Wednesday, December 7, 1966

No Pearl Harbor For Todays Youth

REACHING FOR THE MOON !

On this 25th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor it becomes increasingly apparent no one is going to be allowed to forget that day.

Elsewhere in todays paper youll find a number of stories that have to deal with Remember when, and they all stoke the fires of reminicence. But there is one drawback:

One looks at the pictures of young men in 1941, living out the greatest drama of their lives; then you look at their pictures today. It comes as a shock, to those who remember 1941-45, that those young men are today middleaged, often balding, and wearing a paunch as well as family responsibilities.

It is their sons who now man the ramparts; their daughters who are bidding adieu to husbands in uniform; their grandbabies, who hold their loving eye.

The unspoken concern of fathers a generation ago, on seeing their sons shoulder a duffle bag, is being reflected again and again.

The Cause is the same now as then. The dif-

Homework Out Of Orientation

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

CHAPEL HILL Legislators attending a two-day legislative orientation conference here lugged away many pounds of paper and plenty of reading matter and homework to tackle in the next two months.

Hopefully they may find a consensus on some proposals and recommendations contained in thick stacks of reports by study commissions and state agencies. At least thats the idea.

But the legislators got little if any additional details on the subject that apparently interest them and their constituents most. Thats money specifics on the l%7-69 budget and particularly a proposed general and broad tax reduction.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

This will have to wait. Budget recommendations by the governor and the Advisory Budget Commission are ready and Gov. Dan K. Moore lys he will ask a tax red t .oa. but traditionally detail, .. ust await convening of the General Assembly.

Interest Ranks High

As usual, fiscal matters the budget and taxes ranked high on lists of itemr of priority legislative interest.

These are lengthy lists this time and, again as usual, the money bills are expected to be the one argued about longest, debated most heatedly and last to be enacted.

In essence, the problem will be how to meet growing needs and increasing demands for state services and improvements, possibly grant a tax cut and still balance the budget.

Keep Open Minds

Its possible that between BOW and the legislatures Feb. 8 convening date, homework

will be done and minds made up on literally dozens of proposals and issues.

But most individual lawmakers interviewed in Chapel Hill said theyll keep an open mind on major issues such as possible tax reductionuntil they know more about them.

Certainly there was no headlong rush by members generally to endorse tax cutting nor to embrace proposals of the state Tax Study Commission either. The latter report, made public in September, offered a variety of suggestions including a two cents per pack cigarette tax and a one per cent local option sales tax increase as alternate revenue sources. It also suggested certain tax revisions and a 50 per cent slash in inventory taxes.

Moore Statement

The governors statement of Nov. 25 said flatly that no new taxes will be necessary.

Moore administration leaders and fiscal advisers indicated earlier they would oppose increasing taxes statements apparently directed at the idea of levying a tobacco tax. Lt. Gov. Robert W. (Bob) Scott opposed a tobacco tax and now says he plans to keep an open mind on a tax cut until he sees the needs of a progressive state can be met.

The governors statement said the new budget will be forward looking and const^-uct-ive...that adequate tax revenues will be available during the next two years to maintain and improve services.

May Be Unpredictable

Another point of general agreement among legislative observers is that the 1967 session is likely to be unpredictable.

Right now, says a veteran legislator, no one can tell what this next session will do. I wouldnt even want to guess.

He pointed to the large number of new members, controversial matters and the probability of strong political pulling and tugging. Its going to be unpredictable, he said, certainly more unpredictable than most recent sessions.

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ference lies in the absence of a dramatic curtain-raiser. reari Haruor welded Americas people together like nothing else could do; it inspired a unity of determination, a unity of purpose, a welling-up of the sometimes flagging patriotism.

F^rom the vantage point of hindsight one could very well argue that Japans greatest military mistake was its military success in attacking Pearl Harbor; it did something that Hitler and Mussolini together didnt dounite America into an inflexible purpose.

Todays generation, carrying on their fathers fi.ght against aggressors, is laboring under a singular handicap: they are fighting a different kind of war in a different kind of world under different rules than apnlied 25 years ago. Todays problems just didnt exist.

They dont have a Pearl Harbor to remember, only the hardships and suffering and cruelties of war far from the comforts and love of home. We can take pride in their sacrifice.

Executive Secretary Might Be The Answer

Perhaps the employment of an executive secretary will be the answer to United Funds problems. One thing is certain. The whole concept of United Fund is in danger if Pitt County does not find some way to meet its annual budget without excessive effort on the part of a few.

Our county must face the simple fact that its citizens are not meeting the needs of the various agencies which have agreed to consolidate their fund raising campaigns into one United Fund drive.

We must face the fact that a few leaders who agree to take on the job of conducting the campaign are having to spend far more time on the drive than they should.

Meeting United Funds annual budget should take only a few weeks: instead it is taking several months. Sadly this is happening year after year.

We hope the employment of an executive sec-retery will be of some help in improving the annual campaign. Undoubtedly it will because much planning and work can be done before the campaign actually begins.

However, the annual campaign will not truly be successful until the people of Pitt County recognize that the agencies it supports are really worthwhile to them. It is then that citizens all over the county will give promptly and the annual fund raising can be brought to a quick conclusion.

'ideally Blew Up '!^oof Of Worlc.

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (API-Twenty - five years ago Wednesday was a gray day, cold, even in Louisiana. I was fishing in Salt Bayou, 30 miles from New Orleans, with a4 man who had taught English in some of the best schools in the East. He had an elegant touch, even toward fish. But we didnt catch any.

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN Dec. 7, 1926 Presidents Annual Message To Congress Was Delivered Today

WASHINGTON, Dec 7-The nation is peaceful and prosperous, and what it needs most is not new legislation, nor experimentation with untried theories, but rather a steady continuation of those which are already being crowned with such abundant success....This was President Coolidges reassuring message to the dying session of the 69th Congress....

Dorcas Class Met Monday

The regular monthly meeting of the Dorcus Class of the Jarvis Memorial Sunday School met at the home of Mrs. Baker on Evans Street, Monday night at eight oclock with Mrs. Baker, Miss Ella Stockwell and Mrs. W. A. Sellars hostesses for the evening. A most delightful evening was spent by about thirty of the class members playing games which caused much merriment....The hostesses

presented each member with an amusing little gift.

High School Juniors Meet

At a class meeting Monday morning the much discus.sed question of a school paper for the Greenville High School was taken up....The officers elected are: editor in chief, Elizabeth Rogers; manager, Iverson Skinner; advertising manager, Edward Ferguson.

PTA Of West Grenville School To Meet

Tlie Iaivnl 'IVacliers Assoc-iatiuii uf the West Greenville Schuol will meet Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 8th at 3:30 0'clotk III the school building. The third grade with Miss Helen Brown as teacher has prepared a splendid program.

And the voice on the radio was saying the Japanese had sunk the battleship Arizona. We thought we had come in late on a program. I asked Sam what the program was. He said there was no program. He said the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. I asked him if he was kidding. He said: No, just listen. The voice was saying more.

I looked at the little man who had been jumping up and down about the crappies. I asked him; Did you know about the Japanese when you came down to the dock? Me said: Yes. I said: Why didnt you tell us? He said: I never thought about it.

The English teacher and I listened a few minutes more. We walked out into the dark cold. Then, and I dont know why, we suddenly shook hands as if we were saying goodbye to each other or to .something. And one of us said This is where our lives change: And they did. And, wliile the little man who liked crappies forgot about Pearl Harbor, practically nobody else has, ever since, or could.

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6y ART BUCHWALD

One Blow For Freedom

And when the sun began to dissolve behind the trees we went across the bayou, into the channel with the tall grass, keeping the outboard motor low. We pulled up at the wharf near Big Sams boathouse. The little man worked for him came skipping and hopping down to see us.

This place is loaded with crappies, he said. Y o u ought to try them. We did. He kept telling us where they were: here, there, there. But we didnt get any. We were shaking in the cold. The sun was gone. We packed up and went up to the boathouse.

Big Sam was there, behind the counter where he sold soft drinks and sandwiches. But he hardly said hello to us. He was looking up at a radio on a shelf on the wall, and listening. There were two strangers there, too, looking up and listening.

AME8

MARLOVf

WASHINGTON - Theyre putting a new name on the Paris Herald. From now on it will be known as the Internationa Edition of the New York Herald Tribune and Washington Post, and if you ask for it under that name at the airport youll miss your plane.

The Paris Herald has never been a crusading paper because as a guest of the French it isnt nice to tell them how to run their capital.

But there was a time once when the paper struck a blow for freedom and I happened to be involved in the incident.

It took place when I was writing a night club column and living just off the Avenue George V on the Rue de Boccador, a c o b b 1 estones throw from the beautiful American FTo Cathedral. At this moment some generous soul had decided to give the cathedral a gift of carillons, the likes of which had not been heard in Europe since

the coronation of King Louis XIV.

The dean of the cathedral, a music lover, decided to share the carillons with all of the Right Bank of Paris, and as^.aoon as they were installed and belessed he proceeded to have them play on the hour, every hour, from 9 oclock in the morning until 9 oclock at night, with an added concert at noon and 6 oclock.

Well, as much as I loved the cathedral, the bells were driving me nuts. I knew a plea to the dean from a night club columnist would have little effect, so I decided to take the issue to the reading public of the Paris Herald.

I wrote a letter to the papers mailbag under a fictitious name which read:

I am a French housewife and my husband works on the Metro (subway) all night long. He cant sleep in the daytime because your American cathedral keeps ringing

Other Eiditors Saying

As The Natives See Them

(Christian Science Monitor)

Tourists are a mixed blessing. As wave upon wave of tourists hit the beaches, the natives instinctively brace themselves. They feel as the Romans must have felt when the barbarians repeatedly swept down from the north. The tourist spoils the land. His very presence breaks the spell, and the charm is lost

What stirs us to such profound observation was a speech given in Boston to a conference on the development and growth of tourism. Dr. Walter Muir Whitehill, director of the venerable Boston Athenaeum, said the unsay-able. He suggested to his appropriately stunned audience of promoters of tourism that Massachusetts should discourage tourists.

The Commonwealths deputy

director of tourism found Dr. Whitehills remarks traumatic. Said he: Everybody benefits from the tourist. He is a very important buck. The money he spends is velvet. The only cost, maybe, is an extra traffic cop. While the state olficial may have missed the more poetic implications of tourism, he obviously grasped its pragmatic import Along with the Swiss, we have a certain sympathy for Dr. Whitehills cry of protest Yet, along with the Swiss, we cant bring ourselves to part with the tourist It is not only because of his readiness to part with his cash. We are convinced that, for the most part, he somehow manages to learn something from the experience which he could not learn at home. We believe the inconvenience to the natives is a price worth paying.

Labor

?orty

Booboo

By ROWLAND EVANi

and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON-Widespretd political activity of organized labor in the last campaign may have hit its absolute low with an Oct. 21 editorial in a Dayton, Ohio, labor publication written by local Buflding Trade Council head Mik Lis-kany.

Provocatively titled Inflation, Street Riots, Elections?, the editorial was notl^ lest than a bid for the white backlash in behalf of Rep. Rodney Love, the districts Democratic congressman, against State Sen. Charles Whalen, his liberal Republican challenger. Liskanys editorial pointed out Whalens support of open housing and attempted is link him with a local Negro activist running an independent campaign for the state legislature.

Although YnaSm beat hm as part of the RepubHoaa land-slide in Ohio, he haa not forgotten that Oct n

its bells. Why dont you ring Catholics do and let it go at that?

Madame Micheline du Bois. The letter produced real mail from many indignant Americans who didnt care about the American cathedral as much as they did about the anti - American comments. There was a series of letters demanding to know where France would be without the United States. My campaign to eliminate the bells was sidetracked for a week until I got it on the rails again with a letter which said:

I believe the real question is not what America has done for France, but what the American cathedral is doing to Franco - American relations. We French dont want to be reminded what time it is. It interferes with our lunch hour. I say stop the bells or close the church.

Alain Berhneim

The mail poured in, but we only "printed the anti - bell letters. One of the deacons of the church also happened to be the general manager of the paper. He knew vaguely I had something to do with the anti - carillon campaign and he said, Dont you have any letters for the bells?

I said, Of course.

Well, why dont we print one? he said angrily.

I rushed to my typewriter and wrote the final letter of my campaign. It read: Dear Sir, I dont know what all the fuss is about the bells. They have never bothered me.

Guillo Ascerelli, Rome, Italy. The general manager gave orders that no more letters were to be {Minted about the bells. But lo, a few days later they stopped ringing on the hour and only rang at noon. It was a great victory for a free press. And for the next three years the Paris Heralds night club columnist slept on the Rue de Boccador like a baby.

by labor into off-edlor poUttos. Ordinarily. Whalen ndm girt labor mort rotes in Om98& than most Bnt

now, it would bt mora fian human for htan to gira t-cial attentioo to tht ntads of the Dayton Buikfing IMss Council.

Seldom during ttw 1968 tam-paign were labor politicians as self-defeating as Daytons Ifikt Liskany. But his Mind partisanship illustrates a nationwide trend that is causing some soul-searching on the upper levels (rf organized labor: The inseparability of the labor movement and the Democratic Party.

Inileed, in some states (particularly in the Great l^kes region where the United Auto Workers (UAW) are strong), the labor movement was the Democratic Party in 1966.

Largely Financed By UAW

In Michigan, hierarchies of the state AFL-CIO and the Democratic Party are identical. In Illinois, Sen. Paul Douglas unsuccessful campaign in downstate areas was run and financed largely by the UAW. In Cincinnati, a UAW field man was put on permanent duty to handle Rep. John Gilli-gans losing bid for re-election.

This marriage of Democratic Party and the labor moveme.it hurt both partners. The union-made label (as explicit as Douglas campaign worke s wearing UAW armbands in Illinois) handicapped the Democrats. Less obviously, the total labor commitment to the Democrats inhibits Republican cooperation with union leaders in areas such as Michigan where the Republican Party is moving to the left.

Those labor officials who would prefer an arms length attitude toward the Democrats have a convincing excuse f(*r doing otherwise in 1966: President Johnsons dismantling of the Democratic National Com mittees campaign staff.

With the party not doing its own work, the AFL-CIOs Com mittee on Political Education (COPE) took over party fur.c tions to try to save pro-labor Democratic candidates. In private conversation, COPE offi cials make no secret of their displeasure with this role.

But this does not account for the Labor-Democratic linkup that began long before Presi dent Johnson started dismantling his party machinery. Over (Continued On Page 5)

Mechanizing Hikes Beef Prices

By ELMER ROESSNER

The price of beef in Japan, as in the United States, is high and it is rising. And the reason is the popularity of motorized farm machines.

Time was when each Japanese family, or group of families, owned an ox that dragged a plow or tiller across its fields. When the ox got old, it was sold for slaughter. Tough, perhaps, but it increased the beef supply and helped keep the price down.

Now Japan is going through a motorized revolution. Power tractors are replacing the ox, and a great source of sausage meat is disappearing. Because Japanese farms are small, groups of farmers buy tractors and other power machines collectively, or an enterpriser buys one and rents out his services.

Once rice was threshed by hand at this time of the year. Now small threshing machines move from far to farm and do the work. The straw is saved for thatching roofs, making insect traps, mats and other

things.

On the other hand, poultry and hog production is increas-.ing fast and prices are stable.-The Japanese were quick to adopt the American system of mass growing of broilers. AUTO DEMAND SWELLING

The interest in mechanization b<x)ms sales of autos. The auto, as it was in the United States, has become a status symbol. Many Japanese commit a years pay for a new car.

A 1,000 cc. minicar costs around $2,000. A buyer can get one for as little at 10 per cent down, but he must pay 10 per cent interest on the balance and pay it off in six to 18 months.

There were no passenger cars made in Japan in 1946, but almost 15,000 trucks were turned uiit. In 1950, miis 1,594 passeuger cars were produced; by 1960 production was 165,268, and last year 696,176 ears and 1.160,090 trucks vvere manufactured.

Production is still only a tenth of what it is in the U.S.,

nevertheless Japan has become the worlds fourth largest producer, topped only by U. S., West Germany and Great Britain. About a tenth of Japans cars are exported. TRAFFIC A CRITICAL PROBLEM

The rise m auto demand has created serious problems. Japan has more auto deaths and injuries per car mile than any other country, and the number of cars is growing faster than the highways.

ELMER

ROESSNER

The government is trying to build inure roads, but it is handicapped because it lacks the right of einiiient domain. It must pay heavy prices for every foot of space for highways and oft^'n construction comes to a halt because some

family, for sentimental rea sons, refuses to sell its land for any price.

Consequently, many . high ways are suspended over ca nals, or canals are drained to make throughways.

On my visit to Japan on the first Japan Air Lines flight from New York to Tokyo was told that there is an in crease of 10,000 cars a inonil: in the Tokyo metropolitai area. The government is try ing desperate measures t( limit the number of cars. / recent ruling bars licenses foi new cars unless the owner can show that he has garage ,spac either near his home or hi office. This has not seemed tc dam the flood of cars.

Cars are often seen parkec inside stores after closing.

One darned clever Japanes devised a unique solution t( his parking problem. He livei 00 an alley not much wiaei than his car. He built a hois arrangement and every night he hoists his car up into ai*' clear of the street. No tickets yet.