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Tte Promoted Tobacco Tax
Amrtny the w* tixef pressed to the
Legih-it are by Governor Hodges, speak
ing at charmur of the Advisory Budget
Commission. the ocJy one tna: has thue
far arouaec formidable opposition it the
tax or. retail saee of tobacco. The reason
that this levy hat beer tirglec out for
speeia. entie-sm it., of course, that tobacco
farming and touwceo manufacture con
st:*, ute a tremendous.}- important part of
North Carotins* economy. The critic*
tute the fact that tonaoco it already sub
ject to a heavy feaerai tax and decAre
that ar additional tax would reduce the
consumption of touacco anc would there
fore do serious injury to the form of agri
culture and the industry upon which the
State largely depend* for its prosperity.
Governor Hoc/et says that he be.,eve*
a .arge par. of the opposition will C:*
down when people have given the proposal
more thought. My guest it that this will
turn out to be a correct forecast; first, be
cause ;f the tobacco tax it not levied, then
there w.ll have to ne some other levy in
place of it, and nobody has yet proposed
one that is apt to :>e any more acceptable,
and second, fsecause people w .11, cmd* to
reai.ze. as many of them do not seem to
rea../e now, that tne aaiet of tobacco in
side the State, to which the tax wou*d
apply, are only a very final, fraction of the
total saies. North Carolina's tobacco farm
ers and tooacco manufacturers get their
income from the sale of C hesterfield* and
Camels and Lucky Strikes, and other
North Carolina-made tobacco product*, to
smokers ail over the world.
Forty-one states and the District of
Columbia, and several cities, have a to
bacco tax. New York State ha* one of
3 cents a pack and New York City has one
of 1 cent a pack. South Carolina ha* had
a tobacco tax for many years. Cities dose
to us that have a tooacco tax are Norfolk
and Portsmouth. These are just a few
examples of a levy tnat i,- general through
out the country. North Carolina i* absol
utely obliged to have more revenue for
the support of its essential services, and
there is no good reason why it should not
have a tobacco tax as other state* have.
I hope that, as the Governor expects, the
opposition to his proposal will not be
strong enough U> defeat it,—L. G.
The Kit* of the Southeast
The General Electric Company an
nounces that it will build a 20-miJlion
doilar distribution transformer plant near
Hickory. The plant will employ 1,100
persons and will have an annual payroll
of $5,<>00,000. Thi* new* come* soon
after GE’« decision to locate it* outdoor
lighting department in Hendersonville.
The company already has plants in Golds
boro and Asheboro. So, when it* present
construction plans are carried through, it
will have four plants in North Carolina.
Other great corporations are building
factorie*, and are planning to build more,
and are setting up research laboratories,
in North Carolina and other states in the
Southeast.
The moving of the textile industry from
New England to the Southeast is by now
an old story- The selection of Southeast
ern sites for other industries is more re
cent. People sre just beginning to realize
what a remarkable phenomenon this is
and what a revolutionary development it
promise* to lead to—a vast increase in
wealth, improved standard* of living, and
an elevation of the general culture
throughout the region.
It used to be said that the “enervating
climate" was an obstacle to industrial
development in the Southeastern states.
If fUs connection it is pertinent to recall
tfeat Jof jttßtui'MMi thd flintifl Uttfe”
tjc®s in the world —the Egyptian, the
Babylonian, the Sumerian, the Greek, the
Roman —flourished within the same panel- |
lei? of latitude that bound our Southeast.
Look in your atia* and you will see that
the belt fiom the 3fltfc degree of latitude
i Jacksonville, Mobile. New Orleans I north
ward to the 3£th t Washington. Louisville)
is the same beh that contains Gibraltar.
Algiers. Cairo. Athens. Sicily, and Jeru
salem As far as climate is concerned,
there is no reason that there should not •
be in our Southeast, some day. builder*
and navigators and architects and sculp
tors and poets and philosophers equal to
those who dwelled around the shores of
the Mediterranean in ancient times.
In any event, a semi-tropicaj climate
does not have the c.sadvantages that it
used to have. As a result of invention
physical labor becomes, with every year
that passes, less and less important. A
greater and greater proportion of work
that muscle used to do it now being done
by machinery- And the work that is done
indoors—the drawing, the figuring, the
research, tne high-ieTel thinking—can now
be done in rooms from which exhausting
heat has beer, eliminated by air-condi
tioning.
It is specially interesting to read that
the General Electric officer* who chose
the sit* near Hickory did so not only on
account of obviou* factors such as trans
portation facilities, water supply, tax
rates, anc available labor. The GE's sur
vey* covered the finances of Hickory and
Catawba county, schools and churches and '
hospitals, and the area's civic dubs, radio
and television stations, newspapers, li
braries, art museums, n usic duns, and
opportunities for recreation. An import
ant question, one of the GE officers bold
the Hickory Chamber of Commerce, was
“whether official.- of the large plant would
like to jv* r. a city of tne size of •
Hickory " The fact that a big majority
of them answered yes had a great deal to
do with determining the company'* choice
of the site. —L. G.
Cocktail Parties
You can t generalize on cocktail parties,
any more than on any other subject, with
comp.ete accuracy. Some cocktail parties
are tiresome, some are not. It may depend
upon the people who are there, but not
necessarily; eien a company with a high
content of charm w.U have little charm
for a person who has been going to so
many cocktail parties that he is fed up
with them.
There are ali manner of circumstance*
that have a bearing on whether or not you
enjoy a cocktail party: for example, the
weather you have u> go through to get
there, the state of your digestion, or the
exent to which the work and worry of the
day have tired you and made you long for
a couch and a piece of reading matter in
the period that remains before dinner.
From the testimony that 1 have heard
or read, cocktail parties are more of a
plague in a city than in a small town;
which seems natural since in a city there
are so many more of them. Here in Chapel
Hill I have never heard a”y complaints
about a surfeit of cocktail parties. My
self, 1 do not go to one often and when 1
do go 1 have a good time.
It appears that in big cities like Wash
ington and New York and many
cocktail parties are given not for pleas
ure’s sake but because of somebody’s de
sire to make or maintain advantageous
contact*. They are parties with a purpose
—the purpose of some ambitious host or
hostess—and are part of a monotonous
routine.
Os course there is a preferred category
of guests, mostly VlP’s in politics and
business. These VlP's, or many of them,
have now become so weary of c<>cktail
parties that they are in rebellion. It is
a statement by one of the rebels, British
Foreign Minister Sir Anthony Eden, that
moved me to write this piece. Sir An
thony said in the House of Commons the
other day: “1 hate cocktail parties."
“Sir Anthony," comments the Balti
more Sun (here is the big city speaking),
“expresses the feeling of some millions
of American males. Cocktail parties are
an abomination.
“They have come into existence under
certain powerful pressures. In these days
of small houses and, usually, no servants,
the old-fashioned dinner party is hard to
arrange. Families incur social debts by
accepting invitations and the cocktail
party is a simple and relatively cheap
form of kill-off.
"A cocktail party comes at the wrong
time of day, for one thing. No matter
what yearnings wives may have *at 5
o'clock, most mature men want to go home
at that hour and stay there. Instead, they
hew to rush home, -with, shite and
ing CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
Orange County Representative Comments
On Governor’s Message to Legislature
the maximum removed. In
cidentally, I proposed in 1951
the removal of the maximum
tax but without success.
There are other sugges
tions that will meet with
little opposition but they are
.the ones that will not pro
duce large amounts of,
revenue. In the main tbe !
suggestions that will raise
Email amounts of revenue
are those that have been
overlooked from time to
time, while we had surpluses.
and when the need for addi
tional revenue did not exist.;
The proposal to tax to- 1
bacco products will meet!
with more opposition than'
any of the others. Tobacco;
is by far the largest money.)
crop in North Carolina and 1
the economy of the entire
eastern half of the State is
dependent upon rt. Thej
manufacture of tobacco pro
ducts is the second largest
industry in the State and
:fat take from income and
other taxes of those engaged
m the industry is an item
-of great importance.
It is true that 41 states
nave s uen a tax. yet we m-st
.remember that North ( aro
..ra is first among the states
.n both the production and
me manufacture of tobacco
and should we pas* a tooacco
slx it rroght be an invitation
for other states to increase
:heir taxes on tobacco to
- uch an extent that it would
i cripple the industry and
• eventually decrease our
over-all taxes more than
hie amount we would get
from such a tax.
i The proposed tax on soft
drinks w.U meet much op
j position from the bottling
.raustry. Some of the argu-
I mentis against this tax are;
, .and and the proposal should
r.a.e careful consideratMß.
There is a feeling, bovever,
on the part of many In tmt
Legislature that th* bottling
industry has not been pay-
Bookshop Owner, Seeing-Eye Dog Write
In Behalf of George, Beloved Collie
Fsul Smith, owner of the Ir.ti
mtU bookshop, wr.t*! to the
Weekly:
“It seems to me that some
’.Unit rather fine about the kindly,
iumane tradition of Chapel Hill
change, and then hurry to
the party.
“More often than not any
given man has to park blocks
from the scene and tramp in
•.he rain to the hostess’
house. He goes into a room
roaring with the babble of
a hundred voices. He sees
old friends, of course, but
they are already occupied.
“The cocktail thrust into
his hand is frequently warm
and dispirited. The female
who fixes her attention on
him is dull and dowdy,
though the one he sees out
of the corner of his eye is
jolly and handsome. He can
not keep his attention on his
companion.
"After a few minutes of
this, our hero—and he is a
hero—finds that his feet are
beginning to hurt. Dare he
sit down ? No one else dares.
Which is the guest of honor
and why is he being honor
ed? His wife forgot to tell
our unhappy man.
“Maybe another cocktail
will make him feel belter. If
not, then a third. What kind
of tidbit is that? It looks
good. But just as he makes
his way toward it, the last
one disappears. Time to go
home? His wife doesn’t
think so. She’s obviously
having a wonderful time
with a strange man. Doesn’t
anybody care?
“Who is that pretty little
girl? The hostess's daugh
ter? She’s the honored
gueßt? Must speak to her.
Never mind, she’s off to
another party. Heavens, it’s
9 o’clock. -Do you think you
ought to drive, dear? Better
settle down awhile. Every
body’s leaving? OK., 0.K.”
—LG.
mg its fair share of the tax
burden and that the pro
posed soft drink tax should
be approved or some alterna
tive tax should be levied that
will collect more tax from
.he bottlers.
It seems to be the cooeen
,sus of op.nice that we must
get additional revenue for
necessary services. Os course’
everybody agrees that we!
should get this money from
such sources as are best
able to bear the burden of
an increase in taxes.
The part of the message 1
dealing with recommended'
appropriations has not been
discussed as much as that
dealing with new taxes. It
i will take several day* for the
'institutions and agencies to
study the recommendations;
and see just where they;
j stand. It seems that the;
opinion of a majority of the!
members is that the Advis
ory Budget Commission didj
the very best it could under!
:he circumstances and am- 1
ditions, and that with a few
corrections here and there:
we should support the Com
m.ssion's proposals and try>
to get th? money needed to:
taxe care of them.
The organization of both
the House and the Senate
produced only one contest.'
That was for the position of I
reading clerk in the House.
‘Chapel Hill's Billy Arthur
won this place by a wide
margin over his opponent
from Kale.gh. It was my
good fortune to be named
chairman of the Democratic
caucus and a- -uch to pres
ent the name of Larry Moore
for Speaker at our orgaraza
.ion meeting. Larry is one
•A phe best qualified men for
opeaker tnat 1 have known
during the last twenty year*
aftd I predict tnat he will
, make a fine record. He is an
•■alumnus of the IMversity
• and ha- many mends in
Chapel Hill.
it about to (ft kicked around in
the matter <f George, the Gampu*
Collie.
“For four years the bookshop
has been one of the tup on
George's rounds. Ive seen him
pushed and act-jder.tally stepped
ors, but l‘»* never seen kirn bite
anyone. He is not a bit.ng <R>g
“But he's in clink. Somebody
w** bitten by a collie, ar.d George
was picked up because, being the
friendly sort of d g he is, he was
'.he easiest collie to pick up Now,
as I understand it, even the per
son who was bit says it wasn't
George who bit fe.m hut, says
the chief of police, G«- rge nsust
go.
“Why’ Perhaps because he
had the hard lurk to be the ava.i
able collie. Perhaps because f.<
had the audacity to be a victim
of hasty police action.
“George must go. lies pile
pleas of hts friends in the grade'
schools, George must go. {respite
the protests of his hundreds of
friends on the campus, the cokte
who loves everybody is eiated tori
the bum’s tush >n Chapel Hlil.
“Can you, with your influence j
do anything about it?
“Because, if George goes, the
birds in Chapel Hitl won't sing
quite as sweetly as they used to
sing, the animals on the street i
won’t walk with quite as happy
and confident a tread, and ever,
some of us humans won't be
quite as sure that Chapel Hill i*
a spot where kindliness and
justice extend even down to the
animal world.''
The following letter, as if from
Dotty Slgle, the I-reing k>* dog
who goes around"with Miss Betty
Sigle, who lives in Kenan dormi
tory, was written to Mrs. A. M.j
Jordan, the Humane Society
officer who directs the society's
work connected with dog*:
“Dear Mr*. Jordan:
“I want you to know that I am
on your aide, and I hope you ran
do something so George can corn*
back. 1 have several good reasons
for this.
“I am n graduate student in
the School of Social work here
at the University. I know how
George must feel about being
blamed for everything nay cully
dees because I am often Mamed
for what ether Seeing-Kye dogs
do. For example, they tell us w
hotels sometime*. ‘We can't bare
• Mag Eye Dog- here, becueae
Chapel HID Chaff
(Coctmced fraaa f«|t 1)
papa- is delivered may
affect the use of the radio.
A family of my acquaint
ance who live in the country
do not get a newspaper until
.he rural postman cooes
early in the afternoon, hence
m the morning they depend
on the radio for news.
Usually I get up around
;« o'clock and go out and
puck up my newspapers from
[where they have been tossed
over the wail into the yard,
nring them in. and sit down,
wi.h them in the living
.room. In a few minutes, be
sides having read the head-
Ifines. I have read a consid
erable part of the text of!
■ the most important stories.
| The result is that, it I listen
jso the 8 o'clock news broad
cast, NBC through Raleigh
m CBS through Durham,
(the news I get is stale and
j.herefore tiresome. Very
(rarely does any news come
l iver the radio that I have
[not already read in the 4
1 papers. So, 1 often let days
piass without tuning in on'
A morning news broadcast,
and when 1 do turn one on
I am mere than likely to
j .’in it off after a minute or
[so. Summing it up: for me:
:he 8 o'clock broadcast is a
washout.
Tne radio program that I
[have been getting the most
pleasure out of in the last
:ew weeks is the music that
(comes from our Chapel Hill
station. WCHL, on Sundays.
Letter to Editor
To ti* Editor:
Th*r it you for your editorial
ronct-TT.ir.g tie hab.ts of tile
young. I'm g.ad pu quoted teat
.etter to the “CfcrjUan Science
Monitor. That tail wasa\
“stringing his oid mar.. ' I don’t
question for one moment the
\enty of h:s report. That father
sounded as though he were fr id
of hi? young 'ur. a? I am of scute
ail tne friend* of hi?
(Imp** r am*.
Twa uga yMy a t kratty no,
bat welww ar otter they d.t't
count. They don't count row uc
they'll count ever. .e?s a* they
grow older. The strength :*■*
m;th the ones who are proving
■ items*-tea well-mannered, ntei.i
ger.t. ctia..er.g.ng individuals, nibs!
Lave a deep sense of reap«*aa-bil-'
ily for society and them verves
They also have delightful sense?
of humor, and a respons-veness
u all kinds of stimuli books,
music -ai. kinds of m.r.c. all
forms of art And they I.NJOI
(ud manner* wisf their peers,
are a little erobarras'ed by a
faux pa*, but are quite gewlie
about it.
I think the me?-1 important s
quality this generation has is Us*
kuaeiiy. If the “No*'’ is too luudj
They will make theirs heard, ar.d
manners be daw.fad at that point.
They have a patience with their
parent* that 1 am sure a.y gener
ation didn't have; and they hai*
a sense- of responsibility foj
' their.se: ves wh.ch is constantly
tConunued on page 111
'and it bowled at night.* New
I don’t howl at night, but bow
can I prove it?
“This is my first year in this
University, and when my mistress
brought me here in September I
' was so lonesome, and all the
‘dogs were snobbbh and wouldn't
play with me. That is, ail except
ng George. Every evening be
fore supper I was allowed to have
a run m the yard, ami every
: evening George came to play with
me. My mistress uxi it wa> good
to have me wot k off some of my
excess energy, and I admit tka.
I art a lot better m class when
1 don’t feel so restless.
“Os course, George due* have,
the bad habit of prancing irwix.
me when I’m working u» distract,
my attention, and my mistress
doe* get peeved at him, (and me),
for it, but I know her pretty dog
gone well, and 1 know she doesn't
really mind murk.
“I am certain that I am talk
ing about the real George, too.
because lately there basal been
. any roily come to play with
me before supper, and there isn't
any colly to walk with me to
class or stop by my place fur a
drink of water. Also, lately there
hasn't hern any colly pestering
my mistrve* with a cold nose ao
shell give up Mi desperation and
combed aad brushed.
“Won't yen please make them
send George back, Mrs. Jurdna.
for you see he up balds Urn spirit
of hospitality and fritadbaam of
the University of North Caro
“ Deity Sigte, jfcy D*g“
“THE BAREFOOT CUNTESSAT the moats * which
have apparently aroused considerable cogtmmi as Ike
village, was a good motion picture. One of the In jug I
liked about it was what caused see people to it—
it mas “different." and you may take that word for what
it is worth. 1 did get a little annoyed, however, after the
character* involved in tire picture ttbey were movie peo
ple) had commented for about the third or fourth time
that. "If this were a movie script we'd do ihcsaad-m.
but since this is real life, here's what we do-" ... No one
in the picture is going to win any academy award for
acting, but the best jobs are turned in by two of the
supporting players—Edmond O'Brien as as irritating
public relations man, and Marius Goring as a hypocrisy
hating South American playboy.
BASKETBALL NOTES: The impression way aotdß
original with me. but Lranie Rosenhluth. the great sophi
more forward on the Carolina squad, reminds me of an
enormous four-legged spider as he dears the hour to
gather in a rebound . . . Coach Frank McGuire dad a
beautiful job of playing to the television cameras Satur
day night as he graciously agreed to let Jackie Murdock,
the Wake Forest player who maybe-did-and-asajhe-ekdn't
foul out early in the second half, continue is the game.
Murdock forgot to reciprocate by showing the same sect
if sportsmanship when he officially and finally fouled out
m the closing minutes of the game ... Tommy Kearss,
the muscular little bkmd fellow on the Carolina freshman
squad, put on Saturday night's best show as he literacy
dribbled circles around the Wake Forest freshman opposi
tion toward the end of the preliminary. This boy is a real
hustler, but he gets in too much of a hurry for his owa
good at times. Flaying against the Duke fresh Tuesday
evening, he consistently climaxed flashy drives far the
i-asket by missing his shots.
AS THIS IS BEING written, the temperature outside
is rambling around in the neighborhood of the M'-S even
though my subject involves much mere pleasant cumbers.
It's difficult to remember, but the thermometer broke 79)
on Thursday of last week, and I left the office, camera a
hard, to record a picture of summer in January oc East
Franklin street. The first people I saw were Mrs. Hugh
Cole. Mrs. W. T. Skon. and Mr*. W. B. Pirtn They were
appropriately drt.-.-ed for the warmth, fu
tairJy, they agreed, 1 might take their picture, awrf
matter of fact, the warm weather was just what they
were talking about as I walked up. The diitii (or prr
hap- I should say anticlimax) to this *tory is—ao picture.
My apoiog.e* to the ladies, and ar. announce meet to whom
it may concern: The man you *ee carrying a camera as
not necessarily a photographer.
THE LNITED STATES*, while it has always bees a
nation of hero- worshipper*, ha* developed a strong de
bunking contingent in recent tears. The latest ckampwa
of the iconoclasts is \V illiam Lee Miller, a prof essay of
religion at Smith College, who is responsible for an arturi*
'*» the January 13th ttH* of The Reporta entitled "Some
Negative Thinkiiig abobt Norman Vincent hak." Mr
Miller's theme, in his own words: "Certainly Ptetiw
Thiniung can help when a problem rests in some uajwst*-
fied pes.-imism or lack of ctmbdeccr. But sometimes our
problem* are real, aren't they? And the* Dr. (Vale's mess
age is a dangerous counsel that we not face than." . . .
Mr Miller tells of walking to the comer drugstore near
his home and reading a new sign stuck «a the door: “Nor
jman Vincent Dale Solves. YOUR Personal PTniihmi n
[Look Magazine." Comments Mr. Miller: "MY permmdi
problems? In LOOK magazine? No. thank you."
THE GOOD OLD DAY'S: From an advertisement in
the Daily Tar Heel during the spring of IMI. we ham
"how to eat a wholesome meal for 25 ceatsu" The
as heralded by the management of Lenoir the ou
ver-itr dining establishment, included meat for eight
| cents, bread and butter three cents, milk five cent*, twa
vegetable* at three cents each. either dessert or sahd
*for three cents.
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