Friday, February 23, 1962

Is Bobby Kennedy Looking To 68?

Does Bobby Kennedy have his eyes on the invaluable contacts should he launch his own effort Presidency in 1968 when his older brother would for public office at some future date, be stepping down from a presumed two terms in

Judging From His Recent Map

the White House?

The recent global tour of the Attorney General has given rise to a wave of speculation that he may soon be given a considerably more responsible position in the administration than he has today, perhaps the second step on the road to becoming the second most informed man on governmental affairs by 1968.

Already many of the close observ^ers -idf xactivi-ties in Washington are asserting that Robert

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tion as assistant I^esidejit and that his influence concerned, there is justification in speculation that IS much greater than that occupied by Sherman he may play a more prominent role in future de-

The fact that he sits on the National Security Council at the direction of the President has caused little stir, but it perhaps is significant in that normally the Attorney General does not sit with this high level group. It is. perhaps also significant that the Attorney General played a leading role in the investigation and subsequent realignment of the Central Intelligence Agency following the fiasco of the Cuban invasion.

Now wit^his semi-official world tour projecting him prominently into the realm of international

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Adams during the Eisenhower administration, or even Harry Hopkins during the Roosevelt administration.

There appears to be general agreement that the President has great confidence in the opinion of his younger brother and that he is often the sounding board of the President even if he doesnt make decisions on some matters of national scope. It is also apparently the concensus of most veteran observers that Robert Kennedy is a man of considerable ability along with being a tireless worker in whatever assignment he is given.

As the manager ot the Kennedy presidential campaign, both during the battle for the nomination and during the fight with the Republicans, it appears that the younger Kennedy is still handling the primary duties of keeping domestic fences mended for the President. That in itself would afford him

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By LYNN NISBET NON-MONEY - Most people think of public welfare in terms of financial aid it renders to Indigents. The whole program comes in for vigorous criticism every once in a while for wasting money by paying it to unworthy recipients. Dr. Ellen Winston, state commissioner, told the Wake County Cancer Society the other day that financial aid is by no means the only service her agency renders. Many more people come seeking assistance ulth problems that do not need money. Among these services are adoptions, parole supervision, and numerous phases of domestic relations.

PICTURE - The little flurry about who authorized and with what authority the hanging of a photo portra* cf er Joe Hunt in the office of the House of Representatives recalls another more famous instance of a strange protrait appearing on the capitol walls.

For many years a life size portrait of Henry Clay occupied the space between the windows on the south wall of the hall of the House behind the Speakers stand. Many people asked questions about w'hy it was there, without getting satisfactoiy' an-sw^ers. Year after year nothing was done about.

During his campaign for Governor in 1940 the late A. J. Maxwell spoke all over North Carolina in criticism of the Clay portrait in a place of honor when there was no similar portrait of Zeb Vance or Charles B. Aycock.

MISPLACED - He said the only connection Henry Clay ever had with Raleigh or North Carolina was when he sat under a tree on capitol square and wrote the famous letter in which he declared he would rather be right than president. With a grin Maxwell suggested he wound up by being neither.

Anyway it wasnt many years after that until the Clay portrait was replaced with one of Zeb Vance, and the old capitol took on more of a North Carolina atmosphere.

It has been the custom for several years to have photoportraits of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor displayed on the reception desk in the rotunda of the capitol. Walls of the Attorney Generals office

are filled with pictures of former occupants of that office, living and dead. The highway commLsslon posts photo-portraits of all chairmen and C&D has all former directors. There is ample general precedent for the hanging of a picture of the Speaker of the House in the office, but no specific precedent. It has never been done before. Many people question whether the merr ^^ct that by accident of hist' 'e was the last Speaker oreside over the

House in old capitol is suf

ficient reason for posting his picture. And, anyway, it isnt at all certain he will prove to be the last. It is hoped to have the new State House ready for the 1963 session, but many

things might happen to delay

its opening. Will the first Speaker to officiate in the new building be entitled to a picture on the wall for that?

EAGLES - The National Audubon Society has recently come up with some literature regarding eagles, legal and illegal, golden and bald. The bald eagle, our national symbol, has been protected by federal law since 1940, but the golden eagle has had no such protection As matters stand now. it Is legal to kill a golden eagle but illegal to kill a bald eagle.

Further, the Society has started a movement to ask congress to put both birds under federal (and therefore state i protection. There are some good reasons for this. First, both species have become scarce enough to stand in danger of extinction. Secondly, it takes a trained ornithologist to distinguish the species until the two become four years old. Bald eagles do not grow a white head and tail feathers until they are four years old.

North Carolina has both the bald and the golden eagle. This state also had a number of hunters who still think that any kind of hawk-like bird ought to be shot on sight. Perhaps it would be a good idea to have all eagles protected, jus to keep the breed from getting into the whooping crane or passenger pigeon category. It takes a good man, and a good sport, to refrain from pulling the trigger when he is not sure whether the intended victim is legal quarry.

cisions relating to international relations.

If he does not already occupy that position, there is growing indication that Robert Kennedy may soon be the second most influential individual in the nations capital, and some day in the future may make a bid to occupy the post now held by his brother, the President.

Space Race No Longer In The Sprint Stage

With Col. Glenns successful orbit of the earth a matter of history and space experts still going over the data collected from the flight, it is well that the U.S. pause to take stock of its position in the space-age race.

The crash program of the space age which opened with the success of the Soviets Sputnik I apparently is over. The race is leveling out into a distance contest rather than a sprint, Russia put a^ man into orbit months before the United States.

Now the U.S. has also put a man into orbit. The next big jump appears to be putting a man on the By PATRICIA MOORE

moon.

In the meantime, looking back over the first years of the space age, many achievements have filled the spaces between the big milestones of first successful orbits and manned orbital flights.

The United States followed the Soviet Union both in putting a satellite into orbit and in putting a man into orbital flight. It apparently is behind the Soviet Union in achieving maximum power in

its rockets which propell space vehicles. On the _____ ^____

other hand, the United States has put many more into the Associated Artists satellites into orbit than have the Soviets. The United States still has many satellites in orbit sending back information on conditions in space, and over the years this data has given the U.S. considerably more information on space than have the Soviet instruments.

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cates a long-range advantage for the U.S. The broad program of space exploration undertaken bv the United States stands in distinct contrast to

Then And Now Together

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The old and the new. wise and the Impetuous, there and the here . . .

An old plow from 1860 stood in an upstairs room of the Greenville Art Center In the midst of painting by very alive artists competing for en-

how much could be plowed with it, compared to the advances of the plow of today. The old wood was raw.

The plow- stood alone and compared to the present.

How much longer would It be there. . .exposed to the age its owner never dreamed of?

Associated Artists of North Carolina. It will remain open for several weeks.

A multicolor of hues stood immediately behind the old plow. Some iron sculpture was in front. Across, a collage using newspaper. Moaem art modem people, P.owers. buildings.

Pitt County held at the art center in December.

There was a notation telling

Into the halls of the art center has come an exhibition which will be worthy of view and representative of some of North Carolinas best artists. Some of it, of course, is what you call modem, and some is sort of architectural; there are collages, now popular. And some wonderful contemporary paintings which anyone could identify with.

The exhibition will open Sunday, with the meeting of the

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the rather limited program of exploration undertaken by the Soviets.

It seems reasonable to assume that the United States is now in a position to build on its basic space A

program foundation with considerably more speed / l Illillll y ^Oli0(J0

than the Soviets. It also appears reasonable to assume that the next few years will see the United States achieve clear superiority over the Soviets in space achievements.

Viet Nam Lost 't No Reforms

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By JAMES .MARLOW WASHINGTON -APt - The Kennedy administration emphasizes the military aid it is giving South Viet Nam. Little is said about the reforms that are supposed to be taking place there.

The military aid is to help the Vietnamese to fight Communist guerrillas. The administration deliberately has not gone into details on this. President Kennedy says it is a sensitive subject.

But its the reforms, under the dictatorial regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his family, which are Intended to give the people a reason for fighting communism.

It can be assumed they wont fight much unless they feel they have more to lo.se than gain under communism. The record indicates they havent been fighting much.

Reports from South Viet Nam put the Communist guerrilla forces, coming down from Red-held North Viet Nam. at a maximum of 20,(X)0 men. Theyve been taking over the country although Diem has 150,-(X)0 to 175,000 men.

Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, at the end of his third trip in two months to Pearl Harbor to talk about the military problem in Viet Nam with American officials from there and Washington, said that this country has trained South Vietnamese guerrilla forces which have now been able to stabilize Communist forces That doesnt sound very firm, but it may be understandable since he also said the end is not in sight.

Eight years ago. when he Was a senator. President Kennedy very clearly, much more clearly than the Eisenhower administration. saw the problem .In what was then Indochina, made up of the two Viet Nams.

The French had held the country since the 19th century and refused to give the people Independence or to train either native officers or administrators. The Vietnamese Communists made war on them and were smashing them.

More than $I billion in American aid wasn't saving the French. In a Senate speech in 1954 Kennedy called on the French to give the Vietnamese Independence.

The problem, as he saw It. if Indochina was to be saved, was to give the masses of the

people some reason for fighting communism.

He said then: The hard

truth of the matter is: first, that without the wholehearted support of the people-without a reliable and crusading native army with a dependable officer corps, a military victory, even \^1th American support. in that area Is difficult. He was right. The Communists broke the French back and took half the country. North Viet Nam. That finished the French. They got out.

The United States moved in to keep the rest of the country from going Communist by helping the new. anti-Red government of Diem.

Six years ago. while still in the Senate, Kennedy called for big aid to Diem and his people. not just to keep the country non-Communist but for the welfare of the people.

After he became prCvSident, Kennedy, like the Eisenhower administration before him, shoved military and economic aid into South Viet Nam. In the past few months he has Intensified the military aid.

Republicans have criticized him for not being candid about the nature of this aid. But he said Democratic and Republican leaders have been consulted. He does not want to go into details.

Altogether this country has given Viet Nam more than $2 billion in aid.

Still the living standards of the Vietnamese are extremely low and the Communists continued to make big gains, w'hlch was why this country had to step up military help.

Kennedy, who saw the problem clearly in 19.54 and 1956, was In office almost a year before his administration announced agreement with Diem to put in broad reforms to the people. Since then practically nothing has been said about them.

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There is a fight to be made. It could be a long fight, and in the end we might lose. But we happen to be among thos who had rather make a worthy fight and lose than never to fight at all.

Last week the Washington Chamber of commerce gave credence to a suggestion that here in Beaufort county we ought to make the fight for a two-year coinmunity college.

Already there are those who are saying, Well, it will never happen here, or they are saying. With East Carolina college only 21 miles away, it is only day dreaming to talk of such a college.

It is almost safe to say that the very ones making such, suggestions are the ones who will do nothing toward helping with such a fight.

To say that we do not need such a community college is equivalent to not recognizing facts.

With each passing, year it is becoming every more difficult for a boy or a girl to get into college. There are just more youngsters seekig admission than present college facilities can handle. Either we must have more community colleges in North Carolina or else many boys and girls will never have the advantages of a higher education and therefore they will be denied the accompan.ving op-portunitic.s which go with a better education.

We cannot deny facts; we can refuse to face them. We say quite frankly and without apol

ogy that a community coUege here in Beaufort county would be a wonderful asset and a great institution.

What are we going to do about it then? Are we W'illing to sit back and make a suggestion or an observation and let it die right there?

If a boy or a girl needs individual help, the parents are not only available to give whatever help is possible, but they are happy and anxious to go the full mile to help someone they love.

What do we have to lose if we make the fight and do not realize a tw^o-year community college? It should occur to every right thinking person in Beaufort county today that all we have to lose is the efforts we expend.

If we win, and if we gain a community college, we have gained a facility which will stand us in good stead the rest of our lives.

Is the fight worthwhile? There can be only one answer as we look at the proposition.

If someone interested in this two-year college w'ould come forward and offer the land, we could be well on the way toward making a determined and forward fight.

When we realize that within this decade college enrollments will double -If facilities can be made available then we will have on our minds and consciences the true challenge before us.

Let us now chart our course, stick to it. and make whatever fight is necessary.

And speaking of North Carolina. did you feel any sense of pride when John Glenn took off that this Is the state which gave life to aviation and the space age?

Somebody up here commented that John Glenn was actually more protected for the type of flight he undertook than were the Wright brothers in their simple machine just buckled in.

That was in December of 1903.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ARE YOU STUPID?

There is probably not a family in this broad land containing adolescent children where loud and angry arguments are not at least occasionally heard over regulations and morals. Young people, like their elders, tend to accept social customs as they find them. Frequently these social customs do not meet with the approval of parents. Then the fireworks begin.

You are the strictest parents in towm. Why Helens mother allows her. . . Gee. Pop, you and Mom think we should just sit around pious-like saying our prayers. No, its just plain stupid to say we have to leave the gang at midnight. Sure theres some drinking, but why not? Dont your friends take a drink now and then?

And so it goes. The record Is cracked and warped but it has to be played over and over again. Perhaps you remember the indignation you had and the remonstrance you made in your youth against certain rules your parents laid down. Probably it has always been so. It would be interesting if we could go back to the Gardemof Eden and hear what Cain ana Abel had to say to their parents and what their parents said to them.

There Is some justice, of course, on both sides. Customs change, but there are some of us who .believe that in m o s t areas day they are changing for the worse. Also parents have rights and responsibilities, and woe unto the parent who does not face this fact courageously.

nreal Views Of Job

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright, 962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Whoever In the Treasury. Is responsible for the current excitement over expense account deductions, needs to be put on the Job of selling nuts and screws or some such objects, so that he will leam what it really takes. After all. the customer does not have to buy the ABC brand If he can get a German brand for less monpv or a Japanese brand for sMIl less. Even Canadian goods -re sold In the American market the advantage of the Canadians.

Apart from price, salesmanship is a tremendous fsrtn- <n any business and salesman.!)(o costs money. I often receive letters from businessmen denv. Ing that theater tickets in New York, steaks st n('^b+ and similar expenditures are necessary but it denends nnon whether one is selling shoelaces or steel. It is not that the customer wants to be bribed but he likes to feel Imnort-ant enough to deserv'e the Diamond Jim Brady treatment and if the the American salesman cannot give It to him, a British salesman can right here in New York.

Goods being goods, the buyer gives the good fellow a break, it not bothering him at all that the hill is paid by Uncle Sam or John Bull or whoever has money for such purposes. True, yachts are exnen-slve and I do not particularly like the ocean, but many a Mg deal is consummated while

the characters are deep-sea fishing, as they call it.

If that is the :vay business is done, who can really object? Our task is to sell goods and to provide work for more than 60.000.000 of our citizens and if anybody believes that that can 1^ achieved with no effort, he does not know how to sell anything and make a profit at it.

Before the depression of 1929, nobody had any doubts as to how to sell. Charley Schwlib could go into any market and unload American steel and the smoke poured out of the stacks in Pittsburgh and Bethlehem. Instead he moved about the world and American steel competed with any of them and

Charley spent money like a wild man, making the customer feel good and swear by Charleys product.

Expense accounts are normal in business everywhere except in the minds of the Treasury officials who probably learned salesmanship at the Harvard Business School. If we try hard enough, we shall, in the next quarter of a century, turn your own market over to some other country. We have been very careless over the years about our products and salesmanship and the Yankee salesman, who could sell anything from the Brooklyn Bridge to a wooden nutmeg, today wonders why a Hongkong tailor can sell suits in New Yorkthe textile market of America.

Something Is wrong if we cannot hold our own in our own markets, particularly now when the theoreticians are complicating the problem by depriving a salesman of his expense account. Of course, businessmen will find a way to protect themselves from being impoverished. If nothing else is left to them, they w^ill bootleg their expense accounts as they bootlegged whiskey when Mabel Walker Willebrandt sought to legislate morality. There must be a way out and we are not going to go broke because a student of economic virtue prefers to give our markets to our competitors.

Let us return to realism. An expense account ought not to be a warrai^ to engage in petty larceny, but there ought to be enough accountancy skUl and wisdom to protect the Treasury from losses of revenue and not at the same time ruin business. Of course, the businessman who lives on his expense account is a thief but that is no reason to stand in the way of sales or to give Canadians an advantage over the United States.

We are becoming so good-natured that we shall be cutting our own throats, like those who insist on smoking Cuban cigars no matter how much it helps Fidel Castro. So, we are financing the sale of steel pipe (Continued on page five)

Slick Tax-Collecting Maneuver

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The family is the foundation stone upon free societies such as ours are built. That most Anipricans SQ believe is .shown by their generous support of tho.vp institu ions that help keep the family strung. Huntington <Ind.) News

By ELMER ROESSNER

Mortimer Caplin, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, is planning one of the most ingenious, slickest maneuvers to collect more taxes at no cost to the government.

He Is preparing to do this through the slmpl step of accepting tax returns prepared by certified public accountants

without further examination.

The plan is under study in sev^ eral forms, he told the Texas Soi'ietv of Certified Public Accountants Proper safeguards would be taken, he said, adding, Ethical standards with respect to tax return preparation would have to be carefully formulated by professional societies to

minimize any possible misunderstandings in the mind of tax practitioners.

FAR-REA(TU.\G CONSEQl KNTE.S The proposal is a great tribute to the rigid standards of CPAs, And Mr. Caplin is about to take shrewd advantage of

those Standards.

It may be assumed that with

the added responsibility offereo CPAs there will be added liabilities. A CPA who certifies a dishonest tax return may face stiffer penaltie.s than a service station operator.

However, the threat of great penalties seems superfluous. CPA standards are as high as tho.se of any profesvsion and a CPA who fails to follow those standards Ls a ruined man.

But Mr. Caplins plan would impose even greater responsibilities. CPAs would be obligated to be more searching in the preliminary work before accounting, and to keep abreast of ('hanging nuances of tax reg-ulations.

REWARDS

An ordinary tax accountant usually accepts the figures supplied him by his client. A CPA. If Mr. caplins plan is to work, would have to verify the figures.

And a CPA would not be encouraged to make hLs own In-tei-pretatlon of tax rules to the benefit of his client. No mis-understandinr In the mind of tax practitioners. Mr. Caplin said.

And thus Mr. Caplin will add thousands of CPAs to his organization. each under considerable compulsion to produce the last penny in tax revenues.

The CPAs wUl not be unrewarded. If only CPA-prepared tx forms are to be accepted without further examination, Individuals will witch from gas station proprietors, insurance agent, driving schools and all other part-time income tax advisors; businesses will switch from bookkeepers and noncertl-fied accounting employees. TAXPAYER PAYS

This will 'oe true of honest taxpayers no less than the others. The nuisance and cost of an honest error can be great.

Mr. Caplin will get a secondary force at no cost to the government: the CPAs. In return for greater responslbllltiea. will get more fees.

In the end, the taxpayers will pay. CPAs ordinarily get higher fees than uncertified tax accountants since they must check back the figures. And. In aU probability, avoiding pos.stble misunderstandings In the mind of tax practitioners, they will

eliminate oversights and resolve more borderline cases in favor of the government.

COMMUNITY TV STS-TEMS EXPECTED TO EXPAND

CATV is expected to grow this year. Thats the community antenna television industry.

It was bom 12 years ago to bring television to communities in valleys which big-city television stations missed. A community antenna on a hilltop could catch signals and send them to TV sets below by cable.. Jerrold Electronics, a pioneer in the field, estimates that 1,(X)0 communities have CATV tod^y.

Now many communities receiving one or two stations without It are considering CATV systems are owned bv Inr.il companies, several Investment grcmps havo been finauc g them. Incjudlng H. & B. American. National Theatres and Television, Slegler Corp.. RKO General, Teleprompter, Jerrold and others. Some of these are Interested because CATV tems can also be used for pay-TV.