude towa' 1 each other. The lingua frarir-1

of each age or each geograp..i-

cal area is a means of gett g around but it does not help o unify ideas, although mat -matical symbols do a job for the scientist who wherever e may be understands the pi s mark; similarly musicians i nearly all parts of the world can sooner or later read a score. A Japanese journalist may stumble over Shakespeare but a Japanese fiddler can read Wagner or the Rhapsody in Blue. Both deal with ideas.

An old friend of mine, Henry Eichheim, now long dead, used to walk about the streets of Shanghai, writing down the sounds he heard. Eichheim could not understand a word of any dialect of Chines; he was a musician, a fiddler, who spent the leisure of retirement transliterating Chinese mu.sic into our scale, Puccini did nearly that, although Eichheim was more skillful. He univer-(Continued on Page (J)

All that is nece.ssary for the force.s of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.Edmund Burke.

Small Boom In Inventory Buildup

Strenath For Todav

Bv F.AHI I DOliil.ASS WIfFKE DO YOU STAND?

Do beliefs really matter?

Probably no one would .say that bellef.s are a matter of no con.spquencp whatsoever, but there are thousands of people who would say that when all Is .said and done it Is action that counts and not belief. The answer to such a contention Is that sound Christian belief which does not result in .sound Christian action is not belief at all. but pretense.

Every act has a motive behind it no matter how deeply this motive jnay be concealed. The sincere Chri.stian lives a life characterized by .sound conduct and helpfulne.ss for others, and he does this largely because he is impelled to do so by certain beliefs which he holds very firmly. Most of these be

liefs have th^ir origin in the Bible, whether the person who holds such beliefs realizes this or not. People are decent honest, generous, and tin.selflsh be rau.se down in their hearts they believe certain things and these beief.<; ra'i.-sp them to bf' die kind of person they are. Tho.se beliefs created family td:*els which the penson of .sound moral conduct ah.sorbed wifhout realizing that he was doing so. The Chri.stian Church has influenced W'orld thought to a degree utterly immeasurable.

Yes, beliefs do matter. may hot always be consclou.s of the" ejftent to which they influence our actions, but they fundamentally Influence our actions neveriheles.s. Behind every act there is a belief and particularly behhid every good act.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Inventory accumulation during the next five months will give the American economy some of the aspects of a boom.

It w'lll tend to provide the increase in business President Kennedy is counting on to provide the taxable profits and income to balance the budget for the fiscal year .starting next July 1.

Curiously, the Inventory accumulation Is being sparked by a threat of a steel strike In midyear. The Kennedy Administration is trying to beat the strike off with jawbone tactics It is po.ssible that both the in-du.stry and the unions, affected b.v patriotic and defensive motives. will work to a moderate settlement.

But manufacturers cant count on that. The safest procedure will be to build up inventories. not only of steel but of things made with .steel. . POWERFUL FA(TOi;

One of the mo.st powerful and often overlooked factors In the trend of thh American economy Is inventory accumulation and

kiquidation. When business is building up inventory, it is buying more than it is using; it is pushing industrial production above normal; more money is going Into Industrial profits and wages than is being taken from u.sers. It is an aitificial boom, all right; it is the same kind of boom produced wheii consumers use credit to spend more than they are making; but it Is a boom.

For comparable reasons, periods of inventoiY liquidation produce slumps. Manufacturers are living off their inventorie.s. Producers of raw materials must cut back, throwing men out of work. Business is taking ,ln less than it spends. It Is the same kind of slump that results when consumers, through fear, charge less than they pay off In credit.

NOT ONLY STEEL

The .steel situation is not* the sole reason for inventory buildup at pre.sent. Among other factors;

All business scents demands for higher pay. .so raw materials of all kinds are being

bought up in fear of eventual higher prices resulting from pay increases.

National defense contracts are multiplying. Companies bidding for them want to have plenty of raw materials on hand.

The commodities market Is showing firmness, suggesting that prices will go up, not down.

Inventory-sales ratios In many lines are low, giving purchasing agents authority to build up inventories when prices are attractive.

As long as Inventory accumulation goes on, the light for the economy Is green for go-ahead. But watch total figures. When, buying slackens, watch out. There are no records of slumps during periods of inventory accumulation; there are no records of booms during periods of liquidation.

Thats blarney, of course. If previous Presidential records are a guide, the Increase will be much greater.

But even If Mr. Kennedy 4s conservative, theres golden opportunity. For at that rate of increase, there will be an average of 503 new jobs a day beginning July 1, 1962. Tell them Elmer sent you.

WANT A GOOD JOB?

.SEE UNCLE SAM President Kennedys budget calls for an Increase of 131.631 employees to nin the government In the next fiscal year as it did in the last.

OLD PROMOTERS INVENTION WOULD KEEP WAITERS AT DISTANCE There was a happy-new-ln-vention gleam in the Old Promoters eyes when he dropped in today. This will make me a million! he said..

Tell! I said.

Its a banquet chatr, he said. The outer edge of the black Is electrically charged. Every time a waiter leans over the back of your chair, crushing you to the table, to fill your plate, he will be shocked into propriety.

It's a good idea and I hope It works, but I hope the waiter Isnt holding a bowl of hot soup when he gets his first 'jolt.

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