Thurtday, March 17, I960

The Non-Essentials Must Give Way

Now that Congress^as enacted what it chooses to call a war tax for the purpose of supporting increased military action in Viet Nam, it should just as swiftly and vigorously move to reduce unnecessary federal spending in other areas of government operation.

The so-called war tax will take some $6 billion out of the pockets of taxpayers during the next 15 months. A portion of this amount will be represented in excise taxes that have been restored after being lowered just last January. The remainder will be in the form of a speed-up in the collection of personal and corporate income taxes.

While the military action in Viet Nam is given as the reason for the new tax, new domestic pro-

Overlooked By Busy Candidate

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

REPORTS It isnt surprising that Rep. Walter Jones overlooked filing a final campaign expense report after his recent election to Congress and that Secretary of State Thad Eure was understanding about it.

When Eure discovered that the final report, required by law, was missing he sent Jones a reminder by mail.

Jones wife, Dot, who does her husbands secretarial chores and pape rwork, quickly submitted the report with apologies.

Actually, says Eure, its iomewhat unusual for Democratic congressional candidates even those for governorto have to file final expense reports for general election camp a i g n s. Normally, these nominees are included In an ove rail, coordinat e d campaign effort by the State Democratic party and neces-ary reports are filed by the State Democratic headquart-n.

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UNUSUAL IPs even more unusual for any single candidate to be required to file as many campaign expense reports as Jones will have to submit during a 12 months period.

Jones apparently will have to file at least six, possibly as many as eight, of these reports required under the Corrupt Practices act. And this does not include the required federal reports by candidates for Congress.

First, when Jones ran in the special primary last winter for nomination for the seat of the late Rep. Herbert Bonner he was required to file both preprimary and post-primary reports.

Then there was a special election in which Jones defeated Republican nominee John East for the interim term. Again, a pre-election and a post - election report had to be filed. It was this last one ttiat Jones overlooked during the crush of getting settled in Washington.

Now hes back on the campaign trail. As a candidate for nomination for the regular two year term, hell have to file pre-primary and post primary reports. If nominated, he may have to file two more reports next Fall.

DISTRICT Eure, a First Districter himself who keeps in close touch with First District politics, says I know this must be a very busy time for Walter.

He has a great deal to do, and I dont envy. I know hes running from pillar to post.

For one thing, since Jones campaign for the interim term less than three months ago four new counties have been added to the sprawling First Districtalready the states largest geographically.

Just look at the varied interest, Eure says. Theres the long coast line, the seashore interests, fisheries, the Coast Guard, maritime matters, and move on inland, and theres peanuts and phosphate and pulpwood and tobacco, just to mention a few. Also, the new counties have been added. Anyone in that District has his hands full.

PERIMETER - Eure has done some figurative calculations on just how big the First District really is.

Straighten out the perimeter into a long line, he says. Then tie one end of it around the Cape Halteras lighthouse. You can stob the other end down at Hiwassee dam on the Georgia - Tennessee line beyond Murphy.

WATCHSecretary of State Eure, veteran Democratic party wheelhouse and oldest member of the Council of State in point of service, always perks up his ears at filing time for election year primaries.

He assumes the role of a state Democratic party watchdog and growls warning against letting any seat, local, legislative, state or district go to the Reoublicans by default.

I dont like to see it, says Eure. Theres no reason for it. The Democratic party ought to offer candidates for every seat thats at stake, regardless. Who knows, lightning might strike.

On the eve of the Spring primary filing deadline, Eure predicted the Democrats would offer a full slate of 1966 candidates. And, he said, there will be some surprises.

grams enacted by Congress in the past year are costing considerably more than the new tax levy will bring into federal coffers. Were it not for what is being spent on those programssome of which is not necessary in any sensethe new tax increase would not be necessary for support of the fighting in Viet Nam.

Congress and the administration have chosen for obvious reasons to call the new tax a war tax. Politically it probably is wise to do so. From a realistic standpoint, however, the new tax bill that was passed by Congress and signed by the President this week could more accurately be called a Great Society tax.

A Closed Issue, Lets Get On With Progress

Those who are interested in the progress of higher education and the forward movement of the state to greater accomplishment should heed the assertion by Gov. Moore that the speaker ban controversy is a dead issue.

The matter of regulating speakers on campuses of state-supported educational institutions has now been placed in the hands of trustees and administrators of the respective institutions where it should be. The trustees and administrators in the brief period since the legislature clarified this authority, have shown the responsibility was well placed by the recent amendment of the speaker ban law.

The sooner North Carolina can put this bitter controversy behind it and turn its full attention to more pressing problems in the field of higher education, the better off the state and its people will be. There is nothing to be gained by continuing to debate this matter which the legislature settled in a special session. There is nothing constructive to be gained by continuing to use the closed issue as an emotional rallying point for those who would direct criticism at any one institution or higher education in general in North Carolina.

Gov. Moore was correct in declaring the speaker ban controversy a closed issue and the people of the state would be wise in seeing that it remains a closed issue.

Bed China Sees Change In Age

By ART BUCHWALD

Hes No Lonaer In Love

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) -The Red Chinese leadership, old now and inflexibly set in its ways, makes noises like a revolutionary force but has become a reactionary one. It has happened before in this century.

In the Soviet Union, Stalin, once he took charge, became a reactionary, m u rd e r ous force, as his successors admitted later. The Russian people may have improved a bit economically under him but freedom became a joke and terror a way of life.

Because he remained inflexible in his hostility and ambitions, the Western world had its containment policy which held him tight.

Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., figures the average age of the present Chinese leaders is 68. Together in the 19-20s and 1930s they dreamed of their revolution and takeover and made both a reality in 1949.

They made a true revolution in their homeland and for millions of their poor and hungry countrymen it was probaijly good. But, like Stalin, they gradually became a menace to the world, and

This Date-' 40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN March 17. 1926 Fourteen Billion is Annual cost of Autos in U.S.

Statistics gathered to show stupendous motor bills of the American people.

certainly to all of Asia.

It is possible their successors, like Stalins, may be more reasonable and modern and that the whole world then can enter a more peaceful era.

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There has been some concern in recent weeks about relations between the United States and France. The concern stems from an exchange of letters written by Gen. de Gaulle and Lyndon B. Johnson. The text of the letters have not been revealed, but my sources inform me Gen. de Gaulle worte President Johnson a Dear John letter and it went something like this:

Mon cher,

I dont know how to tell you this, but I am no longer

in love with you. We have been drifting apart for some time and it is only natural I would find somebody else. Please do not be angry. We had something special together that I will always cherish, and our love affair, while it lasted, was a beautiful thing to behold.

But now there is somebody else. Yes, cher, I am in love with another man. His name is Charles, or as I call him, Grand Charles. He is tall, amost six-foot-five, han dsome, and terribly

American Legion held Enjoyable Meet Last Night Host to*members of cast of Bachelors Honeymoon a show presented recently under auspices of American Legion.

Mass Meeting To Be Held Here On Tuesday Night

With Greenvilles biggest event in its history the Eastern Carolina Exposition, not three weeks distant, the citizenship of Greenville is expected to attend a mass meeting to be held in the court house on next Tuesday night, at which time the various committees will make a report on the plans necessary for the success of the exposition.

Winterville High School Be Given Bible and Flag On Friday March 19, the Winterville Council No. 37 O.U.A.M. will present a flag & Bible to the Winterville High School.

But it is hard to see any such change, so long as the present leadership survives, despite any hopes of American Chinese scholars or t h e Johnson administration.

And outside its borders this leadership has been inept. In its zeal to spread communism outside China it has made one mess after another. It cant even get along with other Communist states, much less Western ones.

It split with the Soviet Union, split with and antagonized Fidel Castros Cuba.

In recent years Indonesia looked lost to communism under President Sukarno. But last fall when the Indonesian Reds tried revolt, the army crushed them and, reportedly, s 1 a u g h tered thousands. Now the army has stripped Sukarno of much of his power.

The recent overthrow of Ghanas Kwame Nkrumah was considered here a reverse for Red China. The Communist-backed war in Viet Nam resulted in a massive American military buildup in Southeast Asia.

Still thinking of a Communist take-over of the world, the Communist ideal of 30 or 40 years ago. Red Chinese leadership through its defense minister, Marshal Lin, last September talked of strangling the worlds advanced countries from bases in undeveloped countries.

Opinions In Brief

The Weather Bureau is one of the nicest federal agencies. It doesnt tap your telephone to see what you think about the temperature or rainfall. Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch.

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N.C. Port Is Rolling

(Goldsboro News-Argus)

The big news of gigantic development and expansion of the State Port at Morehead City is now official.

The Ports Authority has finally worked out details and understanding which will enable the building of facilities which will make Moreheads port one of the most important on the South Atlantic Seaboard. The big deal is worked out through the Economic Development Administration and the State Ports Authority.

Now dont get excited and charge that you are tired and disgusted with seeing Washington throw so much pie in the sky.

Not one slice of pie is in this $9.5 million dollar project. The financing will be through a sale of bonds which a government agency guarantees to purchase if public purchases are not enough. But the bond agreement was worked out only after careful investigation of business potential and tonnage for the port showed that it was a solid business venture.

Making the deal a realistic one is the forward moving sulphate mining in Beaufort County, headquartered at

Auror. The Texas Gulf Sup-pher owners and operators propose to make giant shipments of their product down to the Morehead State Ports for export. The docks, loaders, warehouses, and other facilities are to be used in the phosphate and chemical operation connected with the development of what the New York Times has called the greatest Phosphate deposit in the world.

It is an immense construction project. It will take a long time to complete the blue printing, call for bids, make contracts, and finally do the actual construction.

The State Ports Authority already is joined in interest by the State Highway C^toinmission in giving Morehead City a primary road system direct to Piedmont and Western North Carolina. Dual laning of U. S. highway 70 is well along in the road building work basket. North Carolina must and will work its improvement plans for east-west highways into this ports and chemical expo r t program which will change the economic picture from Beaufort County to Carteret and over a dozen counties now listed in the have not category.

ART

BUCHWALD

French. He is in love with me as much as I am in love with him. In the morning when I wake up I look in the mirror and I say, Charles, I love you, and he replies, Charles, I love you.

He has a mystical quality about him, almost godlike, and when he speaks my heart flutters and my hand trembles. He has promised me everythingwealth, security, grandeur, and a place in history. Surely, you, above all, must understand what this means to me.

I know youre going to call me ungrateful and you are going to say you helped me when I was weak and defenseless.

If You

Want

Grief-

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1966,

King Features Syndicate, Inc.

If you want trouble, said old William Graham Sumner, Americas pioneer socologist, nourish a doctrine.

Sumner didnt know the half of it. For real trouble, you have to nourish two contradictory doctrines and sell them to the same people. 'This is exactly what we have done for most of the newly-emer-gent nations of the world. We have encouraged all the old colonial regions to believe in the principle of one man, one vote. But we have also encouraged every two-by-four tropical principality to believe in the magic of one nation, one vote.

But life must go on and I must look after myself. Im not very young anymore. While I know you say you still love me, how do I know you dont love somebody else more? Suppose you found somebody new, someone more attractive. Who would I have to protect me then? I must think of the future. I k e e p reading about your flirtations with others and the gossip is youve always thought of me as a golddigger. I must defend myself before it is too late.

My Charles is very jealous, particularly of you. He knows about us and our post-w a r affair. Yet hes willing to forgive me if I forget all about you and have nothing to do with you again. He says I have room for only one love in my live and it must be him.

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The result is a vast discrepancy in the United Nations, where one nation, one vote means that the Maldive Islands (94,000 pop., 112 square miles) and Gambia (324,000 pop., 4,000 square miles) can outvote the United States two-to-one in spite of the fact that together they represent fewer people than live in a single middle-sized American city. One man, one vote, transmuted by the alchemy of modem nationalism into one nation, one vote, means that the millions in the older and bigger nations, most of which have evolved by way of federation out of the shires and duchies of feudal memory, can be at the mercy of countries which, by themselves, cant even pay their local governments out of local revenues.

Yet if the vote in the UN were to be weighted in accordance with populations, that wouldnt work, either. For a nation like India would suddenly become some eight times as powerful as France or Britainand if Red Clhina should ever succeed in crashing the UN gate the whole West could be outvoted on a population basis by a single Asiatic power.

The one man, one vote* principle does not, of course, get anything more than lip service inside most of the new countries that use the one nation, one vote sanctification in the UN to get all sorts of economic aid from the West. In country after country of Africa, one man, one vote has been used to gain an independence supposedly based on majority rule. But once they are ensconced in office, the new democratic leaders have more often than not used Their power to rig all subsequent elections.

When there is change, it is normally accomplished by military men who have followed the Latin American tradition of the golpe, or coup. In the past year the soldiers have called the shots in the Congo, in the Central African Republic, in Nigeria, in Dahomey, In Upper Volta and, most recently, in Ghana. Here the principle of one man, one vote has been replaced by what Stuart Goete, the South African novelist, cynically calls the principle of one man, one vote, once.

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By ELMER ROESSNER

Theres a lot of hootin and a hollerin in Washington today about the Ralph Nader case. Nader wrote the b o ok Unsafe at Any Speed, criticizing the safety of autos, with special attention to General Motors Corvair.

He has charged that private detectives followed him and questioned friends, and that he has been harassed by telephone calls. General Motors said that a firm of attorneys had indeed investigated Nader, and Sen. Abraham A. Rubi-coff (I)., Conn.) has asked James M. Kochi, C.M. oresi-(Iciit, to tell a Senate subcommittee on March 22 whats go-iri", on.

Meanwhile, there is a lot of sympathy for the young David facipg Golia^ Motors.

THE OTHER SIDE

Lets dissent.

Look at General Motors position. It has been sued about 100 times by people who have alleged that early Corvair models were unsafe. Most of these suits are pending.

In the midst of all this litiga-tioii, involving millions, Nader introduces his book. He sets himself up as an authority on auto safety,

Nader ha$ etouLly iusisted

that he, as an attorney, represents none of the plaintiffs. Nevertheless, he may still be called as a witness.

Under those circumstances, if Roche did not try to find out who Nader is, what his connections are, what his engineering background is, and all other available information, he would have been guilty of betraying G. M. and opened himself to damage suits for non-feasanct.

EVERYBODYS INVESTIGATED Of course, harassing phone calls arc unforgivable. If (J. M. is responsible, it ought to be taken out and sliol. But it is an accepted principle that the attorney for the aefense has a duty to find out the qualifications of a potentially unfriendly witness. To do less is to be

tray the client.

It is fully legal to ask neighbors about a person. On several occassions the FBI has asked neighbors about me and, on other occasions, about my two sons, and none of us felt harassed.

In fact, investigating one another is big business in America today. If everybody engaged in checking up on other people were put in uniform and sent to Viet Nam, wed get the boys out of the boondocks by Christmas.

Investigation is a built-in part of liligaliun today and few are the law firms--except perhaps Naders own Washington company tliat do not have investigators.

On the other hand, if Roche thinks Nader is unfair he, too, can always write a book.