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Friday, January 25, 1963

Complexity Of Recommendations

More Than He Bargains For

Now that the President has spelled out his proposals for tax reductions and revisions, the complicated and politically controversial nature of the recommendations are more evident than ever.

Aside from the basic economic questions of deficit spending now to produce anticipated surpluses in the future the political considerations surrounding recommended tax changes arel likely to become paramount. There are proposed changes which will affect every segment of the American society, and it is a good guess that each of these segments and interests will want to be heard on some of the proposed changes.

Stricter limits, for example, would be imposed on the amount individual taxpayers can deduct from their federal income taxes for the.p^yment of state and local taxes. These proposals are certain to be of concern to levels of government below the federal level for they pose an indirect threat to local and state government revenues. Stricter limits, also, aie proposed for charitable deductions that can be claimed in federal income tax returns, and here again churches, colleges and other charitable institutions and groups have a direct interest just as the individual taxpayer does.

Most, but not all, older taxpayers would realize

a tax savings under the proposed changes, and this is certain to bring debate as members of Congress show increasing consideration for the growing' percentage of Senior Citizens among the nations population. - .

* While these are but a few examples of where the recommended changes may pinch rather than be a boon to individuals and groups, they are sufficient to indicate the complexity of the recommendations. They are also sufficient to suggest there will be far from unanimous opinion that all the recommended changes should be adopted by Congress.

It will take time for Congress to consider in detail all the recommendations. It will take even more time for all of the interested groupsor their representativesto be heard before committees of the House and Senate. Because of this the idea of quick action by Congress has to be severely discounted. It is highly questionable whether final action can be taken on the tax revisions during the current session in spite of administration pressure to have the changes effective at some point during the current year.

As the recommendations are considered in greater depth by Congress and by individual tax payers, the rose colored picture of tax benefits for everybody is likely to become less and less rosy to manv viewers.

Woodrow Jones indicative^ Of Is Interested Growth over

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State

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

JONES Woodrow W. Jones of Rutherfordtwi is a man out of the West who just might decide to become politically active again as a candidate for governor hi 1964.

Hes Interested, but hasnt decided definitely.

Jones has a wealth of prior political experience, having served in Congress from 1950 to 1957, and later as chairman of the state Democratic party during part of the Hodges administration, plus a couple of terms In the legislature.

He is a man who speaks with considerable political authority, and w'ho sounds these days more aiid more as though none of his political leanings have rubbed off.

In fact, Jwies is prescribing courses of acticm for the Democratic party in the state which could be interpreted as the basis for a personal platform if he chooses to become a candidate

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Asked about the possibility, Jones replied, its too early to make, much less announce such a decision.

PARTY Speaking ostensibly only as a Democrat and former party chairman Jones does say that its time for North Carolina Democrats to take stock and perform a self-analysis.

He told a meeting of the Buncombe County Young Democrats that defeats suffered by the Democrats in last Novembers elections were self-inflicted, The time has come, he said, for the states Democrats to do some soul searching.

Farther, he said. Democrats must face the probability that Republican victories will occur more frequently and in bigger elections unless the Democrats recapture the imagination and fond devotion of the voters through the partys sense of values and record of performance.

He said Democrats no longer can afford the luxury of carrying our factional political fighte into the general election. FUTURE North Carolinas Democrats, he said, must do more than merely recite the glmous record of the party in the state over the past 60 years.

The.people*of our days and our generation want to k n o w more about the present and the future, he said.

He came then to the points which observers noted as possible platform planks such things as econwnic needs, keeping educated youth at home, highways, industrial development and party organization.

There is much that Is good in North Carolina and much that needs to be done, he said.

The real challenge lies In recognizing and preserving the best from the past and building on it for a better future. CALL Jones, in his Buncombe speech, called for developing an econwnic base of commerce and industry broad enough to support the states growing educational and cultural programs.

He said that despite industrial growth the state is still exporting our most precious resources our educated youth. North Carolina cannot afford to continue as a manpower incubator or industilal kindergarten for other areas, he said.

He further called for developing two major east-west highway .systems of interstate standards across North Carolina and for increased zeal among North Carolina\ Democrats. v

We must field the very best candidates possible against the Republicans and reonganize our efforts-from the precinct up.-INTEREST Jones politically - oriented speech attract- . ed keen interest almst immediately among observers across the state.

It followed by about a week reports circulating that Jones might be numbered among so-called conservative Democrats who would consider a coalition to try to reach agreement on a strong gubernatorial candidate. This rumored coalition would include not only would-be candidates, but others with political influence and following and businessmen and others who are not directly in the spotlight of public life and office-holding.

There was a question in some quarters as to whether Jones is considering striking out on his own, provided further reaction is favorable.

DATE The earliest date now being predicted for 1964 political announcements Is April or May,,,

And even then may be too early for most, being & year away from the 1964 primaries. The trend in recent years has been more toward shorter campaigns.

Groundwork and campaign organization takes a number of months, but much of this can be done prior to a formal announcement. The candidate of today does not want to become shopworn and realizes that with excellent transportation and communications facilities he can COTiduct a hard-hitting campaign in far less time than it required back in the 1920s, 30s or even the 40s.

There is a saying in political circles that when a candidate announces too far ahead, the public gets awfully tired of him and his campaign.

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The record level of building permits issued in 1962 by North Carolina municipalities of 10,000 population or more is indicative of the continued growth of large and small cities throughout t^ie state.

New construction in the 36 cities of the state registered a four per cent gain in 1962 over the By PATRICIA MOORE previous year. Permits were issued for new construction valued at $239 millions.

While the four per cent gain does not represent a boom in construction, it does testify to the above-average growth of the cities. It suggests that the cities of 10,000 or more people are growing at a more rapid rate than would be caused just by the migration of Tar Heels from rural areas into communities of such size.

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There ai*e jobs, but no w*ork-ers to fill them.

There are workers, but no jobs to suit them:

The situations above, though -n a. characteristic of Greenville,

Greenville, with its new construction topping may one day be the case here.

$4 million during the year, ranked 14th among the They are the result of a com-36 cities in the volume of building for which municipal permits were issued.

Although the building permits are only one measurement of the growth and progress of communities, the figures for 1962 point clearly to the fact that the 36 North Carolina cities with 10,000 or more people are continuing to forge ahead.

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plex situation in which certain people feel that everyone has to go to college and that those certain people can't accept a skilled job. In some of the metropolitan areas, consequently, there are skilled jobs pying up to $10,000 and $11,000 a year with nobody to fill them. Some of the so-called white collar jobs pay far less.

Of course, the explanatitm above is over-simplified. There is more to it than that.

An article in the January issue of Readers Digest entitled Why Johnny Cant Get A Job put things on the line.

The author. Lester Velle,

pointed out that only 15 out of every 100 children who start school go on to college. Yet. he said, the whole educational system is being geared to this minority group who will seek higher education.

This, perhaps, is one of the reasons why some students are inclined to drop out of high school before graduation. They arent receiving preparation which they will use in the working w'orld. They arent being prepared for a realistic work-world situation. _

Velie pointed to the city of Milwaukee, which has become the Machine Shop of America. The town .si>ends $4,800.-000 (yes, almost $5 million) yearly on vocational education. It has a Central Vocation School which trained about 18.-000 high school students last year for vocational jobs.

Studies show* that when the

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - Two men one 72 and the other 87, kissed each'other on the cheek and agreed to a document which, while unthinkable 20 years ago, may not last out their lifetime.

French President De Gaulle, the younger, and West German Chancellor Adenauer this week signed a treaty pledging closer cooperation in foreign policy, defense and cultural development between those ancient enemies, their two countries.

It would have been unimaginable 20 years ago, while the War was on. Both De Gaulle and Adenauer have nursed their dream of new relations. But, while it could mean much. It also could mean nothing.

Adenauer will step out as chancellor by next fall to let a younger man take over. De Gaulles tenure is uncertain. And even before they leave the people of both their countries must think of this; *

What happens when these two men are gone and other men, with other views, step in?

For example: It cannot help but be an uneasy partnership so long as France has atomic weapons (shes working overtime to build a supply) and Germany, under a vow exacted from her by the Western allies, has none.

France would be the dominant member of the partnership. And at this moment it seems fair to say that De Gaulle is bent on being the dominant force not only in the partnership but in all 'Western EMrope.

Its hard to see West Germany give such complete trust to French intentions that it would consent to remain the Inferior partner indefinitely. The alternative would be to try to create Its own atomic arsenal.

One of the treaty provisions whlch call for frequent consultations on the two countries problems requires a conference before either makes a decision on all important questions of foreign policy.

Even as they signed, De Gaulle and Adenauer were not in agreement on some aspects of foreign policy. De Gaulle has anogantly refused to consider Britain for membership in the European Common Market.

He also, and just as arrogantly, rebuffed President Kennedys bid for setting up a multination nuclear force with NATO. In both instances De Gaulle was thinking of France as a dominant force with far more allies than Germany.

Because of all these uncertainties, the De Gaulle - Adenauer treaty nice as it sounds may mean no more than the paper its written on.

The whole Western Alliance, because of De Gaulles attitude, has taken (xi a slightly ugly lo<A.

De Gaulle, In a fast-changing world where France has become a second-rate power, never seems to have lost his memory of Frances long - ago splendor'or his hope that it can restore the splendor, if only by wishing.

ODinions

Other E(ditors Saying... et The People Decide

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For the seeming size of that hole left' when the dentist pulls a toothand as measured by poking It with the tongue a friend supplies the logical explanation. It is, he said, the natural tendency of the human tongue to exagerate. Nashville (Tenn.) Banner.

It is not lifes load that breaks you down; it is the way you carry it.Anderson (S.C.) Independent.

Por those people who like to worry, this is the life. Dawson County (Ga.) Advocate. .

(Henderson Dispatch)

It took years for them to come ai'ound to it, but paity leaders in the State have at long last concluded, according to statements in recent months, that the people should be allowed Jto select members of their coimty boards of education. Since those in the higher echelons are leaning in that direction, it is just possible that the Legislature this winter will consent to divest itself of Its veto power over those officials.

For so many, years it is difficult even to remember, the General Assembly has reserved to itself the right to approve or disapprove. Nominations are made in the primary, but those are only nominations. And they have not always stuck, not even among Democrats, if and when just plain raw politics was involved. Democratic executive committees also have been overruled on selections that were made to fill vacancies.

Now, there is good chance that this will be changed. And why not? Residents of the counties know their people better than members of the Legislature do. The reason for the policy that has been in effect for these many years was that of keeping minority party members off the school boards, so that the Democratic administration In Raleigh would have Democrats to work within the counties, regardless of margins held by the Republicans.

The GOP has long made much of this system, and the ,

complaints a:*e beginning to sink in, especially in view of impressive gains made at the election last fall. There appears to be an inclination now to offer this concession to the counties without credit going to the agitators..

Nearly all candidates elected In November assume their duties as of the first Monday in December. But not those for the school board. They cannot take office until they have been approved by the Legislature which is always dominated by the Democrats, who have c(hi-slstently put in men of their owm choice, by and with the consent of legislators from the counties.

In Henderson, and presumably in local districts in other counties, candidates nominated in the primary are voted on in November and thereafter assume their duties. They were selected by the voters, and that was the court of last resort. We can think of no good reason why selection of members of county education boards cannot be entrusted to voters hi the same manner.

If the upcoming General Assembly divests itself of this veto functin, it will be acting in conformity with what seems to be sentiment of citizens in the counties. This session may be the last to reserve to Itself the right to confirm or reject selections made by the people in the primaries. The people should have the right to make their own choice. After all. Isnt that democracy?

non-academic - minded student gets Job traliring that he can relate to earning needs later, he remains in school, Velie wrote. It would seem that this type training would also discourage juvenile delinquency.

The w'riter said that not too long ago, drop outs could find unskilled jobs, but that todays automation 5ias eliminated that kind of job opportunity. Which leaves no place for. the. drop oiit to go.

While the age of automation has eliminated the heed for unskilled labor, it has created many new jobs, which require training.

Automation, Velie writes, makes painfully visible a giant flaw in our education system: our schools are flunking the job of preparing our young for the workaday world.

He asked, It is time to ask ourselves: What is public education for?

He answered his own question by stating that Dr. James Conant, the educator-statesman, believes that the educational experience of youth must be tailored to fit his need for his lifes work. There should be a smooth transition from fulltime schooling to a full-time job. whether that transition be after grade ten, or after graduation from high school or college, Dr. Conant says.

Yet, that is all too seldom, even for the college graduate who supposedly has spent at least four years preparing him.self for a profession.

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People dont like being told their health will improve if*' they stop burning the candle on both ends. What they really want from the doctor i.s more wax.Carlsbad Current-Argus.

One thing about the guy who goes to hear a speech aU primed to ask a question, the fact that the speaker has already answered it in his talk doesnt stop him from asking it.Jacksonville (Ha ) 'Tlmes-Union.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The pressure on Congress to do something about strikes and lockouts is building up. and the clanger Is that an unholy trade will be made, with the big union chiefs yielding to some form of compulsory arbitration in exchange for the union shop. This would give the union chiefs security for themselves by delivering the working men to them without their having to lift a finger to persuade anybody In the rank and file.

Since, according to the well-known law of the conservation of energy, nobody likes to expend any effort that can bo avoided, I suspect that the big uni(Mi bosses would cheerfully accept a limitation on the right to strike if, in so doing, they wiould be eliminating all the difficult problems oi organization.

Much is being made at the moment about the discomfcM'ts that are caused by labor strife. Newspaper readers, deprived of the metn)olltan press In New York City and in develan^ Ohio, have had to get their ffews via out-of-town p)ers or radio. The East Coast longshcxrinens strike has caused a hitch in the flow of many things, from bananas to imported Volkswagen.s. People have had to walk to woric in Philadeli^. But these are mere Inconveniences; they deprive nobody of basic liberties for the long pull.

The real menace of the union movement is its drive to com-pulsion on the human being. The notiMi that moi must be forced into unl(ms as a condition of employmwit is deeply ingrained in the fundamental philosoiAy of big union chiefs; they have axne to regard the big unitm as a sort of substitute for the political state.

This assumption is Immediately apparent in all their ac-tlwis. James Carey, head of the International Unicm of EHectrical Workers, is glrd^g to wring the union shop out of Westing-hou.se and General Electric. On the Pacific Coast the leaders of the aerospace unions are trjlng to connive with the federal government to force the union shop pn their own reluctant followers. But the real temper of the union leaders comes out even more strongly in their words.

For example, there is the record of an old exchange between Senator Barry Goldwater and Walter Reuther, the boss (rf the United Automobile Workers. When Goldwater asked Reuther, What about the man who just does not want to belong to a union? the labor chief replied: Well, if a fellow works in a General Motors plant and does not want to belong to a union, he does not have to work there.

But suppose he wants to work there? Goldwater Insisted. Whereupon Mr. Reuther let hLs Statist preconceptions <XMrie to the surface. If you want to live in a certain community, he .said, and you want the benefits of the work of that community, you have to pay taxes in that community. You do not have to live In that community. That is the freedom of choice.

Thus the cat emerges fr(>m the bag: Mr. Reuther considers union dues, levied compulsorily on every emplojree In an automobile plant, to be the equivalent of taxes. They are not a voluntary contribution freely agreed upon by union, members who hope to get their quid pro quo in higher ' wages In exchange for relln-qui.shing a part of their weekly pay checks.

When a union boss starts . thinking about union dues as taxes that must be paid to his organization willy-nilly, it is easy -to see how the Statist frame of mind gets extended to other things. States not only have the power to levy taxes, they also have a monopoly of police and military force in the territory subject to their jurisdiction. The union boss who is granted the power to tax his followers will hardly boggle about raising an army or a squad of cops to defend his realm. Thus the practice of employing goons to whip recalcitrants Into line is just a step away from the imposition of compulsory taxes.

No doubt Reuther, who is a nice enough fellow In his personal relationships, fails to real-(Contlnued on page flvt)

If Southern California people ould find each other in the fog thev cou.d share a laugh aoout the cold weather in Florida.Daily Oklahoma*5

Figure The Population Picture

People seldom have exactly similar ideas until it comes to buying wedding presents. Dexter (Mich.) Leader.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW

Do you ever say to yourself, Someday Im going to ,be a better person than I am today? Well, I have bad news for you. You aie never going to be a better pers<Hinever as long as you continue to say someday. You may succeed in fooling yourself with this kind of promise, but you will not succeed in fooling very many other people. And you will not fool God.

Improvement never really begins someday or tomorrow, because tomorrow never comes.-It makes no difference whetli-er -you plaji to begin tomorrw or ten years from tomorrew. Both are equally distant in the future in never-never land.

The wily kind of improvement that really takes place begins today.

Real self-improvement begins with an honest appraisal of What you are now, and a frank comparison of that present state with what you want to be. The difference may be enormous. No matter how much or how little improvement you think you need, it ceitainly cannot be made altogether today In one swift act. It may be a long process, requiring many steps. Perhaps you will never finish-taking the last steps.

Bqt one thing is certain: you will never get anywhere if you do not take the first step. And the first step must be taken today tomorrow never comes.

In the realm of Gods eternity there are no tomorrows. All is now and forever.

By ELMER ROESSNER Any businessman who expects to be operating in 1973, or who expects to have an heir running the enterprise then, faces two imperative actiwis:

1. He must determine precisely the age groups to whom his products appeal, and calculate the number of potential customers available between now and 1973.

2. He must get a good map of his community and chart the areas into .which it will expand, and plan to get business there.

These may sound like researches on the collegiate level. Come to thhik of it, students at the nearest college may be delighted to find the answers at nominal fees. Come to think more of it, one or more of the collegians might be prospects for salesmen on weekends, or take over the business later on. HOW TO CALCULATE POPULATION Everybody who runs a businessor who wanders into a coin laundry Saturday afternoon knows that the population is exploding. '

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controlled as a Fourth of July display. Its as uneven as htmie-made sausage.

For example, in the next few years there will be a curious trough in the age groups. The number of young married will decrease because there was not much procreating during the' early days of World War II. And to be of the marrying age today, people would have to have been bom during the war years. SAINTS COME MARCHING IN There was a great increase in_ procreating right after thie w'ar as the love-starved vets came home to find love-starved maidens waiting for them, or who brought home frauleins, slgnoritas and other prizes of war. (Remember how tough it was to get maternity ward reservations right after that? Even Hoffa couldnt have made some of the delivery schedules those bunnies had to meet I)

This year there will be a lesser demand for houses. But the demand for apartments will begin to increase. Those married too younR will be seeking minimum accommodations. In

a few years, the demand for houses will shoot up. Those graduating from apartments, and those who saved until they could buy a house, will both be entering the market.

Meanwhile, one of the strengths of the new-car market today is the fact that the first surge of postwar babies want cars. They are bidding for used cars. This provides higher trade-in prices for older persons who will therefore buy new cars.

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How can businessmen assess the coming changes? First, chart the age groups that constitute their customers. Then take the figures to the nearest office of the Department of Commerce or Small Business Administration and get a free consultation (Ml the changes likely in the age groups.

Then get a map of the city and suburbs and study it, perhaps with the assistance of local chamber of commerce and real estate boante.

With the population exploding, a business may better be 10 miles away to the next five

years. But in what direction? The experts can chart the course of population. They may make mistakes. But if they can prove that suburban expansion is now pushing toward a certain valley of potato fields, businesses may be better off there in the furrows some day than they are a few f^t aouth of the barber pole on Main Street.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS OOpsI A sentence here Tuesday should have said, Despite government wamhiga about lung cancer. British cigarette sales, after a 12^ percent drop last yesu*, have returned to normal.. . .Peruvian laws so favor labor that a bank was* not allowed to fire two mploy-ees who embezzled funds. . . Because Renault gave workers a fourth week of vacatioii last year, other Prrach union* are demanding a fourth week off . . .Elevators at a new building being erected at 777 Third Avenue, New York, will accelerate vertically at 1.000 feet a second. faster than any jel plane in existence.