Editorial and Opinion
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In 1941 the Legislature of North Carolina became the
first governmental body in the world to go on record as
favoring a plan of world government..This resolution call
ed for the United States to take the lead in organizing
world government based on law, courts and punishment.
In theory, wars would be impossible.
Since World War 11, the plan has been approved by 21
igates and three foreign countries. Great thinkers and lead
ers all over the world have stated that in their opinion,
world government or world federation is the only answer
to peace.
•• Now 10 years later members of the VFW and the DAR
are leading a fight in the state capitol to repeal this resolu
tion. Their principal obpection being, “It has Commu
nistisf tendancies.” ‘
Here is a movement devoted to one thing, a peaceful
world. Here is another movement* designed to tear down.
Regardless of what the Legislature of North Carolina does
on this_ matter, following World War III, the world, if
there is a world will turn to a world community, based
on the same principles on Which our own Country is
founded.
The Tar Heel State has an excellent opportunity to be
recorded in the history books as being the first body of
government in history to approve the principles of a United
Countries of the World. It will be a shame if our state,
giving way to the votes of a few minority pressure groups,
rescinds its act of courage ten years ago.
Inflation Menace
Inflation is the most immediate and serious menace
confronting our country. If not blocked, it will impair the
assets of every bank, insurance company, the bank deposits
and dollar securities of every business, harming employees,
stockholders and citizens in all walks.
Between 1.941 and 1950, World War II inflation cut
in half the purchasing power of our dollar. If by over
spending and deficit financing we now permit further in
flation, our 1941-100c dollar may be worth only 25c or
less by i960. This would again harm most seriously those
thrifty individuals whose savings have largely supplied the
better tools and technology-$6ooo per worker-upon which
our high scale of living rests.
Such inflation would again cuf in two the value of.bank
deposits and dollar "securities of all business enterprises.
It would automatically, without change of our tax laws,
increase the tax rates ,of lower income groups by 40 or
^5d%. • , , :
Lenin,said in substance, “We will destroy the free market
system of capitalism by printing so many bonds and so
much money; that the capitalists will choke on them.” If
we want to preserve constitutional liberty and economic
freedom, we must fight now against further inflation as
we wodld to stop a pestilence.
- What is needed is - education at tire grassroots level so
that cithern knowing the facts will demand of their re
presentatives in Washington sound financial policies. Prices
fixing, rationing, bureaucratic controls * all are the pro- “
ducts *of"inflationary'prices rises. They can be made
necessary and maximum production preserved if we balance
the budget and pay as we go. No war can be fought with
tomorrow’s guns and airplanes. Only today’s production
and the accumulation of yesterday can be used to fight
a war. The" sacrifice-bfr goods amd wealth must be made
currently as we apply this current production To defense
and war purposes. If we tax into the Federal Treasury a
corresponding portion of current purchasing power, ws
lirjnit the demand for civilian goods and enable the govern
ment to pay as we go, balance the budget and avoid infla
tion. »
But, as a first step, we must cut out of the Federal bud
get, as^leroanded by Senator Harry F. Byrd, $7 billions of
non-defense and partly wasteful Federal expenditures.'Men
aced by communism, our defense misuse of taxpayers’
money to buy with handouts from the Federal Treasury,
the votes of selfish minority pressure groups.
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PRESS COMMENT
Charity And High -
Hospital Costs
From The Winston-Salem Journal
The average daily per patient
hospital care cost for 1951 and
1952 has been estimated by the
North Carolina Hospital Associa
tion at $13.
The rate of $13 a day for hos
pital care runs quickly into mo
ney. It evokes from people of
modest income the protest that
hospital and medical costs are a1
together too high, and seemingly
brings nearer to American private
medicine the ominous shadow of
“State medicine.”_ _•_
But one of the principal reasons
why hospital costs .to the patient
are so high now, association
spokesman say, is the heavy and
constantl yihcreasing load of cha
constantly increasing load of cha
tion must carry.
The hospitals, while they get
some help from the Duke En
dowment, the North Carolina
Medical Care Commissions and the
Kate Bitting Reynolds Foundation,
and some financial assistance ,from
cities and .counties > in handling
charity cases, do not presently
obtain anything in the neighbor
hood of enough funds from these
sources to meet all the expense
of hospitalizing chairty cases, the
total costs for which exceed $1,
800,000 a year.
So the paying patient must be
charged ip&re in order for the
hospitals to provide adequate care
for charity patients and at the
same time remain solvent and able
to remain in operation. The enor
mity of the problem is indicated
in the fact that while the Duke
Endowment now pays the hos
pitals $1 per indigent patient day,
and the Medical Care Commission
provides $1 a day as long as its
$300,000 annual appropriation
lasts, funds from these two sources
provide only, two-thirteenths of
the total costs for the care of
chairty patients.
This is one of the major pro
blems to be solved in North Caro
lina and American medicine if we
are to retain our free system of
medical care. The hospitals are
seeking a larger appropriation of
State funds to meet this chairty
patient expense and prevent fur
ther rises in the cost of hospital
care to paying patients.
Evidently, if this “line” isn’t
held, either through State and lo
cal public fund assistance, or
otherwise, not only the hospitals
but the whole system of private
medicine and the health of the
North Carolina public, .will suffer
serious hurt.
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Scholastic Frat
Initiates Foot
From County
Chapel Hill — Four University
of North Carolina freshmen from
Chapel Hill were among 82 stu
dents initiated Tuesday night into
Ph I Eta Sigma, TiatlbnaT scholar
ship fraternity for freshmen only,
at ceremonies in the Dialectic
Senate Hill.
Local students taken into the
organization, which accepts mem
bers only if they make A (95
100) on at least half of their
courses and no less than a B on
the other half, are: Donald C.
Carroll, Nalthaniel L. Sparrow,
John A. Sullivan and Richard B.
Wilson.-: • '—; —
At the ceremonies Tuesday
sight, John L. Hazlehurst, III,
Henderson, president of the frater
nity, presided. Dean Ernest L.
Mackie is the faculty advisor.
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American farmers were using
410.000 mechanical com pickers in
1950, compared to 120,000 in use
in 1941.
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Legislative Summary
NOTE: This is another of a series
of weekly summaries of the work
of the North Carolina General
Assembly of 1951. It is confined
to discussions of matters of gener
al interest and major importance.
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March 1 marked the opening of
the third calendar month and the
48th work day for the 1951 Gen
eral Assembly. The 769 bills in
troduced by that time included
most of the major proposals anti
cipated. Standing committees have
acted on about 45% of'the bills,
and floor action has kept pace
with committee reports. The point
appropriations and finance com
mittees, twin barometers of legi
slative progress, show signs of be
ing ready to draft their substitutes
for the Advisory Budget Commis
sion’s bills dealing with spending
and raising money. The question
on which there is most disagree
ment is whether-the- decision to
spend the appropriations bill to
a subcommittee will lengthen or
shorten debate on spending; the
answer to this question will deter
mine when the legislature will
adjourn.
Appropriations
The joint appropriations com
mittee this week made final plans
for getting down to the job of
determining who gets how much.,
In a surprise move an 18-man
subcommittee was appointed to
m^ke the* final study Of the ap
propriations bill. This unusual ac
tion followed a public statement
by the ehainften vice chairmen of
the House and Senate committees
suggesting that some of the Ad
visory Budget Commission’s re
commendations can be eyceeded
without • levying additional taxes.
Seating that an increase in state
revenues seems evident, the com
mittee heads went on record as.
favoring a $2200-$3100 pay. scale
for teachers, additional funds for,
school buses, maintaining the pre
sent teacher load, and an upward
revision of state employees' sal- i
aries. Not as optimistic, however,
the assistant director of the Igudget >
has questioned the Wisdom of in-1
creased spending without provid
ing additional revenue sources.
its permanent improvements sub
committee, the joint committee
voted to recommend that $150,000
previously allocated to the State
Fund revent to the general fund,!
but delayed action on $794,940 ap
ptcpriated for state parks until
another subcommittee can deter- i
mine whether the funds "have, been
frozen by federal regulations. Ac
tion on the 1948 $1 million ap
propriation for a state art gallery
was poaponed until the subcom
mittee consiedring the whole bud
get brings in its report. ”1
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Propositions and Grievances
The time-honored House com
mittee -bearing this name on
Thursday gave HB 186, which
would submit to the people an
all-or-nothing referendum on li
quor, beer, and wine, an unfavor
able report by an unannounced
vote. A long-shot attempt by pro
ponents to take the bill from the
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Raleigh — One of the most in
erestir.g questions before the
legislature is one that now is in
he hands of the Join/t Finance
Committee. And that is: Is farm
machinery manufacturing equrp
nent?
Farm machinery now comes un
ier the th^ee present sales tix.
Manufacturing equipment, such as
;exiale 'machinery, uoes not, out
is charged the wholesale tax of
me-twentieth of one percent
Reip. B. X Satterfield of Person
m'd Rep- John Uimstead of Orang'
last week sponsored amendments
raising the wholesale tax. Satter
field's would boost it to one-tenth
oif one percent, while Umstead's
would raise it to one-fifth of one
percent. Both would classify farm
machinery a s “manufacturing
equipment”, and shift it from the
thre percent tax bracket to the
lesser wholesale tax charge.'
If the General Assembly follows
its general attitude of “no new
taxes” the proposed raises in the
wholesale tax will be defeated.
But there is a strong possibility
that the agricultural counties’
representatives will rally behind
the proposal to shift farm! ma
chinery into the lower tax brack
et.
Rep. Satterfield claims thait
farm machinery is used ‘n the
manufacture of food” and is just
as much manufacturing equipment
as textile machinery. “Textile
machinery manufactures what
goes on the outside of a person,"
he siys, “while farm machinery
is used to manufacture the food
that goes on the inside of that
same person. And this is just as
important, if not more so, than
the manufacture of textiles.”
He has a good arguing point,
but you can bet that he will find
opposition from the textile
dustry. and the unban centers Jt
more than likely will l^ ^
proposed amendments as
anottttr grab by the farmers"
If this reclassification of fant!
machinery can be effected
it being placed in the lower tax
bracket, the action would have -
direct effect on another prqposej
revenue act camendmen-t. This »
the one--sponsored by Umstead
Rep. Tcm Allen of Granville and
Reft Alonzo Edwards of Greens
-to raise the sales tax limit of
sale of a single article from Ik
to $30.
Much of the opposition to such
a boost comes from the farmers
who don’t relish paying higher
taxes on .their farm machinery and
equipment. If this change to man
ufacturing equipment and the
lower wholesale tax goes through
however, it would automatically
eliminate that opposition,
Thus, by passage of either the*
Satterfield or Umstead ‘amend
ment, the Joint Finance Commit
tee would wipe out a big par,
of the opposition to raising the
sales tax limit.
This would eliminate a valutf^
ally of the N. C. Automobile Deal
ers Asociation and the N. C. Mer
chants Association in their fight
against boosting the sales tax
limit.
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The battle last week between
the ipar and non-ipar banks, won
•by the latter, had seme interesting
sidelights.
First, perhaps, a definition of
par- and non-par is in order. A
par bank is one that cashes a
check at face value. A non-par
ibank is one that makes a small
charge for cashing-the checks
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