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Decided Outcome Sound Judgment

for iS ?? commended In the case of Councilman Aldridge and Mayor

A nravinM. ction Tucsday m which it rescind- King, these two officials faced such a situation. In onrifiT a PHvately financed refer- initial action on the matter of a privately financed

enaum on the question of public housing. referendum. Councilman Aldridge voted in favor

Rescinding the earlier action reflected sound of the proposed election and Mayor King abstained and jnatoe j^gment on the part of threemembers from- voting. At Tuesday^s meeting Coiincttman ^ 01 the Council who voted, in effect, not to have a Aldridge and Mayor King both voted against hold- * second referendum on the question, financed by a another referendum. They were joined by special interest group. Councilman Brimley who had previously voted

The decision was influenced by additional in- question,

formation presented at the meeting regarding the Thus, the previous preposterous action of the

citys participation in other federal matching-fund governing body was wiped out by a three to

programs. It is our guess that some members of the which mature, sound judgment deter-

Council have also given careful consideration to fbe outcome.

the previous action and seriously questioned the . This latest action, in our opinion* is in the best wisdom of setting a precedent of privately financed of the city and its^citizens. We commend

elections on issues that already had been voted on members of the Council who voted to rescind by citizens in a previous referendum. earlier action of that body.

Obviously it took more courage on the part )f these members ofdhe Council to vote to rescind the earlier action of the body than to take the action m.the first place. Few people relish the idea of frankly acknowledgingeven in the light of new information that has altered their opinionthat they may have not acted wisely in taking a particular public stand on an issue. Rarer still is the office holder who will openly acknowiedge mistaken judgment at one point and sincerely alter his vote to what he believes to be in the best interest of the community he is elected to serve.

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OPENThe floor is open for any candidate for governor In 1964 to ase forth and be the first.

The field was left wide open and possibly inviting over the past weekend when former Oov. Luther H. Hodges declar* (Id htoself Dut.^ .

Hodges spoke In Charlotte aajing he has no plans In politics beyond his present post of Secretary of Commerce In the Kennedy cabinet.

Ostensibly the question was P(ed and Hodges statement was prapared because of speculation arising from Ho(^es recent book. The former governor makes a number of suggestions and statements on the office of governor of North Carolina and conduct of that office.

The Hodges statement that he does not intend to seek another term, presumably is flat and flnal and is being accepted as such. There are those who Mish he had not sounded s< final. Tlcre are those who wonder why he felt it necessary to say no so firmlyand so soon. And there are those who may be relieved.

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served In some official capacity until their deaths. These included Kerr Scott, WlUls Smith. Clyde Hoey, WliUam B. Um stead and others. Thc^ have been (Hber Influentiai figures who did not die in office and who might qualify as an authoritative political advisor, but their influence faded over the

clear the air. It obviously was timed and handled in such a way as to shift attention away from Hodges and to focus it on the congressional candidates Hodges had come back home to help during heated campaigns.

In doing this, Hodges also attempted to lay at rest a question about timing of the Hodges book Itself, published in the middle of a Pall political campaign. That, he said, was not his doing but was handled by the publisher.

It was, he indicated, coincidence more than anything else just as it was coincidence that the book was published on the tenth anniversary of Hodges announcing that be was a candidate tor lieutenant-governor. That was the retired business executives first venture into politics.

DIFFICULT - It Is difficult for Raleigh political observers to visualize Luther Hodges in the role of elder statesman. This may be. they concede, because North Carolina really has had so few of these In the past two decades.

North Carolinas dominant political flgures of this period most C them at any rate were active in public office or

It is apparent then that despite Hodges removing himself from the picture insofar as future office-holding may be concerned, speculation is going to continue about his role in Tar Heel politics and about the influence he will have.

The same will be true a year from now about Terry Sanford, as it was during the years and months prior to Hodges leaving the governor s office in January. 1961.

QUIETThe premise that the time may be ripe for someone to become a bona fide candidate for the 1964 primaries may be in error.

It is trlie that four years ago things were shaping up for the 1960 campaign on a more solid basis than is now apparent. It was well known for example that Terry Sanford would be a

would get in the race. Another group had its eye oti Malcolm Seawell,

The man who ran second In 1960. Dr. I. Beverly Lake, was then as he Is now, not ciommit-ted to run but was being urged to run and was giving it thought.

Chances are being assessed by a number of potential candidates for 1964 but It would be premature to say that any one of them has made a definite decision at this time.

It is more than likely that things will remain quiet for a few months longer possibly unt Springbefore the announcements start coming.

IMMEDIATEMore immediate pohflcali nterest is centered In the Congressional races and especially in three key ones, the Eighth, Ninth and 11th districts.

Both parties are banging away with their biggest artillery in these areas and the next two weeks may bring some of the liveliest campaigning In the states recent political history.

These are the Kltchln-Jonas race In the Eighth, the Alexan-der-BroyhlU cwitest In the Ninth and the Ta.vlor-Brown contest in the 11th. There are other congressional contests, but these are the highlights.

Waterways Continue Undeveloped Resoui^ce

Eastern North Carolina, which has evidenced considerable interest in its transportation facilities, has given practically no attention to the development of one of its natural arteries . . , waterwAys

^ Most counties and communities throughout the section have taken great interest in improving air tiansportation for the area, expanding and improving the highway system of the section, and even striving to improve or at least maintain rail service at its present level.

For the most part however, little attention has been given by local governments to developing the waterways of Eastern Carolina into transportation networks. To be sure, there is traffic moving north and south on the inland waterway of the state, but little active interest has been evidenced in develop- Ry HAL BOYT E ing inland ports and river traffic. This is true at the local government level in this section, and it is also true on the state*^ level if active interest of the State Ports Authority is any barometer.

Eastern North Carolina recognizes its waterways as one of its great natural resources that assure potential development of the region. For too many years, however, it has paddled aimlessly in the backwaters and eddies where development qf transportation on these w^aterways is concerned.

From time to time a few local governments such as Greenville and Pitt Countyhave activated small inland ports, but for the most part they lingered for relatively short periods and then \vere njt used. No intensive area-wide effort to develop water transportation has been put forth by counties and communities with potential for water traffic.

. It is time, we think, for the Eastern Carolina area to give serious consideration to its potential for developing its waterways as transportation arteries. It is time for collective exploration of the subject by counties and communities that are located on rivers which might be used for traus-portation. Since these counties and communities* have in the past gained little success through haphazard individual action, the moment may be' right

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Wives Puzzle Everybody

NEW YORK AP) All women are puzzling, but some wor men are more puzzling than others.

These arc calld wives.

A man generally feels he knows a girl until he merries her. It is then she begins to grow mysteri(His, confusing and unpredictable.

Just what Is this elusive quality about wives that sometimes enchants, sometimes annoys, and always befuddles their husbands

To be specific, I asked 32 husbands to give a one-sentence reply to this question: What is the thing you find hardest to understand about your w^ife

Well, the husbands had been in bondage from periods varying from four months to 39 years, and their answers showed a wide, wide range.

The four-month husband expressed surprise that his bride

views on everything from the outcome of movies to the Personalities of people and the expenses of furnishing an apartment.

Chastened by experience, the 39-year veteran in marital harness wondered cHily, W h y wont my wife pay my club dues like (^her wives do?

Gallantry is by no means dead in husbands. Seven, married from Ui years to 37, voiced profound gratitude. They were humbly surprised that their wives had married them in the first place and, in the second place, had remained married to them after finding out their faults.

Said the 37-year husband: I still cant understand why she tries to break her neck trying to please me so help me!

, 23-year husband: What I don-dont understand is how my w'ife has managed to stay so dumb. She still thmks every-

11-year husband: Why will she beHeve iomethlnf Ive been telling her for years only when she tears it from someone

else?

21-year husband: Why does she .still talk so much? What Is there left for her to say?

25-year husband: Why is she 80 completely sure that she Is always cwnpletcly right?

35-year husband: Why Is it she never admits she made a mistake?

14-year husband: What I don-dont understand about her is yhy she dont understand me. Ive been around Icmg enough.

One husband had an odd complaint: Why docs she trust me so much when I tell her Im going to spend a night out with the boys? Weve only been married 28 years.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1962, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

The Ecumenical Council, now being held In Rome, will not solve all human or even religious questions immediately. Nevertheless, it is a glorious effort on the part of a courageous and humane Pope, who denies exclusivity and seeks a path to human brotherhood in an era of rising luUe.

The Sec(md Vatican Council, as it will be called, meets to survey three great problems and to find, if possible, a road to a soluticHi of each;

1. The problem of unity in the Christian world If not final dogmatic unity, at any rate, an avoidance of anger In dissent and a posture of gentle-,., ness to all who believe In Christianity. Under such a Pope as John XXIU. this could be extended to all who accept God, the Natural Law and the hope for redemption, namely, the Jews and the Moslems, Against such a union of forces, the poison of atheistic Marxism would be dissipated;

2. The reformation within the Catholic Church not dogma but customs and rituals which no lOTiger fit the times. In this respect, many reforms have already taken place and more will undoubtedly come out of the studies that are being made by various commlssi(xui. The Christian Church existed mostly in rural communities or In cities which were principally marketplaces. Today,.- with laborers working around the clock, with the automobile altering the homelife, with secular education taking the place of church-controlled schools, with families in big c^des being. unsJsle to support or to house large families, with the increasing demand for the use of the vernacular In ritual, so that laymen may follow the Mass, and the additional demand for more lay participatloQ in church affairs these are only indexes to the changes which will undoubtedly be considered.

Some of these changes may not be popular with all the clhr-gy, particularly with those who always reject change of any kind. The Council will therefore not be altogether peaceful, although it is doubtful whether the public will know what goes on in the committees and commissions.

This much Is certain. The Council would not have been called at all were not some bridge to be erected which would make It easier for the schismatic churches If not to re

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By JOHN ABNEY MEXICO CITY Now that art and culture are the rage everywhere we might as weD examine one of the more occult facets of Mexicos ancient societies.

The particular phase we are' about to study began when.ChM Xolotl led his Chlchimeca tribe into the Valley of Mexico and served a permanent eviction notice on the Toltecs.

After that, the Chief called in his sages and ward heelers and told them to put up a pyramid and some temples and they would call the place Tenayuca.

Then he sat down with Lyndon Yacaxihuitl. his prime minister, and suggested it was high time the tribe developed something along cultural lines.

Great idea, Chief, said Lyndon. Anrthing specific?

The Chief thought it over and nodded. First of aU, you might as well start calling me King. Then, lets put out a coloring book on the tribe. Everybody is getting in the high brackets vlth something so we might as weU do It with culture. What on earth is a coloring book? the premier asked.

King Xolotl explained It roughly .and Lyndon wrote the first coloring book on the walls of the pyramid.

He chiseled a lot of trees and bushes on one of the rock slabs and wrote beneath them, These are plants that grow In our country. Paint them a country color.

The King said It was terribly corny and wouldnt do. He told Lyndon to jazz things up so everybody would get a solid laugh. The next day. Lyndon chiseled a picture of King Xolotl on another slab and beside him put a mule facing the opposite di

rection.

And beneath It he wrote. My boss is shown here. Guess which one he Is and paint him a King color.

The whole tribe went into hysterics laughing and the next day after services were held for LjTidcm, King Xolotl summoned his pubUc relations manager and explained to him what humor was.

This was the start of a fabulous industry which is stUl in the top social strata. The Chi-chimecas kept a running coloring book on their pyramid walls. Without jokes.

One of them is called The Chichimec Kings and has the whole royal lineage depicted. First comes Xolotl, then King Napaltzin. then a goat without a name (the artist didnt dare, a number of other rulers with astonishing names and finally a cactus.

Everybody was painted an ancient color except the goat which came out mauve.

The Aztecs picked up the Idea and published coloring books of their own. These were done on cow hides and embellished with feathers from flying serpents and had a much better quality paint.

About the time the Aztecs had things in a fur-lined groove, the Spaniards came along and captured the print shops. There have been many rumors spread that the Spaniards were here seekine gold. This Is not true. Why they really came was to take over the coloring book industry and get publicity for King Carlos V.

Within a short time after their arrival, the Spaniards were putting out extraordinary little books which sold for about 30 <Oontlnusd on Pagt 7)

(The Shreveport (La.) Times)*

It used to be that people with real alility couldnt be recruited into government because industry outbid what the taxpayer (via Congress) is willing to pay its employes. But if better pay attracts higher talent, federal employment must be the mecca of aU graduates these daysit is the highest in the nation.' The average salary v for government workers is $8-285 a year or some $200 more than the next highest paid category of American workers, those in the transportation industry. Even HoffaT cant keep up with federal pay raises.

But thats only half the .story. Without resort to guidelines, and despite his policy of insisting on non inflationary wage and price increase in key industry, Mr. Kennedy called on Congress for another round of raia-4(s for federal workers big raises. Congress has obliged with an 11 percent raise for postal employes beginning this month, with the remainder becoming effective early next year. The overall Increase for other federal employes la to run about 10 percent. AU first class postage goes up a penny in the process, but doesnt absorb the raises.

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wage Increases In industry is tied to productivity. So long as such raises dont get over 4 per cent, Mr. Kennedy thinks it will be aU right for industry to raise Its workers, too. But anything over that percent, he warns, would be inflationary. The unspoken corollary is that hiirac-tiwis of the rule may bring down the wrath of the government on offenderswho would probably qualify^is a ^'handful of wilful men, bent on negativing the sacrifices of service men and his own efforts to keep the economy healthy.

Theres stiU more. The Senate wage biU provides for the prom(^ion of many government employes to super grades, with super salaries to match. And Increased benefits for retired workers. This comes at a time when some government spokesmen want to limit the salary of a private individual working on government contracts to the amount that his bureaucratic confrere earns. Since this Is impracticable, the government has apparently decided to simply up the government employes pay to match. This makes for good feeling aU around.

Federal pay raises, it should be remembered, arent dependent on Cwigressional action alone. There are automatic raises buUt into the laws. AU in ^aU, the fantastic Increase In government employees since the war (there are now 2,500,000 more than there are farmers In the United States) and the pay raises have brought the monthly payroU to $1.191.000.-000 or almost double what

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Opinions 'h Brief

Perhaps the postal workers do deserve a pay increase, and if so its obliging of Congress to vote them one. still and aU, this is a mighty peculiar way to go about stamping out the postal dficit. 'Yt^ll Street Journal.

Public revulsion over the continuing rise in highway fatalities must be more militant than It now Is. The courts must take a more forceful look at speeders and reckless drivers Involved in non-fatal accidents. The Chatham News.

The office Carolina man denies half-heartedly that, in view of the football season so far, he has any specific candidate in mind to be the first man on the moon.'The Raleigh Times.

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Some of the less understanding Roman CathoUcs, particularly of this country, who have been taught to beUevc that their Church is the only true one, may be very puzzled at what Pope John is doing. They may wonder what Protestants are doing at this Vatican Council, even as observers. Their Pope realizes that an institution that is 20 centuries old occasionally needs refurbishing and the removal of cobwebs and barnacles.

Pope John XXni Is foUow-ing a wise tradition In caUing this CouncU at the mcHnent of ''the life and death struggle between Communism and Christianity, between materialism and Idealism, between enslavement and freedom. He is meeting his age as the Council of Trent (1545-1563) met its age.

3. FinaUy, the human mind cannot reject a century of scientific invention and discovery. We not (Hily know the whole of the Earth but we know beyond the Earth Into space. We shall soon sit on the moon and perhaps on other planets. We know more about genetics and many accepted notions about the nature^! Man are really primitive.

We also experience a curious phenomenon one very difficult to understand, namely, that the more we, know about the physical sciences, the less we know about Man and how Man is to govern himself individually and collectively. We can cure many forms of cancer and have wiped out numerous diseases, but more human beings than ever before suffer from various mental and moral disturbances. Peace and order are disappearing from the face of the Earth. ImmoraUties, which horrified less knowledgeable societies, are accepted in our era as. mere deviations from the normal, and shameless exhibition of impro-

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.actors Against Any Recession

Strength For Today

By ELMER ROESSNER

By EARL L. DOUGLABS LIGHT AND LIFE Dr. George A. Butterlck. one of the outstanding preachers of today, has declared that a man Is not made an atheist by his clever mind. He comes to atheism, declares Dr. Butterlck, because of his life's situation. If someone says to nr.', T don't believe in God,* I answer, TeU me what kind of a God you dont believe in. Maybe I dont beUeve in him either, and then we can comfort one another. One of the most amazing and incomprehensible realities is the frightful picture people sometimes have of God. He Is a wrathful avenger, a hard master, a bookkeeper who has jotted down all our sins and follies. Or again He is a far-away Being who having made the

earth left it to get along as best it can. There arl others for whom God is a sort of cloud or mist enveloping mankiiid and presumably influencing mankind helpfuUy.

If we want to know what God is like let us look at Jesus Christ. He is the setting forth of Gods character. He shows us in his own person the wiU and purpose of God. There is quite evidently much about God which we cannot understand and probably would never be able to understand. He is aU of God that we can understand and use.

It is hard to think of ones being an atheist when he looks at Christ and realised that here Is the perfect .etting forth of the Heaven] '^'^her. "In him was hah* " *he light was the life of men.

Several coming factors wlU do much to halt and possibly reverse the 1963 recession which so many economists are predicting today.

The most iraportint factor Is the promised cut in income taxes.

This, of course, Is stiU In the iffy stage. The White House favors it and has almost promised It. The u. S. Chamber of Commerce and APL-CIO leaders have urged it. And few Congressmen have the kidney to oppose it.

Nevertheless, it may not come through. A split In Congress over amount of cut, the duration of a cut and whom will get credit for saving the American pocketbook may stall the cut endlessly. /

Incidentally, note that If the cut is enacted -as a temporary measure, it wDJ more likely be for two years than for one.

No one. least of aU President Kennedy, wants a tax cut that turns In a tax raise In election year 1964.

A DOUBLE STIMULUS-

But if the cut is enacted and it probably wUl beit wl be a double tickler for the economy. The cut in taxes wUl immediately put more spending money in the hands of consumers and, If it applies to corporate income. Into the hinds of corporations.

Tlmt W1 be a certain stimulant to spending, hence tend to increase the demand factor.

Secondly, unless the tax cuts are offset by cuts In government spending (and they never are) they wUI be inflitlonary. When government Income fail* below tax collections (as during the war years), the difference must be made up by inflating the money supply, now usually by inflating borrowing. And this, as was clearly demonstrat

ed during the World War n and Korean War years, leads to higher prices and demands for higher wages. And if that isnt Inflation, it will do untU a better definition comes along. OTHER BLOCKS TO RECESSION

In Edition to the tax cut, new legislation and new Internal Revenue schedules permit business to speed up amortization of new plant faculties. How this works out has been related here before. For the moment, beUeve this: faster

amortization, by granting, tax concessions, encourages corporations to spend more money for capital Improvement, and that helps to speed up the economy.

Another block to recession is the demand for autos. The year 1962 Is a whopper: 1963 may be even better.

Auto sales generate quite f lot of business. There are profits for dealers and manufacturers; there Is employment for

auto workers and thousands of suppUera; there are jobs for salesmen and mechanics, and business is generated all over again when the car buyer drives into a gas station and orders a Uter or two.

There are still other roadblocks to a recession in 1963:

The inevitable rise in defense spending; the certain rise in space efforts, which will continue untU we surpass the Russians: the necessary rise In expenditures for education and schools untU we overtake the Russians In this ildd too; and the continuation (^he highway program.

There may be other things: new equivalents of mah jongg, bow^g, boating and other sports and relaxations that have so strengthened the economy since the end of World War II. In fact. Instead of wasting your time reading this column, why dont you invent the next billion-dollar fad to sweep the U.S.A.?