Th'icftday, September 19, 1968

Common Sense In Their Approach

Listen To Sweet Ol Granny

There is good common sense to the approach offered by the House Ways and Means Committee tipulation that use of income tax reductions to stimulate the economy should exclude boosting federal spending in the future for similar purposes.

President Kennedys endorsement ol statement of policy, and his commitment that his administration will abide by it, provide new ground rules that should stem the rising tide of excessive government spending.

We view as completely impractical assertions by some members of Congress that enactment of the $11 billion tax reduction package should be tied to a pledge that says federal spending in the next fiscal year should not exceed a specific amount. In the first place, there are too many intangibles in operating a business the size of the federal government to predict exactly what spending should be a year or two years from now. There are also too many outside influences which may come into play at any moment which may create the dire need for drastically increasing or drastically decreasing spending.

Furthermore, ft is Congress, rather than the administration, which in the final analysis determines the amount appropriated for expenditures"in any given fiscal year. If Congress decides that appropriations and spending should be held to a specific figure, it has the power to see that that figure is not exceeded by not appropriating in excess of that amount.

There is further significance in agreement between the House Ways and Means Committee and the administration that wording In the bill will call for economy measures In government and for using

additional revenues to reduce the federal debt.

This new pact on fiscal policies between Congress and the administration places each of these important branches of the government in the position of exercising its responsibilities and influence to see that the conditions are met. It provides a foundation for moving toward a much sounder financial footing for the government and for the nations economy.

Governors Advice Is

Well Worth Heeding

Study Impact O::

!>Jew Industries

By WILLIAM A. 8HIRE8

SURVEY Results of a Bur-vey to 11 North CsroUoa coun-Um are belns used by the states IndueUr hunters as a somewhat revealing, new yard-stlek to Rwasure effect ot local sff(Ht upon industrial growth.

The 11 county survey Is being cited as further evidence that Industrial developments depends largely upon local interest and initiative.

It also reflects impressively the impact of industrialization upon the local economy.

StatisUcB were compiled in selected counties which have undertaken full or partial tax-supported industrial development programs during the past five years. Most of the survey countiM have primarily atrloul-turr^eoonwnlee. Eight are in InMCry-poor Eastern North Carolhw. Two Piedmont counties. nelttier of them heavily industrial, and one western county were included.

The counties surveyed are Greene, Rutherford. Lenoir. Granville, Franklin, Bladen Nash, Pitt, Robeaoo. Union and Stanly.

AVERAOm-Such a aurvey cannot be mtirely accurate, nor an exact measurenMnt. There are many variable factors involved In attracting and locating industry.

But Commerce and Industry officials feel the averages present a fairly rellatde picture, and that ttte average results are significant.

For example, the survey shows thit new tuc revenues derived from new and expanded industries in these counties in 1962 averaged 137,156 per county.

The average annual expenditure fcH* budgets of local industrial commissions in the counties was $19.490.

Actual vcoperij valuaUcms In the 11 counttes Increased as a result ol industrial development by an average of $3.2 million per county. The Jump to property vatoations in Um county resulting from Industrial growth ranged as high as $5.821.000 In Union. $5,337,000 In Pitt and $4.134,000 to Rutherford.

FINANCE - The survey breakdown shows local industrial development programs financed In various ways. Most of the survey counties levied a supplemental tax and this averaged 4.S cents per $100 valua-

tl(m, ranging from eight cents for a one-year program in Greene County to 1.7 cits in Granville.

Lmiolr County finances its $30.000 a^year i^cgram, used both intangibles and inventory tax funds.

Robeson County, which spends $31,000 a year for Its program, has a f(Hir cents tax supplement. Nash County uses ABC store revenue for its $20,000 a year program.

RESULTS Union Countys Industrial development program dates back to 1937 and is the oldest of the programs In the survey counties.

Union also shows the most industrial gains 22 new industries. 16 expanded industries and more than lO^ million dollars in additional Industrial investment since its program began.

Pitt ranks second in the number of new and expanded industries, with 10 new plants and 15 expansions since 1^. Lenoir began Its program In 1962 and leads in Investment In new Uidustry with $17 million in two new plants.

Greene County, smallests of the 11 surveyed, added two new Industries in the one year ol Its limited program. Robeson began its program to 1960 and has added nine new plants and had nine expansions.

DATA The aurvey also gives a breakdown on the local tax atructure, valuation of new PHHMity on tax books at 00 per cent total value, actual amount of new annual taxei collected, population, households. total retail sales, spendable per capita income and spendable income per household.

This data tends to parallel a tudy by economic researchers of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce which showed that in a typleal county 100 new factory woilcers increased:

personal income by $710,-OOO a year.

- bank deposits by $229.000. non-manufacturing (service) employes by 65.

The same study showed annual retail sales increased by $330.000 a year.

This study by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce included 11 selected counties from across the nation. One of the 11 was Ashe County, N. C:

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Negro citizens and responsible Negro leaders of North Carolina should heed the assertion of Gov. Sanford that the proposed march on Raleigh by aeveral thousand Negroes can serve no constructive

purpose.

Two Negro spokesmen who called foi^the march on the state captol said its purpose would be to ask the governor to order desegregation of all facilities serving the public and to emphasize a voter registration campaign throughout the state.

Gov. Sanford carefully pointed out earlier and reiterated this week that he does not feel he has the authority to order integration of all facilities serving the public, and that he has no intention of issuing such an order. He also pointed out that registration of voters must be done in their home precincts, not in Raleigh. Registration books throughout the state are open to all qualified persons to register.

North Carolina has moved through this period of transistion and stress without violence and disturbances of the magnitude that has rocked other states. Although relations between races have become temporarily strained in some communities, good relations between the races have been maintained in the state as a whole.

It would be a serious mistake for a situation to be created now that may lead t({ the shattering of lines of communications or stirring up emotions of the people of the state beyond the pitch that already exists.

Gov. Sanford has provided for North Carolina sound leadership and wise counsel during a difficult period of transistion which faces this state as it does every other state of the nation. The advice he has publicly issued concerning the proposed march on Raleigh is likewise sound. In the interest of the state and all its citizens, it should be heeded.

By JOHN ABNEY

Public AoDeals

'^are For JFK

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy has made a lot of use of televlslwi to get his Ideas across, particularly in tight spots. But he has been reluctant to pitch {or popular support in building a fire under Congress.

Last night was one of the exceptions when he appealed nation-wide on television and radio for a tax cut which had been his No. 1 project for 1963 until he got tangled up In fights over clvU rights and a limited nuclear test-ban treaty.

He made a similar television talk last year In behalf of his program of medical care for the aged, but two months later the Smiate killed the program and Kennedy hasnt said much about It since.

Chances are he wont have any better luck on a tax cut. The House begins debating It next week and probably will pass It. But the whole thing comes to nothing unless the Senate also approves. Theres doubt it wUl.

A big stumbling block is Sen. Harry Byrd, D-Va.. chairman of the Senate Finance Ccxnmit-tee which handles tax legislation. Hes dubious about cutting taxds while government spending exceeds tooome from taxes, as It does now.

Kennedy reaswis that a tax cut will pep up the eccaiomy by giving corporations and individuals more money to spend and invest so that eventually the government will make up for a taxxes while government spend-es.

Byrds committee, If the House approves the cut, may not sUut public bearings until mid-October or later. Even if uninterrupted they might last six weeks or until Dec. 1.

But If. in the meantime, the Senate gets into a long filibuster on Kennedy's civil right bill, which seems certain, the tax hearings for all practical purposes would be suspended until the civil "rights issue was settled.'^

The civil rights debate will be a long one.

The House Ways and Means Committee, which is the Byrd committees opposite number last week approved a cut of $11 billion, but not all of it to take effect at once. It would atart Jan. 1 and continue to pieces until 1965.

Kennedy has made more use of television than President Els

enhower to get his ideas out to the people directly, either through televised Interviews, news conferences or direct talks to the nation m sticky subjects.

Last year his appeal for the medical care program was the only full-dress effort for legislation dangling In C(gress, and he didnt do too well on that. He talked off the cuff and made' some mistakes.

But on Oct. 22 he addressed the nation on the Cuban crisis, explaining the blockade he had ordered to force the Soviet Union to pull its missiles out of the island. In an hour-l(Hig Interview on Dec. 17 he gave a report on his administration.

He talked about the state of the national eccmomy on Aug. 13 and on nuclear testing and disarmament on March 2. when he announced this counti7 was going to resume testing.

On Sept. 30 he reported to the nation on the use of U. S. marshals to compel Mississippi authorities to let James H. Meredith, a Negro, enter the state university.

The rioting mobs at Ole Miss either didnt listen to him or ignored him because before that night was over two men were shot to death and Kennedy finally had to use troops.

In 1963 Kennedy has been Interviewed on television, besides the usual qulzsing at his news conferences, but has used fewer face-to-face talks with the nation than In 1962.

His main ones were June 11 and July IK. In June he talked on civil rights after he had to federalize the Alabama National Guard to compel the admittance of two Negroes to the University of Alabama.

In July he talked to the nation on the nuclear test-ban treaty. On July 5, after returning from his trip to Europe, he made a report on his journey but this was extremely brief and had been taped beforehand.

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"The most convincing argument in favor of the proposed $100 million state bond Issue for public school construction can be summed up in less than a dozen words: Without state aid. counties will not meet urgent school building needs." The Smithfield Herald.

Strength For Today

BY EARL L. DOUGLASS IT CAN OCCUR

"Bring my soul out of prison!"

This is the plea of the i>salm-1st (Psalm 142:7) and everyone ctf us at times has felt that his soul was Indeed to priaon. Sometimes It has been In the prison of depression and melancholy. Sometlnies we have walled al^t with temptations 80 great that apparently we could not escape. Sorrow comes down upon us at times, aiid we feel that we are Indeed to a prison house.

One of the great bondages of modem times is morbid fear. Sometimes we know what we fear, sometimes we do not but we continue to have anxiety, worry. Intense fear. The sdul, and the mind, are In a prison

house.

We can emerge from this prlio bouse because the promise of God Is that He wUl deliver us. If we are In the prison house of gloom, we can ask for His light and be filled with peace. If we are so burdened with sorrow that we feel we cannot go on with life, we can ask the help of him who called upon the heavy la* dened to come unto Him that He might give them rest.

Even death is not a castle of captivity. R Is only a thoroughfare through which we pass into the realm of eternal day.

Oet well to mtod that the univei-se is all the Ume working to our benefit. God would lead us into light, peace, comfort, and the firm assurance that all is welL

Greek Legend In Italian

MEXICO City This Is be-coming a very cosmopolitan city, what with the Italian film spectaculars betog imported for the movie fans.

And we mlgbt as well review toe one we saw last night, which was Mr. Steeve Reeves bearing the honors In The Trojan War.

This seemed to be a story about the Greeks and Trojans who were always fighting about somethtog. And since even the Greeks spoke Italtoa, the best we can offer Is an uneducated

guess.

At any rate there were many historical characters involved Including Ajax, Achilles, Uly-sess, Helen of Troy, Paris and another fellow whose name I forget. Maybe it was London.

The best character was a gentleman named Hector who got killed a few moments before the movie started and they opened with a four second scene of him lying there late and departed. End of Hector.

The Greeks lived inside a pole stockade, which they probably copied from a John Wayne west

ern, and the Trojans lived to a nice city built out of stones on top of a hill where they could watch the Greeks.

And they were eternally going to each other and making long speeches to Italian which wound up with a cavalry charge and the Greeks on the shan) end of the spear.

On one occasion Mr. Reeves visited the Greek camp and they egged him Into a fight with Ajax who was the strongest man to the world. Naturally Mr. Reeves picked up some bumps but finally he lited Ajax over his head and flung him out of the ring. Which was a terrible shock to the Greeks.

The villian was Paris and he did not like Mr. Reeves. But he liked Helen of Troy who seemed to like everybody to-cludlng Mr. Reeves who would have no truck with her. Paris was a sneaky young fellow who did cowardly things and said words to Italian that sounded a llUle uncouth.

And one day when Mr. Reeves and Achilles were engaged

Other Editors Saying What Direction?

(Greenville Miss. Delta Democrat Times)

Men operate on the basis of what they know or think they know, and what they know best is what they have experienced themselves. Consider, then, the impllatlon of the following facts developed by U. S. News and World Report to a recent article. In the United States today:

Seventy-one per cent of all Americans have been bom since World War I. Some 64 per cent do not remember either nation - wide prohibition or the worst days of the great depression. There are 48 per cent of toe total population who do not remember World War II because they were too young. And 22 per cent of all our people have been bom atoce the Korean War.

The Implications to these figures are startling. Soon we will have a majority of the voters (tf this nation who have never known either war or depression, unless one or the other reoccurs. As voters they will be operating from an entirely different set of Impulses than those which Impelled their elders.

In view of these figures, It Is not hard to understand why It la fashionable to some quarters to be a young conservative, and to sneer at the many depression - bom programs which have become a part of the national fabric. Those who haee never experienced war find it easy to speak lightly of

its possibility, swallowing whole the jingoistic propaganda which makes it sound like a glorious adventure Instead of the nasty, terrifying, vicious business that It really Is.

On the other hand, a majority of all the voters will soon be people who will have never known what it meant to live in a nation to which the federal government played a small role, or to which massive armaments programs were unknown and a large standing army was considered a threat to the nations political stability. They will not know how disastrous government efforts at Imposing collective morality on the people have been when the people did not believe to it.

What kind of people will these new voters be, these men and women who were brought up in an era when the federal budget could be measured in and around $100 billion, when prosperity was general and continuing, and when the nation was armed to the teeth with weapons of wholescale destruction which may believe can be used lightly?

The logic bom of history Is that to general they will not be much different as human beings from those who have lived to other tmes. But as political creatures there Is every reason to believe they will be different from the Americans of even 30 years of 20 years ago. The pressing question is, how different and in what direction?

Opiniona 'h Briei

Rats In

Human

Affairs

to mortal combat on the battlefield. Paris slipped up behind a tree and tried to give Mr. Reeves an arrow to the shirt but the arrow hit Achlllee In the foot and killed him before he ccHild even make a speech.

Since Italian Is all Greek to me, the (mly reason I could see for this was that Paris didnt care for Mr. Reeves and he was a lousy shot.

At any rate, the Trojans gave the Greeks an awful walloping and tore up their stockade and chased them down to the ocean where they got to some boats only they sneaked back later.

Well, you know about the wooden horse they made. And the Trojans pulled It Into their home town at the Orders of Paris and much against the will of Mr. Reeves who was arrested by some of Paris troops and escorted to Jail, also against his wll.

So this red-headed lady named Cassandra who ran around to a black night gown and predicted things said there was death in the wooden horse.

And sure enough, that night when the Trojans all had hangovers the Greeks came out of the horse and made a mess of the city. They set fire to everything and there were some gorgeous scenes of the stone buildings and stone columns blazing while everybody screamed and ran. Mr. Reeves got out of jail and caught Ajax and broke his neck, then left town with what was left of to Trojans.

A Spanish sub-title said they went to a new land and founded Rome. But it didnt explain what happended to the Greeks.

Apparently they scattered all over because we have a number here who operate restaurants which they probably picked up (rff their O. I. Bill.

"Buck-passing, with the President at the end of the line, is a familiar American practice, if a fellow loses his job, its because the President doesnt have the economy moving as it should. If a man cant pay his debts. Its the administrations fault; It ought to have the country In better shape." The Diurham Herald.

"The State Prison Department Is doing all It can to help its youthful felons get the education they didnt get before they went to prison. That is purely a late stitch in time, but it is better late than never.* The Raleigh Times.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Although I am one of those glandular optimists who can forget the troubles of the world after a good meal (as the preacher says, "sufficient unto-the day to the column thereof"),. a couple of things heve been bothering me lately even after the supper dishes have been put away.

The first particularly worrt some item Is the discovery, by Dr. Malcolm C. McKenna, a paleontologist on the staff of the American Museum of Natural History to New Yoric City, that man and the rat are descended from a cwnmon ratlike ancestor. This may let the apes off the hook, but It can hardly improve the "image" of our own species. The idea of having a monkey for a forefather used to bother the Victorians, but what would they have said if Darwin had claimed that rats and human beings were basically related?

The damaging thing about Dr. McKennas discovery is that it makes a lot of things devastattogly clear. Mwikeys are amiable, chattering creatures, given to mimicry and tha enjoyment ol peanuts. The monkeys habits, if they have been passed on to humans, may explain Broadway actors and the gustatory choices ol baseball fans. But rats! If they are the ancestors of a species that goes to for political persecutions and dropping b<nbs on each other, it explains all too much.

The d;her thing that Is bothering me may seem a little odd when placed to the context of Dr. McKennas theory about the relationship between rats and humans, for it amounts to a lament that we may be deprived to the election campaign of 1964 of the opportunity of behaving like rats. This deprivation would be a natural consequence if the Republicans nominated affable Barry Ooldwater, to oppose that channtog Democrat, John F. Kennedy, Nobody, It seems, can dislike Goldwat-er. and If there are people who dislike Kennedy they have little chance of getting past a press corps that persists in liking the President very much.

In the 1960 campaign a lot of people built up a real head of steam against the personality of Richard Nixon. For myself I never could see the reason for the animus. One of my cherished memories is of an hours conversatimi with Nlxcm about Whittaker Chambers or "Uncle Whit, as Nixon called him, Nixon was both humble suid objective about the help which Chambers, a really selfless man, had given him towards understanding the ins and outs of Communism. Just how anyone could hate a man who possesses both humility and objectivity has always mystified me. Nevertheless, there was something about Nixon maybe It was a sense of remoteness that annoyed reporters. It would be a canard to say that journalists took it out on Nixon directly. But they didnt trample anybody to the rush to discover good things to say about Nixons candidacy.

Dislike of Nixon made 1960 a horse race. But assum 1 n g that Goldwater opposes Kennedy to 1964, how is anyone going to work up the sort of lather that is seeded to turn a Presidential election Into a real contest? Everybody, Including John F. Kennedy, loves Barry and his family and his SAri-zona background. And it works the other way around, for Barry himself has frequently spoken of the Kennedy charm. This charm. This charm, surprisingly, comes through even in the pages of Victor Laskys anti-Kennedy book, "J. F. K.: The Man and the Myth. As for the charm of the Kennedy family. It jumps right out of the page* that are devoted to Jacquelins Kennedy to Marianne Means fascinating "The Woman to the White House.

With charmer against charmer to 1964, just what will people do to clear this acid out of their systems? What will they do to keep their adrenal glands working? How will they get rid of thetr frustrations? How purge themselves of their natural aggressiveness? ?

The "liberals" need somebody to hate, whether It is a Hitler, a Franco or Just a Joe McCarthy. Certain members of the far right have a psychological need for villains, too. But If neither side nominates a per-(Continued On Page 8)

Consumer Credit Is Watched

By ELMER R0E8SNER Consumer instalment credit continues to increase steadily and Is betog watched carefully for any signs of faltering.

Vacations and automobile purchases to July helped to Increase the total of instalment debt outstanding $572 million, to $50.8 bllUon. Even seasonally adjusted, the July increase amounted to $501 million.

If last year Is any indication, automobile purchase^ and pre-Christmas buying from now through December will add more than $2 billion to Instalment credit, putting the year* end total well over $53 bUlioo. NEGATIVE FACTORS The long term rise to instalment debt has been accompanied by two distarbtof trends;

1. The percentage of the average consumers income used for repaying debts has increased. Immediately after the war. individuals used only 4 percent of their income to repay debt. This jumped to 12.7 per cent

of Income by 1956 and now stands at 13.6 per cent. It will probably soon rise to 14.0 per cent, which is a fair . size chunk out of anymes earnings.

2. The average length of Instalment loan maturity has been Increasing. Where an individual borrower may once have taken out, say, a 24-month loan, he Is now ^ore likely to take out a 30 or 36-month loan. For example, the percentage of new car loans made by commercial banks with repayments scheduled for more than 30 months has risen from 53 per cent in 1959 to 71 per cent last year.

Some economic commentators say lending Institutions, to an effort to keep their money busy, are pushing too hard and ' making some dubious loans. Tlw two developments cited above would tend to corroborate that view. DELINQUENCIES. ASSETS

But two other trends appear to indicate that Instalment loan quality remains good:

1. The number of delinquencies that is, borrowings that are repaid after they are due, or not repaid at all have not increased appreciably. For the last four years the number of delinquencies has varied within a narrow, low range of from 1.5 to a little more than 2 per cent of loans outstantltog. If they had shown a notable increase in the past year or two, it would confirm fears that instalment loan quality was deteriorating, and the warning flags would be up. Actually. the ratio of the number of delinquencies to the number of instalment loans has declined fractionally in the period.

2. Consumer liquid assets cash and resuly money available from bank accounts, savings funds and the like has risen much mwe rapidly than instalment credit. Consumers now have approximately $275 billion they can lay their hands on quickly If they have to for paying off the slightly more than $50 biUion to

loans they owe.

The net effect Is a stand-off. The economists and lending to-stltuticms will continue to watch carefully for any sign of a new trend.

PACIFIC STATES TO HAVE FASTEST LABOR GROWTH

The Pacific states Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington will lead the rapid rise In the Amerlcal labor force, a National Industrial Conference Board study Indicates.

While the U. B. labor force will Increase some 25 per cent this decade, the Pacific states working population will rise 43 per cent, the NICB states. Lightly p<H>ulated Nevada, however, will have the biggest Increase of all: 76 per cent. It will be followed by Florida with a 67 per cent gain.

The present number of U.S. workers Is 73 million. By 1970, it Is expected to reach 85 million.

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