Saturday, November 14, 1964

Supply And Demand Out Of Kilter

has gone into Stabilization this year to see clearly ^t^^.t^^^efo^opTon tL^

'"'"wL\has"hrrprned oV?ht hSge would also be folly to think that Stabilization

at- a ^ oa UM* hu^ ftUn haD- could absorb in the future years anywhere near the

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the Eastern Belt sells by far the largest volume of warehouses from the 1964 crop, flue-cured leaf, however, its influence on the overall picture is much more pronounced than that of other

belts in the flue-cured area.

Through Monday, as the sales season had all but ended on the Eastern Belt, Stabilization had received 28.7 per cent of the total volume of leaf sold in the belt during this season. It was never envisioned Stabilization would receive so large a portion of any one crop of tobacco under the production control and price support system. Althoup there may be many reasons for the situation, in the final analysis it boils down to the fact that the supplv of tobacco and the demand for it among purchasers has gotten far out of kilter . . . and this has happened in spite of the annual re-evaluation of acreage allotments in an effort to control pro-

''Hello, Comrade! Well, Hello, Comrade"

Since the acreage control program is the only one available for the 1965 season, there must be a reduction in allotments in an effort to bring production more in line with the anticipated demand for tobacco next year. At the same time, effort must be concentrated toward developing for the 1966 season a more realistic system of production control than the acreage allotment system.

Shouldnt Forget Budget-Balancing

The

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boosting N.C. "ndustry Appeal

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

PROJECT The far-flung and economically import ant trucking industry of North Carolina has disclosed plans for a novel project to boost the states industrial appeal.

It is putting its combined research facilities to work assembling basic data and information concerning each of North Carolinas 100 counties.

It plans to publish the information In booklet form through the North Carolina Motor Carriers Association during 1965. TWs will be made available to the indi^^ual counties, to the department of Conservation and Development, chambers of commerce, merchants associations, industrial develop ment councils, state officials and others.

NCMAs executive vice president. J. T, Outlaw of Raleigh, says the data will include the basic information that prospective industrial develwers need to know.

This includes populatitm, land area, retail sales, employment, motor vehicles, households, buying power, wht^esale sales, family Income, highways, trucking facts, farm income and tourist volume.

GROWTH A progress report this week on the Research Triangle Institute reflects rapid growth of this independent

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scientific research organization within the past five years.

Since shortly after its inception RTI has grown from an initifti staff of about 30 to a cwnplex of facilities handling research contract volume of more than $3.4 millicm a year Es staff now numbers 225.

Research In RTIs eight labrateles and divisions spans a full range of the physical sciences, mathematics and statistics, economics and engineering.

Woit Is sponsored by industrial (M^anlzations, by foundations and by such federal agencies as the Defense Department, NASA, Atomic Energy Commission and others.

RECOGNITION In addition RTI and the entire Research Triangle concept have advanced rapidly In attaining recognition In the field.

Por example, RTI is the only TJ. S. research organization to

have two members of its scientific staff selected to attend and international scientific conference in Japan next w'eek.

The two from RTI are Dr. Ralph Ely, director of RTFs measurement and controls laboratory, and Dr, Vivian T. Stan-nett. associate director of the Camille Dreyfus laboratory for poljmer research.

They were chosen by the Atwnic Energy Commission to attend the sixth Japan conference on Radioisotopes as part of a five member team of U.S. scientists.

LOCATION Announcement also was made this week that the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man has selected the Research Triangle Park for location of its permanent headquarters.

Dr. J. B. Rhine, world-famed parapsychologist and founder of the Parapsychology laboratory at Duke University, is exeuctive director of the Foundation.

The Institute of Parasycholo-gy is the first branch of the Foundation which was established two years ago to provide an independent base and focal point for increasing world wide research about man and the mysteries of the nature of man.

The principal fund of the Foundation should reach $5 million in the next two years.

Initial plans call for construction of a 50-acre research campus and one building, with additional twildings to be provided over a 10 year period.

Gov. Terry Sanford, making the announcement at the annual meeting of the Research Triangle Foundation, said the expanded research In parapsychology and related scientific areas would bring international fame and recognition to the area.

BOOKS The D. H. Hill Library at North Carolina Stat$ has added a collection of volumes expected to be of great value to researchers working in the field of public education. The collection included bound of books and rare periodicals is Included In more than 1,000 volumes from the personal library of the late Dr. Eugene C. Brooks turned over to the Hill library. Dr. Brooks was the fifth president of North Carolina State and a former state superintendent of public Instruction,

The collection Includeds bound volumes of the Journal of North Carolina Education which Dr. BrocAs founded and edited for 17 years. These periodicals and other volumes contain a wealth of information on education in the state and nation from 1906 to 1923.

Dr. Brooks was a native of Greene County. N, C.

While we are pleased to see President Johnson formulating plans to further reduce taxes during the coming yean it is also important that the administration formulate plans to move the govem-ent closer to a balanced budget for the coming fiscal year.

When the income tax reduction program was proposed by the late President Kennedy, it was pointed out that the rdtrction in tax burden would stimulate the/economy and get the nation moving forward at good clip. The first phase of the income tax reduction program has gone into effect, and the nations economy is moving along at almost boom levels. It may be expected that the economy will be further stimulated as the second phase of the income tax measure begins to take effect next year.

Now there comes word that President Johnson has made the decision to recommend a reduction in excise taxes next year. This, of course, would be a welcomed follow-up to the income tax reductions that already have been approved.

But coupled with these tax reducing programs designed to stimulate the economy, there must be By HAL BOYLB greater care to bring the budget back into a balanced position. W'hile federal tax revenues are being temporarily reduced because of the rate reductions caution must be exercised to avoid excessive deficit spending for federal programs.

As the Johnson administration moves to further reduce federal taxes, it should move with equal vigor to find areas in which federal spending can also be

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Johnson faoea an ahnoet bm { possible task In hto efforts ! define for hfanaeif a **eeDa> i sub that win piwaerwi what H bbvloasly a gennlBa Ba .eC Ckxxl Pedlng.

The dtvlsiveiieaa that li 'Im herent in any daelataHBtlriBf must certainly rode ery quickly In LBJ*a flnt year ti the White Rooaa <a Ua ewm, 1

Middle-Aged All Alone

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reduced. Congress may not be as receptive to cutting hand today from^the spending as it will be to reducing taxes, but its middiuage pe

our guess that most American citizens are anxious dncle Sam has laws to safe-

for the government to move in the direction of a guard children. He has Social

balanced budget as rapidly as it is reasonable to

do so.

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Security and welfare programs for the aged and needy. He protects the widow, the manufacturer, the cattle rancher and the farmer. He extends aid to college student, the veteran even the Indian.

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But America still has one orphan that no government local, state or federal is rushing to protect. That Is the middle - aged persons. He is the Forgotten Man to Congress, his state legislature, and to City Hall.

When you get right down to it. the midde-aged man Is pretty well forgotten by everyone else, too.

No national day, week, or month has been declared in his honor. No statues to him have been erected in the

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By HARRY KELLY WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnsw is, or soon will be, poring over a batch of special reports he will use in charting the course of his own administration and the nation in the years ahead.

Prom them Johnson intends to draw up the blueprints for his legislative plans that he will hand to Congress in his State of the Union address in January.

The reports are being drafted by almost a score of task forces he assigned weeks ago to such long-standing problems as education, transportation, the urban jiunble, care for the elderly, the economy and others.

Many refer one way or another to his version of what he calls the Great Society. a concept he first discussed publicly last May in a speech at the University of Michigan.

Abundance and liberty for all with an end to poverty and racial injustice is just the beginning and the places to start to build this Great Society, he said, are in our cities, in our countryside and in our classrooms.

Much of his stress was on the turmoil and problems of the growing, tangled cities the slum, overcro w d e d schools, snarled traffic, housing and he said in the next 40 years we must rebuild the entire urban United States

But the solutions, he said, would not come from a mas-idve Washington projecft but required new concepts of cooperation a creative federalism between the national capital and the leaders of local communities.

So far few details have leaked out about the task force.s progress. One group is reportedly weighing the pros and cwis of various tax reduction

plans. Another is said to be studying the possibility of hitching Social Security payments to ups and downs in the cost of living.

Much of such social legislation for aid to education, medical care for the elderly through Social Security, urban affairs, for Instance have hit hard walls of opposition in the past.

Many Republicans and Democratic conservatives have stormed at the hazards of big government and big spending.

But this time. Johnson has a running start.

His programs stand to receive the wannest reception in Congress of any presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelts in the 1930s. Not only did Johnson win the presidency on his own with a landslide, he has a Congress where the Democrats have a top-heavy majority In the Senate and will rule the House with their biggest majority since the New Deals high tide in 1936.

And one of the first battles for the new Cwigress after It convenes in January will be over medical care for the elderly. For years Its passage has been blocked In the House.

But this time administration leaders think theyll get It through.

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A mosquito is that small insect God designed to make us think better of flies. Wichita Democrat.

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(Christian Science Monitor) President Johnson has written his own mandate on domestic policy. He presented himself to the electorate as a moderate Democratic conservative. He was elected on that basis.

He is not a Southern Democrat. They stand to the right of the moderate Republicans whereas he is somewhat to their left. Nor has he shown himself to be a liberal Democrat in the ADA sense of the term. He Invited Senator Humphrey over into his camp.

Some political writers are saying that Mr. Johnson will take his large electoral mandate and turn sharp left. We hope he will not. It was not that kind of mandate. And apart from some of his programs like Medicare which we have opposed he does not appear to swing far from center. He has played more the role of conciliator than crusader.

It was natural during the campaign for the (H>Positlon to suspect Mr. Johnson of turning right just to get elected. It is important after he won to hold him to what he pledged. The latter position seems more likely to be productive. Mr. Johnson seem.s to think that a Great Society comes from releasing the energies of the citizens to cope not only with their own needs but with the great needs of a prosper

ous but still seriously imperfect society. But he also appears to recognize that while government can set directions and try to lift people out of their purely selfL^ concerns, it cannot do the job for them. We wish to encourage him on this line.

He has said that he takes economy in the federal government seriously. He made cute ki expenditure in his brief period of authority over the federal budget that could become impressive if they are continued. He sought friends in the business community by arguing for private enterprise and the kind of public climate in which it can flourish.

We trust he will not want suddenly to rum away from all this. He could. He has the votes. But among these there are many conservatives with reservations, like the Republican who said, I voted for him and then I wrote him a letter sa3dng I was glad to be able to do this, but I didnt want him to take my vote as a mandate to go left.

Lyndon Johnson present e d himself to the country as a man of the political center, wishing to reach the broadest possible national cimsensus. We hope he will want to do just this and feel the country will want him to do it. These are progressive, not radical times.

parks, and no boulevards or one-way streets have been named for him. Nobody even bothers to write love songs for him any more.

The only (xies who bother to pay any attention to middle-aged people, are doctors, dentists, tax collectors, used car salesmen, and other pocket pluckers.

Why have the middle-aged fallen to such low estate?

There are more voices raised in alarm over the plight of the whooping crane than over the plight of the middle-aged man; fewer worry about his future than worry about the fate of the bald eagle.

Of course, if all middle-aged men organized and marched on the nations capital, they might change their lot. But this is highly unlikely, because it is the nature of the middle-aged man to be disorganized. not organized.

He tends to be solitary, brooding and introverted. He is not given to group action except at lodge meetings, and makes a poor rebel In righting his wrongs. He even hesitates to sign a petition to get a' new sewer in his neighborhood.

Experience also has made him somewhat suspicious of the benefits (me can expect from politicians. Just how, he reasons, could the federal government help a middle-aged man?

No purpose would be achieved by having the government pass a protective tariff for the middle-aged man, as all he manufactures are sad noises. He also Is too young for a government dole, and too old to enjoy a government scholarship to Harvard.

The truth is that the g(W-ernment, which has shown It can be all things to almost all people. Is stumped when It comes to doing s(nethlng for the middle-aged man. About the only possibility is that It may make him feel better, but no government has been able to do that yet.

Meanwhile the middle-aged man goes it alone, and wonders if maybe that Isnt the best way, after all.

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What If the PrealdBiit'f atl^ ' tud to be la ralation to tbi steel Industry? The steti companies have been maUnff goo4 profits, and David McD(XteldA union boys, jeatouo of whai tM , automobile worken have juM gotten from General Motors, 1 Ford, and Chrysler, are at ready eyeing the cash boxes of .S. Steel, Bethlehem, and the rest. If the steel workers are to be held to raises that como within the guide lines set by ! Washington in the Kennedy A(t> ministration, it win certainly ' use up some of the Good Feel- ! ing capital that Lynd(m Jotani* ! son has deposited in the labor bank.

In aU probability the ste^ wage guide lines wlU be breachr ed to make them conform with tiie new lines established by Reuthers agreements with the auto companies. Then wo shall see whether the steel companies are permitted to raise their prices. If they aro to be restrained, It wlU certainly take s(xne fast talking ia advance by Lynd<Hi Johnson to accomplish this without spending most of the Good Feeling capital that he has placed in the business bank.

The point is that LBJ hasnt any single mandate to do something about steel that has the endorsement of botii the steel companies and the steel union, let alone the consumers of steel.

The same InabiUty to defino the consensus must bedevil LBJs men In their attemnpts to beat out a satisfactory policy in South Vietnam. The public, throughout the long months of the campaign, was pretty apa^ thetic to the issue of c<mtain-ing Communism in South east Asia. If the situation could bo held at a point of stalemate in South Vietnam, doubtless a President of all the people could maintain the Era of Good Feeling by just letting things drift along. But a decision to stand pat in South Vietnam is not In Johnsons hands. Wo have just been made the victim In that part d the world of something that has been called, quite accurately, a little Pearl Harbor. Those B-57 planes that were destroyed by Viet Cong mortar shells can be (juickly replaced by a na-ti(m as rich as ours, but it is not merely the material results of the Communist strike that should concern us. The worst thing about the little Peart Harbor Is that it proves that the whole society of South Vietnam is just as open to enemy infiltration as the North Pacific Ocean was open to the Japanese fleet In December, 1941. How else. Indeed, could the Viet Ctmg have moved 81-mm. mortars to a spot within two miles of planes that were on alert status?

The point, here, ts that LBJ must manufacture his own mandate to do something about making South Vietnam safe for advisory missions. But If the demands of safety Involve cutting the lines of Communist In-(Continued On Page 6)

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About the only time the average child just picks at his food Is when you take him to one of those restaurants that offer all you can eat for $2.00.Hartford Courant.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WE CAN AVOID IT

We ponder sometimes the tragic results of misunderstanding. A statement only half heard or comprehended festers in the mind as a .slight or Insult. People are sometimes married to each other for half a century yet never seem to be able to understand the basic motive underlying a spouses life. Children often believe that their parents are hideously unjust. Fathers and mothers tear their hair over what they consider the stupidity or evil of their childrens lives. Yet if everybody could sit down and come to a complete understanding of the purposes of others, much misunderstanding would largely be eliminated.

But understanding is not easy. No matter how much two people love each other, there are times when they get com

pletely tangled up In ndsun-derstandings which they themselves cannot see but wh 1 c h may be perfectly apparent to others. Sometimes an employee goes on for years hating a boss who really Is worthy of respect and obedience, but every tim the boss and the employee come together they fall In the area of communication.

Nothing is more tragic In life than that shocked moment of awakening when one realizes that over the decades perhaps he has misunderstood someone or some circumstance and by so doing has missed much of lifes happiness. We never understand and seldom do we recover from the shock of some tragedy or loss of opportunity which came about through mlsunderstanning.

Avoid misunderstanding. It can be avoided if we use our beads and have courage.

By ELMER ROESSNER The election of Ljmdon J(rfin-son wlU probably do much to maintain the high level of retail sales for a long time to come. ^

Many people regard the election as a promise of continued prosperity, as an assurance of higher wages, as a guarantee of social security and a hope of medicare. These blessings, although not spelled out in contract form, are reassuring. With both the Inunediate and long-term future apparently taken care of. Americans will be under less compulsion to save and under greater freedom to spend both their cash and their credit.

ECONOMIC EUPHORIA The September survey by the University of Michigans Institute of Social Research reflected that feeling. True, the election was still In the futui e. but the people who responded In the survey were. It seems now. largely supporters of Johnson. In September. the ln.stitute reported, a substantially higher proportion than three or twelve months earlier expressed n opinion that during the next five years they could look forward to good times, and a substantially low

er proportion thought that recession and widespi-ead unemployment would be the rule during the next few years.

A public that feels like that will increase spending, increase charging and mercase commitments on instalment payments.

A Fairchild News Service survey showed that merchants generally think the election will Improve business conditions. They also think that the next Instalment of the tax cut in 1965 and the probable cuts in excise taxes will boost sales even more.

BOOM IN ALARM SALES Here are more look-aheads into the business future;

Burglar alarm boom: The theft of the Star of India and other recent sensational burglaries, plus frequent robberies in residential neighborhoods. Is b(X)stlng the sales of burglar alarm equipment In museums, jewelry establishments and homes. Smart alarm salesmen watch for reports of house burglaries, then try to sell alarms to homeowners in a large radius The nearer a home is to the scene I of the robbery, the more likely is the posslbUity of a sale.

Note that burglary insurance salesmen are not so fast on the follow-up. The rise in burglaries is making theft insurant unprofitable and salesmen are not being encouraged to push such policies. ^

Higher meat prices ahead: Importation of Australian and New Zealand beef and lamb Is being held back to avert retaliatory action by the U.S.: the year-end carryover of feed grains is expected to be the lowest sln< 1957. These add up to higher meat prices in 196.5.

Auto hopes dimmed: The

long General Motors strike and

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between Dec. 23 and Jan. Look at the calendar.

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the new Ford .strike are clouding the Industrys hope of an elght-milllon-car year. The Thanksgiving and long Christ mas and New Years holidays will further cut supplies. Not many cars will be tJiroed out

OLD PROMOTER PLANS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FOR TEENS When the Old Promoter walked in today be had that old glint in his eye and soon revealed his new project.

The government is helping finance some housing developments for senior citizens, which is one of the worst categorizations I have ever heard. 1 am trying to get government money for a teen-age development. be said.

"H will have a central rumpus room with a built-in rock n roll band, television >-ooms. a movie theatre, a snack u."* and a soda bar. There will ko be padded cells for the few , who want to study.

There will be ' sound>rortf walls throughout, and a thre*-foot thick waU around the pn-Ure devel(Himent.

Sound.'i w'onderful. 1 said, But how are you going to induce famines with teens to move ln.

"Induce them? he snnrted Induce? Theyll he sen trnced!

Hop' the government ccme throuah.

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