Monday, February 25.

Still Too Much Going To Raleigh

Look Whos Getting The Transfusion!

The number of purely local bills introduced during theTii'st three weeks of the legislature shows there is still too much goiug to Raleigh on local government matters.

In recent years .significant progre.ss has been made toward giving local governments greater autonomy in handling their own affair.s. Municipal and comity governing boards have found they dont have to lefer quite as many things to the legislature for action or approval as formerly was the case. Hven .so, legislative action continues to be a major lactor in operations of local governments.

The number of bills which pertain to purely local government matters in individual municipalities or counties still far outnumber the number of .^late-wide proposals offered for legislative action. 'I he General Assembly is required to take considerable time deciding whether this particular city government miay do this or this particular county government may do that. P"or the most part, these decisions on local matters the General Assembly must make are decisions which more properly should be made by local officials without the necessity for s])ecific legislative action.

If it were not necessary for local governing boards to refer a wide variety of routine decisions to the legislature for final approval, the legislative load would be con.siderably lightened. Rather than spending a great deal of time on purely local issue.s. the legislature could concentrate on more important state-wide matters. Local governments, at the same time, could go about their business in a more effici

ent manner without delayingsometimes for almok

two years final decisions on routine questions that

now require legislative approval.

In the interest of better government at both the state and local level.s, the legislature should cut muie of the apron .strings which now require local governments to look to Raleigh for final decisions in local government matters.

Friction Only Hurts

In Times Of Crisis

insurance Bills

?ros And Cons

By WILLIAM A. .SHIRE.S RALEIGH - Legislative notebook :

There are pros and cons to a bill to boost minimum coverage required under Noith Carolina's compulsory automobile liability insurance law and State Insurance Commissiojier Edwin Lanier .says I want to look at all sides 0 it. "

It may be all right and it may be the thing to do. " Lanier saws. I don't know yet and wont want to say yes or no nsht away.

A bill by Sen. Luther Hamilton of Morehead City would Increase present minimum cover-apc or proof of financial re-.sponsibility from $5.000-$10,000-$5000 tc $10.000-$20.000-$10,000 This higher coverage would be required for all motorists In the state.

C0STS The Senator from Carteret says these mnimums are more reallitlc and more in

line with present day damage co.sts and jui*y verdicts in damage coses.

If. he says, a man Ls required to be financially respon-s.blc. the responsibility ought to be adequate rather than Inadequate.

The difference in cost of a liability policy providing the higher coverage limits. Hamilton said. is nominal.

Neither Hamilton nor Lanier had figures readily available on what the bill would mean to the premium-paying public, but Lanier .said we'll be working up figures on what it would cost. He said the increased premium cost might be all right for .some people, "but it might be burden.some on others. LIMITSThe limiUs in such a liability policy apply to < 1 > bodily Injury to or death of one pcr.son in any one accident i2' bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident and 131 injury to or destruction of property of others In any one accident.

Policyholders already have the option of obtaining coverage limits in virtually any amount desired.

But under th compulsory 11-ainlity lawwhich technically isn't compulsory In the .sense that a financial bond may be posted In place of a liability Insurance policymany motorists get their FS-1 certificates on the bare minimum coverage.

Hamilton said he had not

consulted with any groups, such as insurance companies, nor with Lanier prior to introducing the bill. It is my own bill, he said, based on my own knowledge and the apparent fact that the present minimum limits aren't adequate.

BONDSState Highway Commission Chairman Merrill Evans was called hurriedly before the House Roads committee on the moniing after two senators called for a $200 million highway bond issue.

Evans made no bones about repoits that the state's big highway system Is hard pressed for construction funds.

It is ti*ue. Evans said, but he took the position that the highway commission would prefer meeting the situation through "Increased sustaining appropriations"

This, in lay language, means more money from the states present source* of .revenue being put into highways. Trouble is of course, that this would be difficult if not impossible without an increase in the gasoline tax. And Evans both opposed a gasoline tax Increase and dismissed toll financing ideas as not feasible.

There isnt a road In North Carolina which carries enough traffic to make the toll plan pay. he said.

SUPPORT Support for the $200 million bond issue plan proposd by Sens. Robert F. Morgan and William P Saunders had grown even before the committee finished hearing Ev

ans.

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When a crisis looms in a segment of the economy, it is time for cooperation and concerted effort to cope with the crisis. Factional disputes within the particular segment of the economy can only serve to worsen the situation and make solution of tLe crisis nvor^ diffieult to achieve.

All segments of the tobacco industry recognize the crisis which faces that industry. It is a crisi. which confronts farmers, and purchasers alike. And it is a crisis which must be effectively dealt with at every level of the industry if it is to be overcome.

Make no mistake about it, the stakes are high. Tobacco production, which ranks at the top in sources of agriciulture income in North Carolina, is severely threatened. Tobacco processing and handling, which account for a large volume of the business and industrial payroll in North Carolina, i.s also threatened. With these, the economy of th> state as a whole is likewise threatened, for the entire tobacco indu.stryfrom plant beds to packaged cigarettesis of utmost importance to the state.

This is no time for purchasers to try to place the blame for changing conditions on farmers, or vice versa. In the long run a solution of the crisis will help every segment of the tobacco industry. Failure to reach a solution for the crisis will severely damage every segment of the industry.

Rather than fighting between each other over solutions to the problem, the various segments of the tobacco industry must seek better mutual unclerstandings. They must come up with a collective, positive program that can be supported by the industry as a whole in order to meet the crisis.

Amish

Bights

?or AL

By HAL BOYLE

We Can Do Withou

New Reasonina

On Tax Reform

And Evans. In effect, had sidestepped a direct endorsement of the bond ls.sue. He did .say the money is needed nd that the construction program could be stepped up over a four-year peiiod. He also di.s-counted reports that pumping so much bond money Into road projects would create inflationary bidding and price-s on construction .

STRATEGYStrategy of supporters of the highway bond ivs-suc will be to lay solid groundwork for the plan before the enabling legislation is introduced.

Such a bond Issue, of course, would have to be .lubmltted to a vote of the people.

The next step may be to call State Trca.surer Edwin Gill, author of the highway bond financing plan, to testify before the committee probably next week.

By RALPH ROBEY

President Kennedy has changed his mind as to why we must have tax reduction and reform.

In his economic report he said. The outlook for continued moderate expansion in 1963 is now favorable. and In tTie sTiaine me.^sage he also said: T do not expect a fifth postwar rece.s-sion to interrupt our progress in 1963.

A little later in his tax proposal the President reiterated his optimism on the busi-ne.ss outlook in these word.-^ My recommendation for early revision of our tax structure is not motivated by any threat of Imminent recessionnor should It be rejected by any fear of Inflation or of weakening the dollar as a world currency.

But a few days ago in a press conference the President was interpreted as saying that a tax reduction is the alternative to a reccs.sion. This wa.s the reading of his comments in numerous newspaper headlines, and it is a fair judgment of what he said, even though the Chief Executive never put his pro.jec-tion in quite such clear cut terms.

Specifically in thLs press conference the President said; What I am most concenied about Is the prospect of another recession. Further he added: In my judgment, the best argument and the one which was most effective as far as I was concerned was that the reduction In taxes was an effort to relea.se sufficient purchasing power and was an effort to stimulate investment so that any downturn in business could be lessened in its impact and could be po.ssibly posponed."

Thi.s Ls an amazing shift of arguments. Even if a tax bill is passed along the line.s suggested by the President It would add well below one percent to the personal income in the nation during 1963. This i.s not enough to make even a measureable difference in the busine.ss trend, even if it were all .spent. And. as every business analy.st knows, a shortage of purchasing power is not the cause of out problems today. Of course all of us would like to have twice our present income. and' if we got that we should like It doubled again, and so forth. But unless such an increase comes about through producing goods and services'

tion into sound prosperity. There are some things which govemment mu.st do, but we have gone far beyond this list. And aside from these more or less necessary functions, the growth of govemment is at the expense of the private economy. We have had much of this need-les.s government growth in the past 20 or 30 years, and the trend is still upward.

The reason President Kennedy shifted his argument for the tax bill and reform is readily apparent. His proposal has run into a storm of protest that could not help but be a surprise to him and his advisers.

Labor is critical because there are not larger reductions for the low income tax brackets, although percentage-wise they get more relief than any other group.

Corporate managers are critical because such reductions as are given their organizations are extremely small and long delayed.

Investment specialists do not like the new capital gam.s rules.

Realtors, charities, educational institutions, and so forth know they will be hurt by the five percent floor under Itemized deductions.

And so It goes from one end of our economy to the other. Whether the implied threat of a recession will change any of these views is highly questionablebecause the propo.sed tax piogram Is not designed to be of aid in forestalling a downturn.

NEW YORK (AP) - Some things we could all do without:

People who claim every year theyve seen the first robin of spring. Jump-the-gun folks who are already mailing out their 1963 Christmas cards. Pedestrian walk signs that turn red just as you reach the middle of the street.

Office fiuss - budgets with pigeon-hole minds whose thoughts are always flying the coop Secretaries who wear Inch - deep mascara in the middle of the day. Secretaries who wear pur

ple lipstick. Office straw bosses who think that if an employe keeps a neat desk he will automatically go to heaven.

Bus drivers who start and stop*'their vehicles^as if they were polo ponies. Guys who grab your seat when you get up to give it to a little old lady. All one - way streets that go north when you want to go south.

Apartment house neighbors collecting for charitable causes who ring your doorbell just as you finally get the kid to bed. People at cocktail parties who

Other Editors Saying... Oiscussion On Tobacco

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Tl does seem so: Under the American system, a .lury is comf)osed of 12 unselfish, law-respecting, God-fearing citizens who did not have enough pull to get themselves excused.Greenville Piedmont.

which may be sold in the market place, the result will be inflation not solid, lasting growth.

It perhaps also should be repeated that rib govemment ever has, or ever will, spend a na-

(Wilson Times)

Certain facts stand out in the discussion on tobacco. There must be a market for the product and the farmers cannot return to hand suckering, it is too expensive. Give the American know-how time and It will develop a product that does not take aw'ay from quality. We believe any situation can be cured by discussing it, not by brushing it under the rug.

Therefore we are saying again that our tobacco farmers are going to be forced to recognize the hazards of raising tobacco in quantity with too little regard for quality. We have no place to sell other than to the manufacturers and buyers of tobacco

WTien your tobacco is bought by the Stabilization Corporation it Is not sold. True you have your money, but the tobacco remains to be a drain on the market until it Is sold. And you recall Stabilization recently put on a fire sale. And Stabilization had to buy more of the past year's crop than It has bought since 195.5 when the two varieties, later put on the di.scount ILst. were being raised. And if some change in cultivating practices are not made Stabilization will get as much, If not more, of the coming year's crop.

Therefore something must be done. For tobacco farmers are in the business to make money. just as are the manufacturers. As long as quantity brings In more per acre than quality you cannot blame the farmers. ThLs is If they are taking a short sighted view of the situation.

The poundage increases about 200 pounds per acre, a year. The Wilson County average is a little better than 2,000 pounds, about 200 pounds above the average. If we have an acreage decrease the farmers will plant a little closer, fertilize a little heavier and harve.st more tobacco. This again is an example of ingenuity, and we certainly do not want to dLscour-age that. The tobacco will look

good, it will have big pretty golden leaves. But there is little flavor and substance, the qualities the buyers want.

The varieties that are most acceptable to the trade have been published. So if the farmers will take the longer and more permanent viewpoint, plant deslifd varieties, space a little further apart, leave the tobacco in the field until riPe and cultivate carefully, they wUl not raise as much poundage but the quality will be there.

To even expect the farmer to do this, he must be compensated in a much higher price for quality tobacco. The grading also bears its full share of the responsibility for the present tobacco situation. The grading should be revised to make quality carry a premium price and a lower price on the least desirable tobacco.

Thi.s works in all other trades. Certainly you are familiar with the old saying, you pay for what you get. Thi.s must hold true In government. But it doesnt and you will never get the farmers to put in the extra time and labor unle,s.s it is profitable. And you cannot blame them. So let quality tobacco bring the big prices and more quality tobacco will be raised.

Then with the return to quality there would be less poundage and the farmers could get an acreage increase. We would then be on the road to raising farm Income and a tobacco program that could withstand all foreign competition. For our manufacturers and companies want to buy American tobacco and they will as long as they can find a sale and market for the product.

And if we could keep the politicians out of the controversy, we would have a better chance of accomplishing the goal s. These are higher prices for tobacco because of the competition created by demand. For there are danger signals, and tl\ese must be met with full and open discussion.

insLst on telling you why JFK is doing a great job. People at cocktail parties who insist on telling you why jFK i.= doing a lou.sy job.

Unsuccessful authors who write unsuccessful jooks telling other unsuccessful people how they can win success in a 10 ea.sy les.son.s. Any novel about the Civil War with a cover picturing a big-bosomed heroine. Any Broadway play in which more than half the characters act the way they do because of an unresolved childhood neurosis.

Comedians who make $50.000 a year up by telling what stinkers the other members of their family are. TelevLsion perform ers who make $100.000 a year showing us htxne movies (rf their last trip to Zuli-Iand.

Men who stand on their heads at the beach. Middle-aged lady bathers who wear bikinis and pretty young girls who don't. Anybody at any age who throws an orange peel Into the ocean.

Apartment house dooimen who expect two bits for helping an able-bodied man out of a cab.

Wives w ho brag In public about how much their husbands like to help them do the dishes. Anybody who tells you. "The world would not be the same without you - and then asks you to lend him money.

Opinions jn Brief

Four high-ranking Russian health "officials are touring the United States to learn what Americans are doing about air pollution. . We could save them the price of the trip. The an-swer Ls simple: We arent doing half enough. Memphis Pre.ss-Scimitar.

We need to get beyond the gathering of thing.s to the laying of a foundation built upon faithfaith that gives us hope and courage to face each day. North Wilksboro Journal-Patriot.

The intensive effort by the Castro government in Cuba to indoctrinate children In socialism should not surprise anyone. This indoctrination of children was done alsq by

' By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN The Amish people of Ohio and Lancaster County in Pcn-nylvanla, who have religious scruples about becoming ward.s in any way of the Welfare State, are petitioning Congress to exempt them from the system of compulsory Social Security. No doubt all congenital individualists should wish the Amish well in their quest. But I. for on:, would resent the favoritism implied if one group is relieved of the spiritual degradation of having to be carried on Big Brother States books as a bunch of nine-digit numbers wblls others have to put up with it.

You sec, my objection to the philosophy of the Welfare State Is fundamentally religious, too.

I am not a member of the Aqv ish sect, or. indeed, of any organized religious group. But my feeling about the nature of man is such that I think it aU wrpnii when human beings arc cwnpell-ed in such things as this matter of saving for their old age. God. to my way of thinking, gave people the grace of free will with the ldea.,that they should exercise it without a cop standing over them at every important turn in their lives.

In this country there is supposed to be such thing as equal protection of the law; the legal privileges and Immunltie.'^ of the citizens are. theoretically, equal. This doctrine derives from the Christian belief thgt every soul is equal in the sight of God. Of course, the whole concept of legal equality actually went by the board years ago. The progressive Income tax, for example, makes all sorts of exemptions for all sorts of people's dollars. A rich mans high-bracket dollars are nicked at a much higher rate than a poor mans unless the rtch man happens to have Invested his money in municipal tax-exempt bonds or in expeditions devoted to exploring for new sources of oil.

Inequality before the law is built Into the whole tissue of our economy. A man who gives his money to organized charity gets a lax break but my extreme Indivtduallst friend Harry Serwer. an adversltlng man who gives his money on principle to needy individuals, is given no deductions for his benevolences. A man in the writinf bu.siness would be laughed out of his Congressmans anteroom if he were to ask for a federal price support for his words if editors declined to pay him a certain rate. Ptrmers. on the other hand, receive price *t>P-porU for their produce a* a matter of course. Are words, then, less deserving of equity than wheat?

The idea that we still live by the old principle of justice that prescribes equality of privileges and immunities is. in practice. strictly for the birds as the degenerate modem age see it. Well, my religious view of Hie Is such that I am profoundly offended by this state of f-walrs. My^Creadtor, I am deeply convinced, did not put m on earth to be a ward of th# State in any shape or manner.

For the act of making me a wai-d, whether it 1s a subsidized consumer or producer or as a recipient of medicare or w ht-ever, invites the forcible seizure of some poor devU.s substance In order to take care of me. Morally and religiously, this is wrong. It is an offense against the c(Mnmandmcnt that makes theft a sin. It is also an offense against the idea that the legal privileges and Immunities of free men should be equal.

Now, if the Amish people to be exempted from compulsory Social Security on religious grounds. I claim that I .should be exempted, too. I take my stand on the fundamental Insights of Christianity, a.s exemplified In all the documents that formed the thinking of the Founding Father.s of the Republic. Can it be right that an Amish farmer should be granted something for religious reason that Is denied other .staunch believers in the religious sanctions of Christian individualism? Must we all become adherents to the Amish cult to have the blessings of liberty restored to us?

I hold no animosity against the Amish: indeed, I admire

Mus.vollni. Hitler. Stalin, Tito and Mao, Knowing thi.s, It is- their .spunk. But what about rather puzzling that some tho.se of us whose religioa. Is of

Americans get apologetic for waving the flag when teaching yo\iths w'hat principle.s and concepts gave us our heritage and will determine our fiture.Dally Oklahoman.

a personal, unorganized character? Are we to be discriminated against simply becau.se wo cant shout loud enough to prova that our God Is against compulsion in Social Security toot

Cheaaer Fliahts To Europe Seen

Strength For Today

B.y EARL L. DOUGLAS WHAT DO YOU THINK?

What did Jesus look like? This question has often been asked. The coming of Christ Ls clearly set forth In the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, and because the second verse of that chapter says, He hath no form or comeliness; and W'hen we shall see him there is no beauty that we shall desire him. the tradition arose in the early church that Jesus was homely.

But there would appear to be no basis In this tradition We can be sure he had a beard, as did all Jewish men of his day. He must have been a man of considerable physical .strength, for on one occasion he overturned the tables of the money changers in the temple and with a scourage drove out those who .sold merchandise within the

.sacred precincts. He walked thousands of miles in his three years of ministry. He frequently slept out under the open .sky at night. Inconveniences which would drive us frantic were Part of his everyday routine.

If he were here today dressed in modern clothes and walking down Main Street people would probably look at him searchlngly and perhaps stop and follow him with their eyes. Rich and poor were attracted to him while he lived. He appeared equally at ease in the home of poor people and at the banquet tables of the rich. He evidently conversed fluently with everyone.

The weak, stained - glass window fikure of Christ is unthinkable when we read the Gospels with discernment. He must have been a striking person to see, to talk with and to observe.

By ELMER ROESSNER'^

It may be cheaper to fly to. Europe this summer. The United States has shaped a new trans-Atlantic airline policy designed to increase both air passenger and air freight traffic. The United States plans to oppose aitificial restrictions agahist American airlines and to agree to give more freedom to European carriers to compete with American lines.

It will also oppose pooling and cartel arrangements by foreign airlines, which have kept rates up.

The program would increase competition In the trans-Atlantic traffic, and this would tead to lower rates, now held artificially high by international agreement, in which United States airlines participate. At present, it costs more than twice as much to fly over Atlantic water as It does over American land.

MORE GOVERNME.N'T ON TICK

Here arq more look-aheads in business:

More government borrowing;

The probability of still higher Federal deficits is causing the Treasury to seek new sources of loans. Beady eyes are turned on the massive funds, reported here this week. Treasury experts are considering a fund bond to draw off some of this $150 billion or more.

Such bonds would have a secondary purpose: They would siphon money out of the stock market, checking any runaway bidding up of common stocks.

Capital spending to rise: Regardless of whether the proposed tax cut goes through, caui-tal spending will rise moderately this year. Corporations have already committed themselves to a large extent. Furthermore, the accelerated depreciation voted last year will encourage further investments In new plants and equipment.

Tougher hiring Interviews: More attention is being paid to the mental health history of Job applicants than ever before. The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that mental Illness

from job stress is compensat-able; Califomia Is wrestling with the problem of whether alcoholics are entitled to compensation. Resumes may soon have to include a paragraph on mental health history. SOVIET CHROME PROTESTED

Move to bar Red chrome: Congress wilh soon get a proposal to bar chrome from Communist nations. Turkey and Rhodesia have protested that Russian shipments of the metal are squeezing them out of the U. S. market.

No newsprint squeeze: Newspaper strikes have cut paper demand: December con

sumption was 7 percent under a year ago. Meanwhile. Canadian production facilities are being expanded 2.5 percent, so that a surge after the strikes will not cause any shortage in 1963.

Newer plastics wanted: Big chemical companies are increasing pressure on research departments for more strides foi'ward in plastics. Industry

leaders feel that new kinds of plastics are fewer than expected and fear the curve in new materials will pass its peak unless more pressure and more money is applied to laboratories.

OLD PROMOTER PROMOTED, HE LAMENTS VIA MAIL

The Old Promoter did not appear on the horizon today but a post card came in from him with an Arizona postmark. The card read: "Arrived here to inspect my lakeside retirement e.state. It is 42 miles to the lake which is dry and gila monsters line the path. My private beach is 1.600 miles to west. Nearest electricity is 300 miles to east, nearest plumbing 250 miles north, nearest water 7 miles straight up on cloudy days. Who do I sue?

In that usage, Old Promoter, the word is "whom, and It probably wont do any good to sue anybody because the promoters who promoted ^^rmnn-

ey are probably to Bi

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