Thurtdiy, May 10, 1962 '

Bait Involves Dangerous Precedent

The tanUUzini bait of tax reduction has now There is considerably more to the matter,

been hunir^before Americans as the administration however, that should not escape attention of aver-has formally presented to Congress a bill that age Americans or members of Congress, Should

would give the President power to reduce personal the matter of determining personal income tax

income taxes as an emergency economic measure. rateseven for a brief periodbe taken from the

h or most Americans, plans'^that hold out hope hands of the legislative branch of government and of a poMible reduction in personal income taxes placed in the hands of the executive branch?

irlaori , It i quite possible that economic conditions

i?e 1 kelvTh. ,.w^^ of Congress could arise in which it may be advisable to reduce

that miffht be intirnltfprogram personal income taxes for a brief period in order lo*4r tfxL the '^eters as offering to stimulate the nations economy. If such a situa-

On fVio Kocioif -a. u ^ion should present itself, could not Congress act

tbst ?ho ? li fj With sufficient speed to meet the crisis?

that the President has things going for him as his ta ' "" i- ai. ...

bill is presented to Congress and consideration of it . ? our feeling that Congress could take action

- to meet such an emergency with sufficient speed

to attain the-desired end. It is also our feeling that once the power to grant a reduction of personal income taxes is placed in the hands of the President even on an emergency basis the power to increase personal income taxes may likewise find its way into the hands of the executive rather than the legislative branch of government.

The stand-by emergency power asked by the President is one which, in our opinion, is entirely unnecessary, and one which would set a dangerous precedent for the tax-writing procedure in our federal government. The prospect of receiving a reduction in personal income taxes by executive orler. superficially at least, presents a'^ pretty picture. Viewed in greater depth, however, the proposal that tax authority be placed in the hands of the executive branch, has a darker image.

In spite of the use of such \vorn words as emergency, stand-by and temporary that are attached to the power for which the President is asking, it is our conviction that Conten would choose the wise course if it keeps tax-writing powers in the hands of the legislative branch of government.

^ow Is Not A Minute Too Soon

begins.

Depending On Points Of View

By TED DAVIS

Public Information Officer

Employment Security

Commtskion Guest Writer

employment - stop by any touTi which. has wi * Employment Security Commission office and ask directions of a local citizen. You mean the unemployment office, he say*.

Depends upon .vour point of view. Last year, the ESC placed 149,400 people in non-farm jobs and enough workers to handle over 600.000 seasonal and year round farm placements. Administered as a state agency affiliated with the Federal government, it has more people trying to find jobs for Tar Heel workers than it- has taking claims and certifying unemployment benefit payments. and from Cherokee to Dare counties the program has double the number of job |>-plicants compared to the number of unemployment hisurance claimants.

Fifty-four local ESC offices last year took about 41.000 claims a week from jobless workers eligible to receive unemployment benefit payments which totaled ebout $3.R mHHon each month. Paying for eUgtbie unemploMTient on one hand and flndine jobc with the other mav appear as a comn'te)v contrary purpose, and the rtollarF-tnd eents appeal of receiving mon--ty while temporarily out of work supports the unemployment allegation. '

Yet. the E.SC is the slaves only public emplo'TPent seen-cy. .^ttfmpti g to matph vh''fs available with whos available, the Ccmmiss on's Emplovirent Senice Division offers a multitude of. job placement activiiiet to job seeker and employer like.

This week there are aijout lO.OK job applications on file at ESC local offices. They come from the job seeking public, people entering the labor market for the first time, school graduates and drop-outs, people changing jobs, handicapped workers, veterans, older per-ions and others. Each group has the opportunity to benefit from interview. counseling, testing and placement service After the initial interview a job applicant is classitied; tested, if necessary: and if a job opening exists, referred to an employer. Referrals are possible because the employer has placad a job order with the ESC office complete with worker pecificaiions.

Adminiatered in group ses-iesions, the general aptitude test battery is a popular device. particularly with young people, for it means dexterity and aptitude and indicates an ability to fit into certain professions It i* a favorite with employers, too, because it eliminates certain applicants who do not have the skills or aptitude for the employers job opening. Clerical and tv-ping teals are given at the ESC offices. And some administer vision exaroinations Hundreds of different job clas-iiiications are handled by the Emplo>TTMmt Senice people and they are gratified to see more and more employers placing job orders for professional

workers. Example: Professor, college or university, $7560. Or: Dentist. Raleigh, male or female, to $10.K).

Employers, who directly fi-nance the employment security pi-ogram m North Carolina through payroll taxes, call on the ESC for worker recruitment, screening, labor market analysis, job classification studies and other Industrial services. Industry coming to North Carolina certainly is aware of our states availability of labor long before iV makes its decision to move, build, purchase, or to industrialize within any area of the Tar Heel state, and it gams this mformation through ESC labor market surveys which not only indicate the caliber and source of labor but its prevailing wage.

Formulated by the Comimis-sions research staff, this information enables the state to keep tab on emplojinent and economic conditions in every metropolitan area and many of its ^-30 major urban areas. Thts same information establishes the areas whthin the state eligible for Federal redevelopment assistance under the Are Redevelopment Act. Citizens of town, sections, nr And, if the ESC determines counties request labor surveys, area is aix percent or better of the total avaiuble work force for a .specified length of time, they are subsequently clu.S'.ied by the U S. Department of Labor as areas of substantial vi per.sisteni* un-etnployment. Upon mit.ative of loe.^I groups they may receive Federal assistance under he ARA or preference under the Small Bu4n,ei Act.

A short while ago a manpower survey taken by the ESC through pf - r 1 contact with over 1300 Tar Heel employers found an n r Unp shortage in technical and .skilled w'orkers. and alamring situation for employer.'? and a challenging one for educators. North Carolina c*n answer industry's call for labor in numljers. but possibly it will be hard pressed to answ er its call for skilb?. Eight-thi'ee hundred additional technicians and 31,000 additional skilled persons will be needed by North Carolina industry within the next five years, just a minimum requirement, say the job analysis. The survey is prrser.ily being coordinated as a basis of in.struction for the state's industrial education program.

E.mployers can equest job analysis, job specification, occupational testing, staffing schedules. plant analyais, employee rating system*, and opinion aur-veys through the Employment Security Commission. ^

5ut not enough do.

Matching the employers's job opcnlug with job applicants is often difficult, and since it deals with individual aspirations, sometimes disappointing But through it* employment service tiie state managed to place over 12.00 applicants each month last year. Folks will continue to call the ESC office ,ihe unemployment office. which is probably okay, but it surely is mis-named.

Position Made Clear Without Double-Talk

By PATRICIA MOORE

Grave RobberOperating

North Carolinas doctors have niade no bones There Is a widow here whom about their opposition to the proposal that a medical 5and*^rgraT2 to^ve%rSty care protrram for elderly people tied in with the flower containers, federal Social Security program. At the same time Recently, it seems that some-they have asserted forthrightly that they will con- admires her taste: for the tinue to serve the people of Niirth Carolina regard- c'S

less ot whether the program they oppose is adopted, cidentally the same flower* and Thi.s position taken by the medical organization contained will be s^n

of the state is all that the people of North Carolina culaTcrbenvue^cemetery could ask. As individuals and as a group of pro- This has naturally caused a fe.<?iional men, the doctors have the right and the stressful situation for the wld-vpspon'=ibility to support or oppose any public issue.

They likewise have reaffirmed their intention to

4.U ill ! -i, , ;r . take back something which she

luliill their profes-'^ional responsibility to the people is sure belongs to her; her

they serve regardless of the outcome of this public friends, too, have seen the flor-issue to which thev are opposed. displays, w-hlch disap^ar

1 rr, TT . ... . widows site an(b-then

Certainly most Tar Heels will respect the posi- reappear on another grave in

tion taken by the medical profession of this state. cemetery.

The medical profession is to bg commended for Throughout history, in books

as?ertinsr it.-^ position witlioiit double-talk, both as robbed

to the ((csion of a medical care program under contempt. There i* hardly t de-

Social Security and as to the medical serv'ice it ex- cription sco enough to de-pects to continue to render to all of the residents of the state.

It is a position for which the medical profession owes apologies to no one.

scribe him for tt).

We dont jcnow exactly what law. or what protection, guard* against such thin}*. One would hardly want to swear out a warrant in such a case.

Speaking of graves, some time ago a gentleman was lamenting the fact that family graves and old graveyards are so ill kept: that over the yea^, after the immediate and lovig relatives die. no one Is left with Interest to look after a grave.

So it happens that in the countryside, a family plot is gradually taken over by the land.

In some places, we have been told, the od graveyards of cities have been passed over and upon them new industrial sites and things of the big city age are erectedthe rave sites are gone forever.

There are still those interested in history who urge the care and upkeep of the family cem-

A Headache In One-Man Policy

Other Editors Saying., U. S. Trade Expansion

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Allies;. like a banjo, make good music until a string jxips. The United States, trying to make mu.>ic with it allies, i* having trouble with the strings.

Because so many allied nations follow toward the United States a policy laid down by one man. tl4s country can only hope a change in men won't mean a change in policy.

In West Germany Chancellor Adenauer, very pro-Westem and a firm ally, has just gone out of his way to belittle this country's efforts to reach a Berlin settlement with the Russians.

The State Department fired back with a public sUggestton: Let Adenauer come up with a better idea, if he has one. He was told this country will continue its Berlin talks with Russia.

Diplomat* seem to think this spat will be patched over although there has been American-German fusing for weeks.

The days are growing shorter for the 86-year-old Adenauer. The United Slates can only hope it cant be surethat when he goes hi* successor will want to keep Germany tied as closely to its allies as he has.

France has been a long-time ally, too, but by the time President de Gaulle took over four years ago it had begun to look like organized chaos. De GauUe. like Adenauer, is a pillar of the Western alliance

But he can bq, a sticky one. Like Adenauer, 'he hold* hi* nose oyer American dealings with Russia on Berlin. Months of talks with the Soviets haven't achieved a settlement but at leas, some of the heat has died down.

Tlieres no predicting what happens after De Gaulle, judging from the instability of th* French goveramenU which pre# ceded him. History may show he was just a brief interlude in tumult.

Britain looks like one ally which figures to stand solidly with the United States, no matter who succeeds Rrime Mihls-ter Macmillan But the next prime miiiisler. for reason* per-.sonal or due to cfUinging times, may be more difficult.

Yet the American prablem* with the Western alUe*. painful^ as they are at times and disas-trou.? a.s they could become arc less acute than the dilemmas at the opposite end of U. S efforts to draw a line against comhiunlsm.

This country ha.s had its hand.s-full with the priFWe.'ern but rlghl-Mlng poveremcnt of con seivativa Prince Boun Oum in

Laos in Southeast AsU.

. The Kennedy administration could have thrown American forces into Laos to keep the Communists frorri overrunning the place. But it felt this was the wrong place to risk a wgr.

To keep Laos from being taken over completely by communism. the administration agreed Ur a coalition government made up of conservatives, neutralists and leftist*. This In the end could lead to a Red take-over anj-way.

But the prince wouldn't go along and so far this goveni-ment ha.snt been able to persuade him to, even though as a nudge H has given $3 millien monthly in economic aid to his government. .

In the past few days the Communists began a new offensive.

Right next door In Viet Nam the United States is steadily getting more involved militarily just hoping iT wont lead to war-^in trying to *ave the pro-Western regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem.

Distasteful as he has been to many Vietnameseand ineffec-

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

In speaking of his proposed trade expansion program President Kennedy is in essence asking Congress for more power to reduce and in some cases wipe out tariffs on a reciprocal basis. He concedes a few peo-

ie and a few industries may hurt. But the Chief Executive pledged that no one is going to be sacrlificed to the national interest with a medal and an empty grooery bag.

The trade law. according to Kennedy, will improve U. S. security by building a sufficient surplus of exports over imports with overseas earnhigs the $3 billion a year it now costs to maintain . S. troops abroad.

Tfie way the President paints the picture, more trade will mean more jobs, more national seciudty and a bulwarked foreign policy. The choice confronting the nation in the face' of a progressive, vfgorS^us Europe is to trade or fade.

The argument* are old ones but the phrases Kennedy uses are new. The opportunity, as Kennedy sees it, U there for the U. S. to take advantage of: to spurn timidity and lead the free world into a genuine Atlantic Partnership of expanding, two-way international trade.

What w^e appear to be moving toward is an open partner-

^ ship among all free nations, a

the Communists until the United States pumped in big military supplies and men to help he has kept a .semblance of a government together.

If he goes, internal struggles may turn Viet Nam into shambles.

Even in a neutral country like India the relationship between it and the United States has been guided almost entirely by one man and, as may show when he's gone, depended upon him.

The neutral but Western-educated Prime Minister Nehru has been friendly to the West and not pro-Communist. But

gradual leveling of trade barriers that will draw the entire non-Comriiunlst world together with the strings of economic

self-interest. It is difficult to see how the U. B. can long ignore the trend. Europe has formed economic clubs, member* of which now enjoy trade and commerce with no tariff barriers, ,

Can the U. S. ebpe with thi* and Communlit competition too? It isnt likely. The alternative is membership in the eo-called Atlantic Partnership with other allied nations. It would be based on what already come* close to a trillion-doUar economy. It would produce about 90 percent of the free worlds industrial power and technical skills, plus two of its greatest markets for raw materials.

It could extend these benefits to the continents of Asia, Africa and South America. Where would that leave the Communists and their contrived, planned economy? It would, in fact, pose to the Communist* leadership a direct and abiding challenge.

The U. S., too, must be wlU-tng to buy as well as sell. It must be willing to allow European producers easier access to our market in return for opening the doors In their cmnmtw tariff wall. For example, If American tobacco could enter the formidable Common Market without bothering about a tariff levy, it would mean tremendous new marketa for Eaat-ern North Carolina farmers. That is one example how the new trade expansion program w'ould work to our bieflt.

etery plot, which may one day be a source of historyalready they have been in many instances for the present day.

But, who knows where the modern and the next modem age will take the cemeteries?

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE BURNING BUSH

The story of Moses hearing the v(rfce of God speaking to him out of the burning bush is familiar to every Bible reader. And Moses ^d, I will now turn aside anif see this great sight why the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush and said. Moses, Moses, and he said. Here am I. (EX. 3:3-4).

It was when Moses turned aside to see that God spoke to him. Moses might have watched this Phenomenon from afar hesitating to approach through fear or perhaps being too/indifferent to approach. But he turned aside tb see, and when he turned aside, God spoke to him.

There are burning bushes lining your pathway and mine. If we pass them by, they have no mess^e for us. If we turn aside to see, God speaks to us out of these things.

To be specific there may be circumstances in home, office, school, aflame with a message from God. Disappointment and frustration are often Gods beacons. Opportunity for advancement In the world is sometimes the means by which Gpd speaks to us. Social opportunities we should embrace and others we should shun frequently have within them messages from the heart of God himself.

Watch out for the burning bushes along the pathway of your life. God will apeak If you turn aside to see.

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North Carolinas 1,118,021 Negroes have an average per capita Income of only about $840 a year, comEwred to an . average of about $3,300 for white people. As long as this great proportion of its ^ople remain untrained and unskilled, North Carolina will remain close to the bottom of the economic barrel where it now languishes.Greensboro Daily News.

Money

W* '

Needs

Sanity

By GEORGE E. fiOKOLSKT Copyright. 1962, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

The near panic in the stock market last week, when stock prices tumbled, was a response to the normal sensitivity of money to safety.

When a stock sells for 20 or 100 times its earnings, it pursues a popular but fallacious course. No mathematical knowledge or business sense Justifies such Inflation of values, but justification Isnot convincing anyhow. Many calculators (my friendly term for a speculator) but not with their brains, although they can show myriads of work papers to make a point. They buy emotionally. They buy not because they know but because they believe, they have faith. Usually it amounts to someone saying that it is so

and the someone might be

9 banker, a broker, an office-boy, a columnist or the cigarette girl in a night club.

Money runs where it can make a profit and runs away from where It fears a lose. When big name stocks tumble, nobody ever says that they should tumble because their prices are too high, but rather that cmifidence is lost In the government, the economy, big business, labor unions or somebodys mistress. The reasons are generally illogical but then all emotion is illogical: otherwise we would call It reason.

The steel situation triggered a fear among businessmen that it Is the Intention of the President and his brother, the Attorney Gcnerel, to destroy Big Business. There is no substance to such an assumption because no nation. In the midst of its most serious war, presently called the Cold War, destroys its agencies of production and distribution. If President Kennedy revives the techniques of President Theodore Roosevelt in handling management-labor problems, he Is not destroying business ho taught it a lesson in self-discipline which it occasionally needs to learn if it is to survive.

Each man has to use his own' methods to attract public attention to a correctable error. The decision is made by the public, not by officials of government or by businessmen. The decision is an imponderable; it may go the other way nevertheless public opinion must and does prevail.'

The fact that President Kennedy gave the United States Steel Corporation the back of W* hand, as the Irish say, does not mean that he hates the agencies of production and distribution. It merely means that he tells the public that the boy* are running wild and need pulling in. He pulled them In.

Businessmen are looking for a scapegoat. They go about saying that it is all the fault of th Attorney Generar, Bobby Kenneely; that he is extraordinarily brilliant and that he manipulates their destruction.

Stuff and nonsense about manipulations! Bobby is a law enforcement officer. If the businessmen and their lawyers are sure that they have done nothing wrong under the law, they have nothing to fear. Admittedly some laws are obsolescenft and require restudy and revision. For Instance, In .competition with Europeans, Japanese and even Canadian cartels, the American compwiy find* itself handicapped. Even more, competitive bidding is often uneconomical. Labor costs are Iden-tleal; the cost of raw material is identical; taxes are the same; distribution costs are the same; Prices will be the same. Therefore it is unsound for accountants to work out unrealistic bids to prove that there has been no meeting of the mteda in restraint of trade a* defined by the Sherman Anti-Truit Law (passed in 1890) and subsequently Interpreted by the courts and Implemented by additional legislation. In I962,^thla la unrealisUc; nevertheless it is a law and the Attorney General ia there to enforce the law. Furthermore, most complainu with regard to this law are made by businessmen who want to gore their competitor's ox, as the saying goes.

The Administration is obviously not for or againt Big Business per se. It is for a stable dollar and a progressive economy. Money can be controlled; in a free society, it is difficult to cimtrol men. Therefore, (Continued on Page 6)

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Make

Suckers

Of Businessmen

By ELMER ROESSNER

Phonemen are making suckers of businessmen; in fact, they are a big business In themselves. the St. Louis Better Business Bureau reports in a bulletin to members.

Phonemen are boiler-room

Lidia, with the worlds second , solicitors. A boiler room Is a largest population, has explosive forces bottled up under Nehru.

After him an explosion, shattering to the West, would be no surprise. Thus all around the world American strings are attached to one man here, another there. When these strings pop, there may be no replacements,

room in which skilled men and women telephone suckers seeking contributions to pseudo charities, or advertising in shady publications. Boiler rooms are also us^d to peddle phony stocks, shares and get rich gimmicks.

The St. Louis BBB reproduced ten ads from Amusement

The other ads mentioned other organizations, presumably those whose names were to be used in seeking contributions. Among them were a fire department, a fraterna]^ order of police, a Shrine clrcusl the K. of C. and labor organizations. Other ads also mentioned taps. banners and police deal,

Some mentioned phonemen the advertisers wanted to reach: Ray, X, Ray Y, Bill Z, Ralph and B1, Eddie K, Marshall. Neil and Doris A.

Phone solicitors in boiler, rooms cant operate .unless bus-

Busin^ Magazine, publish^} inessnicn ire willing to be su<^

Kxr T2II1Ke%fit*H TShiKlicKinex as*c frtn cheslllncr /\iif Tv\swaa.

If you oppose everjthing that is being done, sooner 'or later something will flop, and you will have- the opportunity

wgekiy by Billboard Publishing. Nine were for phonemen. the tenth for girls.

A tjiiical add:

PHONEMEN UPC and BOOK Senior Chamber of

Com-

to Say I told you so. And -merce. VFW and Lion*. Paid

be sure to say it, because that will be a complete* record of yotir iarecr.~Al3u::a Advauca.,

daily. Paid collector. Year rond,.ivoKk. (No collect calls.) Phone XX-XXXX, St. Louis.

y

ers for them, shelling out money for pseudo charities or costr ly sptmsored events cm the basis of the crocodile tears and sob stories of the professionals sought in these ads. ,In fact, phonemen cant even tart unless' seme established group makes a deal wjth them to siphon funds away from the true needy and the recognized agencies whose job it ia to look aft-, er them," the B6B aaid.

The BBB offer* a glossary of terms used in the ads;

UPC: Under-privileged children. unfailing sucker bait.

BOOK; Program book of dubious circulation in which businessmen are invited to advertise. CompUments of a Jriend ads are a happy tool of the promoter for they are anonymous and the space can be sold over and over.

TAPS; Proven suckers frm other deals listed cm cards.

BANNERS; Posters draped around a circus ring with suckers advertisement smeared on as a good wi|l gesture.

POLICE DEAL: Some rural police departibante lend their names to promoter* * who give the suckers courteey cards with the hint that they can get special privileges in case of arrest.

The tenth ed:

GIRLB NEEDED

Girls with or Withffllt ward-t. robe. Good pay; long season. Need roughles, also good Can-vasmen snd Talkers. Would like

anil Ted especially, call me. Have 2 shows booked and 3 open. Nicest equipment on the road. Phone XX-XXXX

Buzy Miller

The St. Louis BBB confessed it cant translate girls with or without wardrobe.

hear from Yirgil and Bob, price salesl

HOLDS PRICE UNIMPORTANT IN SELLING CONSUMERS

Price is seldom the primary motivating factor In a consunv-er purchase, Judson 8. Sayre, Norge board chalrmwi, told a businessmens convention in Chicago.

Confidence in the maker, style and quality, and performance and service all precede Price,* he declared, The act of buying in itself is usually sheer enj(^cnt. In aimp|y acquiring things, especially those things with give pleasure and comfort to %ir families, the buyar gains a aenae of personal fulfUlment.v

Juat think of the billions of man hours waked holding cut-\.