Saturday, Anrust SI, 1963

Should Continue Action On Fees

*# )a^ You Cant Cut My Allowance!

Downward revisions in special school fee* made to be made up somewhere in the tax structure. On by the Board of Education of the Greenville and Pitt the basis of $120,000, it would take somewhere in County administrative units for the current school the neighborhood of 17c addition to the tax rate on year reflect an approach to this problem which a county-wide basis to provide that amount of reve-should be continued in future years. nue. Perhaps school and other officials feel it would

It is significant not only that moat children aiv not be wise to try to undertake such a drastic change paying less in special feeTthia year than last year, suddenly. \

but a more uniform schedule of fees from school to Even so, members of the school boards should school in the administrative units is a step forward, move diligently toward a further reduction of there On the basis of special fees that were collected special fees before another school term begins a from students in the city and county school systems year from now. It will be about nine months before last year, it was estimated that an additional budgets for the 1964-65 fiscal year are finalized. $120,000 for school operations was put into the local Between now and the time work begins on the school programs by virtue of these fees. This year, budget, serious study should be accorded the school with the downward revisions, the sum is expected fee problem with an eye to a systematic downward to he somewhat lower. movement of special fees each year until the mini-

These special fees, of course, are used to pro- mum is reached, vide materials, supplies and other items that are not It may not be possible for the fees to be elimi-

paid for out of the regular tax-supported school nated entirely, but they should be reduced far below

budgets. That is, these fees supplement the tax revenues with which the schools of the city and county arc operated.

even the level established for the new school year this fall.

The matter should not be put aside by the

Were the fees suddenly eliminated entirely, school boards until juat prior to school openings a either the school program would have to be cur- year from now when it may be too latebecause

tailed in some manner, or the revenue would have of budget consideration.sto make further reduc-

Badg

'ey Makes Campaign Solo Pointing

^ Of Test

tions in the variety and amount of special fees collected from youngsters attending public schools in Greenville and Pitt County.

Br WIL1.IAM A. SHIRES

BAOGLEY A car wind* aionf a mlaty mountain road in tho hour* of early morning. lU driver ia akme,

R baa rained th* nigtai before and tber* la fog on t h alopea. The sun ia juai coming over the hilla and the comilelds and gardens are green and dewy.

A woman walka down to the roadalde to get her newspaper and the ear alows down. The driver saya hello and introduces himself.

Wont you come up to the house? the woman aaka. My husband would like to m e e t you."

The man, tall and relaxed, gets out of the car and walks to the bouse. He shakes hands and chats tar a while with the couple on the porch of the little mountain lune. Then he gets back in the car and drives on.

The Isnky figure with shock ef graying hair falling over one aide of hia high forehead is Nortb Carolina'! only announced candidate for governor, Don Badgley of Oreensboro.

ALONE Badgley la out campaiffning and has been for nearly two months.

He haa bti shaking hands. visiUng In court houses and at country stores and service sts-tione and stopping along roadsides to say hello.

For the past few weeks he has been in the mountains, touching towns and crossroads hundreds of miles frwn Orsens-boro, driving between such places as BakeravUle and Red Hill. Burnsville. Simice Pine and Boone and making talks In Lenoir. Jefferson and Marlon.

He's visited about 20 counties and estimates hes met and talked to 700 or 800 people so far.

It's a one-man campaign. From all appearances. Badgley la quite alone.

His handshaking tours have received little attention, and his cancttdacy haa been an but ignored within his own Republican party. But Badgley doesnt mind.

Rs a matter o myself and the people, he says.

PEOPLE Badgley, a native New Yorker transplanted to the South, likes pe<H>le. Re Is friendly, easy-going and energetic.

Meeting people and shaking hands and asking for their support and vote proved successful for Badgley in his first try for political office, In the OOP sweep of legislative seats in Guilford Cwinty less than a vear ago. His first term in the General Assembly cwjvinced Badg-ley that he should plunge deeper into politics.

He announced for lovemor as soon a.s the legislature adjourned. He packed his car with

maps and stickers and stacks oif cards and stationary and be* gan driving.

Asked if be is spending much of his time campaigning, Badgley answers, chuckling, only about 80 per cent of it.

He has i^edged to visit st many of North Carolinas 100 counties as he can before next l!H>rlng. Im going to do my best. he says,

And, you know, the people

Toward OK Ban Treaty

Action by the Senate P'oreign Relations Committee in approving by a vote of 16 to 1 the limited nuclear teat ban treaty points toward early and overwhelming approval of the treaty by the Senate as a whole.

It ia, in our opinion, the wise cour.se for the Senate and the United States to follow.

Obviously the treaty has its shortcomings. It app^Ste^lt.** !! one ^rutai 4s by no means as firm or far-reaching agreement as crossroads, he says, he met s desired to control nuclear weapons as well as nu-

By JOHN ABNEY

7he Old Order Chanaeth

nnountain man who rebuffed him flaUy with the statement. Im a Democrat." Badgley drove on to the nearest town, Burnsville, and paticed his car on the square.

No sooner had he stopped than a man approached asking. are you the man Im looking for?" Badgley Mid he didnt know. Are you the Republican fellow from Guilford County running for governor?" the man asked. Badgley said he was.

Well, I was looking for you. I'm a Republican and we want to meet you and aay were for you. the man said. We heard you were coming this way. He went on to explain that the Democrat Badgley had met on the rural Mrvlce station had telephoned his Republ lean friend In town.

HELP Badgley is financing his own campaign effort. I havent asked anyone for help, he aaya. And he indicates he Isnt Inclined to accept any offers of financial help.

I dont believe fai It. he says. I dont want any obligations, no strings.

Ive been encouraged by the people Ive met, Badgley Mys, and I try not to let anything else discourage me. Those who snub him, he says, really are hurting themselves.

Every morning when I get up. I get down on my knee.! by my bed and pray. I pr\ for strength and purpose in what I am doing.

BELIEF Badgley believes firmly in estabUaMng a strong two-party system In North Csr-olina and feels that 1964 will see it accomplished.

His candidacy for governor is based on belief that Republican Rep. Charles R. Jonss will choose not to run for governor next year and that there will be a Republican primary He stated at the outset of his csmpaigm that if Jonas becomes a candidate for governor he will step aside and suppmi Jonas.

But Badgley believes thst a statewide Republican primary will develop without Jona.s - and that campaigning by OOP candidates will develop and strengthen the party at the cnnnty and crossroads level Thats where candidate Badgley has started.

MEXICO CITY - Life in the

clear testing. It lacks guarantees which would generate a more enthusiastic endorsement by the Ameri- nietropoiLs is not what it used 1 . to be. A few years back if

can people. , vuti ventured out on the streets

Even with these shortcomings, it affords a at 8 a.m. the only people you

better ground for understanding and further nego- saw were getting home from

tiation in the field of nuclear weapons and nuclear ^

^ VI. u j 1 1- i.1. enough cars to count until

testing than haa been reached previously by the around lo a.m.

major nuclear powers in the world. Although there the old order changeth.

are differences of opinion among our own nuclear At 7 a.m. these days the streets

and military experts regarding its effect upon crowded, steady streams of

American defen.ses, it is the majority opinion that

the terms of the treaty will not be detrimental to the

military posture of the United States of the free

world.

The treaty is a positive step for the worldand for the United Stateswhich should be ratified by the Senate.

Not All Blame

ror 1

licans

autos charging down the thoroughfares and taxis are hard to find.

We are too close to the United States," my barber confided. We have acquired many of your lamentable customs and the city has become frantic with activity.

In the days of leisure he opened his shop at more or le.ss 10 o'clock and read the morning papers w'hile waiting for the first client to come in about noon. Today, they are standing at the door when he sleepily insei*ts the key at 8

oclock,

An unholy hour. he complained. And I agree.

The city has become a curious mixture of leftover customs and new schedules.

This creates an atmosphere of confusion until you leara who works from when to when.

Some shops open at 11 a.m. and the iron curtain comes down promptly at 6 p.m. Do not stand beneath the curtain when they start pulling.

The metal curtain is another disappearing item. It reportedly came into being during the revolutionary period when gentlemen on horseback rode into town and helped themselves.

Now you got glass fronts and all night lighted interiors like up home. Merchandise on 24-hour display.

Banks operate from nine to one. Lawyers have one set of hours and doctors live in another time zone.

The Lady from Puebla knows

a lawyer who gets to his office about 1 p.m. and leaves an hour or so later. Then he Is back around 7:30 or 8:00 and holds forth until 11 p.m.

Some doctors start in mld-moming and (three hours off for lunch > close shop at six sharp. Others carve people up during the morning hours and sit in the office from 5 to 9 p.m.

The most regular part of all this is the irregularity. An ancient glow In the /light of progress.

For this irregular reason, you now find the streets fuU at most hours of the day and night. The variety of hours that keeps everybody coming and going.

People used to get up late, eat late, sleep the siesta and go to bed late. Now they have shifts, the ones who cling grimly to the old school tie and those who bear the new schedule like a cross.

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BY JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Kennedy has a tendency to political amnesia when his Demcrata join Republicans to do him In. He finds it easier to remember what the Republicans did.

He said once Republicans have made no a political program, but so have a lot of his Democrats.

The country has In effect three political parties Democrats, Southern Democrats, and Republicans Just because the Southerners have gcme against him so many times.

They operate under the Democratic label but can make the Democratic partys campaign promise.<i lo<^ like balloons in a tack factory any time it suits them, which Is often, to clasp hands with Republicans.

1. Southern Democrats against Kennedys civil rights piogram from the .start are expected to try to filibuster it to death.

2. Just last week they harpooned him when the House voted to cut foreign aid $585 million below what he asked.

Kennedy that same afternoon nushed to denounce the Republicans for the blow. But they could not have done It If a big bunch of Democrats hadnt joined them.

The Democrats have such a majority over the Republicans in both houses of Congress they could put thj'ough any program Kennedy wanted provided they stuck together even if all the Republicans voted no. They dont stick together.

In the 435-seat House, with three vacancies. Democrats outnumber Republicans 256-176. In the 100-seat Senate the lineup la 67 Democrats, 33 Re-publlcan.a. On foreign aid in the house this was how the voting went;

Against the cut: 188, 172 Democrats. 16 Republicans; for the rut: 222, 66 Democrats, 156 Republican.^. If only 18 of those 66 Democrats had stuck with Kennedy tHb vote would have been 204 for the cut but 206

against. The over-all aid bill then went to the Senate on a final 224-186 vote.

There would have been no cut. All but three of the 66 Democrats llnging up with the republicans were from Southern or border states. This defection of the South has haunted Kennedy. There was a shining example of It last year.

That was when the Senate with Democrats outnumbering Republicans 64-36, killed Kennedys program of medical care for the aged. That majority of 28 could have swamped the Republicans on any issue.

But this happened on medicare:

The vote to kill was 52-48, with 21 Democrats and 31 Republicans doing the killing. All but 4 of the 21 Democrats were Southerners. If Just 3 of the 21 had stayed with their paity the bill would have carried.

Kennedy made this a campaign issue in the 1962 elect-lois, blaming nearly all the Republicans and a handful of Democrats who joined them for his defeat. It was more than a handful. It was almost a third of all the Senate Democrats.

Not long before the medicare defeat Kennedy made an ad-ml.sslon at a new\s conference which pretty frankly acknowledged the Democratic party is not the single party it pretends to be:

We should realize that .some Democrats have voted with the Republicans for a good 25 years, really since 1938. So we have a very difficult time on a controversial piece of legislation in securtng a working majority.

Came the electlon.s. They didnt change much. The Democrats retained ju.st about the .same huge majorities, although Kennedy had asked for even bigger ones. He ruefully admitted any time Ive offers a contro -versial bill hell win or lose by three or four votes.

Still, Kennedy wont fight with Congi-es.s. He never has. He ju.st complains occasionally, particularly about the Republi-(Continued On Page 6)

Other E(ditors Saying NATO

i o J: oreiront

(Christian Science Monitor)

One of the less expected consequences of the nuclear-test ban agreement with its strong implication of relaxed tensions between the Soviet bloc and the Western Allies is the reemergence of NATO as a more considerable force in world affairs. Suddenly to several of the European allies, NATO appears not less but more neces.sary, and their attitude is being belatedly reflected even in American official thinking.

It is an interesting spectacle to see: an East-West agree

ment (a) helping to repair the damage recently inflicted on Western unity by politics within the Common Market; (b) adding a double reverse twist to French - German relation.s, NATO being the forum in which these tw'o powers are drawing together again after recent misunderstandings over Common Market and Atlantic defense developments: and <c)

the American-British partnership working again and attracting European continental support away from Gaullist exclu-slonism.

The inorement to Westein unity is still partly prospective. But one of its ingredients, more effective consultation within the NATO framework, Is alieady present. It results from West German anxiety about the future cour.se of test-ban diplomacy. and Bonn's insistence that NATO have a bigger hand in it. On this the French find themselves in agreement with the West Germans and able to accept what has been called German nudging of FYance under the French-German pact toward a claser relation with

NATO.

The need for caution already has been illustrated twice by the Soviet negotiator at the Geneva arms control conference. Semyon K. Tsarapkin. He has attempted <1) to link the question of safeguards against surprise attack to withdrawals of foreign troops from Germany and (2) dismantling of Western bases in Europe. Both of these unlikely developments, if they were brought about before peace had been guaranteed by some better means would spell serious danger to the We.st.

For the moment the chief function of NATO may appear as that of brake on test-ban enthusiasms. But if that were to be its only influence. NATO discussions might soon be discredited in the eyes of peace-hungry people eveiTwhere.

How to move on toward surer safeguards of w'orld peace and nuclear security, as well as when to go slow, must be the objective of NATO discu.ssiOn. Mere vetoes of troop withdrawals. of reduction of bases, or even of disengagement W'ill not be enough. Constructive counterproposals will be looked for by a Western public once again aware of the big role the Atlantic Council can play.

At the moment it is not sur-pii.sjng that the NATO assignment i.s that of watchdog on the status quo. But even the cooperation necessary to make the watch effective should help create the habit as Noi*wavs Dr. Lange calls it, of consultation, a custom which in time would make a tremendous political as wTll as military power out of NATO without increasing its threat to anyone.

Several years ago, the Mec-Ican government stepped In with Its own Alliance For Progress,

Huge, multi - family housing projects have suddenly appeared all over the city (after considerable construction work). And slum districts are being ripped out to make way for cross - town speedways and more housing centers. The exshanty towners are moving into modern community apartments and working in new industries popping up here and there.

That is what some of the Latin American experts have de-.scribed as spreading socialism. The Government bilds houses and gives medical service to its poor.

Not being up to date on political theories, I do not know what kind of an ism this is. But health conditions and the standard of living have improved tremendously and us capitalists remain staunchly capitalistic.

The only hardship is the Increasing tendency to move faster and work regular hours with no siesta here in the city. It is a sourse of great depresslwi for me and the barbers.

Opinions m Brief

Weve been running over the list of things the government taxes, and whether you know it or not theyve missed a few tilings. Its a pretty .vloppy way to run a country. For example, theyve taxed everything about an autftmo-bile. but theyve done very little about pedestrians. Thorp (Wise.) courier.

Maos

Strife

Policy

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1963, King Feature* Syndicate, Inc.

To Americana, It is rather obvious that the Negroea puah for protection o their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment is part and parcel of the as piration of a people fw acceptance as members at the^grat U. S. middle class. The Negro wants to be like everybody else, a perswi who can own property, ^ak as he wishes, be served a cup of coffee anywhere without icountering animosity, and get a Job without reference to matte of pigmentation.

To certain areas of the outer world, however, the surge of the Negroes has proletarian overtones. This delusion has had its most prwiounced effect in Red China, where, according to a report printed in the weekly bulletin put out by the Taiwan Chinese in New Yorit City, the Mao Tse - tung gof^ ernment has set up a special agency for the purpose of promoting racial strife hi the United States and elsewhere. Ma* evidently takes his leaderehlp of the worlds colored people with great seriousness for hs has put his new agency under the direction of three extremely Influential Red Chines# Pooh-bahs. They are Liu Nlng-i, chairman at the Communisl All China Federation of Trad# Unions, Liu Chang - sbeng president of the Red China-Af-rlca Friendship AesociaUon, and Liao Cheng - chi, chairman of the Overseas Chines* Affairs Commlsslai.

The speedy devel(vment el the struggle of American Negroes, said Mao In a 1,000-word statement accimipanylng the announcement of the crea^ tion of the new racial strife unit, is a maniestatl( of the sharpening class struggle and national struggles wlthlj^ the United States. . .1 call upon the workers, peasants, revolutionary intellectuals. . .to unite against the racial dlscrimlnstlon practiced by U. S. imperialism and to support the American Negroes in their struggle against racial discriminati(xi. As for the Kennedy civil right# program, it Is, to Mao, two-faced tactics. . .an attempt to luU the fighting will of the Negro people and to deceive the masses throughout the country. Mao Is not against ao-cepting help from enlighten^ ed whites, but Kennedy, to him, is not enlightened.

Maos statement was issued ostensibly at the request of Robert P. Williams, a North Carolina Negro, who, according to the Taiwan Chinese news bulletin, "has sought refuge la Cuba. Since many <rf Cuba's Negroes are risking their lives daily to escape from Pldel Castros paradise, Mr. Williamss choice of abode can hardly be taken as a true expreseion of his races opinicm or Its will.

What impresses one chiefly about Mao Tse - tungs reac-ti onto the American Negroes* demands Is its archaic flavor. The Red Chinese dictator sees the world through the spectacles of forty yeara ago. Thos# were the days when our Loth-rop Stoddards and our Madison Grants were writing books that bore such titles as Th* Rising Tide of Color and "Th# Passing of the Great R a c e. In fighting a war against ths Nordic supremacist, HlUer, however, Americans rather lost their taste for books that envisioned the future as a great war of the races. Even the European and American Communists, though they manifestly continue to fish in the troubled waters of local racial demonstrations for rights, gav* up on the apocalyptic Ideas that Mao Tse - tung is now embracing. A generation xgo the European and American Communists were calling ter self - determination of ths American black belt. But when it became clear to them that only the Black Muslims want sell - determination** In a belt (rf their own, tbs European and American Ckxnmu-nists decided to maks a light-about-face and return to t h * w^orld of reality.

Maos decision to try to msks the world a racial shambles Ignores the whole underlying motive of the American Negro organizations that aro behind the current drives for equality. The Negro wants to bs integrated in a social context that Is entirely nSHIdl# class. He wants to bs abls to live in a suburb, to have a ro-(Continued on Pags 6)

Fax Cut Will Be Little And Late

Strength For Today

BY EARL L. IM)Ur.LA.S.S SPECIALIZE ON THE (lOSPEL

The Christian preachei makes great mistake today when he doffs his hat and stands humb ly before the scientist ajid the psychiatrist. Sometimes, as we listen to a certain variety of preaching, we wonder what has happened to the Chilstlan gos-pel. It Is all there in the twenty-seven books of the New Testament; but Instad of sticking to his .specialty which is revealed in religion, the pieacher .sometimc.s goe.s out of his way lo show that he can hold up his head inlellcctually in the company of the scientist and the p.s.vchlatiist.

Bad casr.s of .sm am irlrnrd lo the p.vyrhialri.vt for treat ment. Eve the Ten Command

ment are subjected to objective research, such as goes on in the laborator>. Many a person, in pulpit and pew. Is more interested In what a survey of moral conditions discloses than he Is in the unchangeable moral code which the Bible sets forth.

The scientist has his field, the psychiatrist has his, and the preacher of the gospel has his The scientist deals with matter. the psychiatrist with states of rnond. the praacer with the revealed word of God. Let us stop trying to make religion .scientific. Lot us be willing to u.se the realistic word sin to doscrit>r our derelictions, In-.stead of trying to cxcu.sr them in tcrm.s of Inner .suppre.s.sion and fni.stratinn. The cospel of Chn.st meap.s liiTcity of everyone who accepts It.

Hy ELMEK KOESSNER

The Kennedy proposal for a cut in Federal income taxes is in a sorry state in Wa.shingtoii, It has already been postponed from Jan. 1, 15N)3. to Jan 1, 1964. The amount has been .scaled down from $13 billion to $10 billion. And many Southern Democrats have indicated that they will not agree to the tax cut unless the President agrees to modify his civil rights program.

So the Federal income tax cut will be little and late, and by the tbne it becomes etfec-tive all the saving-^ will have been wiped out by v.srs in stale and local taxes.

10 PER( ENT GAI.N A YEAR IN TAXE.S

The.se taxe.s have bt eti ri.siiiu rapidly and they bid fair lo rise rvni faster in the nmiitli.s and yrar.s ahead.

A reeetif anal.\^s!.^ T. Ui,- fjn-rraii nf flic ('rn.sii- tii.it

stale and Im'al ta .e.s, v hu h totaled $32.4 billion in Ittj'J, were

$43.0 billion in 1%2. Thai's a gain ot $10.6 billion, about ;i() per cent, in three years.

At that rate, state and local taxes will be doubled by l!)70, if anybody can afford to pay them.

And at that rate, a $10 billion Federal tax cut starting next January, will be quickly offset no later than 1%7 by corresponding rises in state taxes.

PEOPLE TO RI.A.ME

State and local officials arc not entirely to blame for the sharp rise in their taxes True some of them are building le-gion.s of employees who will he political worker.s in years to come. Some are .seeking to aggrandize lhem.>;clves to add luster to their image as l)64 Presidential or Vice Presidential caiKlidales. .Still others ha^ve biTii inipregnated with .sociali.s-tic philn.sopliies tliat make till ii con. idi'i' fhrni tlvp.s a.s lUMr tatlf I'.s of towii Jnps or siaU.s, cliaigcd with the cx-

telusion of governmental care to all who want succor.

But most of them agree to higher taxes because they face the tremendous pressure of voters who want more schools for their children more parking spaces for their cars, more highways for the times their ears are not parked, better commutation to work, more parks, more playgrounds, better police protection, more magic to cure delinquents, more hospitals and, yes. more phy-chlatrlsts.

OFFKTALS IN BIND

Now. as you may notice In the news from Washington, they are under pressure to find more jobs tor minority groups. The problem is simple: find more jobs for Negroes, Puerto Ricans. Indians and other ml-noiitics without taking away from while voter.s.

'iti- only aii.swrr is more l.i\> That.^ the only way .'-lair.- and siihdivi.slon.'; can make more jubs for minoriUea

without taking Job# away from whites. Governors and mayora cant rely on Industry or business to provide those Jobe. Industry cannot add minorities to its Payrolls without either dropping whites, increases prices or taking less profits, non# of which is practical. So high-er taxes It probably will bt. CIGARETTES TARGETS IN RECENT TAX RISES

States, seeking higher revw-nues. have been sniffing at cigarette smoke and smoken In 15 states are paying hlglm taxes this year.

Commerce Clearing House reports that IS states now levy 8 cents a pack. While New York state kept the tax at 5 ceota. New York City doubled Its city sales tax to 4 cents, making New Yorkers pay 9 cents. Connecticut levies 6 cents and New Jer.sey 8 cents, so there Is Ut-tie profit in smuggling.

There are no state taxes la Colorado. North Carolina and Oregoo.

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