Thursday, September 79, 1966

CRSS^DOUT!

Equal Protection For The Public

In its zeal to protect the rights of an individual brought into court, the nation appears to have for-gotton in many instances the rights of society to equal protection under the law.

In the effort to protect the rights of the individual so many restrictions have been imposed upon law enforcement agencies and even upon the court officers themselves that offenders in many instances are able to make a mockery of the courts and of justice. They are able, in effect, to thumb their nose at the law and go about their business of preying upon society.

Certainly citizens are anxious that every defendant who goes into court to face criminal charges is provided every possible protection of his individual rights. At the same time, citizens are also

jeftover Issues '-ace Assembly

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

PROBLEMS Certain of the problems, in fact several of the major ones, facing the 1967 General Assembly are leftovers.

They are old problems which confronted the regular legislative session of 1965 or earlier sessions and which were left unresolved. When the state le^lators convene in Raleigh next February they will confront them again.

One Is a problem which had to be worked on in a spedal session last Janue r y but which according to t h e federal courts still has not been settled satisfactorily. That is redistricting legislative and Congressional and the legislature is under court order to do it on a proper one man - one vote basis and with dispatch. It will have to be a first order f 1967 legislative business.

MONEY As usual and Bot surpirsingly, much of the pile of leftover legislative wsiness concerns money.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

For one thing, a huge backlog of capital improvements needs by higher education and other state institutions is building up. Capital improvement requests whi c h tiie 1965 legislature received and failed to meettotaled $138 million.

This time, the figure is more than $350 million and the outlook for meeting this is only a little better than it was two years ago. Two years ago, the legislature managed to appropriate $54 million for captol impro v e-ments. This time, administration fiscal sources are talking generally in terms of perhaps $100 million in case a big surplus materializes.

TAXES Another perplexing leftover is the broad area of a tax revision and possible tax relief.

This was a problem which the 1965 legislature fina 11 y turned over to a blue-ribbon

study commissicMi with instructions to submit a report by Sept 1, 1966. That report is now in but there is little indication that either the legislature or the administration will be willing to embrace its major proposals.

In 1965, the le^lature sat ti^t on tax revision or relief. There was sentiment and support for both but it failed. The House voted a conditional state income tax relief bin but the Senate let it die. The House voted to return a bigger share if ran-chise taxes to cities and counties, but again this bill died in the Senate.

There were demands for legislative action to streamline the states tax structure, to repeal or reduce the inventory tax and to open up new tax sources for local governments. The lawmakers decided to wait

ISSUES If nothing else, the Tax Study report will reopen these questions. What-ver the administration recommends, they are almost certain to be debated.

There are numerous other issues in various fields which were either left hanging or just barely scratched in 1965, dealing with insurance laws, ixisons, crimincal lawi concerning sex offenses, elections laws, electric power franchising and others.

ELECTIONS A report by Sen. Oral Yates of Haywood County on work of a seven-memto conunission on revision of North Carolinas election laws was a highlight of last weekends seminar by the State Board of Elections in Raleigh.

Yates reported that good progress is being made on studying, revising and recodifying the states primary and general election laws and that a bill rewriting the elections statutes is being drafted.

The committee includ c s Yates and Sen. Bill Wood of Fors5Tth, Reps. Thruston Ar-ledge of Polk and M. Glenn Pickard of Alamance, and three gubernatorial appointees, W C. R.eeves of Waev-erville. Max Thomas of Monroe and G. Fred Steele of Durham. Steele is the only Republican. Wood author e d the legislative resolut i o n calling for the elections law revision.

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anxious that society is likewise provided protection. This protection is provided only if those who are guilty of offenses are made to answer to the justice of the court.

While justice must be tempered with mercy, it should not be hamstrung by unreasonable technicalities of red tape. While the courts must be careful to preserve the rights of the individual, they must at the same time exercise great care not to eacrifice the'rights of society as a whole upon the alter of individual irresponsibility.

Throughout the nation there appears to be a growing disrespect if not outright contempt for the law when it conflicts with individual desires. Law enforcement agencies are increasingly attacked, without foundation, for their efforts to do their job of enforcing the laws. Where once society appeared to be on the side of the law enforcement officer, there is now the trend for the mob to take the side of the criminal rather than the officer in a face-to-face confrontation on the street.

To some degree at least this changing attitude is due to the court decisions which have emphasized the rights of the individual without at the saiBe time giving proper emphasis to the fact that with these individual rights there are also grave individual responsibilities to preserve law and order.

Strangely, No Campaigning

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - It was and is typically hazy, which is the way Ifresident Johnson likes it since he tries to keep secrets until he can reveal them as surprises.

The congressional elections are Nov. 8. But on Oct. 18 he is supposed to be in Manila for a seven - nation summit meeting with the heads of Pacific and Asian nations supporting the United States with troops in Viet Nam.

A push for peace is a major purpose of the conference. After it Johnson may visit some of those other nations. So at this point some questions come up.

Does this trip have a domestic political angle? Will Johnson do any campaigning for his fellow - Democrats between now and the time he goes to Manila? Will he campaign when he returns, if there is time before election day?

And is there something cooking, but not yet disclosed, about starting peace talks with the North Vietnamese Communists?

So far Johnson has done re-

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN Sept 29, 1926 STATE EMPLOYEES ARE GRANTED HIGHER PAY BY WAGE COMMISSION RALEIGH, Sept. 29- In-creases in salary of state employees were granted by the Salary and Wage Commission at its recent meeting here and authorized eight new positions, with salaries of $13,-200 . . .Highway employees and Department of Public Instruction were more benefited by action. . .

GREATER FACILITIES NEEDED

The stage is all set for the beginning of the fall term of East Carolina Teachers College here tomorrow and since yesterday morning the young women who are to compose the student body have been arriving in this city.

Greenville is always glad when vacation period is over and we can welcome the young women of the college back to our city but to those who are in touch with the true educational conditions in our state the opening of college here brings a sad touch. . .By the first of December last year the college enrollment for the present term was filled and since that time more than 700 applications for admission have been refused. . .Will our state permit conditions as they now exist to continue, or will we climb from our low place in the ladder of education by seeing to it that provision is made for the proper training of teachers vriio in turn will train the children of our state?

(From the editorial page.)

LITTLE FORREST MINGES IMPROVING Forrest, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. M. 0. Minges, who some ten weeks ago fell and broke his leg, has had the cast removed, but still unable to walk.

latively little campaigning. Some weeks ago he made trips to New England and the Midwest. It was expected he would do far more before Election Day. Weeks passed and he didnt.

His press secretary. Bill D. Moyers, was asked about it Monday. He said Johnson has received bundles of invitations to make trips and speeches but so far hasnt decided on any of them.

If this seemed strange, since all three previous presidents had campaigned for their party in off - year elections like this one, perhaps it was not so strunge if meanwhile Johnson had this Manila trip in mind.

Perhaps he did, since he keeps quiet about so much. But the very way in which the news of the Manila trip came out was strange by itself.

Late Monday night, Washing-tion time, Phillippines President Fertiinand E, Maros announced plans for the confer-encd in a speech at Honolulu on his way home to Manila after a journey to Washington.

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THEATER PARTY

On Monday evening. Miss Mary Effie Patrick of ( ollege View entertained a number of her friends at a theater party in celebration of her birthday.

We have not reached the point of Dickins England, when no one dared walk the streets of London without bodyguards and torchbearers. But the streets of our cities are unsafe for many today. International Falls (Minn.) Journal

By JAMES KILPATRICK

Megalopolis Of Future

One of the most significant books of the fall turned up the other day, under the unlikely byline of Senator Cali-borne Pell of Rhode Island. This is Megalopolis Unbound, published by Praeg-er. If it were possible to persuade 1,700 newspaper editors, 435 congressmen, and 99 other Senators to read the book, this nation might begin to struggle out of the gos-hawful mess of transportation that now exists.

This is Pells own personal crusade. For the past ten years, preaching up and down the Eastern seaboard, he has been attempting to arouse city dwellers to the crisis that lies ahead. He was the prime mover of the High-Speed Ground Transportation Act that was signed into law a year ago this week. His thesis is dramatically simr

pie: Ours is the most mobile nation in the world; but unless some bold and drastic steps are taken promptly, we may yet immobilize ourselves in our own technology.

Odiers, of course, have sounded this warning before, but these have mostly been professors writing for other professors. Pell is not an expert; but he is not a nut either. He is somewhere in between. He is convinced that some radically new and different ideas must be brought to bear on transportat i o n totally. He is concerned not erely with the technology, but also with questions of private and public finance. Looking far down the road, he sees the need for multi-State transpcH-tation authorities with powers beyond anything now conceive(L

Pells particular purpose right now is to urge the d^ velopment of high-speed rail transportation. Under ihe act that he sponsored, some $18 million a year in Feder^ funds are being spent on rail research. TTie United Aircraft Company is building two under government contract, to go into experimental service next sununer between Boston and New York. Meanwhile, the Budd (^mapny is building 50 multiple-unit electric cars for use a year hence between New York and Washington.

JAMES J.

Other Editors Saying Not Ancient History

KILPATRICK

And here late Monday night leaks began that Johnson had decided to go and would announce it Tuesday morning. Meanwhile Monday night the White House was only saying that Johnson was interested in the idea of the meeting.

Then, sure enough, Tuesday morning the White House said Johnson would go buy by that time it was hardly news since the word already was out that Johnson was going. And something else came from the White House:

That Johnson and Marcos, when the Philippines, president was here Sept. 1^16, had discussed the conference but the project, until Monday night, was a well - kept secret.

It seems reasonable to believe, in view of the way all this happened and was handled, that Johnson may have decided to go quite a while before the leaks and th White House said so.

Yet, this doesnt explain why for most of this month Johnson did not campaign or why, since he doesnt have to be in Manila until Oct. 18, he hasnt 'ecided to campaign between .w and then. At least the hite House said he hadnt uecided.

His standing in the public opinion polls has been sinking. If he does little or no com-paigning and the Democrats take a beating, his critics will have that much less excuse to tie the beating to him.

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Many businessmen are beginning to wonder if it wouldnt be a wise idea to have a guaranteed annual customer before they start getting too involved with a guaranteed annual wage. Westby (Wise.) Times.

(Ilie Raleigh Times)

The time may come when State Democratic Party leaders will regret the chilly response theyve given suggestions that President Johnson make a campaign swii^ through North Carolina this fall. True, the polls are almost unanimous in their insistence that the Presidents popularity has reached a new low. The causes are many, the pundits say: The war in Viet Nam, civil rights agitation, in-ation. Democratic leaders, fearful that some of the Presidents reported unpopularity might rub off on local candidates, have been cold - shouldering the Presidents desire to come to North Carolina at this time.

But there may be a lesson to the Democratic chieftains in a quick glance into the past. In 1964, the Presidents popularity a factor. Governor Moore and some local candidates conducted their campaigns as though Mr. Johnson and the national ticket did not exist And yet, when the votes were counted, the Presidents

margin topped Moores by 9,796 votes on a statewide basis, and in the 4tfa District, the Presidents majority best Harold Ck)oleys by 4,124. If this is unpopularity, then there are probably a lot of candidates who would like to be as unpopular.

Perhaps, as some observers say, the vote - getting strength Mr. Johnson exhibited in 1964 has evaporated. Maybe it hasnt; we wont know until election day But as they continue their muted inhospitability to the Oiief Executive, the Democratic leaders might well remember this: One or two good breaks in President Johnsons favor, either before or after the election, could open up a whole new ball game. A quick settlement to the war in Viet Nam, or a cooling off of the civil rights situation could restore the President to a pinnacle of unprecedented popularity. Then the humble pie would be on the Tar Heel Democrats table. And the partys leader should remember now that Mr. Johnson has an awfully good memory.

These trains will travel at average speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour. They will cut an hour off the Boston - New York sched u 1 e (now about 4 hours and 15 minutes), and will permit a man to get from the heart of Washington to the heart of New York in 2:55 against the present 3:40. In terms of passenger comfort, they will be far superior to any rail equipment now in use in this country.

Yet as the Senator makes clear in his book, these are only a beginning of a solution to the problem, and not a very satisfactory begin-ing at that. For good or ill, most Americans will be dwellers hereafter of the super-city. By 1980, just 14 years hence, it is anticipated that 25 urban regions, occupying only 10 per cent of the nations land area, will house more than two-thirds of our people. By 2000, the North-eastern Megalopolis alone, stretching from Boston to Richmond, will number 70 million human beings

How are they to move around? The proolem, as Pell repeatedly emphasizes, is a portal to protai problem. Lit-(Continued On Page 6)

; Reagan

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f Strains

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

LOS ANGELES - Behind the facade of surface unity in Californias Republican Party this autumn, severe frio> tion has developed between conservative Ronald Reagan and the moderates who have chosen to support his cause.

Almost surely, this friction will not be escalated into an open break before the Nov. 8 election for governor between Reagan and Democratic Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, be^ cause of State Chairman Gaylord Parkinsons 11th Commandment Thou shaU not speak ill of any Rqmb-lican >- is being obeyed to the letter.

But the superficial natum of Parkinsons edict is revealed behind the RqiabUcaii aeeo-es. There, tensioiis Indlcaife that the ideobgidal gap between Reagan and the moderates remains imbridged and that moderates have not yet surrmdered in ttie batfie for the heart and soul of the Cal> ifomia Republican Party.

The impression of onlty |p

given by the fact that for ttn first time in 10 years, all Re* publicans closed ranks foQoi^ ing Reagans landslide wfai last Junes primary. CMf, Brown had been confident thil such liberal Republican bosi-nessmen as Leonard Firestorii and Justin Dart (head of RX all Drugs) would defect froa Reagan and support him. stead, they are backing Reagan to the man along wt(h liberal Republicans in the stats legislature.

But behind this unity is i large element of real politk. In the event of a Reagan loss, the moderates dont want to be blamed for it in future in-traparty struggles.

SURROUND REAGAN

More important, the moderates want to surround Reagan a phrase that freqerit-ly pops up in political discd^ sions here. Fresh to politics, Reagan has no tightly structured inner circle conunon to most politicians. Hence, by jumping into this void, tiM moderates feel they can hone down his right-wing e<kes not only in the campaign but in Sacramento if he is elected. In brief, they are seeking to freeze out right-wing elfr ments who represent the hard core of Reagans support

To some extent, they hall been successful. Two RepClb* licans who are anathema Jo the right wing state assembly minority leader Robm Monagan and former Stafc Chairman Casper Weinburpr are now inside the ReagDi higher strategy council. So J$ industrialiart John McCone (CIA head under Presided Kennedy and Johnson), lifio succeeded in softening R#-gans shrill attacks agaiflit the University of California ft Berkeley. But attempts to moderate Regan have flit been entirely successfuL Rcto* ert Finch, former ddef aids to Richard Nixon and now candidate for lieutenant govenor, failed to dissuade Reajpui frain backing a state-wide anti-p^ nography referendum amounts to government enp" sorship. Although Reagan iigs he opposed the 19M CM Rights Act because he thooi^t it unconstitutional, he sayi !) backs the anti-pomograpfay proposal even if it is uneoa-stitutional.

A more significant friction has been Finchs inability to convince Reagan to accept

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Prices Wont Reduce Car Sales

By ELMER ROESSNER

The rise in auto prices an-nouncedby manufacturers may bring down the wrath of administration and Congressional leaders, but it will not slow down sal^ of 1967 mod-elds.

Heres why:

The increases are far less than the increases in personal Income since a year ago. Therefore, auto prices are actually less then they were a year ago in terms of noninflated dollars.

The auto makers, hiring some of the smartest economists in the country, have calculated to the bent penny how much prices could be increased wiiout reducing profits.

HIDDEN THREATS

Under those conditions, it might seem that autu sales will reach a new liigh in the 1967 - model year.

But it isnt that clear.

If the economic bases remain the same, auto sales will hit a new high. But there are many threats to the bases.

ELMER ROESSNER

Government tightening of consumer credit, as part of the campaign against inflation, may either increase the cost of auto loans, or make financing difficult to find, which could slow (town sales. Tighter credit terins could turn many loan sharks, whose charges are so high they might make many consumers decide to get along with older models.

Furthermore, there are dis

quieting omens over the horizon. Some of the indicators point to layoffs; others point to higher prices generally, which may slow down consumer spending. And while nobody dares speak of it, there is always the danger of a consumers strike if other prices shoot higher without compensatory rises in income.

The buying public is fickle, too. It may simply love the new models and buy them like crazy. Or it may give them the lemon look and let them lie there in showrooms. Well get some clues in a few days, DR. BROTHERS EXPLAINS

LOOK DOWN AD TREND

It was reported here yesterday that there was a rash of advertising art consisting of views downward on people and products from the top of a laddes. Since she seemed Involved in such a Magee carpet ad, we said we would ask Dr. Joyce Brothers.

Her explantion of the trend is this:

It has no deep p$ycbol(^* ical significance. It is simply that advertising men have bit upon a new device to attract attention. Salesmanship invcil-ves the arresting of attention-When a jeweler wants to sell a diamond, he displays it 6n blark velvet, where it Hfs in contrast to arrest the eye.

People adapt their organs of sense to conditions. Peoie living along the Gowanus Canal eventully ^cept the smells. People working in unpleasant light eventually learn to gpt along. Advertiring men know this and they contrive ifft that is outside the ordinary field of sensory attentiofl. A photo looking down on people simply takes the reader out of his ordinary visual perceptions and arrests his attention. It is nothing more involved then that.

Sorry we brought the matter up, chief.