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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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Is Compulsory Insurance
Complaint Billowing In NC?
Noiih ('..iiolin.i ic.ution to t lie
ompuUoi x .iiii()i!)()l)ilo liability
iiiMiraiu o program Jias .Ik'i'M fairly
tiict, no 1 .1 1 .in xc can j u l.;c-. Imt
a f)i'4 sunuil.int t, complaint may
Ik lillouin;; dm the lioiion.
A rr)n in The Wall Sum
Journal vixs the cost ol automobile
liability iiiMiiatue s lisini; all
aiomHl the totmtrv, and lor at least
one xciy ol reason: "I'he'soaritip;
utst of .iiitomobile tepaiis-
Consider thee lompaiativc
111 es:
The ItTi tail liht assembly for
a jMipul.n make of tar sold for
.Si(i. ;, in 1 !,");;: the cost rose to
S'.'l. j;, in 1 1 7 : and this yeaf, be
cause it contains a back-up 'Ji.ht
and other fancv doodads, thf cost
Another i;i;,S automobile -has a
fancy de orated trunk, a series ol
iiIes xiili points in them any
slight leai-end bump rc j n i 1 s a
jcwclix metal woikei to make re
pairs: couseipuuitly most repair
shops siml older a new trunk at
An owner paid s,)7 0 lor a
wiapaiound windshield on a cer
tain m ike of car last.vear: this year
the pi i( e is S 1 o.
()eiall. one Middle Western in
surant e cc(iitic s.is repairing
attideiit damages to automobiles
was up 7 per tent in ir,7 ocr
1 1, -,(.
So Tar ! let Is mix reasonablv ex
put these new' stlin'4 dillicullics
will biin with them higher 10
paii tosts and higher insiuaiue
rates. In a state just beginning; an
experiment with compulsory insur
ance that could be dangerous in
deed. Aside from the repair problems,
many able insurance men antici
pate that the compulsory insurance
law in North Carolina will auto
matically lift insurance rates. Many
previously uninsured owners will
be involved in major wrecks on
the highways. As the number of
covered wrecks rise, the cost of in
surance could rise with it.
As insurance companies lecome
more selective in signing up poor
risks. North Carolina may face the
problem of what to do with a large
group of motorists not considered
insurable by private companies. In
manv states this problem is handl
ed bv the 'assigned risk pool"
lath insurance firm agrees to take
a portion of the accepted poor
risks but coverage is restricted in
amount and rates are stiffer than
other motorists pay.
A group oT insurance companies
suggested this plan to the North
Carolina state insurance commis
sioner during the K)",7 (ieneral As
sembly, but the matter was not
pushed.
A combination of circumstances
m.'inly higher insurance rates
max lead to extended debate about
compulsory automobile insurance
in the ") Ccncral Assembly. The
answer appears to rest in how well
the H-,7-enai ted law stands up
under actual test. (ireenslkno
l)ail News
Paper Says S. C. Mishap
Should Lessen Fear Tension
dcl nicl slight pliNsi, ,d d.un
a;e lesulted hoin the .u 1 idental
dioppiii'4 ol .111 unaimcd atomir
bomb 1 feat I louiue. S. C this
week., but the imiiU ill's miii liii
ilf.u tail out cju'uklv spanned the
At'.antit Oic.in.
In I upland, heie theie has been
luiuii di do about Anuiiian planes
living oxtihe.al with hxdioetl
ImuiIs. the stoix latcd big. black
txpe and Mnwii-up pic tines- There
xv as a si111il.1t tcaition in West (.er
manx and. to a lessei extent, else
wheie in Western I'urope-
The Soxiet I'nion. xvhi(h nexer
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DOUG EISELE
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ANN FRYE
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DAVE WIBLE
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Librarian
GLENDA FOWLER
FDIT '.STAFF Whit Whitfield, Curtis
Gans. Jonathan Yardley, Barry Win
kt(.n; Gail Godwin.
NEWS STAFF Davis Young. Fringie
Pipkin, Sarah Adams, Dave Jones.
I'arker Maddrey, Charlie Sloan, Ed
Rowland, Eddie Goodman, Westbrook
Fowler, Stan Black, Virginia Sand
ridge, Ruth Whitley, Ben Taylor.
SPORTS STAFF Rusty Hammond. Elli
ott Cooper. Mac Mahaffy. Jim Purks,
Jim Harper.
JUJSINESS STAFF Walker Blanton,
John Minter, Lewis Rush.
PHOTOGRAPHERS Norman Kantor,
Buddy Spoon.
lets a good propaganda pitch go by.
is now busx warning the xvorld
that a final, catastrophic war could
be touched oil by such an act iden
tal bomb dropping.
In this country, several congress
men are demanding an inxestiga
tiou ol the h.iaids in living ex
plosixes about.
In short, exerxone is excited
about xvhat happened except.
maxbe( the people aiound Flor
ence. I hey seem to be taking it
all in their casual stride.
Any destine tixe acc ident is, of
course, regrettable. Certainly this
one, with its atomic bomb scare
potential, is doubly so- Hut it does
haxe its leassiiring asects, as Pen
tagon ollicials have nervously
pointed out.
Oxer and oxer again, our defense
leaders haxe declared that an un
armed nuclear device will not go
oil, even il it is dropped or a plane
carrying it crashes. One specialist
figured the odds against an acci
dental nuclear explosion at txvo
billion-lo-one.
Now, the oint has been proxed
the hard way.
F.xcn though the immediate re
action by the Iirit ish the chief
betters about the danger of a nu
clear a:c iclent was a shade on the
hysterical side: sober reflection
should rectify this.
Unfortunate as they are, a crater
in a field, a wrecked frame house
and six minor injuries hardly add
up to the Hiroshima-like calamity
some alarmists haxe feared.
There are some distuibing ejucs
tions raised by the incident, to be
sure. Within the bounds of securi
ty, would like to know more
about the mechanical failure, or
combination of failures, that re
leased the bomb, as well as about
the circumstances under which nu
clear dexices are taken aloft-
Ceitainly, this mishap is good
reason to redouble our safety pre
cautions. If xve can make those two
billion-to-one odds even more fa-
xorable. fine.
Our net reaction, however, must
be that this sort of thing is a haz
ard of the age in which we live.
We can be grateful that no one was
hurt, that damage was slight. The
Chailotte Observer. .
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Students Need
To Have Look
At Other Side
John Gates, ex-editor of the
'Daily Worker' and a Communist
convicted of conspiracy .under .
the Smith Act, spoke in the John
rf. Finley Student Center at City
College in New York under the
auspices of the student newspa
per, according to a recent article
in the 'New York Times'.
A year ago, Gates had been
banned from the six municipal
colleges of New York by the col
lege presidents acting in the ca
pacity as the administrative coun
cil of the Board of Higher Edu
cation. At that time the council
took action to prevent persons
convicted of conspiring to teach
the violent overthrow of the
Government under the Smith Act
from speaking on the campuses
of the municipal colleges. Re
cently, the president of City Col
lege and president of the coun
cil. Dr. BuCll G. Gallagher, said
that it is now up to the individ
ual college presidents to decide
whether or not Gates is allowed
to speak on their campuses. How
ever, this ruling does not apply
to other persons convicted under
the Smith Act.
The reason for lifting the ban
on Gates, according to the ad
ministrative council, is that since
the date of the ruling a year
ago "it appears, clear that John
Gates has changed the position
which had led to his conviction
under the Smith Act" and that
the ruling need no longer to ap
ply to him. Gates announced his
resignation from the Communist
party and from the 'Daily-Worker'
on January 10.
, About 250 students listened to
Gates' speech (the enrollment of
City College is about 9.000) in
which he restated that for all
practical purposes the Commun-
ist party had ceased to exist, for
him. He also stated that he had
no faith in capitalism and con
tended that a Socialist movement
was needed in the United States.
Gates said: "there is a base right
now for a radical movement in
this country."
The council, unanimous in its
vote to let Gates speak, began to
round out the obligation of a
'higher education.' The object of
education is not to shield the stu
dent from both sides of the story,
but to teach him both sides and
provide him xvith an education
that will allow him to make an
intelligent choice on the facts
that are presented before him on
any problem.
Every student knows the bas
ics of capitalism as it is 'preach
ed' in nearly every institute of
education in the nation, but very
few get the socialist or other
forms of government presented
to them in the same detail.
Colleges and universities
throughout the United States
should begin to recognize that
the students should have a 'good
look' at the 'other side', even
if it serves no other purpose
than to educate him on the mean
ing of the words communism or
socialism. Connecticut Daily
Campus.
"You Know, Lewis, I Think I Do Detect Some Blasts"
VIEW FROM THE HILL
Lenoir,
By CURTIS CANS t
A compromise last year seems to
have made a dead isue this year.
This should not be a dead, issue.
Last year, G. W. Prillaman com
promised with student help! by
paying them in tickets rather than
in a certain daily quantity of fooct
during a day. . .:ios.-
The point is that paying help in
tickets isn't right either, although
it may correspond to the letter of
the law, '
The students xvorking in Lenoir
Hall are trying to pay their way
through school .They are supposed
ly xvorking at self-help jobs.1 ' -
The trouble is that they have-no
real chance to help themselves,
since if they really wanted to save
money from the non-negotiable
tickets, they xvould have to attend
summer school to get any benefit
from what they save by eating the
40c special instead of a higher
priced meal.
What the job amounts to is a
'help Lenoir Hall job" rather than
a help the student project.
It may be argued that the stu
dent does not have to work at
Lenoir Hall, and indeed if they
can get out of it they do.v.Yet,
Student Aid Change Asked
jobs are. scarce on this campus
and students sometimes have no
place else to go to get at least a
litle something towards defraying
their expenses for college.
It is indeed a bad situation
where the university cannot see
, fit to provide better payments for
its students, who are filling a gap
' that it xvould cost the university
' much more to fill.
A step xvas made in the right
direction last year, but it has not
been followed up.
It is the responsibility of. Mr.
Prillaman, student government,
and the administration to try to
set the situation of paying Lenoir
Hall workers right.
This pay can only be in the form
of cash at the presetn rate of 75c
an hour.
The entire problem of student
aid might bear looking into.
At present if a man lives any
place but a dormitory ,he is not
considered in real need of money,
and hence is often rfeused a loan.
This should not be. It is actually
cheaper to live in some fraternity
houses, and in some apartment
buildings than it is to live in the
!
dormitories. Yet; people are being
refused because they cannot show
the need. ' T
The only ' one thing that is sure
in this system is that the student
who gets a loan will be turning a
certain amount back of his invest
ment to the university and thus
the university ' can charge lower.
interest rates. ' " "
Yet, there should be a fund.
available for those students who
have real need, and cannot cur-
rently get a loan. Even if the inter-
est rates xvere higher, this would
be a blessing to the students who i
currently are unable to help them-;
selves enough to pay for four years :
of residence at the university. Now
is the time to start looking into
these problems, and now is the
time for correction.
RUMPUS
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Calif., didn't have to lift a hand
to arrange a rumpus with which to
christen their fine new rumpus
room. A passing automobile obliged
by going out of control and crash
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CUT TAXES, OR-
How Help The Economy
- Today's Big Question
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst .-j
WASHINGTON (AP) The economy may be saved
or wrecked by the guessing game now going on: Is
it better to start a huge federal spending program
to fight the recession or wait in the hope" it will go
away?! ': ..
The antirecession arguments focus on two main
methods: A tax cut or big and new federal spending.
This is a good time to ask: . i -
- Vhat's the difference in principle between bi? ,
government spending or a big tax cut to overcome
he depression? There's no basic difference. They'd
both cost the government money. One might work
faster than the other.
CAUTIOUS OM TAX CUT
' Both the Eisenhower administration and the Dem
ocratic leadershipi in Congress are cautious about
tax cut now. Eisenhower full of optimism the econ
omy will take a natural upturn, is full of caution in
all directions.
He shows no eagerness for ,a big, antirecession
spending program, although he -has urged speeding
up of projects already approved by Congress.
The Democrats in Congress talk of a 10-point pro
gram to stimulate business and employment. It in
cludes the kind of thing Eisenhower talks about a
speedup in programs already authored, but also
new construction and, if necessary,' modern version i
of the old WPA of depression days.
Not ail members of Congress are as hesitant about
a tax cut as Eisenhower and the Democratic leaders.
For instance, Sen. Douglas (D-Ill) wants a tax cut
now of around $5,200,000,000.
The Eisenhower administration despite the dim
view the President previously took of it is showing
increasing signs of thinking of a tax cut. Vice Pres
ident Nixon this week urged it unless the economy
improves soon.
NO IMMEDIATE DECISION
This week, Eisenhower put off any immediate de
cision on the tax cut idea, but he's going to start
discussing it with top Republicans.
On March 8 Eisenhower made this statement:
". . . The proper relation of government to the
growth and vigor f the American economy must
necessarily be to stimulate private production and
employment not to substitute public spending for
private spending."
t . ( t .
And he derided the Democrats' ''pump-priming
schemes." , But most of the steps he's urged in
speedup of authorized programs or the spending of
new money are essentially pump-priming steps.
In one sense, at least, a tax cut also would amount
jjjto public spending; "'.
I Government spending programs hand ut-govern-ment
dollars. But a tax cut would just as truly be
handing out government money by letting people
qkeep their dollars which otherwise would, have: gone
ro the government.
A five-billion-dollar spending program or a fixe-billion-dollar
tax cut would cost the government
exactly the same.
There is this difference in effect: A tax '
..would put money faster into the hands of people to
spend on things they want and thus create jobs for
people to make the things they want. A big federal
spending program wouldn't affect everybody and no
doubt would take longer to boost the economy.
IT MUST STOP
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Somewhere
Somewhere, sometime, somehoxv.'it's. got to stop. . .
Today the average citizen is ruled more and more
not by law, but by regulation. And they aren't the
same thing at all.
Law is enacted by the citizens' duly elected rep
resentatives; and if it's good law, it simply puts into
the statutes the thinking and convictions of the ma
jority. That is, it comes up from the people. A
regulation, on the other hand, is an edict imposed
from above.
Furthermore, if the citizens don't' like the law
their representative helps enact, they can fire hirn
at the ballot box- But they can't fire the fellows
who promulgate the regulations. They are appoint
ees; often appointees of appointees of appointees.
And when they aren't that, they are under U. S.
Civil Service or the State Merit System, and so are
beyond the citizens' control even a change of ad
ministrations leaves them untouched.
We are hot saying that there aren't a few areas
where regulation may be necessary, and where the
public servant should be removed from political
pressure. What we are saying is that (a), the thing
has got out of hand; and (bf there is a widespread
tendency on the part of these people to forget they
are the servants, not the masters, of the people.
The latest in a long series of instances is the Na
tional Park Service's announcement that it will
charge tolls on the Blue Ridge Parkway, effective
June 1.
It didn't say the matter was under consideration,
and wait to get public reaction. It did't consult
members of Congress. It simply announced that
that's the way it's going to be.
And it could not have said more plainly in words
what its attitude said: . . and what are you going
to do about it?" The Franklin Press