ThCTffda/, Ftbruiry 18, 1965

More Stable Structure Preferable

Viet Nam Policy Dabata

In recent years there have been almost as many reorganizations of the State Highway Commission as there have been governors.

When Gov. Luther Hodges was North Carolina's chief executive he reorganized the Highway Commission on a so-called state-wide concept. When Terry Sanford became governor he reorganized the commission in concept and expanded ta membership to 18. Now Gov. Moore is calling on the legivslature to pass a measure setting up a new organizational structure for the commission.

We have no objection to the proposals Gov. Moore has made with respect to his plan for altering the structure of this impoxtant commission. It seems to us, ho never, that a commission of such importance to the state should have a structure that is more durable than just the life of one gutematorial administration.

DmTreason for the many changes in the highway (ommissionaside from its membership from one administration to anotheris because u is

perhaps the most politically sensitive of any of the major state agencies. Almost wit^^^^

ception,the governors call for a change in the commissions structure, giving as one reason the need for removing the commission from politics. Certainly the Highway Commission should not be the political piay toy of the governor, but by the very nature of its work, it will remain a politically sensitive commission regardless of how many times it is reorganized.

The constant succession of bhanges that are made in the structure of the commission is'bound to take a toll in efficiency of the operation of this huge agency of the state government. Changes of .structure every four years or so compounds the natural unrest in the agency that comes about with the change of membership^of the commlssiojni itself every four years.

While we have no doubt that Gov. Moores recommendations w be approved by the legislature, it appears to us that fh GenefaT Assembly should give attention to coming to some conclusion as to what is the best stmctnal form for the High- 9j way Commission. If it can, the structure could provided and not changed every four years as the chief executives of the state change.

Moore Advised important Task in The

! Defer Decision selection of sheriff

By Wn f.IAM A. SHIRES

ADVISE GOV. - Dau K. Moorp, giving careful study to a proposed capital Improve-ments bond Issue, Is being nd-, vlsed to forego recommending this- method at least for the being.

It Ls being suggested that he save it as a dram a t i c, "last resort" measure later in hLs administration, in the event that the needs cannot be i. -t any other way.

Moore apparently has not reached a decision on this in framing his specific budget proposals for the legislature. There is Incj easing . clamor lor an additional bond issue of at least $100 million now to meet the "crisis" In higher education and urgent peeds of other itate Institutions.

of either- being approved, SPECIM^. -Later jn t h e coming biennium, if s t a t e revenues continue climb i n g and the state's fiscal condition remains healthy as Moore predicts such a capital improvements bond issue might be advisable.

Pitt County Commissioners have a very important duty to perform in choosing a sheriff following the untimely death of Arthur M. (Duke) Andrew's.

The sheriffs office must handle county and

sub-

In that case. Moore cou 1 d call a special session of the General Assembly and lay before it in dramatic fashion the case for capital improvement bonds to meet the higher education "crisis and other institutional needs.

But the governor is be 1 n g Jtold by some of his clcs e s t advisers that it rnay be bi tter for this legislature to tr>- to meet as_jnany of the permanent Improvement needs as po.s.*;ible within limits of anticipated l%5 - 67 revenues.

The thinking is that this course might have 4hc effect of winning widespread public support and enhancing chances of approval at the polls.

The administration c o u 1 d choose to wait until the regular sesson of the legislature in 1967.

Superior Courts, seeing that witnesses are poenaed and that prisoners are brought to the sessions.

It must seiwe legal papers for civil proceedings. Deputies must carry mental patients to institutions w'hen they are committed. Often the sheriff himself is called in to arbitrate disputes, even when no legal action is taken.

In addition to this, of course, the sheriff must furnish law" enforcement in rural areas of the county. His deputies must investigate hreak-ins,

WILI>IAM

SUlRES

Lt. Gov. Robert W. Scott, who voiced support of a capital improvcmentvS bond Is.sue la.rt weekend, said he felt that unle."! these are voted now It would be necessary two >ears from now.

COSTS Much of the controversy about North Caroll-na~s dompulsory auto^ liability insurance set - up may be traced to the Insurance IndustiT itself.

shootings, thefts and all matter oT crimes. ~Theh "gy ART BUCHWAtD they mii-rt be available to testify in court.

Pitt County has been fortunate to have a series of good sheriffs, including the late Sheriff Andrews,

Wc^'^aite glpd to see that the county commissioners p^n Ao ^nsidee--carefully all available persons before theivO'^point a new' shenfL Vance Perkins said the commissions aim will be to find the man most suited for the job.

It is our hope that the best man available will crisis in the United Stat-

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seems to be from Wall Street. Why people sell their stocks

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"Market Plummets In Late Selling Wave" "Stock Market Jitters Caused by War Scare." Everytime there is a

be chosen.

Ihe eye can see is nothing but rubble. The few survivors in the shelter have to remain underground for at least th r e e weeks until the radioactivity blows awav.

I know itit auppose.d to help the economy and all that, hut wlien I .started reading those .scare headlines, I said, Stanley. its time to get out of the market."

SUGGE.ST - It is being sug-gr.<;ted that Moore ask the General Assembly to take into account a bigger surplus ^and Increased revenue e.stimates, giving priority to the legislature program he has outlined.

Then Moore would also ask that the tegistature do the best it can toward providing both essential and most urgent building needs. In fact, a new urgent priority list of such needs may be prepared for use by the joint Appropriations Committees.

Moores advisers do not "ule out the po.ssibility of a capital Improvements bond is.sue being pre.sented to the legislature and then submitted to I he people later in Moore's administration.

They do. howe\er. raise serious question about whether it would be wise right now.

For one thing, they point out that approving a capital improvements bond Issue now would require submitting It to the people at the same time as a Moore - recommended 300 million state highway bond Issue. This would weaken, and perhaps de.stroy, the chances

Some companies favor the law. Others do not. And the result is behind - the - scenes tug of war which leads to conflicting information and exprc.s-sion of views.

One group Is objecting to what it calls "preconcclv e d notions" about the cost of au-t6 liability insurance in this state and complaints based on myth rathbr than facts." It blames complaints heard by the insurance department and the legislature on lack of enforcement at times and on "methods by a certain group of companies in a determined effort to Idll the law."

This group of Insurance industry officials bought new.s-paper advertising recently to point,out that despite a recent increa.se in auto liability rates In North Carolina, they are ".still lower than the rate.s for 2.5 of 26 sitabas *and the District of Columbia ea.st of the Mls.s-issippl river.

DEFEND Still higher liability Insurance rates may be in the offing for North Carolinas motorists, but the pre.sent set - up was defended stoutly the other day by State Insurance commissioner Edwin S. Lanier.

Lanier, in effect, told t h e Senate Insurance committee It would be unthinkable to repeal the .states compulsory liability law.

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been able to figme out.

It makes you wonder what It will be like after WW HI. We re in a fallout shelter 150 feet below the earth.

The first man says, "Well, it could have been worse. I managed to sell my Xerox at 113 -the day heiote the w jl Ktarted." -

Above the ground as far as

The .second man .say.s, "You did a smart thing. I held onto mine, and I don't know what its worth now."

The fir.st man .says, "I've alw ays been bearish about var.

By JAMES MARIXIW

WASHINGTON AP) It looks too slick to be an accident.

If its no accident, then what occurred in Viet Nam takes on new' meaning and the Red Chine.se have sought to make fools of the Russians by digging them into ugly relations with the United States.

Briefly, the point of what follows is two events ocean.s apart: Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin was in North Viet Nam when the United States bombed it: and Red Chinas little ally, Albania, tried to force an American-Soviet showdown.

The Soviet Union and Red China have been on bitter outs, supposedly because of their ideological differences: China Insists on far more aggressiveness towards the West; the U.S.S.R. preaches peaceful coexistence.

The Daily Reflector

Kosygin, after stopping off briefly in China, made his first trip to Communist North Viet Nam. He had hardly arrived when an extraordinary event happened.

Red guerrillas, warring in South Viet Nam but with their base in North Viet Nam, pulled their most spectacular exploit in. years: they attacked a U.S. air base, killing and wounding Americans and wrecking planes.

President Johnson promptly ordered some ba.ses in North Viet Nam bombed. Since that happened shortly after Kosygin's visit to Red China, this question can rea.sonably be asked: If the Red Chine.se and North Vietnamese w'antcd to put Kovsygin on the spot - he went to North Viet Nam ta state Soviet support ~ could they have figured John.snn w'ould respond to the air ba.se attack with a bombing?----

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But the split probably goes far beyond ideology. For example: tlie nationalism of the two people.s and the long - range ambitions of the two giants which lie side by side in A.sla.

The Soviet Unl(jn ha.s called a March 1 conference in Mas-cow for Communist parties. This meeting could lay t h e groundwork for broad discussions of ideological differences which have torn the Communist world apart.

Red China refuses to attend.

It would be the gainer, and look the wiser, if before March 1 something happened to drive the Soviet Union into a renewed hostility towards the West.

Rememijering what this would mean to Chlnarrltjok at this: With the Moscow meeting less than a month away.

The an.swer is yes. When North Vietname.se PT boats attacked American destroyers last Augu.st. and ho ordered their bases in North Viet Nam bombed, he told the American people: Acts of 'violence against American armed forces "must be met with. . ,po.sI-tive reply."

Kosygin's government had been trying to maintain fairly friendly relations with the United States. Bt for North Viet Nam to be bombed while he was there on an aid mission, put the Soviet Union in an embarrassing position, and particularly with the w h o Ijc Communist world.

He and his colleagues re-spcjrided with the expected: they issued warnings that they would help North Viet Nam without .saying how', when or where. All this could have been an accident.

Or -- it could have been a product of Red Chlne.se and North Vietnamese schem i n g. Then .something else happened 'Tue.sday at the United Nations where Red China Is not a member but its little Etuopean ally. Albania. Is.

Tlie Soviet Union had n n t been paying its full U. N. dues. The United States want-(Continued on page 5)

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Writers are often ahead of events. While Negroes efflrtm-size nonviolence in trying to secure voting rights, Ne g r o writers seem to be getting more and more violent in their depiction of racial situations in the United States. They should be .scrutlniyed for po.si-ble portents of things to come.

Yet writers can influ e n c e events as well as respond to them or foreshadow their direction. In the freeing of literature from old restrtctions, not only candor but sensationalism has received an advantage. Attempting to .shock the unshockable, writers have gone to further and fuither extremes.

Some Negro w'riters have joined them, perhaps u.si n g shock in the hope of drav'ing some small attention to masters toward which the majority seemed able to remain indifferent for a century. They do not want the passage of legislation to let this majority comfortably slip back Into indifference while the restoration of lights and achievement of brotherhood are far from complete.

|It could be argued that hurtan reform seldom comr , un-

want to consider wiietl.:r shock is the way to reach the awdieneo that needs to be reached.

A conciliatory insight came from an nnexpe(^d~ quarl('r recently when entertainer Sammy Davis appeared in a seri-ou.'j discussion on educational television. The cynical might say that he has a public imago now that makes conciliation the poTTtic yiing. Yet he offered ffils iiomarks in rcs-

pbn.se* to que.itioning that made know

it cT^r^he is no~TinbwJlbwing Uncle Tom. '

Commenting on one of the lore, outspoken Negro plav-w'rights, he wpndrred whether the bnital approach w as t h e way to win the ear of tlio.se not already convinced. Ruppn.se one wants to establish com-munication.s with a man and

The second man says, "Ynii mean you sold .all your stocks?" t

-^Yup^.- aiy - broken-was ag-ain.st it, buVTsaTdTTri grtXTg out,

"What did you put )'our money in^"

"Tax-free municipal bonds." A third man says. "I was lucky, too. I sold my General Motoi's at 1)7 and my Comsat at 641-2, about three hours before the attack came. My portfolio should be in pretty good shape when I get out of here," The fourth man says, "An hour before I came down here I got a call for more margin on my Hilton Hotels. I tried to borrow' some money, but all the banks had clo.scd, so I thmk I'm wiped out. 1 gnc;ss I w'ouldnt have minded it, except my broker was so na.s-ty tome over the phone."

The third man says. "I wouldn't probably have sold at all except I subscribe to a financial news letter and they had a short article last week by an economist who said that in case of an all - out atomic attack there would probably break in the Uow' Jones averages. '-The gny made sense."

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wife walking down the street, he said. The way to do it i.s not to shout a dirty word at them while they are still a block away. Instead one .says something more ordinaiy, more Inviting, .so the couple will .stop and talk.

Mr. Davis suggested this approach. even though at his show-bmsiness peak some doors are -still clo.scd rt him b'^can.se

tt^mortjaip are shocked In onf^..4je is black. We think it i.s w'ar or another. Yet->w i1"h \torth considering by writers.

shock itself heporttig a somewhat outworn literary convention, Negro W'riters may

\^hethcr black or white, who w'ant. to persuade as well as arouse.

"My newsletter .saicl uist the oppo.sJte," the socomJ man says. "It pointed out that inflation would probably set in after another war and advi.sed the sub.scribers to buy as many blue chips as possible."

"The patriotic thing, of course, in times like this i.s to buy govoiument bond.s," t h c third man sa,).-..

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!iCnow

Your

nemy

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1965, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

The sudden helghtenlng of the conflict In Southeast Asia last week caused an almost Instantaneous polarization of sentiment inside the United States that was reminiscent of be war andi peace party standoffs of the late Nineteen 'Hilr-ties. Senator Wayne Mofse of Oregon, who happened to be on a speaking expedition to New England, sat for a flf-teen-mlnute iUmed Interv 1 e w denouncing our "warmongers in the Pentagon," and the film was subsequently ru.: oft as the piece de resistance at a big peace rally in the Yale Law School Auditorium In New Haven. Conn. The Young Americans for Freedom qulc'ly got into the act w'lth denunciations of Wayne Mocses crew of "peacemongers." To a n y-one with vivid memories of tho bad blood of the late Thirtle.s, wflien the America Flrster.s and the William AlKfrt White pro-war committee member.s were bu.sy Impugning each oth-ers motives, It was alj a little ominous.

JWhat Is especially adhering

is that an internal quarrel over our Far Eastern p o 11 c y could, if events cause It to sharpen, end up by bacomlng considerably more debttltatlng than {he battle of the Nineteen Thirties. The peace party of pre-World War IT times was a mixture of pacifists and isolationists. but the vast majority were -fundamentally motlva-ed by a loyalty to the*Iand of their birth. Practically Tlone of the America Pirsters wante^.. t(> sr a Nazi victory and there

w'ere certainly no admirers of Japanese expansionism among them. When Pearl Harbor came, most the America Firster.s got into the war as a matter of course. Charles Lindbergh. for example, tested war planes for the Ford Motor Company, and later flew some incognito missions In the Pacific. Chester Bow'les bee a ni e such a big wheel In the Roofi?-velt wartime price control apparatus that everyone forgot he had been a member of America First. ,

JOHn

CHAMBERLAIN

The diffcrruce In the pr^ 1941 atmosphere and that of the present is that many members of our current peace party are at least half-convlncerl that the Russians and the Red Chinche rrprrsent "progre.s^ ism." Nobody would have sa:d that of the Nazis in the Thirties; indeed. Anne Lindbergh w ho w'as accused of call 1 n g Fascism the wave of the future,' actually said that t b Nazis W'ere the ".scum on the wave of the future " The peace party, this time, isnt railing the Red Chinese "scum," Instead, there Is everv ef fort to make it. appt'ar thatJb' nlterl State.s. by ijecomTng in volved in South Vietnam, h morally in the w-rong. Senator Morse speaks of "our outla^' -

rv In the .Southeast Asia." We are aerused of .supporting "un-popnlar, illegal govri-umenf- even in casc.s where we a'o willing to accept any govern ment that happen.-* to have the sijpport of whoever or whatev-er happens to bp the con'tltn-tive power In a land that has never known democrary.

This colnmntst rloes not go foi- the eon.'-pirary fheniy of hi.slory It is mv contention that it Is contagion, not rnn-spirary. u hicb e.vplains t e spiead of doctrine,s that pit-vent the West from making a stand for it.s own valuf's anv-wbeiT out s'dc ii,s own narrew borders. Th' conta'.ilfni s abeltefl by a domin'tnf izio- 'n th' State Itepartme-.H that li^'i nb\innsly never marie anv b"S-(Continiiert on Page 5>

New Lift 'For Domestic Boom

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOL(iLASS NEVER-FAILING

There Is an interesting story in the 17th chapter of I Kings about a widow who lived in the village of Zarephath. God commanded the prophet Elijah to go to the home of this widow and there although there was a great famine in the land receive food .which would .sustain him. "Give me a morsel of bread from thy hand," cried Elijah to the widow', and her reply was: "I have not a cake but a handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cru.se. And. behold, 1 am gathering t w o sticks, that I may g(> in and dress it for me end my son, , that we may rat it and die But Elijuh Insisted that she

make him a little cake and after that make one for herself and for her .son. "For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of meal shall not waste neither shall the cruse of oil fail until the day that the Lord .sendeth rain upon the earth nnd it happened Just as the prophet said it would. Although material was taken out of the barrel every day the quantity did not diminish.

This Is, of coipte, a power-, ful reminder to us all that God never forsakes us and that Just when we feel that the end of all hope is at hand, behold we find that the mercy and le-.sourciss of God at(* evc!la.st;t)g. Tlie handful of meal Is enough. The barrel of meal does not waste nor doc.s the cru.sc of oil lad. '

By ELMER ROESSNER

Although it was drafted for another purpose. Presid e u t Johnsons plan to curb the outflow of gold may result in imparting new life to the currrnt dome.stlc boom.

The Presidents major proposal was for a voluntary curb on loans and investments abroad by banks and businesses. Mr. Johnson troposed that banks and businesses that made mutual agreements be exempt from anti-trust laws to this end.

While the program is voluntary. the implication Is clear: unle.ss there i.s voluntary compliance. laws will be .sought to make compliance compulsory.

Spending and lending abroad for business purpose.s Is the large.st single cause of the gold drain Since the end of the war. large American corporatlon.s have bi*en building or buying subsidiaries in Europr, and fl-njincial organizations have been lending mmey for the.se pur-pose.s and for the financing of European nations.

DRAIN INCREA.SES

This has benr .stepped up .since the iormalinn of the European Cnmm(xi Market. The EGM may raise tariff barriers again.st goods made in Amer

ica, but there can be little or no tariffs on goorls made in the Common Market by American-owned compaiiie.s.

Last year there wa., a total outflow of $6 5 billion in Am ertcan capital, $z bimon rrrore^ than the year before. Thus if the outflow were cut in half, the balance of paymenls deficit would have been wiped out. since it W'as $3 billion last year. And the deficit can become demands on American gold. Right now Fiancc i.s a.sklng for. and etting gold for 'ollars.

EL.MER

ROESSNER

Of course, loans and Inve.st-meiits abroad produce returns, Whirh flow back to the United Stales. i)ut the.se leliim^^ are not .yet enough to rever.se the present outward flow. FINDING A HOME AT HOME If Pre.sldeiit Jolnison s pro r>o.sal Ix'corne.s effective, eltli-cr by jawlronc or legislative

action, up to $0..) lulliou a vear ill capital will be looking for a profitable resting placi'. and that place will have to be iii the United States.

It will mean billion,s of dol-TTs forTnvc.stment in ITewH>11si-iie.s.v^ in new planls and equipment, and in loans. It may finance vast expanslo.i of in du.S'try. huge sales campaign.';, an up-bidding of stock pnct's aiifl a po.ssible lowering of interest rates.

Another LBJ proposal, fir changes In the tax lav, to promote foreign Inve.stmcut in the United Stales, would helghtt-.i tlH'.se po.;.sibilitles.

So would the extension of tin p< nalty lax on the puicha.se of^ foreign stocks and bonds, and* the extensin of the tax to U. S. tiank loans al)road a*id longterm loans

EEEECT ON 'I RAVEL

The President s other proposal, the cut of the duty . free exemption for returning travelers from $100 whole.snle val-tte to $.50 retail, will save a Ic'.ser amount. Since $100 wholesale represents alniut $Uk> re-i-ail, this means a cut of aliniif $116 a per.son. Since there are alMjiif two and a hall million American.^ traveling In foregjn conntriex each yeai. thl.a would

icihice II). allows:','" (^f frc(' iinpoit;; li'i.m (.r,

inilllnii to al)out m'llit .i However, niany Iravi-h r.-*. .le iiol out of tlir- oiiiilr.v . lo.i;

and many mor.- do net. ns of theiiw, ,*0 th' r,;iv'ierl5 le->'

If the allowane ;.* cut. ^-car,' tiavelers wj! .-pcnd (, ; ntii-ead. Olla!-., w \\ bii.v e.ii Ml!' limit and pay flaty. A I .'-oine will Ikuk' on to tl'ir nieney,

But even it $l(') milliPi te , a year is ; pe d chi oafl, if e- \ nma.i that inucli me-e sn-i" in the Amei.cm ecmi'ni} i..-.saved. Fui.hr'iniori', wlMi j.iiv-tatlon.s nil _ bnreains sb'o.ul, many Ameidea'.s \vMl tra(el. at home, cn aMu; moif' Iwrsliur! for the travel indii.siry.

In addition, Goiigi< .ssinan William S. Maillaid, R.. Cali.1 . has Introduciol. a bill rcquii-ing loieigii cruise .'^hips to meet U. S. .standard ..' Alan.',, be said, are "floating junl.-yards ' If passed, his bill would mean more cmisc bu 1 ness for U S. ship;,, with con sequent loss gold drain. And If U S and Imspoeted foreign .ships eould not handle tKe traf-ffc, lliere would Im* more traveling at home.

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