Tueflday, April 9, 1963

Here Comes THe Groom Now*^

Safety Needed? Look At V^eekend

Leeialators who aueson whether the state' worth to reduce the property damage which caclil'_ -heeds to beef up It. highway, safety progxwm

Buffered in traffic accidents in the state each

sr.'=uU.."g7*f iSii SiS i

week-end during thfa year and one The proposals now before the legislature do

non-holiday tolls in tae 2 not meet all of North Carolinas needs for better

ment for seat belt, in each automobile, 100 more which to deal with the problem, patrolmen on the highways, or a Program for chenu-

cal tests for persons charged with driving while JqKc AfO Tj!

drinking. Its a good guess, however, that such Xvlv/JTt# V V/Jn/O supplements to the present highway safety program If

of the state would have prevented the loss of some Qf AUtOHlCltlOIl

of those lives. Its a good guess that such programs w

enacted by the 1963 legislature will prevent the loss automation in business and industry were to

of many lives on the highways of the state next year pattern it apparently has in the Internal

and the years that follow. Revenue Service, it may help solve rather than

There is stiff opposition in the legislature to aggrivate the nations unemployment problem, some of the programs that have been proposed for When a business or industry installs costly data improving safety of the states highways. There^ are processing and similar automation equipment, it does those who assert the proposals are not practical, expectation of gaining greater production

they cost too much money, the people dont want probably eliminating a number of jobs. In the

them. But there are no legislators, so far as we internal Revenue Service, it apparently has not know, who have taken the position that North Caro- worked that way according to a report of the House linas highways are safe enough without any of the ji^ppropriations Committee.

proposed additions to the safety program. pke committee has urged the IRS to move more

What is it worth in dollars and cents to North giowly with its automatic data processing equipment, Carolina to prevent 20, 30 or 100 deaths on the ^ot because it is eliminating too many old jobs, but states highways in the next 12 months? .What is it because it apparently is requiring too many new

Still Writing The Story Of A Ship

ones.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

BHIPTurn back the clock 20 years to the dark days of 1942 when the new l^ttleshlp .S.S. North Carolina waji rushed to completion, outfitted and sent to the Pacific.

She became the Showboat of the . S. Navy on her sea trials, and the story of her gallantry and glory is well known.

Without fanfare or flourlshea and under wartime security blackouts, she turned Immediately to the grim business of War.

Those who struck Pearl Harbor knew she was coming. But nothing the Imperial Navy could do could stop the "Showboat," and the tide of Japanese cai-quest was turned.

STORYThis was the first glorious chapter In the story of the U. S. S. North Carolina, but there was more to come years later.

It Is the U.S.S. North Carolina battleship memorial now, berthed in a silWfilled slip on the Cape Pear river, a monument to the not-too distant past and to the heroes who served on her decks and the people of the state for which she was named.

And new chapters In the story of the .S.S. North Carolina are being written and recorded.

For example, not since her commissioning until now has there been qutte such an occas-l(xi as the day the General Assembly of North Carolina went aboard.

DAYThe wind blew a few drops of rain out of a clearing sky Wednesday night, but Wi-mington rarely worries about its springtime weather.

The day for the visit of the Genera Assemby dawned bright and sparkling. TurUes crawled out to sun themselves on the ganks of the slip, a few yards from the massive gray bulk of the battleship. And a dozen big air-conditioned buses bearing the Lebislators, their wives, aids, clerks, and entourage roled in from Raleigh.

The wind blew ladies hats, and the gangplank Isnt entirely suitable for high hees, so the lawmakers and their ladies filed slowly acrossbeing greeted by local offlcials. Mayor 0.0. AUsbrook. Mayor pro tem Hannah Block, welcoming c(mi-mittee officials and Batteship commissioQ chairman Hugh Morton.

TOURSGuided tours of the ship came first and surprisingly enough relatively few of the legislators bad been aboard before.

Their Interest was thorough and cwnplete, and the tours went from bow to stem, and above decks and below.

Most everybody leame da few nautlca terms. They saw the thick armor plate, the weathered wooded decks. Inspected the anti-aircraft weaponry, turrets and batteries of 16-inch guns.

They learned about mine-cutting devices, about the torpedo attack that damaged the battleships bow off Guadalcanal, and the loss of the ships anchor off Southport on a rainswept October day in 1961.

SESSION-The business at hand was a regular legislative 8essl(m, a token one of course, but remarkable in that it was probably the first such session of the legislature of any state aboard a batteship.

It aso marked the first time in 200 years that the General Assemby had visited Wiming-ton as a lawmaking body.

There were honors, and courtesies and the exchanging of gifts. There was socializing, humor and the inevitabe politicking.

There were incidents of sorts such as when things became stuffi^ and hot in the crews mess during a wait for lunch, and when someone tried to turn (HI the blowers thick puffs of dit blew out of the valves and settled in ch(ddng clouds over everybody.

OCCASIONMostly it was a time of fun and frolic for the lawmakers, a relaxing break from the i^ors of the legislative grind that goes on daily in Raleigh.

And everyone appeared to enjoy it Immensely.

No sooner had the Senate c<-vened than Sen. Hector McLean of Lumbertcm arose to wish Sen. Clarence Stone turned ov-burg a happy birthday. BeUc resp<mded gallantly by announcing that it also was the birthday of the wife of Sen. Cicero Yow of Wilmington. Belk presented each member <rf the Senate a gift of a tie clasp bear^ the state seal.

Sen. Carence Stone turned over the presiding officers gavd to the unofficial host. Sen. Yew, for the brief routine passage of a number of bills.

Introduction of computers to the IRS, the report said, has not reduced the number of jobs required by the Revenue Service. Instead, the service has requested several thousand additional employes each year since it began to use automated equipment.

The Committee reduced the IRS estimated budget for computer equipment this year by $32 million and also reduced the number of new employes requested from 2,999 to 500. ^ ^_

The committee, it seems to us, should delve ALVIN TAYLOR deeper into the problem. Why is it that the IRS re- ^ ^ ii tv T

quires more employes as it moves into using auto- npv IWT /*\

matic data-processing equipment, while most busi- I | ^ O I fj P 1)1 I NVJ.111C

nesses and industries are finding that similar auto- JLx A

mation moves allow them to reduce their number

of employes? Biny Laughinghooae, chair-

Churchill Vision "nspired By AI.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) Even peopte who couldnt speak English got a lift from Sir Winston Churchills rage against the Nazis.

Once, with Stalin, Churchill went too fast for the interpreter. But when he was so carried away he banged the table, Stalin stood up and told him:

I dont understand a word you say but. by God, I like your sentiment.

As a human being (niurchlll has been so many things, from wise to otherwise, he fits Walt Whitmans own description of himself: I am large. I contain multitudes.

No wonder the unique tribute being given Churchillj;oday honorary American citizenship is a little less than what he tried to visualize 20 years ago for all Americans and Britons.

He suggested then that, with their common language, they might some day become full-fledged citizens of each others

country. ^ ,

In the end he probably would have backed away from it just as he did after proposing a Council of Europe because it might mean s(Hne loss of British sovereignty.

He made no bones about admitting that with him England came first.

I have always, he said, faithfully served two public causes which I think stand supreme the maintenance of the enduring greatness of Britain and her empire and the hi^ toric continuity of our Island life.

Even Stalin seemed grateful to him once though all his We Churchill hated Bolshevism. He called it a foul baboonery, which made Stalin the big bar boon.

There have been few cases in history, Stalin said, where the courage of <me man has been so important to the future of the world.

This turned out to be a sardonic tribute, as Stalin showed soon afterward when he double-crossed the prime minister by gobbling half of Europe. He hM his own ideas about the world and the future.

Churchill needed glasses when he tlMHight before both world wars there would never again be great land battles. But his vision communism was better at least near wars end.

that of his American cod-tempcMraries.

He wanted to sU his Russian allies from overrunning the

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Balkans and East Germany. He was afraid, once they got in, theyd communlze all of it, as they did.

Ihresident Roosevelt suspected, and rightly, that Churchill was anxious to restore British influence and Interests in Eastern Europe. The United States wanted no territory fnnn the war.

This, for ChurchiH, was never reason enough for not preventing the Russians from seizing new real estate. He wrote later: When wolves are about, the shepherd must guard his flock even if he does not himself care for mutt(m.

In 1944 he even made a naive journey to Stalin to work out a division of influence in the Balkans. On a piece of paper the two imperialists figured how much predominance Russia should have here and Britain there. They agreed.

But Stalin had gulled him. When Churchill said, Lets bum the paper, Stalhi said: No, you keep it. What he really meant was: Keep it for your scraobook.

(Dhurchills optimism in this case was typical. What he wanted, he wanted to believe. His heart got the better of his head, as it often did. It was part of his romanticism. Stl, this paid off handsomely for him personally.

If he had had a deeper tragic sense, he might have been a creidive writer and nothing else. Instead, he had a fabulous sense of drama, with him in the center. TImis 1 became a soldier, politician and historian.

It is hardly an accident that his earliest childhood memory is of soldiers firing their rifles in Dublin before he was 5. From childhood he had dreams of becoming a war leader and an Imperishable figure in history.

He achieved both out of his feeUng for drama and the driva of romanticism.

For him there was excitement even in deception. When he wished to delude Hitler about the Normandy invasion, he said: In warme truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard ol lies.

Now in his advanced old age what be once said ot Harry Hopkins Roosevelts sick and tired special emissary who became the prime ministers friend describes CSiurchlU:

A crumbling ligbth(xise from which there rtione the beams that led great fleets to harbor.

Billy _________

man of the Jaycees regional meeting arrangements here Saturday, reports he went to a local motel and said, Id 111 to make reservatloos for the Phl^ ippine ambassador, his aide and for John Kennedy.

The clerk did a doable take. Who? BlDy waa asked.

Billy also went to the Moose Lodge to make arrangementi lor the ban(iuet Saturday night. He named over several important persons who would be at the head table including Ambassador Amelio R. Mutac and John Kennedy.

The reaction waa again one of surprise.

In both cases Bill finally explained that the John Kennedy was president of the North

Jaycees. not president of the United States.

Bruce Bradbury, 11, was on the way home inxn Wahl-

Coatee the other

Aa ll-year-olda will do, he stopped by Greene m R^-What should come swimming but a goldfishand a Ug one at tlud.

Bruce managed to catch him with his hands and took him home in a coffee tin.

His mother reported the fish was eight Inches or more in liaigth. At last report the fish was swinunlng Ih the Bradbury bathtub, but Mrs. Bradbury said tills arrangement was expected to be terminated shortly-

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Where was the most petc^ ful >ot in town this weekend? Why the college campus, of course. And why was it so quiet there? A great multitude (rf its near 6,000 students had headed south. But not so far south, at that Every year, campus takes on a sprtaig vacation look for one

weekend, as many of the sto-dents head for the Wilmington area and the famous Azalea festival. The students who dont go there apparently go home or somewhere. Very few remain on campus during this Idg weekend. ^ ^

Well, its a great lifelor awhile. But then M<day morning comes, as it always does and the students return to campus and classess(Hne of them.

Incidentally, to borrow from Kay Kyzers old Kidlege of Musical Knowledge, students: What does an azalea look like?

Opinions Brief

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Other Editors Saying... Cleaning Up The Edges

The widespread publie desire to have its cake and eat it toothat is. to get something for nothingtotes up to a disgraceful electoral irresponsibility.Industrial News Review.

(Christian Science Moidtor)

In a nation where it is claimed that nearly one pers<m out of 10 holds common stock in a business coporation it becomes very important that the buidng and selling of securities be (n a reliably honest plan.

The first Installment of a long - expected report fnxn the Securities and Exchange Commission makes numerous recommendations and there will be more in later installments --for improvement of the financial markets in the United States, but it does not find wide-spread fraudulent activity nor a need for drastic structural changes.

The report should not impair public confident in the securities piarkets, says William L. Cary, SEC chairman, buz should strengthen it as suggestions for raising standards are put into practice.

No government agency can take the uncertainty out of what is essentially a market for raising risk capital. Nor can it, for that matter, guarantee the future purchasing power of a savings account or value of a house. But it can to a large degree compel disclosure of Information and penalize misrepresentati<m.

These functions can go far toward removing avoidable risks and can give the stock buyer criteria for gauging the degree of hazard be feels competent to undertake.

The SEC report addresses itself first to recMnmendaoos for establishing reasonable standards for entry into the aecurl-tles business. This would involve a system of licensing for KfiiPKmini, supenisors, and firms, with attenticm to competence. experience, character, integrity, and financial resp(msi-591ty.

Much <rf the reason for criticism, according to the report, arises in particular areas. One of these, it is said, is lack of adequate supervlsiiM of sales representatives, evi in large firms. Another Is a lack of securities experience especially among mutual fund salesmen and even among applicants for registration aa broker-dealers.

In these areas there is need to strengthen the self-policing role of the stock exchanges and of the National Assoclaticm of Securities Dealers, which includes most firms outside the exchanges. ^ ^ .

Taken a together, and judging by this first third of the wh(de report, the SEC study should well satisfy the purposes of Congress in authorizing it. After a period of 30 yearn since the drastic investigations which produced federal securities regulation it is only natural that some tightening up should be in order. Improved policing and self - regulation shoifld benefit the securities business itself in the long run.

It is increasingly apparent that this session of the North (Molina General Assembly wants to be knownand probably will be knownas a tax-cutting legislature.The Charlotte News.

Neutral Switzerland, with a population about the size of Floridas, already has nuclear shelters built or under construction for lA million persons. The government has Just voted a program to provtoe additloiial shelter for 2.5 million, covci^ Ing in all about 80 per centef the countrys 5.3 million people.

The Swiss, as usuaL will be, prepared. The U.S. is not^In our entire country we dont have as much shelter jxrotection as they do for their 5.8 million. Our government should ask the Swiss what they know that we dont.Orlando (Fla.) Sentlnei

A new method of shaving in space must be devised. It seems that bearded faces are not advisable inside the space suits, which rules out the alternative of just letting whiskers grow, and the lather and razor method is not appropriate. Wichita Falls (Texas) Times.

The Internal Revenue Sei> vice collected $102 billi<m last year. And sometimes it seems to the individual that he surdy must have paid all of it himself.Raleigh Times.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN _^

Copyright, 1963, King Features Sinidlcate. Inc.

Recently the fierce white light of publicity has beaten down upon what is euphemistically called the school p-ob-lem in our nations ci4>ital. Strained to the seems alre^. the District of Columbia public schools have bad to absorb some 7,000 newc(ner8 a year. Many of the newcomers are the children of broken, hopless imd povertir-stricken families who wander into Washington because they can no longer make livings at cotton-chopponk and other rural occuitions in the South. Others come from fMwUiM in which both parents work, leaving the kids to wan-* der the streets in sfter-scbool hours.

So there Is a discipline luob-lem. made worse because the rin^eaders among the grammar school bully boys know that it is illegal for a teacher to lay a hand on a juvenUe hoodlum.

In the midst of the Tortex sits Dr. Carl Hansen, the quiet-QH)ken Neluraskan who is tte WasMngtou supMintendent of schools. The reporters beat a patii to Dr. Hansens (mice, questimiing him closely about the growing menace oi what has been called the Uackboard Jungle. They ask him about the effects of integratiou on the Washington schools, which have an 85-15 ratio of Negro to white children. Patiently Dr. Hansen declines to attribute his troubles to the battles over school integration. The troubles were there before District of Coto-bia pidfllc education wu Integrated some ten years ago; they have merely been hti-pounded because ot the growing influx into Washington < disemployed families.

Forced to speak as a dlMl-pUnarian. Dr. Hansen has the air (rf a 57-yearlold Sisjrphus who U getting tired of rolling a rock up a steep hill fly to have U fall back onl him every time he gets within shouting distance of the top. But Dr. Hansens melancholy mien masks the tenacious and vibrant inner quality of the man. The District of school superinten

dent has the instincts of the beaver, wlw. though the floods c(xne, patiently returns to the repairing of his protective dam.

As the disciplinary problem gets the headlines, a truly astounding educational upgrading in the District of Columbia school system is going on. In both the slum districts and in the more affluent reaches of the Northwest (luarter of Washington, a child has a better chance in Dr. Hansens schools of mastering the English language at an early age than be might have in most places In the nation.

Three years ago Dr. Hansens ideas about restoring mastery of the basic three Rs of reading, riting and rithmetic to the elmicntary schools were confined to the Amldon Scho<fl. which is just a bop-skip and-jump away from Ciq>itol Hill. The children in the Amidon first grade were oareftdly drilled in the ptuxiic basis of the English tongue. In the upper grades concentration on basic gkiiu was stressed in all subjects. Though the progressive educators frowned on the Amid( experiment, the results were breathtaking even the lower I.Q.s among the Amldi first. se<nd and third grade pupils finished the year without becoming candidates for the make-up rwnedial reading instructicm that has become almost a standard necessity in schools throughout the country.

Dr. Hansen does not believe in ideoloidcal compulsion, and he announced at the outset that he did not contemplate imposing the Amidon system on any District of Ck)lumbla school principal who disagreed with him <m philosophical grounds. But he Invited every principal to visit the Amidon School and to see for himselfor herself what was going on. The principals came, sawand most of them were c<m(iuered. Today the AmidiHi system Is standard hi most of the lower grades In prlcally all of the D.C. schools. It is even being tried cn an experimental basis in one of the Districts upper schools. Jeffers(Hi Junior High. A report on the Improvement in reading, riting and rithme-tio in the Washingtcm scho(fls inoe tto citir-wide introduction .(GoQtinued on paga 5)

? Business Does Use Sneaky Words

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS A FIRM PILLAR

The greatest and most influential being that ever lived save Jesus Christ Hhpself was Moses. This man enters into our lives to a greater extoat than any character in secular or sacred history. The traffic officer who holds us back or waves us on Is in reality Moses. When the Judge ascends the bench and takes charge of court procedure, that is Moses. When the United Nati(His convenes and sets Itself diligently to .the con-sidenttion of tntems^onal problems, we see Moses and his influence at woric.

His chief importance arises from the fact that he was lawgiver, and that from the laws which according to Gods command he laid down for the Hebrew people, have come all

laws in dvUlzed countries. We may not like many laws which we are compelled every day to obey. We may bitterly assail the law-makers who enacted these laws, and declare that if the political party of our choice had been In power such outrages would never have occurred. But whether we like certain laws or not, we must obey them. They are the basis of our liberty. Hell reigns in any area, and would reign upon the whole earth, were it not for laws, democratically adppted and impartially enforced.

And behind all law stands this wonderful man Moses. Upon him peaceful and happy home life is built. Upon him governments are founded. Because of his h>-fluem, order Is established and goodness prevails. He is the firm pillar of our everyday living.

By ELMER ROESSNER Business is ofti tempted to use sneaky words. R tends to characterize things it doesnt like with opprobrious terms.

This weakness appears in all segments (*f business, in labor as well as competitive relati(ms. Here are some sneaky words: Featherbedding: This is applied to the holding down of unnecessary jobs, such as firemen on diesel lQCxiotlve&. on railroads. The men, who hold their jobs by union coercltm, do little productive woric. Yet the implication of featherbedding, the idea that they loU in bed while drawhig pay, Is false and the railroads know it.

Fair trade: This is the name given to the system that provides a legal conspiracy to fix prices, usually making the public pay more than it might otherwise.

Quality stabWzatioa: Because fair trade is now largely recognized as price fixing, the price fixers now advocate <iual-Ity stabilization which, under a slightly di^rent ojpstem, is intended to^rmlt manufacturers

fix prices to stabilize quality.

Junk man: Other advertising media are resentful because direct mail advertisers are subsidized by the post (tfflce. But by calling this mail which is perfectly legal junk mall, other media arc smearing it. This mall annoys me and may alow down my personal maU. but I confess that the quality ta the advertising is as good, as that which appears in periodicals that call it Junk mail.

Fringe benefits: This term is one of the biggest misrepresen-tati(xis sneaked over on the American public. Fringe benefits Implies that the yield is something gay added around the edges. Actually, 8(HIled fringe benefits are as real to employers and employees botii --as the cold cash of wages. And. as the dollar becomes worth less and less, what have bei caBr ed fringes beccnne more and more the real part of wages. KIDDING THE PUBLIC

Codes af ethics: Businessmen, competitors and ccxisumers are coostantiy^being bamboodcd by

codes of etbics in various industries. These industries are not professional in the first place: the codes usually paint rules for staying out of jail with gUt of principles. The government Itself is partly guilty in that it encourages Industries to draw up and sign these codee which say, in pompous prose, We will obey the law.

Break throegh: This was a term once applied to great scientific successes. Now it has been used so that it means almost nothing. The chance in color of a mouUiwash can be a great breidc through In consumer acceptance.

Custom made: This once applied to products made espedai-ly for the cusUxner, particularly for mens suits taild to their measure, in contrast to hand-xne-dcrwns. Now it is applied to almost every manufao-turers iwoduct; whole lines of automobiles have geen advertised as custom models. One of these tlays bread in the corner grocery wlU be advertised as custom mfede for you. This is an hiteresting suhJecL

Perfaape some readers would like to send in other examples of sneaky uses of words. No prizes, although I may send some contributors a super-de luxe superb model of something or other as a consolation award.

DUN k BRAD8TREET FINDS M TOP DISCOUNTERS UQUID

While a number of discount diains have had serious financial troubles in the last 12 months. Dun k Bradstreets Wscount-ers Digest reports that the 50 t(g>-volume discounters have a favorable credit standing.

The sudden financial troubles of several of the other diwount organizations have hurt the entire field. Many suppliers are demanding more cash on the line.

And while the Digest report is reassuring, it adds that several amoug the top 50 are slow in meeting aU trade obligations promptly, and a number could use additional financing. However. coUectivriy thie group would make an Impressive list of customers for a supplier.

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