Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 6

Section One Wednesday Morning March 27 1963 I PAGE SIX FORT STAR-TELEGRAM THE URGE DEPARTMENT WAYWrIVr010KWAAgT4100050 I P4 V2 04 4 1 1 '4 )) 01 IN WASHINGTON Snow Deep on Cheat Mountain 4 t-4 L1'4 4 4 Tax-Free Status for Industry? VERNON LOUVIERE StaxTelegram asbington UTPSI Postmaster General Edward Day was remarking the other day on bow things have changed in his department A hundred years ago this month postal rates were first made uniform throughout the United States Up until that time transportation was the main cost in mail service and this was reflected in a scale of postage rates keyed to the distance involved Transportation costs comprised well over half of the Postoffice budget 100 years ago Today it is only about 15 per cent ot the budget It wasn't easy getting the triad through in those days Day found in his files a letter of complaint the 3 Trotter and Brothers' stagecoach firm about not maintaining schedales on their route in West Virginia Mr Jun Trotter wrote the following replay to the postmaster general "Dear Sir If the gable end of hell should blow out and shower fire smoke and melted lava for 4) days and nights it would not melt the snow enough on Cheat Mountain so as to get your damned mail out on time" BUM Televiiiin personality Johnny Carson was ore of many witesses appearing among a House congressional subcommittee investigating audience ratings sold to the radio and television industry lie recalled that the late Fred Allen had very definite opinions on broadcast ratings Allen once told a radio audience "A few ears ago we had a rating of minus two That MelinS that no one as listening to us and two people IA ho werend ent around knocking us lc 1 F'P'510 c)k 1 '1111 14AP113'ff 4 471' -tli '-4 A-Jks i --s'-''' i I 1 wz14)' '''''s i119-''-Nr 44 ''Nt---''' i --4-' 1 1 i 11's- 0 i4 1 111 t) -'i-e tgl''' IC-- lj i -7 3- Ai --2- 1 -'10 a 1 rt- -s is 1t3 )-0 i 1 tb 1 4f-ie))7 ti 7 i i fl 71' 11 I 4t Ib- ift 11 1 1 i 41 i) No i 'I i 11) I -4 1 I 141 14 i 1'4 'I- A li ly- iz-: t- -'A -------:) 1 tt 4 4 14 15 eLjet--sx 4- 145Nt 7 'N 'att 'k'''-- 7 l' 71 7 3 kt 'Z-- 40 1')-''' L'''- 4- l'- ''-'4 "lf i -'-11-- tJ'i r)- ''V''f'' 'I A -14 9'-- i 4 -z 14 t' IP''' 'f t' ttt14 c44(2g4LAM A4APIP-fr'lro 'I' '1: Texas have trograrns intended to faor neW industry by tax concessions the study shows they have had very little effect in the competition for new plants Less than one-half a I per cent or the industries seeking locations in the Southwest have chosen those states in preferene to Texas because Of the tax exemption prwrarn or another which would aid in the financing of such enterprises Texas has lost to such stales a fe plants it would like to have ha'I It said the report i most cases the industries to tax concessions make a difference are seldom of the kind capable Of making a worthwhile addition to the state's economy The factors to which seekers of new industrial locations Ive weight are WCII known and the level of taxation in a community does not stand high among them ly it is ranked seventh or eighth Fairness of a state county or city in the treatment of industry certainly is a consideration And prospective new industries might reflect that if a community is willing to discriminate in its favor in regard to taxation it might be inclined I() discriminate against it in other regards once it is established The general climate or a state or a community is far more Important to industrial prospects than any speial favors they nlight be able to wangle Included in the annexation bill which is making halting progress through the Legislature is a provision that each city may set aside a tax-free island within its borders as a lure for in Some candidates in Fort Worth's April 2 City Council election have embraced the same idea through perimps not in precisely the same form The whole idea of attracting industry by exempting it from taxes is as to fairness doubtful as to el fectiveness in doing it is intended to do The misgiings of kgislators in regard to the provision are reflected in the fact that the tax-free period was cut from 10 years to seven years during House considerat ion of the measure This is an improvement only in degree Before final action on the an bill in the Legislature a bill which is a dubious piece of lawmaking on several could wish that the legislators yvould read a recent report on this subject by the Texas Research League Others who advocate such tax exemption also might prof it from study of the report The league financed by business Interests anti esteemed by the Legislature for the competence of its work is as much concerned as anyone with attracting industry to Texas But its horoughgoing survey shows that little is to be expected from such a device Alhough all he states bordering 1 iro11 Tc1c2rain Cartoonist The 1964 'Prelim' Bouts Ifs Off to Another Bad Start Go South Young GOP Writers Advise BLUE NOTE Senator VarICP Ilartke of Indiana inserted in the Congressional Record an editorial from the Evansville Press It explained that some thoughtful and cultured correspondent tHiving read all about the impending Internal Service crackdowm on expense-account accounting dug through the lihrary and came up with a rhyme written year ago by the late Robert Frost While the correspondent didn't know the title of the Frost rhyme he suggested it might be labeled "Owed to a Tax Collector" The Frost verse: ''Never ask of money spent Where the spender think it went Nobody was ever meant To remember and invent What he did with every cent' JFK is a well known fact that President Kennedy has one of the most illegible sigmitures in the country The Retail Clerks International Association asked the President to write the in a letter congratulating the organization on is 75th anniversary International President Jan ICS Suffridige received a congotulatory letter on White House stationery hut couldnt make out the sitnature The White House confirmed that the letter was sittned by the President and not by an aide A spokesman said the President had even crossed out "Mr Suffridge" in the salutation and made it read 'Dear Jim" instead The word "tim' is easy In make out The President's own name itt'h Some rather severe steps however may have to he undertaken if the balance of payments situation is to he reserved vt any degree of prompt less Increases ill the highly fivorably American balance of trade vil the overseas would be Of assistance hut the administration is perhaps depending too heavily upon this remedy Other measures may be required--reductions in foreign aid I erhaps even restrictions upon American tourist spending abroad liestraints of any sort would he imposed reluctantly but it is becoming increasingly clear that continuing annual deficits in the balance Of payments is a problem demanding far-reaching study and a determination to eliminate them ARTHUR KROCK 1563 York Time! News M-rvir lippuldienn pohhcians agree on the current political fore-cal that the partys presidential candidate in 194 noel 111 the nuiii her of electors since Reconstruction as offsetting insurance against tho potential majorities for Kennedy in the hig city states elsewhere But kith profey-meals and amateurs in the party are split mer what their candidate's outhern Shf Odd I And the hottest public argument betwien two groups of young Itepuldicans in or fresh out of the colleges Each group publishes a more or less periodic magatinp "Advance" is a prod-'al of graduates of Harvard University who generally support the brand of liberalism for vvhich governors Rockefeller of New York and Surantmi of Pennsylvania are the leading advocates among the conceivable Republican 110111inCt'S for President next yeal "Analysis" a publication of the Eleutherian Society of the University of Pennsylvania describes itself as "the first conservative college magazine our the East Coast- There are (ither young Republican periodicals of hoth types Rut recent articles in these hvo sufficiently define the dispute over Republican Southern Noting the campaign positions taken by those Vic2 Southern Republican statewide or congressional candidates who overcame huw embedded Democratic almost expressed concern that a number had opposed equally kith Democratic candidates racial desegregation and the mounting federal judicial decisions Nkhich proclaimed it the law of the land The inference to he drawn said the Harvard bred magazine was that to carry the South the Republican l'arty is "hitching its wagon to the falling star of segregation" and its nominees were to be "more segregationist than the segregationists" If se the national party was in danger of perpetual exile from power Analysis magazine challenged thee nssumptions in tutu) and in reporting that the article in its "liberal" rftal for party consideration "was interpreted in many quarters to be an attack not on segregation hut on "conservatism' proceeded to make it pretty clear that it occupied One of these "quarters" TO this month's issue of Analysis Allan Brownfield las student at William rind Alary College yroh as follows on the basis of this construction "It is safe to say that not ono Iteptihlican was elected because he advocated segregation Instead Republicans IA ere elected they told Southern voters that it was their Democratic op ponents who supported the New Frontier philosophy Of medcare deficit spending and lii government that it itS they the Republicans vho have advocated a More reasonable and constitutional approah to government The issues were a matter of political and economic philosophy and were not racial Try as they may the liberal Republicans can not change this fact" Thbi raises the larger question which is troubling the Repuhlican professionals as we not only With respect to Southern strategy as embodied in the choice of its 1964 candidate for l'resident and of the platform on IA Inch he will stand 'this question is what substitute there except restriction of the New Front iers welfare state philosophy that has a chance of producim4 national victory in 1 l4'4? The arnrnent in favor of this of a return to Republican conservatkm that the inevitable end product of the opposite (liberal) position will be: The campaim argument that the Republicans should be returned to power because they can run more efficiently a welfare state modified in some fundamentals from the New Frontier pattern hut not enouLth to prelude the chance of cutting into the special-interest economic and racial groups as General Eisenhower did in 1952 and 1956 And they ilso should be returned because confidentially they agree with the dominant Democratic philosophy that "the ntional government should be supreme and that the states are merely relics of the past yet do not say these things (pule as loud" Brownfield's words) Borrowed Wit No Cure Yet A New York Ll ervos a large account in a near by city that is most easily reached hy an early morning train (ince the agency president made the trip alone Going Into the dining car he said to the steward "I'd like to try that S6 breakfast my men always report when they ride this train --Fort Myers Despite the administration's growing concern over the accumulating deficit in I he balance of international payments a net outflow of dollars from the country the situation is unimproved in the first quarter of the year It may have worsened Officials estimate that the deficit for January February and March will total at least $600 million compared with first quarter deficits of $462 in in 1962 in in MI and PO nil! lion in I 9M The quarter! deficits will vary through the remainder of the year but at this rate the deficit for 1963 would reach $24 billion which is the figure it at last year and that was a four-year low Clearly the administration's hope of bringing the nation's international accounts into better balance is a long way from fulfillment The seriousness of the situation lies in the fact that the accumulation of dollar credits amassed abroad constitut es a potential claim upon this govern inc t's gold reserves which back the currency They have dwindled to approximately IG billion under conversion of foreign dollar credits to gold The reserves by contrast stood at $24 billion in l9119 It is to the I I crest of most trailing nations to help preserve the sta tidily of the dollar because of its importance as an international currency For I is reason the West European central banks have acted generally to restrain the drain on gold The restraint however may not endure if the LI balance of payments continues to he heavily adverse and if suspicions of financial Irresponsibility grow as a result of persisting large deficits In the federal government's budgets It would be far better if the drain on gold were checked by mended fiscal practices rather than through the imposition of controls which would be a last resort in any ease THE NEIGHBORS by Clark LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE ri)1161tirlfItc i iOhltIt1 1rt dfrOtt iiN Mid the 4if I eleePaill tle rulF ff edit tf it Nr CO (Jr tertir vt IOC) I at 11 leitUr 1ear 131resc tirn rereIct11 10141 talreii 1611 114 VC 7'11111J1rI flexed my neighbors and ithout allowing us to vote in any manner Then shown that the revenue from the area would not pay for eity services we learned that no services were planned To date we ha received nothing but a tax receipt Ntany people complain that the federal government is taking away the rights of the state and local governments Rut here is one example of wha' leads to such a takeover BYERS It 2 Pox 18 Grand Prairie Space for Animals i 1 i 7 ----x i i 1-1 1 4 6 7 0 -Tr- 4 4 rA f'4 -4 j--------- 444 1 Lt The youthful editorial disputants over Republican strategy do not however divide on the soundness Of the theory nii el in current politics that the South is the region where opens the rnost well as the best prospect of find-new Republican strength This theory is that industry and people are moving south for example Houston Dallas and ktlanta lead a procession of loom towns the rest of the natior can it that this prosperity pro ides the bet vote-breeding ground for a modern -conservative- though tmt reactionary political philosophy VivanCts and Analysis magazines are some hat the counterpart of kids fighting the preliminary bouts before the champion and the challenger climb Into the ring But they definitely are setting the sta4e of the encounter at the INA Eeptitilican national convention Lord Beveridge the 84-year-o1d economist generally regarded as the architect of the British welfare state whose death occurred in Oxford the other (lay must have departed life in considerable disappointment at the outcome of his concept The concept was noble Iord Beveridge! abhorred Nvhat lie saw about him as the "five giants of want sickness squalor idleness and ignorance" lie battled all of them and particularly unemployment for which he said "somewhere in the world there is a cure" Ile wrote a book "Full Employment in a Free Society" published in 1944 Ile lived to see SOMP of his re- forms incorporated into the fabric of British law and society among them state medicine the national health plan But the achievement of full employment defeated him At his death II nemployment remained a serious British problem in a soggy ccon()Illy even Os it is in the United States and in other of the votlds most advaneed nations Perhaps there is indeed "somewhere a cure" but assuredly it has not yet been found neither in the Western welfare state nor in communism's partition of poverty Praise for Hamm "Wouldn't a NEW sofa be cheaper The kids could have it lookmg like an antlque in no very fond of zoos and agree lib tilt desirability of Lt a giraffe or N0 included Ill olluc I have lone wished however that all animals could have more rouln t(1T11 for running and healthy exercise I feel that health conblitment and pectancy among zoo animals inilht be considerably increased thereby Surely this would over the years at least pail ially pay tor the initial cost Of fencing a 1111:0 rUnTlintz area say at loast two Or three city blocks in extent One such large are3 could probably he used sinultaneously by many or most of the herbivorous animals Nho along mell ecouh in nature A consi(erahle lentlh of eisting bluff at the Vort Worth Zoo could serve as one side Of such an enclosure It might be morth thinking about 1lF11171) WITPERNIN 426 May 'Historic Inevitability' Atlantic Unify Goal of Magazine FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM Dimly: the past two years it has been my pleasure to mine with Hamm on the Fort Worth Park Board During his tenure as president of the board the Park Department has undergone major alterations all of which I believe to be gooil The zoo has a master plan made hy loc11 engineers The Park Department has heen redistricted in order to cut Il1aMt0t1111Cts cost The Botanic Gardens bkien upgraded and a night lighting system installed the fountains are operating again the park maintenance equipment has been upgraded and much of it is nov the 'Fun in Fort Worth' program has been instituted the last summer was highly successful in publicizing Fort Worth Mr Hamm deserves much of the CtTdit for these changes and had he not been interested in our town they not have been accomplished lie put in More hours in Park Department work than any other member of the board I know Ntr HAMM to he thoroughly capable completely hont st and vitally interested in otir town In my opinion we could get no better man on or cry Council Rights Violated? SENATOR SOAPER Says: How can we interest young people in physical fitness when IMickey Mantle the fabulous invalid Of baseball limps in to sign a $100000 CHARLES HAWS 2232 Wilshire Blvd Trademork Registered Patent Office MORNING-EVENING-SUNDAY Combining the Fort Worth Star established February 1 1906 the fart Worth Telegram purchased January 1 )909 the Fort Worth Record purchased Nosernher 1 1925 Second doss postage paid at Fort Worth Texas Amen Carter Anion Carter Jr Publishrer-1923-1935 Publisher TM PHONE NUMBERS Classified Department ED 77722 All 0tIer Departments ED 6-9271 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Theo Associated Press ix entitled exclusively to the use for republication of oil the local news printed in II newspaper as well os all (AP) news dospatchris The Stot-Telegrain is served by Associated Press (AP) 3 wires New York Times INYTI Chicogo Tribune Service' (CIS) Chic a go Doily Nws tCDN' Lou Angles Times Washington Post and North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA) SUBSCRIPTION RATES-By Carrier Delivery One Week Evening only 30c (State Tan lc-31cr One Week Evening and Sunday 40c (State Tan lc-41C On Week Morning Evning Sunday 70c (State Ton lc-71c) By the Month-Morning or Evening only 123 (State Tax 3c-L28) By the Month-Morning or Evening with Sunday 175 (State Tax 4c-179) By the Month-Morning and Evening and Sunday 300 (Stat lax 6c-306( Single copies Evening 3c Morning 5c Sunday 20c No State Ton) By Math Daily and Sunday per month 175 (State You 4c-179' per yor 2000 (Slot Tax 40c-2040 Sunder only 85c par month (State Tax 2c-137c) 2 50 for 3 months srors Tax 3c-2 57I per Ferr MOO (Stott Ton 20c-10 20 The Star-Telegram is an inder end Democratic netupa per Stryortittg what it believes to he right and opposing it believes to be wrong regardless of patsy politics: rublishing the news fairly and impartially in all times By DAVIT) BARNETT WASHINGTON CCANA)--A quarterly magazine backed by some of the biggest names in international affairs on both sides of the Atlantic has been started by the Atlantic Council of the United States Accordin to the eiitors Theodore Achilles former State Department counselor and ambassador and Richard 1 Wallace director general of the -We promote ro single point of iew other than the point of view that the Atlantic community is a historic inevitability and somehow despite temporary setbacks rind diversions a true Atlantic community will come into beim: during the lifetime of most of us" The first issue of which 7500 copies were printed contains 13 articles by siJoh men as former St-cretary of state tian A Herter: Lord Franks the former Sr Oliver Franks British -imbassador to the United States: lohn Holmes tircsident of ttle Canadian Instituto of International ffairis Rostow Dtmartment counselor: Gen Lauris Norstd chairman of the Atlantic council ale! Raymond Aron French political scientist The mazazine called "The Atlantic COMMUnIty Quarterly" is sponsfrel by the Atlantx Council a nomprtlit non partisan educational orzanrzatton set up to stimulate "thrbuzht and with respect to the need and prnblorrs cf de velopinz greater Atlantle Lmty' Eventually said the council hopes the quarterly will be self-sustain in: A S5 rat been set A prefae te f-rt -Pus ncw nzaup feunded (11 tho that snmethrz new is beinz 1ern 17 the w-rld today ard it is cur to you the dialoz attendant en The editors nitnr the ertre Atlantic commumty and to prrt the 1et ef thk lltrcrn wherever appear" liesides the artclus the Lrst issue in its material frm sLitements of Pre lent Kennedy fl7ime and Prectflottt Crrs -f arc rp Ache 7 aytn art Iew5 eter ef rne three fxPresderts ef the T-7t-1 States are hcn ora-y chairmen Ropr is chairman nf the etcrtal advsory board of the quarterly The case of the Bell Helicopter area -s Fort Worth seems simple: Until it receix es something for their money from the City of Fort Worth their constitutional rrThis my opinion are being whited foiks in the Bell area support their community They pay county taxes for the upkcep of their roads etc They pay gasolme tax to support the state highuays They support the "free cultural' activities in Fort Worth by trading with the Fort Worth merchants who pay a city tax These free cultural activities attract people to Fort Worth and they trade with tho merchaws who pay taxes I ha 011 found ery much that was free ri Fort Worth and I think you will find that tho Bell folks don't owe the City of Fort Worth a dime and dont want any services The leak11 I10A fOlkS OWSidt the city limits of Fort Worth 11 outside is to be free of the city That SeenTS to be hard far some folks to understand In 1961 the City of Grand Prairie an Boxing Uncivilized The man at the next desk says his silhouette is getting more and more unfashionable Now even the postoffice is talking of switching to tall slim mailboxes Man's inhumanity to rnan that's my clissification for this so-called sport called -boxinz the gladiators to the lions also caned a sport noth ha0 a hi ri common raeh has the Nolonce and hloodshed that thrill its spectators Is there no compassionate uoy of civilizin4 bxmz MRS PHYLLIS TURNBULL Dept 18 9th Weather Stidn Larson AFT Wash The trend in art is toward the primitive childlike and unsophisticated techniques Nv lc is one of tho reasons it is so much fun to watch a second-division baseball team I tS 1.