Saturday, April 6, 1963 ; ^ ^

Objections To Every New Device

It should be no surprise that a bill has been stand _u^ in courl^^^ ,eggiativ

' rt Urcetneni

of traffic raws. . _ violators. Opponents of the unmarked cars declared

Almost without exception every new device wasnt fair for officers to slip up on motonsts employed by the highway patrol in an effort tn ^j^^out a chance of motorists seeing them coming, make highwavs of the state safer has come under ^hen there was the great hue and cry over use

attack as being unfair to motorists or because whammies on the highways to apprehend speea-of preconceived notions that the method would not jjere was another device, opponents said, de

signed to take advantage of unsuspecting motonsts. and evidence gained from whammies probably wouldnt stand up in court anyway. The same thing pplied to the use of radar and cameras in patrol

Where Is Sen. Moraan Going?

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By wnXlAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH-Robert P. Morgan figuratively cant get a word in edgewise around home and harem at Shelby, N.C., but he speaks .with authority in the State Senate.

At home, the taU and rugged Bob Morgan is no match in the words department for an all-female household v.Iilch includes his wife, the former Rufh Moore of Lumberton, two daughters, aged six and three, and a mare, a female dachshund and even a mother cat with four kittens.

But in Raleigh, legislators and state officials listen when Morgans deep voice booms.

He speaks clearly, eloquently and persuasivelyand frequentr ly is dissent.

In his sixth term in the State Senate, Morgan is a recognized leader and legislative tower of strength. He serves on 11 Senate committees, has chair-maned many Important committees and been president pro tern of the Senate.

TIESHe has close ties with the major political factions in Raleigh, but is an Independent thinker. A staunch Democrat, he doesnt necessarily a^ree with the administrations, either this one or the last one, on all things.

For example, he differs sharply with the Sanford ad-irdnistration on a proposed $200 million highway bond issue, but supports Sanford's nine point highway safety program *100 per cent.

Morgan and Gov. Terry Sanford served their first tern>s in the Senate together in 1953 and a good deal of legislation 10 years sigo bore a Sanford-Mor-gan stamp.

STAMPIn the interim, Morgan became a legislative workhorse for many of Gov. Luther H. Hodges legislative programs. He was tagged then as a Hodges man, but explains this came about largely because he served on the Com-ml.'^slDn for Reorganization of State Government which pro-d^'-ed many of the controversy?' Hodges programs estab-hsting the department of Ad-m'oistration, separating prisons from the highway depart-me'H and others.

He opposed the food tax in 1961 and received an anti-Sanford administration stamp.

My position oti that had been well known since 1953., he says. Ive never been one to favor increased taxes, and the food tax was a matter of principle. Ive believed that it Should be a last resort. But the legislature approved it. and apparently the people accepted it.

HIGHWAYS Nov Morgan opposes the Sanford administration again on the question of a highway bond issue. He is chief sponsor and leading advocate for the $200 million bond issue and calls the oppo-Bltion to it inconsistent.

He denies that the highway bond issue is dead, despite Sanford opposition. Not by a long shot. he says. Fm firmly convinced of the merits of this bond issue, and I think it stands a chancea good chance. Thats not just a hunch, either. Moi-gan says. I dont generally deal in hunches when Im playing for keep.;.

He believes a good, sound and solid ca.se can be made

for the highway bond issue. He feels it is needed and wan' and would do a maximum . .lob without additional taxes. He points out that 27 legislators signed the bond issue bills and more wanted to if there had been time.

ISSUESMorgans legislative Interests are many. He headed the Manufacturing and Labor committee which has a Morgan-sponsored bill to raise the state minimum wave to $1 an hour, and feels this will pass.

He believes senate redistrlct-Ing, highway safety and higher education rank among the major 1963 issues. He agrees with Sanford that senate redistrlct-Ing should be done within the framework of the present state constitution.

I question the wisdom of a constitutional amendment at this time. Morgan says. It might be practical at some time in the future, but for now it would be better to redlstrict under provisions for it in the constitution.

On higher education. Morgans view was that the controversy over name-changing in the University system was a tempest in a teapot. Perhaps, he said, there might have been another approach to this.

CONCERN Morgan Ls disturbed about the public image of the 1963 Senate. There is concern about it, he says.

He was the only member of the Senate Rules committee to vote against a new rule which allows committee chairmen to refuse demand for a roll call vPte in committees. Morgan says he feels that perhaps the new rules were adopted too hastily. In the past, the proposed rules were put on the members desks at least a day in advance. That wasnt done this time.

Morgan also served as vice-chairman of the Legislative Building CommissicMi and thinks public acceptance and reaction to the new $6.2 million building has been favorable.

FUTUREMorgan came to the Senate at the age of 29 and Is now 40.

His recent announcement that he would not be a candidate for re-election next year aroused speculation about his political future, which Morgan himself feels is far from finished.

Will he run for governor? He has no firm plans, but adds, you might say any man who has served this many terms in , the Senate would not be adverse to running for any office if he thought he had the support.

And. if he has the support, he says, a man with this record and from my part of the state might be good for the party. Shelby and Cleveland County have produced outstanding governors and public officials in the past.

But actually, Morgan savs. hes stepping out of the General Assembly for the time being for a breathing spell.

You reach a point in politics where you feel you either have to step up or step aside and evaluate your position to see if youre in a rut.

But I may be going to run for something someday.

In private life, Bob Morgan is in business with his father, brother and an associate in Morgan and Co., cotton brokers, grain brokers, farm supply and feed.

You name it. we supply it. he said.

In their effort to protect motorists from these unfair devices, opponents of their use apparently gave little thought to the greater protection these devices would afford the lives and property of people who travel the highways.

Bv using airplanes in its enforcement eiiort, the patrol is able to make its existing force much more effective on the highways. Even in the short time the planes have been in use, they have proved to be effective in spotting violators and directing officers on theground to apprehending these tors. Time alone will tell whether this method will stand up in court. In the meantime, the legislature should not prohibit the patrol from continuing the use of planes to enforce traffic regulations.

Motorists dont need to be protected from t^e airplanes. Thev need to be protected from traffic violators, abd that is what the patrols use cf planes is accomplishing.

N.C. Republicans Are Making Political Hay

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Democrats .of North Carolina should face up to the fact that Republicans are making political hay in the 1963 legislature, at times with unwitting

help from Democrats. i. u 4- * xn

In some instances Democrats appear to be too gy HAL BUYLlli much on the defensive where the small GOP delep- * tion in the General Assembly is concerned. In other I ' ^ ^ instances apathy among Democrats has offered 1

Republicans the opportunity to seize initiative, and

they have made the most of opportunities that have ^ _ Time is

opened for them i i 4.- a torrent that rushes us head-

During the first two months of the legislative jQ^g in only cme direction.

session manv North-Carolinians have gained the But by the magic^t of mp-

Impression that every proposal offered by Republi-

cans has automatically been rejected by the Demo- waters. Some of us can

cratic delegation. While this is not entirely accurate, remember when-the impression has created a certain amount of ^ efeht-hour day for

sympathv for the GOP underdog in the current ^ p^y

Perhans as mch as anything else, this im- The thrill of a lifetime came ^

pression has been gained where local county legisla- m/m way

tion has been offered by GOP members only to be ^^^y to prove you 'The hero of the gang was

rpipcted in committees. were a campus inteUectual was

It is only natural Republicans have

sought to make the most of differences within tne when you went for a Sunday

ner tube.

You could ride on a streetcar lor a nickel, get your shoes shined for a dime, and have a tooth filled for $2. . . ^,

made you feel real sinful to stay up late on Saturday night and go to the midnight

movie. ,

In the throes of puppy love you stood on your head in front of your girls house, hoping thereby to impress her in some

Democratic delegation, and while points of policy were being reconciled among Democrats, Republicans have dropped into legislative hoppers bills which out the Democratic party on the defensive.

With its solid control of the legislature, -the Democrats are responsible for the legislation which is handled in Raleigh. As the session moves into its last two months, Democrats must move forward with more attentio]^-to the positive program the party has advanced and less attention to diversionary strategy by Republicans.

drive, you figured on stopping at least twice to patch an in-

one who took the first chilly plunge into the old swimming hole in the spring. ^ *

It was widely believed that science could teH your mental traits by the bumps on your

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Red Chinas advice to Russia about the United States lets you and him fight is getting the same practical .answer: Nothing doing.

Premier Khrushchev this week turned down Mao Tze-tungs mid-March invitation to Peking and instead Invited him to Moscow. This is like saying the general never goes to see a private.

But, while Khrushchev also gave Mao some advice on first things finst. its easy to see why the Russian wont let the Chinese sic him on the United States.

Although Russia and Red China are neighbors of the Great Eurasian land mass. Russia has all the nuclear weapons. China none. This makes Russia a potential threat to China, even though both are Communists.

It's already been demonstrated In Albania. Yugoslavia. Poland, and above all in the Russlan-Chlnese split that communism doesnt mean unity. Nationalism, running deep-per. is the stronger force.

The Russians and Chinese are nationalists before they are Communist. Their mutual com-niunHm hasnt replaced their individual nationalism. Therefore, the Russians have reason to suspect Chinese intentions, too.

It any nuclear war between coni'Tiunism and the United States Russia and thLs country, out otnuclear necessity, would Inive to concentrate on knock-in- each other out.

Both would bt> flattened, along with V/eslern Europe.

Red Chii-a. because it N not a nuclear force, would probab-Iv be untouched i i the missile exchange. The West wouldn t went 10 use up on China mis sips which ml^ht be needed tn el-lHcT Russia.

Anri even if the Chinese got hit they could afford to lo.se more people than the Russians since they have about three tl-'-s as ma v. ^

V't'iep the f'"e> on two conti-;ic .1 di-d down, the Chi'^cse.

eb' imtouched or un-touehecl altogether, would be the luminant force in East and .V-st.

I' dorsni take brains to He mv Ilat nut and the Ru.esi.in* \i"t', l ! uptd

Kh* u; licl'.rv evd Mao I ' Hwu Ir .-I r-nh-H'd down iniu main points for discussion 11 they met.

Oddly enough, both put Communist unity last although It might be supposed theyd put unity above everything if they took the trouble to get together to discuss what disunited them.

WhUe the Chinese put strategy and tactics of the revolution in the contemporary world first on the agenda of a summit meeting, the Russians No.

1 item was strengthening the Communist effort to convert the world.

Khrushchev refused to make any change in his cold war strategy, which is what Irked the Chinese in the first place. Khrushchev saw no reason to revise his peaceful coexistence line.

Revolutions are quite possible without wars, he instructed Mao.

Its unUkely that any Western leader has been ninny enough to think Khrushchevs peaceful coexistence means he wants to be a good neighbor or even that by peace he means an absence of war.

About the only meaning which could be placed on his words judging, for instance, from whats been happening in Viet Nam for years is this: Because of the prospect of mutual annihilation in an all - out war with the United States, hes content to nibble at the West with limited wars instead of trying his luck at one gobble in a big war.

The United States certainly is anticipating that by building up its conventional forces.

But the balmy front of peaceful cut.*:ir-;tence is broad enough to mclude every trick, including blackmail, short of either big or little wars. For instance, * putting missiles in Cuba.

All KhrushShev has really ever said ts that hes not in a hurry. Tnc fact that the Chinese are trying the opposite Is enough to make them suspect to the Russians. ,

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(Wall Street Journal)

The speakers at (a recent) symposium the President, the Secretary of the Treasury, bankers, businessmen and academic economists offered widely different prescriptions to achieve this growth. Some prescribed big tax cuts in various doses. Others plumped for bigger Government spending. Some asked for both together. . -There were even an old-fashioned few who argued the need for less Government spending.

But with a lone exception, all the speakers were agreed on one thing. Whit ails us is not enough growth, and growth in large quantities Is what the economy must have at any price. Indeed, this was. . .the Premise imbedded in the title of this symposium sponsored by the Xmerican Bankers Association.

It is in fact a very simple matter to stimulate growth in the economy as it is conunonly measured. The Gross Nation^ Product, which was the yardstick used by almost even^ speaker, can be increased by anything that will increase the turnover of money. Increased Government spending will increase the statistic regardless of what the money is spent for. So wUl increase private spending: let the people once doubt the future value of their money, and their rush to spend present dollars would shoot the GNP up to the sky.

Its no great trick, either, for this country to increase production statistics. The Governments farm program has increased agricultural production

to the point where we don t know what to do with it The same could be done with the steel industry if the only point were to make more steel ingots. The unemployment statistic Can be made to drop by any one of a number of devices, ranging from make - work to simply putting all the unemployed (Ml the Government payroll.

The ridiculousness of these suggestions Is merely a reminder that it is not growth, of and for itself, that we want. . .

Indeed, one of the ills we now suffer from, as the farm program well illustrates. Is that artificial stimulants have been applied to some parts of the economy so that they have grown out of all proportion to the rest of the body or to any need 9t all and this wild growth Is putting undue strain <m the whole body economic.

. .If we can agree on poU-cies that will give us a sound economy, it is possible that they may nc^ cause much immM-iate growth; indeed, almost by definition they will not in .^y segments of the economy which are already overgrown. It is even possible that healthy policies may not result in great fu-

head. . .

Schools had grass yards instead of paved playgrounds.

CoUege boys earned their sum--mer spending money working on farms as harvest hands.

Most men carried their lunch In a metal lunch box. not hidden in a leather attache case.

You could see at least two dog fights a day in the age neighborh(X)d. The accepted method for separating the yelping canine contestants was to throw & kete of hot water in tiem.

The biggest drama in a farmers life was to go to town on Saturday and watch a trial at the courthouse.

The people who chewed tobacco looked down on those who smoked it as sissies.

Traveling salesmen were known as drummers, and seemed to spend most of their waking hours sitting in hotel lobbies and lying to one another.

The standard library in most rural homes consisted of two volumes a worn family Bible and the latest edition of a mail order catalog.

Everything buttoned nothing zippered.

You could always spot the biggest dude in town. He wore the brightest yellow shoes.

Mother broke into tears when her son proudly put on his fist pair of long pants and left his boyhood behind forever. Remember?

Opinions Brief

By JOHN CHAMBERIAIN

Copyright. 1963, King Featurei Syndicate, Ino.

Despite the reported dedint of old - fashioned morally, the average American still prefers to be high-minded about most thlngSiBut if anyone mentions that high-mlndd adage a^ut politics st(g)plng at ttje waters edge, its ten to me that the response from, even the most moral person will be a cjmical Oh, yeah? Its accepted as a fact of life that poUtlcians will not refuse to capitalize domestically (m the breaks diplomacy even when It has had bipartisan support.

Well, the RepuWlcans nava been capitalizing on the fester tag Cuban issue. I do not doubt for a moment that they are doing this for tiie most part as pidrlots. Nevertheless, they know that Cuba has its domestic potential, cashable in terms

The only trouWa with Cuba as a sure - fire oppositionist vote-getting issue Is that John p. Kennedy, to his dual role as originator of U. S. foreign polt cy and Conomander-In-Chlef of the armed forces, can always call the RepubUcan bet. or even raise the ante, well before the 1964 electiMis are upon la. Its not Impugning the Pre^ dents patriotism to say that, to staring Khrushchev down k eyeball to eyeball range last Autumn, he was happy to accept the domestic vote - catching by-product of hta first really bold action in the conduct of foreign poUcy. The one Repulh lican who really staked his wad on the Cuban issue, the thra incumbent Senator Capehart of IndiMia, found himself completely outmaneuvered on el^ tion day, and the result la that he is now an ex.

In this business of continutag to capitalize on the domes^ by-product of the foreign policy Issue, however. President Kennedy will have to do some

in

There are many aspects of the railroad problemincluding mergers about which there Is plenty of room for different opinions. But that the railroads should be free to compete on an equal basis with other forms of transportation is beyond dispute except, of course, by those who

pretty fast stepping. His words to Costa Rica about building a wall of dedicated men" around Castros Cuba have been dls- ~ counted in many RepubUcan ^ cles as rhetoric. But Kennedy, as an astute poUtidan, certa^ ly knows that he cant regard the words (rf his the Costa Ricans as self-fmflU-tag. If the cancer d Castros Cuba is permitted to metastar size, the Republicans would really have an Issue. Imagtas the consternation of the Democrats if. a couple of weeks fore election day In 1964 Brazu should be taken over by a C trolte coup? Even a Cisnmumst seizure ci Guatemala, or a Marxist party election victory In Chile, would give the Democrats some taU explaining to do on the hisstlngs. R Is for this reason that Gallup polls about Kennedys popularity w essentially haeantogless at this stage of the game. Too much can happen in the next year or so to spoil anybodys guess.

The bets of those who MV# voluntarily to vote on risktag their money in Latin America, however, are that the Kennedy Admtalstratlon cant keep the Castro cancer frwn sjH^eadtog. The wily new investment money flowing into Latin Amerl(ja recently has been political money. sent at the behest of Wash-tagtwi. D. C. We have shored up BrazU and the Argentine all over again with an infusion of poUUcal funds to permit them to buy time to the battle to get their own domestic economlea on the up-beat. It remains to be seen whether American businessmen will back up the political moves to save Latin America by coming through with new investments of their own.

In some Instances Americans are conimitted wUly - nllly: the Kennecott Copper Company cant vary well pull up stake* to ChUe. fur its fabuloua Braden mine is there to stay. This mine will certainly be operate<l as ing as it yields even a small profit after the heavy local taxes. Nevertheless, Kennecott is not expending its Chilean oper-

cies may not resun, m lu nreferential treat- not expenomg ks

ture growth, although we doubt (Wash.) ations. Recently the Wg wpper

it because we dont believe in producer cuts Its dlvldent, n(^

the gloomy view fbat ours is a "mature economy with aU its growth in the past.

But only by searching for sound policies can we possibly hope to achieve any real growth. Approaching the problem as if growth were all there is to talk about, and a thing to be bought at any price, is to mistake the task. . .

Daily Olympian

There is a French proverb to the effect that you cant make an omelet without breaking some eggs. We ought not to imagine that effective pressure can be kept on Castro without risking some loss of life and property.Richmond New.s-Leader.

producer ---, .

to provide Itself with investment funds to carry out an old plan to add $200 mlioo to Its Chll-^ ean facilities, but to Improve Its methods of getting copper ore from relatively poor domestic deposits to Utah. This may not amount to a consciously made bet that the left, in (Continued on page 6)

PGrsonoL Bankruptci0s Growing

Tkc Daily Reflfctcr wcl letters from readers on timely topics, but some guidell'ips are in order They mu t be* no Innc.er than *250 words: ibev niu.st hear tb"

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By ELMER ROESSNER

Bankers showed considerable concern this week over the rise in personal or employee bankruptcies in the United States, At a meeting of the Advisory Board to the Instalment Credit Committee of the American Bankem A.ssoclation in New York, several speakers pointed out that rate of increase of these bankruptcies had slowel down. Nevertheless, rugged facts remained: bankruptcies

were high and going higher.

There were 120,742 employee bankruptices In the year ended June 30. 1962, an increase

of less than 2.000 In the prev- Ions year. But it was an in

crease. And in January. 1933^ there was an Increase of 6.5

p3r cent over January, 1982. and in Pebnjary. this year, there was a 10.8 per cent in-crease over February. 1962^ with two judicial dlstrict.s still to reoort.

I,1\;)Kh*.YI\G l!E.\P()NS

Linn K. Twlnem cbatrnr ol the Con.sumer Bankruptcy CommiUrc of th" American Bar Association, told the bankers

that it was time to determine the cause of bankruptcies.

To some extent, he said. Retailers are responsible for the more than 450 per cent increase in employee bankrupts to the last 10 years. Customers have been oversold and overloaded with instalment payments.

But there aie other causes, he said.

He quoted statistics showing that the bankruptcy rate In California, Illinois, Ohio and Oregon were sensationally higher than in New York, New Jersey, Florida and Texas. In Oregon, 195 out of every 100,000 persons went bankrupt In 1961. whUe only 2 per 100.000 went broke in Texas. In California, 156 per 100,000 went broke, compared with 21 per 100,000 in New

York. , ^

Its not a question of Oregon morals and ethics compared with the Texas brand, he said. There are la\^s that close in around debtors in some state.s, not in others.

DEBTOR FEELS- 1*ERSL-CUTED

In California, Illinois, OMo and Oregon, for instance, gar-nlsheeing laws take a substantial portion of a debtors s^-ary, Twinem said. A garnished man can escape this by taking a dive into the both of bankruptcy. /

Other slates allow deficieiicy judgments. Twinem, talking to bankers, did not spell this out, but this is what he referred to. Joe Sloe buys an auto for $2.-000 pays $1.000 in cash and instalment and then cant make more payments. The creditor perhaps some of those same bankers Twtoem was talking to seizes the car and sells it at auction. M it brings in only $100, the lender gets a deficiency judgment against Joe Sloe and he still has to pay $900. It is little wonder Joe goes bankrupt. If he doesnt, he may feel like a sucker.

Another factor that may trigger a bankruptcy filing, Twinem said, may be collection pres-.suiTs. When creditors phone, threaten, harrass, sue ,and threaten to sue. the victim may consider bankruptcy as the on

ly escape.

UNDERLYING aJEASONS There are other factors which, while not varytog from state to statb, lead to bankruptcies:

Debtor*s optimlam: He does not plan ahead and takes on more obligations than he ean meet.

Overloaded by caretess or Indifferent credit Many are not coocemM with a debtors plight as long as they can score a sale and get a profit or a ccanmission.

Decrease hi debtoris lacome: Strikes and loss of Job or overtime may lead to bankruptcy.

Marital difflcidtlea or mWor-tones: A Yale study showed that divorce, alimony payments, illness, medical and funeral expenses, and tocreases in the cost of dependents were the cause al more than 12 per cent of personal bankruptcies.

Sickness and Injuries: er, study showed that one third of the Indebtedness Usted to personal bankrupts consists of doctor, hospital and other types of medical expenses.