Monday, May 28, 1962

Food Tax Question Didnt Figure

But, Oh That Fertilizer Smell

With fhe Democratic primary in North Caro- Wy. ...

lina now a inatter of record^it appears evident that . Republicans in North Carolina have asserted the campaiim for legislative se^ts did not hinge on they jntend to make the issue one of the keys in ihvi

the food tax question as many people had earlier general election campaigns between now and predicted. ' ' November. Bat in this connection the question will

Of the 11 incumbents defeated in their bid fof become a partisan issue which must be regarded

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re-election t^he House in their respective counties, as different from its becoming the focal point of a aix cither opposed the food tax directly in the last family fight within the Democratic party. In scatter-

session of the General Assembly or Offered alter- ed counties throughout the state where there will nate Ux proposals. The other five were regarded be run-offs for party nominations for legislative as favoring the sales tax on food which was usad posts, the issue could yet emerge as a principal facto finance the states quality education program, tor. Up to this point, however, it has not proved to Prior to the legislative campaigns there had be an effective wedge for prying incumbents from been wide speculation throughout the state that the the seats they held in the 1961 General Assembly, matter of sales tax on food would develop as the On thl^'basis of Saturdays resultsdn the Demo-deciding issue throughout the Mate. As the legisla- cratic primary, one must coiiclude there will be no campaigns developed across North Carolina, the major effort in the 1963 legislative session to repeal food tax issue failed to emerge as the dominant the sales tax on food or to sidetrack the program question debated by candidates. The election results of improving the quality of the states public schools. Saturday failed to reflect any ground swell of vot;-r At least indirectly in Saturdays Democratic reaction against legislators who had given support primary the voters of the state appeared to give to the sales tax on food in the 1961 Gei*iral Assem- their continued approval to both programs.

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By PHTl. F.M.IS.

Executive Director N. C. Traffic Safety Council Guest Columnist In tribal societies a not uncommon threat to life is the man-eating lion or tiger. These sick or wounded beasts, no longer able to prey upon quick-footed animals, enter \111ages to carry off livestock and sometimes even members of the tribe.

When the cry Man-eater!" goes out. it becomes the duty of all able-bodied men of the community to organize a hunt. They give up their other pur-, suits until the marauder Is killed and the threat to the tribe Is eliminated.

Tonight In North Carolina another killer stalks our by-ways. It takes a human life every seven hours and injures a citizen of our state every 15 minutes.

Strangely enough, the societywhile organised against it has yet to control decisively the devastation.

A modem society supports the necessary manpower to cope with its enemies. Civilized men pay taxes to support armies and police, rather than having to drop their own pursuits when danger appears.

Our problem Is that in spite of the present efforts of our public officials, we are still killing more than 1200 persons and Injuring 34,000 every year on our highways.

There Is a temptation to believe that nothing more ca be donethat after all. we cannot realistically hope to reduce further the number of traffic accidents, To quote a misguided phrase: Accidents will happen."

Unfortunately, the killer is not so easy to identify as the lurking tiger or lion sought by the tribesmen. On our highways he takes the form of speed, alcohol, fatigue, mechanical defect, engineering fault, ignorance. anxiety and all the other factors which lead to more than 60,000 accidents a year in North Carolina.

This Is not to say that the killer cannot be found. He is being described by statistics every day. Constantly we are getting to know him better.

The fact is that there is much more that can be done to prevent traffic accidents, much that will be ^successful in our state because it has worked elsewhere.

For the first time in North Carolina, an all-out coordinated attack on the killer is being mounted. All state agency chiefs who have direct traffic safety re.sponsibUlties are analyzing the traffic accident problem and recommending ways in which officials can do a more thorough job. Their recommendations will be called the Offi

cial Traffic Safety Action Program.* Parts of that program will involve simple administrative action; other parts will involve action on the part of the General Assembly to provide more tools and resources; and still other parts will involve direct votes of the people.

There is a further need. Members of the tribal society were quick to recognize the danger posed by the man-eating tiger. When the call went out, their decision to act w-as a simple , and vital question of life or death.

Today the decision is still a life and death choice, but it is obscured by many complications. In a democracy we receive only the governmental services and action that we demand. Our population has not yet recognized the vital significance of the traffic accident problems. Our public officials can reduce accidents through coordinated programs of engineering, enforcement and education. But if citizens have neither the desire nor the energy to support the aims and needs of public officials, we cannot expect to see the death and Injury toll reduced.

So the cry Man-eater! is going out again. In our sophLs-ticated society the term is citizen support.

While North Carolina officials analjTie the problem and determine the ways to solution, private citizens'need to be organizing the citizen support ncces-.sary to obtam the vital looLs of battle.

Citizen support for official action is the primary job of the N. C. Traffic Safety Council. Inc. Only through public understanding of action by officials can this action be successful.

WTiat can the individual citizen do to help? Heres a starter;

1 > Be informed. Notice carefully news stories in which officials describe the way they are coping with traffic accidents. Pay special attention to news stories and advertisements which tell of North Carolina's Official Traffic Safety Action Program. Seek more information from the agencies involved.

2> Support the Action Program. When portions of the Ac-tion Program are announced.

? talk about the measures w-ith your friends; demonstrate that you are in favor of them.

3> Enlist your organizations. Encourage civic clubs to which you belong to take an active role in safety affairs o the community and state. Join forces with others to form a citl-^zens safety oi'ganization in your town. The Traffic Safety Council will help.

These steps are a far cry from the tribesman who drops his plow to grab his spear. But the modern nian faces a far more deadly enemy than any beast which inhabits a jungle.

East Carolina Colleges increasing* importance to higher education in North Carolina was again attested to yesterday when the college awarded more than 1,000 degrees to its graduating class.

Although it is sometimes erroneously regarded as a small school in some parts of the .state, it plays no small role in providing higher education for the young people of North Carolina Neithe-does it play a small role in public education in the state, for without the qualified teacher.s graduating at. Ea,st Carolina each year, North Carolina would find itself considerably more hard pressed to fill gy GEORGE SOKOLSKY the teaching'positions in its public schools.

The number of graduates at the college yesterday^ almost equalled the total ^number of students enrolled in the college slightly, more than a decade and a half ago. During the interv^ening years East Carolina has become generally recognized as one of the nlajor institutions of higher education in North Carolina and indeed in this section of the

country. With each passing year it is called on to when I go to the operaVi often

play an even more important part in the field of 5,^^ A

higher education in North Carolina.

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Copyright. 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.^ Satiuday afternoons.

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and child that such an experience as Dr. Damon deals with is. Indeed, an eye-opener to those of us, in this countrj', who take all our benefits for granted.

With the continued support of citizens throughout the state vVho recognize its importanceplus

with a group that includes one of the worlds greatest authorities about women. He is Dr. Virgil G. Damon, who says in 'Look magazine;

"After knowing some 40,000 to .50,000 women, I can say that

Dr. Damon has this to say about the present:

the addition of 1,000 new alumni who received degrees yesterday^East Carolina College will be in a position to continue to forge ahead to provide greater service to North Carolina and its people.

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respect and admiration than the men they loved.

It is something of a chore for a man to know one woman in all her changeabilities, but to have ministered to 40,000 or 50,-000 of them and to survive to write about It, is an acliieve-ment of which few men can boast,

Dr. Damon's specialty, gynecology, is one of the most intimate of all'medical relations.

The death Saturday of Sheriff Ruel W. Tyson brought to an end the career of a dedicated and conscientious public servant of the people of Pitt Fe"w women bearchildrem'cer-County. tainly their first child, without

For ^almost 1!) year. Sheriff T.v.om had held the top law entoicement post of the county, and strong that women come back

during that period has effected numerous improve- that task, time after time,

ments to provide better law enforcement and Chiding in it the greatest joy

an unusual understanding of human problems. He served well his fellow citizens in an important public post.

A young woman doctor recently spoke out at a medical meeting against what she called the old-fashioned horse-and-huggy practice of house calls. She described them as inefficient, time-consuming and uneconomical. All of what she says is tme. No doctor likes making house calls today, especially in big cities, where distances are great. You never can find a place to park your car. and the call on the sick patient invariably entangles you in the time-consuming process of refusing hospitality from the family without being rude. What might have been taken care of in an office in 15 minutes often stretches to two or three hours on a house call.

I saw a story on TV recently in the series The Defenders, which, I see, won an Emmy. This had to do with a child run over by an automobile driven by a drunken girl. The childs parents would not permit an operation or a blood tran.sfusion and the child died. They said that it w'as against their religion. I know the value of blood transfusions from having had several, and I know that just as one calls in an architect to help build a house, or an electrician to put in proper wiring, so Ls it necessary to have a physician care for the human body, for the thousands of parts, for all the chemicals that move about In us. Without proper care, we might, particularly when one,has passed the middle years, find ourselves in veiT grave difficulties.

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that a human female can discover upon this Eartfi.

It is true that more primitive w^omen are reputed to go behind a haystack, bear their child and go back to work, but also large numbers of such women die of child-birth. And many children are bom dead too. We have made such enormous progress in safeguarding both mother

"No doctor can charge enough to make such calls pay. But I still think they are worthwhile. I grant you that there are selfish people who use a doctor, who have him come to them W'hen'they arent feally very sick and could just as well have come into the office. But you cant make hard and fast mles when you are dealing with suffering human beings. There is a place for healing through compa.ssion; the old laying on of hahds still holds true.

Dr. Damon Is not too strong for group medicine, which is becoming increasingly fashionable to keep prices down. He says;

"I cant believe it is in a patients best interests to share her pregnancy with four doctors. perhaps grow closer to one than the rest and then suddenly have another doctor there W'hea the baby Is being born. Nor do I believe that a doctor is doing himself a service when he considers his owm comfort ahead of his patients welfare. \

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By RALPH ROBEY'

One of our good lawyer friends has given us a copy of the fall issue of the Federal Bar Journal. This is a quarterly publication and this one is devoted to what is termed Legal Aspects of Economic Development. But it is more than just the legal aspects. It covers most of the major ways by which the federal government has attempted to influence the business trend over the past several decades.

Specifically this issue of the Journal opens with a brief forward by the President of the Federal Bar Association and an introduction by Geoi*ge W. Ball, Under Secretary of State. Then follow articles in this order:

The Role of Government in Economic Development, by Leroy S. Wehrle, Staff Economist, Council of Economic Xd-vL'iers.

Tax Policy and Economic Development." by Walter A. Slowinski, now- a member of a Washington law firm, but formerly employed by government.

"Federal Aid In the Development of Agriculture," by Claude T. Coffman. A.ssl.stant to thp Deput'- General Coun.'^el, U, S. Department of Agriculture

"U. S. Export and Import Programs. by Eugene M. Brad-erman. Director, Office of International Elconomic Programs, Department of Commerce.

"Financial A.ssi.s*ance to Business Enterpri-ses.' by Eleanor J. Stock well. PJco'iomist. Capital Markets Section. Division of Re.rearcn and Statistics. Federal Reserve System.

."Some Structural Features of U. S. Housing and Home Finance by Robert C. Colwell. Economc Adviser to the Urban Renewal AdminLstratinn. Housing and Home Finance Agency.

Generation and DLspasition of Electrlr Pow-er by tb^ porteril Government. bv Charles A Robinson. Jrt. Staff Engineer and Staff Counsel of* the National Rural Electric Coopera-U.c Acreca tion.

We, along with eicryonc else who foUows cerrent develop menta, have long known that_ the federal government w a.'* 'de voting a major portion of its efforts to affecting various aspects of business. But this Joui -nal dlscussicm drove the point home harder than anytime cHe wc have and bear in mind that it does not include an analysis of the. regulatory agencies the Federal Trade Commus-sion. Interstate Commerce Com

mission. Securities and Exchange Commission, and so forth.

In each of the articles, too. the record of gopernment participation is sympathetically appraised.' This is not surprising because each of the authors is. or has been, a government employee, and each has been more or less intimately involved in the activity he discusses.

But the important aspect of this series of articles is that at no point is there any evidence of contraction of govemmental activity. There is not even any inclination in this direction. Starting, say, sometime in the 1920s the federal government became convinced that it had a duty and a responsibility to use its power and authority to influence the business trend, and this conviction has been growing ever since.

To a major extent this growth has been the result of changes in the world situation and our relation to it. To some extent aLso the growth must be credited to the increasing complexity of our economic system. And to some extent the growth is iperely the result of government employees reaching for more and more power.

But at the moment there are no gi-ounds for optimism on changing the course of goveni-nient interference in our busi-he.ss system. In our judgment this Is unfortunate, liut as one who aitempts to be realistic in his apprai.sal of current trends we are convinced that the nation will see more, rather than less, goieniment interference in coming mouths and years.

Other Editors Saying. Delays Labor Decision

To have served so many women must give a man an extraordinary opportunity to discover the nature of women. I fear Damon is too scientific^; to generalize. He dodges the issue by saying that he is not a psy-^biatrisi.. But then, they, the head-shrinkers, only catch wo-mcn on Uie rebound from experience.

By ROGER BABSON BABSON PARK. Mass..-A recent weekly column of mine has created considerable criticism. My point was that both speculating and placing funds for safety and Income can make big money.** What I stressed was the danger of attempting to mix the two forms of Investment.**

WHAT IS GAMBLING?

I am not referring to horse or dog racingnot to betting* of any kind; but rather to buying into new Ideas, new dlscov-eries, and new scientific developments. In short, I would think that 80 percent of your stockholdings might be In dividend-paying Issues quoted In your daily paper; and 20 percent In companies woiiclng on new sci-^ entlfic developments.

To make big money* you should* subscribe to such magazines as Scientific American* or my own favorite the Technology Review put out by Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Cambridge. Mass. There are colymns cri-tltled Trend of Affairs whichv are especially helpful to a layman. I repeat, big money* comes from gambling; and successful gambling comes from successful forecasting.

YVHAT ABOUT DRUG STOCKS?

The best way Is to make friends of scientists and chemists and share your profit with them. They know about the wonderful new discoveries on the horizonsuch as light rays fuel cellsharnessing gravity and bacteria. Invite such professors for lunch; beware of timid brokers and bankers who are always advising caution.

Successful drug companlea are the big gamblers. Therefore you can Invest In these companies and let them gamble for you! They are now all w'atching for a cancer cure. Some one of them will find the vaccine to prevent the common cold, another will discover the bacteria which will help young people mentally. What has been done for smallpox, diphtheria, and polio, can be done for almost everything e^e.

Just look back a few sHort years and see what has already been accomplished. Over two-thirds of the prescriptions which you and your neighbors take to the druggist this year wiU be for drugs and antibiotics that were not even in existence at the end of World,. War U. But what I want to shout about is tomorrow. The ethical drug industry last year spent over $214 million for research; that was four times larger than just 10 short years ago; and the amount spht annaally by the dreg companies has doubled since 1956. Tomorrows big profit killings lie hidden in this mass of research!

DONT SELECT ANY ONE DRUG COMPANY To my knowledge there are a dozen or more companies who are gambling the above large sums on research. Let me mention these: Abbott Laboratories, Lilly (EH) Company, Pfizer (Chas.) & Co., Parke Davis & Co., Lederle (Division of American Cyarlamld), E. H. Squibb (Division of Olin Math-ieson). Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, Inc., Searle (G.

D.) & Co., Schering Corp., Rl-chardson-Merrell Inc.. Merck &

Co., Inc., and Sharpe & Dohme.

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(Kinston Free Press)

Federal Judge John D. Larkins Jr., has signed an order permitting the transfer of a suit to prevent removal of the Evans Manufacturing Company from Grifton to Pennsylvania to the U. S. Eastern District Court in Pennsylvania. This means a very vital decision, which is of interest and concern not only to North Carolmian.s but to the whole Nation, will be delayed again.

The cise had been under study by the Eastern District Court at New Bern for several weeks. The issue at stake is whether a union can force a manufacturing plant to establish a union shop against the workers will. At Grifton the employees rejected in a regular vote a proposal to organize a union local of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

When the Evans Company came from Pennsylvania to es

tablish the operation at Grifton, the ILGWU contends a union shop was to have been established. The workers in the suit not pending have secured a temporary injunction against the Evans Company and the ILGWLT to prevent a transfer of the operations back to Pennsylvania.

It Is evident that Judge Larkins felt that some aspects of the case should at least be reviewed by the Pennsylvania District Court. It is an issue which North Carolinians would have welcomed a niling on here so the matter could reach higher tribunals for review earlier. As it now stands it may be months or even years before the verdict will be clear.

The only gain from this delay is the continued operation of the Grifton plant during the interim. W trust this will not be affected by anything other than supply and demand until the whole issue can be cleared up.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS (iODS USE OF WE.YKNESS AND FRAILTY

There is a famous picture entitled. "Plight into Egypt. It shows Joseph leading a little donkey upon which is seated the Virgin and the Babe. The scene Is laid in the desert, with the sphinx and the pyramids constituting the background. Below the title of the picture are the two significant Latin words, Anno Domini" "In the Year of Our Lord.

These two Latin words signify that one sees depicted on this canvas the beginning of a new era in human history. In the .vear that the flight into Egypt occurred, the worlds attention was centered on the grandeur of imperial Rome, and people were eagerly discussing

world policies of the Roman Empire. But in Gods sigjit, these things were as-dead leaves falling from the trees in ac-tumn. The significant thing was that a Babe had been born into the world, of a humble virgin, and from his birth human history was to re-date its events.

In 1809 the whole world was talking about Napoleon and his poUcies, but the birth of three babies in that year Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwon, and Felix Mendelssohn was to mean more to the nineteenth* century than anything Napoleoti thought or did.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

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By ELMER ROESS.VER

A lltLle-noticed pha.se of the Billie Sol Estes case is that the los.ses eventually will be borne, not by the finance companies he gulled, but by the We.st Texa.s farmers who pretended to buy the non-exi.stent fertilizer tanks he mortgaged.

It ,,rui ..sible that a series of suits will demand that the ia liners make-up the losses, and, tailing that, surrender their farms to agents of the fi'^ance companies.

When that seems probable there will be a .surge of indignation in West Texas and the farmers who are now glibly praising E.stes as a boy w h o didnt do much wrong will be wrathful in demanding action aoaiii.st him. lion FARMER.S IMTK fPiTI.D

The basic Estes deal w a s this: He approaclied farmer; and invited them to order tank.s, signing notes to pay for thofti Then lie leased the tanks from the buyers, paying rental that would cover the farmers' instai ment and giving the farmer a premium.

The.se premiums were reported to be about 10 per cent of the deal. One fanner bought >l(M),0(X worth of the none.xistent tanks and got a $10,000 bonus, Another .signed up for $.500,(KH) and uot a $50.000 bonus.

E.stes then took the famiers orders to finance companies and sold thpir promissories. He Is lielieved to have used the resulting cash, running into millions, for building and buying grain storage facilities, hoping that profits from government contracts 'vonld nprmit him to pay everybody off.

The .soi set on the Estes empire when the finance companies discovered that most of the tanks did not exist.

WHO PAYS WHO.M?

At first, blush, it seemed as if the finance companies were holding tlie. bag. In fact, stock pricOvS of some plummeted.

But now lawyens are thinking

.sonally responsible for the rest of the payments.

There may be escapes. The farmers may show that the finance companies W'ere negligent in checking on the exilltence of the tanks and hence partly responsible. Texas law leans heavily on the side of the farmer an(j the laborer.

Blit in the end, some of the big finance companies may find themselves raising cotton along the Pecos a future their charters did not contemplate.

LABOR DEPARTMENT NOT HOLDING LINE ON NURSEvS PAY

Efforts of the White House to stabilize wages are being tor-ppdord by the AFL-CIO and Mr, Kennedys own Department of Laboi.

With 10-ouuce gloves, labor

has neatly buffeted the Presi-that the farnicr.s/may be the' dent into a neutral corner while eventual loser.?, their promis it ignores his pleas for moder-

sorics wero secured by imagi nary tanks, if it can i>e shown that they did not have positive knowledge of the existence of thos? tanks, they may be per-

ation and pureues a campaign for a 35-hour week with no cut in takc-home pay.

Meanwhile, Assistant Secretary of Labor Esther Peterson

has tried to stir up the American Nurses Association to demand better w^ages and working condition. i

If you can nmke wages and working conditions competitive if we all work at raising the economic standards of nursingyou will be able to attract additional women needed by your profession, she said.

All of us who have left our appendices on the cutting room floor know that nurses should te offered higher pay. If rages were better the abilities of the nurses might be better, too.

But if hospitals are going to compete with corporation presidents for the smartest young women, then the competition Mrs. Peterson refers to wiU become real. As nursing pay rises, so will secretarial pay, so will' production line wages.

Mrs. Peterson does n(rt seem to understand that a rise In pay levels almost any place in the economy, whether of nurses or of executive vice presidents, affects every other pay level. No one, except a few astronauts occasionally, live In a vacuum today.