Tuesday, March 1, 1966

Not The End, But Beginning Of End

Adoption of a visiting speaker policy by trustees of the University of North Carolina will not put an end to the controversy over the speaker ban law, but we trust it will mark the beginning to the end of the controversy.

The trustees, in our opinion, followed a sound course in adopting the policy and delegating ite enforcement to the chancellors of each of the university campuses.

It is evident that the new policy, which had the unanimous approval of the trustee executive committee, Gov. Moore, and the near-unanimous approval of the 100-member board, is based on broad support. The policy clearly meets the requirements of the amended speaker regulation law, and at the same time it leaves the implementation of the policy clearly within the hands of those responsibile for the operations of the institutions.

Certainly this policy adopted by the University trustees will not immediately end the dispute over this controversial issue. It should, however, provide a period in which the controversy will subside. It will, in our opinion, provide a workable solution to the problem faced by the legislature and by the institutions in higher education with respect to visiting speakers on campuses.

The University trustees have acted positively

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By WILLUM A. SHIRES START Rep. David M. Britt of Fairmont, the man expected to be the next Speaker of the House, wants the 1967 General Assembly to get off to an early start on redrawing the states Congressional districts.

He foresees this task the third redistricting in six yearsas a major concern for the next legislature. And, in effect, Britt probably w il 1 have to quarterback it. As speaker, he will name the House committees.

It isnt going to be easy, Britt says. I would urge that we get to work on it as early as possible.

Of course, Britt is no stranger to difficult assignments. He is a former House Appropriations chairman, co-chairman of the Courts Commission and chairman of the recent Speak-r Ban Study commission.

WILLIAM

HIKES

COMPACT Britt feels eertain, as do other legislative leaders, that the 1967 congressional redistricting will be far more difficult because of a new requirement that, in addition to meeting equal population tests, districts be ^as compact as possible.

Many legislators, in Raleigh for last weekends Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, were chagrined about refusal of a special diree-judge federal court to accept a recent redistricting plan beyond 1967.

They feel a slight population variancethe result of shifting a couple of small counties such as Bladen and Warrenleft the door open for the court to find fault with the overall plan and propound the

new requirement for compactness.

RULING It is recognized that the court was likely to require a smaller population variation ratio in congressional redistricting than in legislative reapportionment.

But most legislators felt the additional variation, only a few percentage points, caused by shifting Bladen and Warren would fall within acceptable limits and would not affect the overall plan.

The court, in ruling on redistricting enacted in a special session in January, held the plan was in v a 1 i d on grounds of both population variance and lack of compactness. It went further and said proper redistricting should disregard whether incumbents are placed in the same district. A basic premise of the January redistricting was that lines be drawn to avoid putting too or more incumbents in the same district.

SHUFFLE - Lt. Gov. Robert W. (Bob) Scott feels the legislature would have enacted an acceptable plan in its recent special session if the court had furnished more specific guidelines.

For example, he says, there was no indication from the court nor in legal research by the Institute of Government that more compact districts would be required. Had these factors been clearly indicated, he says they would have been considered to a greater extent.

Also, Scott says the present situation will make it difficult to maintain political stability within the states congressional districts during the next few years. District lines, changed in 1961, were changed again this year, will be changed in 1967 and must be changed again in 1971.

A candidate this year may be running in an entirely new district two years from now, and in another new district two years later. Scott adds, *T dont see how we can avoid pitting some incumbents against each other.**

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in providing a solution that is acceptable to the administration of the institutions and to the vast majorty of legislative members among the trustees.

Unreasonable Appeal Put Forth In Petition

The petition calling for an immediate change in North Carolina's new congressional districts should be rejected by the federal court.

Little more than a week ago the court ruled titat the states plan for congressional districts wo>uld be allowed to stand for the present provided the 1967 legislature will make changes to bring it into full accord with the courts area and population requirements.

The ruling meant that the spring primaries and fall elections this year could be carried out in the districts as revamped by the special legislative session in January.

Now the court has been asked to throw out these new districts immediately and require changes in the districts before the primaries anci election are held. Ths proposal, in our opinion, is not reasonable.

The court has said the districts are adequate for the moment although they will have to be changed in the future. It should not now overturn its own ruling of a little more than a week ago and order the state again to go through the process of revamping its congressional districts.

Close Vote Has Raised Concern

By WILLUM F. ARBOGAST

WASHINGTON (AP) - A squeaker vote In the House last week has given administration leaders cause for concern over the prospects for pushing costly domestic p r o-grams through Congress this year.

It came on a Republican-backed motion to strike from the Presidents emergency tax bill a provision restoring recent reductions in excise taxes on automobiles and telephone calls. The motion lost by a scant 20 votes out of 394 total votes. The margin of victory for the Presidents forces was 22 votes cast by Republicans a^inst the motion. They were joined by 185 Democrats.

More significant was the fact that 76 Democrats joined 111 Republicans in support of the motion. 'This was one of the largest defections in some time and it came on the first major test vote of 1966 on an administration measure.

What has the Presid e n ts congressional leaders worried is that the tax bill was labeled as a defense measureits purpose was to raise money to help pay for the cost of the war in Viet Nam.

If they can win by only 20 votes on a proposal so closely related to tiie war, some administration leaders are asking themselves, what will happen when the chips are down on a purely domestic proposition?

House Republicans already have served public notice that they will fight all new and costly domestic progr a m s which they consider nonessential, and they expect lots of help from conservativ e Democrats.

So long as the fighting in Viet Nam continues to drain heavily on federal revenues, the Republicans insist, nonessential domestic spending must be held down to prevent inflation.

Most Republicans consider some of the Presidents Great Society programs as strictly nonessential. They apply that label to some of the existing programs and some of the proposed measures.

Republicans hope to make inflation, or the threat of inflation, a major issue in their bid to pick up seats in the congressional elections next November.

If the danger continues, they

iilan to blame the Democrats, f it lessens, they will claim

the credit Perhaps the first real test of the domestic budget cutters' strength will come when the House considers Johnsons request for $30 million for rent subsidies and $13 million to finance the Teachers Corps.

Both projects were authorized last year as Great Society programs, but Congress refused to finance them. A bill to put up the money is before the House Appropriations Committee and will be coming, to the House floor soon. \^at happens to them could be the tip-off to what will happen to some of the more costly measures to follow.

This Date-

40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN

March 1, 1926 Greenville Highs To Stage Game With Washington

The Greenville Highs basketball team will play its last game of the season when they meet the strong Washington team on the local court Wednesday night at 8 oclock.

The game Wednesday night will be the second encounter of the schools this season; the first game being won by Greenville in the Washington Court by a score of 20-13.

\'TCnow, CharKeFor a Friend, Youre an Awful Pain in the Neck

By HAL BOYLE

earned From The Mai..

NEW YORK (AP)-Things a columnist might never know if he diiint open his mail: Mans best friend seems to be slowly being eclipsed in popularity by his own most traditional enemy, the cat. America is reported to have 26 million dogs and 28 million cats, not counting strays.

Things are looking up for the ordinary housewife. She cooks about 1,000 meals a year. That formerly meant 5^ hours

a day in the kitchen; today that figure has been cut to IVi hoursit says here.

It is catching: The U. S. Public Health Service lists cigarette smoking as a communicable disease. Geographical oddity: Alaska claims it is farther north, farther west and farther east thanand other U.S. state. Its brag that it is the farthest east comes from the fact that the Aleutian Islands reach so far

west that they actually enter the Eastern Hemisphere.

Age has one advantage: The medicine you have to take for what ails you doesnt taste as bitter. This is because the 9,000 taste buds you probably had when young gradually decrease as you grow older.

Other Editors Saying

Decisions! Decisions

Where Is Our Queen?

Just two days before the names of the young ladies who are to represent Greenville in the Queens contest at the Eastern Carolina Exposition here must be turned in to the committee and yet no move towards the xelection has been made.

There are a number of beautiful young ladies eligible to be contestants and the city should not wait until the last minute to make is choice. Since there has been no def-nite steps toward the selection of Greenvilles Queens it has been suggested that each of the various civic orginizations and clubs select one contestant, submit the names to a committee made up of one member from each organization and let them select five contestants.

(Clarksville, Tenn., Leaf-Chronicle)

Youve heard, as who hasnt of the guy who was moaning to high heaven because he was stuck with the job of sorting potatoes.

Whats so tough about it? he was asked. AH you have to make up his mind how tatoes into one basket and the little potatoes into anoth e r basket.

It aint the work, he explained. Its the doggoned decision.

This character should have stuck around. Today, he would have to make uo his mind how he felt about such things as: Viet Nam. Should we get out, hang on as is, or give it the old Sunday punch and try to end it fast?

How about draft card burner-uppers and Viet Cong flag wavers? Do we shrugem off as kooks, try to reason with em or putem someplace where they can work it off-like maybe the Army?

Is it O.K. to bury a U. S.

war hero in Arlington National Cemetery even if he ended up a Commie?

Is an alcoholic a sick man, as a federal court has ru 1 ed, or a no - good b u m, as some people think.

Should a high school dropout be drafted into the armed services or be paid by Uncle Sam to go to classes?

What about sexy art? Is a nude lewd? And if you think it is, does that make you a nude prude?

Decisions, decisi o n s, decisions. Big and little, and even the little ones can bug you plenty.

But theres at least one decision that can apparently be made in a split second:

Should a lady whose knees may not bewell, precisely the type used in hosiery ads should she refuse to go along with the high, high hemline?

Are you kidding? You think she wants to look like something out of the ark?

Wouldnt it be wonderful if every decision could be made so easily?

Quotable notables: Results: Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that wont work Thomas A. Edison.

Safety tip; If youre going to walk, dont drink. Everyone knows the danger of driving a car after imbibing, but liquor is a danger to pedestrians, too. A 1964 study in Pennsylvania found that one out of every four pedestrians killed in traffic accidents had been drinking.

Folklore: If the first robin of spring you see is flying up, youll have good luck the rest of the year. A child at maturity will weigh roughly 20 times its weight at birth. To cure a stitch in your side that comes from miming too fast, lift up a stone, spit on it, and put the stone back in place.

History lesson: Thomas Jefferson was the first U.S. president to start the custom of shaking hands with White House visitors. His predeces-(Continued On Page 18)

Soviet

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Fhaws

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1966, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Back in the summer of 1939 a group of writers put their names to an indignant statement that the Soviet Union never, never, never would make a deal with the Nazis. But just as the statement had appeared in a New York liberal weekly the word came from Moscow that Stalin had signed a pact with Hitler. The writers who had signed the statement reacted in various ways. Some of them, angered to the bone, broke forever with the CTommunists; others made excuses that Stalin had had no recourse, since the (lemocracies had let him down. A third group said nothing beyond echoing the French Communist who spoke enigmatically of *'golng through a tunnel.

*1116 writers who had signed the so-called letter of the four hundred fools were professional intellectuals, which may be taken to mean that they were mostiy people who are always too sophisticated to reduce a problem to its elementary terms. Many in this over-subtie group have remained convinced that some day, some how, the writer will be permitted to achieve a glorious freedom under socialism. They still trust in dialectical materialism, b u t they have never simplifi e d their dialectics to the point of asking how you can get materialism on your side as a writer when the State owns all the paper mills, the printing mills, the printing presses and the newspapers and magazines.

Now the over-subtle crew has another dilemma on its hands, nothing so serious as the Naz-Soviet Pact, but some thing that nonetheless strikes home to them as writers. They have heard of the severe sentencing in Moscow of two not-very-political Soviet writers, Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, who have gotten seven and five years of hard labor, respectively, for maligning the Soviet Union in works smuggled abroad under pseudonyms. To their honor, some highly placed Communist authors in the West have vigorously protested what has been done to Sinyavsky and Daniel. Novelist Louis Aragon of France has called for a suspended sentence for the writers, adding that tiie question is not one of talent, but of the right of the novelist and short story writer to live freely. Since Argon is a member of the Central Ck)m-mittce of the French Communist Party, his protest is an obvious proof that th Soviets have misjudged their hold on western sympathizers. When you talk long enough about a thaw you cant reintroduce the ice age overnight.

But what bothers me is that Moscow can always get its western supporters back in line by faking a new thaw. 'The reality is that there has never been any real liberalization of literary production in Moscow. Valery Tarsis, now lecturing in England, was thrown into an insane asylum for differing with Khrushchev. Boris Pasternak was euchered out of accepting the Nobel Prize. And Andrei Sinyavsky, even when the thaw was supposedly reaching a quite liberal climax, never dared offer his fiction for publication inside Russa.

Greenville Country Club plants trees to beautify golf links.

Quickie Cost-Cutting Has Flaws

Strength For Today

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS CONSIDER

We balance a letter in our hand and wonder if we have affixed enough postage. But if we are wise we either weigh the letter on our own scales or take it to the post office. We know it has to be adjusted to a legal standard. We have to check the letter by'the very rules whieh the government makes and from which there is no deviation or turning aside.

Likewise we should weigh our purposes in the balance before we launch them for the into action. When we drop the letter in a slot, that is the end of the matter. It goes on its way either to be passed and delivered or held for extia postage at the end of the journey. And so it is with the many decision we make every day. Seldom do we weigh them

and ask ourselves whether or not they will pass. Impetuously we drop them in the slot.

This is just a^ way, and perhaps a roundabout way, of saying that every one of us needs definitely to consider his policies and actions before it is too late. A man told recently how he had the opportunity many years ago of buying stock in a company that makes what is known as the zipper and he turned it down. Another man shook his head and told his colleagues they were crazy when they wanted him to run for a certain public office, but some undistinguished person did run for it and went to a position of great political significance.

Stop, and take another look. Look, again.

By ELMER ROESSNER New lustre to one of the best ideas in business has been added by the National Industrial Conference Board. In a study in which 204 manufacturers participated, the Board found that quickie cost-cutting programs are seldom satisfactory, and that only programs on a continuing, longterm basis are effective.

I could have told the board about the time, 30 years ago, an order thundered thro^h a great publishing organization demanding that every department cut spending by 10 per cent.

'The head of the shipping department sought my advice. What can I do? he asked. Ninety per cent of all my spending is for postage. F'Call up headquarters and tell them you are sending all mail out with insufficient postage, I ^suggested, and grinned.

TESSIE LOSES HER JOB

When the head shipper had quieted down a few days later, I asked him what he had done. I fired Tessie, he said, referring to a $30-a-week typist, then phoned uptown and said I had cut everything 10 per cent.

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IU>B8ilNER

That, as I could have told the (Conference Board before it spent its money for a survey, is what happens when crash programs to cut expenses are put into effect.

However, it did find that most companies want to cut costs but are uncertain how to do it, and that a majority find that long-range, well-planned

programs pay off.

The Board added: Since employees often fear their jobs may be lost in cost-cutting drives, many companies believe it is important to reassure them on the job security question. Outright firings and layoffs are shunned; necessary reductions are taken care of through normal attrition. Once the job security dilemma is solved, these respondents say they can then make employees aware of keeping costs In line.

Cost reduction takes many forms, ranging from the modernization or rearrangement of equipment to cutting down on the use of company telephones. ,

OTHER WAYS TO SAVE MONEY Here are other cost-cutting ideas: ,

Chop down on memos and information copies of reports. Prentice-Hall has calculated it costs approximately $1.25 to send a carbon copy of a single

page memo to one additional person, counting papes work, handling, routing, delivering, filing and the reading time of the person receiving it.

Shrink time losses in coffee breaks. Even the government is becoming concerned about the drawn-out minutes of coffee breaks. A few minutes a day by a few ten thousand coffee drinkers can equal a lifetime of work lost each week. The government is discouraging mass sweeps Into cafeteria. less dawdllna over coffee and is encouraging sending one person for coffee and more drinking at desks.

Eliminate pennies, especially in internal bookkeeping. This is anfold idea, but still sound because nothing' has been found wrong with it. For internal reports and projec-tions, rounding figures to nearest dollars not only saves time and money in calculating but also makes results easier for executives to assimilate.