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Tobacco Tax Will Be A Bitter Pill

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A state tax on tobacco is a difficult pill for the those areas for. additional taxation'that^e-thongtrt

WELLBETTER LATE THAN NEVER!

tobacco producing: region of Kasiern North Carolina to swallow. Gov. Scott, who during the campaign expressed his opposition to such a tax, is certain to be the object of considerable criticism from many'voters for his about face on the matter.

For-the section of the state whei*e tobacco still provides a major part, of the personal income and gives impetus to the economy, the taxing of tobacco products is seen as another threat to the already threatened rommodity.

could be most easily jusUiied Irom a poiitical stand- -point and from the standpoint of tne states eco-iny. ^

Goi;. Scotts assertion to the contrary notwithstanding. it is probable that North Carolinas taxing of tobacco products will influence to some degree the economic future of the tobacco producing and tobacco manufacturing interests in North Ckro-lina. That its influence may not be a determining factor in the future of the tobacco industry of the state neither Gov. iScott nor anyone else can at this moment say for sure.

From a realistic standpoint, it must be ^pectcd that the tobacco tax recommended by Gov. Scott

C&D Report Is Still In Works

In making his recomrnendations to the Iprfs-lafure for raising the additional revenue needed -for the next biennium. Gov Scott obvioush chose those lovios he felt wonW receive the hron-iest ac- .... oy uov. ocoti

ceptance from among citizens of the state. He chose lias a more-than-even cliiance of enactment by the

legislature. It is a foregone conclusion that North Carolina must have additional tax revenues if it is to meet its needs in the coming biennium. Having reached the difficult decision to recommend, a tobacco tax. Gov. Scott has placed himself in a position where he must put the entire weight of his office behind the effort to have that recommendation followed by the legislature. Failure on this point would be a political disaster for the states new, young governor at the outset of his administration.

From the stafidpoinT^flM legistators, if they reject the governors recommendation on the tobacco tax, the burden falls upon them to come up with alternatives to produce the estimated $50 millions in additional revenues the tobacco tax would provide. Whatever their alternathes, there would be certain to be those who would vigorouslv oppose them. Should the alternative tax levies be'^enactcd. they would be the taxes of the legislature rather than the governor.

^ On the other hand, the tobacco tax, if the legislature approves, will be Gov Scotts tobacco tax* and few voters will remember in time which lators voted for it and which against it

As reluctant as those associated with the tobacco economy are to see tobacco products taxed

Rv WILtlAM A. $irmE5 Feflcctor Raleigb Bureau

B-ALEGH Delays in printing ware blamed for imited early distribution and a resulting lack of in . depth information about th recent report of the Conservation id Development (C&D) itudy commission to the governor and the Genera! Assembly.

WTLLIAM

SHIRES

Only a few copies of the full report were mad* available during the transition of administrations m January.

Highlights of tlie 30page report and fome sketchy details were reported, and tliat was aU. Many Raleigh newspaperman attepted to obtain copies of the full report and .could not. Th explanation was, it is being printed

Within a few days there will be sufficient copies for all members of the legislature; newspapermen and others who may be interested m (he findings and recommendations of tha study commission headed by Charles E. Hayworth of High Point.

C&D Iteorgasization The fiit and prime recom-mendation of the study coni-inisiion which was report-eda arlier - isthat the De-pvtmant of Conservation and Development be kept intact. The study group said, we do not believe that the department should be split into two or more separate agencies. Nor do we believe that the Intffrify of the Department should b eroded by spinning off any further divisions as indejsendent departments.

At the fame time, the Study Cortimisfiwi recommended an administrativa reorganisation which would pfovjde for three deputy CW directors one for confervation, one for development and one for parks end tourism.

The director of C&D him-

seWv as administrative chief would be served by two as-sivstant directors, one for administration and one for public information.

Expanded Board Die study commission's report also called for three coordinating committee to serve tlie policy . ma k i n g C&D board. These would be of nine mem tiers each and would serve in tlie areas of conservation, devclopm e n t and parks and tourism.

The study group received at least five different propo-sas for dividing ie present C&D department.

It was persuaded by the argument that, as presently constituted, tlie North Carolina Department of C&D is one of the outstanding resource and development agencies in tlie entire nation.'

IS believed that Nortli na was the first state to rec ognire the importance of oon-^crvafion and development by action in 1813 to appoint a state geologLsl. Historians may look into this, but the statement went into the study report.

The C&D departnient came into being 43 years ago and the study group found that it has remained a stable organization although some functions have been added and sonip removed.

Inlerna] Changes Whili* recommending that

the C&D department be retained without splitting and actually strengthened, t h e

study commission went further.

It suggested that the administration of C&D should be strengthened and improved by grouping of the divisions into tliree program areas, each with a depty director, that the policy - making C&D board be enlarged by three members, to 27, with thj, full board divided into three coordinating committees to oversee the three program areas reconnmend-ed.

It recommended staggering ef terms of the C&D hoard members so that each incoming governor could appoint two - thirds of the b o 4 r d membership for four years terms during his first year in office and the remaining one-third for four - year terms two years later.

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ART BUCHWALD

Now---Save The Draf:

. --- Miuuucin Lflxea WASHINGTON I went

m North Carolina, there can be little doubt that ^ neighbors house

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21-year-old son, Jimmy, in the gtrgge working on picket signs which retd Save the Draft. Down With Nixons I* nfesgiona! Army and Keep Our Boya 1-A.*

You coujd have knocked me over with a cattle prod, because for the last three years Jimmy has been tha most violent critic of the draft in the neighborhood and has attended every Dr. Spock rally In the country.

What happened? I asked him,

"I wised up,** Jimmy said. Nixon's plan to do away with the draft, and have a profes-

1969 will North Carolina join the other 49 states in putting a tax on the products of its principal agrdcultural commodit.v.

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By FRED g. HOFFMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) Defense strategists believe the tSoviel Union is anxious for talks limiting nuclegr weapons because of severe economic strain from efforts to catch up with U.S. atomic striking power.

That's why American officials, although also hopeful such talks can begin, are setting as a precondition at least a start toward settling such problems as the Vietnam war and the Middle East crisis.

Pentagon authorities say Russia supplies about 10 per cent of North Vietnams military support. Thus, In their view, the Soviet Union could bring pressure on Hanoi toward a peace settlement.

Russia, as a major arms supplier to the Arabs, also could apply leverage for a Middle East solution, according to this reasoning.

Defense Analysts see a direct relationship between U.-S. involvemant in the Vietnam war and Russias two-y ear drive to close the nuclear gap.

According to this view, the commitment of $3$ bjllion and more a year ta tha Vietnam war has inhibited the U n i ted States in maBlaning iu nuclear iujjirjorlty over Rusia.

While tha United State was pouring urh amount into etnam. U.S. analyst say,

Sdviat Unian was spanding on ly^^about 18 billion helping

Yet Rupaia. it is believed , In HriPl IS in econemic trouble because it ha been heavily outspend-ing the United State on ex-P*!"five atrategic weapons while it total national output IS only about one half that ef the United State,

In the past two yar, the ^viet Union ha Increased land-based Intercontinental missile launcher from 570 to more than 900.

U.S. strategist think Russia

buildup, costly as it 1, will continue, possibly until the Russians equal or outdistance tlie U.5 ICBM force of 1,054 missiles.

Just how much further the Russian will go these Pen-tagon source decline to guess. They say they can judge Russian capability.-not Kremlin intentions.

Pat Democratic secretaries of defense have taken comfort in U.$. progress toward the developing multiple warheads which, they said would assure U.8. continued superiority in nuclear striking power even if the Russians should jul! abreast in number of aunchers.

But Nixon administration authorities are not as comfor-te(J^ They note tlie Russians are working on multiple warheads and they are concerned tliat Russias bigger boosters will enable them to carry more of these separately tar-getable warheads.

The period of greatest concern to American leaders cur-reny is 1973-1973 when, as Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird has said, the balance may not be as It should from the U.S. standpoint

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S Opinions

Show me a thorough satis-. ^ how you

a failura.-Thomas Edison.

There ha been no man of pure genius, a then has been none wholly deatitute of geni us.-^Henry David Thoreau.

sional army, is the biggest fraud perpetrated on the American people. Either that or he doesnt realize what hes doing.

What do you mean? When Nixon first said he was going to do awav with the draft, I was all for him. But then it hit me. What would the consequence* of this be? He organizes a professional army and gets excellent pay for them. The people who are attractad to tha military life join in clrove and you have the best trained, most devoted, most dedicated Army. Navy and Air Force in the world.

Whats wrong with that? Nothing, at the beginning.

But what happens in 10 years from now? 'The professional army is completely alienated from the population. They sit

ART

BUCHWALD

Other Editors Say A Paradox

(Chiisten Science Monitor)

Consider this paradox; Today a larger percentage of the American pooulation than perhaps ever before is aw^e of the need to help ones neighbor pecure a greater measure of social justice, and economic well being.

Yet seldom, if ever, have so many Americans been ready to engage in lawlessness, inflict pain and injury, and mock the right* of otiiers in order to do good, and accomplish such change.

h.trtead greai>r order and tranquillity having come with this growth in social conscienca, there has come a decline. In short, whgt we see is an increaiing willingness to do harm and hurt in order to achieve what many feel are worthwhile ends.

Clearly, when uch a situation arises, something has gone badly awry. Indeed, society is even justified in asking if the good being <.ought irough todays violence and agitation may not ba canceled out by the volume of injustice and injury being perpetrated.

When, as an example, a whole university is upset, teaching suspended, individu

als assaulted, in order to correct some wrong or some

negligence, can we really

say that the end - result will be a gain? When student militants reassert the old, discredited claim that the end justifies the means, who can truly state that not more harm than good i* bejng done?

There are few more dangerous doctrines than that which say* that, merely be-caua one h*lieve* ardently enough in a goal, one hat the right to use almost spy means of winning it. Thi* is the argument of the assassin, the warmaker, the mass-mur-derer.

There are times, a* during the patent and immoral denial of civil rights, when vigorous action is called for. and when an improved situation can result. But such action seldom requires the art-ivists or the militanU to ep on the rights of ethers, to run ^e risk of killing or maiming either their opponents or guiltless bystanders.

It cannot be said too often that in a democracy there are means of making oneself and one's group heard without recourse to undemocratic action.

around their barracks and of-'ticers'' dubs grousing about the civilian who dont know a damn thing about .nilitory affairs. Finally a bunch of colonel* get together and say, We don t have to take guff from the civilian. We got the hardware. If they dont listen to us well just have to damn well make them liten. Jimmy, youre not saying that theyd pull a military coup detat?

Why not? How many tank docs it take to surround the White House? How many flight* would you have to make over NBC, CBS and ABC in a fighter plane before theyd cave in? Even tha Pueblo could capture Washington.

Youve been reading Seven Days in May, I said accusingly.

He denied it Do you know why this

country i

till a democracy, despite the _

fact it has the Ingest mili- housecleaning would descend ary machine in the world? seconcj! and third level

hound

By ROWLAND EVANS end ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON-Sen. Hugh Scott the assistant Republican leader in the Senate, has quietly advised th White House that the failure of t h e Nixon administration to bring 1 finga-^Fennsylvania R^ublican into the new Ad* ministration could badly damage his reelection chtnre* next year.

"Scottr iprifvanca, politely delivered to top White House lobbyist Bryce Harlow, if symptomatic, and not all the complaints are that polite.

The truth is that Republican politicians ere beginning to wake up to the fact that, far from the top to -bottom housecleaning promised- by csfldidate Nixon;President Nixon has ordered department chiefs to go k)w in weeding out Democratic holdovers and replacing them with Republican party faithful an unprecedented reversal of custom.

Moreover, RepubUcani in Congress have also been bitterly complaining to the White House about the lack of political clearance procedures tor Johnson administration holdovers. For example. Postmaster Gn. Wilton H. (Red) Blount decided to retain several Assistant Postmasters General. But their names were sent routinely to the Senate without the customary and, to the Senate, mandatory request* for approval from Republican Senator in their home atats.

Republican Senator* have now, belatedly, been aasured that Johnson holdover* needing Senate confirmation will be put through the same clearance mill for new appointees.

Nevertheless, Sen. Karl

Mundt of South Dakota was so aroused by the number of holdovers appointments and the slipshod clearance me- thods that he privately wirn- ' ed the White House be will object to confirmation if the job is in any department under the jurisdiction of any of Mundts Appropriations subcommittees. Mundt want* these job* filled with Republicans.

Thus the Nixon administration, which ha* made a smooth start in most other areas, is running badly afoul of its own party over jobs and patronage. Some such trouble is inevitable in any new Administration, but what sets the Nixon administration apart is the unprecedented decision not to clean house.

One week before the election, for example, a top Nixon political manager told u* that a major houseclean i n g would get top priopily if Mr. Nixon was elected^ This

tary machine in the world?

I would hate to guess.

Because it ba* mousands and themsands of draftees in the service who hsta It The more people you have in the service who hate it, the less chance you will ever have of the military taking over. When you pay draftees nothing, treat them miserably and make them sorry they ever had to

of Federal bureauerats- to the memo-writers. as he put It, whose memoranda on

new policy queitions so often establish poUey.

Precisely the opposite has occurred. In Atty. Geii. John Mitchells huge Juitica De->artment tor exsmple, most first and second level aslst-ants to the new Assistant At-

put on a pair of fatigues, tomeys General are being re-you> got built-in fail safe^ uintd This^ani thft scor

against anyoni ever htlping the professional army officers set up a military dictatorship.

I hate to say this, Jimmy, but you make a pretty good argument for continuing (Continued On Pag 5)

es of government lawyers hired by John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson are stay i ng on.

Moreover, top - rank Justice Department job - holder the directors of Prisons, (Continued On Page f)

Thank God for tha iron in the blood of our fathers. Theodore Roosevelt.

Strength For Today

canamic Restraint Is Evident

ALL IMPORTANT WORD

The word conscience come* from two Latin word* which mean with know, ledfi. Conscience is that inner stp.se of right or wrong linked with a (eeling of obj-gatien to (jo what i right and reject what ia wrong. Hence it is the inner faculty to decide on the moral quality of one's thoufhts or acts and to impel him to the direction of right d<!ifi(S

There is pe more dangerous

person In all tha world Uian a per.son without a conscience He can d any vil act and justify it. Hitler murdered millions of people and did so with the blatant declaration that he was doing this to the good of the world. It wa hli lie was establishing would ex-i.st for a thousand years. It

lasted less than a decade and constitute on* of the moit tragic periodi in human history.

The student who will not cheat in an examination has i conwience. The person who will not dip now and again into immoral conduct with the Justification that such acts art natural, life being a it i, ha a conici-nce. Modern busine* would bt wrecked within a few months were it not for the fact that with rar exception bu.sines.Kinen are lumest.

The choici which conscience imposes upon one is often hard to endura. It ji easy to do evil and frequently very hard to do right But i* a thing right? If it is, it must be done.

If it 15 wrong, it must be ra-

jected.

Thus speaks conscience.

By ELMER ROESSNER

It is significant that the independent and unbiased National Industrial Conference Board has become bearish in it* outlook.

In a report released this week, it declared that t h e bootn and monetary and fiscal restraint are moving toward a dramatic collision. Tliat could mean a recession.

It explained that the tax surcharge, government spending cut* and high Interest rate* have sapped much of the energy from personal consumption, and mav srton' affect housing, capital goods and inventories.

The degrae of restiaint now confronting private business is about as savere as at any tima since World War II, lays the report, written by Albert T. Sommers, direc^ tor of the boarda economic research.

Sees Buying Slowed

Meanwhile, Dr. Martin R. Gainsburgh, senior vice presi

dent of the board, speaking at the annual economic preview of the Naional Bank of Norto America, declared tjiat higher personal taxes art slowing consumption expeaditur-es a bit.

If that is true, it is not apparent from Department of Commerce weekly report* on retain sale, which have shown sales censistaotly higher than a year ago.

Dr. Gainsburgh added, Private fixed invetmnt, in contrast, has spurted, with even further growth foreshadowed. In addition, government perchases are qlso advancing, particularly at the tato and local level. In, response to this current and prospective strength erf end-product demand the gross ns-tional product may rise by another 6.5 to 7 per cant this

yar, '*

This nations trade sur-pl 5 is shrinking under a flood of imports.

Sees Disinflation

He added, A less expansionary monetary policy is finally being involvad in an integrated attack on Inflation. Ci-edit restraint jototd with surtaxes. Fidtrtl expenditure control and maintenance of a balnced budget could produce disinflation in the months ahead.

^ Given some easing in de fense expenditures, this might permit the Fodaral Rserve to begin relaxing cro-dit by mid - year, with some subsequent decline In interest rati*, praaently at record higrs.

In his report, Sommers said that the overriding questions are now as much psychologi-cal and political as they are economic.

Ho added that the ky indicator d u r I n f upcoming months will be me consumer price index. Unjes* it can bo slowed from Its recent record pace, it is very dilfieult to see bow labor nofotlatiens ahead in 1969 cqp begin to settle (jowa toward a sustainable rolatjoosblp to productivity gain*.

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$8 BtiiJon Availahio 9For Borrowing this Yeai*

Dr. Kenneth H. Wright, chief ocoQonift for the L i f o Insurance Association of Aniorlci, predicts that the supply of credit available to the United States this year wll bo about |a billion lose than lait year.

If inflation slows in the latter half of the year, he said, tha Ffderal Rastrvo may ro-lax its tight-money policy.