Moirday, May 6, 1963

An Important Day For Our Citizens

Tomorrow is an important day for Greenville mominfir until 6:30 tomorrow afternoon. During and its citizens. It is the day voters will go to the this 12-hour period, we trust that each registered polls to choose officials who will direct the city's voter will make it his most important business of

affairs for the next two years.

The decisions rendered by the voters tomorrow in casting their ballots will be reflected in decisions made by Greenvilles governing board during the two years ahead. Tomorrow is the day when voters of the city will speak directly by casting their ballots.

The Reflector urges each registered voter in Greenville to make a genuine effort to get to the polls and cast his ballot in tomorrows election. Each

the day to get to the polls and cast his ballot.

A Step Toward End Of Chaotic Fee Systems

House passage of a bill taking fee-setting

in the election. More than that, each registered he hands of board of education is a

voter has the responsibility to join with hi, feliow toward eliminating ^e chaotic and ex-

citizens in rendering the decisions as to which of travagant fee s/stems m

the candidates will serve the city and its citizens in . , fwtT itli tifin

official capacities in the next two years. 'nto this bill which now

In recent years, Greenville has been fortunate . ^ broad range of fees is being charged

In having a large number of its voters turn out on | Publ'c for to'

election day. Even so, many of those who were special fees for student activities and t

eligible to vote have not found time to get to the cs"sd special 9" varies widey^ f^^^^^ school polls. So far as the decisions made at the ballet system to school system, and even in schools within boxes were concerned, their voices were silent. same system.

Most citizens of Greenville, we feel, are vitally , Carroll, state supenntendent f

Interested in the affairs of their city. And there is public instruction, has said these fees amount to

no better way for them to show this interest than ^ ^^ ^

by participating in the election of local officials. The bill that has been passed by the House will

The polls will be open tomorrow at the city not automatically eliminate any of the f^^^^

hall and the main fire station from 6:80 in the lLffisW%=?ioo boards! wTthTm1re"Xrect

responsibility for the fees, and more direct control over them, the school boards will be in a better

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iVloney Group Will Vote

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By WnXIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGHLegislative notebook:

Its expected that the joint Appropriations subcommittee finally will open its doors in the next few days to vote on Its recommendations.

This all-important money group already is about two weeks behind schedule in completing its study and deliberations, all of which have been conducted in executive session. Word is, however, that it has now finished a line-by-line examination (rf the Advisory Budget Commissions $1.8 billion biennial budget proposals and has been working on separate spending bills and supplementary items.

Those include a bill to grant Btate employes other than teachers an across-the-board salary Increase averaging about 10 per cent,

WAITA decision on the pay Increases probably hinges on new revenue estimates now being prepared by state revenue commissioner W. A. Johnson. These estimates are expected to go to the Appropriations committee sometime next week.

Observers expect .some surprises in the Appropriations subcommittee report, possibly in several areas of state spending. But its believed that the group will hew closely to the Advisory Budget Commission recommendations in most categories.

Its well known that legislative leaders have been showing Increasing anxiety about progress being made in the Appropriations subcommittee.

They are anxious that the subcommittee present a report that will avoid lengthy controversies that could block adjournment possibly for several weeks. The subcommittee report thus is labelled extremely Important and urgent.

It is expected that it wUl take tw'o or three days of detailed -explanation before the full Ap-propriatlwis committee, and about a week must be set aside for debate on the spending bill.

SIDE ISSUESThere will be Ide issues to consider, too. when the Appropriations bill comes up.

Several members have indicated they plan to send up amendments if the committee version fails to include some of their specific requests.

A number of members also are saying privately that they believe time would have been saved if the appropriations sub-

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committee had allowed newsmen to report day by day developments and progress. These members believe the public and the legislature Itself would have gained a clearer picture and would be far better informed than is now the case.

The situation now Is that little if any Information has been made available on the status of the subcommittees work. There is objection to this on grounds that, under the press of time in the closing weeks of the session, legislators will be put in the position of having to accept the subcommittee recmn-mendations virtually intact or possibly delay adjournment.

ADJOURNIt 4s becoming more and more apparent that the General Assembly cannot meet the June 1 adjournment

date, and June 15 now Is con

sidered more likely for sine die adjournment.

Both presiding officers have urged faster action by committees in clearing their boxes and getting bills ready for the floor. As yet, however, no cut-off date for local legislation has

been set and both local and

public bills continue to be introduced at a steady pace.

Legislative leaders say there is no danger that any of the major issues before the General Assembly will be hampered or brushed over. They feel there will be plenty of time f(M* full and thorough debate on these matters. Less Important items, however, are certain to be left In committee to die.

CHAIRMENA number of committee chairmen are surveying legislation before their groups and have started keeping a box score on how much has been handled and reported.

This tally has surprised and few of the chairmen of important committees. They discovered that less legislation than they thought has gotten out of committee and onto the floor for action. Several of these chairman are now insisting that their committees meet more frequently and work longer hours. A couple of conflicts In com-mlttes meetings occurred in the House last week.

NAMEA new House bill, 779. brought on chuckles when it was introduced last week.

The measure would permit a political candidate to use a nickname on primary and general election ballots.

It was Introduced by Rep. W. W. (Red) Forbes of Pitt.

position to keep the fees within reason even if it does not eliminate them entirely.

Local boards of education throughout the state already should be considering schedules of fefes proposed in their schools for the coming year. They should be making efforts to sharply reduce the

total cost of.these fees to students in their public By ROGER BABSON school system.

A Weak Choice Keeping Out Of Cuba ?or Comparina

By GEORGE HAGEDORN

The President, in his April 24 press conferiee, stt^d tbat 15 years ago the national debt was 120 percent of the gross natiwial product whereas it is now wily 53 percent. He seemed to feel that many of the critics of his spending proposals were either unaware of this trend or preferred to ignore it.

There is nothing wrong with the Presidents arithmetic, if we grant him reasonable latitude in rounding off his figures.

However, there is no reason why this history should encourage an attitude of complacency in regard to increases In the magnitude of federal spending, the large current and prospective deficits, and the consequent upward trend in the national debt. _

It is not surprising^ and not | Q PQV C^IQHTIS particularly reassuring, that the

duct in 1929.

Over and above all this arithmetic is the simple fact that whatever govemmwit spending absorbs in the way of productive resources is not availalde for other purposes including the building up of our national productive potential through capital formation. Government has essential functions to perform and they must be paid for. But their cost is always a burden on the ecwiomy lets not fool ourselves wi that point.

Honest efforts to achieve government economy should not be disparaged by statistical comparisons which confuse rather than illuminate the scbject.

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national debt is now lower in relation to the size of the economy than it was in the years immediately following the costliest war in our history. By implication at least, the President seems to be saying that a reasonable norm for our national debt would be the 120 percent of gross national product which obtained in late 1946. To have kept the national debt at the same relative level would have necessitated a cumulative deficit of $435 billion during the intervening years an average of $27 billion annually. One might well ask the President whether he would have considered deficits of that magnitude a desirable, or even acceptable, fiscal policy for the period.

The President also falls to note that a substantial part of the reduction in the percentages he quotes is due to inflation. If our present gross national product were not inflated by the price rises which have occurred since 1946 the national debt would be 84 percent of that smaller amount instead of 53 percent. In other words, ahnosthalf the reduction in the relative burden of our national debt Is due to the fact that it is now payable In cheaper dollars. One might also ask the President whether he considers a continuation of inflation a desirable way of reducing the percentage which he seems to regard as a criterion of sound fiscal policy.

In using the situation in 1946 as his basis of comparison, the President has chosen the per-i od when the national debt, as a percentage of gross national product, was close to Its all-time peak. This is like assuring a man that all is well with him by comparing his present situation with the worst day of his life. The current ration of federal debt to gross product -- 53 percent might just as well be compared with the corresponding ratio at other dates when it was much lower. For example, the national debt was only 16 per ceet of gross pro-

(Christian Science Monitor)

If anyone wonders why professions of American honor and goodness are taken at less than face value in some parts of the world, let him consider the record of payment still only partial payment of Philippine war claims.

Duiing World War n there were fervid eulogies of Philippine resistance to the Japanese invaders. Shortly afterward Congress passed a rehabilitation act authorizing $400 million for payment of war damage claims and implying more as the claims were established. Last year, however, the House of Representatives rejected a bill for $73 million to complete the payment.

President Macapagal, while still valuing American friendship. felt sufficiently let down to call off a visit to Washington and changed Philippine Independence Day from July 4 to June 12 (the date of liberation from Spain).

Subsequently Congress did vote the $73 million authorization and a commission went to work last fall to find and reimburse the claimants. Now over 17 years after the end of the war a Senate committee discovers that a lobbyist for some of the Philippine claimants made contributions to campaign funds of members of Cwigress.

On this basis the Senate has voted to upset the legislation passed last year and to dump the $73 million instead into the lap of the Philippine Government. This shirking of responsibility will not please either Manila or the Philippine people. It will delay a job already belatedly being flipne.

Spon^rs of earlier legislation in the House have a better proposal. Remove a clause under which fees up to 10 per cent would be paid directly to representatives of claimants; let the claimants pay if they want to. The main concern Is: D<mt

BABSON PARK, Mass.Although this weeks column will be mailed from Babson Park. Mass. as usual, it is being written in Florida less than 300 miles from Chiba. Furthermore, Palm Beach where some of the Kennedys have been staying much of the winter is much cl(Ker to Cuba.

HOW MANY RUSSIANS LEFT IN CUBA?

No one really knows how many Russian soldiers, technicians, or officers still remain in Chiba. The estimates range from a low of about 2,000 to a high of 18,000. When these Russians leave (hiba they go in covered wagwis and they are dressed in civilian clothes. They claim to have removed all offensive weapons; but they admit to selling a large number to Castro which are classed as defensive. These would be able to blow up areas In Florida, but not any large American <d-ties elsewhere.

Our Intelligence is trying to get the facts by photographs. This is in part a reason why certain camera company stocks sell at very much higher prices than they did in 1960. Although we own permanent rights

In Guantanamo on the southeast comer of c:uba, we are very careful to allow no one to pass the lines to enter or leave Guantanamo who has not a high character and reputaticm. It is rumored that Castro has dug a tunnel under Guantanamo, and threatens, in case war, to blow it up!

WHAT RUSSIA WANTS

Khrushchev will not allow Castro to destroy Cuba, as some Republicans are urging Mr. Kennedy to do. He knows that such an event could well start a world war. Furthermore, President Kennedy knows that the American people w(Hild much rather lose Ckiba now than start World War in. Consequently, Russia seems to be sitting in the drivers seat at present.

I further believe that Mr. Kennedy wants to go to the voters in 1964 under the slogan I kept you out of war. I also believe that if any Republican candidate for the 1964 election urges that we now clean up Cuba, he will surely be defeated. Another thing to remember is that the Cuban people are 90 percent Catholic and that the Pope Is working for a friendly settlement. The Pope probably has no influence in Russia; but be

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TO THE EDITOR:

In the upcoming election there seems to be one big Issue, and that is public housing. There are two sides, and each side is claiming to save taxp a y e r s money. But I say both sides are going to cost the taxpayer money in the long run. Why I say this is very simple.

If landlords are forced to improve their property (which is a platform of <Hie candidate) two things can only evolve. The first is that the landlords will have to raise the rent. This will force people who cant pay this higher rent out of their homes. A point that one candidate made about public housing, and which I think Is true. The other alternative for a landlord is to not improve his property and let it lay Idle. In both cases people are going to be homeless and have to move elsewhere in town or into the country. Later I will show what this will do, but let us look at the other side of the story.

Public housing is of course subsidized by the government. But still there is a rent. This rent no matter how large is still too much for somebody who does not have any money. So he too will have to live elsewhere. Then there is the problem of the evergrowing Green

ville. If the businessmen succeed in attracting more business, there will be more Work-ers attracted to Greenville. What can be done with them, build more public housing, sure, but that takes time. What is going to happen in the meantime?

The same thing that is going to happen in all the other cases. Slums are going to result, slums that will cost the taxpayers money, the money that Greenvilles public - service minded politicians are claiming they will save if elected.

What can be done? Nothing. Why? Because no candidate has yet come forth to lick the problems that cause slums. And you can get very high odds that (Xie wont. Why? You ask, because these same solutiwis are minimum wage, unfair labor practices, race disciimination, and other touchy subjects. Touchy subjects because they dont get people elected, and not because they arent there.

So vote, people, vote for your friends, vote for the men that give you that cigar, because youre doomed to egotistical leaders. Leaders that put themselves first, and the voters second. ChamplCHis of the people just dont get elected.

Bill Weidenbacker 308 Student SL

should have Influence In Cuba.

WHAT ABOUT CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA?

Friends tell me that Castro will try both to placate Russia and also to entice the CkMn-munists oi Venezuela. Colombia, and especially Brazil. AH these and the other countries of Central and South America 1 have visited. In fact, the Bab-son Institute once had a branch In Guatemala. I owned a fine stone building which was <Jes-troyed by an earthquake. Fortunately, I was not there that night. If I had been I would have been killed.

I repeat that we will not get Into a war with Russia over (Tuba. On the other hand, I know the Latin American pe(K>le. as I have Indicated above. The trouble with these natimis Is that they have no middle class: they are either very rich or very poor; and whether rich or poor, they are temperamental. One sad fact is that the rich do not invest their money in their own counby, but send it to Switzerland to be Invested In high-grade stocks listed in New York or London.

-All of the above means that it will be very difficult to help CXtba or any of the South or Central American countries. Russia knows this. President Kennedy also knows It; but does not know the real answer, which is one oi the fundamental difficulties with the Cuban problem. Geographically Cuba is a wonderful base for Russia to have in the Western Hemisphere; but from a temperamental standpoint Russia knows that neither Castro nor any successor of Castros can be depended upon. Hence, I beHeve President Kennedy Is now right in keeping out oi Cuba directly or indirectly.

Opinions 'n Brief

One of the alleged purposes of a street light is to let a man on foot cross in safety. Some have been speeded up so that they serv as a trick to lure the pedestri;in into the middle of the street, where motorists can make him run for It." Montgomery Alabama Journal.

Nothing is so likely io turn a middle-aged womans hair gray as running Out of dye."The ChicagoTribune.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1963. King Peatcres Syndicate, Inc.

Its an old story in the United States that when you become a su(x:es8 at one thing, it automatically entitles you to an opini(xi cm evendJiing else. This is n<^ necessarily bad, for to be a success in idmost any field you must have a certain amount of shrewdness or talent, which are qualities that can carry over into other lines. Cross education is something more productive of true insight and originality than straight education.

There are limits, however, to S business (rf being a unlvei> sal genius. I d(mt say that Dr. Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician whose The Boc^ of Baby and Child Care has enthralled miUi(ms of mothers, has necessarily gone beyond his natural depth in bis latert career as commentator on international relaons. He does right to wor-ry about the menace of thermonuclear weapOTS. I dont like to drink stnxitium 90 in my milk either. But when the doctor argues that the exaggerated fear of Ckmimunist nations* must cause our children to suffer from a lowering of their (^)iimlsm and their self-reliance when they grow up, one wonders a bit alxmt the statement.

In the first place, who is the doctor hitting at? Who holds this exaggerated fear of Communist natlcms? Is it General Lucius Clay? He was so unafraid of the Communists that he stared them down completely at the time of the Berlin airlift. Is it Senator Barry Goldwater? He has said, (julte blithely, that he would prefer to be in a pine box than to live In a Communist satellite nation. Is It Brigadier General Frank L. Howley? He is so sublimely unafraid oi both Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev that he would start a paramilitary guerilla attack (xi Cuba tomorrow. Is it Harry Truman? He stood up to the Communists without shivering when they threatened to take over such varied pieces of real estate as Iran, Turkey. Greece and South Korea. True, he didnt always follow through, but that is another story.

The only place where this col-mnnlst encounters an exaggerated fear of Communists is wten he talks with followers of such characters as Bertrand Russell. It is the .ban the bomb unilateral disarmament crowd that quakes in Us boots whenever Nikita Khrushchev says "boo. But Dr. Spock doesnt seen) to be directing his fire at the exaggerated fears of Bertie Russell and Company who quibble about overkill* when the real problem is unde rdellvery.

Anyway, the good doctiM* (wght to know that a certain amount of fear cmi be the most healthy thing in the wwld. Fear is what gives any animal the impetus to self-preservatioo.

If Dr. Spock had been In the business of advising our ancestors of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, would he have warned them against worrying overtime about the Indians and their allies, the French? One can fancy him telling the good fathers erf Deerfield, Massachusetts, on the night oi a cer-tahi historic massacre that aa exaggerated fear of the Mohawk braves might hurt the optimism of the coming generation of Puritan children. The kids, of course, would not have lived to test Dr. Spocks opinion oi their future. One could have said, in the Seventeenth (Tentury, that It might be better to be Red (Indian) than dead, but the savages that sacked such fnmtier posts as Deerfield and Schenectady werent in mood to grant the option.

Davy (Trockett rightly feared the Mexicans outside the Alamo, and the kids of America have made Davy one of their heroes. Fear lived with the first settlers of the Dark and Bloody Ground of Kentucky, and because of this fear they put stockades around their settlements. Some of them lived to have children and It Is not on the recmtl that later generations of Kentuckians suffered from a lowering of their optimism and their self-reliance.* (Continued on Pago 5)

More Lookaheads For Business

By ELMER ROESSNER Here are more look - aheads In business, based on analyses

throw another machete into the - ri-vploolne trpnds-

lippine claims. Lets get them paid.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLAS WE HAVE INFINITE VALUE

The world in which we live is so infhiitesimal amid the great heavenly bodies that we almost wonder whether or not we really exist.

A noted astronomer has referred to our sun as a "run-of-the-mill pale yellow star. There are in the universe as we know it at least a hundred thousand milli(X) bodies. Most of these are suns. Around these suns may be planetary systems like our own which would simply bring the number of heavenly bodies to a point where human capacity and ingenuity cannot even indicate their number Our planet earth ties with Venus In size for third place from the bottom of the nine planets. The sun is so large that if It were hollow

a million earths could easily be packed into it. Yet our sun occupies a position of no importance in the heavenly geography, Our plwiet earth Is about as significant as a grain of sand compared with the area of a state or province.

Does this mean that we are <rf no c(isequence? Not at all. The God who made the largest star also made the grain of sand, and He is just as much in that grain of sand and concerned about it as He is witb the largest star.

Divinity fills the whole of our lives. We have been brought into being by a Creator who will not let us down. Insignificant though we are, we can rest in His hands with the realizatlcm that we are necessary and important.

Good weather will bring more than seasonal rises in building, highways, sewage facilities, space facilities and waterworks, according to plans now In the making.

Costlier .strawberries: The

spring crop was poor; prices are rising.

Canadian chocolate coming: The big Nellson chocolate company of Canada is about to invade the American market with nine kinds of chocolate bars.

Magnetic playback: A Japanese recording machine that uses disks instead of tape is be-hig tested in five U. S. markets and, if popular, will bo Introduced everywhere. COSTLIER ALUMINUM

Higher aluminum prices: American manufacturers, hit by higher wages, suffering from drops in Income, and encouraged by steel, are thinking about price Increases. But they will be selective because broad rises would simply throw more business to plastics.

British targe: Frances bar

ring Britain from the Common Market may have unexpected results; British sentiment is strong for increasing exports, expanding industry, limiting Increases and giving the Com-mcxi Market nations bitter com-petitiwi.

No stock r market brakes: Chances of new Federal laws to protect stock . market investors are slim today. Most Congressmen are unwilling to pass new controls, fearing Iset such action stir up suspichxis of currently happy investors.

TAX TO SOW SEEDS OF BOOM

New suburban boom: Imposition of a 4 per ceit sales tax in New York is certain to boom sales in the ring of branches and shopping centers that surround the city. Stores in northern New Jersey. Westchester and Nassau Counties are counting on increases of 10 to 20 I>er cent; stores within the city expect declines. Worst hit will be the New Yoric branches just inside the city limits. Shoppers can travel a short distance and get goods for more than 4 per cent less, because the out-of-city stores pay less city taxes and protection, as well as no

sales taxi.

Glass prices to rise: Coming Glass has announced a series of price increases on ovenware for July 15, giving other manufacturers time to make similar increases.

Crystal - look sella plastics: The cut-glass look of styrene plastic ashtrays, trays, baskets and other housewares products is capturing Eastern sh(H>pers and demand may spread across the country.

Tougher tax regs:-The Internal Revenue Service is fanning to tighten rules on deductions for donations of prcwerty to charitable o iganizatlons. They may stop the device of givtng vastly over - valued paintings and statues to churches and or-phanages s(deiy to gain deductions.

Big vases popular: Trade reports are that American dec(Hib> tors are showing interest in large vases, so big they can sit only on a floor. Thme out - stss vases have been popular In Europe.

Better gsarantees: Warranty on products you buy may sud-dently become more specific. The Presidents Consumer Ad

visory Council has called for a study of guarantees and warranties and many manufacturers are planning to beat any possible criticism.

OLD PROMOTER PROPOSES DIAMONDS MUTUAL FUND*

There was, apparently, a diamond glint in the Old Promoters eye when he walked In today to find out how the Mets wert doing.

After bearing the score, he said, I have it made. I'am starting a Hedging Mutual Fund. My fund will aiMjeal to those who want to hedge against in-flatian, more of which Is coming apace.

'Instead of investing In common st(X^, the fund, under my dlreottoD, wlB invest in diamonds and other precious gems, valued paintings, sculpture and other works of art. -

The value of theee rise as inflation worsens. In fact, their rise in the past has ofti offset the slump in the value oC the dollar. Now, if you

No, we said, we didnt have a few thousand dollars lying around.