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Piedmont Needs Long-Range Plans

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Gov. Moore has moved wisely in reactivating the Piedmont Crescent Committee which was created during the Sanford administration to plan for the orderly development of North Carolinas midland.

The 18 county area of the Piedmont Crescisnt is the fastest growing section of North Carolina. While it still has much rural area between and around its cities and towns, it is rapidly becoming largely an urbanized section. Unless there is a drastic change in its past growth pattern, there is little doubt that it will be one continuous city by the end of this century.

If the area is not to become an over-crowded, ill-planned, sprawling city with all the problems of an improperly developed metropolitan area, careful long range planning on an area basis is necessary. Already the counties of the Crescent have more than 40 per cent of the states population, and 56 per cent of the states industrial employment. The area contributes 55 per cent of the states general fund collections.

Want Candidate

In 8th And 9th

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

DISTRICTS - With toe Spring primary field filling up rapidly elsewhere, eyes are turning on two Congressional districts where toe states Democrats feel they must, as a matter of pride, offer op-positicm to firmly entrenched Republicans.

These, of course, are the Eighth and Ninth districts, those represented by Reps. Charles Raper Jones of Lin-colnton and James T. Broyhill of Lenoir.

The looks are questio n i n g ^who will oppose toe two highly popular Republican congressmen? Nefitoer incumbent is especially worried. If anything, both apparently gained in voting strength in toe outcome of the states recent Congressional redistricting.

CONCEDED - Privately, many Dwnocrats concede that this probably isnt the year for ousting either Jonas or Broyhill and that it is highly unlikely.

They feel that accomplishing such a feat will require a major effort during a presidential election year, or rather drastic redlstrictng.

In other words, they are

looking to 1968 or 1972. Another redrawing at Congressional district lines has been ordered next year with court instructions to ignore protection of incumbents.

In the event the legislature puts two Democratic incumbents against each other in one or more districts, there will be pressure to lump Jonas and Broyhill in toe same district too In 1968.

DEFAULT While conceding i^ivately toat their outlook this year is bleak, few Democrats wish to see either seat go default

For tois reason its likely

that one or more Democratic hopefuls will come forth by the filling deadline, willing to take a stab at it and to try gram-ly to make it more than a token effort.

The question is who will it be? Any Democrat choosing to take on Jonas or Broyhill at this stage will be considered an unexpected somewhat of a surprise candidate. Many already have been mentioned, asked and a few urged, but just as many have refused.

Most of the speculation In the Eighth has been centered on Democrats in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, which is Jonas stronghold. Two years ago, Jonas* opponent was Dr. W. D. (Bill) James of Richmond County, and a Democratic opponent for Broyhill came from Rowan.

SENATE There is increasing speculation in state political circles as the filing deadline approaches that additional, possibly major opposition will announce against Sen. B. Everett Jordan.

As of the past weekend, Jordans only announced opin-ent was a relative political unknown, Hubert E. Seymour Jr. of Greensboro.

There was considerable relief in toe Jordan camp when State Sen. Robert Morgan of Lillington counted himself out as a possible U. S. Senate candidate last week, but anxiety increased again. There were rumorsnone of which could be tracked downof impending announcements.

QUERY This was reflected, at least indirectly, in a question put to Governor Moore by reporters who wanted to know if he foresaw any close election contests shaping up.

The U. S. Senate race was mentioned specifically. But Moore apparently interpreted the question as referring to toe general elections rather than toe May 28 primaries. He predicted substantial Democratic majorities everywhere next November, including victory by Senator Jordan.

Republicans, however, have different ideas and have promised to wage a hard campaign against Jordan in the Fall.

As a part of North Carolina, its proper development is important to the state as a whole.

Gov. Moores new effort to revitalize collective, long range planning for the Piedmont Crescent should have the support of every section of the state, for it is of importance to every section and every citizen of the state.

The time has long since passed when the future and well being of one section of North Carolina is not important to the future and well being of every other section of the state.

Little Point In Blue Law That s Ignored

Long-range effectiveness of Greenvilles new blue law in restricting sale of merchandise on Sunday in the city is something that will take time to evaluate.

If yesterday was any indication, the law ultimately may make little difference.

Although the new blue law ^ was passed by the City Council last Thursday, there apparently was no attempt by the city to enforce its provisions yesterday. Items offered for sale yesterday were no different from those that have been offered for sale on Sundays in recent months.

At least to the casual observer, the stores in the city which are open on Sundays appeared to be doing business as usual yesterday.

We assume the purpose of the Council in enacting the new law with respect to Sunday operation of business was to have a measure it felt would stand up under court test. We also assume the Council intends for its new law to set the pattern for business operations in the city on Sundays.

If these assumptions are correct, it seems evident that the city will have to take the initiative in enforcing the new law, just as it did putting the new law on the books. Otherwse the new blue law will become just another ignored law that clutters the citys books.

Sanford Has An Sxciting Story

By ART BUCHWALD

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By WINFRED L. GODWIN

But what about the people? Carl Sandburg often asks in his verse a bo ut American democracy. What about the people who are not here merely to be manipulated but are the reserves that shape history?

To former Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina, who became the nations best known education governor, education is the only effective answer to Sandburgs concern about the people.

In an excellent new book, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE. PEOPLE (Harper and Row, 1966) Sanford tells toe exciting story of educational advances begun in North Carolina during his administration.

The list of those advances is impressive. First, there was a massive breakthrough in new financial support for schools and colleges brought at the politically unpopular price of extending the 3 percent sales tax to food.

Imaginative planning led to new programs for the academically gifted, the artistically talented, and the able but underachieving student. A statewide effort to break the poverty cycle, with education as the key tool, pre - dated and helped to shape the Great Societys anti-poverty war.

Higher education was expanded and strengthened in major ways. A continu i n g evaluation and research center to study education at all levels was established (its first director has just been appointed by President Johnson to be U. S. Commissioner of Education).

Sanford discusses to e s e and other educational p ro-grams in his own easy and clear style, but perhaps laymen and educators will be equally interested in his obviously effective philosophy of state government and its provision of public services, especially education.

Government is not something passive ... It has built

into it the spirit of outreach, the concern fore every individual ... . Indeed, if government is not for the express purpose of lifting the level of civilization by broadening the opportunities in life for its people, what is its purpose?

About leadership in state government he says, In many ways the Governors office can be the most creative political office in the nation. Generally its occupant can remain close to the people, frequently he can cut through the bureaucracy which often hampers a larger governmental operation, and always he can exercise his imaginat i o n and exert his considerable political power to improve conditions as he finds them.

Sanford believes that each state can and must assume more initiative to solve the increasingly complex problems of education, not refusing or eschewing federal participation, but neither waiting for some total solution to be provided by federal action.

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Some day an enterprising bank is going to apply the principle of the Christmas Club to another date on the calendar when savings are needed urgently, and start an Income Tax Club which pays off April 15. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.

When all else fails, the President of the United States still has one secret weapon which he and he alone has the power to use. One night last week, when all else failed, the President decided to use it.

Lights upwe see phone and hear ringing.

Suddenly Batman comes out on stage and walks over to the phone. He picks it up. Yes, chief. You want to speak to Valenti? Hes in the Batroom . . . Just a minute. Ill get him.

Jack Valenti, dressed as Robin, comes out on stage.

Hello, chief, this is Robin. Robin Valenti. Yes, I know

I changed my name to Robin so Marvin Watson wouldnt be able to trace my telephone calls. . . . Whats that? Holy Fulbright! Youd better speak to the Batman. As he hands the phone to Batman, he says, He wants us to go to Viet

Nam.

The Batman grabs the phone and says to Robin, He must be out of his mind. Then he speaks into the phone, Yes, chief, but chief, yes, I know, chief. . . But Im 4-f. Ive got psychological problems. Why else would I be wearing leotards?

Robin: Tell him Ive got a bad knee.

Batman: Robin has a bad knee. Why dont you send Cassius Clay?

The Batman hangs up. Turns to Robin. He says if we dont go, hell get us on income taxes.

Robin: Holy J. Edgar

Hoover! He must know about the money we kept from the Brinks robbery.

Well, Robin, we better see what the computer says. They go over to the computer.

Batman says, If your name was Ho, where would you go?

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A Major Mistake

Robin: Hogo-I would go to Hanoi. But it Doesnt rhyme.

Batman: Good thinking. Boy Wonder. Thats how Ho was fooled everyone. Not if you played a gong, where would it clong?

Robin: In the Viet Cong! Batman: Robin, I think Ho is behind the Viet Cong. Robin: Holy McNamara! We better tell Dean Rusk. Batman: Wait, Robin. Rusk has enough problems as it is. Wed better take care of Ho ourselves.

Robin: But how?

Batman: Lets see what the computer says. Batman takes out card.

Robin: What does it say? Batman: By all means, escalate.

Robin: Holy Joe Als o p! Look, theres another card. Batman takes second card. Get out of Viet Nam.

Robin: Holy Walter Lipp-

As though its practicians werent harassed enough, medical science has gone and invented itself a dummy. Honest to goodnessa human dummy for doctors to practice on. Thiswellthis thing has pupils that dilate, eyebrows that wrinkle, shoulders that twitch, and a skin that can turn from pink to blue to ashen gray. Sounds exactly like some of us on Monday mornings. Asheville (N. C.) Citizen.

(Dallas, Tex.,

Morning News)

Thomas Thompson of the Amarillo Globe-Times is disgusted because the University of Texas history department refuses to allow its majors to minor in journalism. He comments:

This was a self - defeating gesture that was conceived in ignorance. If anybody needs to receive instruction in the craft of writing, it is the historians. There are exceptions, but I would say that historians are responsible for some of the most deadly prose that was ever composed.

Mr. Thompson might have exposed also the myth of historians vaunted accuracy. Considering the time historians spend at their task, the number of mistakes made is unbelievable. Given equal opportunity for research and writing, conscientious n e w s-papermen we know could equal or excel many historians in telling the truth about the past.

Looking down the nose at journalism courses and those who practice the art is not,

however, confined to history departments. It is very common among collegians, and we dont mean students. A popular pastime is blaming many of the ills of the world upon those who report them, rather than on those who create them. The assumption seems to be that those evils should be recorded only in weighty volumes, heavily footnoted, and read only by other Ph.-D.s who immediately set up another project to dispro v e the first.

This narrow attitude is unfortunate and not, thank heavens, universal. As teachers move away from what often has been a monastic and myopic existence, they will serve their students better and attain their goals more swiftly and completely. If proof of this is needed, most college graduates have merely to recall those educators who influenced them most. Almost without exception, these were the men and women who viewed life broadly and with understanding tolerance of the need for many professions including journalism.

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man! Theres a third card. Batman reads third card. Bomb Hanoi.

Robin says: Holy Gold water!

Batman reads fourth card. Take it to the United Nations.

Robin: Holy Goldberg! Batman: Were in trouble, Robin. Im not about to go to Viet Nam. I was a veteran in World War II.

Robin: And Im not about to go to Viet Nam. I went to the University of California at Berkeley.

Batman: But how can we get out of it?

Robin: Holy Bill Moyers! I think Ive got it. If we announce the President is sending us to Viet Nam before he announces it, hell get so mad he wont send us.

Batman: Robin, thats good thinking. Whats Drew Pearsons telephone number?

s Not

Passive,

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1966, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The Republicans, for the most part, have adopted a position of watchful waiting while the Democrats have been cutting each other up over the question of the Vietnamese War. Insofar as the 1966 Congressional elections are concerned, there may be short - term merit to t his strategy. But there is one important Republican who never tires of saying that his party should be taking a far more positive role in this business of bringing the Vietnamese War to a victorious conclusion.

Talking to the administrative assistants to Republican Congressmen In Washington the other day, Richard Nixon made it plain that he rejects the passivity that seems to have overcome many in his party. Nixon told the bull elephants, as the C:ongres-sional Republican administrative assistants are called, that the time had come for Americans tp cease apologizing for the war. Those who were present at the meeting, which did not include members of the press, say that be made a terrific impression on the bull elephants, many of whom art in a position to influence their bosses in toe Congress.

What Nixon did for toe bull elephant group was to turn the talk of Vietnamese War risks a hundred and eighty degrees around. Everybody has been listening to the fears toat one bit of war escalation may lead to another; that casualties may become inac-ceptable to the voters; that a confrontation with the Russians in Haiphong harbor is full of danger; that the Red Chinese may actively enter the war; that digging the Viet Cong out of the jungles is a hopelessly frustrating job, etcetera, etcetera. But what, so Nixon asked, are the risks of failing to fight the war to the successful end of denying the Communists any reward for their aggression: A refusal to reward agression would, in Nixons opinion, bs victory enough for our side.

Letting the Viet Cong off the hook, said Nixon, entails the risk that thousands of South Vietnamese anti-Com-munists will eventually die in a purge. It entails risk toat Laos will be completely Com-munized; that Thailand will bt infiltrated and its government, now firmly allied with the United States, will be toppled; that toe pressure on Maylaysia and toe Phillipines will become intolerable; that Indonesia will move back into the Communist orbit But these risks, which form the substance of the falling domino theory, were subordinate in Nixons mind to toe biggest risk of all, the risk toat the U. S. would lose all its credibility as a professed protector of the free world If it should make itself the sponsor of a bad coalition peace in Southeast Asia.

Not only would the So u th Koreans, toe Japanese, the Taiwan Chinese, the Filipinos, the Thias and other Asizn peoples cease to trust our word. Skepticism of the U.S. purposes would spread rapidly throughout Australia, Africa, Latin America, and the Nato nations of Europe.

Acceptance of a coalition government in South Vietnam would, in Nixons opinion, be a distinct reward for aggression. Thus it would amount to a defeat for U. S. arms.

Strength For Today By ELMER ROESSNER

S. Economy On Razors Edge

By EARL L. DOUGLASS GIFT OF PROPHECY

Jeane Dixon, whose phenomenal prophecies have made the book A GIFT OF PROPHECY, by Ruth Montgomery, one of the best sellers, declares that toe Middle Eastern child whose birth she witnessed in the vision ... on February 5, 1962 will unite air warring creeds and sects into one all-embracing faith. It is her conviction toat this child, grown to manhood, will between 1890 and 1999 exert a tremendous world power.

Let no one put Jeane Dixon and her prophecies as i d e with the statemeht that this sort of thing is superstition, imagination and nonsense. If we do then'we have to tear a lot of pages out of the Bible, because prophecy is definite

ly dealt with in the Bible.

That certain people are born with outstanding gifts no one can deny. Inventors and persons who make scientific discoveries attest to this fact. Advances in history h ave largely come about because certain persons have stepped ahead of their generation and started to lead all who were capable of being led into new pathways of progress. These discoveries are just as real in toe psychie world as in the physical and scientific. They are rate but they are real. - .

Jeane Dixon is a pers o n to whom the modern world may well listen. Her sincerity cannot be denied. Her genuineness should not be.

The gift of prophecy has existed and undoubtedly continues to do so.

The American economy is on a razor edge between continued, booming growth and unchecked inflation.

This has resulted in wide differences among economists. If economists, instead of tossing digits and decimals, threw pies like Soupy Saless prop men, the business pipture would be more amusing, if no clearer.

Here are some views with alarms:

Dr. Neil Jacoby, former member of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisors, has declared the administrations analysis of economic prospects and current fiscal policies are faulty in several respects, and that toe wage-price guideposts amount to unauthorized price control. He added: Inflationary pressures are underestimated.

BEHIND THE TIMES

Roy L. Rierson, Bank e r s Trust economist, declared the administrti o n has been working in a framework at least three months out of date.

James J. OLeary, economist

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for the Life Insurance Association of America, djeclared that decisions of President Johnsons economic advisers are not appropriate under current developing conditions in t h e American economy. He advocated cutting federal expenses, higher tax rates, slowing

down of bank credit and higher interest rates on long-term government bonds, all traditionally anti-inflationary.

The Bankers Trust Co. of New York said that strong private demands combin e d with sharply rising defense requirements will place the countrys physical as well as financial resources under considerable strain.

First National City Bank said that although busin ess continues to boom, an uneasiness has crept into the economy in part because the administration seems undecided about what means to use in restraining inflation.

And the Presidents guide-posts have been assailed as unworkable by Arthur F. Burns former economic advisor to President Eisenhower, and by other distinguished ec-onom sts.

ON THE OTHER HAND-

Meanwhile, President Johnson has affirmed that the economy is strong and expanding and that the danger of inflation is remote. He has access to advance reports by government economists.

Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler has warned critics that there is danger of overkill in toe fight against inflation. Stepptog hard on toe brakes may cause deflation, he told toe Senate.

New business incorporations, a significant indicator, reached a new high mark in January, Dun & Bradstreet reported.

Steel production, also significant, has risen.

President Johnson has asked (Congress to increase federal salaries by 3.2 per cent, which will mean pouring more money into the economy, even if it takes more out in taxes,'