Monday, Sptimbr 29, ]969

Some Are Reluctant To See Change

Where small pockets of resistance to industrial-zation exist in North Carolina, they must realistically be viewed as opposition to change rather than an effort to prevent economic progress. ,

There are always people who are reluctant to see change regardless of the overall benefit which may accrue from the change. There are those who W'ould rather not see a new superhighway built or a new airport constructed or a new superhighway built Or a new airport constructed or a new hospital built. There are those who, for their own reason would rather see the road remain dirt than set it

DhiU

iO

increase l axes

RALEIGH-Ihe Association of County Commissioners has endorsed the idea of levying an additional one per cent local option sales tax in most if not all of North Carolina counties in a special referendum on Nov. 4.

But a % offleial of the

Association, executive secretary Jcrfm Morrisey, is saying frai^y to the commissioners: dont guess youve ever faced worse odds in any election.

Thats apparent. Sources in Raleigh, politically attiined across the state, believe that fewer than a dozen counties will approve the local levy. Says one, The public attitude is against any new taxes. Its just that simple.

ArgueBut the politically pow^ful'Association of County Commissioners is carrying on a cmpalgn on behalf of the local sales tax.

It has met rebuff and discouragement in most areas, but the proposal has been endorsed In others.

Morrisey feels that it is very important f(sr local governments to obtain additional revenue fromiources othtf than property taxes. He points out that local welfare budgets must be expanded' and that counties are faced with the problem of supplementing funds lor physical operation of the public school systems.

The state government, through the legislature and the administratitm, tried to take han^<ff position on increasing local government revenue, says Morrisey, but actually, increased the demands on local treasuries. And, it the same time, he lays, the state took care of its own revenue needs by boosting taxes on Uquor, soft drinks and cigarettes. Local governments were left only a local option plan.

And, somewhat bitterly, Morrisey said most officials are predicting that if counties do not increase the sales tax for local purposes the state wUl add it anyway In the next

GrowthAt present, the only major source of local government revenue Is the property tax.

' ^ere is e practical limit to ad valorem (Property) taxes, says Mwrisey. County tax bases must be broadened just as the state revenue base was broadened.

Lord knows we need it, even more desperately, In the counties than me state does. Morrisey, addressing a 14 county meeting in Williams-ton, called for standing up for local government by approving the levy.

This tax will restore to local government the power to do what locaj government ought to be doing, he said.

If we want to provide better schools, better law enforcement, health care, libraries, piaiming lor the future and other vital services,^ we (the counties) will need more money, Morrisey said.

PennyThe Association of CJounty Commissioners has prepared and published a brochure urging support for the local sales tax, entitled A Penny For Progress.

The editor of this, Jerry Elliott, contends that the additional one per cent is actually a growth tax.

The cost of labor and material of government have increased with alrodsf'everything else, he says. He says that the tax referendum is a fairly dear challenge to grass roots government which, after all, is closes to the people.

And Elliott, formerly press secretary for Gov. Dan K. Moore, adds, Our people want to run their affairs. EndorseLegislative action placing respoi^bility upon local governments to push for a local option sales tax was not very popular on tiie local level, b most localities Included in a recent survey, the sentiment has been against such a move.* The prevailing feeling is that since the slate of North Cardina has taken over so many local prerogatives and that state officials control such thinffl as welfare, schools and highways then the state should make provision for the required local funding.

It is, of course, a silhouette of the earlier protests by the state against further and continuing federal government encroachment Now the counties are being forced against the wall.

The Daily Reflector

INCORPORATED

_ established 1882

Published Monday Through Friday Afternoone end Sunday Morning

DAVID JULIAN WHICHARD* Chairman of the Board

JOHN S. WHICHARD-DAVID J. WHICHARD

Publishers

INeicd at Peat Offlee, Greenville, N. C. as aeeead elaii Mil natter

SUBSCRIPTION RATES Homa Delivery By Carrier or Motor Roiile Monthly |2.2S By Mail, Payabit In Advanco One Year oaoeone**eo#t IT.O

Six Mostbi ..

ISJI

V

Three Meolhs %.n

: \i

(Prieea Incloec taiee tax wbere appOeafelat

MEMBCR OF ASSOCUTED PRESS

>

na Anadaiai Prcn la cxefaislvety catttteg la aaa far paUI callea aO am dbpaiehee credhci la It er not atlMrwiae Cfaittei la thli paper and alee the iecal aewe pubUebeS

harn. AO rigMi el

mi

pHved, or have the kids remain kids rather than see them grow up.

Many people have a natural aversion of change and would much prefer the comfort afforded by tne status quo.

The very fact that every community in North Carolina has people who feel this way should not be. construed by state officials or outside industrialists as meaning that this state ia made up of people who do not want industrial or economic development People wi^ these attitudes are found in every community in every state and they are as much a part of the balance of our society as those people who are anxious to see progress with every tick of the clock* ' ' "*r , Fortunately for North Carolinas communities moat of tbeir peopleMean more to latter attitude than the former. They recognize that change is inevitable and it Is better if it is accompanied by progress. They recogniae the need for the state to raise its per capita income and this can only come through economic development. In most cases this economic development has its basis ^in industrial plants that can provide new jobs that in turn stimu-^thV growth of other new jobs.

While we can appreciate the concern that officials have if ttey think people in some communities are opposed to economic development, it is a fact of life that every community and every state lives with. From a realistic standpoint in North Carolina, the attitude toward industrial development probably is more positive than in most other states. And in all probability the attitude is better where the need for economic development is greater, contrary to what some people may hastily conclude.

Both Depend Heavily On Limiting Freedom

Regrettably a military ^oup has taken over in still another country in South America. The military overthrew the government of Luis Sites Salinas of Bolivia and took over to avoid the danger of anarchy, capitulation and disorder.''

This means that Bolivia has joined Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Peru with military governments in South America. Panama, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua are also under military rule.

There are other countries around the world, too, which are now operating under military rule. When you add them to the communist countries, whose regimes are another way of usurping tha. li-berties of the people, then we see that far too many people in this world are still living without freedom. ' :

Military dictatorships and communist regimes are often far removed from each other in philosophies, but the en^reault stll seems to be the same. Both depend on the elimination of freedoms to maintain their hold. Someday, perhaps we will all come to realize that the real est of any government is

\

.rever

GriDS

You DQ Understand Ml Signals, NowDont You?*

ART BUCHWALD

?ut A Tax On Violence

whether

its citizens.

or not it guarantees freedom for all of

me Lmrencnea

Bureaucrats

WASHINGTON - My friend McCormick thinks he has an answer to aU the violence in movies and on television.

Tax t)M bell out of them, he said.

But how? I asked.

You sell licenses to producers of movies and television shows. Theyd be like a hunting permit You wouldnt be allowed to kill anyone in a *17 program or a film without fbrst buying a license. It would cost you $1,000 to kill one man, $2,000 to kill a woman and $5,000 if you wanted

to kill a child.

Would you have a limit on how many people you could bag?

Not at the beginning. 1 think a producer could kill as many people as he wanted to, providing he had a license for eadi one.

What about the method of killing people In movies and TV?

We might add a surcharge for unorthodox methods of killing, sudi as burning' garrot-ing and throwing them off buildings. But I believe shoot

ing or stabbing should be permitted for the straight $1,000 fee.

McCormick, your Idea has great merit, but it seems to me it would add tremendous costs to cowboy pictures. Exactly. I beUeve the producers of cowboy films and TV shows would have to be very discriminating in whom they killed. It wiU stop them

ART

BUCttWAU)

UNITBD PRESS INTERNATIONAL

UntVt^ rates mi Aeadlliicf TalUbte apra raaaral MkiAar AteW BweM cf

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON-Without the knowledge and against the wishes of their Nixon-appointed superiors, poverty program bureaucrats have drafted and distributed a manual listing demonstrations, economic boycotts, and ultimately, violence as legitimate weapons of the poor.

The manual, which despite lack of official sanction is now circulating through the network of local Ck)mmunity Action groups, merely plutg ^in writing what is reality in the field. Regional officials of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) have been prodding local Community Action leadersmany of them public spirited, middle-class professional men-to stir up the poor in revolt against the establishment The fact that this violates the clear orders of Donald Rumsfeld, OEO's new director, has ^oved no inhibition.

Thus, the 37-year-old Rumsfeld, who surrendered a safe Congressional seat from Illinois to run the governments most battle-sear^ program has collided with a permanent political fact of life; the difficulty of a Presidential ap-pointee tp enforce his wishes

on an entrenched bureaucracy. What makes OEO different is that many of its bureaucrats feel their function is less to generate jol for the poor than to promote social revolution.

'This revolutionary bent, more than any otl^r cause is what has contributed to tlie poverty program's loss of public support since 1964. In his effort to clear the bomb-throwers out of OEO policy-, making posts, Rumsfeld has been stymied by civil service -e<xisultants.

The provocation manual is a direct result of Rumsfelds inability to completely clean house. Completed this summer by a mixed group of OEO employees and ^nfract consul tants, a draft copy of A Trainers Manual For Community Action Agency Boards last month was mailed around the country to several local Community Action groups for comment. Although this draft was widely rejffoduced and di8t|jl)^ted in poverty pi^am channels, Rumsfeld had not even,heard about it until we informed him.

What he has now seen runs almost directly contrary to his stated policy of opposition to high-pressure tactics (Cootinued On Page I)

Other Editors Say Where Is Wrongdoing?

(Henderson Dispatch) When and where there is some sort of irregularity in private life on the part of public (Oficiis, it ought to be revealed. Plenty of effort to that end is going on these days, so much so that at times it seems investigatiwis and charges are brought by some in(tividuals or groups for personal reaswis merely because those responsible are in position to instigate inquiries,

If all the charges and questions now or recently in progress are justified, there is a woeful lack of inctividual Integrity in this country. So far as public office is concerned, nnen tapped for respwisibibty should be above reproach. H Their private business frans-actions (H* their own opinions are shacty, it ought to be known. But these injuiries are no place for playing politics, and a lot of that is being done. Men are challenged sometimes for no other reason than fljat Their convictions do not coincide with those who are trying to establish their faults. Ques-

tiwiers at hearings seem bent upon having the subject trapped into making statements that mi^t be interpreted in more ways than one, and which would at least disqualify him for public service.

It is but natural that senators wwild wish to know the views of C2iief Judge Clement Haynsworth of the U.S. Circuit Court before confirming him as a Supreme CJourt justice. But smne jibes at him seem to be largely irrelevant or non-essential. If Judge Haynsworth is qualified for the Federal judiciary where he is already serving, thalt of itself should go far in satistying senators of his fitness for the highest court in the land.

It is generally' conceded that he win be confirmed when the Senate votes on the nomination. And after reasonable in- -vestigation has been conclud-. ed, ii^on ought to be taken without further delay. The South Carcdina jurist, acceding to reputation, would be a credit to the high court. Or is there opposition solely on the ground oif geography?

By ED ROGERS

WASHINGTON (UPD-A po-litical gamble Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, D-S.C., took last spring In making an issue of hunger in his state has paid off in a Sanati food-stamp bl.a that made idine fellow Southern-: ers angry. __

Although House observeri predict wt Senate-approved b U cannot get enacted, there are more whiapers that Hollings la bid^ for the vice presidency.

The Senate ai^ared ready to endwse modest boosts in tho food stamp pro^am. But Se.!.

withHollings and a doien liberals in tow, oftered a greaUy expanded $1.2-bUlion substituto. The Senate voted 54 to 40 Iasi to the surpriae of the Senate Agriculture Gommittea, which had approved a $750 millioB measure.

The lubstltute bill McGovern drafted As dtairman of tho Sen-ae Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Need would make swieping changes In tha basis for ptylding subsidized^ and sometimes freo-food for the needy.

It was not univtrsally ap-plauded.

Talmadge CHtieal **Tho Senate has established monster which will attempt ta give food to averyono in tha country on tiidr word slono, on their affidavit, regardless of their finandM circumstances,** Sen. Herman E. Talmadge. 1> Oa., said.

Talmadge, a member of tha Senate Agriculture Committea who followed HoUings* preoa-dent with a hunger tour* of his own state during sn outburst of controversy eirlier thla year over domestic hunger, had plugged for an improved program.

**Thank God, I do not want ta be president of ths Uhited States,* Sen. George D. Aiken, R-Vt., said, apparently referring to McGovern, a 1968 contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Former Governor Hollings, a former South Carolina governor who gainad hia Senate office less than threa years ago, has for months bean whispered about u a No. 2 aspirant, despite repeated daniala.

As much as any other senator, Hollings made McGoverns food stamp blitz possible.

When the McGovern committee began setting up tours of alleged hunger areas last spring, Hollings suggested another plan. He had a wealth of information plus his own eyewitness account of hunger in his own state. Why not bring witnesses and facts to Washington instead of having committee members corns to South Carolina?

The result was a round of sensational disclosures of malnutrition and worm investatioa in Beaufort and Jasper counties, S. C., which later became the sites of the nations first free food stamp experimants.

On Tour The committee later went on tour anyway, diooilng Florida, and became enmeshed in sectional controversies, t feud with the govamor of Flerii^ and even the White House.

But by then the committees Washington hearings on South Carolina had placid hunger in America on the record boobs

from shooting everyone within camera range. If, for example, a producer had only three licenses, hed have to choose bis victims pretty carefully.

It would certainly save a lot of Indians from being killed, 1 said.

As far as war pictures are concerned, we might make a package deal. For a fiat $100,000 the producers would be permitted to wipe ' out either one World War II German battalion or sink one Jananese aircraft carrier with all personnel on board.

Would you require licenses for wounding and" maiming people on TV and in failms

1 would propose a rate card starting witii knocking out a person in a fist fight, which would cost $10, U) causing a severe brain concussion, which would cost the producer $500. Any open wound and paved the way for tha sue^ or disolav of blood would au- cess of the McGovern food

tomatically be taxes an extra $100.

It seems to me those -prices are pretty high. Thats tiii idea. The only way youre going to get anyone to cut down on violence (CMtinoed On Page 5)

stamp bin.

Hollings later said that publicizing hunger In ones own state is politically hazardous, but he added that he had no choice after eeelng what he had of deprivation and near starva-(Coatinned Oi Page I)

Strength For Today

Youll Pay More And Get

,ess

Aim At High Targets

Psychology is making great emphasis today on the need of self-assurance. Believe In yourself. Believe that you can-do cerain necessary things, and the chances are that you can.

This is an old, old teaching as old, in fact, as. the- Bible. Those who raid the Bible superficially often fail to catch its gceat message about the power of belief. Jesus said, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe thattye receive tiiem, and ye shall have them (Mark 11:24). On another occasion ^ he said,- All things are pos-isble to him that bqlleveth (Mark 9:23).

Belief constitutes an in-stniment of vast powei;;^ea-'

dy for us to use. It la true

that we can have almost anything we believe we can have. Something seems to happen to the vast pattern of Uvei events ,when a man gets the idea of achievement into his mind and holds it there. Suo-cessfull businessmen are usually those who over a period of years have firmly believed in their ultimate succesa. Inventors are men who press toward a goal, confident that they can achieve it. Columbus, who changed all the maps of the world, insisted on believing that tiiere was a new world beywid the western horizbhi By his beUef he laid hold on that^itew world.

AU things are possible to them thp^ believe..* Try H.

Earl L. Douglass

By ELIER ROESSNER Theres another paradox coming in our crazy economy.

The volume of retail sales decline. The dollar amount of retail sales will

continue to rise. -------

AConsumars show signs of becoming more cautious. But prices wUl continue to rise.

Paul W. McCraken, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, disclosed that tlM latest University of Michigan survey of consumer intentions shows a sharp de-cUne in ecmsumer plans to spend. The August -September sampling Index was 86.4, compared with 91.8 three months ago and ^.1 1asi February.

Rmsoim For CaotioB The September issue of the Morgan Guaripty Survey re

ports fhst signs are *not encouraging for an upturn in retail sales, which, it adds, accotmte lor 40 per cent of all spending in the United States.

It gave tiiese reasons:

, Omsumer resistance to

higher pr^, ~

. Eit^n, by inflation, of about two thirds of. the latest gain in disposable personal income. V

.* The already low level of s^p,. leaving little room for further cuts that would free funds fmr retail spending.

. Indicatlwif of a growing reluctance by individuals to buy on credit . The decjine in stock mm* ket prides, which hardly contributes to consumer euphoria.

Still A Lot Of Spemllng Despite the * M o r g a n

Guaranty Trust Co.s gloomy outlook, tiiere are countervailing facts:

. Total personal income increased $5.25 billion in August to a seasonally adjusted an nual rate of $756.5 billion Ev-

orhneh

en if two thirds of the rise is eroded by inflation, thats an increase of $1.75 billion in' actual buying power.

. The cost of living 'continued to rise in August and apparently Is rising further this mootk Tbi August rise, 0.4

per cent, wu lesi than thi July rise of b.5 per cent.

. Wages, the btdtoone oi consumer income, continue U rise with new union contracti auid coat of. living ad juitments. The laereaN ii August was at an annial raU of $il billion.

.1? tncraaM in aoto vie y and proopactiva iBcraiM to melt prkM lili eoRtinut to pu^ tip Qia total geUai Jtlui drttalliaki, ffini toe pMeal volmni dropa.

For More

to aummary, comumin will continua to spend mort money at rataU. even toougt

rastras column that Daeentoai J^Wih dollir inutitllj

Merry Christmail ,

, % \