Monday, April 29, 1963

Burden On Conference Committee

Fate of the effort to re-organize and strengthen come the differences between the House and the

the state s university system now rests heavily upcn Senate quickly, so the bill can be passed and the

^e confeience committee which must compromise university system strengthened to meet the present

. House and Senate differences over the name change and future needs of North Carolina

for State College.

This far-reaching bill would define more clearly j 1 T\ m tt

the role of the University in the states system of JLlttlG riOQSOIl L O

higher education. It would pave the way for com-

munity colleges in various parts of the state and TT _ 1

it would authorize establishment of-four-year XvUmSIlCJlGV Will JlTGlD colleges at Charlotte, Asheville and Wilmington.

So far as the states system of higher education There is little real reason for the United States is concerned, it is the most important single piece think that its appeal to Premier Khrushchev on of legislation in several decades. behalf of a neutral government in Laos will have

For practical purposes, however, most legisla- significant bearing on the course of events in that tive attention to the matter has centered on the pro- tiny Asian country.

posed change in the name of State College Differ- For several years now communist rebels in

enees between the House and the Senate on this Laos have been w-aging their battle against a neu-one point has brought the bill now to a conference tralist government. In spite of the Geneva confer-committee composed of members of both houses.' ence guaranteeing a neutral Laos and the com-Success or failure of the bill to win approval of the mittee which was set up to enforce the guarantee, General Assembly seems to rest on whether the communist pressures have mounted to overthrow House and the Senate can iron out their differences the neutralist rule.

over what name will be given State College in the Premier Khrushchev, from time to time, has

future. given lip service to the idea of Laos being continued

Thir Reflector has felt, and continues to feel as a neutralist state in Southeast Asia. His lip ser-

that this is one of the less important points of the however, has fallen far short of taking effec-

bill. It would be a severe blow to the states uni- stepswell wn'thin his powerto bring about

versity system, and indeed the entire system of support of the neutralist government. Circumstances higher education in North Carolina, if the deadlock during recent years have made it difficult to believe on this point defeats the entire concept for improv- that Moscow- would prefer a neutralist government ing and strengthening the legislative system. to a communist government in Laos.

Frankly, we favor the proposed new name for spite of Khrushchevs more recent state-

State College presented in the original bill. Above oients on the need for continuing a neutral govern-all, however, it is important that this higher educa- oient in Laos, there is still no concrete action to in-tion bill be passed by the General Assembly. We dicate an effective effort will be made by Moscow

trust the conference committee will be able to over- to b^^ok up these statements.

The L^nited States and the Western powers must roly primarily upon their owm resources to guarantee a neutralist government in Laos. They would be shortsighted indeed to assume that Moscow w-ill .seek to bring effective pressures of its owm to bear in order to keep a neutral government in power in Laos.

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B.v WILLIAM A. SHIRES

NAMEA comma and the one word, university, may now be the key to unlock the blocked omnibus Higher Education bill in the legislature.

This, or course, Involves the dispute over changhig the name of North Caroiina State College-the only thing left in the way of the far-reaching bill becoming law.

Those who ripped out the name North Carolina State, the University o North Carolina at Raleigh, in the House and replaced it with North Carolina State University of the University of North Carolina say they won't accept the original concession" name contained in the bill, the name approved by the Senate.

But they are willing to accept a 50-.)0 compromise deleting the cojnma and adding the single word, university.

They have indicateo they will accept this name: North Carolina State UniversityThe University of North Carolina at Raleigh.

CONFERThe deadlock over the name-change versions must go into a House-Senate conference committee.

Word cimilated through the legislative building the moniing after the House approved Rep. George Woods name-change amendment on a 67-48 roll call vote that there w'ould be no motion to reconsider.

This meant that administration forces and authors and advocates of the one University name concept had been unable to swing enough votes overnight to make it safe to force the issue.

Two of those who voted against the Wood amendment made it official on the floor. Rep. George Uzzell of Rowan, v ho had halted a move to put tLe legislative clincher on Wood's amendment, spoke on personal pnvilege to say his point that It would bind conferees had been In error, to thank Rep. Sam Whitehurst of Craven for withdrawing Ids legislative clincher motion, and to say that he. Uzzell, did not Intend to move that the amendment vote be reconsidered.

Rep. I. C. Crawford of Bun

combe also called on the House to accept the Wood amendment vote and to get on with the debate and vote on the bUl itself. Crawford urged that any amendments designed to detract from the bill or hurt it be defeated.

DEBATE--Nearly two hours of flouse debate followed, before the \'ote on second roll call gave it overwhelming 10M approval. intact except for the name-change amendment.

Actually there were three no " votes, by Reps Roger Kiser, John Kerr and Republican Bill Leonard, but Kerr and Leonard were paired.

Three more amendments were offeredtwo by Kiser and one by Republican Dan Simpson of Burkeand all were beaten. Kisers amendment to preserve the name of Woman's College at Greensboro and leav'e Woman's College as it is went down on a 104-8 roll call vote.

Another Kiser amendment, to put the State Board of Education rather than the State Board of Higher Education at the helm, was defeated by voice vote. So was Simpsons which would have required legislative approval for acceptance of federal aid-to-education funds for community colleges and technical schools.

Then, with the amendments beaten. Leonard, Kerr and Kiser all spoke against the bill Itself.

REMAINAll that remained after that, with final House approval for the amended bill expected on the succeeding day, wuld be sending it back to the Senate,

The Senate is unlikely to accept the House amendment on the name, and if not the conference committee must be appointed by the presiding officers.

Whitehurst, who engineered the victory for the Wood amendment, said that a conference committee by its very nature is expected to compromise. It represents two opposing views. A 50-50 compromise Is far and acceptable he said. The strategy of the Whitehurst forces was clear. But strategy on the other side, at this point, was not so clear.

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By GEORGE HAGEDORN

Duruig the past two years we have seen an aniazhig succession of changes hi the prevailing economic mood from optimism to pesshnism and now back to optimism agahi. To an extent, these shifts in opinion have been justified by variations hi the pace of growth m economic activity. This history should wani us, however, not to place too much reliance on short-term developments which may prove ephemeral.

The recession (if It can be called that) which began hi the summer of IPtiO reached its low point in the first quarter of lt)61. During the remahider of that year, the economic rise seemed to be proceeding in line with simil^ movements after earlier recessions. The prevail-hig appraisal of the outlook was one of moderate optimism. In January 1962 the President's Council of Economic Advisers predicted a further substantial rise in gross national produce for that year.

By nd-1962 it was clear that the rate of growth had slowed down considerably and that we would fall well short of the council's prediction. Satisfaction with our recovery slowly gave way to fear that it was about to be reversed. The Administration suggested publicly that it might call for a quick tax cut as a remedy and the Wa.vs and Means Committee held hearings to consider the possibility. By early fall many economists were pre-dicthig a recession, albeit a mild one, in the first half of 1963.

But in the closing months of 1962 it gradually became clear that the worst fears were not being realized, and the standard phrase used to describe the situation wa.s high level stagnation. This was a neat strad-die between pessimism and optimism.

More recently, the mood has become more positively optimistic. During the past several weeks we have been receiving a succession of favorable economic signals. The news has been so uniformly good that economists (including, it is reported. the Presidents Council) are now busy revismg their forecasts upward.

We can see in retrospect that the slowing down of the recovery in 1962 was largely a result of changes in the rate of hiventory accumulation. Gross national product (annual rate, seasonally adjusted increased at an average rate of $11.2 bilUon per quarter from the first quarter 1961 to first quarter 1962. But the increase was only $6.2 billion per quar-ter during 1962. This was a drastic slowing down, but if the effects of Inventory accumulation are eliminated the comparable figures become 9.0 billion per quarter in 1961 and 8.0 billion in 1962 a much more uniform rate of growth.

A present we are unable to Judge the extent to which the

Signs

current step . up in growth may be due to inventory accumulation and to its secondary effects. In any case, the history. Just recounted suggests that Judgments on the outlook for 1963 as a whole be made with fingers crossed.

The moral of all this Is that the nation should not make. Its major policy decisions for example on tax revision on the basis of short-term changes in the economic picture. What is needed is an analysis of the more permanent forces which promote, or retard, economic health and growth.

Opinions

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BABSON PARK, Mass. - I came to Florida 40 years ago when convalescing from tuberculosis (TB, not T'V)! I never got mixed up with the Florida boom as I then had neither ambition nor strength.

BOOM OR BUST

As this is the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the famous Florida Boom, I want the younger generation to know what then happened. One illustration will give the picture. The young man who typed for me showed me a check for $10,-000 which he had received as a commission; he immediately bought a Rolls-Royce with the money.

Very few people actually saw any money, or even the property they bought'. They were content to receive a purchase and .sale agreement which they did not bother to file at the Court House. They merely gave their note for the sales agreement; then they sold this

at a profit to someone else, who, in turn, sold it to another party. A man could build $1,000 up to $100,000, swapping one piece of paper for another. Finally the crash came, and the last party lost everything.

FLORIDA ML'NTCIPAL BO.VDS

Farmers were not the only ones taken in. Many banks failed. And municipal bond prices collapsed. Sarasota bonds fell from $100 to $20; Orlando b(mds fell to $40; the bonds of the city of Sanford dropped from $100 to $10. Beautiful homes casting $500,000 sold at 10c on the dollar. Most people called it a panic but it was more like an epidemic of diphtheria or typhoid, except that it was mental. Will it come again? I dont know; but there ane no signs of it now.

People are no longer speculating in pieces of paper. Most speculators are buying large acreage and dividing it Into house lots. People ai-e buying one or

This i.s the time of year w'hen the office W'orker envies those fortunate souls Who work outdoors. The winter long, snug at his desk, he may feel superior to them. Come spring, the slioe is on the other foot. Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman,

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ditors Saying. New Generation

Elderly people are always

a little surprised to find themselves having lived to advanced age. and well they might, for they beat tremendous odds. Four persons in a hudred thousand live to be a hundred. Carolina Israelite.

An ad said that a movie showing at a drive-in here would make you gasp, wince and shudder. Despite all that, how^-ever, you still had to pay to get in.The Raleigh Times.

There have to be taxes and everybody has to pay theirs. But did you ever stop to think how they are growing and that the taxpayers themselves are largely responsible for their growth by demanding more and more handouts from the government? Industrial News Review.

Mast folks spend money they havent got on things they dont need to impress people they dont like. Sparta (Ga.) Ishmaelite.

(Christian Science Monitor)

Evidence Is accruing to ex-plam why Mr. Khrushchev's concern about the ways of Soviet writers and artists is so deep. He now' sees that his struggle with them is having repercussions tlmoughout the satellite countries of Eastern Europe and in some of the Communist parties of the West. He was drawn into the fight because he found himself face to face once again and this time In a very sensitive area with the old question of Just how much departure from orthodoxy and dogma an authoritarian leadership can allow without risking the very foundations of the system on which its rule is based.

Mr. Khrushchevs difficulties are compounded by the rise of a younger generation which still considers itself loyally Communist and yet is skeptical, even cynical, about explanations and decisions coming from men older than themselves. The young poet Yevtushenko has become the symbol of this generation. Although denounced by the Soviet leadership, he still has published no abject recantation. And the newspaper Komsomol-skaya Pravda has received a thousand letters about him fifteen of them praising him.

The most Stalinist of the Communist leaders in Eastern Europe Ulbricht of East Ger

many. for example, and Novotny of Czechoslovakia have without delay echoed Mr. Khrushchev and called on their own writers and- artists to get back into line. (In Poland and Hungary, however, where the Communist leadership probably Judges that a cultural crackdown now would be too risky, there is thus far no sign of following suit.)

A recent article in the Communist Pazty newspaper In East Germany suggests how dangerous the Yevtushenko image Was getting there: Our young readers Idealize Yevtushenko, enthusiastically. . .(but) his visit (to East Germany.) to put It raUdly, has not helped us in our struggle.

In France, the Communist Party leaders lionized Yevtushenko on a visit to Paris, only to find him in disgrace on his return to Moscow. Now. the French Communists are embarrassed by the Soviet authorities shipping back to France paintings by Fernand Leger which were to have been exhibited in Leningrad. Leger was fiercely pro-Communist but many of his works were abstracts.

The rest of the world will surely continue to watch thli Intellectual ferment with fascinated interest.

two lots on speculation, but there total los.s would be not more than $5,000 even if the development company went Into bankruptcy.

The difficulty is that these companies sometimes fail to put in water systems or hard roads or other improvements promised. There Is still considerable speculation in Florida land, but it is legitimate; the lots have been bought and the deeds recorded.

HHERE TO BUT?

I do not answer specific questions which come to me, as I cannot afford to get Involved in W lawju|t; but I am wdlllng to say that anyone who buys a small house and an adjoining lot in a Florida city of 20.000 or le.ss. In which he plans to Uve, should make a good and healthful Investment. He, however, should first drive down to Florida and take a trip around the state. The local bank of any city will give the name of a reUable real estate agent.

It Is a mistake to put all your money in any one thing, whether it is a bank or the stock market or an orange grove. Many orange groves are good investments if they are in frost-protccted sections and old enough so that a freeze will not hurt the trees, even If the fruit Is lost for a year. However, if I had all my Investment In orange groves, I should certainly sell one-half and invest that money in the stock of General Foods Co, or Coca-Cola Co. (which owns Minuta Maid).

DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF FLORIDA DISCUSSED

If buying land for speculationby the acre or by the foot I would surely get ocean-fnxit property. For many years there will be plenty of available land in Florida, but ocean front will be very scarce; the most expensive Is on the East Coast north of Miami.

The Everglades should be avoided on account of mosquitoes and other insects. The moat attractive area at present may be the West Coast south of Saras(Xa Including Venice, Punta Gorda, FH Myers, and Naples. A portlcm that has appealed to friends of mine Is Sanibel Island. A bridge to San-Ibel is soon to be opened and a second bridge to I%ie Island Is under consideraticm. If prices have not Increased too much in anticipation, seashore property on one of thesa islands might be attractive.

Giving nciue

Credit

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Ever since Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester first opened his big mouth to Justify the use of the lie in manipulating public opinion to Cold War ends, the Kennedy Administration has been under attack for managing the new's. Now the criticisms have gone one step further: the Administrar ti(Hi Is being accused of managing news events.

Specifically It is being noised around that it was all a dastardly plot of the State Department to force an election in Canada and get rid of a government we didnt like. According to this way of thinking, our supposedly bumbling lecture to the Canadians on the duties of an ally was nicely calculated to provoke Prime Minister Diefen-baker into undertaking an anti-U.S. election campaign wich he couldn't w'in. The Canadians played patsies to our supposed Machlavellism. and Lester Pearson, our friend, forthwith took over Diefenbakers job.

Whether this Is a tenable theory or not, It is a natural deduction from the Arthur Sylvester notion that anything is fair in love or Cold War. Extending the theory a bit, it is easy to see an attempted U.S. manipulation of British politics in the welcome recently accorded Harold Wilson, the new British Labor Party leader, In Washington. Wilson, who has spoken in the past as an inveterate enemy of traditional British liberties, was Introduced here as a moderate fellow w'ho hadn't really meant it when he attacked such things as free consumer choice In the market place or threatened a return to the British class war politics of Laborite Aneurln Be vans day.

The Washingtai - assisted build-up of Wilson as a pipe-smoking mlddle-of-the-roader Is as slick a Job as anything that Madison Avenue ever accomplished. Looking past the public relations of the new Wilson, how'ever, we discover a confirmed radical Leftist. Unlike the late Mr. Gaitsklll, who was a really moderate British Laborite, Wilson thinks the Br;-tish Labor Party should still stand for an Increasing natlon-. alization of industry. He ha* denounced dividends as unearned Income, and he is a soak the rich advocate when he watches shrewd investors making somethmg out of capital gains. Although British taxa.-tion is unconscionably high at the moment, Wilson would make it even higher. Some of his more extreme partisans have actually suggested that an annual capital levy be exacted from all people who have a net worth of $20,(X)0 In cash, stocks or real estate. Li America .such a levy would hit hundreds of small home owners.

Wilson has an animus against anything in England that retains a gracious Edwardian flavor.

He was bom In Yorkshire, the son of a chemist, and he had to scrabble his way into Oxford. His ability to pull him.seIf up by his own bootstraps is very much to his credit, but it has obviously given him an addiction to envy. In attacking Prime Minister Macmillan he ha* stooped to personal sarcasms about anyone who had the good fortune to go to school at Eton. This, in American terms, is like sneering at the late Franklin D. Roosevelt because he went to Groton or at President Kennedy or Adlai Stevenson because they went to Choate.

The odd thing about the Washington - assisted build - up of Harold Wilson Is that the man Is one d Britains most vocal enemies of such build - ups. He has been quoted as saying that public relations is a most degrading profession. Well, others before Wilson have stooped to conquer.

It would, of course, be stretching the imagination to read anything unduly sinister in the welcome extended In the U. S. to Harold Wilson. Yet it la being whispered and actually written that the U. S. Junked the Sky-bolt air-t(y-ground missile not because it wouldnt work but because Prime Minister Macmillan needed it to stay In power. Inability to deliver the promised Skybolt made the Macmillan government seem bumbling. This is calculated to help tht Laborltes win the next election. Ington Justify Machlavellism as Suspicions of such MachaveL (ContlntMd on page 7)

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Strength For To(day

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

STARTING OVER AGAIN

After Carlyle had finished his manuscript of the French Revolution, he took It to his friend John Stuart Mill that he might have the benefit of his comment and criticism.

Unfortunately Carlyle did not keep a copy, and a w^eek or two later a careless housemaid gathered up the precious papers w'ith the trash and bunied them. Mill said that the worst ordeal of his life w'as telling Carlyle what had happened. But the giant who had produced the manuscript started in with his characteristic vigor and produced another within a few months.

We can appreciate, can we not now, how Carlyle must have felt? He had w'orked on this great study for years, and in the twinkling of an eye it was gone. Circumstances sometimes destroy in a few hours or days w'hat w'e have worked on or accumulated for years. Nothing rtrles ones spirit so much as some great calamity of this nature. But when it happens there is nothing to do about It but start in working again as if It had not been.

There is no greater hero any-w'here than the man who faces the destnictlon of something very precious and keeps on going as if nothing had happened.

By ELMER ROESSNER

There will be more inflation.

Inflation haa not stopped since World War n. It will continue as long as you live and then the price of funerals will rise again.

There have been heroic attempts, surely sincere, to talk down inflation. White House spokesmen have suggested deflation is the real threat to the economy.

The New York Journal of Commerce has said the fact that commodity brices have risen little over the last five years proves no threat of Inflation hangs over us.

McGraw - Hill says that steel increases are not likely to be passed on to consumer at the present time. The Carl Byoir company, publicist for big corporations, put out a releiise saying retail prices on many durable household items and several other types of manufactured goods have actually turned down recently.

MORE TO COME So they have. But wages are going up, other prices are rising and all of us save those

on fixed Incomes will be pay-hig the more that we get for the same things priced higher.

Income will be higher, goods will be higher, services will cost more. And If that Isnt inflation, It will do until the government starts seizing wallpaper to print greenbacks on.

The consumer price index in February was 106.1 per cent of the 1957-59 level. It is 129.8 per cent of the 1947-49 level and more than 260 per cent of the 1935-39 level. Since the February compilation. Genera] Electric, Allis - Chalmer. Vanadium, makers of coniigated containers, cigarette makers and sugar processors have announced higher prices. There have been cuts in some prices, too. But the general trend has been up and the steel price rise and wage rise almost certain to follow will tend to keep the Inflationary shove strong.

OmER FORECASTS

Here are more look - aheads In business: .

More 1964 auto models: There are 434 auto models and variations by American manufactur

ers this year, but you may not have seen anything yet. The big producers are considering even more in the 1964 lines.

More chocolate bars: William Nellson Ltd., Canadas Hershey, is about to add nine new chocolate bars to the merry U.8j%, competition.

Fewer 1964 auto sales: Auto sales may be harder to make next year. Many families have all the instalment payments they can meet unless there Is a sharp upsurg in incomes.

NEW NIPPONESE INVASION

More Japanese TV sets: Two of the largest mail-order chains are dickering with Japanese manufacturers and may import 16-inch receivers to retail under $120.

Still higher sugar: The rise in price of sugar and things made of sugar, reported here earlier, may be eventually larger than expected. Hoarding by manufacturers and consumers la tightening the market, paving the way for further Increase.

Water brooms get hot: In the West and South, water brooms have become hot housewares items and the beat may spread

to the North andJEast. Water brooms are garden hose attachments that shoot out a flat, fan-shapc spray under higher pressure to sweep lawns, drives and patios.

OLD PROMOTER PLANNING COUTURE GOWNS OF PAPER The Old Promoter has been around so long now that the refraction of the gUnt In his eye can be read as an indicator of his newest Idea. The glint today told me that he had a gay idea, but not very sound.

Im forming a ctwnpany to make life-size paper copies of gowns by famous Paris couturiers. he said. I have you down for a amaU block of stock.

What women will buy paper copies? I demanded.

None at all. said the old pussy cat. Ill sell them to photographers. Then when women customers come In, they can pose them In a choice of Dior, Balmain or SchaparelU gowns. It will boom studio photography.

If it does, I said, It wUl dt it without my paper m(mey. i