.Ttursday, June 13, 1963

Redistricting Miist Be Acted Upon

Failure to come to grips with the Senate redis- tives of the people of the state and not left by de-tricting measure and resolving it in the current fault for the courts to redistrict the state Senate, session is a luxury the 1963 General Assembly Those members who make up the 1963 General cannot afford. Assembly will be the same ones who will make up

The necessity of Gov. Sanford having to call a the General Assembly in a special session anytime special session of the legislature to bring about the i\ext two years. It is much more logical for Senate redistricting is a final burden the taxpayers them to dispose of the matter now-r-in a positive of the state should not have to bear. way^than to let it go oyer to a special session.

There is no getting around the fact that there One thing is certain ; either the Senate will be

is a broad difference between the majority opinion redistricted by the legislature or it will be redia-of the House and the Senate over the method by tricted by the court. There is no reason for the latter which redistricting should be accomplished. The alternative, and there is no reason for the legiala-Senate favors a two-fold plan which will provide ture to have to be called into special session to for redistricting during the coming session and will effect redistricting of the senate, likewise provide for a constitutional amendment in- It is a job to be done now.

creasing membership of the Senate from 50 to 60,

The House has rejected the constitutional amendment proposal and has indicated it is interested only in a method of redistricting now.

Even thi^iyergence of sentiment by a majority of the memhyrsjbf the two houses should not be sufficient to^ule out some sort of reasonable com-promise on the issue. It is one of the foremost items increase in the minimum hourly

of consideration on the agenda of the 1963 legis- wage in North Carolina which becomes effective lature. The issue is of paramount concern to the Js^^iuary 1 is pictured by many advocates as grossly citizens of the state, and the resolving of the issue inadequate to meet the needs of lower paid worker? is likewise of paramount concern to the states throughout the state.

citizens. Adequate or not, the minimum wage hike from

It u a job to be done by the elected representa- the present 75 cents per hour to 85 cents per hour

the first of the year is bound to have a considerable

economic impact on the state. Aside from the influence it has on wage-eamers already getting more than the state minimum, it will cause a considerable sum to be put into the paychecks of the 50,000 or more Tar Heels who are now employed at the 75-cents-an-hour level.

Once Burned, Twice Shy

Adequate Or Not, It Will Have An Effect

?aving Way To Acceot A Grant

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

ARTS-A $325,000 appropriation by the General Aasembly Is expected to assure the establishing of a state-supported school and center for the performing arts In North Carolina.

Its influence is expected to be regional in scope, serving a large area of the South.

The appropriation. Included In a list of supplemental spending measures totaling nearly $5 million, paves the way for North Carolina to accept a grant from a founda-tiwi for the purpose of establishing the performing arts center. The foundation had offered such a grant to the state provided matching fimds were made available.

The plan for the center-school to serve the entire South was recommended by the North Carolina Conservatory committee in March and given full endorsement by Gov. Terry Sanford.

REPORTThe Conservatory committee, headed by Mrs. Paul L. Muilenberg of Charlotte, gave Impetus to the legislative action in Its report recommending;

that a professional tralh-Ing school in the performing arts in North Carolina is feasible and badly needed.

that the school should be planned as a Southern regional facility, hopefully with a con-tractural arrangement with tlw Southern Regional Educati<ni Board.

that it provide instruction of the highest professional and academic excellence chiefly in the high school and college range, with provision for both younger students with exceptional talent and post-graduate students.

The report recommended an IdeaJ enrollment would be approximately 400 students at the outset, with flexibility for expansion in the future.

SITEAfter announcement of the grant, expected shortly, the next step in the program Is to be selection of a site.

It is proposed that a smaller committee with professional consultants be set up to choose a site for the center. Four cities. Raleigh, Winston-Salem, Southern Pines and Charlotte, already have expressed interest in such a school-center location and have made overtures.

The conservatory committee made certain recommendations as to location of the center in Its report to the governor in March. These Included:

that it should be situated

In or near a metropolitan area with a large and active program in the performing arts which would guarantee audience support of performances. This also would be Important, the committee said. In providing faculty members and advanced students an outlet for performing in community symphony orchestras, opera groups, choral and oratoric societies, drama groups, and dance companies.

that ideally it should be situated near or adjacent to an existing educational institution.

FACILITIES The recommendation for locating the school-center adjacent to an existing educational institution was tied to a suggestion that a suitable arrangement be worked out for academic instructional services and perhaps such services as bookkeeping, medical care and maintenance.

Another recommendation by the committee w^as that the community chosen for the school-center should make a substantial contribution in terms of campus and buildings including practice and class rooms, a small recital hall and a larger concert hall.

FACTORS These factors suggested for consideration In choosing a site apparently have ruled out earlier suggestions that the school be located in an area such as the Research Triangle Park In the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. ---

In fact. Consolidated University president William C. Friday who at first favored a Research Triangle site now feels it would be better to tie it closely to an existing institution of higher learning, rather than to establish it as an independent conservatory.

MONEYThe same committee which made the report on the school of performing arts endorsed and supported expansion of educational television and the General Assembly la backing this with a $1.5 million supplemental appropriation.

Gov. Sanford asked for the educational TV appropriation in his budget message, but it was passed over In original recommendatlcMis by the Joint Appropriations committee. It was later restored.

Another significant supplemental appropriation given approval was $750,000 to implement Kerr-Mills medical assistance for the aged in North Carolina. The legislature earlier okayed the implementing plan contingent on the additional appropriation.

Tempest In A Teapot

Temi^st in a teapot is an old expression that comes in handy.

The teapot we are referring

The increase of 10 cents in the minimum wage will mean these 50,000 workers will receive, collectively, an additional $5,000 an hour effective the first of the year. If the average person working a rvAmoir'ii a

40-hour week this will mean an additional $200.000 JPATRICIA MOORE

weekly going into their paychecks, or more than r $10.4 million in wage increases they will receive during the 1964 calendar year.

Compared with the federal minimum wage, the new 85-cents-per-hour floor for wages that has been established by the legislature may seem low. When

it comes to the matters of dollars and cents over ____

a years time, however, it is readily seen that the to is more of a tea kettle and

increase will have a considerable economic imoact constructed for something

upon the state.

It was another of those ar-

It means, of course, that the cost to employers ^tstic creations by an anony-of those 50,000 North Carolinians now working at

the states minimum wage level will be increased restmg ple that vac^

by more than $10 million. It also maens that an adds- ^4 by a coffee pot we wrote

tional $10.4 millionat the very least will be re-

fleeted in purchasing power of those now employed paS'eatirweutofoeSTur' at the state s minimum wage. that the teapot wont be here

Many North Carolinians, looking at the 10 it was one of the fat, low cent increase in the states minimum hourly waire "^^^e of aiu-

are prone to consider it insignificant. When it

considered in the broader aspect qf what it means ^ i

m dollars and cents to the economy of the state, C Ipr

even the 10 cent increase in the minimum wage 1j\-4.Lv-/ o O^yiliy

amounts to a great deal of money.

was something like a distillery apparatus, whieh coiled about and emptied into a paper cup which held cokeor something.

To add that really creative touch was scrambled up wire, artistically entwined about the body of the kettle and the handle.

The art sUidents were enjoying the exhibit, as was everyone else.

But, like the upside-down coffee pot that became a quaint face, we, too. are sure the tea kettle met its fate and was removed from its place among the more sedate expressions of modem art in the Kate Lewis Art Gallery of Rawl Building at the college.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Kennedy, faced with a racial crisis that threatens violence and lives, finally appealed in a nationwide broadcast for an end to discrimination against Negroes.

He did five things In his talk Tuesday night:

1. He blamed all 50 states, not just the South where racial prejudice is most intense, for discrimination.

2. He made equal treatment for Negroes an urgent necessity by noting that violence and lives are threatened.

3. He asked all white Americans to examine their conscience and cooperate in ending discrimination.

4. By the broadcast he put the full weight of his office behind his plea to give Negroes the constitutional rights denied them.

5. He outlined steps he wants Congress to take in this direction by passing laws to overcome segregation.

That he make such a talk had been urged on Kennedy from various quarters for weeks as racial tensions increased and. in some places, burst into riots.

The indications were that he wouldnt.

He finally did it a few hours after compelling the admittance of two Negroes to the University of Alabama over the completely empty resistance of Gov. George C. Wallace.

If Kennedy had made the same kind of talk earlier in his administration some, if not most, of the present tensions might have been avoided although perhaps not unless he had followed the talk with action.

By the same token race relations in the United States now might have been far more advanced If President Dwight D.

Eisenhower had made a similar plea just once in his eight years In office.

Kennedy made two points on the legislation he will lay before Congress:

He wants a law giving Negroes the right to be served in public facilities, like hotels and restaurants. This seems to mean a law forbidding proprietors of such facilities, if they are involved in interstate commerce at all, to decide on their own to refuse to serve Negroes. On May 21 the Supreme Court ruled no state or city law can force such a proprietor to discriminate. It didnt yet say whether they could do it on their own.

He wants a law from Congress to authorize the federal govemijient to step in more fully in lawsuits to end segregation in public education. As of now a Negro denied admittance to a segregated school in almost all areas must file his own suit. Few Negroes can afford such expense.

Some Negro leaders feel, however, that unless Congress passes a law permitting the government to file a suit in any case where a Negros civil rights are denied not just in selected fieldsall other mea-slres are insufficient.

It seems pretty certain at this writing that Kennedy will not ask for such authority.

(CtHustian Science Monitor)

There is surely a simple, elemental answer to those who purvey and those who are tempted to accept false accusation and hatred in American politics.

It could go something like this:

Of course evil is a conspiracy. Of course those who seek to expose the evil in communism must look for subtle measures of deceit and persuasion.

But it has properly been said that one should not fight the devil with his own weapons.

Alertness to conspiracy, which is always proper and indeed indispensable, can also be gravely abused. It Is not sensible and certainly not moral to become so active in combating conspiracy that one sees evil where in fact it does not exist. It is the easiest thing In the world for those who feel society is not sufficiently alert to conspiracy to see it everywhere, under ever rug, behind every curtain. Indeed it is one of the most familiar negative characteristics of the human mind that it easily turns, under pressure, to feelings o imagined persecution. Most of us have known individuals who greatly exaggerate the desire of others to hurt them.

This is the abuse of what otherwise is a decent political motive to detect and deal with actual conspiracy. But what honorable individual wants to find himself caught, witting or unwitting, in one of the most subtle and unlovely forms of hurting ones neighbor? What honorable person wants to commit what the Bible and a host

of religious leaders have

branded as bearing false witness? This is one of the mo.st damaging and unfair things that one Individual can do to another because the falsity of the accusation makes denial so difficult. How do you prove that you did not do something you are incorrectly accused of doing?

Yet Inaccurate condemnation is one of the easiest pitfalls today. when many well-financed organizations devoted to exposing the Communist conspiracy let their eagerness run away with their judgment, and never really take objective and fair steps to obtain proof and listen to defense.

Each individual who is concerned about conspiracy can perform a natlcmal service, as well as a service to his own higher ntUure, if he will carefully examine and cross check alleged facts in this area of conspiratorial charges, to determine whether he is satisfied with the evidence supporting them and the motive with which they are launched. Individuals are happily endowed with intuition and usually can detect hate and separate out from authentic goodness seeking to defend itself.

This newspaper continually receives letters from persons who are either angry or puzzled, who have been fed what look like detailed, factual charges against persons and organ-izatiwis we have carefully investigated and know to be reliably non-Communist and devoted to freedom. We ask them to think twice and to investigate conscientiously before accepting accusations of this sort.

Such a shame!

You know, this art Is some-thhig that has got to appeal to everybody. When one finds something like a tea kettle that appeals to his imagination, he ought to be allowed to reflect upon it and enjoy it before it is whlsked away.

After all, a tea kettle Is something every man can understand and enjoy.

Modem artwell, more and more people are beginning to appreciate the colors, forms and shapes and are forgiving the artists for creating things foreign In understanding.

It seems a man wants to understand something to like It.

With modem art, he is apt to appreciate meaning that he finds latCT is not even there, and so hes a fool.

Or he fails to understand the thiill in a painting that is constructed with paper towel roils,

' pieces of' rag and newspaper.

But.like It or not the modem art has been here for some time and Is reflective of the aspirin and space age. It has found Its way into every home in a curtain or a piece of dress material.

And its strongest competitor these days must be mens sport coats.

Opinions In Brief

There are a number of things bigger than mcmey like bills, for instance.Roswell (Ga.) Herald.

One thing can be said for the Soviets _ at least, for those Soviets whose policies and decisions count. They are supremely dedicated men and women,San Francisco Daily Commercial News.

One of the calamities of life is the person who never has a dream except when hes fuileepii Decorah (l|jwa) Public Opinion.

'They want to add some additional letters to the English alphabet, but were still having trouble arranging the ones weve got like the dictionary does.Pike County (Ga.) Journal.

Americas share-the-wealth plan is the income tax, which has a weakness. It takes from everybody and gives to nobody.Boston Globe.

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Case

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN ^

Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

In beating the bushes for more tax money to kick down the thousand-and-one open drains that it feeds, the U. S. Treasury continues to lobby the House of Representatives Ways and Means C(Hnmitte to kill the so-called special tax treatment accorded to companies that live by craaumlng natural assets. These companies include mining concerns, corporations that locate and develop oil wells, and the big timber companies.

The case for the oil depletion allowance Is well - known; it recognizes that a cwnpany that lives by selling Itself off bit-by-blt must be permitted an extra margin of profit If It Is to replenish itself. The untaxed depletion allowance Is designed to allow for the financing of at least enough new oil exploration to let a company stay even on Its capital assets.

This is fair enough, for the corporatiOT profits tiuc is not supposed to function as a capital levy.

The case for taxing timber sales on a capital gains basis is a little more difficult to sustain. There is a certain logic to the argument that timber is a crop, like wheat or tomatoes, a matter of human Input into output by the Investment of labor and capital and the use of land normally is cwisid-ered to represent Income, not capital. But this argument as applied to trees applies only the second time round, not the first. The original tree crops were planted by nature, or God, not by human labor; hence they should be CMisidered a natural capital asset just as much as is gold ore in a mine or oil in the earth.

However, even if trees are to be regarded as s(nethinp humanly replaceable, like tomato plants or wheat stalks, there is stiU a reason for giving them special tax treatment. Ever since the expansive new tribe

of tree farmers was conjured into existence by treating

timber sales on a capital gains basis, some wonderful things have been happening in certain regions of the United States.

By ctmstantly replanting slashed timer lands, the new breed of tree farmers helps restore the landscape for tour

ists. provides recreation areas for campers, and aids the local conservation agencies in the continual fight to keep water in the soil.

The Incidental benefits of tree farming to the general public was brought home to this columnist last wintcr during several ski expeditions to northern New England. Timber companies have been leasing longterm use-rights to mountain slopes for ski area developments. Meanwhile, the forests on either side of ski runs and ski towa are maintained as a scenic delight while the tree farmers are waiting for their crops to grow. Thus northern New England is protected as a wilderness paradise for visiting city people without the necessity of any federal outlays for new national parks.

And the wild state of nature Is preserved without having to ham any controversial wilderness bill through Congress.

True enough, the taxpayers who does not care for skiing or for enjoying the Autumn foliage on a New Hampshire or a Vermont hillside may have logical reason to object to giving a tree fanner a tax advantage that a wheat farmer doesnt have. But there is no logic to our tax policy anyway: the whole tax program is an issue of special instances and exceptions. If the wheat farmer is taxed on his wheat profits, he gets a price support that assures him of his profit in the first place. Bachelors and childless couples are municipal golf links; the middle-in-come mans dollar is considered less necessary to him than the poor mans dollar is to the poor man, even though the latter may have marginal dollars to spend at the parl-mutual betting window. Tax equity, under the progressive systm, is a chimera, and we might as well stop looking for It.

This being the case, every

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Quote Not All Share Boom Thinking

They say a picture Is worth a thousand words. The Lords Prayer has 56 words, Lincolns Gettysburg address 266, the Ten Commandments 297 and the Declaration of independence 300; total, 919. Picture that!^Monroe Enquirer.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WE MUST GET IN UNE Weak, puny man often sets himself up against the might and power of God.

How foolish and how futile 1 Can anyone believe that the will of God Is going to be turned aside by the human will? Is there the slightest possibility that the Ood who made all things Is going to be permanently set aside In His projects by puny persons like you and me? We may and in fact c<Histantly do delay the working out of Gods will. With the planets responding to his touch, we Impudent little mortals stand up and defy the Most High God. Our rebellion Is both futile and pathetic. God will have His way in the end.

The Moslems believe in Kis

met, or blind fate. No one whose faith is based on the teachings of the Bible believes In any such thing. We believe in the irresistible will of God. but it is not the will of a blind force incapable of pity and not open to exhortation. Our God is a Heavenly Father. His plans will triumph because His plans are right right with that perfection which Is an essential part of His being. If we only had more wisdom* we would see that Gods will which we protest against is part of His perfect and fatherly nature.

Wisdom for us consists In finding out what the will of God is and bringing our will to conform to His. It may be hard and grievous at first. It is the only thing, however, that eventually brings light, life, and happiness.

By EIJVIER ROESSNER Your reporter and never forget that he is a reporter, not an economist has been buoyant and bullish on the American economy for the rest of this year.

Therefore, it becomes obligatory for him to report that others are not quite as happy about the future.

For example, Philip M. Hauser,-University of Chicago sociology chairman, told the Natiwi-al Industrial Caiference Board that a boom economy in the soaring sixties failed to mar terialize. . .Two bearish aspects population changes In the sixties are the flooding of the labor market and the disproportionate Increase In younger and older households compared with Intermediate aged households. QUICKLY CONFIRMED Dr. Hausers observatlcm was confirmed a few days later when the . S. government announced that an Increase of 300,000 unemployed teens in May had pushed the unemployment total to 4,100,000. An even sharper rise is probably happening this month.

At Stanford University, Prof. David E. F^ville, of the Grad

uate School of Busineee, told ai^ economic conference that the present boom may have already reached its peak. The expec-tatiiwi of tax cuts has induced some people to go more heavily into debt than they might have otherwise. This may take some of the bloom off the expected stimulus from a tax reduction if and when It comes. . .

On the plus side of the business outlook, there is our unabated population upsurge 57,(XX) new Americans a week the continued onrush of technological Improvements creating obsolescence, and our Improved inventory control methods accompanied by a growing awareness of the dangers of oversup-Ply. . . ..

There are sUlI two maj<w problems ccxifrcmUng the economy. . .

"1. Too slow an economic growth for which the recommended cure is to Increase government spending, cut taxes and accept budgetary deficit to avoid a business slump and reduce unemployment and,

2. A cwitlnulng unfavorable balance of trade for which the classic cure Is deflation, to contract thgj^mwiey supply, re

duce wages and prices and make us more competitive In woiid markets.

AND IN FOOD -Meanwhile, a new Dun & Brad-street survey shows that while food manufacturers regard the third quarter with favorable ex-pectaUwis, food executives throughout the natimi. . . .are considerably less optimistic In expecting an Improvement In either sales or profits, cmnpared with all manufacturers. Manufacturers optimism was less than that shown a year ago.

Businessmen dont appear to be wholly oonvlnced the present growth rate wUl continue and are apparently doubtful whether it will be sustained through the third quarter at the level recorded to date In 1963, D. & B. said.

armed forces, according to Karl M. Ruppenthal. of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. This paper work keeps many pers(ms from being unemployed, and helps keep taxes up. . . Turner Corp., Sycamore, HI., has asked the Post Office Department to tesue a special stamp commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Fahrenheit thermometer next year.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS The Internal Revenue Sendee has ruled that an airline may serve liquors free of tax to Its passengers while over the United States on international flights even though an Interim landing is made in the U.S.A. . .At least 100 forms are required for every parcel sent overseas by ttw

SUBTLE APPROACH TO MORE SALES

A department manager cant go up to a salesgirl and say, You (Hight tp put more goo under your arms if you dont want to offend your customers, unless he wants her to quit. And a department store cant get out literature telling salespers(nis how to adjuirt their smiles unless it wants to have trouble with the NLRB.

So to get around all this, the National Retail Merchants Association has published a booklet, Your Bitimate Guide to Successful Selling, with a lot of tips that a department manager cant pass along as her own, but which can be handed out as the suggesUtms (tf a big association.