Thursday, March 5, 1964

Impatience Can Only Be Expensive

Americans are hearing and reading a lot of -passing out candy to the children, shaking hands, ispeculation as to the future of U. S. policies in South and going among the people outside of the capital Viet Nam. - city.

These potential actions range all the way from (Students of anti-guerrilla warefare insist that carrying the war into communist North Viet Nam a government must have support of the people be-to withdrawal and ^neutralizing* the strife-torn fore it can'hope to fight a foe that poses as the only land. I true friends of the people.)

To all of this we contribute one word: The government in Saigon still has an army that

Patience. has an even greater potential than when the con-

Admittedly the war is not going well. flict began; and, there is no disputing who has con-

Admittedly we are up to our ears in commit- ttrol of the skies over South Viet Nam. ments in Southeast Asia and the world in general. Patience and time are uncertain resolvers of

Admittedly the French lost their war in the knotty problems. One cannot rely on delay to let same area against similar guerrilla tactics. problems, solve themselves.

? On the other hand, we are not in the same por But the problem in South Viet Nam suggests sition as was France in those hectic times. that, given time, we may see a clarification of the

It is important, we think, to remember that if popular strength of the Saigon government and bring the war in South Viet Nam is to be won or lost that out weaknesses broadly rumored in the North Viet-it is up to The government and the people of that namese war effort; thus more clearly dramatizing country. The decision is not ours to make. the correct action American strategists can take.

There is plenty of room to hope that American It is not inconceivable that at a later date we contributions toward fighting the w'ar have not been may find it more opportune to seal off the Viet Nam wasted. ^ borders or even bring home the price of war to those

For instance, the new ruler in Saigon is actively who are supporting the guerrilla campaign, seeking support of the peoplecampaigning as Whatever may emerge as the most desirable or through he was in the New Hampshire GOP primary logical step, impatience now can only be costly.

Ready For The First Jump

Industry Anc.

inventory lax

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

TAX Ask commerce and Industry officials why they urge repeal of the states $12.5 mUlion^a-year Inventory tax year after year and they cite a ratio o fourteen to one.

A study on which the repeal case is based indicates that local jTOvemmental units forego potential property tax revenues at this steep i*atlo each year because of the inventory tax

The figures, tliey say, dont lie.

The samt study shows that In one recent year, 1962, the state might have added $35.6 million to total personal income except for the Industry-deterring tax.

Yel, the local governmental units, the counties, stubbornly refuse to give up the inventory levy.

Opposition to repeal has been unyielding In session after session of the lenislature even when, in the 1963 General As-aembly, the state offered to make up the actual tax loss to the counties for at least two years.

REPEAL - The fight for repeal of the Inventory tax will continue.

The State Board of Conservation and Development, heeding the warnings of its industrial experts and researchers, made this clear in a firm policy action at Its recent winter meeting.

CSiD officials say repeal of the inventory tax remains a No. 1 legislative goal for 1965.

With competition for industry becoming more and morfe fierce, the states industry-hunt-ers label Inventory tax repeal a must.

In addition, why do we continue to bite the hand that feeds us, asks one highly placed C & I official. Manufacturing Industry in North Carolina already accounts for 58 per cent of total personal income, amounting to nearly $4.5 billion a year.

Without industry in North Carolina everybody in the state would have 58 per cent less Income, the official says.

BURDEN - These officials aay the inventory tax levied by counties and collected by the state, then returned to the counties, is a burden on existing industry as well as a major factor in keeping new industry away.

Russ Hanson, newly appointed director of Commerce and Industry, says hLs divisions iMeltion strongly in favor of repeal is unaltered.

Hanson adds that it should be clear that repeal of the Inventory tax Ls not a concession to new Industry since it

would benefit that already established.

. STUDY - These officials are firmly convinced that the study pointing out the effects of the inventory tax is sound.

The report on slgnifcance of industrial growth in North Carolina, prepared by Lawrence B. McGee, chief of C&Is technical studies section, says this;

In 1962, North Carolina lost at least six major plants in which our inventory tax was a dominant factor. These companies would have paid taxes on a combined $15 million of inventory, had they located In North Carolina.

The revenue which would have been thus derived would have been $111,200.

Value added by manufacute of $37,740,000 was lost by the six companies not locating in North Carolina. This is 1.48 per cent of our total value added by manufacture in 1981, and results in losing approximately $65.5 million total personal Income, the report said.

Then it adds, "this personal Income normally would return $1,626,000 annually to governmental units in the form WX)perty;only taxes or times inventory only taxes.

EFFECTS The study also looks at effects on North Carolina governmental revenues of 165.5 million in total personal income and arrives at a total general revenue estimate of $8.320,000 thereby derived.

This included $7,107,000 from all state and local general revenue sources and $1,214,000 from federal tax sources. It could have put nearly $700,000 each into welfare and health and hospitals.

FIRMS The compan i e s lost in 1962 included an office machines plant employing 1,500 workers with a million investment. Others were a sjmthetic fibers plant, a textile finishing firm, an Industr i a 1 equipment plant, an instruments concern and a knitting mill.

In the past few months, a large industrial prospect was looking at a property a vacated airport site in a county near the South Carolina line. .

They must have asked 30 times about the Inventory tax, a C & I official said. "They never gave us a specific reason but the fact is that this plant was recently located a few miles from the site they were looking at but it was in South Carolina.

South Carolina Is now' one of the 34 so-called free por* states which exempt all or almost all of the industrial items in its borders from ad valorem Inventory taxatlonr

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Prosaic Illness For A Hero And A Legend

To many, the illness of General Douglas MacArthur comes as a distinct shock.

As a hero and a legend in his own lifetime, it come.s as letdown that he is today afflicted by a pro.saic ailment. Something more dramatic was to be expected.

The General used to say that as an old soldier he would just fade awaybut he never quite made it.

Trouble was, he lived too vividly in the minds-of too many millions of pef?f)le.

A little over a score of years ago Americans looked on (general MacArthur as a winner. Even in defeat he wore that mantle; and with eventual victory there just wasnt anvthing the popular im- Clay, the heavyweight agmdtion could add to his image. . Si

Hes 84 years old, now; more gaunt, grayer; Army. If Mr. clay holds to

but he .stands straight and tall the way heroes are form, this may present cer-

suppo.sed to be. tain problems to the Army and

His mistake.s have been long since forgiven and It w?take ySS

foigotten, best remembered now is a long life of now to a u. s. Army training self-discipline, dedicated service to his country, and base where a First Sergeant is talking to his commanding

officer.

I cant take it any more, Captain. Youve got to relieve me.

Whats the trouble. Sergeant?

Its Pvt. Clay, sir. Hes driving me nuts. Every morning he gets up and says to me. I am the greatest. I am beautiful. I

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I know its not pleas ant. Sergeant, the Captain replies, but you really cant expect me to relieve you because of that. c.You dwit understand. Captain. Theres more to it than that. Just the other day we were on the rifle range and I was trying to explain to him the Importance of being a good marksman. He said, I dorlt need a rifle. I can beat anyone in the world with my hands. Just tell the Russians that Cassius Clay is In the Army and they will shiver and shake. I will slaughtr the enemy. I will make mlnce-meat of them. Send

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson either overstated the case when he spoke of how much Americans are beloved or the anti - American outbursts by (^her peoples since Jan. 1 were Just lovers tiffs.

The latest hostility to this country came Tuesday night in Greece. Mobs rioting over the Cyprus civil war burned Johnson in effigy in Athens and on the Island of Rhodes mobs stoned American offices.

Greece, which has been receiving foreign aid from this country, is an American ally in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The U n i t e d States helped save it from communism after the war.

Johnson, talking to a group of government employes here last Feb. 12, said: Regardless of what you hear we are a much beloved people throughout the world. We are respected and we appreciate it.

He said this after a number of episodes in which Americans had already suffered embar-ra-ssments and worse, including death.

Last Jan. 9 In Panama, which has also received U. S. Foreign aid, plus rental for the canal. Panamanians rioted against Americans in the Canal Zk>ne.

The basic reason was resentment against U. S. control of the canal and zone. In the riot-Ings and shootings 20 people were killed, Including three Americans,

Panama wants a change in the 1903 treaty giving this country the right to contiol the canal Indefinitely. It broke off diplomatic relations with the United States and there has been no settlement yet.

In Zanzibar, which only got Its independence from Britain last Dec. 10 but where the Arab minority controlled the government, black Africans revolted Jan. 12 and set up their own leftist regime.

The Russians recognized new government quickly but the United States delayed. The Africans responded by arresting and expelling two American diplomats until this coun

try gave recognition Feb. 23.

Zanzibar is part of the British Commonwealth, *p\

Also In February in Africas Ghana the United States was v-a

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accused, by President Kwame Nkrumahs government - controlled press and radio of being behind the latest alleged attempt to assassinate him.

A mob, steamed up by the dictatorial Nkrumahs politicians, demonstrated before the U. S. i;pibassy and ran down the American flag. The government deported four American professors.

The United States recalled its amba.ssador, William P. Mahoney Jr., for consultations. He said the anti - American demonstrations were the climax of feelings which had been building up for some time.

This country has a commitment of $147 million In longterm loans to help build the Volta River dam for Ghana and an aluminum smelter to be run by private American companies for the Ghana government.

Other economic aid from this government to Ghana runs Into the millions.

In South Viet Nam, w'here the United States for eight years has pumped in billions of aid, economic and military, to help its fight against the North Vietnamese Communists, anti-Americanism took a vivid. bloody turn.

The Communists, infiltrating the capital of Saigon and using a deliberate campaign of terror by assassination, have wounded and killed Americans with bombs aitd bullets.

In Athens Tuesday night the rioters complained the United States is following a pro-Turkish Une in attempts to settle the dispute on Cyprus where the Cypriots, Greeks and the out - numbered Turks base slaughtered one another.

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(Rocky Mount Telegram)

It seems that no matter how hard we try, we cannot improve the traffic safety situation. In January a total of 3,250 persons died in traffic accidents in the United States. This was an all-time record for the month of January. The previous January high was 3,159 set way back in 1937.

As Howard Pyle, president of the National Safety Council, pointed out, the terrible truth is that neither the driving public nor the official agenc i e s charged with the responsibility for traffic regulaticm have made sufficient efforts to apply known corrective measures that can reverse this appalling upward spiral of traffic deaths.

Thus, Pyle lays the blame for the rising toll on the motoring pubUc and its elected representatives.

January was the 26th consecutive month in which the counti-y has failed to gain ground on the traffic problem. Some 240,000 persons were injured in traffic accidents during January, about half of them seriously.

The death toll w'as up 20 per cent over January, 1963. Travel figures were not yet available so it could not be determined if the increase In accidents was due to an increase in the passenger miles traveled.

Of the five cities with over a million population, Los Angeles continued to have the lowest traffic death rate. Philadelphia. ranked third in 1963, climbed to second, New York jumped from fifth to third and dilcago dropped from second to fourth. Detroit, fourth last year,, dropped to fifth.

North Carolina helps to contribute to the annuail national

toll of people slaughtered on our roads. The Tar Heel state adds about 1,(X)9 people a year. Each year some 40,(XX) people -- give or take a few hundred die in the U. S. in highway accidents. Every two decades: almost a million people.

For sheer lethal efficiency, war has never killed as many people as traffic accidents: disease Is a piker compared to our chrome-trimmed m(Kister. And the phenomenon in America is that there is no concerted outcry; no outraged public campaigns to do away with the auto or the driver or the superhighway whatever is causing this human pillage.

Actually, the problem is no mystery. The pilot In war describes the thrill of soaring, the exultant feeling he derives from great speed, of maneuvering in unlimited space. The same thrill comes to the pilot of a ship, to the engineer of a train, to every 16-year-old driver of an auto.

But only (xie man is at the ships helm; one man at the train throttle, one man driving the huge bus or flying the airplane, But what if every passenger wanted to try hla hand? This Is what happens with the automobile. And all the passengers of ships, trains, planes and busses, multlp 1 y the total and you will arrive at over 2 million drivers In North Carolina, 16 years or older all driving with varying degrees of care and carelessness: sobriety and intoxication; maturity and immaturity: s 1 de swiping each other, runni n g headon Into each (^her, skidding off highways.

That Is the audience that must be reached in the stnig-gle to educate the drivers who are at the wheel.

me to Berlin. I am your secret weapOTi."

I dont see anjihing wrong with that.

But he said this in front of the platoon and now no o n e wants to learn how to fire a rifle. In fact, theyre all mad about being drafted. One recruit said to me, I dont see why the Army needs the rest of us when it has Cassius Clay. We could have all stayed at hcrnie. The Captain says, I can see where that could be embarrassing. What did you tell CHay?' I told him we didnt w'ant him to fight the Russians. All we wanted him to do was to become a good soldier and be like everybody else.

And what did he say? He said: You cant waste me. I am too pretty. I am too great to be just a soldier, I think I should be a General,

I would look great as a General. So I told him he couldnt be a General, because he wasnt qualified. And he replied, Thats what S<Miny Liston said, that is what the sports writers said, and that is what the world said. But I have shown them. I put Sonny Liston in the hospital and he didnt mark me once. I will fight any General for his job.

The Captain starts to go white. What else did he say?

It Isnt just what he says. Hes also been writing poetry. Listen to this, sir:

The Army has had its day And now U has Cassius Clay.

Do not worry and do nu)t weep,

I will put the Russkles to sleep.

I am a tank. I am a gun. Im not afraid of anyone.

0 joy, O love, I am so great,

1 got Liston in seven and ril get Khrushchev in eight.

The Captain Io<*s at the poem. "I guess Id better talk to the Colonel about this. Where is Clay now?

The last I saw of him he was telling the reporters he wanted a match with the 82nd Airborne Division. The entire division.

Well, thank you. Sergeant. Ill tell the Colonel about your request,

Id appreclrate it, sir. Perhaps If he turns you down, you could tell him my left shoulder hurts.

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According to the almanac, the earth still weighs 6 sex-tillion, 588 quintillion short ton.sIn spite of all the new building that have been going up, Fort Myers News-Press.

Cubans

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Miami

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

Miami, Florida A year ago people in Miami and Dadt County were grousing and griping about the huge Cuban col* ony which was resisting federal attempts to disperse it throughout the country. But today fears are being expressed lest too many oi tte Cubans should decide to pick up and go.

There are* still upwards of 80,(K)0 Cubans here, most of whom want to remain until the day, presumably long distant, when they can safely return to their h(nneland. 'Ihese Cubans have been building themselves Into the Miami co onomy In a most surprising way. If they were to leave, they would tear a gaping holt In the new South Florida social fabric.

The Cubans are in a score of industries, and what many of them contribute is far from menial. They are in fruit and vegetable canning, they operate garages, they own laundries, they have become caimy used car salesmen, they add the authentic Latin note to night clubs, they chaUenge tha hamburger cult with little joints that sell delicious fritas, they have their own press (w'hich should be a must^ with American reporters who presume to keep up with Communist doings in Latin countries), they are rum distillers and importers. And they still willingly do many of the hod-carrying tasks that Americans disdain. If you want oil and gas at a gas station at 4 oclock In the morning, the chances are that it will be a Cuban who services you meanwhile using you as a foil for practicing his broken English. You will find, if the conversation goes on. that he was a lawyer back in Havana, And the cake you eat in a hotel may have been baked by the ex-manager of a Cuban radio station.

In his economic lunacy, Fidel Castro drove the cream of the Cuban enterprisers into Florida. There is Manolo Areas, for Instance, a great land- owner who, In a rapture of misplaced political idealism, help-, ed Castro to power. Areas was duly despoiled of some three hundred thousand acres. But he got away with enough wealth and knowledge to come an important part of a growing sugar cane and milling Industry in the Clewlston region of Florida.

The ex-ruler of the Cuban Navy, Rear Admiral Rodriguez Calderon, now functions as the head of a large Florida fruit canning industry, Mirta de Perales, Havanas most famous hairdresser, has don? considerably more than survive In exile with a prosperous beauty saliMi in coral Gables.

The Bacardi rum people, who were just about to put up a new building in the Cuban city of Santiago when Castro grabbed all the industry of Oriente Province, have gone ahead with their plans only the building has gone up on Miamis Blscayne Boulevard.

Tju-ee years ago a handful of exiled Cuban violinists started a small supper club for Cubans on this same Blscayne Boulevard. Called Les Violins, the club turned out to be an amusing place because the musicians also did everything else connected with running a restaurant. They waited on the tables, they parked the cars. Their enthusiasm was tremendous and contagious. A couple of them, with bel canto voices, specialized in breaking into song as they served bean soup. The club is now a large and elegant establishment, but the habits and the antics of the musicians havent changed. Even the cigarette girl Is part of the musical entertainment. It means big money for Cubans as Anglo - Saxons poUr Into the place.

Meanwhile the Miami Cubanx are quite cynical about Castros ability to pick up the economy of Cuba even with trading with one of them from the Cuban town of Guies, which W'as once the heart of a thriving tomato crating industry. It would seem to be a simple matter to grow and maricet a to-(Contlnued On Page 6)

A wag says he is real proud of his right to say what he pleases. He wishes he had the courage to do so at home. Bartow (Ga.) Herald.

Trade Press Seeks Higher Code

Strength For Today

By EARL I.. DOUGLASS THAT LINE HARD TO SEE

The word "vanity comes frcfti a Latin which means empty, idle, useless, unprofitable, devoid of worth.

Under certain circumstances pride la a virtue. It Is a good thing to be proud of our country, of our religion, of our family. of the solid and permanent achievements we may have made In our lifetime. But pride can easily slip over Into vanity that empty unprofitable thing which makes people ridiculous in the eyes of their fellows and enslaves anyone who is afflicted with it. Fortunately vanity has a built - In variety of retribution. It punishes itself. People laugh at the vah) perron. They pass uncomplimentary remarks about the difference between achievement and his estimate of his personal

worth.

But one of the worst things about vanity is what It does to the vain perron himself. To love beauty, perswial adoni-ment within reason, a home filled with modern C(nfort and specimens of artistic worth this is not bad: In fact it la good. But the empty - headed vanity which puts sw'agger into some peoples walk, fills their conversation with personal references and makes themselves and their houses simply showcases for department stores and .jewelry shopsthis is ridiculous, bad. debasing.

There Is a hardly dlscerna-ble line between legitimate pride and vanity, but it can be discerned if you will look hard enough. Legitimate pride makes us happy. Vanity keeps us from happiness and brings upon us the amused disdain of our fellows.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The trade press has taken a look at itself and found some blemishes in the mirror If not in itself.

Earlier this year, the Society of Business Magazine Editors, polled 103 of its members and found:

About 22 per cent of the editors said it was policy on their magazines to give preference to advertisers when gathering information for articles,

.About 55 per cent said advertising salesmen exerted some influence In selecting and researching articles.

.About 33 per cent said they made special efforts to publish illustrations sent In by advertisers.

.About 18 per cent confessed they permit advertising salesmen to help select new products for mention in their magazines.

ALI. I N'NECESSARY

In general. I this survey was not needed. It has been generally' known that many trade

magazines offered editorial columns for sale, and that some of the editors were prostitutes in grey flannel suits.

Some time ago a friend devised a new thing and called in a repre.sentatlve of the leading magazine in the trade. The representative was enthusiastic about the Idea.

Then your magazine WlU carry a story about it? my friend asked.

Mr. Kaye, the rep replied, how' much attention we pay to It w'ill depend entirely on how much you are prepared to spend on advertising with us.

What the survey did show, however, was percentages. In every Industry, there are magazines whose columns and headlines are for sale. In most industries there are niagazlnea that tell the truth as they see it, and no stream of advertising dollars can divert honest opinions. As the survey showed, there are at least 45 per cent of the editors who sturdily resist blandishments of advertising salesman, and as many as 82

per cent who decide for themselves which new' products are worthy of new's treatment. PREFERRED PRACTICES LISTED Not relying on percentages, the Business Magazine Editors is drafting a code of preferred practices.

Among the practices set forth are:

Articles should be evaluated by editorial departments on editorial conjsiderations alone.

.Connununlcati(xis should be directed to editors, and not through anyonne else.

.When an editor accompanies an advertising salesman on a call, he should do so "only to Interpret editorial policy and advertising should not be solicited on such a call.

.Editors should not accept payment for travel expenses from any source except their own magazines, excepting in such circumstances that a company pays expenses for a large group of editors.

.Editors should not accept gifts, except modest souvea-

Irs, from news sources.

.Editors should not undertake assignments from advert tisers of potential adverUsera.

This code should be of littla Importance to the average businessman. If he has ordinary, eighth-grade perspicacity, he can tell quickly if a trade magazine he reads Is edited for the reader for the advertiser. Meretricious gestures toward advertisers are almost alw'ays apparent.

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