Monday, 7uty 1, 1968

Pointed Remarks

Lets Face It-Sehators Will Talk

Talk about a Senate rul which will require selvei to a rule which keeps them from talking: about

members of that exclusive body to stick to the suo-ject at hand for at least four hours a day seems too much to expect

Admittedly It mijlit streamline the transaction ^f business in the Senate. It-may enable Congress to shorten the length of its sessions each year. It

any subject they, please when they please.

From a legislative standpoint, the proposed rule has obvious advantages. From the political standpoint of the Senators, however, the rule, could be a severe handicap. It would be much more difficult for a Senator to interrupt debate on foreign

may even mean that more attention will.be given aid to make a politically expedient speech about vital national subjects without frequent interrup- farm prices in his state. It would eliminate the pres-tions for orations on other less importont matters, ent system under which a Senator, if he gets the

But in spite of these possible advantages, we hol<t floor during a debate on appropriations, can read ^ ^

out little hope that the Senators will subject them

Jrieiped Cause Of Road Safety

into the record for consumption back home a scathing attack on the opposition party members who happen to hold office in his state capital.

Obviously even the Senators proposing the new rule recognize that their colleaguesand they themselvesdont want the scope of their discussions

(Todays column Is a review ot highway saXety leglslaUon o the 1963 <3oeral Assembly writ* ten by tte executive director of the N. C. Traifio gaiety Council).

By PHIL ELL

Guest Cohuiuist

In qpite of some rumblings to the conbaiy, the 1963 General Asa^bly was not an anti hlgh* way safety legislature. Quite the (sjpostte, a hard lo<^ at the record Indicates rather clearly that the members probably did more to advance the cause of highway safety than any other General Assembly in recent years.

On the positive side, the legislature macted into law, In In whole w In part, seven of the ten recommendations o the dtieiai program of the Oover-n<N'*s Coordinating Committee on Traffic Safety, (^ly one of those three denied (mechanical Inspectim) was considered a miitor part (g the full program.

In the business of resisUng so-called bad legislation, authorities generally feel that only one bill was passed which could woit to the detriment of highway safety efforts in the state. That would be the law which pit^lbits the use of aircraft in traffic law enforcement, and even that me was amended in the Senate so as to make it possible to use aircraft under certain conditions.

PR(X1RAM The ten-point official program, as approved by the Coordinating Committee and outlined to the legislators in a precedent - shattering special message on highway safety by Governor Sanford called for these items; chemical testing for drinklnk drlvrse, provisional licenses for young driven, additional highway patrolmen. Implementation of the court re-i<Min amendment, establishment of the Coordinating Committee by statute, mandatory seat belts on all new cars after 1963. enactment of the Interstate compacts on safety equlpmcmt and driver licensing, establshing a unlforro definition of conviction, and a periodo vehicle safety check'.

DRUNK DRIVERS Per haps the most far - reaching of the bills to be passed was the chemical testing law for drinking drivers. Whle the lawmakers turned down the proposition to enact the Implied consent feature. meaning that refuaaJ to take the breath test upon request of an officer would mean automatic forfeiture of om' driver license for a pertod ot six months, they did include In the law an alternate, which many feel la almost as valuable aa implied consent. The law aa passed baa the so called ad-mlssaiaillty clause", which means that If a person refuses to take the test upon request, evidence of such refusal may be used to his trial. The law sdso set the presumptive level ^ of .10 per cent oi blood hoi. Nwth Carolina thereby becomes the 8c<id state- tb adopt the recpmmendatiowf of the American Medical Association and set a presumplive level of less than .15 per cent.

&i a nutshell, the North Carolina chemical test law, which goes Into effect on January 1, 1964, is ccmsidered to be me of the better ones in the nation, and it is virtually certain that its aM)Ucatlon will have a sharp

Impact on the problem of tbs drinking driver in the state.

TEEN-AGERB The provisional license bill finally passed fell somewhat short of what wss (Higinally requested but there Is general agreements a-mong the professionals in the field that it is a strong step in the right direction. As adopted, the law declares all drivers under the age of 18 to be pro-vlalonal licenses and makes it a bit easier to suspend the permits of those licenses. Perhaps even more important than this feature is the requirement In the law that, after November 1, 1963, no one may be licensed to operate a motor vehicle in North Carolina before he reaches his 18th birthday unless he completes a high school driver education course. In the event it is impoesible to get that training, it is provided that substitute safety instruction, to be operated by the Department of Motor Vehicles in each county of the state, be offered. Details of this substitute course will be forthcoming shortly.

This legislation la also far-reaching. With its passage. North Carolina became only the second state to require that. In order to receive a license prior to age 18, one must complete at least a formal, classroom course in safety. It looks to the day when high school driver ed-ucatKwi will be universal in the state and most close observers beUeve that day is not far away.

PART WAY Partial success was achieved in two areas. While it could be shown

limited during any particular day. Thus the proposed rule requires that Senators stick to the subject at hand only four hours a day . . . not all day long.

If the proposed rule change ever gets to the floor of the Senate for debate, we may be sure that many Senators will rise to speak on the price of milk, the high cost of living, mail- delivery service at home, and a broad variety of other subjects.

Talk, after all, is essential to the life of a politician, and while members of the Senate are high officials, leaders, statesmen, they are tirst and foremost politicians who must look to the next election to hold their positions in the exclusive body.

Grim Sigfnificance Is A Holiday Tradition

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SuDPort

Profile Of A New

DIRECTOR, SOUTHERN REGIONAL EDUCATION BOARD

Virginia, Louiaiana, Texas and Oklahoma.

By 1976 there will be a quarter of a blUlcm people living in the United States. Gross national product may pass the trillion dollar mark, twice what we are currently producing, and

On July 3rd, millions of Americana will be looking forward to a pleasant holiday that provides

a mid-summer respite from the normal routine. Each By WINFRED L. GODWIN of these persons will be expecting to return to their normal activities the day after the Fourth.

Unfortunately, July 3rd will be the last routine day for many. The July 4th holiday, which is being looked forward to with such anticipation, will be marred with tragedy. Along the highways of the nation tragedy wifi ensnare its unsuspecting victimn.

Lives will be snuffed out; horrible injuries will be inflicted, men, women and children will be maimed.

Some will recover from the blow of flying glass and twisting steel. Others will carry the scars the rest

of their days. _______________

The great tragedy is that this aspect of July the nation's labor markel win

4th has become as much a part of the American number 96 million,

tradition as the event which established Indepen- All of these facts wUi make

dence Day as a national holiday. The highways are by

eas WDUC ii couia oe snown ^ crowded, the hazards of motor travel increase, and Planning AssociaUons center

that the Highway Patrol needs in spite of the precautions taken by most drivers, ^for Economic Projections,

at least 100 additional members, toll always mounts sharply over that of the Tbey^,will be reflected in the

average day of the summer.

The Fourth is a day for relaxation for almost everyone except the driver. For him, It is a day when his life and the lives of his passengers are in greater danger than normally is the case. If you travel on the Fourth, remember that the other

fellow is just as confident as you that he will not ^ ^ ^

wind up as a statistic on the highway tragedy jLClltOrS OQVinQ ...

ledger.

South

Population in the South will reach 72 million 18 million more than live and work in these states today. Per capita personal income ih the South, now perched at the bottom of the ladder at $1,700, will grow to $2,70(| in 1976, but it will still lag 20 per cent behind the national average.

Floridas per capita Income,

capita Income will jump from 75 per cent of the national average to 87 per cent in 16 years.

Major employment growth in the South will show up tn the noncommodity sectors of the economy, which means those sectors demanding mqre educationthe professip, ' the service industries>. government employment, .. Manufacturing will coi^tinde to play a smaller rolgi..'M the Southern economy

which is now 89 per cent of the .., '^^*^ it does nationally. Florida

national per capita incomej,...wiIl

the lawmakers provided 26. This was oontidered significant when vteyved tn light of the fact that 1963 seemed to be a year for continued sniping by some at the state's intematlonslly recognized award - winning Patrol.

The other partial success came with the enactment of the bill creating the Courts Commission to make rec(nmendatl(ms In 1965 for implementation of the court reform amendment. More had been liBped for but the Commission is a significant beginning.

SEAT BELTS Another positive step was taken by enactment of a law requiring all new cars registered in the state after January 1, 1964, to be equipped with seat belts. Seat belts, called the single most important piece of safety equipment that can be added to an automobile, will someday be standard equipment on all cars. The start has been made.

COORDINATION - CXX)PER. ATION Finally, the legkrla-turc wrote into law principle of coordlnaUon of effprt In traffic accident preyiwtbn. It established by Mature the Coordinating CQfilttce. and actually included in that bill the Action .l^ogram of the Presidents Committee for Traffic Safety. This program Is considered to be the modem - day basis for all sound traffic safety management efforts. In addition, the General Assembly voted to enact the Interstate Compact on Vehicle Safety Equipment, which should make it much simpler In the future to assure that cars sold in North Carolina will have the benefit of the newest safety equipment.

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Image of the South In 1976. Of 14 states in the nation which the NPA predicts will carry on a larger share of the total national economic activity, seven are in the South. They are Florida, Georgia, Virginia, West

drop to 88 per cent nat

ional figure in ig^.'"Georgias per capita Ijnoofiie will be 71 per cent of'the national figure In 1976 and is 73 per cent of that figure now. North Carolinas per capita income, nfew 71 per cent of the national figure, w'ill reach 77 per cent by 1976, and West Virginias per

is expected to account for a-bout one-fifth of total economic activity in 12 Southeastern st ates. Seventy per cent of total economic activity of the Southwestern states is concentrated in Texas.

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By GEORGE HAGEDORN

As this Is written the steel companies and the steelworkers union are concluding an agreement which provides periodic 13-week vacations for half the Industrys work - force. This has been a prime objective of the union with the purpose, as they see it, of IncreMlng the number of jobs in the steel industry.

From the companies' point of view this is another increase in co.st, which of course makes problems, but they are probably indifferent to the particular form the cost . Increase takes. For the individual worker it represents a gain in leisure time which he may or may not'have preferred to alternative benefits. From the unions point of view it Ls a way of increasing, or at least maintaining, their membership.

But from a broader economic perspective this is an ineffective and undesirable method of attacking the unemploym ent problem. Employers are ;iiot likely to be 'enconraged to buy more man-tioura of labor by any development which increases the average cost of a man-hour. Thus the vei*y most such a move can accomplish Is to spread the available hours of employment over more people.

That Ls not to say that increased leisure is not an understandable and perfectly legitimate as-pli ation on the par4 of working people. Historically, a part of the benefits of our rising productive efficiency has been taken in the form of Increased flow of goods and services'to consumers, and part in the fonn of reduction in working-time.

The ^s^ntlal fact is that you cant' havip your cake and eat it too. Whatever part of our rising productivity is used to

reduce working hours is not available for other purposes, such as increasing the standard of living.

If people want more leisure, and are aware of what they are giving up for it, there is no reason why their claims should be denied. But the circumstances of recent negotiations do not indicate that there has been any rational weighing of the human desire for free time as against the equally human desire foj" a higher standard of living. The prevalence of moonlighting, and the insistence of individual employees on their rights to a fair share of overtime work, do not suggest that leisure Is more popular than Income.

A serious drag will be put on the process of economic growth if. Instead of dealing with the unemployment problem at 11 s roots, we rely on work - sharing .schemes of this kind. This approach surely is no substitute for an economic climate which encourages and pei-mits business to create more jobs.

Incidentally, one wonders how many of the steel workers will take temporary jobs during their 13-week vac^ions. How many will spend the time on do-it-yourself work, for which they would otherwise have hired someone else?

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(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The next presidential election is still a long way off, but even now the leaders of the two major political parties are willing to talk about issues for the campaign. What will be the major points of contention when voting time rolls around in 1964? There is little doubt that foreign policy (including, of course, (iuba with all "of its ramifications) will be the maiir item for the Republicans.

Democratic National Chairman John M. Bailey refuses to be that specific, however. He feels the chief issue Ls going to be how well did President Kennedy run the affairs of this country. That takes into account many different is-ues, and the Democrats like to believe that Kennedy handled each issue on its merits.

There is no doubt that foreign policy will be the main subject, however, that occupied more attention in 1963 than any othereven Cubar-and that is civil rights. But civil rights and racial Lssues will not be the point of contention between the two parties that some might think.

The reason for this is obvious. the Republicans fell pretty much the same about civil rights as do the Democrats, The one exception is the chief provision of the Presidents civil rights package, a proposal lor enforcement of desegregation of private finiis serving the publicdesegregation by force, if necessary. And the Republicans regard this provision as further evidence of encroachment on the rights of individuals and free enterprLse.

ional Chairman William E. Miller says the (30P would approach the Cuban problem with more firmness than has- been shown by the administration. For one thing." "fie" says he would at tliis stage of the game allow no ports of entry to any ship carrying material to Cuba. He feels we should eliminate foreign aid to any South American country doing business with Fidel Castro.

We could even consider a govermnei:!- exile for 43 Cubans, and consider restraining the use of the Panama Canal to ships carrying cargo to Cuba. In reply the Democrats say their opponents are guilty of reckless partisanship in the area of foreign policy. Bailey feels the American people know that Kennedy has given them the facts about Cuba, that they are pleased with the way he handled the crisis last fall.

Well, If Bailey believes that, he is out of touch with the American people. On no other crisis in recent U. S. history have the people been so disenchanted with the handling of affairs as they have over the way Chiba was handled. The only word to describe out present approach to Cuba and Its Communist problem is inept.

While there are plenty of other problems to consider, and and while much time remains before election time, 1964, few will disagree that foreign policy will be the chief Issue of the campaign. C^lvil rights will influence voting In vArying de-geres, depending on the section of country and Its sentiments on integratiwi. But President Kennedys biggest job is going to be the defense of his pol-

Next to Florida the most rapid economic growth in the Southeast will be in Louisiana, while Mississippi and Arkansas are expected to grow most slowly, the NPA predicts. Maryland (a mid-Atlantic state in NPA/divisions), Virginia. Texas and Florida are likely to have the highest levels of per capita income in the region, but will be 5 to 15 per cent below the national average.

Industry in the region Is still heavily weighted toward the traditional elements of agriculture and mining, but these will decrease within the next 16 years, the NPA predicts.

By 1976, the South as a region will be producing $252 biliion of output. All Industries are expected to grow in the Southwest, but none will overtake mining which now accounts for 40 per cent of the nations total mining output.

National personal income, according to the NPA studiess, will double by 1976, reaching approximately $800 billion. Almost 80 per cent of this income is expected to accrue in four sub-regions. including the Southeast.

The changing complexion of the economic and labor force in all of the Southern states has important implications for higher education of every kind. In order to provide the kind of education which will train manpower for available jobs, universities and colleges must match their programs with occupation trends and their vocational requirements.

Opinions Brief

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As spokesman for the Repub-^ *icies (or lack of them) in the llcans <Mi foreign policy, Nat-' foreign policy area.

"A returned traveler complains about the discriminatory signs which are designed to get the deer safely across the road, while the turtles are on their own.Kansas are on their own.Kansas City Star.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Clppyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

TW# week-end ft world conference oi lawyers Is meeting In Athens, Greece, to drum up support for "world peace through law." With an irony that may or may not have been Intended, the lawyersjvho are assembling from a fitihdred nations *- have specified that they are attending "In their private capacity and not as representatives of their governments."

The lawyers disclaimer of government support Is apt, for lawlessness that must appall any law-abiding average citizen And that super-organization of the governments, the United . Nations, which should be extremely careful to support "world peace through law," has been the worst offender of all.

Take, for example, the role the UN played in bowing to crude force when Indonesias Ineffable Sukarno sent his guerrillas and saboteurs into the Dutch territory of the West New Guinea. The Sukarno subversion was undertaken back in 1962 without the shadow of an Invitation from the 700,(X)0 inhabitants of New Guinea, most of whom are Papuans who are still close to the culture of the Stone Age. Yielding to the threat of force.^ the United States watched benignly^ while former Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, acting for the UNs Secretary General U Thant, worked out an agreement which put the Dutch out of New Guinea and turned the place over to a "UN administration" that Includes many Indonesians in key positions. The underlying population of New Guinea wont get a chance to vote on their own future until 1969, when the UN promises a plebiscite. This gives Sukarno .aix years in which to fasten his grip on the poor Papuans.

. Then there Is the record of Ihe UN General Assembly in promoting dls^rd in Portuguese Angola, which has been harassed by illegal invasions from the Congo. Without waiting for a plebiscite of any sort, the General Assembly adopted a resolution rapping Portugal ovei the knuckles for "refusal to recognize the legitimate aspirations of the Angolan people to self - determination and independence. Well, maybe the Angolans would like to be free of Portugal, but the quarrel, if there is a quarrel, is an internal one, Involving tw'o constituent parts of a legitimate UN member nation. By an nation. By an extension of current UN logic, the Anglo-Saxon Canadians are due for a good birching in the General Assembly for refusing to recognize the legitimate aspirations to "self-determination and independence of the French-Canadian minority of Quebec. Even in Britains home island there are Scottish and Welsh nationalists, who might claim support for secession sentiments in the UN General Assembly.

The poor Portuguese, of course, got it in the neck when Nehrus India, a UN member, grabbed the Portuguese colony of Goa, a small enclar e that menaced India about as much as a flea menaces a dog. The Indians had a case for the liberation" of Goa, for it is obvious that the sun has long since set on the day of the colonialist in the Indian subcontinent. Nevertheless, Nehrus government used force, not law, in working its will in tiny and unimportant Goa.

The legality of the UN action in using force to compel Moise Tshcanbes Katanga to remain a part of the centralized Congo state wiU be debated by the historians for many a long year. Whether the UN invasion of Katanga was legal or not, the lawyers in applying international principle. Sometimes the UN backs "self-determination," and sometimes it doesnt. As Artemus Ward might say, its most con-foosih.

Another item that might engage the attention of the lawyers is Fidel Castros lawlessness toward the people of Cuba. Fidel came to power In Havana by promising a huge coalition, of anti-Batista forces a return to the Cuban Con-titution of 1940. Once he had made himself solid in office, however, Fidel tore every tlge of the legitimate

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KILLED - The fused to go along (Continued

"Our favorite gal Is provoked with men bragging about superior driving ability. She says that many probably have missed being pinched for going too fast, but that a lot of them have been slapped. Carlsbad Current-Argus.

Summer - Doldrums In Busine

Strength For Today

By EARL L. IH)UGLASS ... THE SUPREME GIFT ^

We often hear the statement that we get out of life what we put into it. This Is tiue. In the spiritual realm, however we get out of life what God puts into it. For we never even begin to understand the nature of the Christian life until we realize that what we have come to call salvation is in reality a great gift from God.

To be sure, we, are never ".saved. until we put our whole heart and soul into doing the will of God and- following in the pathway of His righteousness. But all the effort we might make would not bring us to that spiritual state of peace and power which the soul has when it is at rest with God unless God had done

something to us and for us that we could not possibly do for^ ourselves.

What God does Ls to give us scHiiething, and that something is the touch of His hand, the word of His assurance, the power which becomes ours when the life of the worshipper and the life of God com-ingle. Something takes place in the experience of salvation which exceeds in magnitude and signlflcapce everything else tn a believers Ufe.

The theme of the entire Bible is aalvatioo-that overwhel-ming experience which occurs when God gives man His spiritual Rife of illumination, power, peace, and insight.

Salvation Is a giftthe gift of Cod.

.. By ELMER ROESSNER

Economic growth will be slower in July, In fact, some minuses will show up on the charts.

Summer doldrums usually begin in July. Vacations, holidays and plant shut-downs slow business. American.s in foreign 'countries will be spending a billion dollars they might be spending at home. The upsurge in travel and resort spending will only partially offset the loss of sales of goods and services elsewhere.

The settlement of the steel contract without a strike will further slow business. Many Industrial companies, hay e been stock-piling steel in fear of a strike. Now they will begin to live off their Inventories and or--ders will diminish.

GRIM PICTURE . ......

Steel magazine reports that shipments will decline 15 per cent luring July, but that steel-making will decline more. "Operations are already trending downward. They will decline this week (June 24) for the fifth consecutive time. Production will be less thatn 2.4 million tons."

This is the lowest rate since March. It added: "Look for a , 25 per cent drop in production" in July.

The immediate result of the steel contract will therefore be less, not more, employment. Those 13-week padd vacations 'will not start until next year. This year there may be many upaid-vasations for as many weeks.

The auto Industry Is also at ebb tide. The factories are changing over for 1964 models, the prospective customers are waiting to see what they look like before making commitments.

However, this Is a season of lesser model changes. When major changes are in the works, shoppers tend to hold off longer. It'*s a good guess that .the pickup w begin soon after the new models are unveiled. ^ MORE UNEMPLOYMENT ....

Unemployment will appear to rise in July, but the increase will be nominal. Since calculations are from mid-month to mid-month. the July figures will show a sharp Increase in those

unemployed who were graduated from school since June 15, and the many youngsters^ of college and high-school ages who are seeking summer work.

Actually, the increase in the number of ti jads of families who are without jobs will be proportionately small.

On the other hand, personal Income will hold high during. July, largely because of automatic raises provided by union contracts. The increasing number of persons on vacations and the increasing length of vacations. will pour spendable money into travel, hotels and motels, resorts and related Industries.

Spending for boating will reach another new peak. Govmment outlays will continue strong. Farm income will start to rise, although the seasonal peak wtl not come until later. But farm-'-ers, sizing up crops, will be in a position to borrow against lu-ture revenueand to spend'It. Despite polls to the contrary, consumers still seem to be in a spending moodas witnessed

by the Federal Reserves reports on rising department store salesand there seems to be no lessening of consumers to increase their instahnent obligations.

OUR SMALLER AUTOS MUST BE LITTLE BIGGER "Ive always said Americans would go for small cars if they were big enough." the Old Pro-motef declared on his visit today. "I read that the 1964 compact cars will be larger than ever, perhaps aa large as tho smallest standards. he went on.

"You wont be fooled." I n-marked. ; i

"No, he said, "but I hear the makers are going to bring out new smEl sports cars,'smaller than this years compacts.* "Smaller than the foreign sports cars? Tasked.

"Of course notl" be roared. ..!I keep telling you, Americana will buy small cars as kxif aa they are big enough, and tha American sports cars will hava to be small, but bigger thaa continental sports oara.**

I think I underetand.Ih.