Saturday, February 16, 1963

Logic In The Three-Fold Approach

Its Bad Enough Quarreling With European Allies

The three-fold approach adopted for meeting financial difficulties faced by Pitt ^lemorial Hospital should provide a sound and workable solutii>n for the difficulties.

Enabling legislation for a county-wide referendum on increasing the ceiling on the tax levy tOi hospital operations will pave the way for the proposition to be submitted for voters of the county.

Hand-in-hand with this, it has been decided that a special outside collector will be hired by. the hospital in an effort to reduce its accounts receivable and increase future collections.'At the sam,-time a team of efficiency experts from the Duke Endowment program is to be asked to check on the efficiency of operations at Pitt Memorial.

Certainly the hospital should be expected 1o exert every reasonable effort to increase the percentage, of its collections before additional tax funds are used to off-set operational expenses. The trustees of the hospital should likewise be able > assure citizens the county^ that the hospital's business is being conducted in an efficient manner and that maximum return is being received for dollars already going into the operation.

The people of Pitt County, in our opinion, recognize the invaluable benefits being received from the hospital. They likewise recognize that they can-

Not All Approve The New Rules

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RULES Not all of the 50 members of the State Senate approve of the hastily - adopted rules amendments changing some time honored ways of doing things in the upper chamber.

For example, they dont like a i*w rule doing aw^ay with the traditional idght of a senator to rise and recognize his constituents and visitors from the floor, usually with a flpw-ery little speech.

They dislike a rule that the usual courtesies may be extended only upon written motion submitted to the presiding officer.

They object, in principle, to a change that denies a senator the right to request a roll call vote in committee.

And privately some senators express dismay at the manner In which the rules amendments were pushed through.

CHANGES The long list of rules amendments whisked through the Senate the other day without a whisper of protest, without a voice of objections and without a question.

No one chose to buck the established leadership and the powerful rules committee headed by Sen. Ralph J.. Scott of Alamance and Sen. Thomas J. White of Lenoir.

It was futile. one senator said privately. It would have been hopeless and gained nothing. But I dont like it, and there are others who feel the same way.

A long list of Senate committee appointments, the plums W'hlch give the leadership its early session power, remained to be made at the time the rule changes were adopted.

STRATEGY So the strategy of those who object to some of these new Senate rules was to keep silent, at least for the time being, make the best of the situation, and wait.

They felt that nothing was to be gained by forcing the issue at this stage of the session. Too much else may be at stake later.

We may try to talk it out man to man later on, and reach a better understanding. one Senator confided. Now isnt the time to get a big hassle going. This feeling apparently was behind the sUenoe in the Senate when the rules amendment were adopted. ^

The senators knew, of course. W'hat was coming. They had been waiting, at case, for nearly 20 minutes following Scotts announcement that he had a report from the rules committee.

MEET The rules committee held a meeting earlier in the day to adopt the changes. The meeting was unannounced. Notices of the meeting had been placed on members desks, but the notice had not been read and no notice had been given to the press.

Word of the meeting leaked out, however, and several reporters showed up. This apparently caused some surprise on the part of certain members of the rules committee.

There was some delay, too, after Senate adoption of the niles amendments in getting copies to the press. A senate aide explained that copies were being typed.

PRESS The legislative press corps is involved in the rules changes too.

This change wrote into the permanent niles exclusion of of the press from the Senate floor. It revokes the right of presiding officers of the Senate to grant newsmen access to the floor at their discretion. Thus if in the future the press is to be allowed tp work anywhere except in the overhead press balcony the rules must again be changed.

Senate sources see little chance of this occurring during the 1963 session and point out that the press henceforth will be at a disadvantage In getting w^orklng space on the floor because a precedent for the new State House is being set.

SILENT Silent treatment of another sort was meted out by the Senate rules committee to one of its members a day after the rules amendments went through.

It came during consideration of a House substitute to Sen. Whites bill to establish a Legislative Building governing commission composed entirely of legislators. Sen. W. Lunsford Crew of Halifax suggested it might be wise to allow the governor to appoint two members of the commission which will operate the State House.

After all. this is a public building paid for by the taxpayers, Crew.said. Considering that the legislators w'ill be using it only about five months out of every two years, it seems to me that someone else should have a voice in the management of the building.

This met with stony silence. Without asking whether anyone cared to second Crews motion, chairman Scott called for someone to second an earlier motion by Sen. Cicero Yow of New Hanover.

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not allow the calibre of medical care offered by the hospital to be lowered because of lack of operating funds. If the proposed study indicates that there are not gross ineffeciencies in the hospital operations, and with results which may reasonably be expected froni putting greater emphasis on collecting outstanding hospital accounts, we are confident Pitt citizens will endorse increasing the ceiling on the tax levy for the hospitals operations.

Member.i of the countys Overall Planning Committee, the hospital trustees, and the County Commissioners are to be commended for adopting the three-fold approach to the hospitals present financial problems. They should see to it that the adopted approach be implemented as rapidly as possible in the interest of the hospital and citizen? of the county.

Jordan Chairmanship Broadens Influence

Elevation of Sen B. Everett Jordan to chairmar of the powerful Senate Rules Committee is another feather in the political cap of North Carolina and further broadens the influence of the Tar Heel delegation in Congress.

With Congressman Herbert Bonner as chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisherie.s Committee and Congressman Harold Cooley chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Sen. Jordans new assignment puts Tar Heels in the chairmanship of three major committees in Congress.

During his five years in the Senate, Sen. Jordan has shown himself to be both an energetic membiT of that body and a sound, constructive contributor to legislative matters of great importance. As chairman of the Rules Committee, his responsibility in a

Senate affairs will be significantly increased as wl! iSy JOHN AoNHl his influence in Congress and with the administration.

A - Tale

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nderstating His SusDicions

anguage Conspiracy

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP> One of the greatest understatements of the year was President Kennedy's remark that he has a suspicion New Yorks Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller wants the Republican presidential nomination in 1964,

Rockefeller is running so hard for national attention about 18 months before the Republican convention that you can almost hear him panting. He got caught short the last time. Hes not taking any chances now.

By the time the New Yorker started to drum up support for the 1960 nomination, he found Vice President Richard M. Nixon had the big wheels in the Republican party sewed up. So he bowled out.

At that time he was reported to have a staff of perhaps 70 people in two old, five-story browTistone houses which had been converted into one big office on 55th Street in New York pumping out publicity about him.

He still has the two houses and a publicity staff on his personal payroll, plus a staff of policy experts with offices in Rockefeller Center in New York. And he has a well-paid official press relations staff in Albany.

This will give an idea of how his public relations men are trying to keep Rockefeller in the national eye this far ahead of the Republican convention of 1964:

Washington editors and newsmen not only receiye copies of Rockefellers speeches, of which he has been making a lot, but even schedules of where he w'ill be each week.

In 1959 he made himself unpopular with a lot of Republicans by taking some cracks at the Eisenhower administration, been working overtime criticizing the Kennedy administration.

This will not only endear him to Republicans but, if he keeps at it long enough and often enough, will give him the appearance of being the partys spokesman.

Here are soni of his criticisms against the Kennedy administration :

Its pursuing an erratic foreign policy, its getting t ^ i s country Into hot arguments with its allies, the U. S. government

is using inithless tactics with its allies, the administration has been less than forthright about Cuba. it has used gimmickry.

The governor doesnt admit hes an all-out candidate for the presidential nomination. As late as Feb. 7, when asked if hed be a candidate in 1964, he said that was hard to say.

At his news conference Thursday a questioner reminded Kennedy that Rockefeller had been attacking him vehemently, giving rise to the suspicion that he wants to be the Republican candidate next year.

Kennedy said he had the same suspicion and then lectured Rockefeller and his fellow Republicans, without naming them, for being fast with criticism but slow in offering substitutes for the Kennedy policies they dont like.

ODinions

'..n Brief

New 4-cent post cards have a different color, white. They could be a mite more expensive to make, as white cardboard requires more bleach. The old buff color is out of date, but not nearly so much as the old expression: 'Just drop a penny postcard in the mail.Lumberton Robe.son-

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MEXICO CITY-It is a puzzling thing in any nation, listening to the courtroom language of a barrister or reading a paper he has written, for that matter.

Out of doors in the cleai fresh air, the avis legis speaks in phrases- of the working man. Even the letters he writes home are easily understood by small cousins.

Only in courts of law or other similar haunts do we find this conspiracy of language. I speak w'ith authority on this curious situation, having attended a hearing here with a friend whose attonipy did some very effective work in the Unknown Tongue. Some soft of an inter

national case but dont ask what.

It was an edifying experience and my friends barrister explored such points as ex post facto, pro bono publico and quantum sufficit.

And the enemy fired back volleys of aurea mediocritas in a scholarly manner, all of which dripped from the impermeable back of our shyster. Ot-ium cum dignltak' was his middle name.

So during one of the recesse.s when everybody got back to Spanish, we tried reading a document on the case. It told all about the party of the first part hereinabove mentioned-with another party who occupi

ed some other part.

Nothing ^ame of It, so far as we could tell.

Later on it turned out that my friend was the party of one of the parts but we didnt know which part. Even the judge seemed confused because he kept going into another room 'to watch Perry Mason in Spanish on TV, if you ask me' and conferring w'ith the banisters and a number of expeits on different things.

Finally, the confusion was cleared up and since our solicitor had produced the mctst effective orbls sclentiarum he won by a TKO.

Other Editors Saying... That Tobacco Surplus

Its the time of year again for predicting, prognosticating forecasting and other forms of learned coin-flipping. Mattoon (111.) Journal-Gazette.

If the courts sent to jail all the ladies who tell little white lies about their age, there would be no rqom in prison for honest creeks. The Denver Post.

"Drug research can be extremely costly. More often than not it produces nothing of value because when experiments venture into the un-known_ failures are to be expected! Thus, the successful, wanted drug must pay the freight for the many which proved worthless, or of limited value. Industrial News Review.

(The Wilson Times)

There is cause for concern in the million loss in flue-

cured tobacco held by the Stabilization corporation. At the sale price, 74U million pounds were disposed of on Monday. This was the day the government put up the sale signs.

The majority of the tobacco sold at the reduced price is from the 1955-56 crop, the crop of the types that later became known as the discount varieties. But not all the loss can be traced to the above years.

It goes right on up through 1961, with the amount much smaller in the more recent years.

When we read there was a profit or net gain of $1.7 million for the 1962 crop, made by the Stabilization program, we wondered why the gains were not subtracted from the losse.s as is done in business.

It seems the Stabilization corporation does not work that way. When a crop is sold, if there is a loss for that crop year, it belongs to the government. If there is a profit for the next crop year, it is distributed as a dividend to the rr nbers. Each crop is handled . epar-ately.

This fire sale of tobacco is bringing into focus many disturbing facts. Tobacco, until the discount varieties came in, was carrying its own weight. By that is meant tobacco bought by the Stabilization corporation did not cost the taxpayers. The tobac-bo bought under the goveniment support program was sold for enough to pay the storage, and carrying charges.

We do know the present trend i.s alarming. Farmers have nev

er had a better choice of varieties than today. The trade is calling for quality tobacco. There has just been a big fight over the use of MH-30. It now looks as though nothing will be done to curtail its u.se. The companies have registered their objections, but whether they will be heard remains to be seen. For the politicians have taken hold, and are now upholding the use of MH-30.

This Is only one factor In the tobacco picture.

The blocking of Britain from the Common Market can have a damaging effect on tobacco sales. France Ls not a big buyer of our tobacco. Britain Is. But Britain must have a market for her products.

The present uncertainty in Europe because of the Common Market, and Frances attempt to keep Europe for Europeans, could be damaging to the tobacco trade. Europe is a big customer of American tobacco and our flue-cured varieties.

So you see it looks as though it will be a long time before the stockholders in the Stabilization corporation get a dividend. And when we a.sked why the law was not changing to allow^ the profits to apply toward the losses, we were told It Is practically impossible to get through any changes and it would be foolish to try, for It could upset more than it would cure.

Conditions aie not as encouraging as they have been. A $96.8 million loss since the 1955 crop, 237 million pound hold over from last year, and European condi*-tions as they are, our tobacco farmers are feeling the effect of world conditions.

The' judge aouhc'd' If and then rushed back to his chambers to check up on Perry Mason.

All of which Is very well but did you ever imagine what might happen if the councelors luscd this frightening vocabulary in every day encounters? Picture .such a meeting at the table next to you in a swanky restaurant like The Ambassa-deur.

A tweedy barrister approaches this table in a casual manner and says, Well Harrison. Dulce et deconim es pro patria mori.

So the other caballero daubs his mustache with a napkin as he arises to shake hands and .says. Emmet old boy. De gusti bus non est dicputan-dum. (Probably mean.s if we get in a dispute Ill miss my bus.)

Then the first legalist says, Do you perchance have un embarras des rtchesses?

Whereupon Harrison shrugs and answers, De mortuls nil nisi bonum. I am barely together.

And the first one says. Gee, thats casus belli. Did you have

eggs?

Et tu. Brute. (Well, that's terribly corny but if you can think of something better In Latin go ahead and laugh.)

Obviously. someone must faint to put a .stop to this Ig-norantl juris and it might as well be us.

But in defence of this legal lingo, my friends solicitor offers this bit of unexpected information, to wit: court encounters are even more con-fasing in London where they speak a combination of Puritan and Latin. With British accents.

Of Two Cities

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1963. King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Tucked away on the financial pages in widely separated columns the other day were two sets of statiscs. They at once suggested the title of an old story, A Tale of Two Cities.

The statistics pointed to a glowing tale of automobile prosperity and a depressing drama of steel gloomand the cities, of course, were Detroit and Pittsburgh. ( I am using these names symbolically, for I realize that both cars and steel are manufactured In many places throughout the land.)

The automotive column led off with the record profit of $1,4 billion which accrued in 1962 to General Motors. It also set before the reader the luscious figures that signalized the big Chrysler comeback. Ford and the American Motors Company had done superlatively well, too. The 1962 automotive cash dividends jumped 19 percent over the figures for 1961. But looking in another colunm at the 1962 steel company dividends, there was a drop of 5 percent from the figures for the previous year.

Comparing the two sets of statistics, one couldnt help but think of that day last April when President Kennedy blasted the steel companies for their attempt to add $6 a ton to their prices. The Presidential implication was that the steel companies were trying to gouge the rest of the economy. But what seems to have happened, during the past ten months, is that one set of dividend receivers. the stockholders in the an-* tomoblle companies, have been favored over another .^et. the .Stockholders In steel. What the President did. on that day in April, was to favor Detroit at the expense of Pittsburgh, which is .something that no one who has been elected to represent all the people should have done.

Right at this point I want to .say that I have nothing against the automobile companies: It always makes me happy when they are prospering. When Charlie Wilson made that sup-pasedly terrible remark about whats good for General Mcv tors is good for the countrv he was Tittertng a sentiment that in nine cases out of ten holds true. For it Is lnc(Hitest-able that the entire U. S. economy does well when Detroit has a fine year.

But even though the auttxno-bile companies deserve good things, would it have hurt the U. S economy as a whole if they had made a little less money last year and the steel companies had made a little more? Obviously, the economy would have been strengthened if some of the profits that flowed into Detroit had been diverted. Instead, to Pittsburgh.

Economists can argue, of course, that If the steel companies had raised the price of carbon steel to Detroit, the in-crea.se would subsequently have been added Into the price of the automobile to the ultimate consumer, in 1963 If not in 1962. This, however, is questionable. For no matter what the believers in "administered prices say to the contrary, automobile prices are competitively set. Detroit, today. may give more car for the money. but, with "Volks-wagens coming in from over-.seas, it is not likely to try to get more money for the car.

Indeed. It Is even questionable that Pittsburgh could have kept its owTi tonnage price of steel at the proposed higher level for very long. Steel competition from abroad would almost certainly have prevented It. But let us assume that the steel companies had been able to command a little more In cash for their product from the automobile companies thnmghout 1962. The increase In Income could only have helped the steel men to plow something back Into the improvement of their plant. The money-saving oxygen process and other technological advances would have spread to a few more steel mills. This would have made the American economy sounder (Continued on page six)Strength For Today States Will Take Up Tax Slack

Bv EARL I.. DOUGLASS GREAT TRUTH OF RESURRECTION

Man naturally recoils from the prospect of death and dissolution. The advancing weaknesses of age fill one with a melancholy feeling that death will soon come and all will be ever. But the Christian knows otherwise. He knows that when tlie earthly house of this tabernacle is di.ssolved he will have a liouse not made with hands, eternal in the heaveins.

Thoughtless w orldling.s have caricatured luuiven until e v e n thp faitliful Christian ha.: become a l)it a.sliaiiK'd to liold any beliefs about lieaven. Generally he di.smis.ses it with the thought that it Is a mysterious slate into whicli tlie tx'licvers enter after death.

But it is .something va.stly more significant and definite than a state of bng. Christ

has gone to prepare a place for us. The house not made with hands is being fashioned for our eternal destiny. These realities are revealed to us and confinn-ed as we ponder the resurrection of Je.sus Christ.

Unfortunately the church has fallen into the habit of dwelling on Christs resurrection only on Easter Sunday. Yet the risen Christ .stands at the center of our faith. It thrilled Cliristians of the first century and turned Christianity from a persecuted minority movement into a religion which captured and succeeded the Roman Empire.

Every day of a ChrEtian.s life should be illuminated and sui){)orted by the realization that Christs resurrection was but a prelude to the physical and eternal resurrection of all who put their trust in him.

This truth needs to be pondered every day of the year.

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By ELMER ROESSNER

Forecasts here that states would tend to soak up any drib-blings of Federal income tax cuts have been bom out by a survey by Commerce Clearing House.

It reports that in many of the legislatures now in session in 42 of the states, increases in taxes are being planned. Taxes continue the upward trend as most of the states hold their regular odd-year legislative sessions. said the tax-reporting service.

Sales taxes continue to play an important role in states searches for more rivc.uie. Sales taxes are already the best source of collectiou.s in 30 states, and new levies are under consideration in New' Jersey and Indiana. President Kennedys proposed income tax cut is for the avowed purpose of increasing business, yet sales taxes directly inhibit business. GOVERNOR BALKS

The New Jersey Commission on State Tax Policy recommended a 3 percent sales levy with food and medical prescriptions exempt, to ral.se from $165 million to $185 million. Howev

er Governor Richard J. Hughes is opposed to the sales tax.

A 2 percent general sales tax Is proposed in Indiana, w'ith a corresponding use tax. Counties would be permitted to add 0.5 to 1.0 percent more.

Maine is considering a rise in the sales tax rate of from 3 to 4 percent and Missouri from 1 to 3 percent. South Dakota, Tennessee and Illinois are considering plans to increase the range of the tax. Tennessee would extend the tax to laundries and utilities: llliilois to autos, boats and planes.

California is faced with the problem of raising $3.2 billion to meet the state budget. Putting state income taxes on a pay-as-you-go basis and speeding up other tax collections are propased.

Many other .states are speeding up collections, tightening procedures, increasing existing taxes. But In benighted Colorado. taxpayers are getting a 15 percent reduction on 1962 Income taxes.

PER CAPITA BITE

Meanw'hile, the National Industrial Conference Board has come up with a study on ^ per capita state an^ local tax col

lections. The figures are for tlje year 1961. Rates are probably slightly higher now.

Californians are the most tax-burdened pq,ople in the nation and. perhaps, in the world. They paid $298 per per.son a year in 1961 and probably more last year.

New Yorkers were next most heavily taxed, $293 for each man, woman and child. It w'as followed by Nevada, $281, Massachusetts and .Hawaii, $251 each, and Colorado, $249. Nevadans. however, actually pay less becau.se a large part of the states taxes are collected from suckers from other states.

Alabamans paid less than residents of any V)ther state, $121 for the year. Others getting off easy were South Carolinians, Mississippiaus and Arkansans. $132 each; Tenne.sseeans, $136. and North Carolina, $144.

The national average w'as $211 per person.

Prom 1953 to 1961, state and local tax collections rose 102 per cent, from $105 to $213 per person In Delaware, the sharpest increase. The least increase was in New Hampshire, 18 per cent, from $154 to $182 a head, f

NEW BOOKS OF INTEREST, SIGNIFICANCE TO BUSINESSMEN

Among many new books of importance to buslneasmen are these:

The Consumers Guide to Better Bu.ving, by Sidney Margol-ius, 352 pages, paper, by Pocket Books, 50 cents. Every retailer needs this book to know the attitudes of customers who want to share prices.

Public Relatims Handbook, edited by Phi$p Lesley, 901 pages, Prentice-Rall, $12.50. An. up-dating of aii earlier work. With this bookj and $100,000, anybody can st .up his own public relations firm.

Careers in Department Store Merchandising, by Albert D. Kaplan and Margaret de Mille, 122 pages, Walck, Inc., $3.50. What the department store UtM offers EKpiiing careerists.

Private Secretarys Manual, 'by .Bernice C. Turner, 434 pages, Prentlce-Hall, $5.95. The third edition of a popular wwk dealing with everything from punctuation (periods and commas go INSIDE quotation marks It correctly states )^ to color schemes for redecorating tile office