Tuesday, September 22, 1964

Lawmakers Torn Between 2 Calls

Congressional leaders have their minds set on clearing out a number of measures they consider essential before Congress adjourns this fall. Many members of Congress, on the other hand, have their minds set oh campaigning from now until election day in an effort to retain the seats they now hold in that august body.

With these two divergent views it is evident that the work of Congress is interfering with the politicking of many of its members, and obviously politicking by members is seriously interfering with the work of Congress.

It would appear that the wise course for Congress would be to decide either gei its work out of the way and then go about its politicking, or to forget the work until after November and get on with the politicking on a full-time basis now.

?lain Talk On Travel Failure

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH Circling the square:

State travel officials are ai>-plauding the plain talk of Charles B. Wade Jr. of Winston-Balem in taking the travel ^ serving industry of North Carolina to task for poor service and lack of quality.

It is a point which Wade has been concerned about for swne years In cwinection with the atate's growing tourist and travel industry.

As chairman of the advertising committee of the State Board of Conservation and Development. he feels that efforts and expenditures to promote and publicize the states travel attractions are largely wasted when tourists go away gouged and disappointed.

At the same time, Wade does not feel that the state is' doing all it can In assisting local and area promotion and marketing nor in insisting on high standards of quality.

POD^rs - In his speech to

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the Travel Council of North Carolina at New Bern. Wade said bluntly:

Our food is not good enough.

We have too few Industry tours and too few. history tours.

Tourists expect cleanliness, reliability in rates, and dependability in reservations.

We do not have enough conventiMi facilities, especially along the coast.

Although the tourist and travel business in North Carolina Is approaching a volume of one billiMi dollars a year, Wade said our experience in failing to keep tourists in the state tells me that the state itself must organize and coordinate this effort. CRITICIZE - Wade did not issue a blanket indictment, but said that generally speaking the travel serving Industry is failing to realize the potential and has itself largely to blame.

Here and there we offer outstanding dining service, he said, but, gaierally, we do not have a great many places to rave about in North Carolina.

He quoted a well-known NcHth Carolina newspapers food editor who wrote that **People from all over the world rave about our scenery and our people, and why not? But we arent sending many away raving about the meals they have here.

On the matter of hotel and motel rates, Wade said the

summer of 1964 has been referred to as Sleeping Bag Summer. Could this be the result of our rate structures? He added that many of the states tourist facilities are meeting only minimum standards of the Department of Health and other inspection agencies.

COUNCIL - Wade chaUen-ged the travel serving industry. the Travel Council and the state to more cooperation and improvement of the situation.

The state, he said, must do more to help loc^ communities and regional groups in printing design, advertising advice and marketing. He urged an increase in the states travel advertising program, pointing out that neighboring states are now outspending North Carolina. He urged promotion of in-season and -out-of-season vacations.

The state, he said, must coordinate its promotion with local promotions. And the Travel Council, he said, has a great chaDenge to become truly the voice of the self-policing and self-promoting tra--vel industry in North Carolina.

BENEFIT State treasurer Edwin Gill has raised the matter of action by the Counc i 1 of State on payment of a $10.-000 death benefit to the family of slain state trooper W.T. Herbin of Raeford.

Herbin was killed on Aug. 31 and was the first state trooper to die in the line of duty since enactment of the death benefit provision by the 1959 General Assembly. This followed the killing of two state troopers in the Pall of 1957 near Rockingham and Sanford.

Gill sent a letter to Gov. Terry Sanford last week urging that the matter of payment of the death benefit from contingicy and emergency funds be included on the agenda for the next meeting of the Council of State. Ironically, Sanford received the note on the eve of the slajong of another highway patrolman, rookie trooper J.H. Marshbum Jr. near Lumberton.

NOTES - The State Board of Conservation and Development has scheduled its Fall meeting at Sedgefield Inn at Greensboro on Oct. 18-20.

State Democratic headquarters released a schedule of Democratic campaign caravan rallies in each of the states 11 Congressional districts beginning Oct. 13 and winding up wi Oct. 29. The caravan touring the districts will include the nominees for governor and lieutenant governor, members of the CouncU of State. Sens. Sam J. Ervin Jr. and B. Everett Jordan, along with district candidates for congress, legislative seats and local offices.

Asheville will be the site of the 42nd annual convention of the Western district of the North Carolina Education Association on Sept. 29.

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Lat week there were three occasions on which the Senate could not muster a quorum of its members in order to conduct its business. At least one time during the week the House could not get a quorum of its members either.

Congressional leaders are making urgent appeals to members to get back to Washington and stay there long enough to wind up the current session. Whether these appeals will bring the de-^ sired results this week is a matter of conjecture. Many members apparently feel that as long as the Senate is facing a liberal filibuster on the controversial state legislative reapportionment issue it is a waste of good time to stay in Washington rather than on the campaign trail. But without a quorum in the respective houses of Congress, even the business of the filibuster cannot be carried bn.

Before the Congressional leadership can hope to settle any of the key legislative issues through compromise proposals, they have to work out some compromise with the congressional membership to keep enough of them in Washington to carry on the business of Congress.

If that compromise can't be worked out in the next few days. Congress might as well declare a recess until after the November elections.

University Salaries Hardly Making Sense

There is obviously something out of kilter with the manner in which salaries of top officials with the Consolidated University are set. More than that, it seems to us that the whole system of setting salaries for top positions in the state's program of higher education should be carefully reviewed and necessary refinements and adjustments made.

It hardly makes sense for the President of the Consolidated University to be paid $24,000 a year when his three top subordinates are commanding salaries of 27,000 or $28,000. It hardly makes sense that some of the community colleges throughout the state are offering top officials in some of the state-supported four-year colleges more money to change jobs than the state is now paying these people in the key positions they hold.

North Carolina is experiencing a tremendous growth in its system of higher education. It is finding that in many cases its pay rates for top administrative positions as well as for college and university faculty salaries are not on a par with those in many other parts of the nation. In order to compete and fill key positions with high calibre people, there have been arbitrary revisions in salaries as new people have moved into positions that have been vacated. In some instances adjustments have been made in other comparable positions within the states system of higher education. In many instances, however, these adjustments have not been made.

One case in point is the present situation in which the President of the Consolidated University is paid less by the state than the chancellors of the three branches of the University.

North Carolina should take a careful look at the whole salary picture in its system of higher education in an effort to eliminate such illogical situations.

!-ed Up With ?ekina's Bosses

You know Fm right!

By ART BUCHWALD

Theyre At It Again

The League of Women voters is at ib again. Theyre trying to get women to vote in November. As one of the founders of the Bull Moose Party, which has been working quietly for the repeal of the 19th Amendment (we were the first to point out that women cant cook %.4 per cent of all professional chefs are men women cant sew 89 per cent of all couturiers are men women cant even have babies without help 92.7 per cent of all babies are deliver

ed by men) we have posed the question: Why should

women have the right to vote if they cant do the things theyre suwxised to do?

New evidence has been unearthed to show that the Bull Moose Party is not just whistling Dixie. A book written by Dr. L. P. Brockett, entitled Womens Rights, Wrongs, and Privileges, has become to the Bull Moose Party what the Blue Book is to the John Birch Society. Written in 1869, Dr. Brockett spelled out the many

Other Editors Saying.. Major Job Still Aheac.

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By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

WASHINGTON (AP) -While the private thoughts of the Kremlin bosses are hard to come by, it is commonly accepted as a fact in official Washington that Nikita Khrushchev is completely fed up personally and politically with the Chinese Communists.

This Insight into the mind of the decision - maker on the Soviet side reenforces the growing belief that the Soviet Union and Red China are now headed toward a final split in the fairly near future probably mld-1965 at the latest.

Khrushchev took a personal snub from 29 Chinese Communist delegates at a World Youth Forum meeting in Moscow as recently as last Wednesday. It was not his first experience. Back in 1959, he suffered the cold shoulder treatment from the whole ruling group around Mao Tze-t u n g when the Soviet leader visited Peking after his meet 1 n g with President Dwight D. Elsenhower and his tour of the United States.

Such personal rebuffs, however much they may Irritate Khrushchev, serve mainly to dramatize the kind of struggle which has developed between the two Communist giants over the last five years. For what has happened to Khrushchev personally in a few instances has happened many times in recent years to Soviet representatives at international meetings also attended by the Chinese Communists meetings of women, students, doctors, African experts. The na

ture of the session seems almost irrelevent.

Behind the contempt deliberately shown for Kremlin leadership of the world Communist movement Is Red Chinas ambition to seize control from Moscow. Khrushchev decided sometime ago, according to diplomatic Information here, that he could deal with Red Chinese rivalry more effectively if the Peking regime were outside the camp.

The conflict began to come into the open in 1959 which was a critical year in Communist development. It was not only the year Khrushchev sit-ited Eisenhower but also the year the Chinese began to make clear their resistance to Khrushchev and his policy of peaceful coexistence by espousing a militant anti-American doctrine.

In that year too, according to later Chinese claims, Khrushchev refused to assist China to become a nuclear power.

The differences have now become so great and the rivalry 60 entrenched that several developments seem reasonably speculative.

A meeting of Communist party representatives from about a score of countries is to be held in Moscow in December to prepare for a Communist world congress in 1965. The Russians Invited 25 other parties to the December confe^ ence but the Red Chinese and several others have refused to attend. These events suggest the possibility of a full break between the Soviet and Chln-(Continued on page 8)

(Raleigh Times)

The North Carolina Good Neighbor Council, and the many community relations councils in municipalities across the state, still have their major jobs before them.

Governor Sanford made that clear in commenting recently in response to questions centering about passage of the civil rights bill and the resultant opening of pubUc facilities. The Governor made the point that the State Good Neighbor Councils main purpose went deeper than just the opening of public facilities to all people. That purpose was, and is, that of encouraging employers to open more jobs to qualified Negroes, and to encourage Negro youths to get better training for such jobs.

It is important, as the Governor noted, for these basic phases of the Good Neighbor program to be continued actively in North Carolina. There would be no spectacular developments in these areas, to be sure, but the fuller employment of Negroes wi 11 have a major Impact on the entire state. For one thing, It would enable the Negro citizens to feel that the only bar in their way to bettering themselves would be their own abilities and their willingness to use those abilities. For another thing, if those abilities are used to the fullest, the economy of the State would benefit

markedly. For example, a Negro engineer on an engineers salary would be able to contribute so much more in taxes, purchasing power, etc., to the economy of the state than would a Negro janitor on a janitors pay.

There has been too much of a feeling that the civil rights law had solved once and for all the race problem. It hasnt solved that problem, and it wasnt intended to solve it. It simply had the purpose of removing some constant irritants to the Negores, removal which was very important to Negroes.

But, removal of those Irritants did little to help further the economic opportunities of Negroes. That is the main job toward which the State Good Neighbor Council and the various mayors committees across the state should address themselves. It must be a never-ending job, too, and it must be done well for It is so very important to the whole state.

North Carolina has now a well-filled reservoir of racial good will, and it is vital that this reservoir be kept well filled. That can be done if the whole community of the state, all segments of it, can see that efforts are continually being made by such groups as the Good Neighbor Council to further the economic opportunities of all our citizens.

disadvantages there were In giving the franchise to women.

Dr. Brockett maintained that women were well represented in politics by their husbands and fathers. No reasonable request made by a woman through their menfolk went unheeded. As Dr. Brockett put it, the general sentiment of tenderness and regard for the female sex on the part of men both in high and low station Is their greatest protection and safeguard, and they would lose this If they voted themselves.

The good doctor pointed out that letting women vote was against the natural order of things.

When a husband and father votes, he is voting for the family, but if women are allowed to vote they would be voting as individuals, which Is incompatible with the organization of society and subversive to its best interests.

Give women the right to vote. Dr. Brockett v->rnpd, and

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the male voter will say, I have no need to consider anybodys Interest but my own.*' Dr. Brockett believed, and his prophesies have borne fruit, that once a wwnan was given the vote the sexes would be at war. He wrote, Let man understand that womean is determined to stand for herself and neither desires nor needs his assistance, then an antagonism would be engendered which many waters could not quench.

He pointed out that if a woman disagreed politically with her husband it could lead to separation and even permanent estrangement.

Women allow their passions to get overheated and call It righteous sentiment. They make more of their idols, raise more false halos about (Continued on page 5)

Itchy-

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By JOHN CHAMBRLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Featurei Syndicate, Inc.

The question of itchy fingers is a major preoccupatlm with the politicians this autumn. Goldwater is accused of having an irresponsible trigger finger because he advocates giving the NATO commander authority to use tactical atomic weapons without consulting the President in the event that the Russians pull a surprise nuclear infantry and tank attack on West Germany. Goldwater Is, of course, merely supporting what military men Insist is a necessity if they hope to save their troops from almost Instant obliteration. The military men LeMay, Lemnltzer, Gen. Thomas S. Power could speak out on this, but they would have first to be unmus*

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zled. And someaae might, ot course, ask Ike Elsenhower, who might have felt encumber* ed if he had had to get on the phone to Washington to discuss the weather over the English Channel on Uie morning of D> Day.

Common sense which, 1 suppose, is as rare a commodity as there is should tell the American voter that Goldwater is a responsible spoken man for trained military men when it comes to advocating that the NATO command e r should have the authority to reply instantly in kind to a tao* tical nuclear attack. A soldier deprived for a critical period dt the right of self-defense with the same weapon the enemy is using cannot possibly sustain his morale if, by chance, he is left alive to fire back after an inevitably time - consuming call by his commander to Washington or Texas.

So much, then, for one Imputation of Itchy fingers. If the allegation of trigger - happin-ness in this business of NATO defense is a phony, however, there is another charge of itchy fingers that can be sustained. And that is the charge of itchy fingers on the monetary spigot.

Suddenly, in the effort to attract votes, the cry In the higher echelons of the in party is to call for turning on every spigot possible. Representativu John Dlngell returns to Washington after a close victory in a Michigan Democratic primary with the news that a few old-age pensioners saved him from the so-called backlash. So the orders have gone out to whip up enthusiasm for medicare attached to social security. It does not matter that young married couples in ttieir twenties, living on $5,000 a year, cannot possibly maintain private Insurance if the social security bite is upped to pay for the federal hospitalization of anybody and everybody In tha 65-year-old brackets wheth e r they have John D. Rockefeller resources or merely the Income of a John Doe. It does not matter that the Kerr-Mills Act Is already on the books to provide hospitalization for those who are truly in need.

The cry Is out, too, to vote for partisans of the theory that the federal government must provide mass transit for our big cities, to pump in money for education, and to clear more downtown areas for resale at a favored price to redevelopers. Governor Pat Brown of California has written an article for Harpers Magazine asking for massive* federal aid to the states; Bobby Kennedy in New York has implied that he will, if elected to the Senate, make New York Citys traffic needs a federal concern.

Now, if one. thing is plain, it is that when tax money is pumped from the states to Washington and then back (Continued on page 5)

Personal Property Taxes To Go?

Strength For Toiday

By EARL L. DOUGLASS SPIRITUAL VIGILANCE REQUIRED

Sometimes we ask the question, Why does God not bless me more? Perhaps the answer is that Gods blessing has often been extended, but because we were spiritually blind or our attention was taken up with something else, or we were thinking about ourselves, or were indulging in some sin, we did not observe the heavenly messenger when He came. We often miss Gods blessings because we are not ready to receive them. Gods message often fails to reach our ears because they are so full of the nlamor of the world. Frequently we miss the joys of the spirit because we are so fascinated by the pleasures of

the world.

To keep healthy spiritually means that we have to keep the eyes of the spirit keen and our esus &lert to the advance of heavenly things.

Sane people keep their religion locked up in the Bible. They never catch the point made continuously by the sacred writers, that the relationships God established between Himself and man in ancient times are still established and operative. The supernatur a 1 is just as real a factor in life today as it was in antiquity. These higher powers can be employed to our advantage precisely as they were'to the advantage of men thousands of year* ago.

What was ever true in the life of the spirit is true todajr,

By ELMER ROESSNER Dont IcK* now, but personal property taxes may be on the way out unless there Is some quick amending of existing law.

A new procedure well, all right, gimmick has been devised by which cities, counties and states may be unable to collect much of their personal property taxes. And many smaller subdivision depend largely on these household levies to keep solvent.

The procedure was devised by a Texas corpOTatlon which sold Its personal property to an out-of-state bank and leased it back.

Now the corporation refuses to pay a personal property tax on the grounds that it doesnt own any personal property. And the out-of-state bank wont pay taxes on it because a Fed-ersd banking law forbids states and subdlvisl()8 to tax personal property of out-of-state banks.

UP TO COURTS NOW The Dallas tax collector took the matter up with city officials, who decided to let the courts rule on the^ matter Eventually the case may get to lbs UJL fcipraais

If the top courts knocks out the law, thats the end of It. Corporations and others will simply have to pay pers(ial property taxes.

.But if it upholds the law. the entire personal pr(H>erty tax system may be wiped out and that may not be such a bad Idea after all.

If the law is upheld, corporsr tions everywhere will sell their personal property to out-of-siate banks under a contract to lease the property back. Almost all corporati(ms therefore will escape the tax.

Then individuals and families will be tempted to sell their household furnishings, jewelry and other personal property to out-of-state banks under contracts that provide for leasebacks.

The definition of persraal property differs from state to state. In some. It includes stock holdings, money in the bank and the family heirlo(Hns; in some it includes office furniture, rugs on executives floors and everything else but nailed-down productl(xi equipment.

ITS A LOUSY TAX

Some states have given up oa personal property taxes, large--Nrcause it is m louay, un

fair tax. It tempts citizens to send movable valuables out of the state on assessment day; it tempts people to undervalue their effects; It leads to brlb-ery of tax assessors, and a tough collection policy costs more than It yields. The wealthiest state, New York, has long given up trying to levy on furniture, kitchen utensils and books of trad i n g stamps (technically taxable in

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some states).

In Ml earlier day, persmial property was a principal source of revenue for states and subdivisions. But in later years governments have found that income and sales taxes were harder to evade, that their yield was automatic and far more predictable.

Today it might be argued that a business or a householder J taxed when It cams tti

money; it is taxed when II spends some of it for pers(Hial property; it is taxed again when it sells the privity. So why levy a tax in the Interim period, when the owner quieU ly enjoys the ownership of the property?

TARRYTOWN OBJECTS TO GOULD MEMORIAL President Johnson may find himself in an embarrassing position for having signed a bill to make the Jay Gould estate and its famous mansloa at Tarrytown, N. Y., Into a museum and memorial to the nofr> ed railroad baron.

George B. Case, chairman of the village planning board, offered a resolution which the trustees passed, calling on Congress to repeal the legislatton. Gould was a robber baron, not a great American. Case said, Rather than being a great builder, he was a great manipulator who raided the stock market, bought railroads to milk them dry and sell them to other thieves like himself.

Tarrytown la the hcane of several of the Rockefellers, descendants of another baron, in oU.

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