Friday, January 7, I960

No Reason To Rest On Our Laurels

.Gov, Moores assertion that the past year has been one of progress for North Carolina is shared by most Tar Heels.

On almost every front the state has shown progres8.lt has gained in its industrial employment. It has moved forward in the field pf education at both the public school and college level. It has forged ahead in the field of medical care and in the field of rehabilitation. By and large its human relations have shown improvement, or at least have not deteriorated.

Although the legislature last year approved a record $2.15 billion budget for the current biennium, business conditions in the state have been good, and the staters financial position is sound.

The fact that 1965 was a good year and the state-of-the-state is good at the end of the first year of Gov. Moores administration does not mean North Carolina can rest on its laurels.

It must make greater strides In the field of human relations. It must continue its effort to provent extremist groups from stirring the civil rights problems into outbursts of violence.

At both the public school and college level, North Carolina must continue to accelerate its programs to provide better quality educational opportunities and to provide these opportunities to an increasing number of young citizens.

!'irst Distric Is Still Larges

While the state is enjoying an Unprecedented economic level, there are still areas of the state where many people are out of work, where employment opportunities are less than they should be, and where employment opportunities for too many people are severely limited by the qualifications of the people themselves.

Most citizens of the state recognize not only the progress the state has enjoyed, but also the problems it still faces. To some of the problems there are no easy solutions. They will require long, careful, dedicated effort by all citizens of the state.

Although the outlook is optimistic for the state, the optimism must be transformed into further solid progress by the effort of citizens of the state.

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'.ly No Joke

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

SEEFive more counties are to be added to North Carolinas already huge and sprawling First Congressional district under proposal redis-tricting plans, giving its freshman congressman a total of 20 countiss to lode after.

At the opposite end of the state, 16 mountain counties reaching from rugged Mitchell and Yancey to Cherokee and Graham are to make up the baUiwick of the 11th district congressman.

None of the other nine congressional districts even ap-fuoaches the First and 11th either in total number of counties or sheer geographic size. The next largest, the Ninth, has only 11 counties.

Of course, these districts are the most thinly populated per square mile and thus require more counties to furnish a total population approximately equal to that of every other district But this does not ease the problems of looking after legislative and politieal interests of so vast an area.

GROWTHNeither are the big geographic (fistricts entirely undfmm in the sense of being all rural or all urban, or having common economic Interests and problons.

Actually, they present a study in contrasts. Both have nrb$n centers wliicb are thickly populated and areas of ra-^d economic growth as well as pockets of poverty and in-du^ry-poor counties which are losing populati(Hi.

For example, Greenville and Pitt Coimty contines to

be the pojmlation center of the First, enjoying solid growth and an expanding economy.

Craven County and busy New Bern, being moved into the First, will jump into second place in ^piation and economic statistics of the district

Together, Pitt and Craven which dominate the First have a population about equal to that of Asheville and Buncombe County which as a major urban, economic center stands out alone and unchallenged among the 16 mountain counties of the 11th.

CHANGESThere are other areas of substantial growth and changing economy to be found in both of the large geographic districtsBeaufort County and its phosphates, expanding industry at Elizabeth City, and in Haywood, Henderson and Transylvania counties in the 11th.

Legislative leaders and others are h^>eiul that the changes taking place will continue and that it will enable more suitable political adjustment and alignment in the future, perhaps beginning with the next federal census.

If so, it would salve some of the unhappiness now being caused both by congressional redistricting and loss of legislative representation by many of the Eastern and far Western counties.

CITED An Illustration of possible readjustment was cited before a legislative reapportionment committee by A. D. Ward of New Bern, arguing for keeping Craven County in the Third district.

Ward said growth of the phosphate chemicals complex in Beaufort County indicates a city of 50,000 population will spring up there in a few years.

Such a population spurt would enable the First District to meet its required population without Craven Coimty.

Others cited anticipated growth at Elizabeth City and continued population increase in Pitt County.

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By NEIL GELBRIDE

WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnsons wage-price guidelines, it is now clear, can be rigid as a steel girder or flexible as a' sheet of aluminum.

Conversely, it was B i g Steel that found flexibility in the White House blessings of a compromise price increase and the aluminum industry that earlier had to knuckle under to stiff administration pressure.

But the lesson appears to remain the same:

Johnson isnt kidding about enforcing the guidelines in an effort to keep inflation from chipping away the solid gains of the booming economy.

Why did Johnson let the steel industry raise some prices $2.75 per ton, while forcing a rollback in aluminum and copper price hikes just two months ago?

The key factor Is productivity, the heart of the w a g e-price guidelines first formulated by White House economic advisers four years ago.

Productivity is the amount of steel or aluminum or any other commodity produced per manhour, and the government figures the rate is rising 3.2 per cent a year in the

at something like 6 per cent a year.

Thus, under the guidelines, aluminum could even affor(l to cut prices,' provided nonlabor costs didnt eat away the other 2 per cent of productivity increase.

The administration doesnt care how labor and management slice up the pie of increased productivity.

But when a disagreement between management and labor is resolved by passing the bill to the rest of the economy, the bill is paid in depreciated currency to the ultimate advantage of no on,, the guidelines state.

Ultimately, it is rising output per man hour which must ^eld the ingredients of a rising standard of living, the guidelines statem^t says. Growth in productivity makes It possible for real wages and real profits to rise side by side.

While conceding increased productivity is mainly due to better equipment purchased and installed by management, the statement adds:

Employees are often able to improve their performance by means within their own control. It is obviously in the public interest that incentives be preserved which would reqard employees for such efforts.

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economy as a whole.

Thus, the White House says, 4 q TTiin

industry can raise wages 8.2 1 lilo LyvJ.LC"'*

per cent a year vrithout boosting prices.

But the guidelines leave room for flexibility in various industries.

The difference in the steel and aluminum cases, the way the government figures it, is this:

Steel recently raised wages 3.2 per cent, while productivity has been rising only 3 per cent. Thus the industry was entitled to the increase which presidential economic adviser Gardner Ackley described as inconsequential about one-tenth of 1 per cent.

But in the aluminum industry, despite recent wage increases of 4 per cent, productivity has been climbing

NEW YORK (AP)-Are you a snob?

'The world is full of snobs, but few of them realize it or admit it. Most snobs are hypocrites. They dont want to be recognized as snobs. It is the rare snob indeed who faces up to the fact of his snobberyand enjoins it.

Snobbery is a very human attribute, but just how much of a snob are you?

Well, you are probably just

about 100 per cent snobbish if most of the following things are true about you:

Youd try to romance a waitress or hatcheck but never think of marrying one.

Youd date the bosss daughter but never marry her either, for fear someone would think you were a social climber.

When talking about your ancestors, you always mention the one who came over

40 Years Ago Today Other Editors Saying

More Fact Than Theory

By JOHN G. DUNCAN Jan. 7, 1926 TROOP THREE SCOUTS ATTENTION

The regular meeting of Troop Three will be held tomorrow night at 7:30 oclock; after the meeting basketball will be played. All members please be at the Rotary building at 7:30 oclock.

Opinions In Brief

A Chicago principal, just back from a tour of Russia, says Soviet schools are dimly lit; it being the practice to keep the lights turned off even when the classrooms are in use. All the harder, we suppose, for the youngsters to read tiie ideological' fine print.Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.

Young Womans Federation to meet Friday at three ocock, with Miss Lill Wilson. Miss Jesse Bullock will be leader.

'The Parent-Teacher Association of the Evans Street held its monthly meeting yesterday afternoon at 3:30 and was presided over by the president, Mrs. C. W. Shuff. The principal feature of the afternoon was a most delightful program as follows: OHen-rys ON^tober in June by Miss Irene Hand; vocal selections, Miss Helene Higgs; and piano selection. Gene Thomas.

Mr. C. M. Jones of Grimes-land was here today.

Bumper stickers arc puzzling when we dont recognize the name and dont know whether its something we are supposed to vote for or take the kids to see. Hartford (Ck)nn.) Ck)urant.

Dr. T. G. Basnight of Stokes was here today.

(Henderson Dispatch)

A State College professor, Dr. C. Horace Hamilton, rural sociologist and statistician, has come up with a study of population gains or loses in the one hundred counties of the State. Dr. Hamilton estimates that North Carolinas population as of last July 1 was 4,912,195, or 365,040 more than the 4,556,155 in the 1960 Federal census, a gain of 7.81 percent.

What was interesting and intriguing about his calculations was that Vance county has 33,970or approximately 34,00 population compared with 32,002 in 1960, and a gain of 6.17 percent. The county lost a trifle in 1960 compared with 150, but is recovering that drop rapidly if the professors figures are accurate.

Seventy-six of the 100 counties gained population in the five-year period, while the other twenty-four showed minor or substantial losses. The projection indicated amore rapid growth in the State as a whole than had been anticipated. New industry that has

come here in the period was given credit for this rather remarkable showing, in that it provided more jobs and larger payrolls and kept at home many young people and other who otherwise mighL have gone elsewhere for gainful employment.

This is an indication of tiie great value of acquiring new plants, both because of the population gains and the increase in wealth.

Because it gains were not as large as some other States, North Carolina in 1960 lost one of its congressmen and was forced to realign the counties into eleven districts. If the present rate of growth, as shown by this projection, continues in the next five years it may be possible to gain an aditional representative in the lower House of Congress.

We can hope that Dr. Ham-itons calculations are more actual fact than theory and that Vance is again on the upward trend. Certainly it has all the possibilities when every advantage is taken of opportunities that exist.

on the Mayflowerand never mention the one who was hanged as a horse thief.

You never read a book that makes the best-seller list.

When you are alone in an elevator and hear footsteps approaching, you quickly push the up button so you wont have to ride with a stranger.

You fawn on those you think are your superiors and frown on those you think are your inferiors.

You never order corned beef and cabbage for lunch because it is supposed to be a vulgar dish.

When a friend confides to you that his son has just been thrown out of a public school, you brag that your son has just been thrown out of a private one.

You are proud of having won a Phi Beta Kappa key in college but you never wear it in public because you are afraid it will make you look ostentatious.

At a cocktail party you talk knowingly about international affairs when what youd rather talk about is blones, brunettes and baseball.

Should a friend buy a more expensive house than you believe he can afford, you mut-t e r sourly, Some people dont know their place in Ufe. Thank heavens, I do.

You beUeve anybody younger than yourself is still wet behind the ears and couldnt possibly know as much about life as you do.

You sometimes say to yourself: Well, at least I know one thing: Whatever else I may be, at least Im not a snob.

But are you sure. As the old saying goes, It takes one to tell one.

Mrs. Nannie Tucker of Win-terville was a Greenville visitor yesterday.

Warnina: Controls Are

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1965, King Features

Syndicate, Inc.

Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, who, Uke the Bourbons,"^ neither learns nor forgets, has evidently decided to brazen it, out in this business of conipelUng American fruit and vegetable growers to hire only American citizens for work on their farms. He has indicated that there 'will be no bolds barred in 1966 in the struggle to force his theories on the embattled orchardists and tomato growers of Florida, Arizona, California and other states where agriculture creates a good portion of the Gross National Product.

Lest it seem that I am persecuting Mr. Wirtz, let me say that I think his idea of getting Americans off the relief rolls and putting them to work is highly commendable. But, to adapt the phrase beloved of Grover Cleveland, Wirtz is faced with a condition, not a theory. The fact is that American citizens dont Uke to pick lemons and apples or harvest lettuce, no matter what the financial inducements may be. That was the reason behind importing Mexican braceros in the first place, and the reason is still good.

Statistically, Mr. Wirtz is claiming a big victory for the past year in his anti-foreign labor program. But-Senator George Murphy of California disputes the relevance of the Department of Labor figures, and Wirtz has yet to meet Murphy in significant debate. According to Murphy, when Wirtz says that domestic farm employment in California rose by some 20,000 or 25,000 jobs in 1965, he conveniently forgets that he is counting 35,000 so-called green-card workers (Mexicans here on general permit) as citizens, not to mention large numbers of wetbacks who entered the country illegally, in his sum total.

Statistics may not lie deliberately, but what good are they when they cant distinguish between an illegally employed Mexican wetback and a high school student brought to California from the Midwest for the summer? And how does one explain that the stuff put out by Wirtz in Washington about vegetable prices is contradicted by what his own Bureau of Labor Statistics reports about prices in CaUfornia? Wirtz, according to Senator Murphy, overlooks the serious losses of crops suffered by our farmers, the thousands of acres of vegetables never planted, the exodus of many farmer seeking new locations in Mexico, and the increase in wholesale and retail prices.

There are several Injustices in the way that the Department of Labor has applied the law which allows it to forbid foreign bracero workers to enter the U.S. for the crop season. Senator Murphy doesnt object when Wirtz promises Florida some supplemental offshore labor or sugar cane fielcls In 1%6, but he insists that his own state should get similar treatment.

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Another thing this country A popular song is some-neeife is a pair of shoe laces thing sang by half the world that will stay tied. to annoy the other half.

Strength For Today

Unconscious influence is one of the most mysterious and transforming powers in the world. We walk along lifes pathways doing our humble duty, and very often without our knowing it God takes some apparently insignificant little event in our lives and steps it up to something of great importance. Nancy Hanks, who diligently taught her stepson, Abraham Lincoln, to read, was really the producer of some of the greatest prose in the English language. Hazitt, the essayist, says that is was a passing conversation he had with Coleridge which transformed his life and set his standards of literary, taste.

Jesus remarked about the importance of giving a Cup of cold water in his name. We live in a vast universe in which little things really 'count.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

LITTLE THINGS COUNT

A missionary in Persia was preaching in a village far up in the mountains. He told the simple gospel story and at the close was amazed to have a native Persian come forward, declaring that he was a Christian, and then produce a Bible which he saiil he had been reading and studying for many years.

And who gave you this Bible? asked the missionary. You did, replied the man smiling. More than 20 years ago you were speaking in Ta-bri and I was among those who upon your invitation came forwafd and received a copy of the Bbile. I have not seen you all these years, but I have studied the Book you gave me and in it found life.

By ELMER ROESSNER

There is a possibility of controls over prices and wages because of the Viet Nam war, the National Retail Merchants Association warned members in a new monthly newsletter, Executive Report. Volume 1, number 1 is well written, with a shrewd understanding of business trends.

While productive capacity is greater, the economy is healthier and the present crisis, slower in developing than in the Korean War, coupled with Inflationary pressures, presents the possibility of some form of economic controls, the newsletter warns.

It woid, of course, be unwise, for stores to take speculative actions, it advised, adding, Remember how badly retailers were stung when sales leaped 30 per cent ahead the month after Korea?

It noted that the administration has indicated that the economy is strong enough to produce both guns and butter, but production and em-

ploymnt are running near capacity, with consumer demand threatening to outrun it Any large scale or sudden (Uversion of productive capacity to war materials must increase the inflationary pressures.

SHORTAGE OF TEXTILES LOOMING The military no longer stockpiles clothing, bedding, etc, but is on a buy-as-you-

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use basis, the newsletter pointed out, and every draftee gets five sets of such items, from uniforms to

towels. Textile mills are already operating on all looms, three shifts a day, and not meeting civilian demand on

items required for military needs.

Continued inflationary pressures could force deifensive measures by retailers, the newsletter pointed out Stores may trim selling costs by taking less tolerant attitudes toward delivery expenses, complaints, etc.

Many retailers will be scouring markets, both here and abroad, for merch^dise that will show extra profit margins, it went on. Some will cut selling costs by discontinuing certain items and lines that contribute disproportionately to higher costs, and some resources will tal^e the same tack by eliminate ing distribution to marginal *or low-volume retailers.

The NRMA letter advised retailers to kee|) accurate records of costs and prices to prove inequities under price controls; former job grades and job evaluations may be established to justify future merit pay rises.

The administration may use

the Defeifee Production Act of 1950 as a basis for new controls, administration of which led to many^ abuses.

At one point, the newsletter recalled, the OPS tried to license all businesses under the guise of keeping tabs on chronic price violators; the Wage Stabilization Board endorsed union objectives and setting patterns that continue to influence labor-manage-ment relations today,

There wctb other messes. Industry consultations came frequently after proposed regulations had been drafted and approved, with little hope for changes.

Stores that had special sales oh when the price freeze became stuck with sales prices for the duration. The price structure for beachwear during the entire 1951 season was predicated on the basis of the Feb. 24 (1951) inventory, when stores were selling below cost. The newsletter carried a foreword by James J. Bliss, NRMA ex^ culive vice-presidnet.