CAPITAL REPORTER
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camps to see how they are ope
rated.
Apparently, the former Win
ston-Salem police chief is the
man for the job.
Drafting of doctors in North
Carolina apparently is hitting
hardest where doctors are most
needed. From reports /cross the
State, the first call seemed to hit
the rural sections or small towns
where they had only one or two
doctors.
Any doctor who get his train
ing at government expense should
be ready and willing to repay his
country by entering the service.
But there has been a dearth of
“country doctors” for a long
time. It seems ironical that the
young men who entered general
, •
practice where they- were most
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needed should be the first to get
the nod.
While on the medical subject,
let’s toss a few orchids to the
doctors for the plan to give a
half-million dollars to aid in
training of more doctors. It’s a
shame they didn’t* use their mil
lion-dollar anti-socialised medi
cine propaganda campaign money
for the same purpose.
While opposing socialised medi
cine, several Tar Heel doctors
have told me thaf they realisa
the problem of providing medical
attention is becoming acute. And
they admit that it’s up to the
medical profession to do some
thing about it.
It comes back to the same
thing. If you don’t want the gov
ernment stepping in on the job,
you have to do it yourself—and
you can always do it better and
cheaper. The sooner everyone
realises this and quits sticking
their hands olit to Uncle Sam and
to State government, the better
off well all be.
The telephone companies are
doing all right in the raise-get
ting field. Recently the Utilities
Commission has granted a num
ber of boosts. Last week, for ex
ample, the Western Carolina Tel
ephone Co. of Franklin was al
lowed an $8,000-a-year boost in
gross income. The Norfolk and
Carolina Telephone A Telegraph
Company of Elisabeth City got a
raise of $52,000 gross income,
which will add $25,000 a year to
its net take—and raise rates in
Elisabeth City, Hertford, Eden
ton and Manteo.
And by the time you read this
Southern Bell and Carolina Tele
phone company both will have
been allowed boosts. Southern
Bell asked $3,000,000 but will not
get more than 75 per cent of that,
if that much. Carolina wanted
another million and a quarter, but
that was lowered.
The boosts are being granted
on the basis of added investments
in the companies. They are just
ified on the basis of the company
getting a certain percentage re
turn on its total investment.
Not being a wisard in high fi
nance, it doesn’t make sense to
me.
For example, and this is a hy
pothetical case:
It seems to me that if you’re
getting a return of one dollar
each per telephone that you’ll get
the same rate of return no mat
ter whether you add to your in
vestment by adding 1,000 more
telephones or not.
In other words, if the company;
is valued at $1,000,000 and has j
10,000 phones, the rate is set so
By ?Oliy EDISON for LL-ft E.
that these bring in a return of
around six and one-half per cent.
If you spend another 9100,000 and
add another 1,000 phones, it would
seem that the same rate on these
additional^ telephones would bring
in the same percentage.
But, of course, dumb me didn't
add in all the “depreciation," the
"lower value of the dollar," and
all the otheT gimmicks that a big
corporation can dream up to clip
the customers.
In the past, the Utilities Com
mission granted a rasie and for
got about it until the company
asked for another boost. Witt
the expanded personnel, it now
hopes to check at the end of each
year and see whether or not the
companies are making the “small
profit” they claim or not.
One road-building contractor
got caught trying to put down
a road that didn’t meet specifi
cations recently. He was resur
facing a strip on one of the more
widely - traveled eastwest high
ways. He didn’t see fit to put as
thick a coating on It as he was
supposed to, but a sharp-eyed
Highway Department inspector
caught him. He had to go back
and put down another layer. Est
imated cost — out of his own
pocket—because he didn't do it
right the first time varies from
$60,000 to $100,000.
An then, this same contractor
was reported as saying that he
had “been getting by with it” for
the past 10 years.
Maybe the Highway Depart
ment needs a few more sharp
eyed inspectors.
Big corporations are expecting
the excess profits tax and are do
ing something about it. There’s
a flood of applications for new
corporations going through Sec
retary of State Thad Eure’s of
fice these days. Many of them
have identical names on them. In
other words, one big corporation
would have to pay a big excess
tax. But if it divides into three
small ones, splitting profits, it
will pay smaller excess taxes—if
any. The individual taxpayer
still is hooked, though.
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Gastonia, N. C.
High Level
In Utah’s 2nd District, two
women ran against one another
for Congress. The outstanding
feature of their battle was the
high level on which they fought
it out. They stuck to the issues,
did not indulge in personalities.
Conceding her defeat, Mrs. Ivy
Priest, the Republican candidate,
congratulated her victorious op
ponent, Democrat Reva Beck Bo
sone, for conducting a “clean
campaign.” . ., f
Here’s another record to point
to with pride.
Moca Praia*
A chairman of one of the large
railroads complimented his wom
en employes for their gracious
ness, poise and dignity. It was
their viewpoints, he pointed out,
that were responsible for many
of the new features in today’s
modern trains.
A I.ong Way
And Ms. Eleanor Roosevelt,
who believes in os, says we’ve
come a long way. As proof, she
refers to the position of women
i* the UN as advisers, heads of
commissions and delegates. “They
.have graduated,” she says, “from
exclusion from business and the
professions to almost complete
acceptance and equality and are
now generally treated as virtual
ly on a par with men in the po
litical world at home and
abroad.”
Peace and Progress
In two recent speeches by pub
lic officials, we found much food
for thought. Associate Justice
William O. Douglas of the Su
preme Court urged us to invest
in international progress, not
only money, but also sympathy
and understanding. “Millions of
the peoples of the earth,” he said,
“are trying to do today for them
selves and their children what our
forefathers did for us in 1778.
Their revolutions need manage
ment and direction. It will be
shameful if when the history of
the period is written, America is
credited with suppressing these
struggles.”
General Omar Bradley, Chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
had this to say about our future:
“Today we would trade all mili
tary power for a century of
peace. But no easy trades are
on the open market. We must
earn the world righteousness we
seek and the peace we so earn
estly desire. Evidently our labors
have just begun.”
Seems to us there’s a meeting
of minds here If we help tha
little people everywhere to*a bet
ter life, we are well on the way
to the world righteousnss Gen
eral Bradley wisely advises us to
seek.
Goats at Large
Last August, when the UN
counter attack in Korea occupied
everyone’* . attention, Congress
took up a bill to regulate the
“running at large of goats" in
the District of Columbia. Thia
may sound absurd, but it hap
pens all the time, because Con
gress has' to run the city of
Washington. Last year the
House District Committee spent
3,000 hours on District manage
ment.
But this waste of valuable time
need not continue. A Home Bula
bill will come up again next ses
sion; last year it passed the Sen
ate and was held up in the Dis
trict House Committee. Be sure
your Congressman supports this
time-saving measure.
A Pair Chance
How can we give every boy
and girl a fair chanca? Why do
some of them grow up into mis
chief makers, outcasts, or shy,
hostile people?
The White House Conference
on Children and Youth, meeting
this month, will attempt to an
swer these important questions.
Experts on child care from all
over the country worked out
plans and programs to be dis
cussed. And thousands of local
groups in every state prepared
recommendations; most of them
urged increased health, school,
recreation and housing facilities,
plus help for low-income groups.
We will give you more specific
reports after the Conference Is
over. » . ,
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