Friday, November 16, 1962

A Significant Day In Tax History

White Elephant?

Today, though it may seem much like any other day, is in reality a day of significance in modem history in the United States, It will be remembered as the day when the temporary, wartime travel tax of World War II was wiped off the government's books.

In an era in which temporary taxes have become for the most part a permanent part of the structure, it is seldom that one dies . . . even after 20 years in its temporary status.

World War II ended some 17 years ago, but the wartime travel tax, like so many other temporary measures adopted to help pay the increased cost of war, lingered long after the wartime emergency ended. The 10 per cent tax added to the cost of commercial travel fares, siphoned more than $100 million annually into the federal coffers . . . well o\%r a billion dollars from pocl^^ts of taxpayers in the years since World War II ended.

It was just a couple of years agoas moat remember^that the wartime amusement tax was allowed by Congress to die. To a great extent, however, many of the emergency taxes imposed during the early years of the w^ar remain valid, their supposedly temporary status of earlier years rendered almost meaningless.

To these wartime taxes that are still with us have been added other temporary levies to meet certain situations. Several years ago an extra tax

Speculation On 1963 Candidates

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

CANDIDATES The circle is Widening in speculatlmi about possible Democratic candidates for the governorship in 1963.

Instead of narrowing the field, what happened in the recent general elections served to stimulate the search for suitable, willing candidates and gave it added urgency.

The list of possibilities has ballocmed during the past week, and the field is more wide open than ever.

This is not an unusual situation. It is. In effect, the start of the season for speculation, for choosing and selectinir and then grooming the entries who will come forth in late Spring or summer.

MEETING A meeting this week at a private retreat near Black Mountain is expected to have Influence on the decision of Dr. Henry Jordan of Cedar Palls, a man who has been waiting for a decade for his bid to be governor.

Now may be the time Jordan has been biding.

His decisi(Hi. of course, will depend on many factors but primarily on the questlcm of backing and support. Jordan, who was State Highway chairman during the Kerr Scott administration. Is Identified with that political group.

He is the brother of Sen. B. Everett Jordan and may receive the backing of textile interests and other industrialists.

OTHER Another possibili-ty who might win favor irwn former Scott friends and from the states farm voters is Scotts son, Robert Scott, of Haw River.

Scott, already master of the State Grange and a member of the State C&D board, has many factors in his favor. He is being mentioned frequently although he has given no indication about whether he would be interested in 1964.

Apparently nothing happened 1 Nov. 6 to discourage or sway Dr. I. Beverly Lake of Raleigh, and Lake for governor groups continue to make plans if and when the time comes he announces his intentions.

There are other previously mentioned possibilities in the background, all of whom will be testing the political winds. Several new names, among them Rep. Basil Whitener of Gastonia. have been added.

The urgency in choosing and aligning a solid front an(t. if possible, avoiding damaging primary splits arises from the increased indications that Republican Charles R. Jonas will run for governor in 1964 and recog-

nititti that he would be a formidable candidate.

IDENTIFY Some political observers describe the portrait of a North Carolina Republican as that of a new breed. Others disagree, sasdng there really is little that is new.

It is agreed that the image of a North Carolina Republican which emerged after Nov. 6 as something to be reckoned with on the state political scene.

But there is questim as to whether it is entirely new, or w'hether it just wears a new face.

As for Identifying the Republican element, most observers feel it must be a composite picture.

One veteran Deniocrat, Secretary of S(,aie Thad Eure, contends that the Republicans have no distinguishing features except that these days they dont have the droopy face they usually have.

SANFORD Governor Sanford, in effect, feels that the rise of the Republican in North Carolina comes about as a result of growth and progress growth and progress achieved, he says, nder Democratic administrations,

Sanford says it is natural for political thinking to become more divided as the states economy and way of life becomes more diverse. But as long as the Democrats remain vital and remain positive, Sanford feels there is no danger of losing state offices to the GOP.

Sanford predicts that the Democrats would remain the majority party in the state ior many years to come.

TWO-PARTY Democrats contend also that Republican claims of establishing a two-party system in North Carolina involves merely a change in label, at least to a great extent. The Democrats insist that, in effect, North Carolina has had competitive two - party politics for many years and point to the Democratic primaries as proof.

The main thing that has happened. they say, is that some of the dissent, some of the protest element, some of the so-called Independent thinkers crossed over. Sanford said that these are less ashamed to admit they are Republicans, While recognizing the Republican gains. Democrats are contending that they achieved at least one important goal in the 1962 elections which they want to encourage. This, as one Democratic spokesman put it, was to get Republican candidates to identify themselves as Republicans.

was added to gasoline temporarily for the federal highway program, but it has been renewed temporarily by Congress each time it has been about to expire.

On previous occasions we have been critical of the temporary tag that Congress has added to certain new tax levies. Perhaps we owe an apology to the solons in Washington about our criticism of their use of the word temporary in connection with tax levies.

After all, the temporary, wartime transportation tax is dead less than two decades after the wat ended. At least some of the people who witnessed its inception as a temporary tax lived to see it die . . . at least temporarily.

Lanier Has Opened The Eyes Of Many People

Insurance Commissioner Edwin Laniers investigation into the auto insurance financing business has opened the eyes of a great many people in North Carolina including those of many reputable and conscientious insurance agents.

Abuses such as those so far brought out in the investigation cannot be tolerated in the state, and we are certain that the majority of insurance agents in the state would not want them tolerated. It is a case, however, of an abusive practicewhich takes advantage of people in difficult situationsgaining a foothold before it is stopped.

After the investigation is completed, firm action should be taken against those people who have overcharged for auto liability insurance, have added bogus points to drivers* records in filling out insurance applications or engaged i nother unethical practices.

In part, at least, the practices on the part of some people in the auto insurance financing business have contributed to complaints about the increased cost of auto liability insurance under the state's compulsory program.

Commissioner Lanier has moved forcefully to protect the people of North Carolina through the current investigation. We trust the in\^stigation will be followed by equally forceful moves by the com-mi.^sion to make sure the abuses which have been brought to light aie stamped out in the state.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON <AP - What seemed simple is sticky. What looked calm is disturbed. And Fidel Castro, who w-asnt talked to, became very talkative. That's the story three weeks after the Cuban crisis reached the explosive point.

If the picture isnt completely ugly now, it's far from pretty. In fact, its a mess. And the reported new offer by Soviet Premier Khrushchevwith many conditions attached to pull his jet bombers out of Cuba hasnt helped to untangle the situation.

It appeared clear from last months letter to exchange of President Kennedy and Khrushchev that they agreed:

1. Russia would demolish its missile sites in Cuba and take its missiles back home.

2. A U. N. team would conduct on-site inspection in Cuba to be sure Cubas offensive weapons w'ere truly removed.

But all this apparently was an-anged between the President and the premier without asking Castro how he felt about letting . N. inspectors roam around Cuba. He put in his two cents in a hurry.

When U Thant, the acthig U. N. secretary - general went to Cuba to arrange for the inspection, he talked with Castro two days and then returned to New York. His U. S. inspectors returned wdth him Castro would have nothing to do with them.

Khrushchev hustled his first deputy premier. Anastas I. Mikoyan, over to see Castro. Hes been In Cuba almost two weeks. But what agreement the two men reached, if any, is still not knowTi.

Meanwhile Castro laid down demands of his own without promising anything. He wants the United States not only to end its offensive arms blockade of Cuba but to abandon its naval base at Guantanamo. The United States won't even listen to this.

The only check on Cuba has been by American planes taking photographs. This country was satisfied the Russians were dismantling the missile bases.

And the . S. NavT has confirmed that Russian ships have hauled away 42 missile-like objects but the Russians didnt let the Navy see them all individually.

But thats a long way from the U. N. inspection team Kennedy seemed to kave in mind for shocking in Cuba itself to see that no missiles w^ere left for checking in Cuba itself to behind for possible use some

So the inspection problem is up in the air. So is another one the question of bombers.

President Kennedy made it clear to Khrushchev that Soviet jet bombers as well as Soviet missiles would have to be removed from the island. But authoritative sources who reported Khrushchevs new offer to take back the planes say that he attached so many Ifs that a prompt settlement is not seen by U. S. negotiators.

No one in the United States Is pretending to know what happened between Castro and Mikoyan. It looks like a fair bet that Cuban - Russian relations are In a mess, too.

At the United Nations, where Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson and his American team have been negotiating with the Russians there have been no indications of progress.

Kennedy could lend a lot of Illumination on all this if he held a news conference and either made a statement or answered questions. But he hasnt held one since Sept. 13 long before the crisis boiled up.

He may think Its too soon or too delicate for statements yet.

And on top of all this the Kennedy administration appears to be self-conscious about what looked like a presidential pledge not to invade Cuba if the offensive weapons were withdrawn and inspection was permitted.

Kennedy never spelled out the pledge In detail publicly. If he had. it might seem like a life insurance policy for Castro, leaving him free in many directions to stir up trouble in Latin America without fear of U. S. reprisal.

Wednesday (in (Chicago^ 'Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson made a speech which attempted to explain what Kennedy did and didnt mean by his pledge not to invade Cuba. An aide said the speech had been cleared by the State Department.

Part of it could be interpreted as meaning the United States wouldnt stop anyone else from invading Cuba. But this isnt exactly clear.

Its kinda weird.

For six days of the week, (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday), our smallfry find it difficult to shake loose from their pillows when its time to get up.

Why not on Saturdays?

Because on Saturdays there is no school or church. . .thats why.

But that isnt the reason they give, . .no indeed.

Im sleepy, they say on six mornings of the week; but on Saturdays they are awake before anybody.

Sure. . .weve played It cagey.

You can stay up a whole half-hour later than your regular bedtime, we would say on Friday evenings. And, as like as not, after being bedded down for fifteen or twenty minutes, one of the tykes would come padding out of a bedroom and wordlessly snuggle down in a chair before the TV . . .or watch their Ma working, or their Pa staring at a typewriter.

After awhile comes the explanation: I couldnt sleep;

anyhow, its Friday. So an extra half-hours grace is allowed before the second tucking-in.

But regardless of all this, theyre up with the birds on Saturday.

Respectively, the twosome are aged five and seven; so the Why - wont - you - let - me -sleep? line on every day except Saturday is relatively new (on their part, that is; Ive used it for years). '

Before our firstborn began his kindergarten term the early-rising bit was a pain in the neck. Parents just cant rest easily when two small people are running loose in the house. So we had to get up then, too.

. Watching sunrises is A-OK when practicing the eariy-to-bed adage; but w'ho wants to go to bed with the chickens?

Nowadays it is a different story. Except on Saturdays.

Its a phase, I suppose.

There was the 2:(X) a.m. feeding phase; then the getting up in the middle of the wee hours to Insure the babes were well

covered; which was followed by the Daddy, the sun is beginning to shine again phase. And now, Why wont you let me sleep?

This last phase can probably be expected to last Indefinitely.

Veterans of the parental role say I havent seen anything yet.

Theres no place to hide.

Opinions !n Brief

You see pictures of people standing by, ready to grab the pen when the President signs some bill or other. Wonder what ever happens to the pens used to sign things like the draft act or raising taxes. Lexington Leader.

Oth^r Editors Saying A Fine Memoria!.

The climate of our slang has changed. Its certain, as a rule, that everything that Dad called hot his youngest son calls cool. Huntsville (Ala.) Times.

(Mt. Olive Tribune)

Out of the recent tragic accident in which three Goldsboro high school students were killed, has come a development which could outdo all laws and the planning of the nations experts. In one of the schools, some girls formed a group whose announced purpose was to discourage speed and recklessness in their escorts through eveiT means possible. They would refuse to date, or ride with any boy who did not practice careful driving habits. They made it known that with them, nobody could be popular who tried to impress them wdth handling an automobile in a dangerous fashion.

Those young ladies have shown a remarkable understanding of a problem, the solution of which has sadly and tragically escaped those of us in the supervisory ages. They have shown us the greatest weapons, perhaps, against needless deaths and maiming among young people. That this group needs particular attention is verliied by the Insurance penalty paid on an automobile when driven by a boy under 25 years of age.

If this idea of making reckless driving unpopular could become one of the fads that periodically sweep the young people across the nationIf it could become the thing to do it would have more effect than all the patrolmen you

could put on the road. Young people like to be with the crowd, to belong, to take part in what others their age are doing. Quite often, the thing that is popular doesnt need any special merit other than the fact that everybody's doing it. If the resolution of this group of girls could spread and become popular, then safe driving habits would be the goal of every young driver. The saving of lives in the future, as these habits were carried into adulthood, can only be imagined.

No young driver goes out on the road with the intention of losing control of his car. Ignorance of what he Is dealing with is at the bottom of it. He has no idea of the awesome force Involved in moving two tons of steel at a high rate of speed. He toys with speed, as he might with a deacily snake, getting bolder with familiarity until the deadly strike. Speed Is like that, fascinating, stealthy, and unexpectedly deadly. The moment of lost control comes just as swiftly as the snakes strike.

Youngsters, as well as older drivers, often cannot understand this fact. But, they do understand popularity and naturally desire it. Thats why we commend those Goldsboro high girls, and wish for them continued courage smd determination in their efforts. And, may the idea spread like wildfire.

There is more to the strength of our industrial system than the balance and sales sheets, important as these are. A very big element is faith the faith of great numbers of that It is the system we mean people that it is a good system, to keep and that, periodic ups and downs aside, it is going to grow and become better. Industrial News Review.

Isnt the fact that 12,000 people are kept from earning their paycheck by a massed picket line just as serious an infringement upon constitutional rights as the act of Mississippi in trying to keep James Meredith out of i university?? Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News.

The government wants to know how best to plan to meet the recreational needs of this country. The answer to the question? (Set ready for a surprise, for the major recreational activity of people in the United States is not swimming, walking, riding bikes or even baseball. Its riding around in the family car. Albert Lea (Minn.) Tribune.

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A Yeari For 3 Entries

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

The past election ' haa come up with three Republican Governors who are possible Presidential candidates In 1964. It has also killed (At a presidential possibility. Richard Nixon, who talked himself out of public life by an unccmtroUed display of bitterness in defeat. Americans are not supposed to take their defeats too seriously.

The three Governors are Rockefeller of New Yoiic, Romney of Michigan and Scranton of Pennsylvaxiia. About Nelson Rockefeller we know a great deal. He has been in the public eye since the Franklin D. Roosevelt Adminlstratian. He is politically keen, an able administrator but over-eager. Thus his philosophy (xf Hie or of politics is not clear except that he regards himself as a liberal.*

It grows increasingly difficult to know what a liberal is. President Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are liberals; so how will they contend against each other? It could only be on two grounds: 1. Rockefeller say that he would do the thing more efficiently than Kennedy; 2. Kennedy will say that he canncxt.

George Romney we know nothing about politically except that he was elected Governor of Michigan on an anti-Walter Reuther ticket. He is a businessman. He will have about a year to show what he amounts to. Politics and business are not identical or similar operations. The businessman has greater latitude, particularly i he has a successful operation. The politician deals primarily with the control of men. He is chosen by a vote; he exists by popular goodwill.

William Scranton comes from an old Pennsylvania family after whom the city was named. He. like Romney, will have a chance for about one year to establish a record as an administrator.

I say a year, because after that he will be a candidate and will have to act like a candidate which Is very different from acting like an administrator. Whether you like it or not, candidates do and say many things that represent forensic exaggerations. For Instance, I do not know what Governor Rockefeller likes to eat, but surely it is not knish. Yet, he goes Into paits of New York where knish and heavy garlic salami are prevalent and ha eats it to show that he can min- ^ gle with all kinds of people. It makes for popularity. It establishes him as a good guy.

In discussing candidates for 1964, we must not forget Harry Goldwater. He has built an enormous personal following, particularly in the South and the West. Certainly, Barry Goldwater will not be Ignored in the 1964 Republican Convention. He may not get the PreS^-idential nomination but any candidate would be pleased to have him as a Vice Presidential candidate because he would be an asset.

So the Republicans stand In 1962 as regards to 1964. Much can happen between now and then, but the consensus is

among the professionals in both parties that in 1964 John F. Kennedy will be re-elected. It

would take a national catastrophe to bring on his defeat. Despite the fact that newspapermen find many ways of joking about him and debite the further fact, that fault can be found with him as Impetuous

or as too slow, about not be

ing able to make up his mind or as being too intemperate in his language or manner, he nevertheless Is very popular with the American people as the vote in the .1962 election showed. If he canmaintain this popularity until 1964, no one will be able to defeat him for a second term. An unpopular w'ar or a harmful depression during the next two years could help the Republicans.

Because of this situation, possible Republican candidates for the Presidency will think twice about 1964. Each will do everything possible to keep his name before the public in every part of the country, but as they get closer to convention time each will consider whether he will sacrifice himself. Both parties have learned that bringing (Continued on Page 6)

Two See New Farm Bill Threat

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WHEN LIFE GROWS DARK

Despondency has probably always plagued the mind.s and spirits of men and women at least a survey of ancient literature as well as a reading of modem newspapers and magazines would convince one of this fact. Sometimes despondency has a physical basis such as over-eating or loss of sleep. At other times it comes from a too anxious and apprehensive nature. Again *lt is the result of what modem psychiatry terms guilt complexes. "suppressions. emotional Instability.

A writer several centuries ago wrote the following:

I entreat you, give no place to despondency. This is a dangerous temptation, a refined, not a gross temptation of the adversary. Melancholy contracts and withers the heart, and renders it unfit to receive

the impressions of grace. It magnifies and gives a false coloring to objects, and thus render your burdens too heavy to bear. God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are Infinitely wise.

People should not worry along with worry year after year. They should resolutely take hold of their disturbed state of mind or spirit and do something about it. And do something they certainly can. Some people have to fight despondency throughout the whole of their lives. Psychiatrists and other physicians are able to give helpful sngges-tioas on matters such as these. So are clergymen of all faiths.

But above all, you can be your own \ best physician in tnis regard. Take hold of your de-pre.ssed state of mind and do not let it go until you have achieved improvement. For improvement. frequently complete cure, Is indeed possible.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The new farm bill is giving the Federal government a tighter grip on the American economy. it has been charged by two unlike authorities.

Jim Low, spokesman for the National Association of Manufactures. told the National In-- stltute of Farm Brokers, meeting in Detroit this week, that the new law, although called a compromise, is actually one more step down the road to centralized control of everything from Washington.

Karl Brandt, director of the Stanford University Food Research Institute, declared that tight government control of agriculture fosters political corruption and undermines the Wests position in the cold war,

Low told the brokers, The only people who seem to benefit from the new farm legislation PTC the bureaucrats and gove 1 meut workers who will administer the program. He added that the number of gov-

emment employees increased by 158,000 in the past two years and that the Federal deficit is rising.

Industry, he said, believes any agriculture program should be directed toward an eventual return of the free market.

Economist Brandt, formerly a member of President Eisenhowers Council of Economic Advisors, was much more caustic in his remarks. He denounced the neo-fundamentalists in the U. S. Department of Agriculture. who assume that farmers are unable to adjust their production to the demands of the free market,

Policies to preserve a harmonious, self-reliant, family-centered agrarian setting Immune to the severity of the competitive market, he said, have been replaced by a neo-fundamentalism that tries to marshal the political support needed for central government control and supposedly scientifically accurate direction of a farm system w'hlch behave.s like a single, effectively policed,

compulsory super-cartel. . . UNDERMINES WESTS GREATEST ASSET

While they may not realize it, they are the ones who seek to assemble the tools of the power state. . .Theyre streamlined. feudal and patriarchal creed undermines the Wests greatest asset in the cold war our capacity to create abundant food supplies through freely operated farm enterprises. . .

What the people of this earth are striving for. . .is the chance to^lead a decent private life, to develop their individual talents, to demonstrate responsibility in an atmosphere of respect for human dignity. This is what Americans have always understood as the pursuit of happiness.

It requires the separatlim of politics from ecxxiomlc pursuits, decentralization of decision making and maximum safeguards against the corruption of political administration by unlimited opportunities for economic windfalls.

Dr. Brandt then added tbia

scorcher:

Shooting astronauts into orbit may be the new opiate for the people, the tranquilizer that makes them forget the unfathomable ocean of misery caused by a scientifically run, planned economy. But behind the ma-chinegun studded walls of shame, the state-run economy starves millions of good Chinese fellow citizens of the world, as it has previously starved millions of Ukrainian and Russian farm families.

SQME DISCOUNT STORES TO' OPEN ON THANKSGIVING

Two discount chains that opened on last Thanksgiving Day are planning to open on the holiday this year, and other discounters are studying the situation. At least one discount chain announced it would not open regardless of what competitors do. While Washingtons Birthday and Election Day have, become tremendous sales days,* many merchants feel that selling on Thanksgiving would antagonize many patrons.

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