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Land Acquisition Wise Priority

1F HFLL JUST SHAKE THOSE GUYS -

East Carolina^ University has acted wisely in giving top pricrity to the acquistion of land in the vicinity of the main campus.

It is already obvious that the 100 acre campus bet%vecn Fifth and Tenth Street is at its capacity, so fr as new construction is copcernd. In fact, in spme cases new buildings are nudging one another to the point where they are not displayed to best architectural advantage. '

Thus if adjacent acreage is not obtained, building in the instructional area ld^the womens dormitory section will have to cease.<i This would mean that new buildings would have to go on the land west of Charles Street and north of Greenville Bou-Te\*ard. Obviously this would be an almost in^pos-sible situation for undergraduate instruction. ^ University authorities estimate they can obtain 31.7 acres of well situated land at a cost of $1,450,-000. When we consider that some buildings to be constructed on this land jwill cost $3 millions and "more each, then it is apparent this land cost is not exorbitant. Indeed, tl^^ figure may be too conservative.

. East Carolina University has a great need for the classroom, dormitory and other facilities which were laid before the Advisory Budget Commission. However, the acquistion of this c^arefully chosen

Court Bypasses Certain Cases

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH The law which created the states new intermediate court of appeals allows appeals from this tribunal to the State Su p r e m e Court in cases involving constitutional questions.

In most cases, rulings of the Appeals Court are final. But because of the appeal provision, only the states highest court, the Supreme Court, has the final say on issues dealing whether an action or law complies with requirements of the state constitution. In these in-

tances, either party may appeal to the Supreme Court.

Because of this, the Appeals Court may be and has been bypassed in cases in which suits are brought to test constitutionality.

The Appeals Court itself may choose to send such cases directly to the Supr erne Court. Or the Supreme Court may order such cases be brought before it, even if - they are filed and pending before the Appeals Court.

Tax Issue Pending

In two rather recent, far-reaching decisions the Supreme Court ruled that industrial revenue bend financ i-n g approved by the 1967 General Assembly would be unconstitutional and that public tax funds _could not be used for non - necessity purposes, purposes, such as airports and libraries without a vote of the people.

Now, another controversial action of the 1967 legislature has reached the ApjjealsJTourt r and appears likely to b^^whis-ked off to the Supreme Court without delay or further ado.

This is a case brought to test the validity of the 1967 act allowing one county, Mecklenburg, to levy an additional one per cent sales tax for local purposes.^

" The act did require* a vote of the people and Mecklenburg voters approved. The county began to extra levy in March and in three months it brought in $1.3 million.

Funds Frozen A Superior Court judge, Sam J. Ervin III who happened to be a ^ member of the 1967 legislature hf Id ..that the local tax was constitutional.

But attorneys for a taxpayers group opposing it appealed the appeal was filed in Raleigh this week. In effect, this has tied the hands of Mecklenburg County and City of Charlotte officials insofar as spending the money already collected and returned to them by the State Revenue department.

If the Supreme Court reverses Judge Ervin and finds the cat is unconstitutional, an even more interesting, perplexing question would arise what happens to the money now on hand? Could it be returned to the Taxpayers? Would the state grab it off as a one time windfall? No one in Raleigh seems to know.

Local Interest In the meantime, Mecklenburg County and the city jof Charlotte are trying to finalize their budgets and set tax rates before legal deadlines of July 29 for the county and August 21 for the city.

Other local government units across the state, some of them equally hard pressed financially, are also keenly interested in the outcome of the test case from Mecklenburg.

If the Mecklenburg act is-upheld it appears certain that some other localities will press for similar local sales tax acts in the next session of the legislature. If it is overturned, there will be pressure for a, statewide act to increase the sales tax and return a portion to counties and municipalities.

land is essential if the building projects are to be carried out. We hope the Advisory Budget Commission will look favorably on this high priority matter. /

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Some Good May Come In Bitter Medicine

This is the week people begin to feel the pinch of the new ten per cent tax surcharge in their paychecks. It is the week withholding goes to a higher figure and take-hpme pay comes down accordingly.

There are g^ing to be a good many Americans who look at their new paychecks an4 wonder if the higher tax is really worth what proponents have declared it to be. The purpose of the additional tax on individual and corporate income is to help stem the tide of inflation, take some of the steam out of the economy, reduce federal deficit spending by adding more dollars in revenue to off-set the dollars being spent. It is to be accompanied by a reduction in federal.^ spending as well.

It is a fairly complicated process which in all probability leaves-most taxpayers shaking their heads and wondering whether the tax increase will really help them personally in the long run more than it hurts by reducing the take-home pay in the immediate future.

For many people this new tax surcharge is like the proverbial bad tasting medicine from childhood daysi One has to take on faith reassurance of the experts who say the medicine may taste bad for a short time, but in the long run it willhelp cure the ailment.

If the income tax surcharge helps cure the nations inflationary spiral it will prove a sipall inconvenience for taxpayers who are threatened with their buying power being reduced considerably more " through inflation than by the surtax.

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Vacation Time Has Its Bores

By JAMES KILPATRICK '

An

nlikely Candidate

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) -This is the season to stuff cotton in your ears as soon as you get to work.

It is vacation time. To the average American, going on a vacation is only half the fun. The other half consists in lying about it after he get back home.

These vacation tales usually follow a pattern; they are larger than life. If the fellow enjoyed himself, there has been no revelry like it since Nero fiddled while Rome burr ned. If it rained, there has been no downpour to match it since the one that floated Noahs Ark.

Take the cotton wadding out of your ears for the next few weeks, and youll probably hear from the following familiar vacation types in your

own office:

Hank,^ the Hero So I took one of these two drowning old ladies under eacn arm and swam half a mile against a riptide to get them to shore. The beach was lined with cheering people. The truth is that Hank went wading and panicked when a wave went over his head. The two old ladies came out, punched him in the nose, then dragged him to safety.

Romantic Rosalind The third night out there was a full moon, and as we were sitting alone on deck, he silently slipped this deamcfid ring on my finger, she says. Actually, her aunt gave Rosalind the diamond on her 19th birthday, and Rosalind had it remounted a week before she left on the cruise.

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?orty Years Ago

It is an instructive, entertaining, and depressing exercise, to spend a few uninterrupted hours readlug the campaign speeches of Eugene McCarthy. The Senator from Minnesota probably is pursuing a lost cause, in questing after the Demix:ratic nomination, but seldom has a 1 o s t cause been pursued with finer rhetoric and wit.

You have to look back to . Adlai Stevenson to find a candidate like him. Prior to Stevenson, the cupboard is bare. Minnesotas Man from La Mancha, a Catholic intellectual and a professor of sociology, was a most unlikely candidate when he entered the lists in November. Nine months later, he seems more improbable still.

McCarthy made an impromptu talk at the Waldorf - Astoria last month. His train of thought led him to remark on something he had read that the United States is the first leading nation in the world to look upon its military posture laregly in defensive terms " Most other great nations have looked upon their role as

a positive'one; and when they were militaristic, as t n o u gh they had some offensive mission to fulfill. In our case, even our military department is called the Defense Department. The danger of the defensive approach is that there is no limit to what one needs to protect himself. It is Kafka-like. It is the burrow: If you listen carefully, you can always hear the scratch i n g sound.

Now, that is high octane stuff. One tries to picture Humphrey quoting Kafka or Nixon quoting Kafka, or Rocky, or Romeny, or the H o n. George Wallace, 'fhe picture will not come. The late Sena-' tor Kennedy used to try his hand at quoting Camus, but it lacked the bell-like ring. McCarthy dips into Camus as casually as a man eating pop-corij. He draws upon Chesterton, Eliot, .Allen Tate, C. S. Lewis, Cicero, Toynbee and Mr. Dooley. Such references run throughout his spontaneous speeches; they leave no ghost - writers spoor behind. They spring full - blown from McCarthys own capacious

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By FOY II. DUNCAN July 18, 1928 Motorcade Will Visit Greenville A motorcade from Wilmington, NT C. will visit Greenville tomorrow Thursday, July 19th, accOTding to information received oday by Mayor J. C. Lanier from W. H. Blair, mayor of the city of Wilmington. . . Tlie motorcade, consisting of about fifty automobiles, is scheduled to reach here at 2:40 oclock. They will remain thirty mi-iutes during which time a speaker good-will tour of the citys bu-. siness men. . . Mayor Lanier said this morning that parking space would be provided for the visiting cars in close proximity to the courthouse where the crowd had been asked to assemble. .. A reception commiittee will mee; the visitors at tlic city limits and escort them to the courthouse lawn Wiiere everything will be ready for the entertainment. . . ,

announce the birth of a son, on Thursday, July 12, 1928.

Gives Swimming Party Winterville, July 18Mis. Chas. McLawhorn and daughters, Myrtle, Mary Ida, and Leckie, entertained a few friends at a deiiglitful swimming party and picnic supper last Thursday at Public Landing, honoring Mrs. J. V. Jenkins and Finnelle Sutton of Georgia, house guests of Mrs. D. T. McLawhorn. The guests arrived about Hve oclock ar'd enjoyed a delightful swim-^af-ter which a delicious supper was served.

Other Editors Say Who Needs Protection?

Birth Ann wncemcnt Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Garrett

Entertains .^t Bridge On Monday afternoon at her home on West Fouri Street, Miss Mary Elizabeth Ferguson delightftjlly entertained three tables of bridge. . . Attractive beads went to Miss Mary James Lipcomb for high score., T^ow score prize, a fan, was won by Miss Pearl Lautares. Miss Elizabeth Skinner assisted the hostess in serving delicious iced chocolate and sandwiches.

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Do Americans really have to have guns to protect themselves from some sinister foreign group? Or from some criminals?

Or, is the question really one of whether Americans should have a law protecting them from guns they seem to have bought to protect themselves from something.;^

Last week, a baby was shot in the face in a North Carolina community by a pistol presumably in the hands of his 3-year-old brother. At least the two little children were the only human beings in the room with the pistol at the time it was fired.

Yesterday, a ^3-year-old boy got a pistol oul of his mothers pocketbook in their car in Durham and killed himself. He didnt mean to kill himself, but he is dead today. The news story didnt say why the mother was car

rying the pistol in the purse.

Today, the Associated Press reported that 199 people were shot to death last week. Of that number, 115 were homicides, 65 suicides and 19 by accidents. Some of the homicides were committed during the commission of crimes, but some werent. For example, a housewife in Florida was shot and killed diring an argument with her husband. She didnt want him to bring a rifle into the house. And, the 19 deaths by accidental shooting require, no explanation. The 65 persons who committed suicide may have found other ways to kill themselves, but if guns hadnt been handy, some of those people might not have sought out the other means.

Maybe we do need some laws to protect us from the guns we now buy so freely to protect ourselves from something, whatever that something may be.

skull. Polititians are not supposed to say these things.

He loves to spoof the Defense Department. Some one asked him in Cleveland wliat he would do, if he were President, to reduce military appropriations: I would go to the Pentagon. And if they would not let me in, I would try to get diplomatic representation, to see if we could negotiate some kind of settlement.

At CSiicago two weeks ago, he took after Party Chairman John Bailey, and fell easily into some metaphors drawn from the Roman dhurch;

John Bailey said last year that the convention was over. He said they had already renominated a President, and had also approved a program. I said if we allowed that to go, I supposed in 1972 they would just send up, white smoke from the White House, and this would be a new order in American politics. I might point out to you that almost ev^ erything the Church tried to give up at the Vatican Council has beef^ picked up by the Defense Department, with some help in the State Department: a little bit of Infallabil-ity, a Grace of Office, and the idea of the Holy War. The suppression of heretics ir under consideration. They have even begun to speak some Latin in the Defense Department -- a very bad sign.

Such unconventional observations, as Hamlet once remarked, are not likely to please the millions; they are caviar to the general. And from the conservative view, there is this further defect, that McCarthys high - gloss literacy paints over some dangerously wrong - headed notions.

Thus McCarthy has moved from de - escalation and an unconditional halt in the bomb-bing to what amounts to outright surrender m Vietnam. He professes to be a champion of liberalism, yet he supports labor policies that are the antithesis of freedom. His long suit is economics, but the idea of economy in spending is unknown to him. In the eyes of American conservatives, this poet - politician is dead wrong on every major issue. But golly, how we wish he were on our side?

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By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - You dont hear much today about the New Ekionomics, for in baseball, politics or economics you dont praise the coaches when they arent winning. And there have been no real big winning streaks

this year.

Still, some of the same spirit and confidence and sense of balance that made the New Economists appear to be such winners during the balanced boom of a few years ago will ,be needed during the next 12 months.

During this time our economic leaders will be trying to cool things, but not to the degree of provoking a freeze. Their thermostats, so to speak, must be very sensitive, as were those of the New Economists.

The New Economists In their heyday advocated fine tuning to keep the ecwiomy constantly at a near maximum pitch, through use of short-term restraint such as temporary taxes, and spurs, such as lower taxes or more soending.

In a way, they . viewed tha economy as a pretty balloon to be k^t firm and fat, If the balloon looked a bit tired they blew in enough air to make the wrinkles disappear. If needed, they could leak a little air from time to time.

For a while tiie New Economists seemed to keep the balloon firm, neither too taut nor too slack. And to this day ' ou win not find a dyed-in-the-wool New Economist who will admit that failure was in their methods. They are more inclined to blame the politicians.

These politicians, it seems, became fascinated with the big bri^t balloon, saw m it a symbol of perfection and sought to make it more nearly perfect. They pumped in so much air that it appeared swollen and quite vulnerable to h pin.

So now, just as it was important to inflate to the proper pressure, it is necessary to let the air out at the correct speed and for the right length of time.

It is a delicate job.

In most ways the present assignment is more ticklish than was that of the New Economists. The dollar must be protected for the sake of international monetary stability; joblessness must n<^ be permitted to rise so hi^ as to ignite domestic unrest; mortgage. money must not be permitted to dry up.

Above all, the economic coaches must be able to detect well in advance when recession threatens. This will be difficult, for this huge economy of ours reacts to the coaches signals only months later. It yaws.

These signals that can be fed to the economy generally are of two types: Fiscal and rnon^^'-tary. Fiscal matters relate to government spending and taxing; monetary matters to the availability and cost of credit and money.

Most of the fiscal signals have now been given and cannot be changed for another year. That is, Ctongress has approved the rate of taxation and the amount of government spending for the present fiscal year.

The main responsibility, therefore, rests with the monetary manager, which is the Federal Reserve Board, made up of seve men ai^inted by the president and confirmee by the Senate for 14-year terms.

The board governs the Federal Reserve System, which consists of 12 regional banks and ?4 branches whose purpose is not to make money in the manner of commercial banks but to supply enough credit and money for orderly economic growth.

There are many advisers to the board, all of whom are sup-(Continued On Page S)

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By EARL L DOUGLASS PRINTING

Gutenberg can probably be put down as the inventor of printing. He was a pioneer. And a copy of the Bible found in recent years was recognized as a product of Gutenbergs skill. Prior to printing, each Bible had to be painstakingly hand-copied by scribes a slow process and a costly one. Books were rare a few centuries ago. One of Englands monarchs boasted of his wonderful library, consisting of three books. The Bible today has been printed in more than thirteen hundred languages and dialects and .the American Bible Society a-lone in the past hundred and fifty years has distributed nine hundred million copies of Scripture. v

Much of Gutenbergs life was spent in exile. The Chinese had developed a form of

printing centuries earlier than Gutenberg.

To be able to live in a country where all sorts of printed matterexcept what the Supreme Court has called hardcore obscenity can be widely distributed is a blessing that few of us fully appreciate. For one thing, if we did not have printing presses we would not have freedom. A free press and a free government go hand in hand. Some people think that radio and television will ultimately put the book market out of business. but this is hardly like-'ly. People still want to read. Granting that there is considerable trash procused in book form today it must also be affirmed that some of the finest books of all time are being produced right now.

Five hundred years of printing has, on the whole, meant five hundred years of progress.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The St. Louis Better Business Bureau, afteran extensive survey, spikes I'ne oft-repeated charge that food chains raise prices ana lower quality in ghetto areas.

While its re.'eaich was limited to SL Luuis, the merchandising oriiiciples the St. Louis BBB discovered probably apply to supermarket chains in otiier cities.

The BBB survey did not take in independent stores or small chains, so the findiniis do not apply t-5 them. It shopped the A&P, Bettendort-Rapp, Kroger, National and Srii^ks ch.ams in both poverty and suburban areas, j^nds Two Rumors?

The survey ended two common rumors, which recur in other cities as well. Dispfcv-ed were;

meat displayed in the cooling cases of .suburbnn stores is transriiipped to poverty stores as it nearsthe end of its life and approaches spoilage.

That deter'oratin? produce is transshipped from suburban stores to poverty stores. The Meatcutters Local No That deteriorating packaged

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88, which has organized tie meat departmenfot all St. Louis retail chains, confirmed that all meat must be cut from primal cuts on the pro

mises-^of the store w'here sold. The union told tne BBB'that it would not stand for the transshipment of meat from suburban to ghetto stores.

And while the BBB did n'.>t shop independent stores, it pointed out that they were in direct comp^fiHo*' with the chains and have to offer competitive prices and quality. Major Findings

Other major conclusions of the BBB were:

1. Retail grocery chains do not permit price and quality differentation between stores of a given chain in different locations in the St Louis area. ('There was some evidence that higher shoplifting losses in ghetto areas were absorbed by the chains as a whole, not in individual stores.)

2. Price .advertising, regional supervision and manage

ment training implament those policies.

3. 'Volume of foods moved thriHigh warehiiuses to stores on computerized orders, im orders filled by numbers by unionized workers, makes quality discrimination in stores virtually impossible.

4. Deterioration of perishables compel chain buyers to specify uniform, fresh, high-quality items.

5. Slower turnover and lower sales per customer give much of the mercnandise in poverty stores a counter-tus-sed look and also creates a greater workload for stock clerks in poverty stores.

6. While shelf life of meat and perishables can be stretched beyond management rules, any casisent pattern will be detected by chain inspection.