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More Than Sign Of Troubled Times

nrective se ice law'is more than a mere sign ot kind of world in which civilization lives today. trm!h?Ttrnea in which we live. The choice must be made between shouldering

It is an indication that a valuable lesson has the burdens of a strong military force, or placing been learned by the United States from bitter ex- in jeopardy the freedoms that have been periences of the past. Traditionally, this has been a and preserved at a dear price through the decades, nation slow to muster its military might in times It is encouraging to see that the nation has of approaching danger, and quick to dismantle its squarely faced up to the choice. It is encouraging military structure once the danger douds appear that something has been gained by the bitter lessons to have passed. ^ of by-gone years.

The days since World War^II, however, have ^

taught the United States that forces of aggression PAT^rOQOntc; RlCr

in the world best understand the persuasion of X CllJx potent military defenses. They have taught the United States that negotiations for peacefully

settling international difficulties can be more realistic if free nations negotiate from a position of re-introducing the absentee ballot into

military strength rather than from a position of p^rt/primaries if NoTcaroLa^ a step

military weakness. backward rather than a step forward in dealing

There were only three dissenting votes in the instrument which has caused more con-

House this week as that body extended the draft ^ ^ other one thing in elections in

law for four more years. That record is in sharp

contrast to the vote just a few days before Pearl Board of Elections has recommended

.. Harbor when the draft law then in effect survived f^j._j.^aching revisions of regulations governing the ; Congressional action by a one-vote margin. absentee ballots in general elections of the

it is not a pleasant thing that the United btate- gpj^g of protests from some counties of the

and other free nations have to continue to conscript g^^^^ jg generally recognized that the absentee its young citizens for militaiy service. It is unfor- ^3aiiot__as presently used in some areaspresents tnate that the international situation continually ^ liability to honest administration of

demands a gigantic military force on the side of gig^tions than is justified under any circumstances.

Certainly the state should not consider use of

N.C. Step Backward

Support Action On FS-1 Proof

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH Legislative notebook:

The department of motor vehicles will support legislation to do away with the FS-l insurance proof requirement in the states financial responsibility

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Such a proposal is part of a package of insurance bills prepared by Insurance Commissioner Edwin S. Lanier and scheduled to be Introduced this week.

Motor vehicles commissioner Ed Scheldt says doing away with the FS-1 requirement and substituting a strict honor system for certifying financial responsibility will help his department and the state highway patrol, a pswl of DMV.

ond notice, approximately half responded with proof.

STAGGERING Orders went out to the highway patrol to pick up the license plates of 61.421 who failed to respond after the second notice.

There still was time and most of these motorists obtained insurance in order not to give up their plates.

But the patrol picked up 29,-916 license plates.

These statistics indicate, of course, that despite its safeguards there are thousands of drivers on the streets and highways at a given time in North Carolina each year with no financial protection.

Scheldt noted, for example, that of the 61,421 motorists who were considered uninsured when

It wiU reduce the paper work failed to respond to the

substantially. Scheldt said. nnUpp thp hichwav na-

will materially reduce the num

ber of manhours highway patrolmen spend in following up insurance termination notices.

CONCUR We have been working with MS. Lanier and we concur with him in this, Scheldt said.

The matter of highway patrolmen following up notices of liability insurance terminations, collecting regdstratlon tags of those motorists whose Insurance has lapsed or been cancelled Is an especially sore point in DMV and in the legislature.

There have been demands and various proposals to get more troopers on the highways, to reduce their load of routine paperwork and errand running under the FS-1 system.

In the legislature there already are bills to divorce the highway patrol from the DMV and one by Rep. Sam Whitehurst of Craven to authorize 100 additional highway patrolmen.

PROBLEM Scheldt put his finger wi a good part of the problem in citing some figures on operation of the liability insurance FS-1 program.

In 1961, he said, DMV personnel had to check out each notice to determine if a new FS-1 had been Issued by another company.

It wfU5 found that about 200.-000 motorists whose FS-1 forms were terminated had switched companies and had been Issued new FS-ls.

But letters fnxn DMV had to be sent to 462.539 others telling them to file proof of financial respmslbility or surrender their license plates. All but 119,841 then secured Insurance or surrendered plates. Second notices went to the others. Upon sec-

second notice the highway patrol reported this breakdo^Mi: Uninsured and plates recovered 29.916T insured but failed to respond 11,243: could not locate 8.365; vehicles sold 2,616: plates lost 1.062; out-of-state 945; vehicles

junked 365; vehicles removed from state 3,085.

The amount of paperwork and number of manhours involved in this is staggering, Scheldt said.

PATROL The FS-1 requirement thus places a heavy, costly burden ci the state, on the Insurance companies and sometimes Inconvenience wi the average insured motorist himself when there Is a delay in obtaining his registration because of what he considers red tape. Scheldt estimates that the highway patrols duties in regard to the FS-1 requires what amounts to the full-time service of 40 troopers.

FAVOR He favors the honor system proposal of the Insurance department as more realistic and just as safe, provided there are proper safeguards and checks. Troopers might still make road checks and samplings, for example, and accident reports might be checked to determine whether Insurance actually Is In effect.

Our thinking is that the Insurance requlpements now are well known to the public, Scheldt said. The overwhelming majority of people will carry Insurance even If they dont have to file a form.

4 Virginia once required a proof iinUar to the FS-1. he said, and when It was abolished there was no appreciable Increase in the number oS uninsured motorists.

the absentee ballot again in primaries until such time as new, stricter control over this instrument is tested in general elections in the state. The people of the state should not allow the call for putting the absentee ballot back into the primaries to be

used as a side issue to obscure the more fundamental ^ ^ ...

question before the legislature. That question is _ 14 a i ROVT S'

whether sufficiently strict regulations are to be im- oy XlALi X L* posed to prevent the indefensible misuse of the absentee ballot that has been going on in general elections in the state.

If the necessary revisions are made In the absentee ballot law during the current session of the General Assembly, and if these new stricter regulations prove satisfactory in future general Siar"cia^!^

elections, there will be time enough to consider ^

whether the absentee ballot might again be used age blue collar worker is so busy

earning; overtime, he can hardly afford to waste his youth in eating.

The white collar employe is quite another matter. He can hardly afford to live unless he brings his lunch to work. There was a time when his white collar was a status symbol. Now it is just a badge of indoor serfhood.

Anyway, for one reason or an-

Of Indoor Serfs

NEW YORK.(AP) The custom of bringing ones lunch to

in party primaries. Until that time, however, the legislature has before it the much more important task of neutralizing the absentee ballot as an instrument for corrupting elections in North Carolina.

Chit-Chat Over Nuclear Future

other, the average office locker room is crowded now at lunch time with fodder chompers. Among them you are sure to find these typical characters;

The Inheritor All he ever has to eat is what is left over In the refrigerator from the day before. If it's a lamb stew he warms it up by carrying it to work in a plastic bag in his pocket.

The Dassicist On Monday, Wednesday and Friday be brings In baloney sandwiches; on Tuesday and Thursday he brings in llverwurst sandwiche. The male members of his fami-

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - Chitchat is the most charitable description for the long years of American - Russian talks to ban nuclear tests. Secretary of State Dean Rusk has just said he sees no agreement in the near future.

The .talks, at the rate theyve been going, can continue for more years with still no agreement. Very likely, sooner or later, the big powers will resume nuclear testing as they did last year.

This will bring the usual outcries and protests. Then when the tests are finished, again judging by the way they have been going, the United States and Russia will chew the fat some more.

Even agreement of some sort will be a hollow arrangement unless the French and Red Chinese agree not to test. Since theyre not taking part in the negotiations, they cant be bound by any deal the United States and Russia make.

It Is easy to speculate that one reason for Russian reluctance right now to agree on a test ban is its concern for Red China, that it wants to stall to give the Chinese C(wnmunists time to make some tests.

What isnt known is what personal motives the United,States and Russia may have since information on nuclear development is completely secret for not signing an agreement now.

Each side, as could be expected, blames the other for the failures. Its an old story and Its getting mon(^onous. Over the Shears the only ones optimistic about an agreement were the dreamers.

Just how far off a test ban lo<^ can be understood from the statement by Rusk: that the United States is ccmtinuing talks with Russia in the hope of reaching lU least a first step toward halting the arms race.

What does a first step mean? Just breaking the ice: Just making a little progress? If so, then more steps, meaning more talks, will be necessary to give a ban agreement any significance.

The Russians, who had consistently refused to agree to any inspection system inside their country, last December consented to permitting at least three on-slte lnspecti(Mis. Then they backed off that.

The United States, which at

one time had insisted on at least 10 on-site inspections, reduced its requirement to 7. The Russians wouldnt buy that. Rusk says he doesnt know why the Russians backed off.

Now. It turns out, when the United States trimmed its onsite inspection demand to seven a newspaper was told about c before the American delegation at Geneva had told this countrys allies and the neutrals.

Meanwhile the Republicans have warned the administration not to make too many concessions. Besides they said, the administration has been Inconsistent hi what It says it wrill insist on before agreeing to a ban.

This whole business is getting as tangled up in politics as how to deal with Fidel Castro. Its a sorry sight at this moment and theres no reason to think it will get better any time socm.

Opinions

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There can be no doubt that employment age deadlines impose a hardship on many seeking employment. We also think they are not very realistic In many cases, especially where the cut-off age is 40. We sometimes feel the accent on youth has been overdone in the industrial world. Wheeling (W.Va.) Intelligencer.

Public Forum

One of Americas problems Is the vast amount of ignorance among young Americans as to how free enterprise works. Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune.

The principle of the consent of the governed' is distinctly American and should be our world-wide slogan. William O. Douglas.

TO THE EDITOR:

The problem staled by the teen-ager and discussed by local youth leaders will certainly not be solved without looking deeper into the'cause of the difficulty. There can be no quick, easy, and simple answer because the teen-agers problem Is only a symptom of a more obscure problem: a questionable sense of values held by some adults.

The first possible solution to helping our young people would be to start with our own children in our own homes. This, of course, is impractical because of two reasons: First, many of us are too busy attending How to Improve Other Peoples Children meetings to take care of car own offspring; and second, our modem social structure is more dependent upon organization membership than home membership, and, being realistic, we cannot expect to change this pattern overnight. Though most meetings and organizations are laudable and the participants are to be commended for their sincere efforts, I believe many of us should do a little soul searching and make certain our own childrens lives are not being short-changed while we are away from home helping others.

The impracticability of this first solution brings us back to the anonymous teen-ager who complained that there is no place in Greenville after 11:00 p.m. A possible but Incredulous answer is to go home alone during week-days and with a date or other friends during week-ends and special occasions. But this suggestion la based upon the assumption that home is an enjoyable, happy, and secure place to be with one s friends. Quite often it is not, because we parents have not made it so. Besides, home does sould like a rather boring place

to a teen-ager who has already attended formal dances and the like before he reached his teens.

A more practical solution is the one mentioned in Anne Mattoxs column. This sec(Hid suggested solution is to Improve and add to oui- existing youth programs. But what are we going to add? More buildings? More expensive facilities? More programs planned by, and quite often for. adults? If so, we can be assured that our young people will be ^having more fun but enjoying it less.

In planning and working with our young people we adults might keep m mind the things which they really need rather than what they think they need. They think they want expensive clothes and f 1 s h y cars: they really want acceptance and respect. They think they want medals and trophies but really want recognition and a feeling of achievement; they want to accept challenges, belong to something really j[ood, and to have some new experiences. And if we are honest with ourselves, we adults want the same. But it appears that many of us are ccmfusing the accidentals with the essentials and passing this confusicm on to our young people. , ^

It has been suggested that a YMCA might be a solution to the teen-agers problem. Bringing in such an organization is certainly a step in the right direction. If we bring In buildings, facilities, and personnel which are geared to meet the real needs of our young people, everyone In Greenville will benefit. But If we bring In programs and people which are geared to strictly offer fun, fun, fun then we may look forward w reading other anonymous letters from dissatisfied teen-agers.

Sincerely.

Ralph H. Steele 104 Avon Lane Greenville, N.C.

ly have subsisted (i this midday fare since the invention of bread.

The Intellectual He nips on canapes his wife saved from the last llterary-to-do, and sips from a small carafe of cheap but adequate red wine from a small but sensitive vineyard on the north slope of a name vineyard in Burgundy where an unknown poet once died climbing uphill. Between bites and sips he reads from a volume of Proust in the original Proust.

The Trader This n(nad of the locker room wanders the area offering to exchange an ex-, tra slab of his mother-in-laws ' meat loaf for any dessert you have, particularly if it Is cheesecake.

The Mechanical Gourmet He has a slot machine appetite. He eats whatever his nickels and dimes will fetch chocolate milk, canned soup, candy bars. At the end of the luncheon hour he is begging everyone in sight to give him change for a half buck so he can play the machines some m<M:. If he can't eat what ccxnes out, he lights it up and smokes it.

The Sanitary AristocratHe brings a lunch in a picnic hamper that would feed a starving troop of Girl Scouts. After finishing the caviar, he dips his hands in the water fountain before going on to the fried chicken.

The Waif I got up so late this morning my wrife didnt have time to fix me anything. he murmurs as he strolls fnma table to table, borrowing a piece of corned beef sandwrlch here, half an apple core there. Actually, hes putting his lunch money into common stocks and hopes to be able to retire by the age of 50.

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In their stubborn Insistence on defending archaic work rules, in their bitter resistance to the introduction of labor-saving machinery, such unions as the longshoremens ai^ the railroad brotherhoods are the new reactionaries. They are replacing in this category the em-players who, in the not so distant past, fought against the recognition of organized labor. The New York 'Times.

Has wdnter already dropped its other shoeor is this Just the lulling time?The Charlotte News.

North-

South

Culture

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc. home from the South by the route that taxes you along the outer-most edge of North America, you see lioia he deck of the old Ncwioac-Kiptopeke ferry boat that o.ie of the great engineering marvels is now nearing complsuon.

It is the 23-mile long Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, which will span the opiM s^tch of Atlantic Ocean betweh Virginias Cape Henry and Cape Charles. And not so many mues from there to the north, as you drive your car over a small bridge, you note that one of the earliest engineering accomphsn-xnents of the American nation, the open ditch that connects the Delaware and Chesapeake bays, Is flowing there beneath you.

The newest structure has taken the most intricate sort of cooperation between poUtical agencies and private contractors specializing in such things as the 1(M^ing of steel, the sinking of and the pumping

of tons of sand. The oldest structure was dug by hand Jar bor. Yet. in its day, the Dclsr ware-Chesapeake Canal was Just as much <rf a miracle as the 200-mlUion-dollar comblna-tlon of bridges, tunnels and artificial Islands that will shortly enable trucks to thunder from New York to Ncwiolk and the Carolinas without stopping for anything but gas.

. The Delawars- Chesap^e Canal was a miracle because it was the first Instance of economic and (ndtural permeation in a world that wasnt sure it wanted any such thing. Out of the first efforts of Maryland and Delaware to do something to make concourse easier between them came the Annapolis Convention, which was the pre-cumor of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The old canal that was originally dug as the result of an agreement between states that werent yet part of a union stands as the first monument to something that has gone on with only momentary interruption ever since George Washington and Alexander HamilUm decided that it was silly for each separate col-(xiy to live by itself.

Today, as a result (rf the standardization thiU the new Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel W1 hurry along at a still faster pace, the permeation of culture Is drowning out practically all the significant old-time regi(m-al differoices.

If you talk with Anthony Har-rigan in Charleston, S. C., he will tell you that his Carolina cOTipatriots are tired of batting their heads against the wall in the efforts to stem integration. Hence the comparative lack of fuss about the enrollment of a Negro at Clemson College, A generation ago, says Mr. Har-rigan. Southern novelists found significant themes In the tension between the old local and the new national ways. But today the problems facing individuals In the South are more or less like the problenos that face Americans anywhereand the South is no longer producing its distinctive writers.

Little things testify to the permeation of culture. If you are an ice skater, you can find modem Ice rinks in Carolina cities and in Fort Lauderdale and Hidlywood in Florida. Maybe It wont be Icmg before they have artificial snow-maldng machines creating ski resorts in the Great Smoky Mountains.

In this matter of, the permeation (it culture, tlwr drift has largely been from North to South. True enough, the first supermaricet the Piggly Wiggly chain storewas a Southern creatl(ni, but the Dixie suburbs that are served by really modem supermarkets have, by that token, a Northern flavor. In one- Important respect, however, the South hasnt given way to Northern attitudes. The deepest Impression I have carried home from a brief period below the Mason-Dixon line that was made memorable by many conversations Is that Southerners far surpass Northerners in their political realism and in their feeling f(Mr self-preservation.

The South Is demonstrably alive to the CXiban portent as (Continued on page 5)

About all that Daylight Saving Time would do for the average city dweller in North Carolina is to give him another free hour of daylight during summer months, and this in itself Is enough to justify serious consideration of the bill. The Raleigh Times.

Recession Year Was Profitable

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS REFLECT

Have you ever asked yourself when you went into a book store, Who under heaven reads all these books? There are books which instruct us in everything from the making ct chicken coops to the grinding of lenses. There are tomes and tomes full of opinion as to whither humanity is heading and how to save it from destruction. There are volumes of po^ , try, and books on history, and literary criticism. There are novels 80 many of them that the questi(m arises In ones mind whether half these novels really get read or are a loss to the publisher.

We live in an age which puts great stock In books. This is good for many reasons. The best minds of our time are writing

down their thoughts and having them published. Yet when we get right down to brass tacks there are probably less than fifty bo<^ in the world that have produced revolutions and turned the tides of history.'

It has been said that the three greatest books In the world are the Bible, the dictionary, and the che<;k book. The latter is Important, as we all know.

Read, read. read. But as you read think, think, think. Nobody in the world is fit to do your thinking for you. Lay the facts out on the table and reflect upon them. Statesmen have made some of the worst decisions in history and humble men and women some of the best.

Read. Eincourage your children to read. But amid all your reading reflect.

By ELMER ROESSNER Remember 1962? That was the year in which stock prices fell in May, rose, and then feu even lower In the fourth quarter. It was the year when Democrats said We were seeing the last of the Eisenhower recessions and the Repblicas s^d we were seeing the first of the Kennedy recessions.

tt was also the year in which 2.511 major corporatlras increased their net earnings 13 percent over the previous year.

This paradoxical prosperity is shown by the First National City Banks annual summary 01 net Incomes of major colorations. These 2,511 corp^Uons netted $17,688.219,O in 1961 and $20,036.598,000 in 1962. PROFITABLE RECESSION Even more amazing Is fact that few of the ma groups showed losses. The 55 iron and steel (Knpanles showed an aggregate loss of 17 per cent; 46 chain and variety companies lost 2 percent; 35 rubber and allied products companies lost the same per cent; 41 amusement corporations showed a loss of 1 percent. In addition, a Federal Reserve tebu-lati(m showed that 6,050 mem

ber banks lost an average of 1 pjrcent during the year. The number of the banks is not included In the First National City total.

There were some fat gains In that year of purported rece^ Sion. The 43 aircraft and r^-way equipment companies increased earnings from $58,*736, 000 in 1961 to $279,412,000 a gain of almost 400 percent.

TWhty-two shoe and leather compAoies made gains of 85 per cent; 4" auto and parts con^ panies Increased the stuff of which dividends are made by 54 percent, and 28 other trans-portatUm companies Increased earnings 45 percent.

MANY GAINS OVER 20 per CNT _ ^

Other sleable gains; 48 tex-tUe products companies, srper cent; 194 machinery (XMnpinies, 27 pendent; 106 fabricated metal products companies, 24 per cent; 20 lumber and wood products companies, 22 per cent; 80 business services and construction companies. 22 per cent. All the rest were less than 20 per cent.

First National City attributr ed the general upward trend to the rise in pn^ in the last

quarter. It said, Increases in earnings were largely the relit of expanding sales volumes and did not represent a basic change In the trend of profitar bllity.

Once again:

Ours is an amazing e<xm(Mny. Profits soar^during years of recession and even beggars have shoes.

U.S. NOT LAGGING IN EDUCATION, ANOTHER STUDY PROVES

Americans are told that the ec(xiomy is so near faltering that massive tax cuts are necessary to get the country going again. They are also told that because of our lack of ed-ucatl(xi the Russians are getting ahead of us.

Both warnings may come under the head of controlled news; public thinking must be managed.

But Just as the facts about corporate earolngs come out. so do facts 00 education. The National Ihdustrlal Conference Board reports that nearly 45 percent ci the countrys popular tion of 14 years and over are high-scbool graduates. The Uh

tal Is about 57.4 million.

This Includes 12 million who have completed one to three years of college and about 10 mUllon college graduates. Furthermore, the Boards figures show that the ratio of the educated is increasing. Of the 22.1 million between the ages of 25 and 34. 64 percent are high-school graduates, but that of th? 16 million between 55 and 64. only 32 per cent have high-school diplomas.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS While engineering construction slumped in January, contracts for building construction rose 11 percent above January, 1962, the F. W. Dodge Corp. reports. . .A survey by Buyers Laboratory, New York, seems to find that manual typewriters are more economical than eleo-trlci when typists are not under pressure. . .Wbolestlers' customers are paying thir bills more promptly than a year ago. the Credit Research Foundation finds-Bony Corp. offers to trade new tramristor radios for an^ ent wireless or telephones sutt* able for exhibition. ^