Saturday, May 25, 1963

A Reasonable Action On Hospital

Always Room For A Little More!

Pitt citizens will decide on June 15 whether additional tax dollars will be used to off-set operating deficits of their county hospital.

It is a decision which should not be made hastily, but rather one which should be made only after sober consideraTion of all the factors involved.

Pitt Memorial Hospital was built with county, state and federal funds to serve the people of this area. At the time voters of Pitt approved a bond issue for construction of the hospital, they also approved a measure which permitted the County Commissioners to levy a special tax of up to five cents per $100 valuation annually for support of the hospitals operations.

This five cent maximum levy no longer produces adequate revenues annually from tax funds to off-set the operating deficit of the hospital. The recent enlargement program of the hospital, plus the increase in the charity patient load at the hospital are major factors in the operating deficits.

The question of increasing the maximum levy to-10 cents per $100 valuation is now being put to the voters of the county with the approval of the hospital trustees, the countys Overall Planning Committee and the County Commissioners.

If the measure is not approved, according to the hospital trustees, either funds will have to be found from other sources to offset the operating deficits, or services of the hospital will have to be

Observers O::

A Showdown

By WnXIAM A. SHIRES OBSERVERS At least four enators who are non-members showed up as interested parties when Sen. Staton Williams 16 member committee on legislative representation held a late evening session to act on senate redistrictlng.

This made a total of 20 senators present, nearly half of the upper chambers membership.

There was full committee attendance for this particular meeting, somewhat unusual at most legislative committee meetings. But Williams had announced that this was a showdown session and he was determined that the committee report out a bill. So everybody was there, along with observers.

Non-committee members with a more tham casual interest in proceedings included Sens. Thomas J. White Jr., of Lenoir and Edgar Gurganus of Martin. both from eastern districts which may bear the brunt of redistrictlng. Another who looked in was Senate Rules chairman Ralph H. Scott of Alamance.

AFFECT White, a senate veteran, may not be affected personally by redistrictlng because he has Indicated his intentions to seek the nomination for Ueutenant governor next year. ^ ^

But his district In Eastern North Carolina almost certainly will be one of those realigned. Gurganus is a freshman .senator, and his district also will be similarly affected.

The fourth observer was Sen. Dave Clark of Lincoln whose district has been Juggled around in the House version of the Currie bill on Senate redistrictlng.

BILLS The House action Is approving a redistrictlng bill on second reading had put the Senate on notice.

Williams, with patience wearing thin, was prepared to hold this committee In session indefinitely to get a redistrictlng bill reported. As it was the committee spent nearly an hour haggling over procedure and motions and substitute motions. At one point. Sen. Irwin Belk asked If he might make a substitute motion. The committee stayed in session until nearly 11 P.m.

Finally, it was a committee substitute for the Currie bill a 50-member Senate redistrictlng measure which was approved as the primary vehicle for a piggyback two - bill combination.

It was reported to the Senate floor tied to Sen. Robert

Lee Humber's 60-member Senate proposal requiring a constitutional amendment that would be submitted to the voters in a referendum.

STRATEGY The committee vote was a close 8-7 on the motion by Humber to tie the bills together. Doing so makes a three - fifths vote necessary in both Houses to enact the two-bill combination.

This three - flfth.s vote in the Senate is not difficult. It is only four more than a simple majority, 30 votes instead of 26. But it is more difficult in the 12ft:memher. House;

The Humber bill supporters, however, know their measure would take the three - fifths vote anyway, since it involves a constitutional amendment. They knew too that this already w'as achieved in the 80-30 House roll call vote on the amended Currie bills second reading.

Their strategy to get the Humber bill enacted and submitted to the people was clear that it must be tied to the Currie bill and carried through on its momentum. They felt that if considered separately the House almost certainly would reject the Humber bill even if the Senate okayed it as a companion measure.

GROUP A group of senators opposed to a motor vehicles safety check bill held a strategy session the night after the upper chamber approved the bUl on its second read Ing.

The strategy session served to solidify Senate opposition to the measure, although opponents were uncertain whether they had enough votes to sidetrack it on third reading. The group of senators included Sen. Leroy Simmons of Duplin who spoke openly against the measure on the floor.

URGE Rep. Earl Vaughn of Rockingham County says he has been encouraged and urged to seek the seat of retiring Congressman Ralph J. Scott in the Fifth district. Vaughn says he Is gratified by the support and endorsements and is giving serious consideration. But. he says, its still too early to make a definite decision.

A good deal of encouragement and urging is being given to the push to persuade House Speaker Clifton Blue to become a candidate for lieutenant governor. Blue is the fourth prime candidate for the No. 2 po.st in the legislative ranks. The others are Sens. W. Lunsford Crew of Halifax. Thomas J. White, Jr.. of Lenoir and John Jordan Jr. of Wake.

curtailed. Curtailing services would result in lowering the. standards of medical care the hospital is able to provide patients.

This is an alternative the people of the county cannot afford. It is an alternative, in our opinion, they do not wish to see come about.

Increasing the maximum legal levy will not mean the hospital tax rate will automatically be hiked from the present five cents to 10 cents per $100 valuation. During the 15 years the present maximum levy hasisbeen authorized, the actual levy for hospital support has varied from the five-cehl maximum to as little as two cents.

The proposed increase in the maximum county-wide levy for support bf the hospital is reasonable. It is needed if the hospitals standards are not to be lowered. It is a measure which deserves the full support of the voters of* Pitt County.

Higher Education Is To Be More Available

North Carolina this year is in the process of taking its most significant steps in decades to brint; higher education within reach of the maximun* number of its young people.

The two-pronged program that establishes a system of community colleges throughout the state and provides tuition grants for students attending private colleges are without parallel in the states legislative history.

These steps, coupled with the system of state colleges and universities, leave no ground for,assertions that North Carolina is not doing everything within reason to put a college education within the geographic and economic reach of every young person in the state who desires higher education.

Over the years, these programs will represent a major investment of public funds. But this investment in bringing higher education within reach of more of the young people of the state will pay dividends many fold in future years for North Carolina.

Most North Carolinians readily recognize that this state, if it is to continue its position of leadership. must provide training for its youngsters at least on a par with other states. It can ill afford to continue to languish in the next-to-the-bottom position among the states^ m the percente its

coiiege-age citizens who actually attend college.

These programs will help meet the increasing demand by young North Carolinians for college training, and at the same time it will encourage additional qualified youngsters to take advantage of higher education opportunities.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON AP> The Justice Department showed how much it thinks of the request of Alabamas segregationist gov-enior. George C. Wallace, to the Supreme Court to declare the Constitutions 14th Amendment null and void.

The department brushed it aside in a single paragraph in a brief filed with the court Thursday.

This amendment, adopted in 1868, has been a foundation stone for the Supreme Court in deciding many racial cases It guarantees all citizens, whites and Negroes, due proce.ss of law and equal protection under law.

Wallace, whose slogan is segregation f we ver, opposes a lower federal court order to admit two Negroes to the University of Alabama and says he himself will keep them out.

The kind of argument Wallace makes against the 14th Amendment and it has been made by others is that it was illegally adopted during the hectic reconstruction days after the Civil War.

This kind of argument never got to first base before and it wont now.

The Justice Departments single paragraph brushoff was actually a footnote in a brief filed with the court in answer to another request by Wallace to have a law, growing out of vhe 14th Amendment, also knocked out.

The department said:

Tlip challenge to the validity of the 14th Amendment presents nothing of substance. The vitality of the amendment is stifficiently attested by the hundreds of case.s decided under it for the greater part of a century.

This is the reasoning behind that:

In more than a thousand cases the court has given decisions involving due process or equal protection under the 14th Amendment. Thus, by using the amendment, the court long ago validated it.

Further, the Supreme Court has held that:

Once an amendment has been

By HAL BOYLE

umnina To Conclusions

NEW YORK (AP)Jumping -io conclusions;

College graduates ~are getting smarter every year

Members of the class of 1%3 know moer than did members of the class of a generation ago. 1933,. because more was demanded of them while they were in the . classroom College work has become more difficult.

But it is doubtful if the present corp of graduates Is as tough a breed as the crop of 30 years ago.

There were no help wanted

signs out in 1933, and Joe College had to fight hart_for A-start in life. The 1963 gn^ how'ever. Is inclined to view the w'orld rosily, and to feel his sheepskin is a passport to social security. Lets hope it will be.

The surest way to annoy a snippy restaurant cash'er is to pay your check every day with $2 bills. Cashiers dislike them because they fear they will ab-.sentmindedly mistake them for $5 bUls.

officially certified as the 14th was for instance, when Congress agrees an amendment was approved by the necessary number of states and the secretary of state certifies that it was that ends it.

In this case on July 21. 1868. Congress passed a concurrent resolution that three fourths and more of the states had ratified the 14th Amendment and that it was thereby declared to be part of the Constitution.

On July 28, 1868, the Secretary of state certified that the 14th Amendment had become valid. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes remarked that: This decision of the political departments of the government as to the validity of the 14th Amendment has been accepted.

But the Justice Department spent the rest of its brief on the second move Wallace made to get a law dating back to 1871 Article 10, Section 333 of the U. S. Code declared unconstitutional.

Under this law a President can send troops into a state where there is domestic violence that hinders the execution of the laws of the United States.

For example if there should be a race riot in Alabama, where whites control the police, the President might decide that Negroes might be denied equal protection guaranteed them by the 14th Amendment.

In such a case the President, if he felt local authorities wouldnt or couldnt give Negroes protection, could send in troops. Recently there was a riot in Birmingham. After the riot Kennedy sent troops into Alabama.

He didnt send them into Birmingham. There was no need for them then. He sent them to two Army bases near Birmingham. From there they could quickly be moved into the city if a riot began again,

Kennedy didnt need Article 10. Section 333 to send troops into Birmingham to Army bases. As President he can move troops anywhere. But if he sent (Continued on Page 6)

Other Editors Saying... Secrecy In Governmen

(Washington Daily News)

We seem to be witnessing an ever increasing tendency toward secrecy in government, particularly (HI the federal and state levels.

In the federal government so often decisions are made by groups and the information Is withheld from the people, sometimes on the grounds that national security is involved and sometimes with little or no grounds.

In state government secret sessions are so often held in committees that are charged with heavy responsibilities. The people are denied certain knowledge, and even though the final voting meeting might be open, how decisions art arrived at are sometimes more important than the voting records of those involved.

To say that preliminary sessions at which debates are held and at which thinking is directed on certain issues might be embarrassing to thase participating might hold some degree of truth. But a man in public office is holding a job which so often means that there are embarrassing moments.

On the county and town levels. there are many Piaces in our state where difficulties are encountered in getting the news before the public. Here is our own area, we have litUt or difficulties on the local leveir Our local groups seem to feel that the people are entitled to know the complete story The only difficulties the Press has locally happens on the occasion of unannounced meetings at which Important matters are discussed.

We look at secrecy this way. We have always contended that

an informed public Is usually an understanding public. If/secrecy anywhere and in dnyqev-el of government is to be the order of the day. then there must be something to hide. Hiding the truth from thp people or withholding information from them might not lead to dice consequences, but giving the people the full information tends to make the people more of a partner in the actions

A decision which normally might be unpopulai might be generally accepted if the reasoning and thinking behind that decision Is explained carefully and given fully.

Newspapers, radio stations, and television stations do not make the news. It is their job^ to disseminate the news to the public. The better job they do. the more informed public we wl have.

We look upon secrecy in government, particularly in our democracy as a sign of weakness rather than strength. People who are afraid have no business making decisions in a democracy.

Perhaps we have a situation so often where the people are indifferent to this matter of secrecy. Perhaps too many people really are not interested and do not care either way about secrecy. That Is also a weakness of democracy

Despite all the arguments on both sides, we contend very strongly that if democracy Is to be strong, if government is to be truly responsible and if those in places of responsibility seek statesmanship then governments strongest allv is an informedand understanding-public.

Everybody knows at least thrpp .siire-firp cprp.s for blfif.up.s that never work when he gets an attack himself.

The best thing to do with a letter you dont quite know how to answer is to throw it into a wastebasket.

I somehow distrust a man whose hair, fingernails and shoeshlne are always Impecca- ble. He gives an impression of putting up a front, and I suspect him of being a con man at heartor a head waiter.

People who say that as a matter of caution they never walk under ladders are liars The real reason they dont walk under ladders Is that they are superstitiousjust like the rest of us.

Rich folk.s aren't as neighborly as poor folks. You never hear of one of them knocking on the back door of anothei and asking. Could you lend me a cup of money until tomorrow I just ran out.

Every man Is sublimely sure no professional pickpocket could make him a victimuntU it happens.

I" never heard of a man who became a top executive because of the number of memos he dropped in the office suggestltm box. You dont get ahead merely by putting ideas Id a box you have to sell them to somebody.

Anybody who needs more than two coffee breaks a day aLso needs a new job that will interest him more.

When a husband starts learning how to sew on his own buttons late in marriage, his wife always wonders whether he is secretly planning to run away from home.

It makes a man feel more humanly vltuous to drop a quarter in a beggars cup than to write a $10 check to the local Community Chest driver

The silliest delusion in the business world today is the belief that if you gulp three vodka martinis at lunch nobody in the office can tell youre been drinking because they cant smell it on your breath.

There'd be more true morality in this country if women were allowed to go naked in the streetsbut arrested 1 they Ofi-peared in public wearing revealing sweaters.

Life Is always worthwhile as long as there is hope of inheriting money.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1963. King Peaturei Syndicate, Inc.

Not 60 long ago tha m>ort came fnan Cuba that an American - owned plane bad attempted to bomb oil Installations in Havana. *1710 bombs, so the report said, had failed to explode. But other report, coming in from the anti - Castro underground, said that a noise had been heard, which would indicate that something had been hit.

The plane In question was a twin Beechcraft C-45, poted by Geoffrey Sullivan, of Watcrbury. Conn., and owned on a stUl largely unpaid note by a handsome Irishman named Alexander Rorke, Jr., who boasts that he was the first American reporter to be jailed by Castro. Though nobody had Men the plane take off from any point that would have indicated an infringement of the neutrality laws, the U. S. government grabbed the Beechcraft In Connecticut the other day. It is now held at Bradley Field, near Hartford, and its owner cant I'eclaim It, though he Insists that it was seized without a warrant and that no charges have been preferred against him.

The loss of the plane is the second serious setback which Mr. Rorke, a dedicated anticommunist who wants to help the Cubans get rid of Castro, has encountered in recent weeks. Before his troubles with the plane he had a power boat, the VioiyTin HI, which was kept by the British from using Normans Key, an island in the Bahamas, as a possible base for rails against Castro ships. The Viob-nn m was permitted by the British to return to Dinner Key. Fla., where it was seized by the Coast Guard. Now held by the U. S. Customs in _ the Miami River, the yiolynn III Is. according to Mr Rorke, nothing because of the salt that Is backing up into his exhausts and "ruining the manifolds. Mr. Rorke insists, once again, that no charges have been perferred against him for violating any laws of the United States with the Vlolynn m.

The goveniment, obviously, thinks It has good reason to sequester the Beechcraft and the Vlolynn HI. and maybe it has. But, regardless of the tec nical legal rights and wror of the case, what makes Z Rorke particularly angry is ti invasion of what he considers to be his moral rights as a dedicated freedom fighter Sitting at a luncheon tabl this week and letting his food grow cold. Mr. Rorke spoke of what he considers to be the double standard involved in application of the neutrality laws. Only yesterday, he said, be was busy conducting anti-Castro leaflet raids over Cienfuegas and Matanzas in Cuba. He did this, he said, for Cubans, but the tab for tlie raids was, as he put it. picked up by the C.I.A.. which would indicate that the raids had been approved by a U. S. government agency.

What Mr. Rorke want to know is why it is right to break a law at one time and wrong to break it at another. Before 1963, he said, the . S government was Itself Involved in violating the neutrality leglsla-tl(Hi in regard to Cuba. But today it is deemed Illegal even when anti-Castro (Zuban patriots mount their raids against Cuba from Central America or some uninhabited rock In the Caribbean.

What bothers Mr. Rorke Is that the crackdown on the Cubans seems, InierentlaPy, to condemn much of the U. S. heroic past. If anti-Castro Cubans are to be keiH from fighting Castro, he says, then General Cnaire Chennault of Louisiana was wrong to have organized the Flying Tigers to help the Chinese fight the Japanese in the days before Pearl Harbor. And it was wrong for American fliers to have enlisted In Wie Eagle Squadron to fight the Nazis for the British. Beyond that, Mr. Rorke recalls the time when Raoul Lufbery of Wallingford. Conn., helped organize the Lafayette EscadriUe to carry out air missions against the Germans in World War I. This was before the U. S. had formally entered the war.

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See? It Does Help To Be Crazy

Strength For Today

By EARL L. 1K)UGLASS CAN WE T.\KF IT?

We look at the firmness of the promontoi-y against which the waves continually break and we wonder if what the geo-olo^ists tell us Is really true, namely that a little bit of the rock Is wearing away all the time.

But .so long as it stand tliere, the promontoty tames he fury of the water round aoout it. Over thousands of years the water may change the hard cliff, but timek' too numerou.'- to be counted every day tht water lashes about the high rock with fury and subsides again to quietness.

The promontory is oui character. our inner resoiirce.s The sea which dashes against it constitutes the ciiciunstances of life 'They may appt'ai to be furloi's a: d i;''sisMhh in their power, yet the rock sta'ids firm

and the waves with spray flying high drop back and recede as an army retreating beicre superior forces.

We can never over emphasize in our minds the power and utility of firm resolutions Principle alone stands firm while empires crumble, statesmen disappear. great historical figures cross the jitage for an instant and are gone.

The reason for this. oi course, Is that moral principle is the presence of God in lift meeting its tumultuous affairs a*; an unmovable promontorv nnets the fury of the waves. What appeal's a vexation or even d eai is not necessarily such The question of importance is now we stood the fury of life's circumstances beating against us.

Were we shifting sand or immovable rock? Were wt triumphant or weak? Were we re-6oiutc or yielding?

By ELMER ROESSNER One of the oldest jokes in plants and offices is tc say, You dont have to be crazy to work here, but it helps

The old saw has been revised and given currency by Dr. C. Knight Aldrich, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry. University of Chicago In a speech now published in booklet form by the Chicago U. Graduate School of Busine.ss, Dr. Aidrich declares:

If all other things are equal, the man with the greatest competitive drive, again within certain limiLs, becomes the greatest success. And so the man whose past unsolved conflicts add a neurotic component to his basic noi-mar competitive drive has an advantage over his associate.

See? It does help to be crazy. WORKS NIGHT AND DAY Dr. Aldrich continued "He is nervous when he hasnt won the competition, he wHl wok night and day and over weekends while his better adjustrr competitor relaxes with his family.

Provided that h'* tan restrain himself when to bi openly competitive would be impoli

tic, and provided that all other considerations of integrity, tact. Intelligence, Influence artd so on balance out, the man with the single-minded devotion to competition wins,

His neurotic traits, therefore. pay off in the currency -of the American ideal .The neurotic competitor reslsLs any change in his way of life. If you tell him to tdke it easy or to rest, he says, Nonsense; not resting has got me where I am; if I rest, my competition will catch upand besides, rest makes me nervous

The neurotic success however, may be reluctant to delegate authority because he .sees everyone as his competitor. Dr. Aldrich said.

THE RED BADGF OF SUCCESS Constant competition requires constant terASior and constant tension Increases the wear and tear on certaii parts of the body, notably the stomach lining. Although the association between competitiveness and ulcers is not as clear cut as it once appeared to be. . . the competitors have more than their share and when they have

ulcers, they dont take good care of themselves. The c<mii-petitor is. . .also ashamed of anything that resembles weakness and so cant let himself give in to being a patient. The competitive pressure may show in other areas as well* sometimes the two packs a day, the two martinis before lunch. . .

The seccHid area of possible trouble Is in his family. Home, for the neurotic competit*, represents either no competition, which bores him; a handicap to his competitive efforts, which makes him nervous; or an alternative competitive field.

To some extent he avoids the boredom by long hours of work and evening meetings, and he may express his tension by irritability. His domestic compe-titlveness, however, is more complicated. His wife often seems to represent a beautiful and talented prize he has won in competition with other men; once hes won her. hes not so sure he knows what to do with her.

There Is a lot more to the booklet. Single copies are free from the University of (Zhicago Graduate School of Business.

Chicago 37, although tt would be nice to send along a No. 10 stamped, self-addressed nvel-ope. AU neurotic readers of this column-ahucks! ALL readers of this columnare urged to write for Executive Behavior, Selected Papers, No. 5. It may save your life, your wife, your marbles.

HERE ARE ANSWERS TO UNEMPLOYMENT PUZZLE

Yesterday four hypothetical cases were presented and readers Invited to guess whether the principals were employed or unemployed. Here art the answers:

1. The coal miner who hadnt looked for a job to a year is unemployed.

2. The laid-off man who earned a few dollars doing odd Jobe Is employed.

3. The woman who lost her Job and who Is now working three hours a day In her husbands store foj;. nothing Is employed.

4. The teen baby-sitter who had no assignments last week is unemployed.