Wednesday, August 24, I960

Only As Safe As We Want To Be

A DEMANDING GOD

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Most North Carolinians will anxiously await the new program from the Department of Motor Vehicles that will dramatically reduce speeding and drunken driving on our streets and highways.

Although Commissioner A. Pilston Godwin has not given details of the new program, his announcement this week is encouraging. When details are announced, the program is certain to receive praise. Wed also hazard the guess that the program will be criticized by some people for being too severe on offenders.

North Carolina needs new effort directed toward reducing these two causes of highway accidents. It also needs greater effort directed at reducing other causes of traffic accidents, injuries and death.

Apparently the new program the Commissioner ha*^ in mind will have to do with stiffer penalties for traffic violators, and perhaps tighter enforce-

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ment of the existing regulations affecting drivers licenses, the point system, and a follow-up on offenders records.

Ultimately, whatever the state does to enhance highway safety, must have the support and cooperation of drivers if it js to"be effective. Whatever program is proposed by the Department to promote safer highways will be effective only if it has public support. In its effort to make the highways safer, the Department of Motor Vehicles too often is accused of trying to be hard on the public.

In the final analysis North Carolinas highways will only be as safe as its people allow them to be. The Department of Motor Vehicles will be able to carry out a safety program only as effective as the public will allow it to carry out.

North Carolinians can expect a dramatic improvement in their highway safety record only if they are willing to accept dramatic new programs designed to reduce the traffic toll now being taken across the state.

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..or LOQ^islQtorS Reaching Over World

By WILIAM A. SHIRES MULTIPLYING-While the long, hot summer grows longer and hotter in Raleigh, everything points to much the fame d^cription being apt when the next legislature comes to town.

Problems and issues which win face the 1967 General Assembly have been multiplying and piling up.

At this point, everyone is looking for a lengthy, highly heated legislative session beginning next February. Certainly theres no shortage of fuel to keep the lawmakers going for months.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

Veteran observers are saying they cant recall when so many varied and complex problems and issues emerged this soon in advance of a Ueimial legislative session.

LIST The list of legislative issues, already a long one, is likely to continue growing.

Reports of study commissions and committees containing legislative recommendations are being prepared and will be made public in coming weeks and months. Various organizations and associations are working on their 1967 legislative programs. A few of these already have outlined their major requests and recommendations.

It has been known for months of course that the 1967 General Assembly will have to wrestle again with political reapportionment under one man-one vote court decisions.

And other issues already emerging rave all the way from a new electric utilities franchise squabble to liquor-by-the-drink.

TAXES One of the major legislative problems undoubtedly will involve writing a new tax program.

Two years ago, the Moore administration and the legislature succeeded in holding the line on tax increases and

new taxes. But now the administra tionand others keenly interestedawait the re-pc^ of a special Tax Study commission scheduled to be handed to the govenKX* next week. This may contain some surprises.

Presumably the Tax Study commission will jnesent <k-finite recommendations on changing certain tax laws and revising the present tax structure. It may recommend alternate sources of revenue and ways and means of giving local governments financial relief.

Even if the Tax Study commission does not spell them out, proposals to levy a tobacco tax, to increase the state sales tax levy to four per cent, to repeal the inventory tax all are certain to go before the legislature.

BUDGET - The difficult job if preparing 1967-69 budget recommendations has been dramatized already by record requests for $360 millions for captial improvements buildings and physical facilities projects.

The total is approximately $160 million above capt i a 1 improvements by state agencies and institutions two years ago.

On the credit side, the governor and the Advisory Budget Commission are anticipating a credit balance or surplus for 1965-67 in the neigh-borhoodof $120 million.

ITEMS Other items on fiscal matters which appear to be shaping up include a probable request to boost North Carolinas fixed legal interest rate from six per cent, and perhaps allow tax-exempt revenue bind financing as a spur to industrial development.

'The legislature of course will have to deal with problems in education and higher education, matters pertaining to the price-fixing powers of the State Milk Commission, and in the compulsory auto liability insurance field.

A program to strengthen the care and treatment of mentally retarded air e a d y has been submitted to the governor. There will be recommendations to strengthen the states automobile inspection law and other highway safety measures.

It must be reassuring to doctors in isolated outposts and hospitals in Africa and Latin America to know they can radio Duke Medical Center for diagnostic and treatment advice.

The new service being offered at Duke already has fourteen medical outposts and isolated hospitals taking part in this project. Six others are expected to join the radio network and 23 others have expressed interest.

'Through this new service, the Duke Medical Center has found another means of reaching far beyond its normal sphere of influence to lend assistance to those in need of medical attention. It has found another means to make available the vast medical knowledge of its many specialists to other physicians in remote areas thousands of miles away.

Over the years this new service of the Duke Medical Center may mean the saving of thousands of lives of people in scattered comers of the world. Many may be people who never hear of Duke Medical Center, but they will be receiving the benefits of diagnostic and treatment advice the center is able of offer.

Negro Leaders Widely Divided.

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By JOHN CHAMBERUIN

Copyright, 1966, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

John H. Perry Jr., the West Palm Beach, Florida publisher who also builds small submarines, wa;, in New York City last week with a moving picture adaptation of his book, The National Di. vidend. The showing was at the Waldorf-Astoria, and a goodly number of people, in. eluding some quite orthodox-financial nien, turned out to see something which, ^y the Standards of other years, would have scared the life out of any conservative tfa^er. But, against the background of the cost of the Great So. ciety, the pillars of orthodoxy who happened to be within eavesdropping distance of me were having a hard time frying to dismiss Mr. Perrys proposition as a scheme for rewarding lazy men.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - Six Negro leaders, brought together to answer questions about the civil rights struggle and the kind of tactics they favored, revealed a wide split in their thinking.

This was one day after President Johnson, in a long speech on civil rights and the Negro problem, protested riots and violence ancl urged whites and Ne^oes to show a sense of responsibility and a reliance upon justice.

Some of the Negro leaders, interviewed Sunday on the NBC radio - television program

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN Aug. 24 1926 Seven Hundred Applicants Fail To Gain Admission Into E.C.

Teachers College By M. L. WRIGHT

East Carolina Teachers College has refused admittance to 703 students for the fall of 1926. 'This number is larger than the number admitted. This means for every student refused admittance to the college that somewhere in Nortii Carolina over a varying period of years that thirty or more children will be taught by a teacher with less training than she would have had if the college could have given her the training she desired. When we multiply the number of students per teacher by 703, the number refused, we find that 21,090 children must pay the penalty. This seems to be an unjust penalty to place upon the citizenship of the next generation . . .

Meet the Press, sounded as if they hadnt heard J<^son or were ignoring him. This showed up particularly in questions about violence and nonviolence.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Cristian Leadership Conference and leader of some recent Negro demonstrations in Chicago where whites reacted violently, said: I believe

firmly in nonviolence.

But King insisted demonstrations must continue, not because they solved problems by themselves but because they brought attention to the problems.

Watts Hill, chairman of the Board of Higher Education recently said university status for ECC in the next Legislature will be a test of who has the most votes, Robert Morgan or the governor.

It seems to be with Mr. Hillwho recently had what must have been an unsettling run-in with Sen. Morgan a case of lets you (Sen. Morgan) and him (Gov. Moore) fight.

Meanwhile the governor seems to be maintaining the attitude that he is fully capable of choosing his own fights.

a good traffic cop wont go. Officers, however, have ways of dealing with such situations. In this case he simply waited the lady out. Eventually she came out and was handed a summons.

A local traffic officer fell in behind a car being driven by a lady, after he observed a possible traffic violation. Suddenly the car wheeled into a service station. The lady jumped out and ran into the ladies rest room.

'There are some places even

Its not rare to see a dog lopping along the sidewalks of Evans Street in downt own Greenville, but it is rather unusual to see a pickup truck following alongside.

'That was the case Saturday as a dog weaved in and out among pedestrians. The lady driving the truck was yelling at the canine to get back in, but the dog was having too much fun. He didnt pay any attention.

Finally at the end of the block the truck stopped for a traffic light. The dog trotted into the street and leaped into the back of the truck. The vehicle and dog soon disappeared from view.

A grandfather picked up some pills for his grandchild in a local drug store. He took the youngster over to the soda fountain, obtained some water and attempted to give the child a pill The kid wouldnt take it.

Finally one oMhe ladies behind the fountain who must have given quite a few pills to children, volunteered to help.

She tossed the pill into the youngsters open mouth gave him a swallow of water and down it went.

every Amcrisae voter 4 it-sharing partifer' in thje fret enterpriseor profiBaikUoai system to ftm extend of tak> ing down a **oatiooal Brideod* of $500 a year per pcraoo, at $1,000 per man and wife, brought some piedn-tfaa tkj comments as the pra-timcbi eon drinks went around. Bui the moving picture ttttll quickly served to put Mr. Perry into the company of the conservative Professor Milton Friedman of tfas Uni< versity of Chicleo, who le-cently offered his idee ef a negative income tax* as a money-saving way of dean* ing up our current Jungle of incredibly wasteful welfare programs. Frie<imans theory is that if you were to keep ALVIN every family up to the $3,00l* a-year mark by making up for deficiencies in income as TAYLOR shown on annual tax reports, you could drastically cut down on the tabs for anti-poverty programs, urb a n renewal, crop and non-crop subsidies, federal aid to schools, and all the rest of the rigmarole that requires $25,000-a-year administrators by scores and $10,000-a-year men by the hun^eds.

Other Editors Saying Press And Prejudice Opinions

In Brief

ABIE3

MARLOW

Amusement Opens In Greenville For One Week Merry-go-round and Ferris Wheel will be located in this city for one week. They are north of the Post Office.

Birthday Party Ute Miss Helen Pope Hall entertained Saturday at 4:30 oclock in honor of her birthday. On the arrival of the guests, lemonade was served from the porch, after which story telling and games were enjoyed. At the conclusion of the games, a delicious ice course was served.

Misses Laura Hudgins and Elizabeth Overton are visiting relatives in Henderson.

Mr. and Mrs. Guilford Smith have returned from their bridal trip to Western North

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Floyd B. McKissick had another view. He is national director of the Congress of Racial Equality.

He said: Nonviolence is something of the past. We believe in nonviolence providing nobody hits us. When somebody hits us, we believe in self-defense.

James H. Meredith, shot several months ago while leading a one - man march into Mississippi to try to prove Negroes could walk the highways safely there, said: Nonviolence is incompatible with American ideas.

Asked if he meant that if several whites or Negroes are killed and the law does not punish them people ought to organize as vigilantes and go out and take the law into their own hands and commit violence, he replied: That is exactly what I am saying, exactly.

At that point Stokely Carmichael interrupted to say: If those wont do it, who is going to do it?

Carmichael, the foremost Negro advocate of black power, is chairman of the Stu-den Nonviolent C<x>rdinating C()mmittee, perhaps the most militant, or at least the most militant sounding, of the Negro groups.

We Negroes, he said, are the only people in this country who have to protect ourselves against our protection. Since the police forces of this country are not protecting us, then who is going to protect us? We are going to go down together, all of us,

Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Color-(Cikintinued on pag 5)

(Christian Science Monitor)

When a French magazine prints an article alleging a revival of Nazism in Germany and attempts to support its allegation with photographs purported to be of Nazi youth activity but in fact staged, it is hardly surprising that the Germans see the story as one more attempt to fan the flames of prejudice.

When an American magazine runs a feature on the boorishness of German tourists, it is understandable that the Germans resent the generalization and regard it as yet another thoughtless account bound to perpetuate divisions based on old prejudices. When German publications act similarly by priiting stories which, without justification, provoke distrust of others, it is, of course, equally to be deplored.

We do not mean to say that there will not be times when the press will be called upon to expose dangerous trends or unfortunate condit ions, whether prevailing at home or abroad. 'Die responsible press will not refrain from critical reporting simply to promote

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good relations among peoples. It will not say, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. It will combat oppression, corruption, bigotry, and moral decay whereever it finds them, and it will do it fearlessly.

In so doing, it may be falsely accused of stirring up prejudice. All any responsible paper or magazine can do its to consider impartially all the information at its disposal and then take a stand in accord with its own best judgment. It cannot in good conscience suppress what it be-lives to be the truth in order to appease any people or any group.

What we do deplore is tiie part which the press plays in designedly or thoughtlessly passing on ancient prejudices to future generations. It is up to the media of communication to do all in their power to root out those persistent prejudices which have repeatedly turned nation against nation and race against race. Because of its peculiar ability to reach the minds of millions, the press bears a heavy responsibility.

A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusian, of pwil to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbe(l of its contents. Herbert Hoover.

With all the understandable concern for bird species faced by the threat of extinction, it is strange that little thought is given the one really in danger: 'The goose that lays the golden eggs.Nashville (Tenn.) Banner.

Always with us, like the poor, are orators who speak for an hour and a half without ever mentioning what they are talking about.Memphis Commercial Appeal.

Free speech is only possible where we honor the rights of others to speak for a cause with which we disagree, perhaps violently. Weedville (Pa.) News.

The virtue of the Friedman approach is that it would per mit the dismantling of the Washing! 0 n bureaucr a c i e s without causing hunger in the ftreets. Mr. Perry goes Professor Friedman one better from the standpoint of iinv plicity. He would simply divert existing corporate profit taxes from the general treasury fund to voting citizens. Mr. Perry insists that the voting qualification is necessary in order to make people responsible for maintaininf the system of free enterprisf that creates profits. Since tW national dividend could no* very well be paid out of profitless business system, he considers that voters would soon see the connection be* tween a flourishing frat xn^* ket and their share of it! fruits. This perception, says Mr. Perry, would eiwourage them work harder to make the system even more profit* able.

Mr. Perry obviously satis* fled the Keynesians in his audience, for the flow charts in the moving picture show^l money flowing into consum tion in a way to keep aggregate demand at a jnxiper job-maintaining pitch. The picture quieted some murmurs of perpetual inflation by showing an uninflated supply of money going round and round. And, quite ol)viously, direct payments of a national dividend would cut the cost of government overhead.

Lulus Reaching End O::

line

By ELMER ROESSNER Lulu may be dead.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a ruling which, if it may not end the practice of state and city officials paying themselves lush expense funds, may at least force the recipients to account for what they spend and pay taxes on the rest.

In many states and cities, legislators and officials vote themselves fat sums in lieu of expenses. These have become known as lulus.

Now the IRS, in Rev. Rul. 66-217, has decided that:

A judge of a state court who receives allowances in Lieu of expenses which he does not account for to his employer, must submit as part of his tax return a statement showing. . . the total of all such allowances received, which total must he included in gross

income, and the amounts of his business expenses paid or incurred.

AND PAY UPI

Only ordinary and necessary business expenses which the taxpayer can substantiate in accordance with the provisions of sections 162 and 274 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and the regulations thereunder are deductible.

ELMER

ROESSNER

It may be assumed that this ruling applies not only to the state judge whose query or action brought it on, but to all

other state and city officials who get lulus.

By extensiofi, it may also apply to Congressmen and other federal employees who get lump-sum payments for expenses, not only from the government but from others.

There may be better business ahead for income tax consultants.

DISCRIMINATION FOR AGE BARRED IN PENDING AMENDMENT

Pending in Congress is an amendment to the 1966 Wage and Hour Bill out-Iawing arbitrary discrimination because of age. The amendment would leave guidelines to the Labor Department,

It has little chance of passage in the short time before adjournment unless those interested largely persons who cannot get jobs because of their age - start working

on their Congreasmen. If pressure is strong, it can be passed, largely because this is an election year and few Congressmen would risk offending the large bloc of older voters.

However, even if the bill is passed, enforcement will be difficult. Employers could devise tests for all applicants that would be difficult for older persons to passJ Even today, many city and state civil service examinations are so contrived that older people cannot pass the physical tests.

Furthermore, there are pau-sible reasons why people of certain ages cannot fill certain jobs, and tiiese reasons would probably be recognii-ed by the Labor Department. However, people interested in getting the amendment passed, or employers with sound objections to it, have time to let their Congressmen -^know.